Genre: | Television news magazine |
Executive Producer: | Mary Field |
Theme Music Composer: | Nick Tremulis Herbie Hancock |
Runtime: | 27 minutes |
Camera: | multi-camera |
Location: | Chicago, Illinois |
Country: | United States |
Network: | WTTW |
Chicago Tonight is a television news program broadcast weeknights on WTTW in Chicago, United States. It reports primarily on local politics, education, business, culture, science, and health, with a mix of in-studio panel discussions, one-on-one interviews, and short documentary-style packages. On its website, it publishes additional news stories and features by staff reporters.
The show first aired on April 24, 1984[1] and was hosted by popular Chicago broadcast journalist John Callaway for 15 years, who continued contributing to the show until he died in 2009.[2]