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The Chicago Sun-Times reporter who won five games in a row on Jeopardy! shares her secrets for success on the popular game show.

On Friday, the Michigan Avenue Bridge will be renamed the DuSable Bridge. We learn just who Jean Baptiste Point DuSable was when we watch a clip of WTTW's award-winning documentary DuSable to Obama: Chicago's Black Metropolis.

A recipe for multi-grain pancakes is just one of more than 800 in America's Test Kitchen's new Healthy Family Cookbook. Jack Bishop joins us from the hit show to tell us about the new book and more.

We revisit our 2004 interview with the "Queen of Gospel" Albertina Walker, who died Friday at the age of 81.

Election Day is almost three weeks away, and many races appear to be neck and neck. Carol Marin and her panel of reporters discuss the latest on the battles for Senate, Governor, mayor and more.

Is it possible commit voter fraud even without being in a voting booth? One researcher at the Argonne National Laboratory says it is -- and his team has discovered how. We find out about that and other electronic voting machine vulnerabilities...and what can be done about it.

Eddie Arruza introduces us to a man who works with the U.S. Department of Justice to track down Nazi collaborators who have yet to be brought to justice.

The Bears scored a comfortable victory over the Carolina Panthers. Super Bowl Bear Emery Moorehead joins us on our Bears Alumni Club to talk about what went right -- and wrong -- in yesterday's game.

It took nearly 60 years to complete, but the entire architectural works of Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan have been compiled into a new book, The Complete Architecture of Adler and Sullivan. We talk with two of its authors.

We asked you if former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel should be allowed to run for mayor...and you told us! We read some of your responses. Additional link mentioned on the show: CUB's Cellphone Saver "Assignment Records of Accused Priests Who Have Worked in the Chicago Archdiocese"--Bishopaccountability.org

On tonight's edition of Chicago Tonight: The Week In Review -- President Obama headlines an Alexi Giannoulias fundraiser here as the Democratic Senate candidate prepares to debate his opponent Mark Kirk this weekend; Governor Pat Quinn is on a roll -- getting teachers union and Sun-Times endorsements as Bill Brady launches three new television ads aimed at Quinn's early prisoner release debacle; concerns are raised by reports that Chicago Public Schools chief Ron Huberman will leave his post before the end of the school year; Rahm Emanuel starts his listening tour; Todd Stroger's f

Elizabeth Brackett reports on how possible mayoral candidate James Meeks is trying to mend fences with the gay community.

The Tribune Company is suffering more setbacks with a blistering New York Times article and mounting problems in its bankruptcy battle. Eddie Arruza and his panel take a look inside the beleaguered media conglomerate.

We take up the debate over whether an election is the best way to pick judges. Illinois State Bar Association's Judicial Evaluations

You don't have to go to Italy to see a leaning tower. Geoffrey Baer tells us where you can find one in Chicago and how it's connected to a local YMCA in tonight's edition of Ask Geoffrey. Village of Niles history Black Hawk War Sculptor Edward McCartan Eugene Field

We meet a Chicago man who contracted an incurable disease during the Gulf War that made it impossible for him to run, but now he runs 21 miles...to work.

We have the latest on reports that Ron Huberman will step down later this school year as Chicago Public Schools CEO.

We talk with United States Senator Dick Durbin about the midterm elections, the city's mayoral race, and much more.

Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney thinks that free college tuition and the legalization of marijuana -- along with other ideas -- are ways to get the state back on track. Carol Marin talks with him.

The Chicago cityscape has seen an unprecendented increase in skyscrapers -- and some less successful projects -- over the past ten years. Chicago Tribune architechture critic Blair Kamin joins us to talk about the boom and the bust. Find out more about Blair Kamin's book: Terror and Wonder: Architecture in a Tumultuous Age Read Blair's Kamin's blog

We talk with the Chicago author of a new book on making traditional Indian dishes using a slow-cooker.

Cook County Board President Todd Stroger accepted the resignation of his deputy chief of staff, Carla Oglesby, after she was charged with fraud for allegedly getting paid for sham county contracts. Elizabeth Brackett has the latest.

Despite his high profile, could Rahm Emanuel actually be disqualified from running for mayor? We pose that question to a panel of political and legal observers.

The recession has taken a toll on many Americans, and alarming new statistics reveal just how much. Eddie Arruza reports on the recently released U.S. poverty data, and what the new face of poverty looks like.

From Rod Blagojevich's precipitous fall from grace, his conviction and whirlwind media tour to Jesse Jackson, Jr.'s extramarital affair and his hopes for a mayoral run in a tailspin, Illinois is familiar with scandal. We talk to the author of How to Become a Scandal: Adventures in Bad Behavior. Meet the author at 57th Street Books on October 13th

Just in time for Halloween, Check Please! host and Master Sommelier Alpana Singh tells us which wines to pair with our favorite sugary treats. Pelee Island Winery Rieslings: