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

I'm Brandis Friedman.

Here's what we're looking at.

Chicago's Mexican community celebrates despite concerns over immigration enforcement.

>> There was a giant of his generation champion Liberty.

>> Looking at the state of public discourse in the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, local young people weigh in.

>> So there's I worked state government.

I knew I wanted to try go to the top.

>> And we look at the life of former Illinois Governor Jim Edgar, who died yesterday.

First off tonight, ICE isn't saying much more about a Friday afternoon shooting in which an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent killed an immigrant.

He was trying to detain.

>> Governor JB Pritzker says they've asked ice, but the agency has shared little beyond its initial statement.

>> We now see that ICE is unwilling to share the details of what has happened if this were the Chicago Police Department.

If this were the sheriff's office in Cook County of this for Illinois State Police, you would have had a lot more information already released, but apparently ice isn't willing to provide the transparency that I think the American public and the public here deserves.

>> Ice so be the a guest.

Gonzalez resisted arrest and dragged an ice agent with his car before an agent fatally shot him after a traffic stop in suburban Franklin Park.

The Department of Homeland Security says Villegas Gonzalez refused agents commands and has a history of reckless driving Pritzker along with U.S. representatives, Jesus Chuy Garcia and Delia Ramirez say the shooting has caused even more widespread fear in the community.

For more on this story, please visit our website.

Nearly 200 people who were wrongfully convicted may receive part of a 90 million dollar settlement with the city today, members of the City Council's finance committee unanimously agreed to the thumb that would resolve 176 federal lawsuit tied to disgraced former police Sergeant Ronald Watts and his team.

Many of the older people said they were relieved it wouldn't cost the city even more to resolve the suits.

The plaintiffs spent nearly 200 years in prison collectively after being wrongfully convicted based on what they allege was fabricated.

Evidence gather gathered by Watts and other officers.

Watts served 2 years in prison after being convicted in 2013 taking bribes.

The full city council is set to vote on the measure next Thursday.

And for more on this story, including a statement from Watson's attorney, check out our Web site.

Cta passengers will be able to access the opioid overdose reversal medication.

Naloxone at 5 CTA stations as part of a 6 month pilot program intended to expand access to the medication.

Advocates say easy access to the nasal spray also known as Narcan isn't just about reducing overdoses in the streets.

>> Opioids are in our homes.

A senior might overtake their oxycodone.

A child might get hold like it in pill that their teenage sister took when she had her roots wisdom, teeth out.

Children experiment.

So now with dogs coming in from the Internet, we don't know the origin sometimes are laced with fentanyl.

Every home should have Narcan in their first aid kit.

>> You just heard from Sheila whose son died of an opioid overdose on the CTA 4 years ago.

Cook County Health is providing the vending machines using $100,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funds to cover the cost of installation and maintenance.

The CTA stations were selected based on height and opioid related emergency medical responses and community input.

Operation Midway Blitz is still underway in Chicago.

But despite fears of enhanced immigration enforcement, the little village, Mexican Independence Parade took place this weekend without any issues today.

Events continue for a grito.

An annual celebration marking Mexico's independence.

Our Joanna Hernandez joins us now from help and where the festivities.

It sounds like they're taking place.

Joanna, how's it going And what a beautiful day for a best all likely.

Is like you mentioned number alive.

The family be more trick, Ali.

And take a look here.

>> Their music playing and you people getting and their families and then near the organizers are holding the event outside Saint Paul Catholic Church, too great of a space for people come together without right hand security.

They set up barricades in area station security personnel here now, the Mexican Culture Committee of are hosting this event celebration.

They hold every year.

But this year, maybe they had find a place where people felt same in the chart actually invited organizations almost a Organizers say they have several safety protocols, including a rapid response team monitor for ages.

We've passing out flyers.

Organizers emphasize that serves as teacher for the community making significant of all.

They need this celebration honors the beginning of and the independents moment when great reason called write out a video that or the cry of Dolores and Mexico, the fight to gain independence from Spain.

Typically it spans 2 days and includes various events like this one this year, attendees can look forward to a variety of special Mormon says we're hearing them now in the background, might actually band that will lead into the main celebration during the event organizers and the priest will reenact a good.

Even I spoke with the parishioners from the church stressed the importance of continuing celebrations like this despite the threats posed by ICE agents, she says as a Mexican-American, they celebrate the 4th of July and people should also have a safe space to celebrate their roots.

>> It's so.

>> Right.

Ugly.

To the point where it's like really who's a criminal here.

We've seen men coming up.

All right.

These people coming up to our brothers and sisters and your mask, who is truly the criminal I'm just saying you're saying you're getting all the criminals.

Well, why the percentage?

So it's something different.

Stop lying to us.

You keep in you to lie heap and intimidating our brothers and sisters.

They should be able to get out there the hard-working people.

If children should be able to get an education.

You know why?

Why are they being stopped?

Why are these businesses will so much business?

Because people are coming up.

>> right I have to say that there's different energy today under the circumstances.

It's clear that the organizers and attendees are keeping spirit of this celebration alive and as know, has a large Latino population with many people who have been living here for generations that parents migrated here, making him a person or Latino.

He and his friends that it was important for him to be out here in the port of community.

>> Makes gains have been a big part of the United States growth in, you know, we work we lead and we sweat and we cry.

We don't complain.

We just go to work this out.

We do have do.

And we're also proud Americans not just because of a Mexican doesn't mean we hate America.

We love America.

Every you if you come out, you see Bailey people sleeping off of a dirt road, you know, just to try to keep it clean and all of our people.

>> And reading everything seems to be going smoothly again, this a live view is going on.

We up and play music.

It's been really nice.

Also people wear their traditional Mexican where, of I had to represent that where my traditional hearings, as you know, I'm a Mexican American and events like this are important honor my family who migrated here from Mexico.

And of what a beautiful way celebrating kickoff also found pair of the month.

Again, this event is going on till 10 o'clock.

And there's going to be a variety love, love, news, ish.

And of course, might actually the best We're live from bills.

And I'm John Hernandez has back to All right, Joe and I thank you so much.

Have fun.

>> Up next, another after another killing of a political figure.

Young people weigh in on the country's polarized discourse.

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>> The assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has spurred a public discourse on political violence and the rhetoric that perpetuates it shortly after Kirk was fatally shot on the Utah Valley University campus last week.

President Donald Trump blames the quote, radical left for the uptick in violence.

Kirk was honored with a memorial service at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., yesterday and at Saturday's anti-immigrant rally in London.

Meanwhile, some celebrated Kirk's death while others showed indifference to the controversial figure.

Joining us to discuss the way we talk with each other about politics are Maya Roman, a senior at DePaul University.

Sydney Richardson, deputy editor of the Columbia Chronicle at Columbia College, Chicago, and via Zoom, Raiden Gonzalez, vice president of college Republicans at Illinois State University.

Thanks to the 3 of you for getting us into your busy student schedules, Britain.

Gonzalez, I want to start with you first, please.

You admired Kirk.

You even have the opportunity to shake his hand once.

What was it about him that drew you to him?

>> would truly to Charlie Kirk is that, you know, he represented something So the young conservative movement, there's kind is hopeful idea when you do to save America is just have some conversations.

And to some people and, you know, young conservatives a little debating.

I want to be with my fellow students.

And he just kind of represent this idea that America probably could change for the better and that I hope not true.

But you'll see that it died with him.

That kind of optimistic idea.

There's going to be easy, at least.

>> What do you think he was able to draw such a large following?

mean, it's one thing for, you know, for a few people to to be sort of enamored with his message in what they believe him to represent.

But he was able to amass a decent size following of young people, young men, especially when you think that was about.

>> What do you know else was doing it?

I feel yeah, no one was really like doing what occurred was doing.

honestly, for the longest time, like young young conservatives really disengage like when I was growing as a conservative, like as a kid like change my top change my mind.

People talks with something like legendary.

You know, it's like it's it's scary to talk like you're is here to talk about your opinions.

I'm on a college campus, especially when you're in such a small minority, but Lynch or incur kind of broke that And so that's that's why did you also think you like the first want to do it?

He was really good at, you know, he was he was like so you so many.

But you so many people's heroes mind, you know, and he will be dearly missed.

>> Maya, what would you say?

What was your reaction may be from some of your peers when you initially heard that Kirk had been killed?

>> the emotions are very conflicted.

A lot of my friends are part of marginalized communities that Charlie tend to target with a lot of his rhetoric.

So there's been a lot of conflicting emotions around I would say it would lean more towards relief that that harm is and continued as a cycle.

>> he often preached, you know, free speech and was known for debating people across the political aisle city.

What is free speech mean to you?

Especially as a student journalist?

Yes.

So free speech is, of course, very important to me and not just like as a student journalist, but as American in general I mean, part of free speech is that.

Naturally people are always going to agree, but also people are often going to feel hurt by others.

Expressions of free speech so just around my campus, which does not really have a conservative presence at Columbia College.

Seeing a lot of in the wake of Charlie Kirk's killing a lot of, you know, condemnation of his messages.

And that I feel.

If we're saying that Charlie Kirk left behind a legacy of free speech that I feel is extension of it for people to criticize his message after he's gone.

What would you say that Charlie Kirk's work was an example of free speech?

But I feel like just as much as his work is an expression of his free speech and his conservative voice, people's responses to his work.

You know, the very people that step up to the microphone to debate him.

They are also expressing their free speech and not I feel like.

Seeing as he just died in such like violent way.

I see a lot of people going back and forth like is it okay for someone else to condemn someone that died.

You know?

I mean it, I guess, like, you know, the question is and I want to be clear, for example, it we can condemn worst.

People can condemn what Charlie Kirk said.

But at the same time condemned the way in which he died.

Absolutely.

And I think empathy is one of our largest ranks as humanity, you know, and that's how we move towards.

>> Our goals and that's how we're able to work together.

However, it's it's not you can't ignore the cycle that harm creates and you can't ignore the fact that hate bringing tape and there is a lot of hate that he created a lot of heat that he perpetuated Brayden.

What do you say to that?

But what are your thoughts on that?

You you admired him say that's?

>> Yeah.

I'd say that's wrong record by many ways was the moderate.

And, you know, the first thing he had my when he debate with people is that he wanted to change people's mind to help them.

And so I don't think he create this cycle of hate.

And, you know, I really notice that it is prayer vigil.

So when after you get past the day after there was a vigil held and I was kind afraid because you know that the first hearing the news, I was really but, you know, I had reflect to pray, you know, ideally like the shooter did awful thing and I pray for his elevation.

I prefer the salvation of Kurt.

But like when I went to his vigil, my concerns were race because they were just like the people were just so peace loving.

And that's without you broke my that's what really bothers me about Charlie Kirk step.

It's not a father and husband is dead, but it's that.

>> People are hurt.

People who are so peaceful and loving.

>> And it was just like I just this idea that like you stipulate hates, like no, actually, he is he was the monitor.

And now nation.

>> Well, Curtis, a nation, you know it.

It follows other murders.

Of course, the Minnesota House of Representatives, Speaker America, Melissa Hortman and her husband, Marc and her husband Mark Ortman.

Excuse me.

That was in June of this year.

The arson, Pennsylvania Governor John Josh Shapiro's mansion.

Will he and his family slept inside?

That was in April 2 assassination attempts that we know of course against President Donald Trump won was notably in Butler, Pennsylvania, June of last year, a few months before the last several months before the election where it injured his ear.

Brayden to what do you attribute the rise of political violence?

Because it it sounds like this is happening against people who are members both party.

>> If we stop to define people as human beings, all of us are made the likeness of God.

You know, we're building dot com and we don't treat human beings like that anymore because there's just this kind of sadistic culture that promotes all these are awful things and just courageous people who are just apathetic when it comes to human life.

And that's where all these political killings are coming from.

It's just from societal decay.

>> question to you to what do you attribute rise political violence?

>> I honestly a kind of agree with our guests here.

We have not been able to really view empathy in the same way anymore.

And honestly, no one should ever be dying of gun violence United States and no one should be dying of political violence in general.

Free speech should be protected within America.

And we're just seeing this lack of empathy across both sides, but it's also very hard to have empathy when people don't view you as human beings.

And they don't believe that you should have rights or the same rights as others.

So that can make conversation very hard and it can make it hard to foster any kind of communication.

Of course, since the assassination, as we've said, there's been a lot of finger pointing as to who's to blame the rich, the rhetoric from the left or the right.

>> Here's what the local conservative group Chicago flips from Red had to say in reaction to Kirk's death.

shot.

>> Charlie Kirk and killed from the liver was happy.

Now this is the act, the war we at war with the left we at war with JB Pritzker.

We at war with Brandi.

Just think if we have to fight back against the liberals, be it.

We will fight until I cannot fight no more.

>> Sydney, how would you describe the political discourse on your campus visits to tend to skew one way or the other?

You mentioned that a Colombian not a lot of conservatives.

it's just not really in Colombia's DNA.

you know, in urban arts school.

So you can kind of make some generalizations about it.

But also we have a 40% of our students identify as LGBTQ.

We are at a Hispanic serving institution about 28% of our students are Hispanic and about 55% are bipoc black indigenous people of color.

So those different marginalized identities coming together has sort of shaped peoples, social and political perspectives, I think ends So winds to skew a little like time, same question to you.

How would you describe the political discourse campus?

Political discourse is always a thing but around this topic in particular, DePaul.

>> Ski was left for Does it ever get heated between people who disagree?

number like land on social media?

I would say yes, absolutely.

And we saw that with the encampment that occurred on the polls university as well a couple years ago or a year ago at this point.

So it can absolutely get heated.

But for university does its best to try and hold space for that.

This course Brayden.

We've got about 30 seconds left.

How would you describe the political discourse on your campus?

>> Obviously, very liberal.

There a state university and has sort conservative area.

So it's usually very But honestly, it's so doesn't get too bad.

No new and too radical because of that.

>> We'll leave it there.

Thanks to the 3 of you for joining us for this conversation.

Raiden Gonzalez, Sydney Richardson in my room and thank you.

Up next, remembering the late Illinois Governor Jim Edgar.

Former Illinois Governor Jim Edgar died yesterday in Springfield, the popular Republican served as governor from 1991 to 1999 after having previously been a state representative and Illinois secretary of State Edgar was a moderate Republican who favored abortion rights.

And in recent years spoke out against President Donald Trump endorsing Kamala Harris in 2024. in 1997 today after he announced he would not seek a 3rd term or as many as expected run for the U.S. Senate.

Edgar appeared on Chicago tonight to talk about it all.

It was a decision that even his wife had been skeptical.

He'd be able to make.

>> I think what Brenda felt was it.

She just didn't think in the end that I can walk away.

From what's been my life for 30 years.

And I wasn't sure if I could I mean.

Throughout my.

Thought process and I knew It's easy to say this is what you're going to do, but to actually do And I have to say that it was extremely difficult for me to actually do the get the words out as I tried to practice that speech that.

Not running again, it was a emotionally a very difficult thing to do.

The other thing you said in your news conference yesterday, wasn't you plotted your career long ago?

>> And you must have had some sensibility them that if you got to be apparently wanted to be governor, if you've got to be governor and you've got 2 terms, you have a sense even then that that's what it would be.

How long ago did you do that?

All right.

I don't know.

I mean, I guess centers.

I worked in state government.

I knew I wanted to try to go to the top.

>> I think you do that in any profession and in my profession, it's its governor.

If you're at the state level up.

I know as secretary of state, I thought to 2 terms would be enough governor because I just felt it to you could begin to kind of tire the job or have a burnt out people could get power to you.

I have to say that is I kind of looked at what we had done while we didn't get everything done.

We're still hopefully they do something on school finance.

before the 16 months is up.

But I feel good about what we've accomplished also after I went through the surgery on my heart and 3 years ago, I kind of realized there's other things in life that I'd probably like to do have some time to to see and I felt this was the right time.

last night I was watching a program TV noose station and down.

Stay down Interviewed my high school football coach.

And he said, you know, when Jim was a senior in high school, he was driven, then and it kind of hit me that I was driven.

I mean, I've always been driven.

I've been driven in politics and I think after that surgery, the fact that I had detained the governorship in for 2 terms that I don't think maybe that drive was as great as had been.

And I really felt at that point and maybe you shouldn't continue going into another campaign looking at other for years.

You've got to have a certain drive where the run for governor of the U.S. Senate.

>> You look great.

And as you said yesterday, the cholesterol numbers are about as picture perfect as you can get.

But that surgery is a sobering thing is that that's not a little.

>> Little thing now because I had always thought most people kind of immortal.

I may not my health and always been good before I had heart trouble.

starting about 5 years ago.

So that really caught me completely off guard.

But after the surgery, and as I said, it just made me realize there's.

Probably some other things in life that I'd want to be sure to do.

Not that I didn't enjoy being governor and I've enjoyed it immensely.

But there are other things before my time's up.

I want to do a lot.

Just little things.

Our grandson is now about 2 and a half of they've moved You know, I want to make sure I can have some time to get out and see him he grows up.

And hopefully I have other grandkids as well.

There are those kind of things that to me are far more important, then kind of that to drive.

I had to to get to the top of the political heat.

>> And true to his word, Edgar left office at age 52 and never reenter politics.

Eggers popularity can be seen in his 1994 reelection when he won 101 of Illinois's 102 counties, including Cook.

Jim Edgar died yesterday reportedly due to an adverse reaction to pancreatic cancer treatment.

He was 79.

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