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02/01/2025

Black History Month highlights, a new season of Funny Woman, a look at the Baltimore bridge collapse, and more.

Black History Month highlights including a look at a forgotten pioneer, a new season of Funny Woman, and a look at the Baltimore bridge collapse, among other exciting programs.

02/01/2025

The new year kicked off with a busy month for local news in Chicago. Did you keep up with the headlines?

The new year kicked off with a busy month for local news in Chicago. Did you keep up with the headlines? Take our January news quiz to see how much you know.

02/01/2025

📺 Now Streaming: Start watching Great Migrations: A People on the Move, a four-part documentary from Henry Louis Gates, Jr., now on the PBS App and WTTW Passport.

🎥 Episode 1 is available now on wttw.com/passport

This powerful series explores how Black migration has shaped American culture and society—featuring Chicago’s pivotal role in this history. From the waves of Black Americans to the North—and back South—over the last century to the growing number of immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean today, the film shows how movement is a defining feature of the Black experience.

01/31/2025

January 31, 2025 Full Episode — Week in Review

01/31/2025

On Monday, February 3 at 5:30 pm, watch Mayor Brandon Johnson answer questions from community members in a WTTW News Town Hall moderated by Brandis Friedman.

Watch at wttw.com, on the PBS app, YouTube, or on Facebook, or on WTTW over the air.

01/31/2025

Jazz virtuoso Hazel Scott, forgotten NAACP leader Walter White, the Great Migration from Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and more.

In February, you can celebrate Black History Month with a variety of WTTW programming that explores the political, artistic, musical, and other contributions and experiences of Black Americans.

01/31/2025

Veronica Perez, a lifelong resident of Little Village and owner of Jesse’s Flowers, said sales have plummeted since President Donald Trump took office. It’s a drastic drop she hasn’t seen since the pandemic.

Latino neighborhoods in Chicago are on edge amid increased reports of immigration raids by federal law enforcement agents.

01/31/2025

Schwimmer was in town for a ribbon cutting for Lookingglass Theatre Company’s new multi-purpose lobby at its home in the Water Tower Water Works building on Michigan Avenue.

A ribbon cutting was held Monday for the Lookingglass Theatre Company's new multi-purpose lobby at its home in the Water Tower Water Works building on Michigan Avenue.

01/30/2025

The impact immigration raids are having on local businesses. And the stability of federal funding going forward for local nonprofits.

01/30/2025

Mayor Brandon Johnson accepted gifts of premium whiskey, luxury handbags, designer cuff links and shoes without properly reporting them, as required by the city’s ethics ordinance, according to an audit released Wednesday by the city’s watchdog.

"These gifts are, by definition, city property; if they are squirreled away and hidden from view, people are only left to assume the worst about how they are being handled," Inspector General Deborah Witzburg said.

01/29/2025

The White House rescinds its memo freezing federal funding. And a plan to hold companies complicit in slavery to account.

01/29/2025

We’ve made it to the championship round of the WTTW Viewer’s Choice Bowl! 🏆 Vote today to crown your favorite program of 2024. 📺 Join us on Super Bowl Sunday at 2 PM to see who wins!

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01/29/2025

Susan Ryeland and Atticus Pünd are returning for one final mystery.

Susan Ryeland and Atticus Pünd are returning for one last mystery in Marble Hall Murders, the final novel in a trilogy by Anthony Horowitz that began with Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders.

01/29/2025

Federal funding will temporarily keep flowing due to a court order, but confusion bordering on panic remains over a directive from President Donald Trump’s budget office that seeks to suddenly halt a wide spectrum of federal grants.

Medicaid, the health care program for low-income people and families, is jointly administered by the federal and state government, which also share costs.

01/28/2025

Illinois reacts to the president’s move to pause federal funding. Calls for cancer warning labels on alcohol. And the mayor weighs in on immigration raids in Chicago.

01/28/2025

The Great Migrations is the latest documentary from Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. It prominently features Chicago - and airs tonight!

Great Migrations: A People on the Move, a new four-part series hosted by Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., tells the story of African American movement over the 20th and 21st centuries. We spoke with the series producer/directors.

01/28/2025

Restaurants serving cuisines from around China keep popping up in Chinatown's neighboring Bridgeport, which Henry Cai of 3 Little Pigs Chi celebrates – but he worries that the Cantonese restaurants he grew up with might disappear.

Restaurants serving cuisines from around China keep popping up in Chinatown's neighboring Bridgeport, which Henry Cai of 3 Little Pigs celebrates – but he worries that the Cantonese restaurants he grew up with might disappear.

01/27/2025

Could a blanket pardon for Jan. 6 rioters lead to more political violence? And a tool to file taxes for free hits Illinois — what that means for taxpayers.