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Changes Coming to Chicago’s Embattled Workers’ Comp System

It’s a program that costs the city more than $100 million a year, and Mayor Lori Lightfoot says that under Ald. Ed Burke, it was “ripe for corruption.”

“The system that Ed Burke ran was ripe for corruption,” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Thursday, June 13, 2019. (WTTW News)

Juneteenth: A Holiday Honoring the Abolition of US Slavery

Next week, a holiday commemorates the abolition of slavery in Confederate states. We discuss Juneteenth and African American history in general.

A bronze sculpture by Eddie Dixon is one of five sculptures representing the story of Juneteeth at the George Washington Carver Museum in Austin, Texas. (Jennifer M. Rangubphai / Wikimedia Commons)

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Inside Northwestern’s Massive New Biomedical Research Facility

Northwestern University is officially opening its massive $560 million, state of the art research center next week. Get a sneak peek inside.

June 13, 2019 - Full Show

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In ‘Soulless,’ Jim DeRogatis Details ‘The Case Against R. Kelly’

Intimate details about R. Kelly are uncovered in a new book. Jim DeRogatis, the reporter who’s been following the singer for years, discusses “Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly.”

Journalist Jim DeRogatis appears on “Chicago Tonight” on Wednesday, June 12, 2019.

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Defense Attorney: ‘Brendt Christensen Killed Yingying Zhang’

“Brendt Christensen is responsible for the death of Yingying Zhang,” federal defender George Taseff told a packed court Wednesday inside the Peoria federal courthouse. Despite the admission, Christensen is not changing his not guilty plea. 

Yingying Zhang disappeared on June 9, 2017. (University of Illinois Police Department). Inset: Brendt Christensen (Macon County Sheriff’s Department)

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Judge: Obama Center Construction Can Move Forward in Chicago

Plans to build Barack Obama’s $500 million presidential center on Chicago’s lakefront can move forward, a federal judge said Tuesday in dismissing an advocacy group’s lawsuit objecting to the use of historic public parkland.

Plaintiffs appear before U.S. District Judge John Robert Blakey on Tuesday, June 11, 2019 to discuss a suit aiming to halt construction of the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park. (Courtroom sketch by Tom Gianni)

Lt. Gov. Stratton on Ensuring ‘Springfield is Working for the People’

The just-completed spring legislative session produced a slew of initiatives championed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration. What Illinoisans can expect from those initiatives, the new state budget and more.

Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton appears on “Chicago Tonight.”

‘Volta’ Performer With Local Roots Tumbles Back to Chicago

Cirque du Soleil has visited Chicago every other year since 1989. This year, for the first time, the internationally minded “Circus of the Sun” features a performer with local roots. Meet Kevin Beverley.

Kevin Beverley speaks with WTTW News.

June 11, 2019 - Full Show

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Bubbly Creek: An Environmental Quagmire for Federal Agencies and Local Activists

More than a century after Upton Sinclair described a stretch of the Chicago River as “a great open sewer,” Bubbly Creek is still plagued by waste – and the restoration process has been mired in its own political muck.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Violence, a Chicago Casino and Ald. Ed Burke

Did the Chicago police union instruct cops not to police during the violent Memorial Day weekend? Mayor Lori Lightfoot clarifies a rumor she says she heard in this wide-ranging, one-on-one interview.

June 10, 2019 - Full Show

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Deep Frydays’ Maiden Voyage: Giardiniera Mix

How do you deep-fry giardiniera? We find out in the first installment of our weekly summer series Deep Frydays, where we go deep on an iconic Chicago food and then sacrifice it to sizzling oil.