wgn news starts right now. >> you could tell the history. the history was here. >> i have been 0 to bears games a couple of times. this was one of the best games i have been in my life. first college football game in wrigley field in more than 70 years is over. they will be talking about it for the next 70 years. no matter who had the ball, there was only one end zone. >> good evening, i'm jackie bange. >> and i'm robert jordan. >> reporter: fans didn't seem to care about the controversy leading up to kickoff.

they were watching football at wrigley field. an experience, not likely to forget. football at wrigley, especially for the university of illinois, it works. fighting illini taking home the land of lincoln trophy after getting past northwestern, if only for the week. >> this was the best experience i have seen in my life. the best money i have ever spent. >> reporter: football in a baseball park, like no play in the east end zone, due to concerns about the player's safety. it depending on perspective. most fans did not seem to mind. >> the ball disappears on the 20-yard kickoff. all of a sudden, a player emerges and we have no idea where they will go. >> people were watching nationwide. i think it will be a big recruiter thing for our school. >> reporter: and despite the

outcome, it looked like the idea was a winning one. >> having northwestern at wrigley was a culmination of everything. i'm happy, i'm coming any way. but i thank northwestern. >> reporter: the friendly confines as it hosted the first football faceoff since 1970. with atmosphere like this, fans are wondering why it took so long for them to embrace the gridiron once again. >> wrigley field is the best place to watch a game, regardless of the sport. >> reporter: cubs officials say this could turn into a tradition, given the success of the winter classic here in january and concerts in the summer. they say fans want to see more here than just baseball. live at wrigley field -- thank you. there were somospherey lines that the outcome was almost an

after thought. >> that's right, rich king was at the game and he joins us with some highlights, right? >> it was a great game. bears used to play there, once before. -- it's fitting that a runningback would steal the show. fans in the right field saw the big play go east. mcgee, in the game, iladvised pass, brian peters picks it off. the and he is gone. the pick, 59-yards. illinois still led 14-0 behind a great, great running game. the crew behind the runningback has pat fitzgerald looked on. 33-yards, an illinois school record. the wildcats had no answer for the running game of the fighting illini.

jason, two yards ought to wrap it up. 48-27. they become bowl eligible. cats playing without their qb who was injured last week. we will tell you why the rich king analysis of why the running game worked so well. >> it really worked. inside information. thanks, rich. carol mosely braun makes it official, announcing her bid to be the next mayor of chicago. she becomes the first woman to enter the race and she is wasting no time taking on rahm emanuel. >> reporter: with a chill in the air and the skyline as a back drop, carol mosely braun formally joined a crowded race for chicago mayor. >> i just want to serve. >> reporter: the former u.s. senator and u.s. ambassador --

focuses. >> everybody wins. when we promote and march at the time chicago -- >> education. >> i will work aggressively to reduce the dropout rates. >> reporter: and on crime. >> i will make sure our new police superintendent -- [ cheers and applause ] >> -- will properly deploy law enforcement to target gang leaders. >> reporter: taking shots at the opponents, including rahm emanuel. >> when he was needed month a month before the mid-term election, he abandoned the president for his personal ambition and chose not to stand by his man, barack obama. that the kind of loyalty we

want for chicago? >> this election is not about friendship. it's about leadership. >> reporter: support mosely braun will need. she has the name recognition, but is an underdog with campaign cash, going up against five other candidates, including presumed front runner, rahm emanuel, who has millions of dollars in the bank. >> we don't run from problems, we face them. that is the chicago spirit and that's what sustains us. ours is a spirit that money cannot buy. >> reporter: shawn lewis, wgn. >> 21-year-old marine killed in

action in afghanistan has been laid to rest. funeral services were held in his home community. a rifleman with the third battalion was killed in afghanistan. his survivor include his parents, his wife, one-year-old daughter, a sister and grandparents. he was buried at memory garden cemetery in arlington heights. >> it's a federal program that is trading citizenship for community investment and it's keeping up controversy in mchenry county. next, inside of the proposed plan. >> four more years in afghanistan for international forces. nato creates an outline for a major transition, jim? >> bob, another cold day in chicago, today, but would you believe that tomorrow, we could well be 20 degrees warmer? i'll have details and the full forecast, still ahead.

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there is a battle brewing in mchenry county over a plan to build a massive sports complex. foreign investors will pay for most of it in exchange for a path way to u.s. residency. >> reporter: this did lakewood in the far northwest suburbs, a mix of attractive homes and serene farmland, but officials have big plans. >> it's hard to imagine a better project than this project. >> reporter: and big opposition. >> i believe it very likely is destined for failure. >> reporter: if 200, a local developer approached them with the ideal of a sports complex. baseball, soccer fields, bicycle trails, a restaurant, all designed to make this a year round destination for family. >> this project is motherhood and apple pie. we are investing in health and wellness and an active lifestyle for our children. >> reporter: the sports complex

would sit here on 165-acres of land, and is going to cost more than $45 million to build. pay for -- paid for, mostly by foreign investors through a controversial federal program, dubbed eb5. >> , you bring jobs with foreign money. >> reporter: running the only two ev5 centers in illinois, criss-crossing the globe, convincing developerrings to invest in areas with high unemploy machine. >> what we will usually pitch in is better in thent." >> reporter: here's how it works. a foreign entrepreneur must invest -- become eligible for unconditional u.s. residency. the investor has two years to prove that jobs were create.

>> it is legal, formal, carefully governorred. lakewood amended it to include land in a u.s. census track that has unemployment high enough to meet ev5 requirements. saying the sports complex will create 400 jobs, directly or indirectly, with little cost to taxpayers. >> it's a win win situation for everyone involved. >> reporter: up to 92 foreign investors will pay for most of the project, initially from dubai and other parts of the mideast. now, it is said investors will likely come for china anticipate north korea. >> it's a cash for citizenship program or cash for visa. if it weren't for this alternative funding, they won't be able to pull this off. >> reporter: nearby, residents have been trying to stop this

project. >> developers have presented this program to them, told them its pie in the sky and i don't think lakewood has done any research into it to see whether it will fail or not. >> reporter: authorities say they are worried about traffic gridlock and they question the use of this federal program that allows rich investors to jump to the front of the immigration line. >> i think it has it's points, but i don't think it belongs here. >> eventually, this place will be built and it will be built by the sweat of the american workers. what is wrong with that? what is wrong with using foreign money to create new jobs. >> reporter: village officials say they are confident construction will begin in the spring. >> more developers are turning to foreign investors for funding with the u.s. economy

struggling. other plans ev5 projects in illinois include five assisted living centers in the suburbs and a manufacturing plant in rockford. you can read much more about all of this in sunday's chicago tribune. >> nato takes a stance on the war in afghanistan. next, how the allied nations plan to move forward with the conflict. turning iconic chicago homes into models for green living, for a new city program. ♪ [ female announcer ] yoplait's real fruit and the goodness of dairy... gives you a little slice of happy. and happiness comes in 25 delicious flavors. explore them all.

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2014. that's the year the afghan government and nato agreed upon a military agreement. president obama has this to say for the last day of the nato summit. >> afghan take stands up and takes the lead, they won't be standing a i loan. for now achieving our objective of breaking the taliban as momentum and doing the hard work of training afghan security forces in assisting the afghan people. >> reporter: holding a meeting saturday with president obama where he praised his efforts to bring peace to afghanistan to which obama jokingly responded -- . >> reporter: pentagon officials say the u.s. government views the 2014 transition date as flexible. it could be pushed back, depending on the situation on the ground. a troop draw down is planned

for next july. i'm shelby lynn, reporting it from atlanta. >> mr. meanwhile, republican leader is aincluding democratic counterparts of wasting the dame luck session on a variety of issues and ignoring the bush tax cutter a expiring. senator mitch mcconnell thinks they is what should be talked p. >> democratic leaders plan to use the last few days that lawmakers expect to spend in washington this year focusing on everything accept preventing the tax hike, which will cost us even more jobs. >> reporter: he said time is running out but it's not too late for both parties to work together to extend those tax cuts. republicans juan to extend the cuts for everyone. democrats want the extension for all but those who make more than $250,000. >> well, hurry up anticipate

pay up. that's the call from the justice department to the man who is responsible for paying out claims from the gulf oil spill. the justice department told ken fineberg this is a critical time for the claims fund as the fund transitions from initial americansy payments to paying interim and final claims. the department has concerns about the pace of the claims process, fineberg said that he has paid out some $2 billion of the $20 billion so far. he describes the palms as generous, but agrees there is room for improvement. >> and still to come, with new airport screening procedures getting increased. one flight attendant said things went way too far in north carolina. >> the new effort to help chicago's famed bungalow go green.

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left night and you might say it is a miracle no one was kill. two vehicles collided at 9:30 friday evening. police say the driver of silver pontiac hit the red toyota as it is going east. the impact literally split the camry in two, injuring the three okay cue pans inside. one person inside of the pontiac injured. all of them injured with nonthreatening injuries. >> evidence indicates that pips to a double murder/suicide in the case of three bodies found shot to death in west america on-t bodies discovered by a neighbor in the 500 block of 61st street. julia moore and linda brennan were shot several times. 50-year-old mark chaplain died of a self-inflicted wound to the head. brennan and chapman were the

six-year-old's grandparents. a handwritten note appear to have written by chaplain in which he admitted he alone took the lives of brennan and the child. >> two men accused of running a money land doctoring center on the west side. the two were arrested tuesday in the 4900 block of north pulaski road. they say the brothers were taken into custody after they bought household items that were identified as stolen. they say they were affiliated with an albany park discounts goods warehouse called advanced distributors. they have been charged with felony theft in excess of $100 thousand and money laundering. >> 10 years after he lawn offed historic bungalow are initiative -- >> i grew up in a bungalow so i know what it is all about.

three brothers and three sisters and my mother and father and my grandparents. i go back there now and wonder how we existed. >> most of chicago's iconic bungalows were built between 1910 and 1940 and that was to meetle city's rapidly growing population. the homes featured sturdy brick construction, a roof line per opinion dick eye already to the street and they are 1 1/2 stories. chicago has more than 180,000 bungalows and the mayor's initiative is adopted to helping those conform to current standards. >> jim ramsey's forecast, next. >> and then later, the chicago bistro that is bringing dutch classics to the north side. ♪

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chicago area. our computer models are suggesting a lot of cloud cover for another couple of days. strong winds are expected to push our temperatures into the low 60s, tomorrow and monday across the chicago area. we'll have some mild temperatures to enjoy, but it will be breezy. look at the temperature, for example, today in st. louis, 56 degrees. a lot of 50s and 60s, even some 70s down to our south. we are looking at a strong south win. waiting in the wings, a big chunk of very cold air dropping out of canada on thanksgiving maybe with a few snowflakes, but at the moment, that looks doubtful. temperatures across this area have not changed much from the day's high, still in the low 40s. dew point temperature suggested that the air temperature and dew point are fairly close, which indicates a little moisture around and there could be some fog later tonight as a warp front approaches. wins are coming off the lake as they have all day, today, but

not very strong. not strong enough to make much difference in the wind chill temperatures at any rate. look at our temperature forecast and keep your eye on this cold air in canada. temperatures up there in the teens. that will be dropping to the south and slowly tracking toward the as we move into wednesday and thursday, but with absence of snow cover around here and not a great deal to our north, at least not yet, it looks doubtful that we will drop below 35 degrees for a daytime high, but we'll have to keep a watch on it. there is alot of snow at the moment falling in parts of the northern great plains, one to three inches on ground already in north dakota. snow in the high sierras in california, pacific moisture beating that storm. that system fairly interesting, but in the short run, take a look at this. we have some snow from colorado into wyoming, montana and the dakotas and it will change to rain around here maybe tomorrow

night. here's our forecast. for tonight across the area. mostly cloudy, moderately cold, low temperature around 40 with a wind off the lake that will eventually turn more southeast before sunrise, 10-15-miles per hour. there may be some areas of fog as the approaching warm front crosses the area. sunday, continued cloudy, possible shower, high temperature, 58-63. tomorrow night, cloudy skies and passing showers, a mild evening, fairly strong southerly win expected and then for monday, more passing showers, but take a look at those temperatures, 59-65. south winds expected 15-25- miles per hour. it looks like we are in for a couple of warm days, if if not necessarily dry days around chicago and for the next seven days, we have some prices, including quite a down turn in temperatures going into thanksgiving and maybe a snow flake or two, we'll talk about that in 10 minutes in the seven

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cozy, twinkly veritive candles. cuisine has a comfort food -- offering muss el's combined with a huge plate of french fries. dutch dishes include this classic mustard soup surrounding salad taragon. it might overcome some, but mustard lovers will adore it. thickened pea soup pour ridge, with sausage and other bits of pork is more of an acquired test. bistro dishes work best. and the best dish of the menu is probably this duet of pork bellied bacon and pig smothered inen ale butter. here, the flavors are in perfect balance and that's a

nice dutch french fusion going on. biscuit topped can car mel and ice cream. blood orange dream sickle mousse, a par fay inspired by the colors of the dutch flag. i'm giving one star to vincent's, a restaurant i liked, but don't love just let. but if you are into strong dutch flavors, dinner at vincent's can be one amer is damage good time. >> one star means good. >> vincent's gets one star. one year, it kind of works well. i can't envision -- i understand what phil is do g. >> for more on this week's restaurant review, text phil to 97999. >> we could be warming up the next few days. >> and jim is coming up with the weather. he is in the weather center

with more. >> reporter: bob, jackie, it look ike it will be warmer for a couple of days, low 60s a good possibility. it will not last very long. it's strange we will be talking about 60 degrees temperatures in chicago where well up to our north and west, it's snowing in the dakotas,ern wisconsin and northern minnesota. the st. paul/minneapolis area is actually under a freezing drizzle advisory at this hour. it's a possibility we, too, could get some drizzle, but it's not going to freeze at these temperatures, also, there is a chance of areas of fog. if you are traveling out this evening, don't be surprised if you encounter a little fog in um is areas. 62 for a high sunday, evening showers possible, monday morning, showers off and on, continuing for much of the day, but it will not be an all wet day. we are expecking dry periods. 48 for a high tuesday.

50 on wednesday. more showers developing and this is the million dollar he question, will there be enough cold air to turn that rain into snowflakes for. this is not as promising a possibility as some forecast model runs suggested. but it's possible we could pick up snowflakes, temperatures, as you saw, quite cold thursday into friday. bob and jackie? >> all right, the holiday spirit rolls down chicago's famous michigan avenue for the annual magnificent mile lights festival. you know them, the parade's grand marshalls, mickey and minnie mouse. thousands of people, young and old, packed the parade route from oak street to wacker drive. bands, floats and balloons and more than one million lights. the festival wrapped up with

the fire works display on the chicago river. it was a great tradition. >> that's a beautiful eventent. preevent in chicago's south side englewood neighborhood. community thanksgiving featuring meals and winter coat give aways. the kind of event that goes with the season as the temperatures go colder, hearts are growing warmer, promoting the community spirit in englewood, diva's unlimited. they invited or wgn cameras to record all of the festivities. >> illinois northwestern turns back the clock in more ways than one. >> it has the look and feel of old time football at wrigley field as the illini run their way to a very important victory. >> and mt. carmel looks to punch ♪

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rich king joins us tonight with sports. a little piece of sports trivia -- i was a very young man --

resting in the walls of wrigley, the first football game there in 40-years. game in the form of a school rushing record for illini runningback lashore. both teams using the west end zone. illini used it a lot. 7-0,er the game all 66-yard. illinois lead 14-0, driving again. eddie mcgee, pass picked off by brian peters and brian takes of 59-yards. wildcats touchdown with a few bright spot for illinois. illinois, the world on the ground owl day long. 519-yards rushing on 70 carries. la shore rushing for a school record of 330-yards. illini becoming bowl eligible for a 48.27 win. >> illini controlled the ball

for 41 minutes. total offense, edged 559 of 318 for the illini. northwestern tackling a lot to be desired. illini coaching staff gets a great deal of credit for a pregame intelligence that lead for a record setting day. the chest run was a mismatch. ron zuckerman -- >> there was a lot of cut back stuff and i think joe and coach paul put a lot of things together that worked. that the players executed. >> i thought we cleared that up and obviously, they things that made some changes and we adjusted for that. i thought we shored it up

pretty well. they were in balance. >> reporter: the result was an illinois rushing record for la shore and at wrigley field. >> we knew what type of atmosphere we were going to be in. we knew that going all into the game. millions of people, on national tv, it feels good. >> reporter: freshman quarterback, watkins, and dan brewster, one big struggle. different story when the illini quarterback rushed for 104-yard and enjoyed his wrigley experience. >> we were excited about it. once we got out there on the field, we could feel things boiling up. once game time started, we got off to a fast start. like you said, we have to give

credit to illinois, they executed, but there are a lot of plays i wish i had back and now we have to go forward to next week and work on the things to correct them. >> elsewhere in the big 10, ohio state, down to the wire against iowa, 1:47 left. down by four, dan harris scores. one yard out, osu wins it to keep their rose bowl chance alive. tied up with wisconsin and michigan state. >> wrigley field not the only venue for football. notre dame at yankee stadium. no safety issues, both end zones were used. irish will wear out the yankees. 17 for the irish winning 27-3 and are now 6-5 for usc next

week. >> congratulations to niu, huskies, 8th straight win over ball state and more importantly, quincy mack, division title will take on ohio or miami december 3rd. on the city's south side. unbeaten xavier opens up the niai playoffs. anthony, throwing for over 400- yards an the cougars roll to a 66-19 win over come per lan. >> high school playoffs, taking on mt. carmel. michael banks gets the pitch. 45-yards for the score. they advance to neck week's game. mt. carmel will take on main south in the championship next saturday. >> blackhawks, who have cory crawford, in vancouver after cal gary scored severe goals.

hawks 1-1 on their circus road trip. no score on the game in vancouver. >> back home tonight at the all- star arena against houston. ryan scores his first ahl goal. wolves score four in the second and they win. snapping a seven game losing streak. usual big saturday in sports. >> and it looked like it's going to be real popular. >> the field is the problem, with the safety issue, i don't know how they with work it out. the seating is different. they are the boxed seats, they have to go to right field. if there is a safety issue, one would think there would be some problems in the future. >> they did it, today and it seems to have been very popular. >> that's the news for this saturday night, i'm jackie bange. >> and i'm robert jordan.

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