Arts & Entertainment
And we'll see some of the amazing murals scattered about the Chicago Park District's fieldhouses.
An old world tradition lives on with Chicago's Noble Horse Theatre. Eddie Arruza pays a visit to the equestrian arts troupe in the Old Town neighborhood on a site that's been home to horses for 140 years.
The Chicago area has the worst heroin problem in the nation, according to a study tracking heroin-related visits to emergency rooms. The new head of the Chicago Drug Enforcement Administration tells us what law enforcement is doing about it.
Watch part one of Chicago Tonight's 2009 story on the heroin crisis in the suburbs
Watch part two
A gruesome photo leads Jay Shefsky on a quest to understand a century-old murder.
One of our viewers remembers visiting this bronze elk as a child in southwest Chicago; he called it Bambi. Learn the real story behind the monument in this week's edition of Ask Geoffrey.
Chicago Botanic Garden's Eliza Fournier tells us how to tend to a garden in late summer, and take it from August..to autumn.
Fall is in the air! Check, Please! host and Master Sommelier Alpana Singh is here with some fall beer recommendations perfect for getting cozy with friends.
Acclaimed documentarian Ken Burns discusses his latest work, The Tenth Inning (coming to WTTW in late September), which takes a swing at baseball's steroid era.
What has been the impact of Twitter and Facebook on the publishing industry? We talk to one of the authors of the so-called "Bible of the Publishing World, The Chicago Manual of Style.
We visit a farm on the roof of a North Side restaurant, and other gardens high above the streets of Chicago.
Chicago Botanic Garden Plant Conservation Science Center
Gary Comer Youth Center
Uncommon Ground
Chicago Specialty Gardens
The modern-day equivalent of the World's Fair is in Shanghai this year. NPR's Edward Lifson was there, but the United States almost wasn't. Lifson is back in Chicago to tell us what he saw.
Expo 2010 China
On tonight's edition of The Week in Review with Joel Weisman: The Blagojevich jury has agreed on only two of 24 counts, is deadlocked on 11 counts, and the jurors reveal they have not even discussed the 11 counts of wire fraud. We remember political powerhouse Dan Rostenkowski, who succumbed to lung cancer this week. Amid deadly violence, Chicago's year-round schools begin. Meanwhile, the new federal jobs bill heads off some teacher layoffs here. Cook County loses nearly $3 million for job-training by failing to spend the federal funds.
We hear what you have to say about some of our recent stories when we read our viewer mail.
Eddie Arruza looks at the challenges facing college graduates who are in the hunt for jobs.
A bust of Sir Georg Solti was dedicated in front of the Lincoln Park Conservatory in 1987. Two of our viewers noticed it was missing and are wondering where it went. We find out in tonight's edition of Ask Geoffrey.
Manhattan Project and CP-1