There’s no denying the magical appeal of trains – the nostalgia, the sheer power, the thrill of the journey. And there’s no ...

Trains captured Geoffrey Baer’s heart early on. Growing up in Highland Park, “we were one house away from what was back then ...

Geoffrey Baer’s latest program on WTTW takes dive deep into the links to passenger and freight railroads in the city and ...

WGN Radio’s Dave Plier talks to WTTW’s Geoffrey Baer about his latest television special, Ridin’ the Rails. Geoffrey explores ...

The Chicago Harbor Lock was built in the 1930s as part of the project that famously reversed the flow of the Chicago River. WTTW News explains.

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On the first day WTTW videographers filmed Damien Morris at work in Garfield Park, they responded to the scene of a shooting, a hospital where one of Morris’ colleagues had a son being treated for a ...

We’ve got a lot of rules on the books governing when and where we can enjoy an adult beverage. Chicago may have become virtually synonymous with speakeasies during prohibition, but that doesn’t mean ...

Brandon Johnson met with men incarcerated at Sheridan Correctional Center Sunday, during an extraordinary visit by a sitting Chicago mayor to an Illinois prison.