| Foreword | p. vii |
| Preface | p. xi |
| I'm a Legman | p. 8 |
| From Reporter to Commentator | p. 71 |
| Madame Mayor | p. 95 |
| Bill Kurtis and the Golden Age of TV News | p. 101 |
| Another Mayor Daley and Another TV Station | p. 131 |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Once a Cubs Fan | p. 1 |
| The City News Bureau, Queen Elizabeth, and Me | p. 17 |
| My Mouth Runneth Over | p. 64 |
| From Commentator to … Anchor! | p. 77 |
| Heat from Jesse Jackson | p. 88 |
| Jacobson versus Royko | p. 28 |
| Council Wars and Newsroom Woes | p. 126 |
| New to TV: From JFK to Muhammad Ali | p. 40 |
| The First Mayor Daley | p. 53 |
| Brown and Williamson versus Walter Jacobson | p. 109 |
| A New Mayor, a Controversial Minister, and an Old Nemesis | p. 117 |
| Fox News, Mayor Daley (the second), and Barack Obama | p. 142 |
| Good-bye to Fox | p. 155 |
| The Ups and Downs of Celebrity | p. 163 |
| Yanked from Retirement | p. 168 |
| Epilogue | p. 172 |
| Index | p. 175 |