The Week in Review

The Week in Review with Joel Weisman

This week on Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review, newly released 911 tapes add even more controversy to the Memorial Day beach closings. The city's war on gangs nets 120 arrests as the top cop, Garry McCarthy, has vowed to "obliterate" them. The new school board approves hefty executive pay hikes as salary-slashed teachers protest, and CPS CEO Jean-Claude Brizard suggests teachers visit students' homes. An old court order from the Council Wars protects Ald. Ed Burke's controversial 24-7 police detail. ComEd is still reeling from the storm blackouts. And in sports, empty seats and off-network coverage spells trouble for the Cubs and White Sox for the once red-hot Crosstown Classic inter-league series.

Guests:

• Mike Flannery, Fox News Chicago
• David Greising, Chicago News Cooperative
• Mary Mitchell, Chicago Sun-Times
• Lou Canellis, Fox News Chicago

More on the Story:

• More on the Story: Week in Review (6/20 - 6/24)
• Weekend Events Around Town: 6/24 - 6/26

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Ask Geoffrey

Ask Geoffrey

Geoffrey Baer takes us to the former sites of both the Cubs and White Sox ballparks in this week's edition of Ask Geoffrey.

• Cubs history timeline
• White Sox history timeline
• Historic Pullman Foundation
• The Pullman State Historic Site
• "Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co. : A Chronological History"--Sussex-Lisbon Area Historical Society, Inc.
• Ask Geoffrey your own questions and watch previous segments online

Cultural Connections

Cultural Connections: Playwright David Henry Hwang

The play is called "Chinglish" and its author is the Tony-award winning writer of the acclaimed "M. Butterfly." Eddie Arruza talks with David Henry Hwang about his latest play, which receives its world premiere at the Goodman Theatre on Monday.

• Goodman Theatre: "Chinglish"
• Silk Road Theater Project: "Yellow Face"
• Halcyon Theater: "Family Devotions"
• Watch more Cultural Connections online

Arts & Entertainment

Steven Petrow on Gay Manners

With civil unions here in Illinois now, Steven Petrow, the author of the Complete Gay and Lesbian Manners: The Definitive Guide to LGBT Life, gives us some etiquette tips.

• More on the Story: Read an excerpt on why Petrow wrote the book
• Petrow's website: Gay Manners
• More on the book
• Chicago Pride Parade

Business

Financial News

Crude oil prices tumble, the unemployment rate stumbles, and the housing market falls too. Eddie Arruza and our financial panel break down why the economic recovery has stalled.

• USA Today article
• U.S. Energry Information Administration: Oil- and Gas-Related Maps
• Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor: Mass Layoffs
• Bernanke on the Federal Open Market Committee
• Today's Dow Jones Industrial Average

Politics

Mayor Emanuel and Chicago Public Schools

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard want teachers to spend more time in the classroom -- but not to get scheduled 4 percent raises. Paris Schutz has the story.

• More on the Story: Read what local moms had to say
• Are you for or against longer days in Chicago Public Schools?
• Mayor Emanuel, CPS CEO Tout Benefits of Longer School Day
• Visit our Mayor Emanuel Page

Arts & Entertainment

Erik Larson

In Erik Larson's new book, In the Garden of Beasts, he tells the true story of a Chicago family that unexpectedly finds itself in a position of prominence in Berlin during Hitler's rise to power.

• More on the book

Arts & Entertainment

Poetry Foundation

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We tour the Poetry Foundation's bold new downtown building. Eddie Arruza has the story.

Politics

Ald. Ed Burke's Security Detail

Finance Committee chairman Alderman Ed Burke has a security detail of multiple bodyguards and one Chicago police car; a measure Rahm Emanuel spoke up against during his campaign. Burke has the backing of a judge when the detail was contested in 1986. Elizabeth Brackett has the story.

• Burke Lawsuit: 1986 Injunction
• 1986 Chicago Tribune article
• Chicago Tribune article: Burke's bodyguards