Here's a preview for, and first eight minutes of, an edition of Eyewitness News at 5:00pm on WLS Channel 7, anchored by Jay Levine (filling in for John Drury) and Terry Murphy.

Includes:

Preview of stories:

Art heist at Chicago Art Institute

Holiday binge at Stateville Prison

More dead bodies found in Northwest suburban contractor's home (guess who?)

Stopgap solution for Soldier Field

Bill Frink at UIC (Circle Campus) for Mayor Bilandic's Holiday Basketball Tournament

Commercials for:

Jim Whalen FordElgin (with "Brian")

National Home Health Plan (with Art Linkletter) "This hurts more than my leg..." $40 a day for as long as you stay, in the hospital

Alberto VO5 (with Rula Lenska) (different commercial from this one posted separately:    • Alberto VO5 Hair Spray With Rula Lens...  )

Station ID / promo for United Cerebral Palsy telethon for December 30th31st (voiceover by Al Parker)

Show open (voiceover by Al Parker, who also mentions Dr. Frank Sechrist with weather), followed by lead items:

3 Paul Cezanne paintings valued at total $3 million reported stolen from Art Institute of Chicago (were they ever recovered?)

Hugh Hill report on temporary solution for Chicago Bears' home, Soldier Field; clips of news conference with comments from Mayor Bilandic and stadium committee chairman Richard Ogilvie (who, when Cook County sheriff in 1966, was namechecked in Simon & Garfunkel's "7 O'Clock News / Silent Night" track from their album "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme"), plus conflicting opinions from two Chicagoans

Speaking of Bilandic, he wins top spot on Democratic ballot in upcoming February 17th Mayoral primary (this, before the devastating blizzard of January 1979 derailed everything) in a lottery at Chicago City Hall office of clerk John Marcin

6 more bodies found in basement crawl space of home of John Wayne Gacy at 8213 West Summerdale in Norwood Park Township, bringing total up to this point to 15; Chief Edmund Dobbs of the Cook County Sheriff Police speaks about situation; meanwhile, Harold Thomas, Commander of the Chicago Police Department Youth Division defends the past handling of these missing persons cases in interview with Vivian Rosenberg

Jay is just beginning report on 1,000 inmates at Stateville Prison when recording ends, sadly

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, December 27th 1978 during the 4:58pm to 5:08pm timeframe.

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