Arts & Entertainment
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Brian Henson joins us to talk about the R-rated stage show he created with world-renowned Jim Henson puppeteers.
The Northwestern Women's Lacrosse team won its 7th NCAA championship in eight years.
The pared down list of Taste of Chicago restaurants features mostly returning booths.
The season for farmers markets is upon us. We have some advice about where you should go for fresh foods this summer.
Jay Shefsky takes us north of the border to the legendary Great Lakes Dragaway in Union Grove, Wisconsin.
The Pop Art paintings of Roy Lichtenstein make a rare appearance at The Art Institute. We get a preview.
Master Sommelier and Check Please! Host Alpana Singh joins us with some recommendations for wine events during the summer.
Need some ideas for what to do this weekend? Chicago Tonight knows what is going on!
Scientists from The Field Museum join us to talk about a new "extreme" exhibit that opens on Friday.
Tony Award-winning actor Ian McDiarmid is starring at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. We talk to him about the obscure play, Timon of Athens, and his famed villainy as Emperor Palpatine in the Star Wars film saga.
Studs Terkel would have been 100 years old today. We go to the vault for interviews with Terkel from many different periods in his life.
A new book tells stories in the voices of famous Chicagoans, from Barack Obama to Rod Blagojevich to Oprah Winfrey. We talk with the author.
He went from playing Chicago softball to playing for the White Sox. Kevin Hickey died Wednesday at the age of 56. We look back at John Callaway's 2002 profile of this hometown hero.
A new study examines how the impact of a divorce early in a child's life may cause more behavioral problems. We hear from the study's co-author.
Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy bring the heat in The Iceman Cometh. Hedy Weiss reviews this, and three other highly recommended shows currently on Chicago stages.