Now in its 45th year, A Capitol Fourth is back with a concert and fireworks display that WTTW and PBS are broadcasting live ...

A new season of a cooking show and a documentary on a cookbook author who shaped food without you knowing, plus a holiday ...

No, it’s not acceptable,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said. “No one is going to agree that the overspending in this moment is ...

WTTW News producer Josh Terry presents must-see live music shows from indie rock to jazz, country, hip-hop and more.

In the late 1960s, WTTW revived the show, which was popular with children and adults, and distributed it nationally under the direction of Carter, who had started watching the show at age 11.

On the first day WTTW videographers filmed Damien Morris at work in Garfield Park, they responded to the scene of a shooting, a hospital where one of Morris’ colleagues had a son being treated ...

WTTW’s latest “Firsthand” documentary series follows a range of community violence interventions aimed at “creating conditions for peace” around Chicago.

Christmas specials are ubiquitous this time of year and WTTW is giving the same treatment to the Jewish festival of lights with A Celebration of Hanukkah, premiering at 8 p.m. on Monday, December 23.

The show, which debuted in 1975 as “Opening Soon ... at a Theater Near You,” changed names and broadcast affiliates over its decades-long run. But the set that Mr. Loewenstein created, or ...

WTTW News Director Jay Smith said at the time that the move was due to more local viewers watching news programming at 10 p.m. The show changed time slots again in May, moving to 5:30 p.m. with ...

Summer 2023 A Safer City As crime in Chicago and the surrounding communities is on the rise, WTTW News and Chicago Tonight launched a new reporting initiative – “A Safer City” – to dive ...

Nearly 75,000 audience members have experienced the festive tradition onstage since 2013, and now all of Chicago will have a free, front-row seat to the show as the ultimate holiday gift.