Politics
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
The Blagojevich archive takes us back 2004, when Rod Blagojevich was our guest on Chicago Tonight's "Friday Night Show."
The Blagojevich Archive takes us back to when Rod Blagojevich was the Democratic nominee for Governor in the 2002 General Election.
The Blagojevich Archive takes us back to the 2002 biographical documentary about Rod Blagojevich.