Arts & Entertainment
Discover a suburban junior high school that's home to an amazing gallery of American artwork. We show you how students there get a head start in art.
From Potawatomis to Picasso, Geoffrey Baer answers your questions about works of art in this week’s edition of Ask Geoffrey.
Picasso, a historic opportunity for the Blackhawks and a mass bike ride. Chicago Tonight knows what's going on this weekend.
It's been something of a dead zone for decades, but now the City of Chicago has plans to resurrect part of a North Side cemetery. We'll tell you about the proposed West Ridge Nature Preserve.
Artists look at the environment and create beauty out of uncertainty. We take another look at a local exhibit.
Eddie Arruza and his panel of journalists weigh the pros and cons of a racy billboard downtown, and whether its’ sexually-loaded message crosses the line into indecent advertising.
Poetry competition, South Asian chocolates and a play about the racial divisions of South Africa, Chicago Tonight knows what's going on this weekend.
A new WTTW special covers the mock retrial of Mary Todd Lincoln, who was tried and institutionalized for insanity a decade after Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Would she be institutionalized under today's laws?
Rick Bayless Shares Cocktail Recipe for Valentine's Day
Top Chef and Mexico: One Plate at a Time host Rick Bayless shares his recipe for a Mexican El Diablo cocktail.
It happened 84 years ago, but many Chicagoans still associate Valentine's Day with a massacre. Take a look at the late John Callaway's 2004 "Chicago Stories" piece about gangland Chicago's most infamous hour.
Bandleader Orbert Davis and friends perform their Emmy-winning score from the documentary DuSable to Obama.
As Pope Benedict XVI prepares for his last weeks in office, we speak with Father Don Senior about what it's like to live in Vatican City.
Chicago Magazine’s Executive Editor, Cassie Walker Burke, is back on the show to tell us who made the publication’s 2013 list for the 100 most influential people in the city.
We see some of the amazing murals scattered about the Chicago Park District's fieldhouses.