[♪♪♪] >> GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO "THE WEEK IN REVIEW" I'M PARIS SCHUTZ.

WE WILL BE JOINED BY OUR "THE WEEK IN REVIEW" GUESTS IN JUST A MOMENT, BUT FIRST SOME OF TODAY'S TOP STORIES.

DEMONSTRATORS ARE GATHERED AT LOGAN SQUARE TO PROTEST THE POLICE INVOLVED SHOOTING DEATH OF ADAM TOLEDO.

THE DEMONSTRATIONS HAVE BEEN PEACEFUL AND SMALL DEMONSTRATIONS THAT OCCURRED IN THE WAKE OF THE RELEASE OF VIDEO AND MATERIALS RELATED TO THE SHOOTING.

THE VIDEO SHOWED THE POLICE CHASED TOLEDO DOWN AN ALLEY APPEARED TO HAVING A GUN MOMENT TOSSING IT ASIDE.

THE CIVILIAN OFFICE OF POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY IS INVESTIGATING.

AND WE WILL HAVE MUCH MORE IN JUST A BIT.

>> VACCINATIONS ARE COMING BACK TO THE LORETTO HOSPITAL.

THE CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH SAID IT WOULD OPERATE A VACCINE CLINIC ON-SITE TO WEST SIDE RESIDENTS AFTER THE CITY PAUSED GIVING THE HOSPITAL FIRST DOSE VACCINES WHILE AN AUDIT TOOK PLACE ON IMPROPER VACCINATIONS OFFSITE.

LORETTO RELEASED A SUMMARY OF THAT AUDIT AND IT CONCLUDES 2% OF VACCINES ADMINISTERED WERE IMPROPER.

REPORT DID NOT MENTION THE HOSPITAL'S FORMER C.O.O., FFO, AND CONNECTIONS TO TRUMP TOWER, A STEAKHOUSE, JEWELRY STORE AND OFFSITE VACCINATIONS THAT RAISED QUESTIONS.

AND STATE PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIALS REPORT 3800 NEW COVID CASES IN THE LAST 24 HOURS WITH 21 ADDITIONAL DEATHS.

MAKING FOR A TOTAL OF 1.296 MILLION CASES AND 21,630 TOTAL DEATHS.

AND 25% OF THE STATE'S POPULATION HAS BEEN FULLY VACCINATED TO THIS POINT.

AND NOW TO OUR "THE WEEK IN REVIEW" PANEL.

JOINING US US ARE CRAIG DELLIMORE, MIKE PUENTE, AND MIKE FLANNERY, AND NADER ISSA OF THE "CHICAGO-SUN TIMES".

FIRST WE START WITH THE POLICE SHOOTING DEATH OF 13-YEAR-OLD ADAM TOLEDO WE ARE SHOWING THE FIRST PART OF THE VIDEO RELEASE OF THAT FOOT CHASE THAT PRECEDED THE SHOT.

IT BEGAN AT 2:30 AM WHEN GUNSHOTS WERE PICKED UP BY A POLICE AUDIO SCANNER.

AS YOU CAN SEE, THE OFFICER DRIVES TO THE ALLEY IN LITTLE VILLAGE, EXITS AND RUNS DOWN THE ALLEY PUSHING RUBEN ROMEO AND YELLING AT TOLEDO TO STOP.

THE OFFICER IS 34-YEAR-OLD ERIC STILL MAN.

WE HAVE STROZ EN THE VIDEO BEFORE STILLMAN SHOOTS AND IT'S ABOUT TO GET TO THE POINT WHERE YOU SEE TOLEDO HAS HIS HANDS UP AND HE IS NOT HOLDING THE GUN.

FROM THIS VIDEO AND OTHERS IT APPEARS HE TOSSES THAT GUN TO THE SIDE.

LANDING BEHIND THE FENCE A MERE SECOND BEFORE THAT FATAL GUNSHOT HAPPENS.

CRAIG DELLIMORE WHEN YOU FIRST SAW THIS MUCH ANTICIPATED VIDEO WHAT WENT THROUGH YOUR MIND?

>> WELL, THE FIRST VIDEO THAT WE SAW REALLY WAS THE CHASE VIDEO.

SO YOU CAN SEE THAT YOU KNOW WHEN THE POLICE OFFICER RUNS UP TO HIM AND TELLS HIM TO TURN AROUND, YOU CAN SEE THAT HE HOLDS HIS HANDS UP BUT THE POLICE OFFICER FIRES.

IT'S ONLY LATER WHEN WE SAW THAT VIDEO OF FROM THE SCHOOL THAT WAS REALLY FURTHER AWAY BUT HAD A BETTER VANTAGE POINT THAT YOU COULD SEE WHAT HAPPENED WHEN HIS HAND WENT BEHIND THE FENCE AND DROPS THE GUN AND TURNS AROUND.

SO IT'S -- YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THE POLICE OFFICER WAS FACING.

HE MADE A DECISION LITERALLY IN A SPLIT SECOND.

AND YOU KNOW IT'S SHOWS WHAT A DANGEROUS AND TOUGH JOB IT IS AND WHAT A DANGEROUS JOB CHASING SOMEONE DOWN AN ALLEY IS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT.

>> IN THE INITIAL BODY-CAM VIDEO, YOU HAVE TO FREEZE THE VIDEO IN A FREEZE FRAME YOU CAN SEE WHAT APPEARS TO BE A FIREARM WHAT POLICE SAID IS A FIREARM IN TOLEDO'S RIGHT HAND RIGHT BEFORE TURNING AROUND HE TOSSES IT.

NADER ISSA, DOES THIS VIDEO REMIND YOU OF THE LAQUAN McDONALD VIDEO?

IS IT DIFFICULT?

ARE THE CIRCUMSTANCES DIFFICULT HERE?

>> I THINK THE CIRCUMSTANCES FOR THIS VIDEO SORT OF START AND END WITH A COUPLE OF FACTS.

ONE, IS THAT THE PERSON BEING CHASED IS A 13-YEAR-OLD CHILD.

TWO, A POLICE OFFICER THAT WAS CHASING THAT 13-YEAR-OLD CHILD WAS SCREAMING OUT ORDERS AND THE CHILD COMPLIED.

HE WAS SAYING DROP IT, DROP IT, STOP.

WE SEE FROM A COMPILATION OF VIDEOS WE SEE THE WEAPON WAS DROPPED AND WE SEE THAT HE COMPLIED WITH THE ORDER TO PUT HIS HANDS UP.

>> MIKE FLANNERY.

GO AHEAD.

>> I SEE COMPARISONS TO LAQUAN McDONALD VIDEO ONLY IN THAT IT WAS A CHILD ESSENTIALLY THAT WAS KILLED BY A CHICAGO POLICE OFFICER.

OTHER THAN THAT, I MEAN THE CIRCUMSTANCES OBVIOUSLY DIFFER BUT LAQUAN McDONALD WAS SHOT 16 TIMES AND ADAM TOLEDO WAS SHOT ONCE.

BUT IN TERMS OF THE IMPACT OF THE VIDEO AND IN TERMS OF HOW DEVASTATING IT IS, YEAH, I THINK WE CAN SAY THAT BOTH OF THEM WERE INCREDIBLY SAD TRAGEDIES THAT PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED >> ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT VIDEOS TO WATCH.

MIKE FLANNERY, OF COURSE THERE IS AN INVESTIGATION DONE BY C.O.P.A.

WE DON'T KNOW IF THE STATE'S ATTORNEY IS GOING TO INVESTIGATOR BRING CHARGES.

WHEN YOU SEE WHAT APPEARS TO BE A GUN CAN THE OFFICER REASONABLY MAKE THE CASE THAT HE FEARED FOR HIS LIFE?

THAT IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A JUSTIFIED SHOOTING IF HE FEELS LIKE HE IS IN DANGER?

>> THAT IS CLEARLY THE CASE.

AND ALTHOUGH THE LAWYER MS. ORTIZ HAS GONE ON NATIONAL TV AND ELSEWHERE TO SAY THAT SHE IS NOT SURE IT IS A GUN.

>> THE LAWYER FOR THE FAMILY YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT >> YES.

YES.

IT LOOKS LIKE A GUN TO ME.

AND CALLED THIS KILLING AN ASSASSINATION THAT REQUIRES AN ASSASSIN AND I SUBMIT THAT LISTENING TO THE REACTION OF OFFICER STILLMAN AFTER HE FIRES THAT SHOT AND HE RUSHES OVER TO TRY TO SAVE THIS CHILD'S LIFE AND HOW UPSET HE IS BY THIS, I DON'T THINK HE QUALIFIES AS AN ASSASSIN.

>> AND IT SEEMS FROM THE VIDEO THAT THE OFFICER GOES UP AND REALIZES HOW YOUNG THE KID IS THAT HE JUST SHOT.

MIKE PUENTE WHAT ABOUT THE ALLEGED ACCOMPLICE?

21-YEAR-OLD RUBEN ROMAN WHO POLICE SAY GAVE TOLEDO THE GUN AND HAD HIM RUNOFF.

OBVIOUSLY ROMANO IS IN CUSTODY BUT SHOULD ANGER BE DIRECTED AT THIS MAN WHO APPEARS TO HAVE PUT THIS 13-YEAR-OLD IN THIS HORRIBLE SITUATION?

>> OF COURSE, OF COURSE THERE SHOULD BE A LOT OF ANGER TOWARDS HIM.

HE DID PUT TOLEDO IN A TERRIBLE SITUATION.

AND IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE IF THERE'S CHARGES THAT CAN BE PRESENTED TO THE STATE'S ATTORNEY BY THE STATE'S ATTORNEY AGAINST THE ACCOMPLICE.

THIS IS A MAN NOW.

21-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO PUT A CHILD, COULD BE CHILD ENDANGERMENT.

>> THERE IS A CHILD ENDANGERMENT CHARGE.

I'VE HEARD LAW ENFORCEMENT EXPERTS SAY WHAT THEY SEE IS QUOTE-UNQUOTE SHORTY WHERE SOMEONE THAT IS OLDER MIGHT PASS OFF A GUN TO SOMEONE YOUNGER TO TRY AND EVADE CONSEQUENCES BECAUSE THE YOUNGER PERSON MIGHT ONLY GET JUVENILE COURT AND LESSER CONSEQUENCES.

IT IS A TRAGIC SITUATION ALL THE WAY AROUND.

LET'S LOOK AT PROTESTS THAT ARE HAPPENING RIGHT NOW RIGHT IN LOGAN SQUARE.

WE SAW PROTEST DOWNTOWN LAST NIGHT AND IN LITTLE VILLAGE.

CRAIG DELLIMORE, AND THIS IS A LIVE LOOK.

A LOT OF PEOPLE IT LOOKS TO BE IN THE MULTIPLE HUNDREDS CLOSING DOWN LOGAN BOULEVARD THERE STARTING AT THE SQUARE AND MARCHING.

CRAIG DELLIMORE DO YOU SEE A PROTEST REALLY SWELLING OVER THE WEEKEND WHEN YOU COMPOUND THE FACT YOU HAVE THE DAUNTE WRIGHT CASE IN MINNESOTA AND THE DEREK CHAUVIN TRIAL GOING ON?

>> I THINK THE ATMOSPHERE COULD NOT BE ANY WORSE.

AND UNDERSTANDABLY.

WE HAVE INCIDENTS OF POLICE OFFICERS KILLING PEOPLE OF COLOR IN AT BEST, QUESTIONABLE CIRCUMSTANCES AND IN SOME CASES LIKE THE CHAUVIN CASE WHERE IT'S UNBELIEVABLY BAD.

SO, YES, I THINK PEOPLE ARE ANGRY.

I DON'T THINK THERE ARE GOING TO BE MANY PEOPLE OUT PROTESTING WHO ARE GOING TO WANT TO HEAR ANYONE WHO SAYS THAT THE OFFICER WHO SHOT ADAM TOLEDO WASN'T TRYING TO KILL HIM, WASN'T -- DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS SHOOTING A 13-YEAR-OLD BOY.

SO I THINK THAT IT IS -- THEY COULDN'T BE WORSE TRUST FOR POLICE HAS ERODED -- AND FRANKLY THE CASES ARE HAPPENING EVERY WEEK.

YOU CAN'T CONVINCE ANYONE THAT IT IS NOT A MUCH LARGER PROBLEM THAT GOES MUCH DEEPER THAN THIS AND THESE ARE NOT ONE OFFS THIS IS EVERYDAY.

>> AND THE USE OF BODY-CAM FOOTAGE AND THE RELEASE PUBLICLY AND CELLPHONE VIDEO BROUGHT THE ISSUES TO LIGHT.

AND BEFORE THE VIDEO MAYOR LIGHTFOOT GOT EMOTIONAL WHEN CALLING FOR CALM TAKE A LOOK.

>> NO PARENT SHOULD EVER HAVE A VIDEO BROADCAST WIDELY OF THEIR CHILD'S LAST MOMENTS.

MUCH LESS BE PLACED IN A TERRIBLE SITUATION OF LOSING THEIR CHILD IN THE FIRST PLACE.

>> NADER ISSA THE MAYOR TALKED ABOUT THIS ALL THE SYSTEMS THAT HAVE FAILED THAT WOULD PUT A 13-YEAR-OLD LIKE ADAM TOLEDO FROM LITTLE VILLAGE IN THIS HORRIBLE SITUATION.

WHAT KINDS OF THINGS ARE WE TALKING ABOUT WHEN WE SAY SYSTEM WIDE FAILURE HERE?

>> WELL, IT'S THE SAME TYPES OF SYSTEM WIDE FAILURES THAT LIKE WHEN WE TALK ABOUT SYSTEMIC RACISM, IT'S UNDER FUNDING OF SCHOOLS IN BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITIES.

IT'S LACK OF MENTAL HEALTH CLINICS IN BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITIES.

IT'S UNDERFUNDING BUSINESSES IN BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITIES.

ALL OF THESE THINGS THAT SURROUND FAMILIES AND CREATE THESE DIRE CIRCUMSTANCES.

BUT THE THING IS I MEAN THIS MAYOR HAS BEEN AROUND FOR A YEAR NOW, A -- TWO YEARS SHE HAS BEEN AROUND NOW.

AND WE SAW THE SAME THING WITH RAHM EMANUEL, WHEN THE LAQUAN McDONALD VIDEO CAME OUT AND HE WAS CRYING AT A PRESS CONFERENCE.

I THINK WE'RE SEEING THE SAME CYCLE REPEAT ITSELF WHERE MAYORS COME IN AND TALK ABOUT INEQUITIES AND SYSTEMIC RACISM NOT MUCH IS REALLY DONE.

CHICAGO POLICE OFFICER KILLS A TEENAGER AND THEN WE HEAR TEARS AND CRYING AT A PRESS CONFERENCE.

>> I THINK YOU HEARD THEN AND NOW IS CALLS FOR REFORM OF POLICE PRACTICES.

AND ONE OF THE THINGS THE MAYOR SAID WAS A REFORM TO THE FOOT PURSUIT POLICY.

>> MIKE FLANNERY WHAT NEEDS TO CHANGE ABOUT THE FOOT PURSUIT POLICY?

>> I'M NOT ENOUGH OF A POLICE EXPERT TO KNOW.

I DO KNOW THAT THE CAR PURSUITS THE CAR CHASES NOW HAVE BECOME FAR MORE COMMON.

OFFENDER FLEEING IN STOLEN CARS OR IN SPEEDING VEHICLES BECAUSE THEY KNOW POLICE WILL CUT THEM OFF.

PART OF THE FOOT CHASE POLICY BECOMES UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER WHICH YOU DON'T ENGAGE IN A FOOT PURSUIT, THE BAD GUYS WILL QUICKLY KNOW THAT TOO AND WE'LL SEE THEM ALL TAKING OFF.

YOU KNOW, I THINK WE HAVE TO REMEMBER IT WAS 2:30 IN THE MORNING, SHOTSPOTTER HAD HEARD MULTIPLE ROUNDS BEING FIRED AT A CAR.

AND I THINK THAT'S A THREAT TO PUBLIC SAFETY.

I THINK WE WANT TO GET THE SHOOTERS IN THAT SITUATION.

WE WANT TO GET THE GUN.

AND THIS PROBLEM AS MUCH AS WE CAN MOCK MAYOR LIGHTFOOT AND MOCK THE MAYORS AND GOVERNORS BACK INTO ANTIQUITY IT IS CLEARLY A NATIONAL PROBLEM.

WHAT IS GOING ON IN CHICAGO IS NOT UNIQUE TO CHICAGO.

I THINK THE GEORGE FLOYD JUSTICE IN POLICING ACT THAT HAS NOW TWICE PASSED THE U.S. HOUSE AND IT'S IN THE SENATE.

I THINK THERE ARE SOME GOOD IDEAS THERE.

THERE IS MONEY IN THERE FOR SOME POLICE TRAINING.

I THINK THIS IS A NATIONAL PROBLEM THAT IN SOME WAYS REQUIRES COORDINATED NATIONAL AND LOCAL RESPONSIBILITIES.

>> THE U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL MERRICK GARLAND REINSTITUTING OVERSIGHT OF POLICE DEPARTMENTS ENFORCING CONSENT DECREES WHEN PREDECESSORS HAD DONE AWAY WITH DOING THAT.

MIKE PUENTE LITTLE VILLAGE, IT'S ONE OF THOSE COMMUNITIES IT'S VERY TIGHT-KNIT.

IT IS A COMMUNITY FULL OF IMMIGRANTS.

IT IS A COMMUNITY FULL OF ORGANIZATIONS THAT LIFT NEIGHBORS UP BUT IT IS A COMMUNITY THAT STRUGGLED WITH VIOLENCE AND GANG PROBLEMS.

WHAT IS THE TENOR IN THE COMMUNITY IN THE WAKE OF THIS NOW?

ANGER AT THE POLICE?

ANGER AT WHAT HAPPENED?

SHOCK?

>> IT'S JUST ANGER AT THE SYSTEM.

IT'S ANGER -- A LOT OF DIFFERENT LOCATIONS IT'S ANGER HOW THE WAY THE MEDIA IS PORTRAYING IT.

BECAUSE THERE IS NO EASY ANSWERS TO THIS.

WHEN THEY SEE SCHOOLS SHUTTING DOWN AND NOT ENOUGH CITY RESOURCES AND MONEY BEING POURED INTO COMMUNITY PROGRAMS THINGS THAT CAN HELP CHANGE THINGS AROUND THEY FEEL THEY ARE PUT IN THE MIDDLE.

THAT THERE ARE NO VALID ANSWERS TO WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN FROM THE CITY OR THE STATE LEADERS IN THIS.

SOMETHING HAS TO HAPPEN.

THERE NEEDS TO BE MORE RESOURCES.

SO IT'S UNDERSTANDABLE THAT THERE WOULD BE ANGER.

FROM THE ANGER.

THE ANGER IS NOT GOING TO BRING LITTLE ADAM TOLEDO BACK.

THE ANGER HAS TO BE DIRECTED ON CREATING CHANGE.

ANGER IS NOT GOING TO GET ANYWHERE.

THE EMOTIONS ARE REAL.

AND THEY HAVE TO BE PLAYED OUT.

ONCE THAT SUBSIDES THERE NEEDS TO BE REAL ANSWERS.

>> AND THE EMOTIONS ARE REAL.

AND THE MAYOR AND THE COMMUNITY GROUPS HAVE PLEADED WITH DEMONSTRATORS TO KEEP EVERYTHING PEACEFUL TO PEACEFULLY DEMONSTRATE AND MARCH.

CRAIG DELLIMORE IF YOU HAD TO GUESS, WOULD YOU THINK THAT C.O.P.A.

IS GOING TO FIND THIS SHOOTING TO BE UN-- UNWARRANTED?

WOULD YOU THINK THAT THE STATE'S ATTORNEY KIM FOXX IS GOING TO BRING CHANGES AGAINST THIS POLICE OFFICER?

>> UNFORTUNATELY WE ARE DEALING IN A POLITICAL ATMOSPHERE AS WELL AS AN INVESTIGATORY ATMOSPHERE.

I THINK GIVEN THE AMOUNT OF TIME THAT IT TOOK FOR BETWEEN WHEN ADAM TOLEDO'S HAND WAS VISIBLE AND WHEN THE SHOT WAS FIRED I THINK IT'S HARD TO -- I WILL BE SURPRISED IF THE OFFICER IS FOUND TO HAVE DONE SOMETHING MALICIOUS.

BUT, YOU KNOW, YOU ARE IN A SITUATION WHERE WHEN YOU'VE KILLED SOMEONE THAT YOUNG, I THINK EVEN AS A POLICE OFFICER, YOU MAY NOT EVEN WANT TO BE A POLICE OFFICER ANYMORE AFTER THAT.

THIS IS TRAUMATIC ALL AROUND.

AND I THINK I'M NOT SURE WHAT WE'RE GOING TO SEE.

BECAUSE THERE ARE TOO MANY MOVING PARTS.

>> AND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS SOUGHT TO MAKE THE CASE THAT THE TIME IN-BETWEEN ALLEGEDLY TOSSING THAT GUN AND THEN SPINNING AROUND PUTTING HIS HANDS UP IS .8 OF A SECOND AND THE COP MIGHT BE THINKING IF HE SEES THAT FIREARM THAT THE YOUNG MAN IS ABOUT TO TURN AROUND POSSIBLY TO DRAW HIS WEAPON AGAIN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT SOUGHT TO MAKE THE CASE IT'S ONE OF THOSE HEATED MOMENTS.

CERTAINLY A TRAGIC STORY ALL THE WAY AROUND.

AND DEMONSTRATIONS GOING ON NOW AS WE MENTIONED IN LOGAN SQUARE POSSIBLY CONTINUING OUT THROUGHOUT THE WEEKEND.

LET'S MOVE ON TO OTHER NEWS.

THE VACCINATION ROLL OUT CONTINUES DESPITE THE PAUSE ON THE JOHNSON & JOHNSON VACCINE.

C.P.S.

AND C.T.U.

REACH A TENTATIVE AGREEMENT TORE MOTORCYCLERS TO HEAD BACK TO -- HIGH SCHOOLERS TO HEAD BACK TO CLASSROOMS.

AND THE OBAMA CENTER GETS CLOSER TO AN OFFICIAL GROUNDBREAKING WE THINK AS ANOTHER LAWSUIT IS FILED TO STOP THE PROJECT.

NADER ISSA, IT LOOKED LIKE ABOUT A WEEK AGO THAT C.T.U.

AND C.P.S.

WERE HEADED ON A COLLISION COURSE ABOUT GETTING HIGH SCHOOLERS BACK INTO THE CLASS.

AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY ANNOUNCED THEY HAVE A DEAL AND THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES APPROVES IT.

WHAT HAPPENED HERE?

>> TO BE HONEST WITH YOU I DON'T KNOW THAT WE WERE HEADING THIS TIME AROUND TO THE SAME THING THAT HAPPENED IN FEBRUARY.

I AM NOT SURE THAT ANYONE ON EITHER SIDE WANTED TO TAKE IT THAT DIRECTION BOTH THE C.T.U.

AND C.P.S.

WANTED TO GET A DEAL DONE.

I JUST THINK THERE WERE FEWER ISSUES THIS TIME AROUND.

YOU WERE WORKING OFF THE FRAMEWORK OF THE ELEMENTARY REOPENING DEAL.

AND YOU ARE SORT OF FIGURING OUT CERTAIN FINER DETAILS THAT ARE ONLY PRESENT IN HIGH SCHOOLS LIKE MOVING FROM CLASSROOM TO CLASSROOM, OLDER STUDENTS TRANSMITTING THE VIRUS SIMILAR TO ADULTS.

SO I THINK ONCE THE C.T.U.

WENT AHEAD AND VOTED ON THAT ACTION TO WORK REMOTELY STARTING WEDNESDAY, I THINK C.P.S.

SORT OF REALIZED WE ARE NOT TRYING TO HAVE REOPENING DELAYED AGAIN LIKE IN FEBRUARY.

LET'S WORK THIS OUT AND I THINK THEY JUST TOOK A COUPLE DAYS AND GOT A DEAL.

>> AND IT SEEMED LIKE THE RHETORIC WAS HEATING UP A LITTLE BIT IF THE NEGOTIATIONS WERE NOT GOING TO BE LIKE THEY WERE IN FEBRUARY WITH K-8.

AND THIS HAPPENS AS TWO ELECTED SCHOOL BOARD BILLS THEY ARE VERY DIFFERENT CIRCULATE THROUGHOUT SPRINGFIELD.

ONE OF THEM SUPPORTED BY THE MAYOR ONE OPPOSED BY THE MAYOR.

THE ONE THE MAYOR OPPOSES WOULD CALL FOR 20 ELECTED SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS.

THE ONE MAYOR SUPPORTS IS A HYBRID SCHOOL BOARD WHERE SHE WOULD STILL APPOINT OR WHOEVER THE MAYOR IS WOULD APPOINT EIGHT OF THE MEMBERS AND THREE WOULD BE ELECTED.

NADER, WHICH OF THE BILLS DO YOU THINK HAS THE BEST CHANCE OF BECOMING LAW?

>> YOU NEVER KNOW.

I THINK THE BILL THAT IS GOING TO BECOME LAW IS NOT GOING TO LOOK LIKE EITHER OF THESE.

I THINK THERE WILL BE NEGOTIATING THAT HAPPENS.

THE BILL THE MAYOR IS SUPPORTING IN PRACTICE ISN'T GOING TO CHANGE MUCH FROM WHAT THE CURRENT SCHOOL BOARD LOOKS LIKE.

SHE IS STILL APPOINTING A MAJORITY.

SHE CAN APPOINT MEMBERS THAT WILL VOTE THE WAY SHE WOULD LIKE TO VOTE OR A FUTURE MAYOR IS AND THAT BILL DOESN'T CHANGE TO HAVING A THREE ELECTED SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS UNTIL 2028.

THE FIRST ELECTION WOULD BE 2026.

FIVE YEARS AWAY.

>> IT TAKES A LONGTIME.

>> TWO FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT BILLS.

>> AND TAKES A LONGTIME TO TRANSITION.

CRAIG DELLIMORE WOULD YOU THINK THE MAYOR HAS ENOUGH JUICE IN SPRINGFIELD TO PREVENT A 20-MEMBER BOARD BILL FROM PASSING?

AND POLITICALLY, GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER HAS SIGNED SOME BILLS IN RECENT WEEKS VERY FRIENDLY TO THE TEACHERS' UNION AND PRIVATE SECTOR UNIONS AND HE HAS A -- PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS.

AND HE HAS AN ELECTION AND WANTS TO SUPPORT HIS BASE?

>> FRANKLY THERE ARE A LOT OF LAWMAKERS WHO WILL LISTEN TO THE MAYOR.

AND FRANKLY I'M NOT SURE THERE'S ANYBODY WHO THINKS THAT 21 MEMBERS OF A SCHOOL BOARD ISN'T AN UNWIELDLY NUMBER, EVEN ROBERT MARTWICK, THE LAWMAKER WHO IS SPONSORING IT SAYS HE IS OPEN TO MAKING CHANGES.

I AGREE WITH NADER THAT SOMETHING DIFFERENT IS GOING TO HAPPEN.

IT WON'T BE MEETING IN THE MIDDLE.

BUT YOU KNOW, AND THE MAYOR SAID BEFORE SHE WEARS THE JACKET FOR POLICE, WHAT HAPPENS WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND WEARS THE JACKET FOR WHAT HAPPENS IN THE SCHOOLS.

AND SO THEREFORE SHE SAYS SHE NEEDS TO HAVE AT LEAST SOME CONTROL MAYBE IT WILL BE SOMETHING CLOSER TO HALF AND HALF YOU BET SHE WILL APPOINT THE CHAIR OF EACH ONE OF THOSE WHATEVER COMMITTEE IN POLICE OR THE SCHOOLS, SHE WILL BE THE ONE WHO PICKS THE CHAIR.

>> THE BILLS REPRESENT TWO DIFFERENT POLLS AND WE'LL SEE WHERE IT MEETS.

LET'S TAKE A LAST-MINUTE PRESS CONFERENCE CALLED TO TOUT WITH WHAT WAS HAPPENING WITH THE OBAMA CENTER.

>> MAKING IT SAFER FOR PEDESTRIANS AND FOR BICYCLISTS TO ACCESS THE AREA, IMPROVING PARK TRAILS AND REROUTEING ROAD TRAFFIC ACCORDINGLY.

THIS TRANSFORMATION IS IN PART MADE POSSIBLE BY $174 MILLION OF STATE INVESTMENT IN THIS PROJECT.

>> MIKE FLANNERY, THOUGHT OF GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY BUT IT WASN'T BECAUSE IT'S NOT HAPPENING FOR A COUPLE MONTHS AND THE OBAMAS WEREN'T EVEN THERE.

SO IS THIS THING ARE WE GOING TO SEE SHOVELS IN THE DIRT AT SOME POINT AFTER YEARS OF DELAYS?

>> WELL, YES, I DO THINK SO.

NOW THERE'S LEFT HAND A LAWSUIT FILED BY SOME OF THE SAME PEOPLE WHO WERE INVOLVED IN PREVIOUS LAWSUITS.

I MEAN YOU CAN SUE A HAM SANDWICH AND YOU DON'T NECESSARILY GET TO EAT IT, THOUGH.

IN THE END, I THINK THE FORMER PRESIDENT AND FIRST LADY WILL GET TO BUILD THIS THING WHERE THEY WANT TO.

THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS NOW ON THEIR SIDE.

LIGHTFOOT, THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, THE CITY COUNCIL THEY HAVE ALL CLEARED THE WAY.

I THINK IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.

BUT I DO WANT TO MENTION THAT THE SIX LANES OF TRAFFIC ON CORNELL DRIVE THAT THE GOVERNOR REFERENCED, BACK IN 1965, BEFORE YOU WERE BORN, PARIS -- >> ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT?

>> THERE WERE GRANDMAS AND GRANDPAS WHO WERE CHAINING THEMSELVES TO TREES WHERE THAT SIX LANES OF TRAFFIC IS NOW TO PREVENT THOSE TREES FROM BEING TORN DOWN.

ONE OF THE THINGS THAT BARACK OBAMA IS DOING HERE IS THEY ARE GOING TO BE TEARING THAT UP AND PLANTING THAT WITH TREES, YES THEY WILL TEAR DOWN TREES TO BUILD THE OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL CENTER BUT THE INTEGRITY OF THAT PARKLAND IS GOING TO BE RESTORED.

THAT'S FIVE ACRES ACTUALLY ADDED TO THE GREENSPACE.

I -- >> SIX LANES OF ROAD WHERE TRAFFIC HAS TO BE DIVERTED AND THEY TALKED ABOUT A PLAN.

>> COVID, PRITZKER SAYING HE THINKS THE SURGE IS STARTING TO LEVEL OFF.

IN INDIANA IT'S GOING UP, TOO.

WHAT IS THE SITUATION?

>> WELL, IT IS GOING UP BUT THEY SEEM TO HAVE A LOT OF VACCINES IN PLACE.

THEY HAVE A BRAND NEW VACCINATION CENTER IN GARY WHERE HALF THE PEOPLE GOING THERE ARE FROM CHICAGO BECAUSE THEY OPENED IT UP AND YOU DON'T NEED A STATE RESIDENCE ISY.

THEY ARE HAVING A TOUGH TIME CONVINCING PEOPLE TO GET THE VACCINE.

THEY ARE DOING A FULL COURT PRESS AND SOME OF THE EARLIER NOTION WAS JUST WHITE REPUBLICAN MEN BUT WE ARE SEEING A LOT OF MINORITY GROUPS WHO ARE RELUCTANT TO GET THE VACCINE AND WITH THE STOPPAGE THE PAUSE OF THE JOHNSON & JOHNSON VACCINE, IT'S JUST GOING TO MAKE IT THAT MUCH TOUGHER.

>> THE OUTREACH EFFORTS CONTINUE.

MIKE FLANNERY ONE WORD OR CARLOS RODON'S PERFORMANCE.

FANTASTIC.

>> NAN MIKE FLANNERY, CRAIG DELLIMORE, MIKE PUENTE AND NADER ISSA THANK YOU SO MUCH.

AND JOIN US TOMORROW NIGHT AT 6:00 P.M. FOR "CHICAGO TONIGHT: LATINO VOICES" AND SUNDAY FOR "CHICAGO TONIGHT: BLACK VOICES" AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT REACTION FROM LITTLE VILLAGE COMMUNITY MEMBERS ON THE SHOOTING OF ADAM TOLEDO AND AN ARCHIVE FEATURES SPEECHES MADE BY CHICAGO'S FIRST BLACK MAYOR HAROLD WASHINGTON AND WE'RE BACK WITH "CHICAGO TONIGHT" ALL NEXT WEEK.

FOR "THE WEEK IN REVIEW" I'M PARIS SCHUTZ.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WATCHING.

STAY HEALTHY AND SAFE.

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND.

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