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.

David Petraeus has been called the most influential military leader of his generation. We talk about the forces that shaped him with Paula Broadwell, the author of a new biography, All In: The Education of General David Petraeus.

Iraqi kids take part in competitions promoting peace and addressing the challenges they face. We meet the man behind it all: 2011 Koldyke Fellow, Hussam Hadi.

Jane Addams and her fellow reformers understood the social value of art and its ability to break down barriers and uplift people. Find out how Jane Addams' Hull House was an incubator for early Chicago artists.

Our host, Phil Ponce, spends some time in the doghouse for a remark he made recently about cats. We have your howls of protest in tonight's Viewer Mail.