>> thanks for joining us in Chicago tonight, Latino voices.

I'm John Madden on this.

Here's what we're looking at.

Parents and advocates are pushing back against the closure of 7 charter schools.

Hiv cases are climbing among, Latino men, local health professionals on the reasons why and what can be done address it.

>> I'm hoping, you know that we are sending out a message that.

We can be great.

>> And details on a runway show closing out Chicago fashion week.

And now to some of today's top stories are jury has been selected in Michael Madigan's landmark corruption trial.

The final member of the 12 person jury was sick with seeded earlier today following days of questioning.

But attorney still need to finish electing the 6 alternates, Madigan and his longtime associate Michael McClain are facing charges of racketeering, bribery and wire fraud.

Opening statements are expected to begin next week for information on the jury selection process.

Check out our Web site.

And the Chicago Board of the of Education's mostly meeting is being postponed.

No makeup date has been announced for the meeting which had been scheduled for a week from today becomes after all 7 board members unexpectedly resigned amid ongoing turmoil between Mayor Brandon Johnson and Co Public Schools.

Ceo Pedro Martinez, Johnson has has since appointed 6 new board members beginning in January.

The board will expand to 21 members.

10 will be selected in 11 will be appointed by the mayor for information on who's running in your district.

Check out our W Tw News voter Guide.

And there's one more air and you can knock off your list when you visit the grocery store.

Renewing your driver's license or getting a vehicle sticker using a kiosk Illinois secretary of state Alexi Giannoulias is announcing the fast Lane pilot program.

He says the goal is to give people an alternative to visit in the DMV.

The process to take just a couple minutes and customers will be able to print the renewal documents on site using the chaos.

>> The key este serve as an alternative resource for people who don't have Internet access.

Or are uncomfortable digital services.

The chaos will also provide printed verification of the transaction, which is great for individuals who don't have a printer at home.

>> The chaos will be located and 15 grocery stores throughout the state.

Up next, backlash over a slash over a slate of school closures.

That's right after this.

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>> Parents and teachers are pushing back over a plan to close 7 charter schools.

This after a settled charter network announced it would close 7 campuses.

But the end of the school year affecting more than 2000 students in 270 teachers settle claims declining enrollment rising personnel and facility costs along with the network facing a 40 million dollar deficit is leading to the closures.

But parents and teachers are fighting back calling for Chicago public schools to observe the closures here to share their thoughts.

Are they now, though that he gets gavel president of the Diego present parent committee in bilingual anniversary committee personal.

A tense on the angle under stir Coast One-a parent whose daughter 10 Sunset Hills Elementary and his wife also teaches there.

And Lucy Salgado who has 2 children at the Mayo Elementary.

We also invited a settle schools to join us, but they declined.

They sent a statement which we will get to shortly.

Well, thank you all for joining us.

I have to start off.

Let's go back to the day when us found out that they were closing the schools, they now start with you.

What was your initial thoughts?

So on Wednesday, October 9 executives, 706, many parents and a mission, this many teachers at the same time.

>> Got a text message on square parents saying that the school is closing.

I was reading the paper I'm not going to lie to started ice.

I started reading the paper when I my school name sent the Ebell a film like someone throw a bucket of ice water on me.

I foes and I started crying like a thing with my son.

He has an IP problem.

I was thinking what's going to happen with them?

And I was thinking, oh, my 224 students and my teachers, my family cause a lot of egg whites who was a citizen motions to this They didn't license a state to sit and I still because I cannot believe why they close in states.

wonderful schools.

And I want to go to your Web has been a teacher settles for 5 years.

Were there any previous conversations for the possibility of closures?

She was not aware just like And just want to see the text message.

>> We were watching it live on Facebook.

And it was a start dropping devastated.

You know, my wife was very upset.

Obviously, it's frustrating because you have a child and future that both, you know, to work together come home together.

So now we go from here, it's what's going to happen.

We don't know.

What about you.

What was your initial reaction was devastated?

My kids were crying.

They couldn't understand what was happening by.

>> Good do something wrong.

All the kids in for Miles are devastated and think it's their fight.

And we're trying to reassure them that.

As a parent, I'm gonna keep fighting as much as I can because I don't think it's fair.

give us any time and they just decided to close all schools, just like nothing say that schools and the turning like a second home.

It is a second home.

My sons of to stick when he was diagnosed, they told me he would not going to be my second grade.

He could done right.

tells you something that the school that the staff dedicated to what they do.

It's a small school where we're all very close together.

This Sarah bullying, it's item is 90% all the time full.

We have the greatest teachers there.

So it was really a shock.

I can I can feel the emotion in your in your voice vein as president sat down with paring committee.

What's the biggest concern parents have so far?

>> Were they going to put their kids said, well, they're going to tell the kids, like told you, like see mission from my school to it was really shocking.

Like a have mission in interviews.

I like talk us from a school.

You know.

We have so many questions.

I don't understand some of the things because my school, I mean, from all the schools, we have the highest attendance rate.

So that's not issue for us.

And Roman.

Most will find classes.

Have we missed in our classroom just today?

No one in Michigan's me fly was coming.

Chad.

We've got a text message today.

98.9 attendance rate mean only one student was sets.

And what does that tell The love this school Our parents are asking what is happening.

It was so said that parents fund Dow the next the that the school was closing for me.

It's like what's going to happen with my son?

What am I gonna take in there give enough time to find another school, someone who's going to help him with this site peak.

And you've been there for for 12 years.

Correct now the CEO of a settle said that the reason for the closing we heard our due to a variety of reasons from declining enrollment to financial issues.

>> Is that something that you observed at sundown?

To be honest, no.

>> I had on fatal.

Well, first of all, I want to say I have never met each biggest never met him in my life.

I only saw him once and he didn't even talk to him.

So what would make a decision when you have mess that the foot into the schools you don't know what is going on with with your schools.

You know, on day that he came to la school many times, he knows the I teachers when it comes to finances, their super clean about When it comes to New York to talk to parents that we clean.

But they're not.

They never talk to us.

They never never even mentioned that they planning on closing one school.

Do you feel the same way?

The lack of communication?

>> Yes, because again, all this was just dropped on everyone.

The day of and on my way for those work there, they were told there were rumors the day soul.

And again, the rumors were today a couple of schools and it went from And then again, you just see the names of the school on there.

We're talking about 2000 students.

I'm not sure what their plan is to relocate the students.

But from what I understood is that the other schools that are staying open can only fit 330 more students.

So you'll have to find talking about slicing 1700 students finding them new schools.

You neighborhoods.

>> you know this, the CTU President Stacy Davis, Gates issued a letter demanding CBS Web service cooled into the district to save them.

And they currently have a petition going.

What are your thoughts on that?

>> So obviously petitions to hope we are, you know, asking the CEO CPS.

But Martinez, We're holding him accountable.

He did say that no school closures under my watch.

Yesterday at the board meeting, he was asked about it about the status quo situation.

He said there was still in talks.

But again, as parents we've been calling emailing.

We haven't heard from kind in the dark.

>> And I want to go to You mention that your son isn't that individualized education program.

What impact do you think these closures will have on students like your son that need that probe?

There is not enough schools around 2 to house all these kids.

What an IEP tomorrow has 14% children that have an IEP.

All the schools going to be set rate is not a no special education teachers to cover all children.

I just I don't understand why would they go ahead and do something like that?

And they not a settled.

provides the statement saying they will be working with families right throughout the transition.

We also asked them about their communication about the financial status of the schools.

And here's a portion of it.

They're saying in part a settle schools addresses aboard a network.

Financial matters.

Enrollment issues about board meetings when the network has faced layoffs in made tradeoffs required of contract negotiations.

Those matters have been communicated.

But you're saying they have not been communiques into a meeting.

Yes, I have gone to meetings and I know a lot of people that have gone through this news.

And I just want to make this clear.

You guys are line.

You guys never ever communicated that with us.

And that's just one thing.

On the meeting.

They say they would good go live and updates on the page.

They haven't of the And so this just telling you those people, I just liars, they and these people who only thinking of themselves, they're not thinking over kits because most of their kids are in college so they don't care about the kids because they had never gone school.

So no, there was never no coming communication when you came to this.

And I just find a bit, you know, they say they were not going to close schools, but then again, they're closing 7 schools, not just one.

They says been 7 schools.

And what do you hope happens now?

There's a protest this week in, correct?

So what I'm hoping is, again, that they did not close the school that I see that we're all hoping for.

>> But just to come back to your statement, I think these financial situation that they're in end has been there since 2011, 2010.

This is not you.

They knew it all about it and they kept expanding.

They pride themselves on focusing on small And that's what makes it a good school.

That's what makes his nose, for example, a strong community citing a school you think of you had more come together to try to find how you can, of course, and again, during the moment just to them is, you know, you're saying low enrollment.

what are you doing to improve enrollment?

We're looking at the cup half half full.

We only have a couple seconds.

What's more?

last box?

We have a protest tomorrow at 3 o'clock.

>> I'm 50st in California.

Alderman Raymond Lopez will be there.

Alderman 14 will be there.

Ctu Union will be there come and support.

I say all that up.

Essential school.

Stand up.

Fight for your school.

I'll be not just a protest, but many more.

I'm gonna do whatever I can in my power as amount as a member of my community to fight as much as I can.

Thank you.

And I can definitely feel the passion.

NASA shared mine.

So Diego School, which is located 20 fights and west.

But we we are also having.

Approaches.

So please, I invite you to please all the people that live in the north.

Please come, please come.

And like I just want to make quick statement.

I settle.

Thank you for creating a mom who has a voice for the killer could something that thank you so much.

Now, up next, tackling a public health problem among among some Latino men.

Stay with us.

>> Hiv and AIDS cases across the country have seen consistent dips overall except for a young Latino men who have seen a spike in HIV cases in recent years.

So what's causing the alarming increase and what could be done to combat it?

Joining us, our federal Alonso of Chicago, Latina Collaborative and via Zoom.

We have won 5 most about them research, assistant professor and associate director of the lab for cables, mental health at Northwestern University School of Medicine.

And they got few minutes director of health of public health initiatives for the Puerto Rican Culture Center.

Thank you all for joining us on this very important topic of the capital.

I want to start with you, and bisexual.

know, men make up the greatest share of new HIV cases.

Could you walk us through some of the factors behind this rise?

>> I think one of the things that we is that one of the fact is this to the lack of education that is not being given to the community.

And I also since he's been associated with men or men who have men, that statement is very, very persistent.

And the Puerto Rican and Latino community here.

I think one of the things that we have to do in last one is that in the schools and the Chicago Public schools on, fortunately, the teaching of HIV and the circumstances around it and how to protect.

He's not being talk.

So we have a whole generation of young people who are not educated, not inform and not be and not being aware the situation of what HIV can do.

>> And it saying it should be part of education in public schools.

>> Without a doubt, I mean that the whole thing to say that we talk about sexuality in school that you're inviting young people to have.

It's not as there's no reality to that.

Kids are going to have matter you say yes or no.

Is the whole thing of that we and that they can bake preventative measures in order to avoid transmission of sexually transmitted infections.

And of course, HIV.

>> And feather your organization recently created a campaign called by out there Prep for you and Let's watch part of the at church.

>> Well, that they leave for work for team.

It's easy to take a pill once a day.

When you wake up before you go to bed.

And if those don't make sense for you will soon have different options such as long-lasting injectables vaginal brings in morning.

>> How easy is it to get on prop?

You can ask your doctor or any provider you're comfortable with her prescription.

>> Can you tell me the importance of these ads?

>> Absolutely.

So when it comes health promotion campaigns like our without the proper, you would be campaign.

We wanted to send a more casual friendly tone to have exactly where the conversations that Ricardo mentioned were important to have between individuals, friends, family 18 on on him.

What it means to G B T Q within the Latin community in combat.

That stigma and raise awareness of HIV in the steps that we can take towards preventing that.

So that's really what the whole campaign was about.

It's produced by a local Chicago, lot deals.

You can secure artists in collaboration with local ambassadors.

And that was the really the main overall goal of If it still really important to bring out ads like this absolutely week to continue to not only come promoting I home-brewed are homegrown organic campaigns versus, you know, flashy.

Marketing style campaigns.

I think that the message hits home a little closer.

>> And one, I want to go to you.

What can you tell us about the local data in Chicago?

>> Yeah.

Force and thank you so much for having and wish I could provide a more up-to-date results.

But as of 2022, we see 700 new HIV diagnoses diagnoses, which is also really similar to a 22,000 people living with HIV that are living Chicago.

think what really demonstrates like the progress that we've made here in Chicago Reef is how many programs are expanding access to prep.

Is this our medical panel that you can take daily, which shown briefly in this ad?

And with you know, specifically like we've seen this incredible disparity with even though they have access to it, they know what it is.

There's still so many barriers in place that prevent them from using prep, even and cities as large as Chicago.

And that's definitely a research priority that we're trying to address question.

>> Some member Cardinal, tell us a bit about your story.

How did you get involved in LGBTQ+?

advocacy work?

Why is this work important to you?

>> I think when we look at history of the Puerto Rican court, Houston and then establishing a I'm not sure to deal with the reality of what was happening in 1980's.

We knew that that time that the plague, they called it.

But when we looked into community, this is what's not happening in our communities.

We were seeing other being infected with HIV and that's when we saw that no one of the ways of transfusions intravenous drug use and hatred in to just use to people are having substance abuse problems to look how to they survive in a lot of resort 2 work.

And this had that lead to in the neighborhood.

People use the services, but unfortunately, historically Latinos blacks to not condoms.

It's just one of these problems that we've never at never have believed would fully.

And then they would have comeback to there partners, whoever it may be.

And in fact, them eventually Puerto Rican come up with in the UN says 10 show months infections and that reality was reflected that per population.

Puerto Rican Psi, one of the highest-rated in HIV infection, not only for men, but also for women.

So Puerto Rican culture Center took it to this measure to make sure that we made a prevented form and deal with in the community and the status of the that's either and the the see the use, of course, life.

And even though you are see the is 8 and even though you to have life and we started dealing with them on the medical level and then started to go into the community to in order to deal with a crisis that was being forgotten by the rest of You have you have a really long history in Humble park.

>> With with advocacy Pedro, want to go to you.

There's a notable mistrust in the medical system among Latinos and people of color.

Can you speak to that a little further.

>> Try to do my best and sort of on time.

But honestly, what about the issue with HIV Latino communities and all really all populations?

From a public health perspective?

We need to look at our history.

look at the way public health in Madison has been has treated racial and ethnic minorities in a particular gender minorities as well in the history of the U.S. We can look at all of the different examples mistreatment that's occurred over time and help to help us understand why today we continue to see mistrust in health, medicine and science, which also enables and facilitates spread of misinformation and disinformation through today.

So we can look back at examples of sterilization of one man, you know, black men being subjected to syphilis for the sake of science and DOT I'm it continues to impact us today.

One thing I'd like to say regards to moving forward on this is when we look at who is in the leadership of public health and medicine regards to, let's say after make up scholars and professors.

Even though let the user 20%, almost 30% of the U.S. population.

We are 3 to 4% of professors of public health and medicine.

So we have huge leadership gap and that's really is least for me the call to action of mobilizing and encouraging Latinos her leadership roles in health and medicine.

Thank you.

Are going to have to leave it at that.

Always which we have more time.

Thank you for all of for joining on this conversation.

>> Up next, a showcase for designers that aims to inspire bur first a look at the weather this weekend runway Latinx is bringing a fusion of fashion designers to close out Chicago fashion Week founder Airboat Gonzalez says she started the fashion show to give back to community through organization, pivoting in heels this year marks the 5th anniversary of runway Latinx and we stopped by to hear more about what people can expect this weekend.

>> With runway Latinx.

We do fashion astronomy, make solid entertainment.

All my loves.

It is called shadows into the light.

So that is the theme for this year.

And we have people that come in from all over the world.

Some of the designers that, you know, have come in this year that need set coming in from Colombia, the input visible children.

I think God is in the midst of sticks to a dies and it for the last day of symptoms is putting in place.

The cousin who sent us could pick was made.

>> Moyes end it and that's way it.

I was put on a cause that much just as you have been up to since Cuomo his Missouri wide and does it is coming with the EU and just located me.

There was coming speed on start, but it's in the I love when people leave and I've you know, many young people, for example, even say, oh, my God, I want to model or I want to be a designer or I want buy a certain look because I want elevate the way I look at the way I feel.

>> So I would love people to leave and say how can a shiver can be that light we live next actually was started first.

But with the intent because we had already started the foundations to the first year, the proceeds to go visiting Hills.

So it goes to benefit and the proceeds all go to pivoting I've always been very committed to having Chicago on the map.

I get to travel all over the world have gone many fashion shows, but also different countries and always talk about the greatness of Chicago.

It's our 5th anniversary where the closing event First Panic Heritage Month and actually the closing of 4 Chicago Fashion So we're offering a lot distraught in the mix, elegy and entertainment.

But most especially of hoping, you know, that we are sending out a message you can be great.

And so hopefully leave motivated to support you know, pivoting in hills, but also support yourself and get back to your community.

Andrews tell us, has a proceeds from the fashion show will go to the nonprofit pivoting and heels, which offers professional development and internships.

>> For women to learn more about the fashion show, visit our website for more details.

>> And that's our show for this Thursday night.

Join us tomorrow night at 5.37, in 10 for the weekend review.

Now from all of us here Chicago tonight, I'm John at 9 this.

>> Thank you for watching.

Stay healthy and safe.

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