There’s a shortage of male teachers in Illinois classrooms, particularly those who are African-American and Latino. How the University of Illinois at Chicago is hoping to change that. 

A studio performance with harmonica hero Howard Levy and Chicago folk legend Bonnie Koloc.

Once upon a time in Chicago, so many people fished to feed their families that there were bait shops up and down the lakefront. The oldest one has been owned by the same family for 60 years.

By almost every measure, the U.S. economy is on a bullet train to prosperity. But are there warning signs among the surging data?

Some have called the Leopold and Loeb case “the murder that wouldn’t die.” A new book fans the flames of our obsession with this baffling and sensational crime. A conversation with author Nina Barrett.

Watch the Aug. 1, 2018 full episode of “Chicago Tonight.”

East meets West in an art show that began with a collection of photos found at an estate sale 27 years ago.

Chicago residents logged more than 50,000 complaints last year about rats, according to a new survey that ranks the city as the “rat capital” of the U.S. We separate rat fact from fiction.

Protesters are poised to take over Wrigleyville on Thursday. Organizers of the march are here to tell us why.

A watchdog group takes action against the Chicago mayoral candidate’s campaign for behavior they believe is unethical and improper.

A local institution holds handwritten lyric sheets belonging to the biggest-selling music artists of all time. We get a peek at this collection of cultural artifacts.

Some 20 years after they stampeded along Michigan Avenue, Chicagoans are still moo-ved by the memory of Cows on Parade. Geoffrey Baer revisits the 1999 art project in this encore edition of “Ask Geoffrey.”

Archaeologists are nearing the end of a monthlong dig in the city’s Old Irving Park neighborhood. What they’re looking for – and what they’ve turned up.