We meet a suburban man whose passion for fish and fishing knows no bounds. Don Dubin is an expert taxidermist, a world champion fish carver, and he's been named a "legendary angler" in the Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame. Jay Shefsky has the story.

The Chicago Public Schools board approves a budget and a strike contingency plan. How will the new budget affect contract negotiations?

Thousands who stayed at a downtown hotel may have been exposed to Legionnaires' disease. We have details about this potentially deadly disease, and what hotels can do to help prevent outbreaks.

What's happening in the city is a tech boom that has some seeing Chicago as the next Silicon Valley. Eddie Arruza reports on the young workforce and the businesses creating a high-tech hotbed downtown.

We read what some of you had to say about the failure of the special session to come up with a pension solution in tonight's Viewer Mail.

Chicago teachers are ramping up their strike threat as the Board of Education readies to vote on a budget.

For the time being, pension reform is off the radar in Springfield. We ask two members of Gov. Quinn's pension working group what they'll do next.

We remember Morris Topchevsky, a Chicago artist who was an eyewitness to world-changing events.

The day of reckoning that wasn't. State Rep. Tom Cross and State Sen. Christine Radogno join us with insight into what went wrong with the governor's special session.

Northerly Island is getting a makeover. We have some of your thoughts in tonight's Viewer Mail.

Northerly Island Park is set to get an extreme makeover. We tell you what's in the works and when it will be completed.

Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy joins us to talk about the hold violence has on our city. 

Illinois Republicans hammer away at Democrats, as some gubernatorial candidates emerge for 2014. Paris Schutz has more on that, as well as pension negotiations in Springfield.