Stories by Daniel Hautzinger

Kasia is driven to ever more drastic actions by her experience of cruelty in occupied Warsaw, while Harry's leadership is tested as his unit engages in combat in Belgium and Douglas struggles to help his children back in England. 

Sister Hilda and Nurse Crane have differing opinions about the involvement of a husband in his wife's pregnancy, while Sisters Julienne and Frances become involved in a middle-aged woman's life and end up re-examining their views of themselves.

CNN and Sesame Street are teaming up for a special town hall addressing the coronavirus. Hosted by CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Erica Hill alongside Big Bird, it will provide information and tools for families and answer questions about the pandemic.

"I've never covered a more important story in my career," says the producer of the new Frontline: Coronavirus Pandemic. But how are journalists and broadcasters working now, when most people are confined at home? Frontline, WTTW News, and WTTW's FIRSTHAND discuss.

Beginning April 20, Michelle Obama will join PBS KIDS to read a children's book live on Facebook and YouTube in order to encourage reading while children are at home, in Mondays with Michelle Obama.

Baptiste begins to learn how little he knows about Edward Stratton, the man he was helping search for Natalie Rose. The investigation widens to include a Romanian gang. 

Nancy begins digging into nefarious Nazi programs while Tom engages with a German warship in the south Atlantic. Harry and Lois meet again at Harry's infantry base. Robina tries to make Jan happy in a foreign country. 

Fred and Reggie meet an ailing man who keeps pigeons, and try to convince him to move out of his condemned building while helping with his health. Four young doctors move into Nonnatus House to learn from the midwives. 

Poetry magazine has published most major poets of the last century and given many of them early breaks, from T.S. Eliot to Gwendolyn Brooks, Ocean Vuong, and Danez Smith. "Chicago," excerpts from Claudia Rankine's Citizen, and "anyone lived in a pretty how town" were first published in its pages. 

Heather Cherone first appeared on WTTW as a high school senior and editor of her school newspaper. Now the veteran of The Daily Line and DNAinfo Chicago is joining WTTW News as a digital reporter covering City Hall.

The retired French detective Julien Baptiste is asked to help search for a missing girl while staying with his daughter in Amsterdam. The case embroils him in the work of a dangerous Romanian gang and leads through Amsterdam's red-light district.

Lois tries to determine her future after Harry returns to England with a Polish boy in tow, while Harry's prospects become more uncertain. Kasia fights to survive through enormous loss in Warsaw, and Nancy tries to get information through German censorship.

The midwives organize a fashion show to raise money for an incubator while Nurse Crane seeks to help a recent immigrant ashamed of her condition and Lucille works at the hospital with a rude, racist woman. 

A British translator falls in love with a Polish waitress in Warsaw despite a girlfriend back home, while World War II looms. The waitress's father and brother go to defend Danzig, and an American journalist warns that Germany is about to invade Poland.

Sister Julienne tries to help an independent-minded, pregnant prostitute. The hardworking mother of a pregnant woman suffers from a mysterious illness. And the relationship between Sergeant Woolf and Miss Higgins gets complicated.