Joel and his panel discuss the week’s top headlines: The CTA avoids fare hikes but service cuts and layoffs are still looming; Jeanine Nicarico's killer, Brian Dugan, gets the death penalty; Governor Quinn decides to release prisoners early; Congressman Danny Davis bows out of the race for Cook ...
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Joel and his panel discuss the week’s top headlines: Lawmakers ignore Wednesday's deadline and fail to pass a balanced budget; Mayor Daley gets an earful from aldermen about the Olympics; Chicago Public Schools skewered in a new report; Gary-native Michael Jackson remembered; Bulls scoring star B...
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Why were six African-American students turned away from a popular Division Street bar? Was it discrimination? We take a look at the brewing controversy.
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Brian Dugan confesses to a brutal 1983 killing; Wal-Mart seeks a residence on Chicago’s South Side; Mayor Daley says more furlough days are coming; two more baseball stars are linked to a 2003 performance-enhancing drugs list; and Mark Buehrle makes more baseball history by retiring 45 consecutiv...
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She plays the foul-mouthed wife of Larry David’s manager on HBO's hit comedy. We talk with Susie Essman about her now-iconic role and her new book, What Would Susie Say?
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Have you ever been to Cherry, Illinois? Geoffrey Baer tells us what horrific event occurred in that tiny town 100 years ago this month in tonight’s edition of Ask Geoffrey.
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Joel and his panel discuss the week’s top headlines: State lawmakers busy during the fall veto session; Cook County property taxes soaring; Illinois grappling with the swine flu; terrorism suspects arrested in Chicago; protesters take to the streets against the American Bankers Association annual...
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Chicago’s free weekly newspaper The Chicago Reader has a new publisher: Jim Warren. He is a former managing editor at the Chicago Tribune and a former reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times. He joins us to talk about his vision for the paper.
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Tonight’s panel discusses the week's top headlines: Mayor Daley dipping into reserve funds to plug gaping budget holes; the long-stalled Block 37 project runs into yet another delay; Cook County property taxes going up; Brown's Chicken killer James Degorski sentenced to life in prison; the EPA cr...
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Joel Weisman and his panel discuss the week’s top headlines: National leaders come to Chicago to grapple with surging youth violence; the Olympic defeat still stuns Chicago; video poker losses in Cook County; and the Bears' Sunday win.
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