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Mag Mile landlords dodge a new tax aimed at revitalizing the shopping strip following this summer’s unrest. Crain’s Chicago Business reporter Danny Ecker has details on this story and more.

Watch the Dec. 14, 2020 full episode of “Chicago Tonight.”

Our conversation on unity between Black and Latino communities continues. We check in with the new president of Governors State University. Meet an extraordinary athlete who just wouldn’t give up.

A vaccine is on the way, but it will likely be months before it is widely available. That means masks and social distancing protocols will need to remain in place, the governor said this week.

The uneasy history between Chicago’s Black and Brown communities. Fighting the stigma of food insecurity. The origins of La Guadalupana. And the Latino takeover at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Watch the Dec. 10, 2020 full episode of “Chicago Tonight.”

Watch the Dec. 9, 2020 full episode of “Chicago Tonight.”

Watch the Dec. 8, 2020 full episode of “Chicago Tonight.”

The 2021 Chicago Auto Show will not take place in February due to the coronavirus pandemic. Crain’s Chicago Business reporter editor Ann Dwyer has details.

Watch the Dec. 7, 2020 full episode of “Chicago Tonight.”

Sunday marked the first day this month in which Illinois’ daily death toll dipped below 125. There were only 10 days in November when triple-digit numbers were recorded in the number of virus-related deaths.

Watch the Dec. 3, 2020 full episode of “Chicago Tonight.”

Watch the Dec. 2, 2020 full episode of “Chicago Tonight.”

Watch the Dec. 1, 2020 full episode of “Chicago Tonight.”

Chicago radio legend and National Radio Hall of Fame member Orion Samuelson is retiring at the end of 2020. In this 2003 interview with Bob Sirott, Samuelson talks about his career.

Watch the Nov. 30, 2020 full episode of “Chicago Tonight.”

It is the third day in a row that fewer than 8,000 new cases of the virus have been reported during a month that is on pace to exceed 300,000 infections.

Watch the Nov. 26, 2020 full episode of “Chicago Tonight.”

As Americans kick off a holiday season under the cloud of the coronavirus pandemic, Illinois health officials reported more than 12,000 new and probable cases of the virus across the state, and 131 additional deaths.

Watch the Nov. 25, 2020 full episode of “Chicago Tonight.”

Watch the Nov. 24, 2020 full episode of “Chicago Tonight.”

The underutilized Foxconn plant that President Donald Trump once called “the Eighth Wonder of the World” gets a new customer. Crain’s Chicago Business reporter Danny Ecker has details.

Watch the Nov. 23, 2020 full episode of “Chicago Tonight.”

TV host Dr. Ian Smith on the pandemic and his latest book. Making health care anti-racist. A mural brings health care providers closer to their patients. And the last word on Black businesses.

Since January, more than 656,000 cases of the coronavirus have been reported in Illinois and 11,506 people have died as a result of the virus, according to state health officials.

Making COVID-19 vaccine distribution equitable. Hurricanes rip through Central America. Living with and preventing diabetes. How the monarch butterfly builds bridges between the U.S. and Mexico.