Chicago Stories

jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy

The lives of an emerging superstar and a filmmaker intertwine in this intense, intimate docuseries charting Kanye West's career, filmed over two decad

2022

America to Me

A year-long immersion into one of Chicago's most progressive and diverse public schools, located in suburban Oak Park. Both intimate and epic, explori

2018

I Was There When House Took Over the World

Nile Rodgers and more on how disco's death gave birth to the most iconic sound in dance.

2017

Jussie Smollett: Anatomy of a Hoax

Describes the intrigue and drama that caused a celebrity to become despised, shocked Chicago and beyond, and left a path of destroyed reputations and

2023

Chicago Tours with Geoffrey Baer

Explore Chicago, its neighborhoods, and beyond with WTTW host and producer Geoffrey Baer. From the neighborhoods and suburbs of Chicago to the Chicago

2001

Prohibition

The history of the rise, rule and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and the entire era it encompassed (1920-33). Afte

2011

The Murder Castle

H.H. Holmes builds a three-story hotel in Chicago where he tortures and kills an untold number of people visiting the city for the 1893 World's Fair.

2017

Tough Cookies

Tough Cookies is sitcom that aired on CBS from March 5 to April 23, 1986. The series centers on the young detective Cliff Brady, played by Robby Benso

1986

Father Dowling Mysteries

Father Dowling Mysteries is an American television mystery series that aired from January 20, 1989 to May 2, 1991. Prior to the series, a TV movie air

1989

The Steve Harvey Show

Down on his luck and out of money, former R&B star Steve Hightower lands a music teacher gig at an inner-city Chicago school. Showing who's in charge

1996

Married... with Children

Al Bundy is an unsuccessful middle aged shoe salesman with a miserable life and an equally dysfunctional family. He hates his job, his wife is lazy, h

1987

Life with Bonnie

The host of the local morning talk show Morning Chicago creatively balances family commitment—to her husband John, a hard-working family practice doct

2002

Family Matters

A long-running dramedy centering on the Winslow family, a middle-class African American family living in Chicago, and their pesky next-door neighbor,

1989

The Untouchables

Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.

1959

Soul Food

Soul Food: The Series is a television drama that aired Wednesday nights on Showtime from June 28, 2000 to May 26, 2004. Created by filmmaker George Ti

2000

All About Us

All About Us is an American teen comedy-drama series that aired on NBC during the station's TNBC lineup from August 4, 2001 to November 10, 2001. It w

2001

The Bob Newhart Show

The Bob Newhart Show is an American situation comedy produced by MTM Enterprises, which aired 142 original episodes on CBS from September 16, 1972, to

1972

Between Brothers

Between Brothers is an American television situation comedy centered around four middle-class African American men in their late twenties, living in C

1997

Angel Street

Angel Street is an American crime drama that aired from September 15, 1992 to October 3, 1992. It stars Robin Givens and Pamela Gidley as two Chicago

1992

Perfect Strangers

The chronicles of the rocky coexistence of midwestern American Larry Appleton and his distant cousin from eastern Mediterranean Europe, Balki Bartokom

1986