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This week on Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review, Mayor Rahm Emanuel ushers in a new era of ethics reforms in city government. A vicious beating and stabbing in Lakeview brings renewed fear to the city. Former top cop Jody Weis is hired by the Chicago Crime Commission. State workers lose their raises as Gov. Pat Quinn cuts nearly $400 million from the state budget. City Council approves gun ranges in Chicago. Summer travel costs you more as airlines raise rates. And in sports, bypassed Paul Konerko is finally voted an all-star as the Sox struggle to reach .500.

Reform is coming to Cook County in the form of quarterly performance reports. We sit down with County Board President Toni Preckwinkle about the unveiling of the new initiative.

Chicago's demographics have changed considerably over the last 10 years and now the City Council is deciding how to remap the city's wards. Eddie Arruza and his panel of aldermen look at what's at stake and who's battling for control.

We hear from Dr. David Ansell, the author of a new book about the history of Cook County Hospital.

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Gun ranges will now be legal in Chicago. The Chicago City Council passed the ordinance today, keeping Chicago one step ahead of a federal court decision that could mandate the ranges. Elizabeth Brackett has the story.

While the president held the first ever Twitter Town Hall today, Republican candidates are lining up to face Obama in the 2012 presidential race. Our Carol Marin and her panel of political analysts will discuss the growing field and more.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel introduces new ethics reforms to Chicago's City Council. Paris Schutz has more on what it means for taxpayers.

Gov. Pat Quinn whacks an additional $376 million from the state's budget, signing it hours before the deadline. Eddie Arruza and his panel examine whether the cuts to Medicaid and school spending are enough to help ease Illinois' fiscal crisis.

It was once one of the most powerful media conglomerates in the U.S. -- then came a new buyer, bankruptcy and an $8 billion buyout. So what really happened to the Tribune Company? Former Chicago Tribune managing editor James O'Shea discusses his tell-all book: The Deal From Hell: How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers.

This week on Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review, former governor Rod Blagojevich is found guilty on 17 counts, including trying to sell President Obama's Senate seat. Mayor Rahm Emanuel says union work rule changes are needed -- or layoffs will come. Controversy continues over Alderman Ed Burke's security detail. Governor Quinn signs a workers compensation reform bill and tightens seat belt laws. Former first lady Lura Lynn Ryan dies with former governor Ryan out of prison and at her side. And in sports, the dismantling of the champion Blackhawks continues.

From slashing the City Council in half to cutting the Fire Department's budget, a new report outlines 40 tough-love measures to get the city's budget back in shape. Our panel discusses the cost-cutting ideas, and what it will take to implement them.

We talk to the Chicago Tribune's political cartoonist Scott Stantis about covering the Blagojevich trial, and he gives us tips on how to draw the new mayor. Chicago Tribune cartoons Stantis' blog: Taking a Stantis Chicago Tonight's Blagojevich Retrial page

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On Chicago Tonight at 7:00 pm, the jury forewoman from the Blagojevich retrial, along with two other jurors, joins Elizabeth Brackett to discuss the deliberation process and how they arrived at their verdict. We also spoke with two additional jurors from the trial. We asked Maya Moody and Rosemary Bennett a series of questions by phone on Tuesday, one day after they handed down their verdict in the corruption retrial, finding