Stories by Daniel Hautzinger

PBS's Summer of Adventure has begun! There's a lot to explore, including three of the world's most impressive mountain ranges, in Kingdoms of the Sky, and some of Earth's most forbidding landscapes, in Earth's Natural Wonders. See some of the stunning photography from both series. 

A missing persons case leads Morse to explore country railways and eventually resurrects the specter of an unusual unsolved murder from a few years earlier. Trewlove proves her merit against boorish detectives from another division, and a gang war seems to be brewing. 

Nigella Lawson's new cooking show At My Table, in which she shares the recipes she makes at home for her friends and family, premieres July 7 at 10:30 am. Try her recipe for a simple, cooling tropical dessert that's perfect for the dog days of summer.

Need some new book recommendations for the summer? Discover some of the books the Chicago Tonight​ is reading right now, from a sweeping family saga to a clear-eyed memoir of race to a book of chatty but opinionated essays by a Chicagoan.

The Beach Boys, Renée Fleming, Pentatonix, The Temptations: they're all performing during A Capitol Fourth, which is hosted by John Stamos and also include a fireworks show above the skyline of Washington D.C. Meet the performers here.

Mysterious deaths related to a movie palace screening mummy horror movies, a museum housing Egyptian artifacts, Hollywood stars: it's the makings of a Pharoah's curse. Plus, it seems someone is targeting immigrants and challenging Oxford's resident crime lord.

In 1961, Tom Burrell became the first African American to work in a Chicago advertising agency—in the mailroom. Within a decade, he had started his own agency, which became a pioneer of targeted advertising, incorporating black culture and positive images of black people into commercials.

They're accomplished veterans in the kitchen, but that's not their only skill: they also craft leather and wood products by hand, decorate walls with graffiti, practice Latin dance, and scuba dive. Discover the fascinating hobbies of Chicago chefs in our new digital series, Chefs off the Clock.

The first Special Olympics were held 50 years ago in Chicago, thanks in part to the championing efforts of a Kennedy. A celebration of the Special Olympics will be held on their anniversary here in July.

The upcoming auction of a priceless Faberge egg might be connected to a growing series of gruesome murders, but things won't quite add up. Is the murderer the red-haired, white-coated woman seen with all the men before their death? Recap and stream Endeavour here.

Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood are back to test the baking prowess of twelve new bakers in the tent, for the final season of The Great British Baking Show. Who will win? Meet all the contestants here.

A square mile of the city just upstream from downtown devoted to turning livestock into products that saw 18 million animals in a year at its peak: the Union Stock Yards are almost unimaginable now, but they once epitomized Chicago, and gave us the assembly line and refrigerated rail cars.

Are you adventurous like Tom Sawyer? Fierce like Jo March? Just like Atticus Finch? Indomitable like Celie? Find out which classic literary character you are and get a reading list for your personality from The Great American Read's list of America's best-loved novels.

The new series Breaking Big attempts to discover how people like Trevor Noah, who was born poor and mixed-race during apartheid in South Africa and is now the host of The Daily Show, achieve their success. Watch it here, and see the other high achievers who are profiled.

The Great British Baking Show returns with its final season this Friday. Celebrate with a bright lemon poppy seed drizzle cake recipe from last season of the show – it would be the perfect thing to serve while you watch the premiere.