Yoga Comes to Cook County Jail

Yoga and meditation come to Cook County Jail's Boot Camp. We take another look.
In part two of our series on photographer Vivian Maier, we meet other owners of her remarkable archive and explore the international explosion of interest in her work.
Kids from around the country come to a Chicago summer camp to learn to play the blues. We revisit Blues Camp.
We revisit a group of Lake Michigan surfers who are so passionate about their sport that they won't let a little thing like winter stand in their way.
We meet a man who has brought native Illinois prairie plants to his suburban condo development. They're not just beautiful; experts say native plant gardens are great for the environment. Jay Shefsky has the story.
Jay Shefsky takes us north of the border to the legendary Great Lakes Dragaway in Union Grove, Wisconsin.

Yoga Comes to Cook County Jail

Yoga and meditation come to Cook County Jail's Boot Camp.
A bizarre newspaper photo leads Jay Shefsky on a quest to understand a 100-year-old Chicago murder.
We meet some Chicago area cyclists who won't let a little thing like winter stand in their way.
A new Illinois law makes it illegal to throw out most of your old electronics. Jay Shefsky tries to get rid of an outdated computer, as he finds out what everyone needs to know about recycling electronics.
It's called "Project Soapbox." High school students from around the city compete in a public speaking competition. We take you to an early round.
We take another look at a Chicago Tonight story that went "viral" on YouTube and won us an Emmy. Vivian Maier was the Chicago nanny who took more than a hundred thousand photos during her lifetime -- but never showed them to anyone. After her death, her photos were discovered, and many now say she ranks among the top street photographers of the 20th century.
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Meet the Chicago high school students who have been digging for Mammoths in South Dakota, and working with paleontology superstar Paul Sereno at Project Exploration.
His neighbors call him the flower man. But he's not planting tulips and daffodils at his suburban condo development. He has created what may be the most extensive native prairie garden at a residential complex. And experts say gardens like these can help slow climate change. Jay Shefsky has the story. 
We pay a visit to the world’s largest, busiest 16-inch softball league – in Washington Park on Chicago’s South Side.
 

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