>> Hello and thanks for joining us in Chicago tonight.

I'm Jonathan on this Prentice.

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Here's what we're looking at.

Immigrant advocates raise concerns about a new Indiana detention center and its implication Port, Illinois.

>> This feels like a Chicago fire moment to me.

>> Nonprofits are coming together in a new networking group aimed at boosting collaboration.

>> And we were there for the conversation with Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell, who died last week.

>> First off tonight, some of today's top stories, Governor JB Pritzker today signed a series of bills aimed at protecting Illinois workers from federal rollbacks from the Trump administration.

The bills are designed to preserve current pay standards and worker protections in Illinois.

At the ceremony today, Pritzker highlighted the state historical significance in labor movement and the ongoing fight for workers rights in the state >> we're protecting hard fought advances for equal pay in our state, urging companies to examine and maintain fairness in their compensation.

And we're standing up for the next generation of union workers by ensuring these Illinois protections also apply to apprentice.

>> And Republicans across the state gathered in Springfield today to celebrate the party and look ahead to the midterms, the country's redistricting battle was the front and center at today's event, Illinois Republicans slam Governor JB Pritzker and Democrats for the lack of Republicans in the state legis ter.

They say because of how the districts are drawn.

It comes as Democratic lawmakers from Texas are inland in Illinois for a second week after fleeing their home state to avoid a redistricting vote.

There.

If it goes through the vote would at 5 Republican leaning seats in the U.S. house from Texas.

As for who is running for the Republican ticket in statewide races.

Tom, to broskie president of the conservative public Policy Organization.

Wire Point says he's planning on announcing a campaign for governor and former Illinois Republican Party Chair Don Tracy announced yesterday his bid to replace Durbin in the U.S. Senate.

>> Chicago's annual Aaron Water Show is taking to the skies this weekend, but not before a little rehearsal.

If you haven't heard them already.

The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds have been practicing today flying through the city in preparation for this weekend.

We caught a glimpse of the flight team says they rehearsed for the event which attracts more than a million spectators each year the free show will take place on North Avenue Beach and along the lakefront on Saturday and Sunday, starting at 10:30AM, for more events happening in the Chicago area this weekend.

Check out our website for our Summer Festival guide.

>> Up next, why a new ICE detention center set to open in Indiana is raising concerns for undocumented residents in Illinois.

That's right after this.

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>> A new ICE detention center is in the works in North Center.

Indiana dubbed the Speedway slammer similar in size to Florida's high security so-called alligator at pass facility Speedway slammer will triple triple the amount of ice beds in the Chicago region.

The announcement comes after orders from the Trump administration to ramp up immigration efforts and Democratic.

Let's to cities the Department of Homeland Security has said a quota of 3,000 arrest per day.

And joining us here today is Indiana State Representative Victoria.

That's Wilburn who represents parts of Indianapolis in Brandon Lee communications director for the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.

Now, he also invited a number of Illinois and Indiana Republicans to join the conversation.

But the either declined or didn't respond.

Well, thank you both for joining Representative Wilburn, I want to start with Indiana Governor Mike Braun stated Indiana is taking a comprehensive and collaborative approach to combat illegal immigration and will continue to lead the way among state.

Where do you stand?

It's unfortunate that, you know, we have made light of a very grave situation.

>> Dubbing the facility Speedway slammer is dehumanizing at best.

And so Democrats in the state have been vocal all session about their apprehension towards plans.

What are your thoughts?

Pregnant?

You know?

>> As as you mentioned in the introduction, this has the potential to increase you know, it increase capacity 3 times in the in the region overseen by the Chicago office.

And that is the type of that is the type of move by the Trump administration and the governor of Indiana that really sets off the alarm for us that increased enforcement could become a talent as well.

>> And representative the detention center is set to house up to 1000 people awaiting deportation.

Are you concerned about the fiscal responsibilities these new facilities will impose on the state?

That's what I'm concerned about.

Obviously, the humanity issue is what I'm mostly concerned about.

But honestly, Indiana had a hard time making a neutral budget this year.

We had a 3 billion dollar deficit in our state.

Medicaid and we have called for transparency about how much as a state we are looking to fit this bill.

I think it's an egregious error to Hoosiers with what we call Indiana residence and should lawmakers have a say in these centers popping up in their districts?

Absolutely.

I think if we're going to be using state resources, we should be able to have an opinion about how these resources are spent.

And in all transparency, we also have a deficit in public safety officials.

We have a recruitment and retention problem for both our local departments and our sheriffs.

And I'm wondering if that is going to have the implication at detention centers as well.

What are you hearing from people live there?

The residents in Indiana?

Yeah.

I think there's apprehension.

Protests have started.

I have heard from my constituents directly that they don't want their law enforcement officers.

We've asked our law enforcement officers to do multiple things in Indiana.

Everything from mental health ambulance, Ryans to obviously fighting crime.

In addition to being in our local schools.

And now we're asking them to do another thing.

Our citizen see that our law enforcement is stretched very thin.

And this is a federal issue and we need to make sure that their federal resources that are being allocated to this.

But unfortunately, there's not a lot of transparency and Brandon members of ICE or have been active in traveling from Illinois to Indiana detention centers in the past.

What would you say?

They have observed and reported yet.

So.

>> In Illinois, we have supported state boat state legislation that has prevented the opening of additional ICE detention centers within our state.

We have also had members, individual leaders, faith leaders who have taken up the call to speak out against ICE detention in Indiana and elsewhere in the Midwest.

Truthfully.

It has been in conditions in ICE detention centers have been an ongoing concern for immigrant rights advocates for many, many years across multiple administrations.

And now the Trump administration is time to stand up additional detention centers seemingly overnight to house thousands of people.

With no oversight from the federal government are from representatives who aren't even being allowed view detention.

Reading what you said let's just say people who have been.

>> Residents here who of Chicago, lived here in called Chicago home for decades.

And, you know, our undocumented should they be worried?

>> I think that.

The worry is.

Brought on by the Trump administration creating this atmosphere of fear and by ice having seemingly no oversight and no accountability as coming to Chicago and the suburbs and everywhere across the country so I think that the best defense against Trump and the best way to sort of overcome that, the feeling the fear is to build community to be organized, to know your rights to look out for your neighbors and to know the resources that are available within your community and within your state.

Representative, what are your thoughts on what Brandon is saying?

Absolutely agree.

And I'm I'm so thankful for the strong coalitions that do exist here.

And Alan >> We in Indiana, really don't want to make another negative headline.

And unfortunately with Governor Braun at the how it's really difficult to say national headlines for all the wrong reasons.

And so there are several immigrant groups that mobilizing in Indiana as well.

The irony is that one of the detention centers was a former welcome center for Afghan refugees.

And we have come so far and that time, I mean, it's almost a cruel joke to now see it being used as a detention center and how many members would just save your community have been responding to the presence of ICE agents in a negative way.

I would say that, you know, there are people wanting to create and continue to create a sense of community and mobilization.

And so I think that they have been more vocal.

They have been more present and they're demanding lawmakers to pay attention and talking about there.

Is there any legislative action that can help that he needs in the facility?

Us?

We are working very hard to think about a bipartisan approach to humanity.

And so my caucus were certainly be working for towards next session towards offering a bell to make sure that I'm human rights are maintained.

And let's talk about agriculture as we know mass deportation efforts have cause a significant impact on the agriculture industry.

What have you seen in district?

Absolutely.

I mean, make no mistake about it.

Indiana isn't high cultural state.

That house is migrant seasonal farm workers.

Now the word migrant does not mean illegal.

There are several migrant farm workers from states like Texas and Colorado that choose to farm that are American citizens that we have seen cases in California and being swept up in this process and wrongfully detained.

Do you plan to offer any protections for these immigrant workers currently meeting with interested farm will be thinking about some creative legislation to make sure that their rights are preserved or use a passion about this.

I come from a migrant farm worker family.

So my father used to always say that they didn't cross the border.

The border crossed Generations of Americans.

My parents got very poor.

My mother actually farmed this tomato fields of Indiana.

And so if the irony isn't lost on me that I am proud to serve in the state legislature seemingly the highest seed of government.

that's why I'm so passionate about it for stories like my mother's and Brandon, what would use would like to see from legislative leaders as deportation efforts continue?

Yeah.

So.

>> You know, we're we're very pleased that a federal court recently upheld the state and local welcoming bus that community the immigrant community members and allies have fought for over the course of of years that trust at the Chicago.

city ordinance in the county detain policy.

And what we are hoping for is to strengthen those policies, including the trust act.

We recently passed a piece of legislation called the Safe Schools Act that we're hoping.

Governor cites as well.

Well, thank you both for joining us.

>> Up next, we tell you about a new networking group working to strengthen nonprofits.

Non-profit organizations around the country are under stress.

The cuts to their funding from the federal government.

But the community needs they try to meet are more pressing than ever the difficult job of running a nonprofit often means there isn't always time to collaborate with other groups.

The new networking organization, Chicago nonprofit Connect aims to help local organizations to break out of their silos and find ways to make the work they do more effective and sustainable.

Nic Bloomberg has the story.

>> What do you think about that comforter?

>> On a recent morning at digs with dignity workers were combing through their 10,000 Square-foot warehouse of donated items getting ready to help families exiting homelessness, furnish and decorate their new space.

Oftentimes we come into our families, homes and they're sleeping on the floor.

They maybe have one bad one air mattress that the whole family is sleeping on and >> and that's about it.

>> Dick's with Dignity Partners with social service agencies meeting with their clients to learn what they need and what they want.

>> The best thing for us to hear is oh, my gosh, you listen to me.

You're asking what color I liked.

And that's the color that splashed over my apartment and, you know, my kid loves Spiderman and you delivered.

done.

>> It's not just collaborating with social service agencies in the past digs with Dignity has partnered with organizations with similar missions like the Chicago Furniture Bank on volunteer exchanges are swapping needed items to be able to come together and unite as nonprofits inside of, you know, competing against each other because we're not out here to do that.

>> Those sorts of collaboration among nonprofits may sound like a natural fit, but there isn't always a formal way to make them happen.

We're all doing super important work and a lot of us are like structure time strapped for resources and maybe we just don't have the the time or ability to connect with other people.

Josie Flanagan's Day job is with the Honeycomb project which connects families with volunteer opportunities.

Earlier this year, she put that networking mindset to use by co-founding Chicago, nonprofit Connect bringing together people from an array of organizations online and in person to share expertise and learn how they might work together, shouting at their events at their organization.

What sort of fundraising platform or research platform to do.

They use collaboration between organizations getting to know each other.

we've been hearing again and again from folks in this network is to really appreciate the positivity because there's so much doom and gloom these days.

And this is a space where we can kind of take the time to come together and work through these problems collectively.

Kristina Lowenstein is co-founder and executive director of the Honeycomb Project which hosted a recent breakfast event we have been working with, you know, now 50 different organizations across the city on a regular basis.

And so for us to be some part of facilitating deeper connection between all of these great organizations.

think it's so important this feels like a Chicago fire moment to me.

>> Longtime nonprofit leader Brooke McKean says moments of crisis create an opportunity for organizations to rethink how they operate.

>> Incentivizing collaboration rather than competing for limited resources or duplicating efforts.

>> They're focused on serving their mission and the people that they serve as a part of that mission and meeting the needs and funders and plan to And when you're on this hamster wheel of the starvation, Tyco, you have time to look up and think, oh, maybe we should work together on this.

I see some really positive relationships forming already.

So I would love to see this become something that's long-term unsustainable.

>> For Chicago tonight, I'm Nick Lumber.

>> Since launching earlier this year, Chicago nonprofit connects says it now has hundreds of members across lack in Lincoln with about 350 different organizations represented.

We got more information on our website.

Up next, we're visit our conversation with legendary astronaut in Lake Forest resident Jim level, who died last week.

Jim Lovell was an American hero.

The Naval aviator and test pilot turned astronaut is perhaps most famous for almost making it to the moon.

He was the commander of the Apollo 13 mission.

The dramatic story of those astronauts returning to Earth after major mechanical problems in space was made into a hit movie starring Tom Hanks as level Lovell who lived in Lake Forest died last week.

He was a guest on this program many times.

Here he is in 1995. right after the Apollo 13 movie came out with an introduction from feel Ponce.

>> Apollo 13 mission was to land 2 of its crew members on the moon, including the commander, Jim Lovell.

4 level.

It was an extension of a lifelong dream.

Badge nation can run wild yesterday of.

>> love to be the first guy to land on the moon.

And this was a drive.

I think all of us had at that particular time.

>> That honor had already gone to another man by the time, Apollo 13 lifted off on April.

11th 1970.

>> But 2 days into the flight, the crew's mission changed from landing on the moon.

>> To returning to Earth alive.

>> A bubble type of noise.

The spacecraft rock back and forth.

I could hear the Jets foreign because we are on autopilot that would stabilize the ship and then everything is quiet.

>> The problem was caused when an electrical short circuit caused a fire in an oxygen tank.

The tank exploded damaging key systems and causing the loss of oxygen power and the ability to maneuver without the electrical power.

command module was dead without electrical power.

And without the crew were dead.

That's how we work.

We were on the point.

Of loosen everybody and everything.

This was the point in Apollo 13.

That is the dramatic centerpiece of the movie by the same name starring Tom Hanks as Jim Lovell.

By all reports, the movie is a faithful account of the real events chronicled in a book level coauthored.

>> The book and the movie underscore Not just the result of the men in the capsule but of the people at Mission Control.

I want this mark.

>> All the way about Earth.

With time to spare.

Never lost an American in space was sure as not going to lose one on my The crew left the command module odyssey and use the lunar module Aquarius as a lifeboat.

>> For 3 harrowing days, the crew overcame bitter cold navigational problems and a buildup of deadly carbon dioxide just before the reentry.

The crew returned to the command module and jettisoned Aquarius.

The final unknown was whether the command module's Heat shield would hold up for re entry.

It did.

Visitors to the museum who've seen the movie have their own questions for the commander.

I know he a fat ugly follow directions.

But was there any time that he felt like they were just going to lose it.

I wonder if he was disappointed that he never got.

>> Actually to land on the moon.

I just wondered how how they filled inside 2 and thinking of wife and children.

If the mission, the book and the movie have an underlying message, it may be a simple but you never know what what events are going to transpire to for Chicago tonight.

>> I'm Phil Ponce.

And now we're delighted and pleased.

Welcome back.

2 Chicago tonight, Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 flight and the recipient last week.

>> Of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor presented at the White House by President Clinton.

Congratulations, sir.

Thank you, Joe.

And over about did the president have any words for you that you see the movie?

>> Oh, yes, he saw the movie, actually one of the first people of the 8th of June before it came out along with a lot of universal people.

And John Glenn was there that you have a chance to talk with him at all about this whole phenomenon of this movie and >> the tremendous public response.

You got just a little bit of why there is such a response for this movie.

I mean, it happened a quarter of a century ago.

Why so many does everybody responding to it, why they get up and clapping in the movie theaters after it's over with maze May.

But I think an ally because it's a piece of Americana.

It's something they can all be proud of its a little bit of their patrons, patriotic, no sense patriotism see this thing and see what happened.

What did you think of the movie when you first saw?

I enjoyed it.

I guess I'm one of the few authors of likes to see their their books going to movies.

But it was to all extents, very authentic.

Well done.

I have a happy that Ron Howard Tom and the rest of the crew.

were part of it.

Was there any did you envision?

Did you ever think of anybody else playing you other than Tom Hanks?

>> Well, early and this is, you know, the first talk with Ron Howard because he asked me who should >> do you think should play my part.

And I and I just thought of Kevin Costner only because I look a little bit like and what I was his age.

But I right now I couldn't think of a better actor because Hanks is a space enthusiast.

He's a closet.

Astronaut.

always want to play the part of a national when he got the acting business.

How was he, by the way?

>> As somebody who had the training and do this, what how did he do when you took him up and did some flying with you?

>> Well, first of all, they asked me Jim, I've got to know your character.

I have to know your mannerisms.

Can we ever get together?

That's what I invited down so that I thought here's a guy that really was to lure in the party doesn't want to go out read a script and the do it on his own.

And so he was very active.

He looked at me and when I looked at the movie, I saw some of those subtle mannerisms by all of that.

I didn't think it picked up when we're together.

>> I've got some questions, which I noted that feel Ponce.

So people feel Ponce is peace raised and I think we ought to do them.

The courtesy of getting responses from right now.

Were you ever confused or disoriented during the flight, particularly after the oxygen tank won't?

Well, we were never confused or disoriented, but our low point was probably.

>> When the explosion occurred and after we had analyzed the fact that the command module out as he was dying and we did not yet have solutions how to use it in a battle to get home.

So that was point where how soon should we get to learn We're going to transfer.

All of our guys.

You come under guidance.

Bremmer is over the moon about.

>> Did you experience as much emotion as we see at some points in the movie?

>> Yes, I think we did.

course.

Remember, all 3 of us were test pilots.

We've been a crisis before.

So, you know, we bounce off the walls and panic for about 10 minutes.

after that was we'll be right back.

Where we started from.

So we starting think logically of how to get back.

Were you disappointed the one of the persons interviewed said were you disappointed that you didn't actually land on the moon?

Yes, very much when the explosion first occurred, the indications were that we could land, but we were deep trouble.

And I was very disappointed.

And then of course, we are in deep trouble.

And then after we landed back on Earth for a long time, I was very frustrated.

The fact that I did not complete really what I wanted to His re-entry like what was re-entry like on that one?

Actually was the same as Apollo You come on and you look outside everything is 0 gravity.

It's all black velvet sky out there and suddenly you start to hit the atmosphere.

>> And the dark black skies start to turn into a very, very pale blue.

And that starts to get to late pick.

You start to get pressed back into the college, the G lows, the weight goes up and up and finally hit 6 g 6 times own weight and then everything as white outside because all all the flames are going by the spacecraft and you're just anchored back in the seat and then it dies down a bit.

And you keep on about 3 times your own way.

3, James, for a long time.

And finally, things slow down and then the automatic system start to pop this drugs come out and then the maze and then you breathe a sigh of relief.

>> But on on Apollo 13, with all of the problems of having enough.

Energy and was the trajectory right when you went into that one?

Were you?

Did you have a?

I'm about to meet my maker moment?

>> Well, that's true.

We did everything we could to get home.

We did know whether chill was cracked.

If it was cracked, that would be all she wrote because we have burned up.

We did know whether the pair issues that come out because the pyrotechnics that were fired about have been soap or 4 days.

So what you have to trust and faith and we just said, let's see what happens.

You pray?

Yes, I think, Sally, we all We course as movie predicted.

We said it's been a great fight, Let's hope we get through it.

>> And Jim Little died at the age of 97.

And what a life you seem to have to be able to go to space.

That's pretty amazing.

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