It's one thing to learn about history in a classroom, but it's quite another to witness it first-hand.

Chances are pretty good that an I-Pod, I-Phone, or I-Touch, are on many holiday wish lists. But did you know that touch screen technology is allowing researchers at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago to talk to the great apes? And more importantly, for them to "talk" back. WGN's Marcella Raymond shows us how it works.

40 years ago this Christmas Eve, the country watched in awe as American astronauts won the space race to the moon. It had been a terrible year. But, a simple reading from the Bible gave the nation new hope. Apollo 8 Astronaut Captain Jim Lovell spoke with WGN's Steve Sanders about that unforgettable night.

You're out of work, have had no income for months, and the competition for jobs is as tough as you've ever seen it. What do you do? Check out what one suburban Chicago man is doing.