Culture

From the little-known architect to the over 375,000 terra cotta pieces on the facade, the pioneering radio stations and extraordinary designers that worked there, The Wrigley Building: The Making of an Icon tells the stories of one of Chicago's most famous buildings. 

From snorkeling to a shipwreck to fishing in the lake, observing NASCAR to a rodeo, Geoffrey Baer explores Chicago's lakefront and all it has to offer in his latest special.

For nearly a decade, contemporary artist Lincoln Schatz has captured the landscape of Lake Michigan, its many seasons, and its changing nature.

Chicago’s own Matt Schulien took magic from the street corner to an actual bar in the twentieth century, and the tradition continues in some spots today. 

Take our March news quiz now to test your knowledge of headlines across Chicago and the rest of the state this month. 

Geoffrey Baer tours Chicago's lakefront in a new special, musical and theatrical icons Liza Minelli and Austin City Limits are celebrated, and historian Simon Schama looks back on the Holocaust.

The federal government recently included two of the Mies van der Rohe-designed buildings in Federal Center, with its iconic Calder sculpture, in a list of properties to sell.

WTTW host, writer, and producer Geoffrey Baer has been named the recipient of the University Club of Chicago Cultural Award, joining the likes of Studs Terkel, Roger Ebert, and more.

Growing threats to this funding for PBS stations across the country put access to essential local programming and services at risk. That’s why WTTW is joining the effort on Thursday, March 6 for Protect My Public Media Day.

A history of the fight for passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, a look at the Los Angeles fires, plenty of new seasons of dramas and mysteries, and more. 

Women's History Month on WTTW features new programs, including a documentary on the women of World War II, an investigation of England’s first woman monarch, a profile of writer Liz Carpenter, and more. 

It might have been a short month, but there was no shortage of headlines in Chicago and Illinois this month. Test your news knowledge with our monthly news quiz.

A new documentary follows a father and son as they embark on a health journey that involves an ambitious 350-mile bike ride from St. Louis to Chicago in just 4 days.
 

"We are profiling people who are actively intervening in violent conflicts, and also creating the conditions for peace in more subtle ways," says a producer of Firsthand: Peacekeepers.

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.