On today's show:Chicago magazine's Nina Hahn shares a number of dream destinations you can hit with direct flights from Chicago in under eight hours.Religious experts discuss the Protestant Reformation and the last 500 years since Catholic priest Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenburg, Germany, in 1917.

On today's show: Liberian officials are still counting the ballots from Tuesday's general elections in which 19 contenders ran for president. Leaders discuss why they say Islamic Center of Naperville's Open Mosque Day will aid in lessening tensions in the U.S. towards Muslims. Chicagoan Lou Bank discusses the work of his nonprofit that uses traditional and artisanal agave spirits — mezcal — to help people in rural Mexico.

On today's show:We discuss the economic and humanitarian issues around Puerto Rico with associate professor, scholar, and founder of the Puerto Rico Syllabus Yarimar Bonilla.We take a look at how Chicago gun violence organization Cure Violence is now focused on helping refugees in Syria.We get a live in-studio performance from the Canadian Chamber Choir.

On today's show: We talk about President Trump's public feud with Bob Corker, a powerful Republican senator who runs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. We take a look at the latest on the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar and what the Rohingya Cultural Center is doing to help resettle refugees in Chicago. We discuss China's government crackdown on Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement activists three years after they demanded more democracy.

Worldview takes a close look at the life of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, the Marxist revolutionary who was captured and killed in Bolivia on Oct. 9, 1967. Joining us is Jon Lee Anderson, a staff writer for The New Yorker who spent three years in Cuba working on a recent biography of Che, and Vijay Prashad, chair in South Asian history and professor of international studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

On today’s show:Ngozi, a Nigerian teenager superheroine, joins the likes of Captain America and Wonder Woman in a new released Marvel comic titled Blessing in Disguise. WBEZ film contributor Milos Stehlik of Facets Multimedia joins Worldview to review Blade Runner 2049. Global citizen Nari Safavi talks with artist Michael Rakowitz about his artwork to “humanize what was being dehumanized during the [Iraq] war.”

On today's show: To discuss Australia’s island refugee detention and their controversial resettlement to the U.S., we’re joined by Ian Rintoul, an activist and spokesman for the Refugee Action Coalition in Sydney.Historian John Schmidt talks about what Australia did with its sudden rabbit infestation in today's World History Moment.The BBC’s Alexander Griffiths brings us a report on the European Union's order that Amazon pay almost $300 million in back-taxes to Luxembourg. For our Global Activism segment, we’ll get an update on the group Bookwallah (“book peddler“ in Hindi) from founder and CEO Seena Jacob. 

On today's show:Chris Anchor of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County and the Urban Otter Project joins 'Worldview' to discuss the county’s otter and badger conservation efforts. Morning Shift and Radio M host Tony Sarabia discussed the new release by the legendary godfather of Jamaican Dub Lee "Scratch" Perry.

On today's show: A Chinese investment powerhouse's latest project is building one of Chicago's tallest buildings and we take a look at how similar Chinese companies make risky overseas investments.We talk about democracy and resistance to life rule in East Africa as presidents in Uganda and Kenya fight to remain in power. We discuss the ramifications of the Iraqi Kurdistan referendum and what it means for Iraq and the Middle East.

On today's show:About 90 percent of voters in Catalonia support independence from Spain, according to regional officials who support the separation. Luis Corteguera, professor and associate chair of Department of History at University of Kansas, joined Worldview to discuss reactions to the referendum.Companies like 23andMe and Ancestry.com claim they can give people a new sense of ethnic identity by tracing their DNA to other regions of the world. But some sociologists and geneticists are dubious.