UP FIRST TONIGHT, CHICAGO IS NOW THE LARGEST AMERICAN CITY TO ADOPT A RESOLUTION CALLING FOR A CEASE-FIRE IN THE ISRAEL HAMAS WAR.

>> MAYOR BRANDON JOHNSON BROKE A 23.

23 TIME VOTE BY THE CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL IN FAVOR OF THE RESOLUTION CAPPING A DAY OF HIGH DRAMA AND INTENSE DEBATE AT CHICAGO CITY HALL.

LET'S LISTEN TO SOME OF THAT DEBATE THAT EVENTUALLY GOT A BIT OUT OF CONTROL.

>> DO I BELIEVE THAT THE WORDS THAT WE SPEAK TODAY, HOW WE VOTE TODAY?

INFLUENCES DIRECTLY INTERNATIONAL POLICY?

I DON'T I DON'T HAVE THOSE ALEUTIANS, BUT WITH HOPE WE VOTE WITH SOLIDARITY.

WE VOTE TO HELP PEOPLE FEEL.

HEARD IN A WORLD OF SILENCE.

>> WE ALL WANT PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

WE ALL WANT AN END TO THE BLOODSHED AND END TO THE WAR.

>> WBTW NEWS REPORTER HEATHER SHARON JOINS US NOW WITH MORE.

HEATHER, TELL US WHAT THIS RESOLUTION ACTUALLY WELL, DOES NOT HAVE THE FORCE OF LAW BUT EXPRESSES THE COLLECTIVE WILL OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND CALLS FOR A PERMANENT CEASEFIRE.

THE FLOW OF HUMANITARIAN AID IN LARGE QUANTITIES INTO GAZA.

>> AND FOR THE UNCONDITIONAL AND IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF THE HOSTAGES.

NOW, THIS IS THE SECOND TIME THE CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL HAS WADED INTO THE ISRAEL GAZA WAR.

THEY HAVE CONDEMNED HAMAS THAT FOR THE OCTOBER 7TH ATTACKS, A RESOLUTION THAT ALSO DREW INTENSE DEBATE BACK IN OCTOBER.

AND THAT I THINK IS PERHAPS WHY IT WAS SO INTENSE AND WHY THE CITY COUNCIL DEADLOCKED AT 23 VOTES ON BOTH SIDES LEAVING MAYOR BRANDON JOHNSON TO BREAK THE TIE.

NOW THAT SHOULDN'T HAVE COME AS A SURPRISE TO ANYONE.

LAST WEEK HE CALLED FOR A CEASE-FIRE DIRECT.

>> SO ONCE AGAIN, CITY COUNCIL MEETING SPILLED OUT OF CONTROL, AS WE MENTIONED AND SHOWED A BIT OF VIDEO OF EARLIER FORCING MAYOR BROUGHT BRANDON JOHNSON TO MAINTAIN ORDER IN THE IN THE MAIN GALLERY IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CLEARING OF OF THE PUBLIC.

WHAT HAPPENED?

>> WELL, WHEN ALDERMAN DEBRA SILVERSTEIN BROS TO SPEAK AGAINST THE RESOLUTION, SHE WAS HECKLED AND BOOED BY SUPPORTERS OF THE RESOLUTION AND SHE STOPPED.

THE MAYOR CALLED FOR ORDER.

BUT THEN WHEN SHE MADE SOME, I THINK REALLY GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS OF WHAT HAPPENED ON OCTOBER, 7TH TO HAMAS, PEOPLE IN THE GALLERY ERUPTED IN FURY AND THAT WAS THE LAST STRAW FOR MAYOR JOHNSON WHO ORDERED A RECESS CLEARED THE CHAMBER AND THINGS DID NOT RESTART UNTIL ABOUT AN HOUR LATER.

NOW, ALDERMAN SILVERSTEIN SPOKE WITH A LOT OF EMOTION.

SHE IS THE ONLY JEWISH MEMBER OF THE CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL.

YOU CAN TELL THESE ISSUES WERE VERY PAINFUL FOR HER TO TALK ABOUT TODAY.

THIS RESOLUTION, IT PUTS JOHNSON IN THE CITY COUNCIL, THOUGH, AT ODDS WITH PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN WHO PICK CHICAGO TO THE SUMMER'S DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION.

>> WILL THERE BE FALLOUT FROM FROM WELL.

>> JOE BIDEN HAS RESISTED INCREASINGLY STRIDENT CALLS TO CALL FOR A CEASEFIRE HIMSELF.

NOW HE IS ADMINISTRATION IS WORKING BEHIND THE SCENES IN PRIVATE NEGOTIATIONS TO GET THOSE HOSTAGES RELEASED AND TO SORT OF PUT AN END TO THE HOSTILITIES.

NOW ALDERMAN ROSE ON AVERAGE AGAINST SANCHEZ, WHO IS ONE OF AUTHORS OF THIS MEASURE, WAS ASKED ABOUT WHETHER IT WOULD BE AWKWARD TO WELCOME THE PRESIDENT TO A CITY THAT IS BASICALLY CONDEMNED HIS MAJOR FOREIGN POLICY APPROACH.

SHE SAID THAT THE CITY COUNCIL IS TRYING TO SHIFT DEBATE TO FOCUS ON THE HUMANITY OF THE PALESTINIANS.

26 26,000 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED, ACCORDING TO THE HAMAS CONTROLLED HEALTH MINISTRY, ALONG WITH 1200 JEWISH PEOPLE WHO WERE KILLED ON OCTOBER 7TH.

AND THERE ARE STILL SOMEWHERE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF ABOUT 100 HOSTAGES STILL BEING HELD RIGHT.

>> A CITY COUNCIL ALSO SET TO VOTE ON WHETHER TO REAFFIRM THEIR REJECTION OF AN EFFORT BACKED BY THE CITY'S LARGEST POLICE UNION TO UP INTO SYSTEM THAT'S BEEN USED FOR 60 YEARS TO PUNISH POLICE OFFICERS.

WHY DID THAT HAPPEN?

WELL, MADE ALLIES OF MAYOR JOHNSON BLOCKED A VOTE TODAY USING A PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE THAT SOMETIMES SUPPORTERS USE WHEN THEY DON'T HAVE THE VOTES TO PASS SOMETHING THAT THEY DO WANT TO VOTE.

>> SO THE ENTIRE ISSUE, WHICH IS NOW IN THE COURTS REMAINS IN LIMBO FOR AT LEAST ANOTHER COUPLE WEEKS, LEAVING A LOT OF UNCERTAINTY ABOUT THE CITY'S ABILITY TO HOLD OFFICERS ACCOUNTABLE FOR SERIOUS POLICE MISCONDUCT.

NEVER BORING DAY AT CITY COUNCIL HAVE HIS SHARON.

THANKS SO MUCH.