Sunday, September 04, 2005

This week on Chicago Sunday:
Host Phil Ponce talks with Chicago Public Library Commissioner Mary Dempsey about her recently completed stint "cleaning up" the city's minority hiring program.

Then, if some researchers at the Illinois Institute of Technology are predicting correctly, the solar house of the future will make it's own heat and electricity. Eddie Arruza tells us how it works and when we can expect to move in.

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Finally, it's a different kind of bean-counting. Vanilla beans processed at a suburban plant end up in chef's kitchens around the world. We'll get a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of some of the finest vanilla extracts available, at the Nielsen-Massey headquarters in Waukegan.

27th Annual Chicago Jazz Festival
Grant Park
300 S. Columbus Drive
Until 9:30 pm

Labor Day Fireworks
Navy Pier
9:30 pm
The Pier's last display of the season commemorates the holiday weekend.

Body Worlds
Museum of Science and Industry
5700 S. Lake Shore Drive
Through 9:00 pm
Monday, September 5
Open 24 Hours a Day
Over Labor Day Weekend

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