The Civil War as seen through art and images in Chicago collections. We have the story about a new online effort to illustrate the great conflict.

Chicago blues legend Buddy Guy talks about his career and his new autobiography. Jeffrey Brown from the PBS Newshour reports.

You know the old saying: "No one wants to see how the sausage gets made?" Well, get ready. We show you how to make sausages at home.

We take you to a prairie setting filled with gigantic works of art.

Tony Award winner, Frank Galati, joins us to talk about his newest play at Steppenwolf Theatre: an adaptation of E.L. Doctorow's Civil War novel, The March.

What does a Logan Square building have to do with womens' hair accessories, amateur singers and camels? We find out in this week's edition of Ask Geoffrey.

Legendary journalist Mike Wallace died Saturday at the age of 93. We look back at a conversation Wallace had with the late John Callaway back in 1983.

We hear from Cubs owner Tom Ricketts on a possible deal to renovate Wrigley Field. Will taxpayers foot the bill? Paris Schutz has that news and more, from opening day on the North Side.

With the repeal of "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell," lesbian and gay sailors are making waves -- and history -- at Naval Station Great Lakes in North Chicago.

Mozart. Beethoven. Radiohead? What is modern classical music, and what are its influences? We talk with one of today's modern classical composers.

Kids in Albany Park confront difficult themes on stage. We go behind-the-scenes at the innovative Albany Park Theater Project.

The search for art and access has led Google to the Art Institute of Chicago. We explain.

Film director Andy Davis takes us back to Chicago R&B of the 1970s.

We take a look at Phil Ponce's surprising hobby and newly discovered talent.

From World War II bomber jets to failed car companies, Geoffrey Baer explains how an expansive area under the Ford City Mall in West Lawn connects this neighborhood to its past.

We have some of your thoughts about the Trayvon Martin killing when we read some of your Viewer Mail.