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Chicago's media collective are cheering, mourning and shrugging about the final Jerry Springer Show, filmed here in Chicago yesterday. Many a joke has been made at the expense of white trash guests, flying chairs and lesbian Nazis and the men who love them. For the most part, the sneering humor is deserved, but has Jerry been a mole on the ass of our culture? Or has he been a Chicago-centric net positive?

Jerry Springer

Maybe it’s too much hullabaloo. Maybe the circus freaks were unionizing. Maybe the man’s just getting old and all the colors are making him dizzy. Whatever the reason, The Jerry Springer Show, now coming of age in its 18th season, will be taking a more focused approach to its programming this year.

The controversial Northwestern Law School alum Jerry Springer spoke to the graduating law school class last night. He gave a speech that lasted about 15 minutes, and quoted his mother, Winston Churchill, and Socrates. The 1968 graduate told the Class of 2008:

Say you've spent tens of thousands of dollars earning your law degree from Northwestern Law School. Who would you want as a speaker to preach a message of hope and good tidings for the new legal graduates? Northwestern thinks it'd be the esteemed television personality and eminent social commentator, Mr. Jerry Springer.

Chicagoist hasn't been out to the UC to see a Bulls games this year, but they apparently show this video on the scoreboard during halftime at some games:

Wheel of Fortune is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, and the gang is heading to Pat Sajak’s hometown, Chicago, to tape three weeks of shows. Shows will be taped afternoons and evenings at Navy Pier during March 7, 8, and 9. Request your tickets now.

Here’s what you missed while you were gawking at fallen trees and the troubled lives of Michael Vick and Owen Wilson: The first signs that fall’s on the way: cooler temps, fading leaves and university gallery art openings. Two shows open today at Columbia College’s Glass Curtain Gallery and C33, and a new exhibit of Carol Jackson’s ‘signatureless’ work opens at UIC’s Gallery 400 tomorrow. When Thursday’s storms cut power to Belmont Avenue businesses, Bailiwick...

We usually hate to just throw up a bunch of stuff in list form, but we’ve gotten wind of so many cool things that we just had to share 'em all. The kicker? They’re all free. No matter what your taste in celluloid or pixel, you’re bound to find something here to whet your whistle: Chicago indie flick The Minx is having a free screening on Saturday at Schubas, 3159 N. Southport Ave. Director Michael...

Brian D. Simmons as Jerry Springer

Police chases don't always end well (that guy in the picture does not look like he's having fun), but this week we found a few fast-moving suspects who lived to tell an entertaining story:

The liberal talk-radio network Air America Radio filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this past Friday. The network, which is home to programs hosted by Al Franken and Jerry Springer, initially got its start with the help of a capital investment from Chicago-based investors Sheldon and Anita Drobny. The station has seen some trying times ever since. Despite a following of 2.4 million anti-Limbaugh listeners every week, the network and its various owners have been under a dark cloud of debt and sticky financial problems for the past two years.

You know, when you've got a chance to go to see Springer, it doesn't matter whether you've got a babysitter or not, you've got to jump on the chance! Or, at least that's what Shannon Cook decided. She'll be spending 30 days in jail for leaving her 3 kids, all under the age of 5, home alone while she attended a taping of the Jerry Springer show.

If you ever doubted how seriously everyone out in L.A. takes the Oscars, look no further than the Oscarbeat blog.

We’ll admit that Chicagoist has been guilty of paying our bills late once or twice. Sometimes the check from the plasma donation center takes a little while to get through the mail, you know? But U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush has taken the act of delinquency and elevated it to an art form. An agency acting on behalf on Bank One is suing Congressman Rush and his wife Carolyn for repayment of a $334,600 home loan...

Everyone knows how important it is to have a mentor. Even the most savvy and successful individuals needed a leg up at some point. This week we learned that even the mighty Queen of Everything once got some help from a guy in the balcony. Last Monday, Oprah Winfrey told her audience that none other than Roger Ebert convinced her to take her show into the lucrative world of syndication. This occurred while the two...