We meet two men playing in the ice sheets of Lake Michigan in Hyde Park on their daily swim. Elizabeth Brackett reports.

Windy City Live host Val Warner talks about her shot at comedy in WTTW's upcoming show, The Chicago Stand-Up Project.

We have your thoughts on the pending legislation that would allow the red-light cameras in Chicago to also issue speeding tickets in toni

Gov. Quinn touts job creation in his state of the state address, but Republican leaders wonder why the governor hardly mentioned the depths of Illinois' fiscal crisis. Carol Marin brings us the latest from Springfield.

The race for the Republican presidential nomination moves ahead as Mitt Romney takes the important Florida primary.

Chicago native and visionary creator of Soul Train, Don Cornelius, is dead of an apparent suicide. We talk with his close friend and legendary Chicago radio personality, Herb Kent, about the Cornelius legacy. 

Veteran Chicago food critic, Pat Bruno, talks about his battle with the same brain cancer that claimed the lives of Gene Siskel and Tim W

A new exhibit at the Chicago Cultural Center brings death to life. We speak with the local man who assembled this morbid collection.

Find out why Woodstock, Illinois -- the backdrop to the classic movie Groundhog Day -- is reliving the same day over, and over, and over again.

Navy Pier is in for an extreme makeover. At least that's what some design teams are proposing. We look at the ambitious ideas presented by five finalists and tell you how you can help pick the winner.

David Petraeus has been called the most influential military leader of his generation. We talk about the forces that shaped him with Paula Broadwell, the author of a new biography, All In: The Education of General David Petraeus.

The O.J. Simspon trial set the precedent for televised trials.

A new report proposes a multi-billion dollar engineering change to Chicago's waterways to cut off an Asian Carp invasion.

Two innovative web developers and Chicago's Chief Technology Officer talk about new apps for Chicagoans with data from the city.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel unveils reforms to the city's controversial TIF program: an online database of how TIF money is spent. Eddie Arruza has the details on this, red-light cameras and more.