Need some ideas for what to do this weekend? Chicago Tonight knows what’s going on!
It's a big year for Chicago's Joffrey Ballet. We hear all about it from the artistic director, and a visiting guest from the Royal Ballet in London.
Rare sculptures, lost and found. We hear about Marion Perkins, a talented Chicago artist whose career was cut short.

Navy Pier Redesign

The five finalists have been chosen for a makeover of Navy Pier. We have your reaction to the designs in tonight's Viewer Mail.
A bizarre newspaper photo leads Jay Shefsky on a quest to understand a 100-year-old Chicago murder.
Chicago Sun-Times theater and dance critic, Hedy Weiss, joins us to review three plays on Chicago stages.
Last month, she won a Golden Globe award with Madonna. And she's written hit songs for The Black Eyed Peas, Beyonce and others. We talk with a longtime Chicago singer-songwriter whose career is flying high.
We meet Chicago-area native Mike Lee, a Notre Dame finance grad who is climbing the ranks of the boxing world.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have heated sidewalks and never have to shovel?  Geoffrey Baer tells us about some folks in Oak Park who had that luxury in the early 20th century on tonight’s Ask Geoffrey.
Need some ideas for what to do this weekend? Chicago Tonight knows what’s going on!
We meet two men playing in the ice sheets of Lake Michigan in Hyde Park on their daily swim. Elizabeth Brackett reports.
Windy City Live host Val Warner talks about her shot at comedy in WTTW's upcoming show, The Chicago Stand-Up Project.
Chicago native and visionary creator of Soul Train, Don Cornelius, is dead of an apparent suicide. We talk with his close friend and legendary Chicago radio personality, Herb Kent, about the Cornelius legacy. 
A new exhibit at the Chicago Cultural Center brings death to life. We speak with the local man who assembled this morbid collection.
Find out why Woodstock, Illinois -- the backdrop to the classic movie Groundhog Day -- is reliving the same day over, and over, and over again.
Navy Pier is in for an extreme makeover. At least that's what some design teams are proposing. We look at the ambitious ideas presented by five finalists and tell you how you can help pick the winner.
 

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