once again the chicago demonstration scheduled to begin here outside of chicago fbi headquarters at 4:30 this afternoon. on the west side, judy wang, wgn news. >>> nato forces have launched a rare air strike into pakistan this morning killing more than 50 insurgence. nato says that their troops came under fire near the pakistan border with afghanistan so helicopters were called in to fire on the militants. the attacks come after international forces launched operation dragon strike. a joint push with afghan troops to rid the kandahar area of insurgence. troops are destroying taliban hiding spots. setting off heavy fighting in the area. >>> funeral services will be held later today for an illinois soldier killed in afghanistan last week. 25-year-old staff sergeant joshua powell of pleasant plains was one of five soldiers killed in the helicopter crash tuesday. he was a member of the 101 airborne division. visitation for powell will be held this evening. powell will be buried tomorrow with full military honors at camp butler national cemetery. >>> federal investigators still trying to f

again get your tickets at chicago gourmet.org. still tickets for tonight. >> you have a new hamburger? >> i do. classwalk a twist is out. it came out in june, i have a new book. burgers in there and all kinds of great food. real classic global cookbook. >> have you done cat cora southern cooking yet? do you leave that to paula >> paula is a big buddy of mine. i leave that to paula. >> you know paula dean? >> very well. i know paula. she is my buddy. >> i love to meet paula dean. >> i will give hear shout out to tell her to come down. >> cook with me one day. >> put a little on there for you. my gosh, look at that. that is a nice burger. >> cat cora is the coolest name. >> little bit of tomato goes on. you will have onion? or little bit of everything? red onion on there? >> no leation. >> good -- no lettuce. >> make it your way here. >> and again third annual chicago gourmet festival takes place this weekend. and art smith is going to hang out with cat at the hamburger hop tonight. tickets are still available. sold out for all of t

what we have here, chicago, what is it about chicago and beef. we have wonderful tender loin we just grilled. this is local chicago, allen brothers beef which we love and stirred with wonderful fresh salad greens and then we have these amazing fresh vegetables right from the farm nearby. so i'm running the chicago marathon. >> i didn't know that. >> i am. >> have you ever done that before? >> i don't care. i'm running the second one, marine corps in d.c. >> good for you. >> you sound committed. >> i'm excited. and then of course we are leaving tomorrow to make fried chick within mayor daley in shanghai. which i'm excited about. that will be fun. >> this beef is to die for. >> we just take our salad and we will just take it and we will put it on top of our grains which -- and these are all locally grown. we are all about local. then have i these really nice vegetables which we grilled and i will add this to that. and carrots. >> what a lovely healthy dish. >> well, it's so important. and as i said, the other day we were with dr. oz, just him, if a

premiered in chicago last night. it follow as handful of students showing how the system hurt rather than helped them. the film's most controversial argument is that powerful unions are keeping incompetent teachers in schools. academy award winning davis guggenheim says the problem is widespread. >> it's shocking and it's not just that we are failing kids over there in the poor neighborhoods. we have failure in middle class neighborhoods in schools that we thought were good. it's now affects all of us. >>> president obama also weighing in on the controversial. he says low performing teachers should be fired. >>> a new book paints a unflattering picture of senior white house adviser david axelrod. in his book obama pfsz wars says general david petraeus dismissed axelrod as complete spin doctor and someone who looked at military decisions purely fapolitical context. petraeus reportedly told one of his senior aides he did not like talking with axelrod. woodward writes that president obama came into the job knowing much

coming back to chicago pretty much ending speculation that rahm emanuel will run for mayor of chicago. and thank you so much for that. we appreciate it. allison? >>> is it time for our lunch break and our guest chef today is andrew zimmerman from sepia restaurant and taking part in the big chicago gourmet festival this weekend. but before we talk about that, what you got in the pan? >> we made some sausages. >> never heard of that. >> it's a spicy lamb sausage from northern africa. >> tunisia specifically? >> yeah. i think it's specifically tunisian but you see variances across northern africa. >> what's it taste like? it looks like it's done. >> is it done. it has a lot of -- >> a lot of spices in it. a little bit spicy from cayenne. and has roasted red peppers and marge, margeroom. and little red wine. >> other pot? >> some simple lenidles that we cooked with chicken stock and celery and onion and carrots. >>> and let's plate. >> the first thing we need to do -- >> this will be the sauce. so this is a mixture of mint and tarragon and parsley. and we have a couple of shallots. and li

live at the cme group in chicago, angie lau, bloomberg news. back to you guys. >>> it's become a hot button issue for federal regulators. safety of a popular diet drug and whether it should remain on the market. >>> "chicago tribune" health reporter bruce japson joins us now with more on the controversy surrounding meridia. yesterday's toss up decision by an fda panel. were splil 8-8. what do we deduct from that? >> it's interesting. in this country it's been difficult to get a diet drug approved since the drug combination fen-phen was withdrawn in 1997 after being linked to some heart valve damage and potentially some deaths. so there is only two drugs approved. one is gleenical which there is some side effects with castro intestinal issues, diarrhea and merd why sold by abbott laboratories. meridia raises high blood pressure and panel 8 of the 16 said it should be withdrawn and the other members none said it should remain on the market as is but face new warnings. the problem is that some doctors say listen, there are so many obese in this co

she was in chicago having lunch. it has been happening with residents of both wheeling and buffalo grove. it's the same complaint over and over again. police have a stackup. even they are blown away by the number of cases. >> what we are telling people is call your banks, let them know you're concerned about their doesn't cards. you want to make sure it hasn't been accessed. and then if that doesn't work, cash is the way to go. >> reporter: they do business at an array of different banks. amounts ranging from $100 to around $1500. the thieves sometimes coming back for more until the bank makes them stop. it's left a lot of people going back to cash and feeling a little violated. >> very creepy and it's baffling. it's despicable. >> reporter: federal investigators are now involved looking at an area business we're being told that may be the common denominator here. where financial information may have been compromised. we can't get more specific than that right now. there is a bit of good news. the people we're talkin

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chicago public schools graduate only half their students. the different fund raising schemes like privatizing toll bridges and parking meters left the city half a billion dollars short and unable to pay wage increases for city workers. the real question though is will the next mayor be a one-termer? >> of course, whoever wins becomes boss of the city that carl sandburg described as player with railroads and freight handler to the nation. more than once the mayor of chicago has been credited with boosting a presidential candidate to success. >> it's a wonderful position because it has relatively unlimited power, an executive position and he can do pretty much whatever he wants. kind of like being local president in a sense. >> from a field of nearly two dozen potential candidates, none of them will succeed without crossing bitter ethic divisions and winning the black or hispanic vote. in the case of rahm emanuel, president obama is not obligated to help himments all he will do is put his own reelection in jeopardy and people worked hard for b

my goal is i want to stay in chicago. and i think i can do something special here. i hope that i can be part of that. >>> on the day the sox broke their eight-game losing streak, ozzie says he wants to end his managerial career in chicago but he wants an extension and there is a rumor of a possible move to miami. ozzie disputed that and said he's selling his house in miami. base hit to right. alejandro scores after some bobbling there to tie at 3. then mark follows up with a long one to center. beckham pinch running scores from first base to give the sox the lead and the win for the first time in a week and a half. >>> full moon over wrigley tonight. the cubs continue their winning ways in september. 3rd inning kosuke fukudome launching. the cubs up 1-0 there and throwing leather against the giants. castro diving to his left and shoveling to darwin barney and that's a double play. cubs win 2-0. >>> tyler colvin out of the hospital and back in miami. and back to the blackhawks game. they had a couple of fights. and brian biffle was in the middle of this one. they get

he was a migrant from mississippi to chicago. he grew up the son of a sharecropper and always wanted to write and he set out on a journey to get to chicago and he spent his entire career -- almost everything that he wrote was understanding the migration experience. i understand his connection between the south and north. >> he moved to paris to die? >> he ultimately was searching for the warmth of other suns. he went to chicago and then left the country altogether. >> you said that she interviewed 1200 people. " i stopped counting after that. >> how did you find them? >> i set out looking for three people and that took me to new york, chicago and los angeles. in all of those cities, i went centers.r sanus i had a booth at the juneteenth parade to collect names of people who might have migrated from the south to the north. i was going places where i might find people that were now seniors and might have been participants in this migration to the they were not hard to find. it was a matter of going in and talking to them and hearin

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regardless, chicago police are siding with her. the 68-year-old elderly widow who lived alone in this small home is staying behind closed doors today. and through a friend she is requesting privacy. >> she is emotionally distraught. she doesn't want to talk. she wants to try to find a way to take care of the damage that the children caused. >> indeed, windows are broken and loose bricks are on her property. she told police the 12 and 13- year-old boys now charged had broken her windows and returned later to throw bricks at her. that's when she pulled out a gun and opened fire hitting the 12-year-old in the arm. neighbors say the same boys had been vandalizing her property for over a year. >> i think yesterday was just kind of a tipping point from what i understand they were in her back yard throwing bricks at her window and i mean there is really nothing else you can do. you have to protect your property. >> but those who know the 12- year-old said to be a neighborhood terror claim he is not a bad child and the elderly woman should

mayor of chicago. >> how did this guy get on page one? >> do you really think and jesus christ, if he was here today, would say, pastor, go burden that holley book. >> absolutely. >> if you look at the latest "washington post" paul, do would have to conclude that the adult book for the democrats is grim. republicans have a 9% advantage among likely voters. we all know there is a hurricane coming for the democrats. what we have not determined is if it will be a category three or eight category five. is there any good news for democrats, mark? >> the president has seemed to become involved and engaged. that is good news. he is making a campaign message for them, but beyond that, no. >> i do not think there is much good news for democrats. two months to go. i suppose it could diffuse the storm of it they have, but in the end, i do not think they have the money advantage. they have the opposition candidates who say stupid things, but that does not seem to matter. people are too angry. >> i think it will be brought down to a tropical storm, no

from chicago. those businesses and other suppliers who rely on chicago to supply this market, we have to bid up and over what someone else is willing to pay in those markets to be able to get that product over here. just this morning, i received a note that the problem in chicago has been repaired and is now back up and running. at noon i saucepot prices starting to decline. it is just -- i saw prices starting to decline. it is just a supply and demand issue. >> this is the last question. with the oil spill that happened, how has this made you look at marathon differently in your systems differently, and what are you doing about it? >> i think beyond the steps i talked about before specific to the gulf of mexico, we take emergency preparedness and response very, very seriously. before that incident occurred, we had scheduled will recall an oil spill drill for september -- what we call an oil spill drill. it was in lafayette, louisiana. we simulated that we had an oil spill in the gulf of mexico, an

this is our computer model for the chicago area in the midwest. notice the cloudiness. this model is flirting with periods of clear sky. we're not confident we're going to see an overcast tomorrow or the next day, but it looks like from time to time we will be seeing periods of cloud cover, but probably no rain. it still looks like it's going to be a dry period for the next couple of three days. and probably for the next 7 days. the hot air out west buckling the jet stream out of western canada. that's supplying that cool flow of air and that's a pattern we're not expected to see change appreciably until about wednesday. then we'll be back in the cold again. let's check our forecast. first of all for tonight skies, clouds early, well, mostly cloudy let's say thereafter. calm winds. cool temperatures by the morning hours. low temperature 43 to 49 degrees. then for tuesday mostly cloudy with an isolated shower possible. high temperature between about 60 and 65. northwest winds expected. tomorrow night partly cloudy and cool by sunrise. 44 to 49-degree low temperatures. no

he went to chicago. and then he went to new york, till eventually he left the country altogether in search of it. >> you say you interviewed 1,200 people. >> i stopped counting after that. >> where did you find them? and how did you find them? >> i was setting out looking for three people who would represent each of the three strains of the great migration. so, that took me to new york, chicago and los angeles to represent those three. and so, in all of those cities, i went to senior centers, i went to aarp meetings, i went to quilting clubs. i went to baptist churches, catholic mass. i even had a booth at the juneteenth parade in los angeles -- a booth -- in order to collect the names of people who might have migrated from the south to the north. i was going to all these places where i might find people who were now seniors, and might have been participants in this migration. they were not hard to find. it's just a matter of going in and talking to them and hearing their stories. >> how did you gather t

nothing compared to chicago. we should feel great being here. the whole organization has been nothing but first class to us. we're excited about the kids here for high school years. so we're looking forward to the years to come. i'd rather talk about hockey and the team and i can't wait to get started. >>> baseball next. white sox officials was to avoid a three game sweep at the hands of those misery makers the minnesota twins. pavano got the hits going. hits konerko in the face. there's a blast to deep left field and it's gone. that's a home run by i believe joe mauer. i think we have the wrong highlights here. but there's another shot -- well, i guess we got the other day's highlights. 6-5 the white sox trailing and the ball game in the 8th inning, but they're trailing now. the power's behind the chicago sports franchise talk about the business of sports. boyer, phillips, and rick ets all taking part. what kind of manager is he looking for. >> we have to have a manager that's still engaged in being a coach. we're going to have a younger team g

. >>> this is chicago's very own wgn news at 9:00. >>> he is just a bad little boy. that's all i can say. he is a bad little boy. >> a citizen says she has had enough from a 12-year-old boy who neighbors say wags terrorizing her. >> wgn america tonight t boy is being questioned about his injuries. the woman is being questioned. it's on the pullman neighborhood. high dana. >> reporter: the woman is 68 years old and she is being questioned by police about this shooting that left a 12-year- old injured. neighbors tell us for months that boy had been terrorizing the neighborhood. this all started at 5:30 at 76th and coles in south shore. the elderly woman returned home from shopping to see several windows broken and two kids running a wave after throwing rocks. she went to call police and the two came back. they started hurling bricks at her. she grabbed a gun and opened fire hitting the 12-year-old boy in the arm. some neighbors we talk to say they sympathize with the woman who is a widow and lives alone but others say she should not have picked up a gun. they say the o

>>> chicago about to land the largest airlines. shareholderrings voted to merge the carriers and base the operations here. >>> good afternoon, we watch those watching us on wgn america. we're live outside of united elk grove headquarters with more. >> reporter: stockholders and continental stockholders approved the deal combining the two airlines. the merged airlines will take the united name and be based here in chicago. but the ceo as president and will run things. customers will not eany changes. it will be a while before the feet as combined. there are labor issues to be ironed out and other matters to be cleaned up. >> it is an act of complex coordination. through a plan. we know the time line. we know when the work needs to be done. we know how it will be done. we know who will do the work. they have been advised they're responsible. we'll execute against that plan in the coming years. >> it is a good deal we'll see that in some of the other areas are represented by flight unions. they will have to determine whom is fog to re

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. >> the holiday season is approaching and chicago police department financial crimes unit has some tips that can protect you from identity, specifically with debt card. they are warning you to keep an eye out for devices, thieves attached to scanners and atm's which can store your personal information. just recently, several suburban residents who shop at aldi grocery stores had their information stolen and their accounts drained. all the more reason to pay attention to your balances and accounts job accounts online. >> there is a lot of credit card -- very proactive in monitoring your activity. >> reporter: there are other tips to indicate shred everything and use cash. >> a baby in grisham neighborhood is dead. an autopsy confirmed the boy drowned, but it did not determine a manner of death. police and wild welfare services are still investigating the incident. >> two teen-age boys were shot this morning at the corner of 67th and wolcot, police say one of the victims was taken to the hospital in serious condition. the other man was taken to the hospital in good condition. the victims

-- to chicago at that age? >> i grew up in new york and my parents had the idea that i should go to college. i tried it for a week, and i said this is not for me. i do not want to spend the next four years drinking beer, and i left and started roaming around, doing one thing or another. i worked in the stockyards, did a lot of stuff like that. i went back east for a while and fell into one kind of organizing or another. i would say i was rootless and bootless. >> did you ever get a college degree? >> no. >> never went back to college? >> no. great advantage. >> somebody my age remembers you quite capably from the 1960's and 1970's. you did "60 minutes." you also wrote lots of spicy things for "the washington post." we'll come back to alinsky in a minute. what was that part of your life, and i know you are familiar with this quote, that you were fired by don hewitt on "60 minutes," because you said richard nixon -- you called him a dead mouse on america's kitchen floor. >> the next line was "in the american fami

emmanuel is expected to step down to run for mayor of chicago. but he doesn't have long to make a decision. emanuel has only until november 22nd to file for the primary. tara mergener is in washington with the latest. good morning, tara. >> reporter: good morning, betty. well, the white house cautions that no final decision has been made yet. but, a source close to emanuel tells cbs news that an announcement could come as early as friday. emanuel has reportedly told colleagues he is all but certain to leave to run for the mayor of chicago. earlier this year he told charlie rose that office held a special place in his heart. >> always been an aspiration of mine, even when i was in the house of representatives. >> mayor of chicago? >> yes. >> the one thing, if you ask me what i miss, i miss the contact with constituents. >> reporter: at the time, the job was filled by longtime incumbent richard dale yl. but he announced earlier this month he will not run for a seventh term. if emanuel does step aside, white house senior adviser peter rouse is widel

that's headed for the chicago area. and tomorrow's high temperature will probably occur after midnight tonight. it's going to be cooler during the day than it will be during the overnight hours. these are the temperatures at this hour across the reach and see, it's still toasty out there. 83 presently at o'hare airport. in case you're curious, heat index is 84 at o'hare airport. we've got some winds coming out of the south as you see. they are brisk. they're moving along at about 15-25 miles per hour. and there continue to be impressive wind gusts reported at some of the locations across the area. it's going to be blustery like this throughout the night. pick up again. this is the temperature forecast from the computer models suggesting the cold air coming in over the weekend. but finally some of this orange-ish red area sneaks back in to give ground in a few days. so we have chilly temperatures coming. daytime highs in the low to mid- 60s over the weekend. this has been a monstrous rain producer for parts of minnesota

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shows a picture perfect day for chicago. we had temperatures throughout the 70s. humidity wasn't a problem. winds 5-10 miles per hour most of the afternoon. just a delightful time to spend time outdoors. we got to a high in chicago 75 degrees. notice the heat continuing out here in the western states. forecasters in california are saying that record heat may continue as long as friday. so that could lop over into october. and we've seen more and more record high temperatures set today in california. these are temperatures across the chicago area tonight. we're at 63 degrees at o'hare airport. but there's a cold front coming. just ahead of it, the winds from the southwest will keep temperatures up mid to upper 50s. these are dew point temperatures suggesting that gradually the air is becoming a little more moist. still not moist enough to sustain much in the way of cloudiness. and certainly we don't expect any rainfall. now winds, this is the picture. notice calm winds at many locations. just a whisper of a breeze in other spots. south westerly winds continues. not

and northwest and west of chicago. we had 400 cloud to ground national guard and our in shouse model is showing this will continue. that's 3:00 this afternoon. here is 6:00 tonight. then the warm front comes through. back to summer if any. you see that where temperatures flirting with 90. warm and humid. 75 op friday. showers and storms. a cool weekend and it warms up nextk.

it doesn't ever stop in chicago. so how does this have white house implications, his announcement, very personal announcement today? >> well, it is. the reason it has white house implications, the chief of staff, rahm emanuel, has made no secret that his lifelong ambition is to be mayor of chicago. he's been asked numerous times would he run for mayor of chicago? he's said he wants richard daley to run for re-election. but richard daley is now not running for re-election. here's what i can tell you. chicago veterans tell me that rahm probably has a week or two to make a decision. most people close to him believe he is going to end up running. this would, of course, lead to some sort of mini shake-up or big shake-up inside the white house. would the president decide to have an interim chief of staff between now and november or go for the whole shebang, bring in somebody from the outside and do the big shake-up that some democrats on the outside of the white house have been clamoring for, frankly, for months. >> now th

that's not my song... ♪ ...so i can... >> joe: chicago challenged it. we all -- right field. >> referee: after reviewing the play the ruling on the field is kmped. the runner hit the ground with possession of the ball. chicago is charged with a time-out. >> joe: i was going to say, we all agree it would stay with dallas and when i say we all, mike pereira who was in charge of the rules for the nfl in the past who we talked about a lot and is now watching. he is with us. he kind of takes the fun out of it for us. we are usually guessing. now you look at the time-out, as troy highlights it up in the fox box. chicago is left with only one. >> troy: bugman keeps track of those time-outs for us down in the trucks. >> joe: nice of them. second down and four. barber. a yard shy of a first down. third and one. first, got a hit. mayoron barber and danieal manning. >> troy: they had dez bryant lined up on the outside one-on-one with zach bowman. zach bowman was head up. it looked like there was a lot of field there to maybe come to dez bryant on the slant. had a

well the 13th annual chicago football class was held this afternoon. this year mississippi valley state university delta devils rallied against the alcorn braves and celebrates the history of arrest african american colleges and to celebrate the opportunities that they can offer each other, and they give out scholarship opportunities to the student- atd leets. >> some of the biggest most bloved latin artists from around the world are showcasing their talents since yesterday. the latin music festival just rapped up. salsa, pop, were some general ras they enjoyed. this year was special because it marked mexico and columbias bi-sen ten animals. >> another big saturday of high school football. have you tried honey bunches of oats yet? every spoonful is a little different. mmm. they got three kinds of flakes. this is delicious. it's the perfect combination of sweet and crispy. i love it. this is so good. this is great. the magic's in the mix. [ air whooshing ] [ crunch! ] [ male announcer ] 11 grams of delicious whole grain. one mighty toasted crunch. new w

gourmet chicago, two day celebration. demonstrations, of food, and plenty of activities. >> had we been able to get down there, we would have gotten the event underway, it was the best chefs of the city showcasing their skills in burger making. >> the high stakes burger competition. >> reporter: what do people look for in a hamburger? >> tasting good. >> reporter: jeff schmidt was in the right place. chicago's finest chests kick off in millennium park, a burger cookoff competition all about the beef. for a city that is known for beef. they know how to do it really well. it will be very hard to judge the best one. >> reporter: cohosting the event, the first ever female iron chef. >> i'm going to be looking for someone to do something really innovative. it has to taste good. whoever is bringing that will take it. >> reporter: to make matters more interesting, contenders did not come from your typical burger joint. you will not find a burger of john's menu at portino, but he was up to the challenge. >> getting ready to make

those will thot come toward chicago. that little cloud mass that settled south was a front tagoes through and re-enforces the northeast flow that's blowing lightly but see these rains right here? these are the ones that come in late tomorrow night and very early thursday. it's one little shot. we will go back to scattered thunderstorms later in the weekend as well. we get a wetter than normal set of precipitation numbers out of the models when you look at next one to two weeks and we have a system here which seems to be starting to develop in the caribbean the national hurricane center is watching that and there is igor. that category 4 storm that is out at sea. we had ten named stormeds. six is average by this point in the season yet there are no land falling u.s. hurricanes. we have been very lucky and igor if it will bother a land mass it will be bermuda and not coming close to the united states or a land mass. i get e-mails from folks traveling down to the caribbean worry being that. that system in the caribbean that

joining us through videostream from chicago is joe isobaer, whe home was one of two traded in chicago friday. he is an employee of the university of illinois in chicago and a steward for the seiu local 73 and helped coordinate buses from chicago to the protests of the republican national convention in 2008. also in minneapolis, we're joined by former of the special agent and whistleblower coleen rowley. she was named woman of the year, a person of the year in 2002 by "time." let's begin in minneapolis with jess sundin. tell us what ppen. friday morning, i awoke to a bang at the door. by the time i was downstairs, there were six or seven agents already in my home where my partner and 6-year-old daughter had already been awake. we were giving -- given the search warrant and they went to the entire house, spent probably about four hours going to our personal belongings, every book, paper, close ,clothes. they filled several boxes and crates with our computers, phones, my passport. when they wereon d they had many crates full of my personal belongings with which they left my house. >> we

louis and chicago. we have at least one more warm day before the cooler air arrives behind this cold front. there's the hot air, the heat pump with that high pressure all the way up the eastern sboard. on that front, we have rain for u this morning going into columbia, missouri, chicago, you will have morning rain for your commute, also. so the forecast for today, very warm in the eastern seaboard. d.c., near 95 degrees. but cooler for you in dallas, kansas city and chicago as that cool, fa air finally arrives. that's a look at your national forecast. now here is a look at the weather outside your window. temperature in atlanta once agai in the 90s. what else is new? same for you in nashville. look at milwaukee, wisconsin. the cold front has gone through, temperatures are plummetin high today of only 66 degrees. we've returned to sweater weather. of course, the weekend forecast is coming up. >> all right, bill. thank you. >>> unexpected unemployment, the rent a car war continues and the crocodile conund

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he was a migrant from mississippi to chicago. he was the son of a share cropper and always wanted to write. i set out in 1927 to get to chicago. he spent almost his entire career. almost everything he wrote had to do with understanding the migrant experience he was a part of. >> he moved to paris to die? >> he mult matly was searching for the warmth of other suns. he moved to new york and so on. >> you say you interviewed 1200 people? >> i stopped counting after that. >> where did you find them? jo i set outlooking for three people that would represent these three people. i went to all these places where i might find people who where not seenors. they were not hard to find. it was a matter of going in and talking with them and hearing their stories. how did you gather the information? >> i took notes. at that stage, like a casting call for these three people? >> what years was this? >> it was basically 1995 and it took me about 18 months going from city to city, place to place. the prince hall, masons and all these different plac

. >> this is chicago's very own wgn news at 9:00. >> a terror plot hatched right here in chicago targeting land marks, each the pare. good evening, i'm lourdes duarte. >> and i'm mark markrd julie unruh is in wrigleyville, one of the supposed target joos it really came to a head in wrigleyville on saturday night. he was arrested for attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and attempted use of an explosive device. these are serious charges, and authorities say he wanted to blow up willis tower and hurt the mayor, and more, all to prove a point. >> his attempt was to kill as many poem as he could in an area of town that was highly populated in a time of night that could create as much destruction as possible. >> reporter: a resident of lebanese decent, like twept somethings, his facebook page is filled with photos, and nothing to say about his plot to blow up citizens in wrigleyville. undercover agents set him up with explosive device, and it was a rock concert going on just a half a block away. >> everything from his perspective was working and ready to go. he set it for a 20 minute e

one of my greatest inspirations came from chicago, walter payton. he was the guy that gave me some extra foundation to help me fiend my way. >> you knew he wasn't the most talented guy in the world. he worked the hard. >> he played a tape about his charity work and how he trained. and i had to have that tape. i was hoping for a golden nugget and i fond it. and he asked what makes you better than everybody else? he said that is easy. i want it more than they do, every day of the week, not just sunday. and i said that is it. >> you defeated cancer. that was not the only adversity that you faced. your nfl career ended here in chicago with a series of concussions. you knew early on that's not something that you play around with. >> and leading up to it i infer thought in a million years that my career would end from head trauma. it ended my career because of the closeness of the two impacts. that was at real problem. i had serious amnesia prior to my second within tan lasted almost two years after that. it was a battle to get back. so i'm advocate of ki

. >> for 29-year-old andrew has moved to chicago's gay town. there is a spiritual hunger there. >> stroll down the streets of chicago's boy's town and find a multifauceted gay world. flamboyant types and rainbow themes. >> andrew has lived in boy's town for 10 years, this densely populated chicago neighbhood is home to gays, lesbian and transgder folks and all the businesses that cater to them. it is not your typical ministry setting. >> right along this strip are over 60 gay bars and clubs. >> he is about as comfortae as any straight from the suburbs evangelicals would hope to be. >> i grew up the biggest bible-banging kid you would ever find. in college my 3 best friends came out to me. it ripp my world apart. i had no idea what to do. >> he ran. >> i believe the church is wonderful about what we need to believe and not so good about providing a framework for followhrough. >> his follow thrgh included moving into the heart of chico's gay community. his plan listen and lear the result, a freshapproach to relationships between consvative christ

from the king tut exhibit in new york to the ballet in chicago. last month, groupon sold its first big national coupon. $25 for $50 worth of clothes at the gap. how many customers did you get that day? >> 450,000. >> reporter: 450,000? >> uh-huh. >> reporter: and you crashed their server? >> we did. >> reporter: like the early dotcoms, groupon cultivates a hip, funky vibe. pin pong is encouraged. >> anybody want in on doubles? >> reporter: head shots of customer service reps recruited from chicago's improv scene line the walls. >> they think quickly, they have a good sense of humility, good sense of empaekt for the customer care site. they understand how to relate and they do so with a sense of humor. plays smooth operator when it's working properly. >> reporter: meetings are hold in a place that resembles an aging teenager's bedroom. and the point of this is what? >> um, the point of this is to have a bicycle that plays "smooth operator" when you ride it. >> reporter: the groupon ad copy reads more like the satirical onion than your grandmother's

of course rahm moved from chicago to washington after the 2008 election. he has he young kids in school in washington, dc. a run for mayor means moving the family back to chicago which is infer easy especially during the school year. and now like from the white house with the latest on how it affects the decisionmaking. >>reporter: you said it: rahm emanuel just moved the family here from washington, dc, moving the kids out of the schools they attempted in chicago since being a member of congress. for him to run for mayor would be moving them back, probably by christmas. and they might have to find a new house because the one he occupies has now been represented out. the past week or so rahm emanuel has met with other chicago politicians considering a run for mayor including self members of congress, jackson, and the man that was elected to rahm emanuel's seat, and the message is if they run against each other don't let the campaign get ugly. rahm emanuel's chances look good from washington, but chicago's politics are local and there are a couple of things

they arranged for the buses, chicago transit authority buses. city hall heard about this and yanked the buses at the last minute. they went and found suburban school buses to rent. they got the parade under way, and they got half way downtown and they were met by a string of chicago policeman across what is now martin luther king boulevard. they had machine guns and shotguns. they said you cannot go any further. but we had an escort of four or five black police officers, and it looked at that moment as though something terrible was going to happen, and in the lead car was a wonderful priest. he leaps out of the lead car and its between the two and gives these white police officers to get hold of themselves. they backed off. downtown, city hall is surrounded by cops, again with machine guns. in the midst of this