President Bush's High Court Nominee
Four days after Harriet Miers told President George Bush she was withdrawing her name from consideration for Supreme Court Justice, the President today nominated another potential successor to Sandra Day O'Connor. But if the Republican right had problems with Ms. Miers, now it seems Senate Democrats have some reservations over the new nominee, federal judge Samuel Alito. Rich Samuels has the reaction to the nomination from Senators Dick Durbin and Barack Obama.

News Analysis with Joel Weisman
Governor Rod Blagojevich's troubles seem to be compounding. Those troubles include an ever-widening federal hiring probe, lack-luster poll numbers, and news today that at least one official hired by the Governor's administration wore a wire for the feds. All this as Blagojevich declared himself the most ethical governor in a generation. Just what will the political fallout of the recent scandals be? Joel Wiesman, substituting for Phil Ponce tonight, will discuss that with his panelists.

Patrick Fitzgerald
With the indictment Friday of the Vice President's chief of staff, we revisit our profile of U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald. He was, of course, the man who brought the indictment against Lewis "Scooter" Libby making national news this weekend. He's now shaken up the political establishment in both parties at every level of government. Elizabeth Brackett takes a look at Fitzgerald's background and how he got to Chicago.

Bears Alumni Club
This week on the Bears Alumni Club we have former Bears offensive tackle, Ted Albrecht, who played from 1977 to 1983 during which time he protected his quarterbacks and helped make "holes up the middle" for the likes of Walter Payton. Ted is now the WGN radio color analyst for the Northwestern Wildcats football games. We'll talk about the Wildcats after first taking a look at the NFC North Division leader Bears and their 19 to 13 overtime victory in Detroit yesterday.

The Godfather of Movie Gore
In Chicago, we are always eager to point out the ways that we are the best or the first. The birthplace of the skyscraper, the home of the deep dish pizza, and so on. Since today is Halloween, we thought it was a good time to look at one of Chicago's more dubious contributions to American culture – one that will not be on tourism brochures anytime soon. Did you know that Chicago can claim to be the birthplace of the "gore" film? Who knew that the man now called the "Godfather of Gore" was a guy from Chicago who graduated from Northwestern University with a masters degree in journalism and a PhD. in psychology? John Callaway has the Chicago Story of Herschell Gordon Lewis.

Tell us what you think of Herschell Gordon Lewis and his films.

For more about the Godfather of Gore:
Herschell Gordon Lewis's own website
Image Entertainment
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