We take a look inside the Cook County Jail to learn how it handles arrested undocumented immigrants.

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch testified at a hearing today in Britain about the phone hacking scandal that shut down his News of the Wor

In tonight's Scientific Chicago, Jay Shefsky reports on the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory's collaboration to crea

The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory for Cook County and the surrounding area.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is pitting two private garbage companies against city workers for Chicago's recycling services.

Trading pork belly futures is a thing of the past.

In another milestone in space exploration, for the first time, a spacecraft has gone into orbit around a massive asteroid.

A larger-than-life Hollywood icon has taken her place on Michigan Avenue, and has blown up a lot of controversy.

From the inside of a car on Lake Shore Drive to a nearly naked romp in the snow, we take a look back at YouTube to see how people across

This week on Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review, Monday's violent storm leaves a mess in its 75 mph wake and hundreds of thousa

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid paints a bleak picture of what will happen if Congress can't strike a deal to raise the debt ceiling.

The 2009 death of political insider Michael Scott remains a mystery to some, even though it was quickly ruled a suicide.

We catch a glimpse into Chicago in the 19th century on a tour of the remarkably preserved Glessner House on South Prairie Avenue.

Find out how the decisions of one woman over a hundred years ago help keep this Chicago neighborhood beautiful in tonight's Ask Geoffrey.

What happens when you mix puppets and opera?