July 8, 1999

July 8, 1999

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Host Steve Edwards talks with Ann Woelk, Staff person with Council for Parliament of the World’s Religions, and Wahaj Ahmed, Community leader and acting chair of Rogers Park Interreligious Coordinating Council, organizers of an inter-religious vigil against hate, planned for tonight in Chicago’s northside Rogers Park neighborhood, where Orthodox Jews were shot last Friday. And it’s Model T time…we’ll talk about our national love affair with the automobile, from the Model T to the Mustang with Keith R. Gill, Curator of Transportation at the Museum of Science and Industry. Dr. Charles Shabica Professor of Coastal Geology and Engineering at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago & Coastal Consultant Specializing in Shoreline Protection takes Steve on a tour of the lakefront. Economics Contributor, Charlie Wheelan talks with Dr J Richard Thisilethwaite Section Chief of Trasnplantation Surgery at the University of Chicago and Dr. Lainie Friedman-Ross is Assistant Director at the MaClean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Chicago about the economy of Organ Donations. Plus Jonathan Abarbanel, and suburban theater festivals.