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

Black voices.

I'm Brandis Friedman.

Here's what we're looking at.

Some community members are urging officials to slow down on a planned quantum computing development on the southeast side.

Former Bulls star Joakim Noah on how a local basketball league is working to reduce violence.

>> If can see that this was murder.

>> And a look back at the assassination of Black Panther Party members, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark.

55 years later.

>> And now to some of today's top stories.

Court records obtained by W T Tw News show City attorneys have agreed to settle lawsuit filed by the family of Dexter read.

Reed was shot and killed by police officers during a traffic stop in March of this year.

4 officers fired 96 shots in 41 seconds.

Striking him.

First team preliminary investigation from the civilian Office of Police.

Accountability says Reid Fire first wounding an officer.

Court documents show the potential settle.

Don't show the potential settlement amount.

But the joint filing from the city and an attorney for Reid's mother show City Council must approve the settlement by February 10th.

That indicates the amount is more than $100,000.

There's more of this story on our website.

Minimum wage workers in Cook County are getting res with the new year.

The County Commission on Human Rights is reminding employers that the new wage kicks in January.

1st for non-tipped employees.

The base pay goes up to $15 an hour and $9 an hour for tipped employees.

This applies to workers over the age of 18 who work at least 2 hours in any 2 week period and workplaces with 4 or more employees as well as domestic workers.

The Chicago Police Department is working with community organizers to provide emergency assistance to people impacted by gun violence, especially those affected by a mass shooting in Gage Park in the Gage Park neighborhood yesterday that killed 3 people and wounded 5 others.

Tomorrow is not the only day that you can come and get help.

>> If you've been a victim of violent crimes here in the city, also, we're here to help.

We're creating safe spaces and helping people get to resources and helping people find alternative lifestyles.

Hart, our heart goes out to those victims.

>> Cpd says it's hosting an emergency assistance center tomorrow from 3.30, to 7 at Monarch.

Us Academy is right around the corner from where that shooting took place in Gage Park.

It's intended to provide any kind of support to residents no matter when or where they were affected by violence at no cost.

Coming up, a major quantum computing development on the southeast side.

Why some neighbors are raising concerns.

We hear from the company and residents up next.

>> Chicago tonight, is made possible in part by the support of these don't use.

>> Some South Chicago residents are raising concerns over the development of a new quantum computing campus.

The plan is to transcript transform the former U.S. Steel South works site into the Illinois quantum and Micro Electronics Park officials are calling the campus history altering and hope the developments and their partnership with California-based company Quantum Cyclone to makes Illinois a global quantum leader.

But some neighbors want the process to slow down raising environmental and displacement concerns.

Joining us now are Amalia Nieto, Gomez, executive director of Alliance of the Southeast Hurley Johnson, CEO and director of Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park.

And on Zoom and Holcomb community resident and co-founder of Environment, Transportation, Health and Open space of South Shore.

Also known as UFOs and 10th Ward Alderman Peter Chico, thanks to all of you for joining us.

I'm fairly Johnson.

Let's start with you.

Please break it down for us for the non science folks.

What is quantum computing?

Why is it important?

Sure.

Well, thank you for having this evening.

So a quantum computer.

>> Is a new kind of computer, essentially a supercomputer uses the laws of physics and a lot of quantum mechanics to do the calculations differently.

If we believe it will transform a lot of areas of industry, a lot of areas of our society as it replaces classical computing and takes over and does his calculations faster and for understanding quantum computing or technology refers to what is that?

The physics of subatomic particles sorts, right, right.

So quantum computer.

Let's extent of my knowledge.

That's right.

quantum computers operate by controlling states of Adams or states particles of light.

>> Why is Illinois the prime location for this park to develop for this project to go on, right?

Well, so I'm from the University of Illinois.

I'm a scientist and engineer.

>> We're for a long time state of Illinois at you know, more than its share of the national resources in quantum information science.

So we have 4 of the 10 major research centers in country are located here in Illinois.

We have a national Labs Argonne National lab in from National lab.

There are Chicago Northwestern University University Illinois where I am it gives us a head start because we have that the basic science in place.

I'm Molly and the answer Gomez White is a lines of the southeast asking for this process to be slow down.

>> Well, we feel that the process is being rushed through it.

This announcement was just made in July and there are a lot of questions at the community still has whether that questions about the environment and what the environmental impacts are going to be.

What is going to happen with jobs, pipeline, education, pipeline.

And and you know how residents have been in the community for 2, 3 generations are not going to be displaced by this development.

So there's a lot questions that we have.

There's a lot of concerns that we have.

And then we also want to make sure that there are defined community benefits for the community to make sure that this chilly benefits the community because if benefits are to find then this is another round of empty promises we've been had 2 other developments before this one particular community benefits.

Are you advocating So we would like to see a jobs pipeline like the find jobs pipeline and education pipeline that starts at the elementary school level and carries on into high school and that creates job pipelines for local residents.

And we would like to make sure that a longtime residents have built the community are not displaced by this development.

Whether that be from rising property taxes, rising rents, even rising utility bills.

Because we just read that there are our utility bills that could be rising because of data centers.

And the quantum development is going to take on a lot more of the electrical grid.

So how are we going keep people housed that are currently in the community?

>> And Holcomb, what are your environmental and environmental remediation concerns?

>> We've seen a lot of very glossy presentations.

was at the 5 hour Planning Commission meeting last week what those pretty pictures all show is what is in the ground.

And what is in the ground is a toxic brownfield.

And so we have a lot of concerns about the construction process and how that's going to affect residents.

Because when you start digging in a hisa land, all that stuff becomes particulate matter goes airborne and people can breathe it can go into battle a fire the water table that seats like Michigan and then we can drink it.

And we are very afraid of actually being poisoned.

And if that happens, we're not going to know for 10 15 years when we start getting cancers we start getting these other things that could happen because we're breathing and drinking that talks of Brownfield.

They the IDPH virtually waving no further remediation necessary letter in our faces say it's brought up every single meeting and I actually have documentation they did 11/8/2004.

That was a letter that was written to a previous proposed developers.

Mccaffrey was his last name and it was written by the then Chief of Bureau of Land.

name was William Childs.

And he basically said that they only did one sample for 2 acres and so that the stand or 2 samples for half acre to see what was in that round field and what remediation would lead it is feels like me Youve got some concerns than that.

That more of that is necessary testing is has not gotten.

>> As in-depth as as it should be.

I want to I want to bring alderman she Cohen here.

Sorry, and I will come back to you, though.

Alderman, why are you in favor of this project?

>> Well, I think it represents an opportunity for the tent or in the South Chicago community us to a close the stores nearly 30 years ago.

Since then, we've had 450 acres of on develop lakefront property.

When I knock on doors and I talk to folks who kind community in a tent were general, they know that that piece of property could be catalytic to seeing sort of investment in the South Chicago neighborhood and they're excited.

It's time for our community to be a paid attention to its time for the city Chicago in the state of Illinois to pay attention kind community.

And the time has come.

>> Alderman do.

Is there a plan to be sure that residents are included you know, the the future of the campus and the impact it has on on their community and their neighborhood.

>> Absolutely.

I think what I'm most excited about since the announcement in July in division.

I kinda head was.

Creating a pipeline summer schools.

So the IQ and about a month ago he gathered around 20 principles from the 7th and 10th words.

We had Hurley there's new of AI psych one of their call center of exchange.

And we started that conversation started a dialogue about leveraging what's going on and I come up into our schools.

The principal very excited.

And we left that meeting with just a sense urgency and exciting circuits.

>> Harley, The Wall Street Journal says, you know, Chicago will be the Silicon Valley of quantum.

Tell us a little bit about some of the different components that will be incorporated into this park was a Sure.

>> We're very excited about it.

And we think there is a possibility that this becomes kind of Silicon Valley for quantum.

There's going to be a hardware component where companies come and build computing prototypes.

So that early versions of the quantum computers, software side where companies come in and along with university researchers work on software that will be used to run the computers.

that creates really full spectrum all the way from kind of where we are today early prototypes to to really what we think will be serving and users.

The companies and the organizations around Illinois and around the country that can use these devices.

Of course, there's you know, we've heard about the cryogenics, the stuff that's necessary to keep meters cold.

>> Right.

So one of principles that many quantum computers operate on after running very low temperatures are very sensitive need to be kept.

So they need to be kept cold.

So at the center of the park will be really industrial-scale cryogenics plant projects facility that's made to cool the computers down to very low temperatures.

>> Of all you do you see any positives to campus like this coming to the neighborhood?

>> Well, I think the pauses will be measuring whether or not, you know, able to fill the promises that have been made.

And so I think what we what we're saying this to slow it down to do this right and get the details ironed out so that that's what we're saying.

And, you know, you know, even just to to slow it down so that environmental review is done so that we know what is what is in the in the ground because we know there's toxins and we know that there's leaching happening, both from steel workers that have worked there like, you know, we know this on personal level that this happened and some of the stuff, you know, is in the paperwork, we like to slow down until community conversations, actual conversations about what the community's priorities are for a development.

So I think, you know, it can't it has a lot of potential, but like they're also a lot of concerns.

>> Alderman Chico, we've got just about 2030, seconds left.

You know, the site has been earmarked for development several times by different companies.

Why are you confident that this one will go through?

Why is this one different briefly?

>> Because we have the full force of government behind it.

Everybody from the governor's office, the mayor's office, we are fully behind.

might be other projects.

We have the sole source of >> Okay.

All right.

That's where we'll have to leave it.

I know that there's a lot of questions and thoughts among the folks at this table and in front of us.

But I think all of you for joining us, Harley Johnson, a million yet to Gomez and Holcomb and Alderman Peter Chico.

Thank you.

Up next, how a baseball league is working to reduce violence.

>> Basketball League best.

Chicago's violent crime numbers have dipped in the past 5 years.

But there's still a lot of work to do when it comes to gun-related incidents.

Last month, police officers recovered 835 firearms and since the beginning of this year, more than 11,700 firearms to help combat this issue.

A team of violence Interrupters.

Are you a fight unifying young people through their love of basketball.

Joining us now are the co-founders of the one city Basketball league.

Kobe Williams, National Violence, Interrupter and author of the book Interrupting Violence.

One Man's Journey to Heal the Street and redeem himself and on zoom.

We have former Chicago Bulls star and co-founder of the Noah's Ark Foundation Joakim.

Noah, thanks to you both for joining us.

Good to see you.

So questions question for the both of you.

Kind of you've been working together for over a decade.

This is a relationship that started on Twitter.

Kobe, tell me how your partnership again.

>> I mean, I met Joe Keene, like you with decade ago on Twitter, he saw documentary I was free to call the interrupt those.

He sent a tweet.

This is a must-see documentary and I tweeted back same and thank you for watching a movie and we built from right you know, he say Kobe, if anything, I could do to help you let me know.

So later we could lay to apf change we just thought Brian Storm and how he can get involved and different things like that.

Then what we saw brainstorming sale right?

Come out to the community.

Want to meet some of the guys and women in the community.

Stockham bringing them out to the community.

Sometimes out their best self.

Then we started taking the use of total center where Michael Jordan play that, you know, would that the Bulls sent up 70 and we start going out there bringing kids desk in a normal and just been building them.

This is best is history.

I know to come.

Obviously he wrote the foreword to your book Joakim Noah, what was it about?

Obviously the movie and then?

>> You know, the work that Kobe Williams and you know, his team members do that made you want to get involved.

>> You know, first of all, thanks for having me very excited about our one city finals that are starting on Saturday.

But Kobe's just a very special guy.

Somebody that I met over a decade ago and just his work is so real and somebody that I just started working with very organically.

And now we have our basketball early on the South side, Chicago working with 28 violence prevention groups.

We have some groups on the West side as well.

So we have our finals coming up this weekend and we're just really excited.

>> Kobe, you work as a violence interrupter.

And of course, you have a personal connection to this work.

Tell us about that.

>> I mean, you start off doing a violence interrupter.

My job was every day to mediate conflicts.

Ted lead to violence to stop the shooting and killing him.

Focus on changing mindsets and behavior.

It really just mean the you bet a self part of the part of the problem, part of the solution.

So I just want to give back because I know, you know, I want the youth to know they not alone on the I feel them.

You know, I mean, you know that I talk about I'll talk about a lot about my book interrupting violence.

I just want everybody to know, you like I how you start, it's how you finish.

And this steel light the and ICE testing point for people to know cause people be so quick to judge each other and just people and look down on them.

And thing I want to say about Joe Cain or when I first met him from the beginning, he told me is saying this when basketball is over with, I'm going to be working with be doing this type of work so I want to thank that brought keeping the square.

And of course he So as we mentioned this week, struggle Police Department, they share to monthly crime stats for November, showing a continued decline.

>> In shootings, murders several other crimes.

But when you look at numbers like that from the CPD, what do you think when you tribute went off of a man is great.

Any time you shootings and killings go down in the city's definitely in Chicago.

So it's it's a plus, you know, to Biden's go now.

>> And that's contribute to what everybody's doing to stop this net.

One organization, one person, nobody King stop all this is the shooting.

So, you know, we got to continue to do our part everybody else got to do.

They part.

But when you know, when everybody doing something, you see numbers going out like It contributes a lot of violence.

Prevention groups.

It will want city because we keeping these guys.

Off the street sometimes and they coming out playing best while they build relationships with each other in different things like that.

Joe, come through that one city basketball league.

You use basketball as a means, of course, to help guide young to learn lifelong skills.

>> How can you know sports be a unifier?

How one of the life lessons they can get from sports?

>> No sports as the ultimate unifier and were able to hook the kids in through the basketball.

But obviously this league is about much more than than playing basketball.

This is about uniting the kids, bringing together, being able to speak to them the right way and just have a moment where we can enjoy the competition of basketball, unifying the city, all the different violence prevention groups that are playing in our league.

But just like I said, this is so much, bigger than just winning and losing a game.

This is about bringing people together.

>> And of course, you also, you know, you're giving young black men and boys the opportunity to have, you know, difficult conversations about their lives and their future.

How do you, you know, how do you sort of get to these young men?

How do you get to these who, you know, historically they have it may be felt empowered to open up and share their stories and talk about their feelings.

Do come to you first on that one.

>> I think this is about youth empowerment.

You know it when you're able to bring all the people together, have real conversations, organic conversations.

I think we've been doing this for for a while now.

So I think that people understand that this is a this program is is is necessary.

And I think it says it's a little bit different.

But one way when you're able to walk into the gym and have those moments and be able to have those conversations with the guys.

I think it's a it's something that I'm very proud of.

And just like Kobe said, I knew that when I was done playing basketball, I would have an opportunity to get into this field with my brother, Kobe, that I really respect and I'm really proud of just the consistency and the time and effort that goes into this problem that we have in Chicago.

>> Kobe, there's a lot of misconceptions about, you know, how and why of violence persists in a city like Chicago.

What falsehood Steve, want to dispel a me.

I mean violence.

I mean, growing up, you see violence every day.

You know, sometimes you see how so you said in the community and all so it's been polls to Vine is as kids.

So once we've been this post what we thought, the only way you should have the responsibilities will not see your responsibility.

I mean, that is somebody do some to you.

Your parents always taught you to hit them back.

Don't let nobody do ABC and D to you.

So we thinking that's embedded in those don't react a certain type away.

But now what we do in this, helping them change mask they think in showing them just because you have a disagreement doing got to lead to violent.

All right.

That is a good place to leave it.

Kobe Williams Joakim Noah, thanks to both for joining us.

And we're back with more in just a moment.

But first, a look at the weather.

>> 55 years ago today to Black Panther members were shot and killed in a police raid.

21 year-old leader of the Chicago Black Panthers, Fred Hampton was fatally shot as was 22 year-old member Mark Clarke.

While several others were injured, then Cook County State's Attorney Edward Hanrahan held a news conference claiming his officers were, quote, surprise attack by the Panthers.

But documents later revealed the raid was part of a secret program by the FBI to neutralize the Black Panther Party in 2005, this episode of Chicago stories explored the contradictory accounts following the raid.

Here's some of that story with Rich Samuels.

>> Cook County State's Attorney Edward Hanrahan.

A few hours later presented the official account of the predawn raid.

>> As soon as Sergeant Daniel Growth and officers, James Davis, who are leading our men.

Announced their office, occupants of the apartment, attacked them with shotgun, fire.

The officers immediately took cover the occupants continued firing at our policeman from several rooms within the apartment.

Thereafter, 3 times Sergeant growth are did all his men to cease firing and told the occupants to come out with their hands up.

Each time.

One of the occupant replied, Shoot it out.

And continued firing at the police officers.

Some journalists took the Hanrahan account is the last word but Wmaq TV and its new newscast that day a new dimension to the story.

>> Producer Phil Walters invited to Black Panthers to Channel Five's merchandise Mart studios.

>> To be interviewed live in the midday news them and murdered.

Fred Hampton for Hampton was laying his bed.

>> We approve it.

We're proving to the world that Fred Hampton was murdered.

There were no gunshot wounds.

What was no car shot?

But holes outside of apartment.

There was a gunfire, gunfire, the pig's head if I in the apartment.

So there are holes outside doors.

They say they kicked out of doors.

The locks a still attack on a dog or put out the cameras were over there.

They did take took.

They took pictures of it.

approve that these pigs murdered for it have to while he was asleep, the attempt to wipe out the Black Panther Party and after the succeed in this of black people allow them to succeed then they're gonna move black people in general just like Hitler did in Germany.

After years of coverups and litigation, the government agreed to a settlement in 1982.

>> Paying 1.8, 5 million dollars to Hampton and Clark's families in the other survivors of the 1969 read.

But no one was ever convicted.

And that's our show for this Wednesday night.

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