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News Analysis with Steve Edwards Many say your medical bills are so high because of runaway jury awards. Today Governor Blagojevich signed a bill that could change that. Chicago Public Radio's Steve Edwards sits down with doctors on both sides of the medical malpractice debate. Guests: Ed Murnane, Illinois Civil Justice League; Dr. Richard Geline, Illinois State Medical Society; Keith Hebeisen, Illinois Trial Lawyers Association; Dr. Scott Kale, internist and expert medical witness.
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This week on Chicago Sunday: Host Phil Ponce talks with Cook County Republican Party Chairman Gary Skoien about the state of the Republican party in Cook County and his controversial comments about Mayor Daley. We'll meet activist Alex Wilson who's helping some underprivileged Chicago kids beat some pretty tough odds by fixing and riding bicycles.
News Analysis with Phil Ponce Tomorrow is Republican Day at the State Fair in Springfield. But the GOP has been less than unified lately. Would another Jim Edgar gubernatorial run re-energize the party? Phil Ponce and his guests, Greg Hinz and Kristen McQueary, weigh in on the GOP disarray. WTTW's 50th Birthday We'll have parody from Second City and poetry from Gwendolyn Brooks as Rich Samuels continues his look at the earliest years of WTTW.
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New Corruption Charges U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald claims that $137,000 in bribes were given in exchange for $8 million worth of park district business - the scheme involving a former park district official and a mundelein landscape firm. Rich Samuels has the details.
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This week on Chicago Sunday Host Phil Ponce talks with State Senator Steve Rauschenberger (R – Elgin) about his run for Governor. A rare behind the scenes look at The Lion King. Artbeat correspondent Fawn Ring talks to the local actor cast as the evil lion "Scar" and watches as he transforms himself into the character.
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Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review Media giants John Johnson and Peter Jennings remembered, President Bush comes to Illinois to sign the federal transportation bill, Mayor Daley tight-lipped about his 2007 election plans, gas prices on the rise again, the White Sox take on the world-champion Red Sox, and the Cubs season slipping away. Guests:
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The Mayor in the hot seat Chicago's Mayor Daley says he's as eager as anyone to rid City Hall of corruption. Rich Samuels reports on his honor who held his own in a sparring match with reporters today.
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New Corruption Charges U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald claims that $137,000 in bribes were given in exchange for $8 million worth of park district business - the scheme involving a former park district official and a mundelein landscape firm. Rich Samuels has the details.
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News Analysis with Elizabeth Brackett Mayor Daley announces five new cabinet members as his administration retools in the face of a federal investigation. Eddie Arruza reports on who the new top level managers are, and then Elizabeth Brackett and her panel take a closer look at the changing face of the daley administration. Guests: Abdon Pallasch, Chicago Sun-Times; Carlos Hernandez Gomez, WBEZ-FM; and Dick Kay WMAQ-TV.
Chicago Sunday with guest Barack Obama.
Obama on Friday Night Show.
2004 Candidate Forum.
2004 Barack Obama Profile.
The Blagojevich archive takes us back 2004, when Rod Blagojevich was our guest on Chicago Tonight's "Friday Night Show."
2004 primary race for the U.S. Senate.
2004 Democratic Senate Debate.
 

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