Shows Chicago Tonight Week in Review SORT Order Oldest FirstNewest First FILTER Date Range Start date End date Category - Any -Arts & EntertainmentBusinessCrime & LawEducationHealthPoliticsScience & NatureSports Keyword(s) Sep 30, 2025 Broadview Officials Say ICE Waging ‘Disinformation Campaign’ Amid Protests as Local Officers ‘Shell Shocked’ Mayor Katrina Thompson on Tuesday accused Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials of waging a “disinformation campaign” amid their continued use of chemical and less-lethal munitions directed at crowds outside the agency’s Broadview processing center. Sep 30, 2025 Democrats Vote Down GOP Funding Bill, Putting Government on Path to Shutdown The last shutdown was in President Donald Trump’s first term when he demanded that Congress give him money for his U.S.-Mexico border wall. Trump retreated after 35 days — the longest shutdown ever — amid intensifying airport delays and missed paydays for federal workers. Thanks to our sponsors: Thanks to our sponsors: View all sponsors Thanks to our sponsors: View all sponsors Thanks to our sponsors: View all sponsors View all sponsors Thanks to our sponsors: View all sponsors Sep 29, 2025 Chicago Advocates Concerned About Racial Profiling After Supreme Court’s Ruling on Immigration Raids Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court made a move that makes it easier for federal immigration agents to use ethnicity as a factor in deportations. Sep 29, 2025 Sept. 29, 2025 - Full Show Are military troops bound for Illinois? And how a court ruling on racial profiling could impact local policing. Thanks to our sponsors: View all sponsors Sep 29, 2025 Repeated Police Misconduct by 272 Officers Has Cost Chicago Taxpayers $295M Since 2019: Analysis Chicago taxpayers paid $295 million between 2019 and 2024 to resolve lawsuits naming officers whose alleged misconduct led more than once to payouts, according to an analysis of city data by WTTW News. In all, the city spent $491.7 million to resolve lawsuits alleging 1,643 Chicago police officers committed a wide range of misconduct. Sep 29, 2025 Reform Groups Say CPD’s Increasing Use of Force Against Black, Latino Chicagoans Violates Consent Decree “CPD has failed to rein in its culture of brutality and abuse,” according to the coalition of police reform groups that forced the city to agree to federal court oversight. “The department is moving in the wrong direction.” Sep 26, 2025 Week in Review: ICE Agents Use Pepper Spray on Broadview Protesters; Loyola’s Sister Jean Retires ICE agents again fire tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters outside an immigration facility. And Illinois bucks the feds, recommending COVID-19 boosters for all adults. Thanks to our sponsors: View all sponsors Sep 25, 2025 Sept. 25, 2025 - Full Show City Council is set to vote on Chicago police settlements. And President Donald Trump tells pregnant people not to take Tylenol — but not everyone’s on board. Sep 25, 2025 Centro Sanar Connects Southwest Siders to Free Mental Health Care: ‘It’s Been Life-Changing’ Centro Sanar began five years ago as a grassroots initiative launched by local mental health providers. It focuses on helping people break through their complex traumas using different techniques. Sep 25, 2025 Trump Links Tylenol to Autism. Here’s What Doctors Have to Say President Donald Trump linked Tylenol use during pregnancy to rising autism rates in children. The president urged pregnant women to avoid the longtime household medicine and warned against giving it to infants. Sep 25, 2025 Final Tally: Chicago Taxpayers to Spend $126.8M to Resolve Lawsuits Tied to Disgraced Ex-Sgt. Ronald Watts Chicago taxpayers will pay $90 million in the first-ever global settlement of lawsuits tied to a single Chicago police officer, under the agreement approved Thursday, to 180 people who spent nearly 200 years in prison. Sep 23, 2025 Sept. 23, 2025 - Full Show Grassroots organizing in response to “Operation Midway Blitz.” And a local event raises awareness for suicide prevention. Sep 23, 2025 Fundraiser Walk in Chicago Aims to Raise Awareness for Suicide Prevention The Out of the Darkness Chicagoland Walk, hosted by the Illinois Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, will be held Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Montrose Harbor. Sep 23, 2025 Northwestern University Lab Helps Shape the Future of Medical Monitoring From flexible electronic monitors the size of a Band-Aid to tiny pacemakers that dissolve harmlessly in the body when no longer needed — the work of the Querrey Simpson Institute of Bioelectronics at Northwestern University at times seems truly miraculous. Sep 23, 2025 Chicago’s Latino Communities See Surge in Grassroots Activism as Immigration Operations Continue Nationwide, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security reports more than 2 million people have left the country since Jan. 20. The agency said it is on pace to deport nearly 600,000 people by the end of President Donald Trump’s first year back in office. Load More Thanks to our sponsors:
