An Ethiopian festival, Chicago Women's Expo, and the AIDS Run and Walk; Chicago Tonight knows what’s going on this weekend.

Chicago’s majestic Cultural Center has no small plans for the weekend. The Cultural Center will stay open overnight this Friday, Sept. 12, as part of the 2014 World Music Festival.

The newest film by PBS documentarian Ken Burns chronicles one of America's most influential families.

A century ago, the last known passenger pigeon in existence died. For decades, billions of passenger pigeons filled the sky. A new documentary addresses what happened to the passenger pigeon.

Chicago's WNBA Team, The Chicago Sky, compete in the WNBA Finals against the Phoenix Mercury.  

We revisit Geoffrey Baer’s trip to a rediscovered war curiosity, a long-lost war trophy, and a place in Chicago where north meets north in tonight’s Ask Geoffrey.

We discuss how the NFL handled the Ray Rice domestic violence situation with our panel. 

Theater and Dance Critic of the Chicago Sun-Times, Hedy Weiss joins us to review the latest productions. 

Musicologist David Patterson attempts to amend the biography of architect Frank Lloyd Wright to acknowledge the powerful influence of his father, a preacher, essayist, musician and composer.  

Broadway-themed boats, the German Day parade, and "Romeo and Juliet" in the park; Chicago Tonight knows what’s going on this weekend.

Intimate black-and-white photographs document the South Side nightlife of the 1970s in a just-opened show at the Museum of Contemporary Photography.

For the first time in 10 years—and only the second time ever—Lyric Opera of Chicago is opening up its closets and putting more than 3,000 costumes used in dozens of operas up for sale. Get a preview on Chicago Tonight.

The photographer Wallace Kirkland was a late bloomer who started his career as a social worker at the Hull House settlement in Chicago. He took a winding path in an artistic career that led him from Jamaica to India and around the world – all the while photographing Chicago people and places. 

We explore Chicago as a terminal town from 1939 until present day, with author Joseph P. Schwieterman.

A jazz festival, the North Coast Music Festival, and a fair for all things reused and recycled; Chicago Tonight knows what’s going on this weekend.

To kick off the college football season, we talk with an author about the sport's past and connection to its present.