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"Big Cat" Williams talks about his involvement with the Chicago Bears & Chase Food Drive and blocked field goals in our web extra video.

WTTW’s latest documentary takes a nostalgic look at Chicago in the 1970s and 1980s. We get a preview.

Chicago Tonight gets a new look. View a behind-the-scenes photo gallery.

Chicago Public Schools announced a five-year moratorium on school closings starting next fall. In exchange for the moratorium, CPS has requested an extension on announcing school closings from the Illinois General Assembly.

Joel Weisman and his panel of journalists take a look at the prospects for local retailers this holiday season.

Joel Weisman and his panel of journalists continue the conversation about holiday shopping and our local economy in our web extra video.

Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. resigns after nearly five months on medical leave. We look at the life, legacy and future of the now former congressman.

Plans are already underway for a special election to fill the seat in the 2nd Congressional District in the wake of Jesse Jackson Jr.'s resignation. We tell you what's next.

Officials react to Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr.'s resignation.

Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. has resigned from Congress, citing ongoing health concerns and acknowledging a federal investigation.

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She was one of the strongest voices in the school reform movement, but less than a decade ago, Diane Ravitch, a former assistant secretary of education under President George H. W. Bush, had a change of heart.

A shellacking in San Francisco. James "Big Cat" Williams analyzes the Bears' Monday night meltdown against the 49ers.

Modern architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is the subject of a new biography. We talk with authors Franz Schulze and Edward Windhorst about the work and life of a German emigrant who changed the American landscape.

A rousing musical based on a James Joyce story? Chicago Sun-Times Theater Critic Hedy Weiss reviews The Dead, along with Sister Act, and a long-running Chicago favorite.

Check Please! Host and Master Sommelier Alpana Singh joins us with Thanksgiving wine recommendations and more.

Two members of Congress join us to discuss the looming fiscal cliff and what Congress is doing to avoid it.

Curb Your Enthusiasm's Jeff Garlin joins us -- and brings along his mother. It's an interview you won't want to miss.

We continue our conversation with Jeff Garlin and his mother in our web-extra video.

In preparation for Thanksgiving, Geoffrey Baer reflects on some local Native American history, in this week's edition of Ask Geoffrey.

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

Joel Weisman and his panel of journalists continue the conversation about concussion concerns. Each panelist weighs in on their own sports background, and whether they would allow their own children to play football.

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Ald. Sandi Jackson is a no-show as the Chicago City Council passes Mayor Rahm Emanuel's budget by a 46-3 vote. Paris Schutz has the details.

We have both sides of the debate on the mayor's controversial proposal to have the city purchase electricity in bulk on behalf of residents.

As stocks tumbled during the Great Depression, farmers in the Great Plains were dealing with the Dust Bowl -- a plague of dust storms that lasted a decade resulting in the greatest man-made ecological disaster in U.S. history.