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

Black voices, I'm Brandis Friedman.

Here's what we're looking at.

Come and get >> War of words between Governor Pritzker and President Trump escalates.

We have the latest on that.

And National Guard troops on the ground in Illinois.

Advocates push for more inclusion of black communities from the city's south and west sides in the ongoing transit to beat.

>> He had a fan base like no other.

and former Washington Post culture critic Robin give on chronicles fashion icon.

blows life and legacy in a new book.

First off tonight.

President Donald Trump is calling for Mayor Brandon Johnson and Governor JB Pritzker to be jailed.

>> The threat posted on truth.

Social comes as hundreds of National Guard troops gather near Joliet preparing to hit the streets of Chicago or Heather.

Sharon joins us now with the latest.

Heather, did the president say why the governor and the mayor should be jailed?

>> Without offering any evidence, he said that the governor and the mayor had not done enough to protect immigration enforcement agents in Chicago.

Now his post poured gasoline on an already raging fire storm about the response of CPD to a Brighton Park shooting by federal agents on Saturday.

Now both Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson react to finally we heard Governor Pritzker say, come get me.

Mayor Johnson said that he would not be the first black person that Trump has threatened to wrongfully arrest.

>> Chicago Police Superintendent Larry snowing forcefully dependent defending his department's response to that shooting that sparked protests.

Let's take a listen.

Our officers were out there throughout the entire event.

>> I would never tell offices the stand down because if our officers were in trouble and we needed help from other offices, I would expect those offices to step in and help us.

Heather, what exactly happened in Brighton Park?

>> The woman has been charged with intentionally ramming ramming a car driven by a federal agent that federal agent shot her 5 times that shooting sparked immediate protests from residents of Brighton Park, which is a primarily Latino community.

Federal agents called CPD for help saying they were surrounded and at least initially there's evidence that CPD Brass Cave in order not to respond.

However, as we heard the superintendent say, officers did respond.

In fact, dozens of officers were exposed to tear gas fired by federal agents who left the street scene several hours later.

So too 100 Texas, National Guard troops operating under federal authority.

They are awaiting orders to deploy Chicago.

They are.

>> Near Joliet right now.

Do we have any more information about what their mission with their orders are?

>> We do not.

We have no indication they've left that federal facility in the south suburbs.

We will know more after a hearing tomorrow in front of U.S.

District Court Judge April Perry who scheduled to decide whether Illinois and Chicago has met the burden they need for a temporary restraining order.

what can we expect from that hearing tomorrow?

While we won't know until midnight precisely the answers to the questions that the Department of Justice has been asked.

Where are these troops going to go?

What are they going to do?

April Perry, the judge has scheduled oral argument at tomorrow's hearing and she has said she will rule as quickly as possible, correct in tonight at midnight because that is the deadline for the federal government to respond to the lawsuit that the state has issued.

Heather Sharon, thank you so much.

Thanks.

Brandis.

And you can read Heather's full story on our website.

It is all at W T Tw Dot com slash news.

>> Also tonight, ISIS immigration crackdown in Chicago may also be to blame for an international soccer game that was slated for Soldier Field to instead be happening in Florida.

The friendly me rematch between where the friendly match between Argentina and Puerto Rico was set for October 13th this Monday.

looking at a promotional video for it But in Argentine Football Association official tells The Associated Press that the game is being moved to Fort Lauderdale because of the immigration sweeps in Chicago.

>> More than 1000 immigrants have been arrested since the crackdown began last month.

Former Congressman Jesse Jackson junior announces he's running for his old seat in Congress.

My life's journey.

I formed the burden of self-inflicted pain and suffering.

>> I've learned that we cannot be born again from our mothers.

Will we must be born again of a new spirit, a new home.

We must build strength in all of our broken places.

must do this together.

I'm responding to a draft movement to enter this race like my father.

Before me, I ask for your vote as a vote for a new direction for this district birthday of a man.

Jackson says he's making the announcement on the 84th birthday of his father's civil rights icon Jesse Jackson senior who inspired his entrance into politics once a rising star of the Democratic Party, Jackson junior was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison over the misuse of campaign funds.

>> The seat he's running for is currently held by Congresswoman Robin Kelly who is instead running for Senate.

This year's crop of 22 MacArthur Fellows, also known as geniuses includes a familiar face to many Chicagoans photographer and social justice artist Tamika Lewis Johnson.

>> Growing up Englewood, every part of my life has been touched by segregation.

And I know that to be true about everyone who lives in this city.

So it really was a story that I wanted to tell and use my art.

My photography.

My passion for history to package all of that in a way that would be able to connect to the larger public.

>> He's truly about Louis Johnson is well known for documenting the city's racial segregation through her folded map project and public art installation called inequity for sale to expose the causes of deterioration and impact disinvestment in South side neighborhoods.

Louis Johnson uses photography maps and multimedia storytelling to illustrate the city's racial disparities.

Well, also creating pathways for residents to participate in the process of repair.

Up next, advocates push for more equitable public transit reform.

>> Chicago tonight, black voices he's made possible in part by the support of these donors.

>> Chicago area public transit agencies are facing a fiscal cliff.

The budget gap for CTA, Metra and Pace is at 200 million dollars.

According to the regional Transit agency.

While that's down from 771 Million Dollar estimate earlier this year, transit officials are warning without more funding service cuts and layoffs could still hit next year as state lawmakers head to Springfield next week to discuss a possible funding plan.

Some advocates say black communities on the city's south and west sides are being ignored in decisions about transit reform.

Joining us now with more are Denise Barreto, former chief equity and engagement officer for the Chicago Transit Authority.

Adams, late director of state fiscal policy at the Illinois Black Advocacy Initiative and on Zoom State, Representative Kam Buckner, who represents parts of the loop in the city's south side.

We also invited the Chicago Transit Authority, but they declined.

We welcome the 3 of you.

Thanks for joining us.

Denise, let's start with you, please.

So you wrote in an op-ed that was published in the Chicago Tribune a few weeks ago that black voices are often pushed out of the discussion about transit.

How so?

Well, when I think about the folks that you see at the day today at our board meetings at the RTA board meetings.

>> The folks doing witness slips, the organizing around discussion.

They are very few black faces that her in that and I acknowledge the ones that I saw.

But there's quite a few folks that are just not there and black people power transit, not just at CTA black people.

Trent Power Transit in the Northeast.

And I believe that our voices need to be heard.

So you say they aren't there.

They're not showing up.

That is that is optional, of course, to show up so well out or not incur.

Well, it's I think it's both because when the holy opportunities to have to our daytime meetings at 10:00AM on a Wednesday once a month, I think our team meetings are also during the day.

When you have one budget hearing when you have town halls that are not there's not a lot of outreach in neighborhoods with community organizations.

There's lots of ways that I could point to.

It's just equitable system when it comes to giving feedback and whose voices are listened to.

Representative is this something that you've experienced in Springfield?

Is this something that you feel like?

It's also?

>> Not happening.

News voice is not being hurt or being pushed out in the conversations is happening.

>> be clear about this that the way that our systems have always worked.

We've got to always try a little harder to make sure that black forces are centered now as a as a black man who lives on the south Chicago, who is one of the chief negotiators of this transit conversation have gone out to have black groups around the city places like Woodlawn and that which is focus on the West side also in North Lawndale to figure out what to get forces.

We we know the data shows the stark reality.

Black Chicagoans suffer from worst transit situation experienced gardens around the around the region were not black.

And so one of the charges for me in this conversation is to make home expenses talking to folks with those some train operators.

Those the folks who work at stations with those are people who are using systems every single day to have conversations.

>> Adam, what this fair and equitable public transit in the region look like?

What should it look like?

>> Fair and equitable.

Transit is a great dream that I wish we could realize.

and especially in the northeast region fair and equitable means that all communities have access to major institutions in their neighborhood.

I know being able to get to the grocery store, being able to get to the hospital are being able to get to your place of employment quickly and efficiently and safely.

All are the dream of a good regional transit system.

>> Representative Buckner, does this smaller fiscal cliff that we talked about, you know, for down to 200 million from 771 Million.

Does that take a little bit of the pressure off of lawmakers come up with a solution, a little bit of pressure to maybe wait until the spring session versus veto session.

>> Also to the pressure, while it may seem like it's less, it really is still very necessary to RT update that took clip from 770 million 200 It's a huge swing.

you know, it really also underscores why this work is important because what I get number and with the system worked right now, it's OK start transparent for us to figure that out.

And so I've been there with my colleagues and my constituents that we have only 2 options here.

One option is to continue to kick the can down the road and pretend as if nothing is happening or second option is to actually it.

we and do it intentionally so we can move the system alone.

So black folks in the folks around the city and this region take transit who operate trains and we use it as a backbone of our economy can do so in the right way.

>> According to responses from a regional Transit Authority passenger survey, black people make up 40% of paces writer base 27% of see Tas writer based in 13% of Metro's writer base Denise folks may look at these numbers and say, okay, well, black people to start using the CTA.

You know, what difference does it make if their voices are included any more than they already are?

What do you say to that since?

Well, first I start with black workers, Trent, like 73% of the people that work at the CTA are black people.

The second thing is that's based on RTA is on customer service surveys that they put out.

>> I always think that those are always under counted for folks in our community.

And then I think the final thing that has to do with access in the black community, we have a car culture.

If you live somewhere where it takes you 2 hours to get places, you aspire to have a car and you'd rather have a car, then have to wait the times that they have to wait for the bus or not have trained access like folks all killed gardens.

And so I think it's unfair to look at our tas numbers around black people and their ridership because it's not accurate.

And then the final thing I will say is when the cuts that were made back in 2008, you look at the access their people, but people have more access bus wise before those last set of cuts that happen.

And so it's sort of a bill that they come sort of thing.

We've we just reintroduce some different services.

And when you have the service and its frequent people use it.

To that point, Adam, would black ridership be higher if there were changes improvements to service?

>> Absolutely.

100%.

One of the main pieces that we heard last week was that the federal funding for the Red Line extension was cut to the far South side.

And this touches the nieces point about access to service.

We have significant gaps on the south side for access to transit and regular bus schedules.

And if folks could access transit, they would take it and they would love it, especially if they haven't been used to having that kind of a manatee in that community and it would connect them to the wider region as well.

Yeah, we just had a conversation on this program last night, of course, about red line cuts.

>> Representative Buck know what kind of conversations are you having with suburban lawmakers who say that the proposed reforms to local transit weeds too much control in the hands of the city.

>> I'm reminding them that this is a regional system is a regional medical system and Chicago goes so goes the rest of the region.

And so when you talk about the collar counties to patients Lake and will the what has to happen is that we have to figure out how we work together hand in the building consensus system.

It doesn't just work for the folks in my district in and was but also works for the folks in places like ocean.

on the places that measure goes to the south Others hope have a lead service by pace.

We have to stop the silo thinking.

I'm having a conversation with many of my colleagues and many of them do understand it.

It's really just reprogramming our south and refi, part of the past and create a system that works for the future.

>> Denise, 20 seconds left.

How do you get more people involved making their voices heard?

Well, first of all, I think you for having the segment tonight because I think getting the word out to folks, I think talking to faith-based organizations and community organizations.

That's what I'll be doing.

I'm a private citizen advocate now and that's what I'll be Okay.

Once leave it, we listen listen out for more of your advocacy at knees Do Adams Lead and Representative Kam Buckner.

Thanks to all of you for joining us.

Thank you.

Thank you evidence.

And up next, exploring the life and legacy of late fashion icon Virgil Abloh.

Visionary Chicagoland native Virgil Abloh shifted what luxury means and who gets to participate in it.

The street where loving son of Ghanaian immigrants from Rockford went on to become the first African-American artistic director of a French luxury fashion house doing so without formal training.

But as the book make it, ours crashing the gates of culture with Virgil Abloh author Robin Van shows us Abloh was so much more than a fashion maker.

Joining us now is the book's author Robin van, a fashion icon to me anyway, in her own right.

And former senior critic at large at The Washington Post.

Thanks for joining us.

It's good to have you here.

Thank you very much for having It was a fashion maker instead of designer.

He didn't really refer to himself that way.

Did he?

Yeah, I mean That's a that's a nap lower.

That's a virtual word.

He like to consider himself a creator, a maker.

>> he didn't really use the word designer in part because he really revere designers.

He had a great deal of respect for them.

>> And he was hesitant to sort of put himself into that category.

You've covered fashion for some time.

Obviously, you're not other a long You've written other books.

Why Virgil Abloh, why did write this book?

>> Well, he was historic because of his rise at home.

>> because as I've been writing about him over the years, both covering his men's wear under his own collection and also his women's.

I was critical of it, you know, because this was not someone who was formally trained and so looking at it, I think through traditional lens of fashion, sometimes the work didn't have the clothes didn't fit as well as perhaps they should have.

He was deeply influenced by a lot of other designers and ideas.

And so sometimes you saw echoes of other people's work.

But at the same time he had a fan base like no other.

And it was sort of tension if you're that was intriguing to me and something I wanted to explore.

So as you mentioned, you were initially harsh harsher critic of him.

>> Are tougher critic before you have before you begin to focus more on his, like you said, his expansive cultural impact rather than distinctiveness.

Sometimes lack of distinctiveness.

He had the 3% rule that will come back to if there's time in his designs.

And in the book you write, quote, Abloh began with a T-shirt, but he wasn't attempting to perfect protect particular silhouette word, rape.

It was not a performance T-shirt.

He was creating an identity, a name.

It's a T-shirt.

Could be an expression of tribalism for music lovers.

In sports fans.

Then it could be that for fashion as well.

And a T-shirt, a big unisex garment that required no tailoring and was easy inexpensive to mass produce was the perfect slate on which to write the beginnings of his fashion story.

What was it about a T-shirt that he was able to pull and get onto people?

Yeah, I mean, and fashion had been changing over the years and some of the biggest changes happened in men's wear.

>> When we think about bad biggest trends really of the last few years, things like the blurring of gender athleisure sneaker culture.

All of that comes from the men's wear side and that is where sort of the power of T-shirts came from as well.

And it was this idea that you could connect with like-minded people.

You could sort of form a community, a team, if you will, and some virtual use a T-shirt, too.

Introduces brand and his brand was off White.

Instead a bat brand being based on a particular garment.

The way that, you know, Gucci is based on, you know, Gucci loafers would be your is based on particular silhouette of a jacket or a Chanel handbag.

Virtual use Off-White.

As the brand.

And then he decided afterwards pure the things that underneath my brand.

But it was the brand that he gave meaning to.

And that was the T-shirt.

So as we mentioned, he's the true polymath right DJ.

An architect by training little to no formal fashion training had that one internship.

You write that he was a promiscuous collaborator, how did all of those I that makes him an artist, right?

How did all of that influence his work?

>> Well, he was really kind of I describe it as you know, some of the cut and paste generation.

I mean, he was very much of the mind of had a DJ is mindset that you can take some you know, to continue the DJ metaphor, the the lyrics and the melody that other people created.

I mean, you can rework it.

You can sample, you can mix it and what you create.

Is unique, even though you didn't create all of the sort of, you raw materials.

And that's really the way that he worked when it came to fashion.

It's why he love to collaborate because it allowed him to tweak to put his own spin on things and also to kind of signal to his span bays that, you know, there was that do it yourself mentality about his work at a signal to them that they could do as well.

But they didn't have to have the sort of prescribed skills that fashion always demanded, but that they might have these other skills that were equally as valuable.

Just different.

You can make your own thing.

You can make around thing.

So you've written I want to shift gears just a little bit because if people want to know more than they got rebooked.

>> you've also written extensively, though, about how fashion can often often be a political statement.

big statement was made at New York Fashion Week last month when actively black founder Leonie Smith Pay tribute to living civil rights icons and their children by having them walk the runway with images of themselves or younger selves.

Are parents projected on the wall?

Of civil rights icon Ruby Bridges received a standing ovation at the end.

What was your reaction to seeing this demonstration to seeing that show and hearing about it?

Well, I I did not see the shot, but I mean, always feel bad fashion is such a powerful form of communication because >> it's extremely intimate.

And it's something that we all have to participate in in some way.

And even for those who say, oh, I'm not interested in fashion that sort of pushing it away is, in fact, away participating.

setting yourself apart from it.

And for whatever reasons you choose to do that, that says something about you that says something about how you want to be perceived as you move for the world.

And so you know what I think about, you know, the civil rights era, one of the first things I think about is the idea respectability and not necessarily the idea of sort of demanding respectability respect from others.

But it's also exuded and respect for yourself when it may be denied.

You for mothers.

And I think that continues today for a lot of young people, particularly young black men who use fashion as way of showing how much they value themselves.

As an extension of that saying to other people, you should value as well.

>> It's certainly been a year of sort of recognizing that we don't have time to get into all of it, of course.

But the Met Gala this year on and that being super fine tailoring black style paying homage to, you know, the influence that black men have had on the industry as well.

Before we let you go another sort of pivot.

You were the premiere, of course, fashion critic and culture critic at the Post for some time recently accepted a buyout offer.

What made you choose that step?

This time?

Well, when you say this time it I mean, it was the first time it was something that was made available to me.

>> I think, you know, I've been covering the fashion industry for a long time.

I've been at the post for a very long time.

>> And it felt like it was an opportunity to move on and try some new things, perhaps.

>> Develop myself full-time.

2 books or just step into a new role elsewhere.

>> a little bit of wind at my back.

>> Ok, we look forward to seeing what that next step is.

Robin pleasure to have you here.

Thank you for joining us.

Thank you so much.

Again, the book is called Make it ours crashing the gates of culture with blow.

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