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12/25/2025

For generations of Chicagoans, the holiday season wasn’t complete without a trip to Marshall Field’s, the city’s elegant, sprawling department store.

For generations of Chicagoans, the holiday season wasn’t complete without a trip to Marshall Field’s, the city’s elegant, sprawling department store. With its dazzling window displays, twinkling decorations, and the towering Great Tree in the Walnut Room, the State Street store became a holida...

12/24/2025

Revisiting some of our favorite conversations from this past year.

12/24/2025

Kids will love helping to create this fanciful gingerbread house, courtesy of a recipe from the famed Mary Berry.

Kids will love helping to create this fanciful gingerbread house, courtesy of a recipe from the famed Mary Berry. After you mix, cut out, and bake the various house components, kids can take over the decoration.

12/24/2025

Extra points if you can combine it with a reference to a homegrown celebrity or a bit of Chicago trivia. Think Mrs. O’Leary’s Plow, Salter Payton or Snower Wacker — all past winners.

Got a good snow pun? Enter it in Chicago's fourth annual "name a snowplow" contest.

12/23/2025

December 23, 2025 Full Episode — Chicago Tonight

12/23/2025

The order is not a final ruling but it could affect other lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump’s attempts to deploy the military in other Democratic-led cities.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to allow the Trump administration to deploy National Guard troops in the Chicago area to support its immigration crackdown.

12/23/2025

NEW TONIGHT: Mayor Brandon Johnson is scheduled to appear on “Chicago Tonight” Tuesday to discuss the city’s budget after City Council members approved a version that he fiercely opposed.

The show airs at 5:30 p.m., 10 p.m. and streams on-demand online. https://to.wttw.com/3Lhpaeb

12/23/2025

Mayor Brandon Johnson said Tuesday he would allow Chicago’s $16.6 billion 2026 budget — which does not impose a per-employee tax on large firms — to take effect Jan. 1, over his objections.

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s decision not to veto the budget he called “morally bankrupt” immediately averts what could have been the city most severe fiscal crisis in more than 40 years.

12/23/2025

One man was fatally shot and a second was wounded during an altercation on board a downtown CTA train early Tuesday morning.

According to the Chicago Police Department, a 44-year-old man was killed in a shooting just before 1:30 a.m. in the 100 block of North Wells.

12/23/2025

Illinois’ electric grids may soon face power shortages and further price increases as fossil fuel plants go offline and data centers fueling the rise of artificial intelligence demand ever-increasing amounts of power.

A new report by state regulators projects energy shortfalls will begin in northern Illinois by 2029 and the rest of the state by 2031 if lawmakers and grid operators don’t act.

12/23/2025

Every day, Metra's busy control center directs 700 commuter trains across 11 lines.

12/22/2025

Are Chicago police officers being held accountable for misconduct? And the years-long battle over police discipline makes its way to the Illinois Supreme Court.