Arts & Entertainment

Wordnik

Where can you go to find the definition of a word before it's even a word? How about the new web site Wordnik? We talk to the founder of the site, lexicographer Erin McKean.

• Wordnik.com

Arts & Entertainment

Keystone Co-op

Sharing meals, bathrooms and tight living quarters may be fine for students in a dorm -- but why do some adults choose to live like this? Eddie Arruza takes us inside a so-called "intentional living community."

• Intentional Communities Online Directory

Arts & Entertainment

Ebony Magazine Remembers Michael Jackson

We talk to two editors from Ebony who have the latest on their new issue devoted to Michael Jackson.

• Order a copy of the Michael Jackson Ebony issue

Arts & Entertainment

The Emperor's New Clothes: Exposing the Truth from Watergate to 9/11

From Watergate to the 9/11 Commission, longtime Washington prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste posed tough questions to get at the truth. He joins us to talk about his experiences, which are chronicled in his new book, “The Emperor’s New Clothes: Exposing the Truth from Watergate to 9/11.”

Arts & Entertainment

News Analysis with Elizabeth Brackett

Sheriff Tom Dart continues to grapple with the horror story at Burr Oak Cemetery. Four workers are charged with digging up hundreds of graves and re-selling the plots. Elizabeth Brackett sits down with family members whose relatives were buried at Burr Oak.

• WEB EXCLUSIVE: Tom Dart's complete press conference

Politics

The City's Union Negotiations

Mayor Daley said today that almost 430 city workers could lose their jobs tomorrow if the city unions still holding out do not agree to his cost-cutting measures. Rich Samuels was with him today and has the latest.

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Politics

Cokie Roberts

Judicial appointee Sonia Sotomayor praised her mother during today's Senate confirmation hearing. We talk to veteran national journalist Cokie Roberts, who has written several books on the role of women in public life. Her latest is an expanded version of her bestseller We Are Our Mother's Daughters.

• WEB EXCLUSIVE: Cokie Roberts on the role of first ladies

Chicago Business News

Chicago Business

Could the Cubs file for bankruptcy? Reports say it's a possibility. Kris Kridel of the WBBM Noon Business Hour will be here with those details, plus the rest of the week's business news.

Business

Buying Black

An Oak Park family wants to lift up African American-owned businesses, and they are doing it in a unique way: buying exclusively from these merchants for an entire year. Christian Farr introduces us to this family.

• Empowerment Experiment
• Agriculture - Men's Clothing Store
• Sensual Steps Shoe Salon
• Farmers Best Chicago