PASSES A PLAN FOR A HYBRID ELECTED SCHOOL BOARD IN CHICAGO.

MEANWHILE, EARLY VOTING EXPANDS TO ALL 50 OF THE CITY'S WARDS ON THE SAME DAY THAT DONALD TRUMP SECURES HIS NAME ON THE BALLOT.

>> AND WHERE OUR WEEK, 5 YEARS AFTER THE CONSENT DECREE WENT INTO EFFECT.

HERE WITH ALL THAT AND MORE IS OUR SPOTLIGHT.

POLITICS TEAM HAD A SHARON PARIS SCHUTZ AND OF ANY KEY FROM SPRINGFIELD.

WELCOME BACK.

TEAM.

LET'S START WITH YOU.

FIRST.

LAWMAKERS ARE BACK IN SPRINGFIELD TODAY.

THEY'VE BEEN DEALING WITH SOME EDUCATION ISSUES, CHICAGO'S ELECTED SCHOOL BOARD.

THE SENATE, AS WE MENTIONED PAST A MEASURE THAT WOULD CREATE A HYBRID WHICH MEANS HALF ELECTED HALF APPOINTED SCHOOL BOARD IN THIS YEAR'S GENERAL ELECTION.

MANY SENATORS, THOUGH, VOTING FORT BRAGG BEGRUDGINGLY.

TELL US WHY AMANDA.

>> YEAH, YOU ACTUALLY HEARD DURING THE DEBATE A LOT OF SUNDER SAYING WE HAVE TO PASS IS BECAUSE THERE IS A SELF-IMPOSED DEADLINE OF APRIL.

1ST TO GET THAT MATTER OF WHAT CHICAGO'S ELECTED OR AT LEAST HALF ELECTED SCHOOL BOARD WILL LOOK LIKE COME IT LATER THIS YEAR.

BUT THEY WERE REALLY FRUSTRATED BY THIS BECAUSE THE SENATE HAD PREVIOUSLY PASSED A MEASURE IT WOULD MOVE TO ALL ELECTED BOARD RIGHT AWAY.

INTERESTINGLY, OF COURSE, AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT A LOT OF U.S.

SENATORS AND OPPONENTS KEYED IN ON.

THAT IS SOMETHING THAT THE CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION, WHICH OF COURSE, MAYOR BRANDON JOHNSON, HAD BEEN A AND MEMBER OF HAD PREVIOUSLY SAID THEY WANTED ELECTED RIGHT AWAY.

HE BECOMES MAYOR CHANGES THEIR POSITION.

SO YOU HAD OPPONENTS, INCLUDING ALDERMAN DA DA SAYING THAT THIS IS EFFECTIVELY ECT.

YOU HACK BILL SENATORS, HOWEVER, SAID THAT WHILE THIS IS THE VERSION THAT THE HOUSE HAD BEEN HAD PASSED REALLY SOMETHING YOU CAN DO IT IN FURTHER.

THIS IS THE MEASURE THAT MAYOR JOHNSON HAD WANTED THEM TO MOVE FORWARD.

SO IT'S NOT A COMPLETELY DONE DEAL.

MEASURE THAT THE SENATE TOOK ACTION ON TODAY.

THAT STILL HAS TO GO BACK TO THE HOUSE CHAMBERS WHERE I'M AT NOW.

BUT IT SEEMS AS IF THAT IS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO GET THAT REALLY LIKE.

I SAID BRANDIS, LOTS OF FRUSTRATION WITH THIS PLAN, SENATOR, SORT OF ADOPTING IT BUT REALLY DRAGGING THEIR FEET TO DO SO.

IT'S SO EARLY VOTING OPENED IN ALL OF THE CITY'S 50 WARDS DESPITE THERE BEING SOME BALLOT SO LET'S WALK THROUGH A FEW OF THOSE PARIS.

WE FOUND OUT YESTERDAY DONALD TRUMP WILL BE ON THE ILLINOIS BALLOT.

FILL US IN.

>> ON SUPREME COURT, U.S. SUPREME COURT RULING AND HOW THAT'S IMPACTING VOTERS IN ILLINOIS.

SUPREME COURT RULED THAT IT'S CONGRESS THAT IN THEIR OPINION MUST DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE DOES NOT QUALIFY BASED UPON THE 14TH AMENDMENT.

>> THAT IS AFTER COLORADO SUPREME COURT RULED THAT HE WASN'T ELIGIBLE THE 14 SUPREME COURT SAYS STATES SHOULD MAKE THAT DECISION.

CONGRESS SHOULD MAKE THAT DECISION.

THAT MEANS ILLINOIS, WHICH A COOK COUNTY COURT JUDGE HAD STRUCK THAT TRUMP OFF THE BALLOT FOR SEVERAL REASONS.

>> HE WILL BE ON THE BALLOT.

HE WAS ALWAYS GOING TO BE ON THE BALLOT.

BUT NOW THE VOTES WILL COUNT OFFICIALLY.

HE IS OFFICIALLY AN ELIGIBLE CANDIDATE IN THE RACE.

AND WHAT'S BEEN THE REACTION FROM?

I BELIEVE THERE WERE 5 ILLINOIS VOTERS WHO FILED IN ILLINOIS DUE TO ANY WORD ON WHAT THE REACTION HAS BEEN ON YESTERDAY'S RULING.

>> WELL, I THINK THEY'RE PRETTY FRUSTRATED BECAUSE THIS SUPREME COURT DECISION, I DON'T THINK WAS ANTICIPATED.

BUT IT CERTAINLY SORT OF WHAT WAS WHAT THEY WERE HOPING FOR.

AND IT DOES LEAVE THIS SORT OF QUESTION OF WHETHER AND ACCUSED OR, YOU KNOW, SORT OF CHARGED.

INSURRECTIONIST CAN BE ON A FEDERAL BALLOT.

AND WE'RE ALL SORT OF A LITTLE BIT IN LIMBO.

EILEEN, OPEN THE QUESTION.

GO AHEAD.

SORRY, GUYS.

I IT ALSO LEAVES OPEN THE QUESTION OF WHETHER TRUMP DID ENGAGE IN INSURRECTION.

THAT IS SOMETHING THAT THE U.S. SUPREME COURT.

>> DID NOT ANSWER.

I WILL ADD ALSO THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT GOVERNOR PRITZKER SAID WILL HELP TRUMP AIR.

I'M SORRY WILL HELP.

DEMOCRATS SAID IS HAVING TRUMP ON THE BALLOT WILL HELP MEMBERS OF HIS PARTY.

I'LL ADD THAT.

I THINK THAT MIGHT BE THE CASE IN ILLINOIS.

I'M NOT SURE, HOWEVER, THAT THAT IS THE CASE IN SOME OF THE STATES WHERE GREATER CONTEST BETWEEN TRUMP AND DEMOCRATS LIKELY NOMINEE AS WELL, OF COURSE.

PRESIDENT BIDEN IS THAT THIS WHOLE QUESTION AND TRYING TO GET TRUMP OFF THE BALLOT MIGHT HAVE A GREATER IMPACT IN PLACES LIKE COLORADO.

RIGHT NOW.

LET'S GET TO THE COOK COUNTY STATE'S ATTORNEY'S OF THE HEATHER EILEEN O'NEILL.

BURKE TOOK TO SOCIAL MEDIA TO MAKE IT CLEAR WHO SHE IS NOT RELATED TO.

AND I'M QUOTING HERE THAT BURKE.

>> I THINK WE ALL KNOW WHICH BURKE SHE'S TALKING ABOUT.

BUT WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT WHAT SHE IS NOT RELATED TO CONVICTED?

FORMER ALDERMAN ED BURKE NOW HER MARRIED NAME IS PART.

SHE'S ALWAYS GONE BY O'NEALE BURKE AND THE CAMPAIGN OF CLAYTON HARRIS.

THE 3RD IS PERHAPS LEANING INTO THAT.

PERHAPS CONFUSION, PROMPTING HER SOCIAL MEDIA CASE.

BUT THAT PROMPTED ME TO TAKE A DEEPER LOOK AT HER RECORD.

SHE WAS ENDORSED IN HER ILLINOIS APPELLATE COURT BY ED BURKE, WHO WAS DECADES LONG CHAIR OF THE COOK COUNTY JUDICIAL SLAVING COMMITTEE.

AND SHE AND HER HUSBAND GAVE ABOUT $1700 TO BURKE'S CAMPAIGN WAR CHESTS.

SO BOURKE HAD A HUGE IMPACT ON THE COOK COUNTY JUDICIARY, THE STATEWIDE JUDICIARY O'NEILL BURKE IS NO DIFFERENT.

AND WHETHER THAT WILL SORT OF PLAY A ROLE IN THIS CLOSELY FOUGHT ELECTION, I THINK IS YET TO BE EVEN THOUGH THIS IS, YOU KNOW, SORT OF STANDARD PRACTICE, AS YOU MENTIONED, HER OPPONENT CLAIM HARRIS SAYS HE'S DEEPLY CONCERNED THAT SHE'S APPARENTLY PAID OFF AT IN EXCHANGE FOR HIS ENDORSEMENT.

SO THAT MIGHT BE OVERSTATING A LITTLE BIT.

BUT BURKE WAS CONVICTED BY A JURY ON 13 OF 14 COUNTS FOR ENGAGING ROUTINE AND ALMOST REFLEXIVE PAID TO PLAY.

AND THERE WAS NO DOUBT THAT YOU DID NOT GET SLATED IF YOU DID NOT SORT OF PONY UP.

AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT CLAYTON HARRIS IS REFERRING TO NOW.

IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW HE'S ENDORSED BY COOK COUNTY, TONI PRECKWINKLE WHOSE OWN BID FOR MAYOR BACK IN 2019 WAS TORPEDOED BY HER CONNECTIONS TO FORMER ALDERMAN BOOK.

SO IT IS SORT OF THE QUINTESSENTIAL CHICAGO POLITICS STORY OF EVERYBODY BEING CONNECTED TO EVERYBODY ELSE.

HOW IT ALL PLAYS OUT YET.

YEAH.

SO IT BURKE IS GONE.

BUT THE SAME KIND OF CRAZY PROCESS OF FOLKS THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO BE.

>> INDEPENDENT ARBITERS JUDGES, THEY HAVE TO GO TO THE DEMOCRATIC POLITICIAN AND AND KISS THE RING AND ASKED FOR THEIR ENDORSEMENT.

BOTH THESE CANDIDATES DID ASK FOR THE COOK COUNTY PARTY THAT THAT ENDORSEMENT WENT TO CLAYTON HARRIS UP FROM THE CURRENT PRESIDENT THAT TONY PARKER ALSO THE PLAYERS ARE DIFFERENT, BUT THE PROCESS IS THE SAME GAME IS PRETTY MUCH THE SAME.

HEATHER, YOU ALSO TOOK A CLOSER LOOK AT HOW REFORMS ARE GOING CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT 5 YEARS AFTER.

>> THAT CONSENT DECREE WAS AND WENT INTO EFFECT.

WHAT YOU FIND OUT?

WELL, THE CITY IS ONLY 6% FULLY COMPLIANCE WITH THIS DEGREE, WHICH SUPPOSED TO DONE.

WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE OUT FROM UNDER THE CONSENT DECREE BY NOW.

THAT, OF COURSE, DID NOT HAPPEN.

WE'RE AWAITING THE NEXT REPORT FROM THE INDEPENDENT MONITORING TEAM WHICH WILL COME BY THE END OF JUNE.

WE EXPECT AND THEY HAVE PROMISED TO TAKE A COMPREHENSIVE LOOK AT THE CITIES.

>> ABILITY TO A COMPLY WITH THE CONSENT DECREE AND ITS EFFORTS TO COMPLY WITH THE REFORM SAID THIS IS NOT BEEN A PRIORITY FOR MAYOR BRANDON JOHNSON OR HIS NEW TOP COP.

LARRY SNELLING.

THEY HAVE FOCUSED FAR MORE TIME ON CRIME REDUCTION IN SORT OF REMAKING THE POLICE DEPARTMENT THAT HOLE INTO A DIP AGENCY HOLISTICALLY ADDRESS LAW ENFORCEMENT CHALLENGE IS NOT REFORM.

IF YOU TALK TO POLICE REFORM ADVOCATES, THOUGH, THEY'LL TELL YOU THE 2 ARE IN EXTRA PLEA WELL, AND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OFTEN DEFENDS ITSELF SAYING WE'RE PARTIALLY IN COMPLIANCE WITH FAR THEN WHICH THEY ARE FULLY COMPLIANT, APPEARS BEFORE RAIN.

TIMES.

NEW STADIUM DEVELOPMENTS.

RUMOR HAS IT THAT THE BEARS AND THE SOX MIGHT BE TEAMING WELL, THERE IS A REPORT IN THE SUN TIMES THAT QUOTED THE THE OWNER OF THE RELATED MIDWEST.

HIS OWNS THAT 78, BUT THEY WANT TO BUILD THE SOX STADIUM.

IT WOULD BE GOOD FOR HIM IF THE BEARS AND THE SOX TEAMED UP ANYTHING TO GET THAT SOX STADIUM BUILT ON THAT PROPERTY BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE RIGHT NOW.

>> LAWMAKERS ARE NOT GOING TO BE RECEPTIVE TO JERRY REINSDORF BILLION DOLLAR ASKED IN PROBABLY ALREADY REVISING THAT NUMBER DOWNWARD.

SO IF TEAMING UP WITH THE BEARS MAKES THAT STADIUM IN THE 78 MORE OF A POSSIBILITY FOR THIS DEVELOPER.

THEN HE'S GOING TO GO OUT THERE AND SAY, LET'S DO THIS, BUT DIFFERENT SO FAR, NEITHER TEAM HAS CONFIRMED THAT THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT.

AND TO BE CLEAR, BE TEAMING UP ON FINANCING TO STADIUMS THAT SAME UP BEARS FOOTBALL STADIUM SOUTH OF THE CURRENT ONE.

>> IN THE SOUTH LAWN.

AND THANK YOU FOR THE CLARIFICATION BECAUSE I WAS AFRAID THAT WE'RE GOING TO