We talk with Chicago aldermen about NATO, the mayor's ethics plan, aldermanic pensions and more.

With a ballooning budget deficit, angry teachers and some top administrators leaving, Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard has a lot on his plate. We talk with him about what he's facing.

Children's Memorial Hospital gets a new name and is set to move into a brand new $900 million home in Streeterville.

We show you how researchers are tracking cancer rates in the endangered Mexican Gray Wolf in tonight's Scientific Chicago.

How a high-brow literary editor found himself slicing deli meat and selling lottery tickets at a convienence store with his Korean mother-in-law. We hear from the author of this comical memoir.

Art conservator Barry Bauman discovers fraudulence in a 19th century portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln. We shine a light on his detective work.

She was raised in war-torn Czechoslovakia, but moved up the ranks of U.S. diplomacy to the very top spot: Secretary of State. Eddie Arruza talks with Madeleine Albright.

Homegrown actress Jennifer Hudson was present for Day 8 of testimony in the trial involving the murder of three family members.

Is the U.S. economy built to help the working class or Wall Street? A new book by a veteran in Illinois politics and government tackles the question head-on.

Caterpillar workers strike in Joliet as a new survey of CEOs rates the Illinois business climate the third worst in the country.

A new religion census reveals the results of 236 faiths polled around the country. Which religions are growing, and which are not? We break down the numbers.

May Day protests lined the Loop on Tuesday in what could be construed as a dress rehearsal for NATO. How did the city do?

Student debt threatens to cripple a generation from making it in America. We talk with Sen.