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Funeral services were held today for pediatric surgeon Donald Liu.  Liu drowned on Sunday trying to rescue two children caught in a rip current.  We have a profile.  

A Chicago Public Radio report says Illinois' prison system is in a state of crisis, with overcrowding and new allegations of inhumane conditions. We have the latest.

One pension system in Illinois has been reformed-- it's the one at the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District. Could the plan be a blueprint for the other state pensions in trouble?

See how the Illinois House voted on the Metropolitan Reclamation Water District's pension amendments in our interactive graphic.

If you get sweet cravings at strange times, help is on hand. Kris Kridel of WBBM Newsradio 780 and 105.9FM has that story, and more top business headlines.

We revisit a story about how small, pop-up, organic community gardens are challenging people's perceptions about life in Chicago.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney makes his pitch in President Obama's backyard. Paris Schutz has more on why Romney is in Chicago, and the local business that snagged him.

Who would work for $1? Well, that's the salary for Chicago's deputy mayor. The present and future men who hold the position share insights on the city's fiscal outlook.

A dozen drownings this year from rip currents in the Great Lakes. We learn more about the deadly currents.

The battle lines have been drawn over Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Women's Hospital. Eddie Arruza reports on the fight between preservationists and the building's owner: Northwestern University.

How does life go on after devastating trauma? A Bosnian concentration camp survivor and a journalist discuss their new book on trauma and healing.

Composer Marvin Hamlisch dies at age 68. We revisit a 1997 Artbeat story where Hamlisch visits The People's Music School in Chicago.

We get praise and taken to the woodshed in tonight's Viewer Mail.

This spring, a nest of bald eaglets hatched in Cook County -- the first in over a century. Now, at least one of those young eagles has gone through the difficult process of fledging, or learning how to fly. 

The governor sounds the alarm on pension reform, but are Republicans finally buying in? Find out what the top Republican in the Senate had to say.

It is a case of domestic terrorism. Why were Sikhs in Wisconsin targeted yesterday? And just who are the people who practice Sikhism? We learn more.

NASA scientists go wild after the Mars rover's successful landing on the red planet early today. An Adler Planetarium astronomer tells us what happens next.

Beekeeping in Chicago is legal, relatively easy and increasingly popular. We take a look at the largely unseen world of rooftop bees, and the people who care for them.

Chicago Sun-Times columnist Stella Foster calls it quits after 43 years. She joins us on her last day on the job to talk about her life, legacy, and what's next.

The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 was held here in Chicago, but is anything still standing from the White City? Geoffrey Baer shares some surprising secrets in this week's edition of Ask Geoffrey.

We have some of your rather pointed comments about the state's pension crisis when we read some of your viewer mail.

Joel Weisman and his panel of journalists discuss the week's top headlines.

Need some ideas for what to do this weekend? Chicago Tonight knows what is going on!

The board members of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's Infrastructure Trust get to know each other in their first official meeting. But what else is really known about this new method of financing city projects? Paris Schutz has the story.

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke warns about a so-called fiscal cliff the nation is facing on January 2. We take up the automatic budget cuts some think could lead to a new recession.

In part three of our Vivian Maier series, Jay Shefsky introduces us to several people trying to unravel the mystery of the celebrated photographer.