>> Illinois Republicans are calling for an end to dangerous rhetoric after a second apparent assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

This is a trial gets underway, challenging the state's assault weapons ban.

Meanwhile, it's been a year since Illinois because became the first state to eliminate cash bail.

We'll take a look at the impact.

It's had on the local judicial system.

course, here with all that and more is our spotlight politics team Amanda Vicki, Heather, Sharon and Nick lumbered.

Welcome back.

Doing so before we get to all those important issues.

Let's take a look at the drama over ShotSpotter.

It is set to be turned off in less than a week.

Mayor Brandon Johnson took aim yesterday at efforts to keep the gun shot detection tool operating.

>> 100 million dollars for a walkie-talkie on a pole.

And the reason why they said we needed it was to reduce gun violence.

It didn't do that.

You know, it's incumbent upon all of us to make sure that the investments that we're making, they have to get at the problem.

>> All right, Heather critics of Mayor Brandon Johnson's decision to scrap the city's gunshot detection system.

They are making another effort tomorrow to try and keep operational after a deadline that happens the Sunday.

What is fueling this debate?

So this is an issue that's been really tricky for Brandon Johnson to navigate because it pits the 2 most important parts of his base against each Black Chicagoans were reeling under decades of disinvestment that has fueled crime and violence and who want any tool, anything to make them safer in their homes and in their neighborhoods.

But on the other side is the Chicago progressive communities that see ShotSpotter.

>> As sort a Band-Aid that does not address the real problems with crime and they want ShotSpotter turned off and that money invested into programs that address the root causes of crime.

But if you talk to people who live on the south and the West side, they said they'd love root cause solutions, but they don't have time to sort of wait for that.

And they are furious that this tool, which they say is in effect is effective, although that is very much up for debate.

It's about to be turned off.

So there's going to be a whole lot of parliamentary shenanigans at tomorrow's meeting, whether it will sort of amount to anything.

I think it's very unlikely because the city council, despite its best efforts, does not have the legal authority to obligate anybody to contract with the city.

They just simply don't have that power under the way that contracting works in Illinois because it stops corruption.

And with that, you know, we talked about this before.

You can only have shot spotter on ward by Ward and the folks that shot spotter say no, we have not heard from the city of Chicago to talk about.

>> Extending this contractor making it anything other than it's already been.

Can I do one quick fact check of the mayor?

We heard him say that this has cost 100 million dollars to the city.

That's not accurate.

Since the program started in 2018, the city spent 53 million dollars.

And I think that people sort part of this debate is what should we spend taxpayer money on.

So I think something important to note important.

Thank you, A proposal to force city drivers to slow down is picking up speed.

Nic, what is the latest on a Chicago lowering its city-wide speed limit?

That's right.

This was an idea floated by Alderman Daniel spotted to lower the city's default speed limit from 30 miles an hour.

Time to 25.

>> Now there was a subject matter hearing on this back in the spring.

And advocates say someone struck by a car going 30 miles an hour, they have a 60% chance of survival if its 20 miles an hour that goes up to an 80% chance of survival.

And really key context here is that traffic fatalities have been on the rise in the last 10 years.

Black and Latino residents are disproportionately more likely to die because of a crash.

Part of this is that cars have just gotten so much taller and bigger.

It's harder to see pedestrians and cyclists their heavier a lot of other states.

22 states have lower default speed.

Then Illinois does.

>> Another was ordinance introduced in July, but was banished to the rules Committee where laws go to yesterday it was from from the rules committee with the idea being that it's going to get sent to pedestrian and traffic safety, which would, of course, you know, recommend this for a full vote and which alderman was spotted chairs.

The earliest it would go before that committee is October.

First, assuming we get council approval at the full meeting tomorrow just needs a couple old, older people to possibly delay that.

But this is finally moving ahead.

It is out of the much dreaded rules committee got back to has been.

>> And it's been one year since Illinois became the first state to eliminate cash bail.

As part of we all know that massive criminal justice reform package that was passed in the General Assembly.

What is the data showing?

How getting rid of bail has impacted the state?

So he's really is very majors tomorrow.

Is that anniversary, Illinois, the first state to do this completely.

Indiana is still coming in and researchers will be very clear about that.

And even some of the data that they have is limited in scope.

>> also have to at that every county does a little bit differently.

So although there is a state law that governs the parameters, you're seeing it play out differently depending on where you are in Illinois, but some of the big takeaways is that there has been no major spike in crime.

Again, those who've looked at the numbers say you can't necessarily say that there would have been bigger drop, had this not been in place, nor can you attribute that drop in crime to this pick.

For those who fear that this was going to just sort unleashing a torrent of crime that has not backed happened.

What you have seen is longer hearings, more attention being paid before.

Somebody who has caught for allegedly doing something what they are going to be having a greater hearing before a judge before it is determined that they have to be locked up.

As you look at this hearing, I want to point out brand us Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx, one of the major individuals who'd pushed Cooke County had kind of begin to do this already in.

She really received a lot of criticism going into these changes And she said now that she is no longer running for election.

She really sort of let loose.

She's like I don't have to answer any more to voters.

I'm going to let my true feelings be known without any of that political posturing.

And she at a year in a conference that I went to last weekend.

Really, again, use the term unleashed on it.

And she said that she believes that a lot of that criticism was racist.

programming note, Kim Foxx is expected to join us tomorrow night here Chicago in a black voices.

So what?

>> Sure, we'll be talking about all of specifically on this topic as well.

Amanda Representative, Well-spoken City club.

House Speaker watch, of course, spoke at City Club today.

Did he have anything to say about the court trial and southern Illinois that is challenging the state's assault weapons ban actually But I court hearing that that is going on in East St. Louis.

This is a law that's been got about a couple of years now.

>> And was put in place after the mass shooting in Highland Park after the 4th of July parade during the 4th of July parade.

There.

>> And so the arguments are playing out.

It's day 2 is now done.

It's expected to potentially last throughout the week.

And what you really have is that gun owners and various organizations behind gun rights saying that this law and some of the most popular guns in America and therefore does not not constitutional to 2 previous hearings, previous decisions.

That is by the U.S. Supreme Court.

quickly, Heather City Council will consider paying nearly 15 million dollars tomorrow to resolve 4 cases of police misconduct tomorrow's City Council meeting.

This is after, of course, the Finance Committee unanimously endorsed the recommendations.

>> From city attorneys, why wasn't there more debate about these payouts?

Well, just a week ago, a federal jury awarded a man who spent 10 years in prison on a wrongful conviction, 50 million dollars.

So perhaps the older people look at these settlements for only 15 million dollars feel like maybe they've >> gotten off a little bit easy.

But this is a massive problem.

And we heard yesterday at the Finance Committee meeting aldermen, Gilbert, Villegas asking city officials and city attorneys.

What's planned because everybody who spent 10 years in prison on a wrongful conviction who is now sued the city.

That is essentially a billion and a half dollars in liability.

The city is facing even before you start totaling up the cost of hiring private attorneys to defend officers.

So this is a huge problem for the city, an especially painful in a moment when the city is grappling 980 million dollar budget deficit in next big problems.

Nick, before we go, the latest on problems with Legionella downtown federal buildings.

That's what we learned last month.

The sometimes that employees at the regional EPA office in the Metcalf Federal building filed a grievance saying they should be allowed.

>> To work from home.

We obtain some information sent to employees that shows not just Metcalf, but also the Kaczynski, federal building.

17 floors had hot water turned off for a time last year because of Legionella bacteria.

And at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse.

This has been a problem for a year now.

The General Services administration, basically the landlord, the federal agency that oversees these office buildings has been doing all sorts of testing has not been able to sort out the problem.

The federal court actually paid for some additional testing and mitigation efforts.

But we found out there was Legionella president in a kitchen used by federal jurors as well as in the open to the public cafeteria.

So certainly a lot of concerns