McNair was diagnosed with PTSD and depression following 24 years of service in the Army but discovered baking was therapeutic. Now he runs Strugglebeard Bakery to honor other veterans and offer a welcoming space.
Are you planning your Thanksgiving menu? Here are some recipes that might be something a little different to add to your menu this year.
As the media begin to get wind of Boyce's investigations, he enlists their help to take down John, while Douglas turns on Logan after being taken into custody.
Maigret and his team untangle the shadowy industry behind Andre Delteil's death while also discovering the cause of Olga's drowning.
June 7 marks the centenary of Gwendolyn Brooks. The renowned poet was the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize and Poet Laureate of Illinois from 1968 until her death in 2000. Hear her read two of her poems in this WTTW program from 1966.
The Edgewater Beach Hotel played host to weddings, big bands, scandals, and celebrities like Nat King Cole and Bette Davis during its heyday. Experience some of the "Magic by the Lake" in this episode of Chicago Stories.
Today is John F. Kennedy's centenary. 34 years ago, WTTW's John Callaway hosted a discussion on the legacy of the 35th president of the United States on the twentieth anniversary of his assassination.
In 1984, WTTW hosted a discussion of the Vietnam War with a group of veterans and four Steppenwolf Theatre actors playing soldiers onstage, including Gary Sinise. Revisit it here.
84 years ago today, in the midst of the Great Depression, Chicago opened an extravagant World's Fair.
"It was another world," Pépin says of the American culinary scene when he first arrived here in 1959. “The cook used to be at the bottom of the social scale. Now we are genius.”
40 years ago on May 25, the first Star Wars movie was released. Relive the excitement of the release of Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi through a 1983 review and interviews with the director and C-3PO on WTTW's Sneak Previews.
