Can a partnership between CeaseFire and the Chicago Police Department work? The director of the anti-violence group joins us.

We visit the Syrian refugee camps along the Turkish border, and share the story of a Chicago area doctor trying to help.

Travel website Orbitz infuriates Mac users, while Kraft shows its Oreo pride.

How the Beatles evolved with "Revolver." We talk with a local author who argues the album was the Beatles' artistic high-water mark.

Rain levels are extremely low for this time of year. Ash-har Quraishi talks with Tom Skilling about how severe the Illinois drought is, and what to do about it.

A Barack Obama presidential library at the University of Chicago? Find out why one U of C professor gives that idea a failing grade.

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

Public faith in the country's leaders and institutions has plummeted. MSNBC host Chris Hayes argues that the cause can be traced to social reforms of the 1960s. He's here to discuss his new book.

Lookingglass Theatre puts Chicago history onstage with Eastland. Chicago Sun-Times Theater Critic Hedy Weiss reviews this, and two other local shows.

Jay Shefsky has the story of an unusual friendship that led a Mexican immigrant to own the last kosher fish market in the Chicago area.

Sen. Dick Durbin reacts to the news that the U.S.

There's more bad news on the state of the city's pension funds. What's being done in Springfield to solve the problem? Carol Marin talks with two legislators, and the author of a new report.

West Side residents accuse for-profit recyclers of fostering a crime wave by accepting materials stolen from the neighborhood. Elizabeth Brackett reports.