investigation. simple but different, chicago's finest chefs show what might be on their thanksgiving day table. >> the small town of caldonia, illinois, a little bit smaller after a tornado strike. this is what's left in places tonight, and this is the reason. >> good evening, i'm micah materre. >> and i'm mark suppelsa. our top story seen around the country on wgn america, what could be the year's final days of warmth bring a fierce storm. all watches and warnings are canceled. dan pompei is in caldonnia tonight. >> reporter: this is a town of about 200 people, a lot of damage to report from this small town. this home behind me, one of several homes and businesses

damaged by this tornado. now, you can see here the main part of the house, pretty much intact right now. there's damage to the roof but the area to the right here, this is where the garage was, and fortunately, no one was home when this tornado hit. we're told that a couple of pets were home but even they were okay. there have been crews out here all night working on houses like this, trying to get everything cleaned up. the good news to report tonight, there are no serious injuries coming from this small town. now, as you mentioned before, a brave individual with a cam remarks able to capture this as it passed through, it was posted on youtube this afternoon. several tornadoes touched down m mchenry, but this one touching down in boone county, near rockford, a little northeast of rockford, knocking out power and causing serious damages to homes and businesses. again, this is an amateur video

posted on youtube. the tornado also knocked over a school bus. i believe we have a picture of this. this is about 3:00 this afternoon near arguile and harlem roads. the sky cam was over the scene here a short while ago. this is probably a couple hours ago, you can see just how much damage it caused throughout the town. as i mentioned, this is a town of about 200 people. we're going to go to -- i spoke with an individual who's lived here his whole life and again says the town is pretty shaken up, but they're just glad no one was seriously injured. >> it's a mess. everything that's been here is just destroyed, three or four houses on there are just completely destroyed. it's just a small town, but it tore it up. >> reporter: again, the good news to report, no serious injuries. there were six children who were

on that bus that was knocked over and a driver, and they were taken to nearby hospitals in rockford. but again they're all expected to be okay. this small town of about 200 people just east of rockford have a lot of cleaning up to do, mark and micah. >> dan pompei reporting. let's go to tom skilling where we're watching this system dissipate. it was a rough one, tom. >> we missed a record by 2 degrees. they broke a record in rockford, which is just west of where that tornado touched down. another area heavily damaged was union grove, wisconsin, and it looks like they may be in the same boat as caldonnia are. it's not exactly sure how many tornadoes were involved. national weather service teams will go out tomorrow. those seem to be the big ones. there were funnel clouds near camburn, (e) lburn and two miles west of the motorola plant in harburn today. the heaviest rain in the chicago area in 82 days with this

system, with 50-miles an hour plus winds, and lowell had pretty good gusts and rains were substantial. this is a plot of the rainfall across the metro area, and some of the totals include over 2 inches in burlington. downers grove had 170, hinz dale 166. we had one line go through this morning and another line develop this afternoon. that storm that went through caldonnia hit just around 3:00. spotters were on it the whole way watching the thing proceed. they reported it was a half a mile wide at some points, which would make it an extremely huge tornado and this is where the heavy rains have come down. we had flood warnings in effect there, the tornadoes are little red triangles right there. the watches are done, and wintery weather to the west of us. there's a new storm developing and this will have an impact on the midwest later in the week and we'll tell you about that and the crash in temperatures that will follow all of this is

coming up as well. >> a lot of activity, tom skilling, thank you. a federal judge will rule soon, possibly days, on a bid to free the imprisoned former governor george ryan. lugging oxygen, his wife laura lynn says he's ailing, after a two hour hearing in court, the legal team moved to the honest services law. the 76-year-old ryan served almost half of his six year sentence for public corruption. they want him freed as an act of humanity pending retrial citing his wife's health. >> i'm just looking forward to getting george home to spend a few years with me that we have left. >> ryan's lawyers say his wife may only have months to live. right now he's not due to be released until 2013. cook county commissioner tony parika in court on the wrong side of the law. he was claimed to have been seen destroying a campaign sign.

he was arrested three days before the november 2 election. he said he was smashing the n2 election. he said he was smashing the sign like a 14-year-old boy. parika denied it calling the case a frame-up causing him the election. he's due in court february 9. it took awhile, months actually, to prior out of cook county a record of how it spent millions of homeland security aid for recent flood victims. as our wgn investigation shows tonight, what we were given today raises more questions than answers. >> reporter: it was an all expense paid party at the brook field zoo. 2,000 rsvp for free admission, parking, gifts and fun for flood victim families. >> every penny spent is covered, not by county dollars. >> reporter: questions of how much, wgn investigation found it cannot be answered by cook

county officials. months after we requested documentation of how the $10.3 million in homeland security flood aid was spent, we got this today, a haphazard stack of files, some missing, some with partial answers and much unanswered. what we did find was a lot of money not going to flood victims. $5500 for a lease for a chevy suburban. here's a check for the $1300 in charge of the flood program to park, thousands in cell phone bills for workers, $26 an hour for the brother-in-law of cook county homeland security chief david ra mos. when it was learned rams on got his relative that job, he was suspended by the county for ethics violation. they say the money was helping 300 homes that were flooded. if there were 300 homes helped, why were more than 2,000 people invited to the zoo party. not sure. the documents provided doesn't explain that, nor how much was

spent that sunny day in brook field. here's why we may never know the answers about the money spent. the 13 employees who were temporarily employed to dole out the money are long gone so the county is left to try to piece it all together in patch work style and that's what we got today. >> good to know though, good investigation. coming up, the list keeps growing, dozens of people making a mad dash to city hall for a chance to be your mayor. a guide to help parents keep track of recalled toys this holiday season. local chefs show us some of their holiday favorites. [ female announcer ] why settle for plain bread

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>> this was the last day for candidates for mayor to file their paper and is get on the ballot for the february 22nd election. lots of candidates and a few surprises. wgn's tom negovan is back tonight from the chicago board of elections, hey tom. >> turns out we haven't heard the last of senator birth over the challenge of emanuel whether he's eligible to run for mayor of chicago. >> i don't know rom, i don't have any dispute with rom.

i don't have any issues with rom. >> reporter: but he is running against rom emanuel in the race for mayor. rob halpin, the former white house chief of staff tenant, the guy who refused to break the lease on emanuel's home and refusing to say who's backing him for mayor, but he did file 20,000 signatures on his nominating petitions today. >> people approached me and they thought i would be a good mayor. there's no denying that some people met me as a result of living there but, you know, it's very coincidental. >> reporter: it's no coincidence that emanuel's tenant has so much in common with reverend and state senator james meeks whose campaign filed nominating petitions and is challenging emanuel's chicago residency. >> the question is was mr. emanuel a resident of the city of chicago one year prior to the election? that's the only issue in this case. >> reporter: so on this last

day to file, the mayoral race is a free for all. there's a campaign to draft outgoing illinois senator roland burris. those are his petitions. there's a political newcomer in real estate broker tommy hansen and the last of 18 to get his signatures in today, perennial candidate bill dockwalls. >> he said the last person on the ballot has the advantage because you have voters who have gone through and eliminated all the candidates. >> reporter: and on this final day handing in her paperwork, sandi jackson, but not for mayor. she's filing for alderman and city clerk. >> and we're going to weigh both seats and pray. >> reporter: did you weigh and pray about mayor pretty heavily as well? >> i did. i waited very heavily because it's a very serious post as you know. >> serious post all right and did i say 18 candidates for mayor? yeah, i did. that according to the unofficial list from the board of elections, this is it as of

mid-afternoon today. 13 names at that point out of date, now tack on five more as of the end of the day today. there will be challenges and, of course, drop outs but it's a long list. look for another major development in the mayor's list wednesday when we expect rom emanuel's residency to be challenged this time in a court of law. >> tom negovan thanks. all kinds of air travel concerns this thanksgiving, mainly dealing with the uproar over security procedures. the white house wants to strike a delicate business. spokesperson robert gibbs telling the tsa that those procedures will continue to evolve, using those words and went on to say the president's highest priority is that when anybody gets on a plane they feel reasonably sure they can travel safely. >> we put the utmost importance on protection and to do so in a way -- have that carried out in a way that it is the least inconvenient for those that travel.

>> there have been several complaints about the use of a full body scanning machines as well as the pat-downs, as much as that's heavily publicized. >> here's how you can be a smart shopper for baby toys and other items. lisa maddigan, attorney general, for starters, fill out manufacturers cards when buying the item. >> if you fill out this card and it's not used for marketing purposes, you will automatically be notified if that item in your house has been recalled. >> maddigan's office says a play it safe guide is on the attorney general's website. it lists all the recalled products from january to november of this year. both websites can be found on our website, wgntv.com/weblinks. a traditional celebration turned awful, coming up, what prompted a deadly stampede in cambodia. plus, secret service agents sworn to protect the president sharing a few secrets, how one of them almost shot a former president. lightning fast. lightning strong.

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>> more than 300 people are dead, hundreds injured after panic strikes at a festival in cambodia. happened on the last night of a three-day water festival as it's called in the country's capital. thousands of people were crossing a bridge when the size of the crowd caused people to panic, attempting to get off the bridge. stampede broke out, people were crushed, others fell into the water. one drink vendor said the chaos began when festival goers began passing out on the bridge causing others to panic.

the man accused of killing chandry levy have been found guilty of her murder today. after three days of deliberations, the jury convicted him on two counts of first degree murder. the 2001 case made headlines after he attacked levy in a park in washington. levy's disappearance exposed her affair with gary condit. he's facing a life sentence without patrol. 47 years today president john f. kennedy assassinated and now for the first time, secret service agents sworn to protect him are speaking out. former colleague clint hill wrote the forward for the book. both men say it's been tough to live with the fact that the president was killed on their watch. . >> i felt like we failed. we all had the same mission and it was a terrible feeling. >> seemed like every time i turned around, there was something that reminded me of what had happened, and so i just

clammed up and went in my basement with some alcohol and some cigarettes and stayed there for a few years. >> he admits in the book just hours after the assassination while guarding the home of vice president lyndon johnson, he raised his gun, almost fired at a man who approached him in the dark. the man turned out to be johnson. dr. margaret burrow has devoted her life to embracing art and cultural heritage in chicago. >> though he never had a chance to meet her, her many contributions at home, with the editorial cartoonist, scott standin. >> i cannot wait to get this stupid mustache off. tonight's rant is not about me, it's about honoring a very special person, dr. margaret burrows. we lost her this past sunday. she was a founder of the south side community art center and also the nationally recognized museum of african-american history which she and her husband started in her living room.

a lot of us have dreams. it's harder to make those dreams come true. dr. burrows did that for an awful lot of people. as an artist, as someone who's creative, i look to someone like her who serve as a mentor in her community, encouraging people to pursue art, writing, literature, this is a special person and a deep loss. so now it's up to us to pick up the brush, the pen, the type writer, whatever it is that makes you creative, dr. burrows has given us a blank canvas. that's my stantis for tonight. >> a memorial service for her expected to take place after the holidays. >> you can find out near at november.com. move? movember or november? >> like m-o-v-e? >> my bad, movember.com. looking ahead in stories you'll find tomorrow, illinois prisons

bursting at the scenes, holding a record high of nearly 49,000 inmates and watch dog groups say the state's budget crisis and overcrowding could prove to be a bad mix. black friday, if you don't have a strategy, you could waste money. tips on shopping smart on the mad shopping day after thanksgiving. coming up, the tables to be at for thanksgiving. chicago chefs show you what's cooking in their kitchen thursday. baby boomers top the charts for unhappy in the bedroom. @÷

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temperatures which broke records all over the state, spring field, madison, wisconsin, lafayette, indiana, all broke records. you can't position arctic air with that coming in. you know tomorrow will be the coldest day of the fall. temperatures will be about 31 degrees colder tomorrow than today. it will be like switching from late summer to early winter inside just one day's time and, of course, powerful thunderstorms swept the area, 2% of our tornadoes in cook county have happened in november since 1955, and that shows you how rare these things are. you get a little blip sometimes in fall in tornado activity, and we had it today in caladonnia and union grove, wisconsin, among other places. there are the rains that have come into the area and left and now we're left with skies that will break from time to time tomorrow to let a little bit of sunshine through but the temps are diving. we're down to 46 with a west wind howling at 17, gusting to

31. it's 49 at mid way. record rainfalls today, 1.37 inches at o'hare, the biggest rain in 30 days around here and look at the wind gusts, that roared through naperville, laurel, indiana, and our weather bug network from burlington, wisconsin to the school in chicago and henzdale, other reports from western springs, sugar grove, west chester, we had funnel clouds and tornadoes mainly in our northwest suburbs but winds and reports of funnels in a couple of other areas as well, and you can see the temperatures tonight on the way down with readings as low as 36. these are all far west and west suburban temperatures, just to show you how far we've come from today's high around 70 earlier and note the wind gusts propelling the cool air in. here are the storms as they

moved into sock village today on our weather bug cameras. aurora had gusty storms going through and they turned the late afternoon skies to night as they came through the area and the storm that came through caladonnia is said to have snapped a half dozen of these high -- you know these towers that support the high power lines so there have been massive power outages. this is decatur, illinois, and look at olympia washington. it snowed in seattle, washington today. it's been snowing in the pacific northwest. here's livingston, monica schneider. look at the temperatures in the air mass that's coming in, from cut back to great falls, miels city, to montana. it's really an amazing change and we'll get another storm out of this before it's over. storm 1 lifted the area and brought storms through and the new line developed this afternoon. here's the next system taking shape out west. there's 17 states right now

under winter weather advisories to the west of us. the good news, the fear last week that this might ice us up appears to be passing to the north of us but there's the morning squall line coming through the area, noisy as it was, and here's the afternoon batch of thunderstorms, and we laid down enough rain to produce a little bit of flooding despite the recent dry weather, and there are the tornado reports. talked to the weather service in romeoville and they'll be dispatching a survey team tomorrow to check out how powerful that storm was. spotters that were watching it during its entire track across caladonnia and areas of mchenry county reported it was a half mile wide in places. that's an amazingly wide tornado. tornado watches down state and look at all these winter weather advisories, it's like winter has begun over about the northwestern third of the continent and now as we lay down successive bands of snow with these storms, that's the track

on which the arctic express runs. meantime, look atlas las. they have the most rain in november, because typically it snows this time of the year, and it's icing up as the rain falls. 55 in lansing, 41 in dekalb and 41 in rockford, and single digits in minnesota to the west, and of course a lot of winds propelling it our direction. these are wind chills in minnesota, down below 0. this air will leave its snow pack up there, and will travel over chicago. it's a far cry of today's 67. we warm modestly ahead of storm number 2 on wednesday and even into thanksgiving morning and then the temps dive again after that, and we've got a cold week ahead next week too as the greenland block comes in to play and starts punching these cool

air masses into this area. partly cloudy, windy, sharply colder tonight, all in the late 28, west winds 24 and gusty. some mixed sun, blustery, much colder and chilliest weather since march 2, down to 46. scattered clouds and wind and the winds will turn around to the east. actually the southeast during the day wednesday as it clouds over and might see a shower in the afternoon of rain, high of 42, and a period of rain wednesday night and we start maybe rainy thanksgiving morning and turn partly sunny, very windy and watch the temps go ker plunk again so we'll be in the 30s by the afternoon. >> by the time you eat turkey. >> yeah, so it's a good day to eat turkey. >> it is. >> inside, warm with family, and watching the wind blow outside. >> sounds great. >> you see norman right now. >> back with the seven-day in 10, guys. a gourmet twist to thanksgiving we have. three of chicago's top chefs are

sharing some holiday dishes. the saying "easy as pie," i get it now.

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jackie bange visited the kitchens of well known chefs to find out what they serve for their own thanksgiving dinners. >> reporter: all three epicurean experts have different tastes, but when it comes to the holidays, they all agree simplicity is key. we'll let them show you their favorites. >> welcome to my kitchen. >> reporter: here in his uptown restaurant, tikashi is known for creating eccentric french american dishes fused with japanese flavors. the combination has earned him a prestigious star. take a back seat with us as tikashi cooks one of his holiday favorites. >> fried chicken. >> reporter: yes, fried chicken. >> a little bit of sugar. >> reporter: combine that with sesame oil, fresh greated garlic, ginger and soy sauce and mareinate three hours. >> in the deep fryer it goes

along with sweet potato friez. take a look at the final product, complete with asian chile paste, brussel sprouts, different and definitely delicious. >> i'm trying to avoid that because i go to the restaurant located in the city center. >> reporter: you have to travel all the way to bar bads osto find the roots of this side dish where trevor is from. >> it's great but i enjoy mine and hopefully everyone else can too. >> reporter: he combines heavy cream, eggs, salt, pepper, paprika, lots of cheese and what is your secret ingredient? >> can't tell. [laughter] >> reporter: ketchup is acidic and you need a little acid according to hoyt. pop it in the oven about 30 minutes. >> keep it simple, tasty and the flavor is really nice. >> reporter: it's a table at

hoyt's house and his restaurant. >> hey i'm gail gan from true here to make pumpkin muffins. >> reporter: getting her twin girls involved in baking is one of gail's greatest pleasure. and this must be so easy even 6-year-olds can make it. an award winning chef, she introduces her with oil, sugar, molasses, eggs, butter milk and pumpkin pure a. >> so that's the star of the recipe. >> reporter: and ella mixes the dry ingredients, which are loaded with spices like cloevz, cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg. >> it kind of makes you think of the fall and think of thanksgiving so it's celebrating those flavors. see how lumpy that is? that's actually what you want. that's okay. mommy's going to wrap this really fast. this is the professional chef pastry mommy right now, all right. check in 13 minutes okay. >> reporter: it's a shame you

can't smell them. take my word, they smell as good as they taste. >> so are you ready to make these part of your thanksgiving? go to our website for the complete recipes and extended video of the chefs demonstrating how to make each one. they include some interesting tips so go to wgntv.com/chefs. happy cooking, everyone. . >> yummy. >> get right to work, you know, get going to be so busy on thanksgiving. >> i know you are. >> oh, boy, polite but honest. coming up, a former president and first lady weigh in on the tea party. and the party's over for one nfc north coach, dan roan turns out the lights up there in the metro dome later in sports. with the capital one venture card we get double miles on every purchase. so we earned a holiday trip to the big apple twice as fast!

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>> some breaking news right now, an off duty chicago police officer was shot and killed in his own car tonight in an apparent robbery. happened about 6:30, the 2900 block of west sight street. officer was found unresponsive in his car. and he worked in one of the districts in the southwest side. we're headed to the neighborhood with a crew. more on the wgn morning news and

wgn.com tonight. larry king aired his interview with former president george w. bush and his wife barbara. the discussion turned to the tea party and sarah palin. as always, the former first lady gave her polite opinion. >> i thought she was beautiful, and i thought she was very happy in alaska, and i hope she'll stay there. >> okay. well, the former passport went er went on to say he thought the tea party had some interesting ideas but not sure what they stand for. a tornado going through lynn township. the tornado touched down about 3:30 ripping apart homes and barnes, uprooting trees, nobody hurt but we just got the video in and wanted to share it with you tonight. go to tom, look at that video. did you see that?

>> i did indeed. it's amazing what you spin out of a november atmosphere when we warm up like we did today and put a power house jet stream ahead. clouds were about 30,000 feet tall when they come through the area and flying along at almost 50 miles an hour. tonight those winds are still flying along and tugging the cold air, it goes from 39 in chicago to 19, 9 at mason city and -7 at this hour at wind chill in south dakota so you get the feel for what's coming this way, a lot of blue and big temperature drops riding the winds at 20 to 25 miles an hour. lightning with vigor down state and look at the lightning with these storms. these are long gone from our area so we are through with these and it looks like we go cool from here. we said goodbye to the one storm

across the great lakes. see the next one across the rocky mountains. that's the next system. look at these dew points, and when you get that low out in the plains, you know you've got arctic air coming in, so we looked for today's 36. what is that? that's tomorrow's 36, up to 42 wednesday and 44 on thanksgiving day thursday, then temps fall to the mid to low 30s thanksgiving day, teens at night and rising to 28 on friday and the next precipitation episode will be rain late wednesday and wednesday night, maybe early thanksgiving, and perhaps cold rain sunday and monday with maybe a change to snow after that. big snow in the upper midwest. we'll be talking about that with storms to come later in the week. >> that's not fitting too well with my coanchor. >> i know, micah is definitely a warm weather enthusiast. we haven't heard any adjectives like beauteous or anything like that. >> and you won't.

>> we've got to get working on some more warm weather back here for you. >> thank you. >> in june. tonight's photo of the day segment captured that wet rainy day in our area. a church service is held for children of violence. take a look at tonight's photos of the day. pppp >> we've had 63 children from cps shot, and 12 murdered. lawyers for former illinois governor george ryan go to court in hopes of getting him out of prison. as for mrs. ryan's condition, her attorneys claim she is dying, suffering from lung

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couple of weeks ago which to me sounded like a good idea but it infuriated the owner. when they lost 31-3 that was all she wrote. now trying to clean up the mess in minneapolis. >> that's what brad would want me to do, what our assistant coaches want me to do and our players want me to do and i feel we'll do the right thing as we go forward as a group. we're going to be fine. >> yes, i'm surprised. it's a shame a little bit when you have your team play away from being in the super bowl one year and out of a job the next year. that's our business when we get in it, we realize that. looking at it from a different point of view. it's always good to let a guy like frasier get an opportunity. >> lovy has his own stuff to worry about as they prepare for what appears to be the toughest individual challenge they'll face all season, michael vick

who led the philadelphia eagles it a win over the giants last night, now he comes to soldier field this sunday. vick has been sensational, 11 touchdown passes, no interpretations, maybe the toughest guy to defend in the entire nfl. >> i don't find myself in awe sometimes watching the play. i know when i watched a week ago, he's playing great football right now, playing some of the best football than any quarterback in the league. >> we all knew what kind of athlete he was and the way he's played this year, i think guys are happy for him. i hope he doesn't play that good on sunday but i'm happy for him nonetheless. joey vatto of the reds, the national league mvp, the big 10 player of the week. 330 yards, unbelievable, the junior from champagne had the game of a life time and had it at wrigley field of all places. not even ernie or sammy hit 330

in big wrigley. pat fitzgerald never expected them to turn his defense into shredded wheat. now all they have to do is go to mad town where the badgers have been pouring out score boards all over the big 10. >> maybe one of the more tougher film sessions to watch saturday night when i went home, yeah, we got to coach them in areas we've got to correct and fix but when you get back home after that kind of atmosphere, the fans are great and it's an unbelievable atmosphere to see our inability to tackle saturday. it was frustrating. we'll work on it and the last time we went through this, we came back and tackled really well. got to pull back and draw upon our previous experiences. loyola continuing to pile up the ws, hosting alabama state. avercamp for a bucket. he had 13 tonight to lead four ramblers in double figures to a

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