[♪♪♪] >> GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO "THE WEEK IN REVIEW".

I'M PARIS SCHUTZ.

WE WILL BE JOINED WITH OUR GUESTS IN JUST A MOMENT.

FIRST, SOME OF TODAY'S TOP STORIES... >> CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLTEACHERS AND STAFF WILL HAVE TO GET A COVID VACCINE BY THE FALL TO RETURN TO WORK.

THE SCHOOL DISTRICT ANNOUNCED THE MANDATE WITH LESS THAN THREE WEEKS UNTIL IN-PERSON CLASSES RESUME.

STAFFERS MUST SUBMIT THEIR PROOF OF VACCINATION BY OCTOBER 15TH EXCEPT THOSE WHO QUALIFY FOR A MEDICAL OR RELIGIOUS EXEMPTION.

C.P.S.

HAS BEEN BARGAINING WITH THE TEACHERS' UNION ON RETURN CONDITIONS.

THE UNION SAYS IT WANTS THE DISTRICT ITSELF TO PROVIDE MORE VACCINATION PROGRAMS.

>> WE WANT TO SEE MUCH MORE ROBUST EFFORT ON THE PART OF THE BOARD IN TERMS OF SETTING UP VACCINATION PROGRAMS IN COMMUNITY LED SCHOOLS.

OUR SCHOOLS ARE DISTRIBUTED ACROSS THE CITY.

WE THINK IT MAKES AN OBVIOUS SENSE.

>> AND JOIN US TOMORROW FOR "CHICAGO TONIGHT" LATINO VOICES TO HEAR FROM THE DISTRICT'S INTERIM 0 C.E.O.

JOSE TORREZ.

>> THE CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT ATFIED THE FIRST CONTRACT BETWEEN THE OFFICERS AND THE CITY IN FOUR YEARS.

THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE VOTED TO RATIFY THE DEAL THAT GIVES POLICE 20% PAY RAISES OVER EIGHT YEARS.

INCLUDING FOUR YEARS OF RETROACTIVE PAY TO THE TUNE OF $250 MILLION.

THE MAYOR HAS SAID THE CITY WILL REFINANCE DEBT AND USE THE SAVINGS TO PAY AT THAT TIME COST.

THE CONTRACT INCLUDES REFORMS LIKE ALLOWING ANONYMOUS COMPLAINTS ABOUT POLICE MISCONDUCT AND BANNING OFFICERS FROM CHANGING THEIR STORIES ABOUT AN INCIDENT AFTER VIEWING BODY-CAM FOOTAGE AND THE CONTRACT HEADS TO CITY COUNCIL WHERE ALDERMEN MUST VOTE ON IT.

>> THE WHITE SOX HAVE THE DAY OFF, BOY, THEY HAVE EARNED IT AFTER LAST NIGHT'S HOLLYWOOD ENDING WALK OFF HOMER BY TIM ANDERSON LANDING SEVERAL ROWS DEEP INTO THE CORN IT CAPPED OFF A FIELD OF DREAMS GAME IN IOWA TO COMMEMORATE THE CLASSIC FILM OF THE SAME NAME.

THE SOX AND YANKEES WILL BE BACK AT IT TOMORROW AND SUNDAY.

AND SUNDAY OUR TEAM WILL HONOR OUR VERY OWN PHIL PONCE.

I LOOK FORWARD TO THAT.

>> JOINING US ARE TONY ARNOLD OF WBEZ, CHRISTIAN FARR OF NBC5 CHICAGO.

JEREMY GORNER OF "CHICAGO TRIBUNE" AND LAURA WASHINGTON "THE SUN TIMES" AND ABC7.

LET'S START WITH THE KILLING OF POLICE OFFICER ELLA FRENCH.

THIS WEEK WE'VE LEARNED ABOUT WHO SHE WAS AND THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THAT NIGHT THAT STARTED OFF AS A TRAFFIC STOP WHAT DID YOU LEARN ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED AND WHO SHE WAS?

>> I REMEMBER THAT FIRST NIGHT AFTER THEE PASSED AND IT WAS A DEVASTATING NIGHT THERE WAS REPORTING WE THOUGHT THE SECOND OFFICER MIGHT HAVE PASSED AS WELL.

BUT WHEN YOU START TO FIND OUT THE TRAGIC DETAILS OF WHAT WENT DOWN, AND FIND OUT HOW EXTRAORDINARY THIS OFFICER WAS AS WELL, HAD THE CONNECTION WITH ANJANETTE YOUNG, OF COURSE, WE KNOW ABOUT THAT CASE BECAUSE OF THIS WRONG POLICE RAID AND SHE WAS THAT -- >> WHAT YOU ARE REFERRING TO IS ANJANETTE YOUNG MENTIONED THAT OFFICER FRENCH WAS THE ONLY ONE SHE FELT TREATED HER WITH DIGNITY IN THAT WRONGFUL RAID.

ANJANETTE YOUNG PUT OUT A STATEMENT TO THAT EFFECT.

GO AHEAD.

>> AND WAS INVOLVED IN ANOTHER CASE AS WELL THAT HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH HELPING TRANSPORT A BABY TO THE HOSPITAL WHO WAS INJURED IN A SHOOTING.

THIS WAS AN EXTRAORDINARY OFFICER.

AND YOU KNOW THIS ROCKED THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

WE'VE DONE A LOT OF REPORTING ON POLICE OFFICERS WHO HAVE BEEN SHOT.

SHE WAS THE FIRST ONE KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY IN 2021, AND THIS OF COURSE, REALLY UPSET AND ANGERED SUPERINTENDENT DAVID BROWN WHO HAS REPEATEDLY IN PRESS CONFERENCES TALKED ABOUT HIS OFFICERS BEING SHOT AT AND STRUCK.

A LARGE NUMBER OF POLICE OFFICERS.

AND HE WANTS SOMETHING DONE OF COURSE THERE IS A LOT OF FINGER POINTING THAT GOES TOWARDS THE COURTS AND THE STATE'S ATTORNEY.

WE HAVE FOUND OUT A LOT OF DETAILS AND NEXT WEEK, IS GOING TO BE THE FUNERAL.

THERE IS A LOT UNFOLDING WITH THIS.

AND HOPEFULLY WE'LL KNOW MORE ABOUT THE BROTHERS INVOLVED AND THE MOTHER AS WELL.

WHO MADE HEADLINES THIS WEEK.

IT'S JUST TRAGIC SOME OF THE THINGS THAT HAVE COME OUT AND SOME OF THE POSITIVE THINGS ABOUT THIS OFFICER.

>> THE MORGAN BROTHERS FACING FELONY CHARGES AND EMONTE MORGAN FACES MURDER CHARGES.

AND LAURA WASHINGTON, HAVE YOU SEEN POLICE MORALE THIS BAD BEFORE WHERE ENTIRE GROUP OF OFFICERS WERE TURN THEIR BACK ON THE MAYOR WHEN SHE VISITS A WOUNDED OFFICER?

>> IT IS EXTREMELY UNUSUAL AND SOMETHING THE FOP POLICE UNION HAS BEEN TALKING ABOUT FOR YEARS.

IT WAS EXTRAORDINARY NOT ONLY THAT THEY TURNED THEIR BACKS ON HER BUT THE FATHER OF THE SECOND POLICE OFFICER WHO WAS WOUNDED AND IS FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE WAS EXTREMELY ANGRY AND EMOTIONAL AND WOULD NOT ENGAGE WITH HER.

THE MAYOR IS IN A TOUGH POSITION BECAUSE SHE IS GETTING IT EVEN BEFORE THIS INCIDENT SHE HAS BEEN GET TO GO FROM BOTH SIDES.

THE PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY PARTICULARLY THE PROGRESSIVE ALLIES OR PROGRESSIVE CRITICS FEEL SHE IS SOFT ON POLICE AND POLICE FEEL SHE IS HARD ON THEM AND PUSHING REFORM TO THE DETRIMENT NOT ONLY OF THEIR WHEREWITHAL BUT ALSO TO THE DETRIMENT OF THEIR HEALTH AND SAFETY.

SHE IS REALLY IN A NO WIN POSITION AND THIS IS THE PROBABLY ONE OF THE BIGGEST IF NOT THE BIGGEST POLITICAL CRISIS OF HER POLITICAL CAREER SO FAR.

>> TO THAT EFFECT THIS WEEK, LAURA, SHE FACED QUESTIONING ABOUT THAT RIFT BETWEEN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE MAYOR'S OFFICE.

HERE IS WHAT SHE HAD TO SAY.

>> I SAID THIS BEFORE, I THINK THE MEDIA PLAYS A VERY IMPORTANT ROLE IN OUR DEMOCRACY.

BUT YOU LOSE ME YOU LOSE ME WHEN IT IS A RACE TO THE BOTTOM.

AND IT'S ALL ABOUT THE FIGHT.

AND ALL ABOUT THE CONFLICT.

SOME OF THE REPORTING I'VE SEEN THIS WEEK IS JUST SICKENING.

>> SHE IS RESPONDING TO A QUESTION ABOUT THAT RIFT AND ABOUT SOME OF THE INCIDENTS THAT HAPPENED LIKE TURNING THEIR BACKS.

JEREMY GORNER WITH WHAT REPORTING IS SHE SAY SOMETHING SICKENING HER?

>> OBVIOUSLY SHE WANTS THE PUBLIC TO FOCUS ON THE LIFE OF ELLA FRENCH INSTEAD OF FOCUSING ON THE FINGER POINTING AND ANIMOSITY TOWARDS HER FROM THE RANK-AND-FILE.

THERE'S BEEN A RIFT BETWEEN THE RANK-AND-FILE AND MAYOR LIGHTFOOT AND SUPERINTENDENT BROWN LET'S NOT FORGET HE ISSUED A NO CONFIDENCE VOTE FOR LIGHTFOOT, BROWN AND HIS SECOND IN COMMAND ERIC CARTER NOT TOO LONG AGO WHICH IS MORE SYMBOLIC BUT IT GOES A LONG WAY TO THE SENTIMENT THAT THE POLICE TOWARD THIS MAYOR.

THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME WE'VE SEEN THIS.

WE SAW THIS IN NEW YORK CITY A COUPLE YEARS AGO WHEN THE NYPD HAD A COUPLE OF OFFICERS WHO WERE MURDERED AND OFFICERS THERE TURNED THEIR BACKS ON MAYOR DE BLASIO.

THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME A MAYOR HAD TO DO THIS.

IN CHICAGO THIS IS SOMETHING WE HAVE NOT SEEN.

AND YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING THAT WE HAVE SEEN IN THE LAST YEAR WITH THE PANDEMIC, THE CIVIL UNREST, THE POLICE HAVE FELT THAT NOBODY HAS THEIR BACKS.

GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS IN PARTICULAR.

SO OFFICER FRENCH'S DEATH JUST EXACERBATED THE CLIMATE OUT THERE POLITICALLY FOR THE MAYOR.

>> NO DOUBT IT'S ROCKED THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

TONY ARNOLD THERE IS REPORTING THAT THE SUSPECT, EMONTE MORGAN WAS OUT ON BOND FOR A HIT-AND-RUN INCIDENT WHEN THIS HAPPENED.

ACCORDING TO THE REPORT POLICE ONLY SOUGHT MISDEMEANOR CHARGES.

AS CHRISTIAN MENTIONED SUPERINTENDENT BROWN LAID BLAME TO THE COURTS AND THE STATE'S ATTORNEY'S OFFICE FOR LENIENT SENTENCING CAN HE MAKE THAT CASE HERE WITH MORGAN GIVEN HE WAS OUT ON A MISDEMEANOR?

>> I DON'T KNOW IF THAT IS AN APPLES TO APPLES ARGUMENT BUT I THINK WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO SEE THE TURF THAT I COVER, WHICH IS SPRINGFIELD AND STATE LAWS AND SPRINGFIELD HAS BEEN GOING THROUGH PASSAGE OF MANY CRIMINAL JUSTICE RELATED BILLS TRYING TO RIGHT THE WRONGS OF HOW THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE HANDLED BLACK PEOPLE IN THE PAST.

AND I'M SEEING LAWMAKERS PASS THIS LEGISLATION, SPECIFICALLY ENDING CASH BAIL GET DEFENSIVE SAYING GET READY THE FIGHT IS GOING TO COME.

THEY ARE GOING TO POINT TO CASES LIKE THIS TO TRY TO UNDO THIS LEGISLATION THAT WE JUST ABOLISHED.

I THINK THAT YOU ARE GOING TO START TO SEE SOME POLITICAL MESSAGING HERE FROM THE RIGHT AND THEN THE PEOPLE WHO ARE DEFENSIVE OF WHAT THEY DID TO TRY TO BRING THIS BACK INTO SPRINGFIELD.

I DON'T KNOW THAT THE VOTES ARE GOING TO BE THERE TO OVERTURN ANYTHING.

BUT I DO THINK THIS TRAGEDY GOT POLITICIZED QUICKLY.

WE SAW NATIONAL MEDIA OUTLETS GET THE STORY WRONG IN MULTIPLE WAYS.

>> A LOT HAD FALSELY SAID THAT OFFICER FRENCH HAD A NEWBORN AT HOME.

SHE WAS ON MATERNITY LEAVE AND THOSE WERE NOT TRUE.

>> AND THE LOCAL MEDIA HERE GOT IT RIGHT.

AT THE END OF DAY IS MY POINT.

>> WHICH GOES UP AGAINST WHAT THE MAYOR SAID AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE.

THE MAYOR SHE IS ALWAYS GOING TO DEFLECT WHO IS BLAMING THE MEDIA WHEN SHE IS ON THE HOTSEAT NOT JUST HER BUT ALL POLITICIANS.

I THINK IT WASN'T A FAIR CRITICISM IN THIS CASE.

>> AND SPEAKING OF SENTENCING, CHRISTIAN FARR, THE ALLEGED STRAW PURCHASER HERE FACED FEDERAL CHARGES AND HE WAS LET OUT RIGHT AWAY ON BOND WHICH REALLY ANGERED C.P.D.

SUPERINTENDENT BROWN.

ARE YOU SURPRISED THAT THE LAX SENTENCING THERE FROM THE FEDERAL JUDGE?

>> YOU KNOW, I THINK THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF CRITICISM AS YOU POINTED OUT WHEN IT COMES TO SENTENCING, ESPECIALLY, AS IT RELATES TO SUPERINTENDENT DAVID BROWN.

I'VE BEEN TO NUMEROUS PRESS CONFERENCES WHERE HE POINTED THE FINGER AGAIN AT THE COURT SYSTEM.

>> IT'S EVERY PRESS CONFERENCE.

>> IT'S EVERY SINGLE PRESS CONFERENCE AND HE CALLS IT A HEALTHY DEBATE BUT IT IS FINGER POINTING WHICH IS WHAT KIM FOXX CALLED IT ONE TIME.

THIS IS FINGER POINTING YOU ARE POINTING THE FINGER AT US.

HE SAID THERE WERE DISCUSSIONS BEHIND CLOSED DOORS WHERE THEY ARE TRYING TO IN A WAY RECTIFY THIS.

IT COMES UP EVERY TIME.

IT CAME UP WITH ELLA FRENCH AND HER PARTNER WHO WERE, OF COURSE, ELLA DIED IN THIS AND THE OTHER OFFICER INJURED STILL RECOVERING.

AND IT WILL BE A CONSTANT THING WITH THE SUPERINTENDENT BRINGING THIS UP OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

I'M NOT CERTAIN IT'S EVER GOING TO BE REMEDIED.

THERE WILL BE FINGER POINTING.

>> AND THIS DEBATE HAS GONE ON THROUGH THE YEARS.

JEREMY GORNER COVERING THIS FOR SO LONG.

YOU BROUGHT UP ERIC CARTER WHO WRANGLED THE RANK-AND-FILE THAT DID NOT WANT TO WAIT FOR THE BAGPIPES AND THE SALUTE BEFORE THE BODY WAS TAKEN TO THE MEDICAL EXAMINER'S OFFICE.

WHY DID THIS BLOWUP THIS WEEK?

>> WELL, IT BLEW UP.

THE BIG PICTURE IT HIGHLIGHTS THE TENSION BETWEEN THE RANK-AND-FILE AND CITY OFFICIALS AND THE UPPER ECHELON OF THE CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT.

IN THIS CASE YOU HAVE A RECORDING, I BELIEVE IT WAS SCANNER TRACK THE NIGHT OF THE SHOOTING WHERE CARTER WAS REPORTEDLY TO HAVE GONE ON AND GOT IMPATIENT AND SAID WE'RE NOT WAITING FOR THE BAGPIPE PROCESSION FOR THE BAGPIPES FOR THE MUSICIANS TO EMERALD SOCIETY WHO PLAYS THE BAGPIPES AT PRO SESSIONS TO GET TO THE MEDICAL EXAMINER'S OFFICE TO CORRAL THE AMBULANCE INTO THE PARKING LOT WE DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THAT.

THAT IS WHAT HE WAS SAYING THROUGH A RECORDING.

AND THE OTHER OFFICERS HEARD IT AND BECAME OUTRAGED.

THE WAY IT WAS REPORTED SUGGESTED THAT I THINK COULD BE CON TRUED BY SOME IS THAT -- CONSTRUED THERE WAS NO BAGPIPE PROCESSION CONSIDERED A SACRED RITUAL.

THERE WAS A BAGPIPE PROCESSION.

I WAS AT THE PROCESSION OF THE MORGUE AND I TOOK VIDEO OF THE PROCESSION.

IT WAS VERY NICE, VERY SOLEMN AND MOVING.

THERE WERE SCORES OF OFFICERS DOING THE DOING THE SALUTE AS THE PLANS WAS BEING ESCORTED INTO THE PARKING LOT AND RIGHT BESIDE IT WAS ERIC CARTER HE WAS BASICALLY ESCORTING THIS AMBULANCE WHILE THE BAGPIPES ARE PLAYING INTO THE PARKING LOT.

I'M TELLING YOU WHAT WAS ON THE VIDEO.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT WAS SAID BEYOND WHAT I TOLD YOU HAD BEEN REPORTED IN THE RECORDING.

IT SEEMS THAT A LOT OF THE OUTRAGE GOES TO WHAT OFFICERS PERCEIVED AS CARTER'S DEMEANOR.

>> SO AS YOU ARE SAYING THE TRIBUTE TOOK PLACE BUT IT WAS THE FIRST DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT'S DEMEANOR AND THE WORES OVER THE SCANNER.

I WONDER IF THE FOP WAS PUSHING IT OUT ON RANK-AND-FILE AND MAKING A THING OF THAT WHEN IT WENT ON.

BUT THERE WAS CONFUSION ABOUT THAT.

I HAVE TO MOVE ON TO OTHER NEWS THIS WEEK.

TONY ARNOLD, GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER'S FACED LAWSUITS BEFORE THAT HAVE BEEN UNSUCCESSFUL ON MANDATES, MASK MANDATES, SOCIAL DISTANCING AND CLOSURES AND ALL THAT.

NOW THERE IS A LAWSUIT AGAINST HIS STATE-WIDE SCHOOL MASK MANDATE.

IS THIS LIKELY TO HAVE A DIFFERENT FATE?

>> I'M NOT EXPECTING THE COURTS TO RULE DIFFERENTLY FROM THE SAME LAWYER WHO KEEPS BRINGING THE SAME VERSION OF THE SAME LAWSUIT.

>> TOM DE FOR.

>> HE IS A DOWN STATE ATTORNEY AND BROUGHT LAWSUITS AGAINST THE STATE FOR VARIOUS MITIGATIONS THAT THE GOVERNOR PUT INTO PLACE RELATED TO THE PANDEMIC AND HERE WE GO AGAIN WE GET ANOTHER LAWSUIT ABOUT THE MANDATE THAT EVERYONE IN SCHOOLS WEAR A MASK GIVEN THAT THE DELTA VARIANT RUNNING RAMPANT ACROSS THE STATE ESPECIALLY AMONG UNVACCINATED PEOPLE AND ESPECIALLY AMONG CHILDREN WOULD WHO ARE NOT ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE THE VACCINE.

THIS MANDATE THAT THE GOVERNOR PUT IN IT REALLY QUASHED THE DEBATE AMONG SCHOOLS AROUND THE STATE HAVING TO DEAL WITH CONTENTIOUS SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS WITH PARENTS UPSET.

A MINORITY OF PARENTS UPSET ABOUT THE MASK MANDATE AT SCHOOLS AND THE GOVERNOR MADE A DECISION FOR THE STATE BEING CHALLENGED.

TOM DEVOR HAS LOST EVERY SINGLE LAWSUIT HE BROUGHT.

KEEP IN MIND JUDGES ARE ELECTED HE MIGHT WIN IN DOWN STATE COUNTY AND WHEN IT GETS TO APPEAL HE IS NOT GOING TO BE SUCCESSFUL.

>> AND CHRISTIAN FARR, C.P.S.

IS GOING A STEP FURTHER AND REQUIRING VACCINATION OF ALL TEACHERS AND EMPLOYEES.

C.T.U.

SAID THAT IS FINE.

90% OF OUR MEMBERS ARE VACCINATED.

DO YOU EXPECT ANY PUSHBACK TO THIS?

OR OTHER MANDATES AT OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS THROUGHOUT THE STATE?

>> WELL, I THINK, YES, YOU ARE GOING TO SEE SOME SORT OF PUSHBACK THAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN.

WE JUST HEARD THIS WEEK WITH THE SPEAKER AND THE SCHOOL BEING DEFIANT WHERE HIS KIDS GO TO SCHOOL IN TERMS OF THE MASK MANDATE BE DEFIANT TO THE GOVERNOR'S ORDER.

THIS IS AN ONGOING DEBATE.

I DIDN'T COVER PERSONALLY FOR NBC5 THE MEETINGS WITH THE MASKS SHOULD KIDS HAVE THEM SHOULD THEY NOT.

BUT, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT NOW THAT THE GOVERNOR'S PUT THIS OUT HERE, IT SETTLES SOME DEBATE FOR SOME SCHOOL DISTRICTS.

I THINK THEY ARE FEELING GOOD THAT AT LEAST THE STATE HAS STEPPED IN BECAUSE TRYING TO SOLVE IT THEMSELVES WITH THEIR OWN SCHOOL BOARDS HAS BEEN DIFFICULT.

AND IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT HAS GONE WELL ESPECIALLY BECAUSE WE ARE STILL IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PANDEMIC AND PEOPLE ARE ACTING THAT WE ARE NOT.

>> I'M SURE THE SCHOOL BOARDS ARE HAPPY TO NOT HAVE TO HOLD MEETINGS AND FACE THE RATH OF ANGRY PARENTS.

LAURA WASHINGTON, MAYOR UNVEILED THE BUDGET, THE BUDGET GAP IS NOT AS BAD AS LAST YEAR BUT $733 MILLION.

IS THIS AN ACCURATE PICTURE OF WHERE CITY FINANCES ARE GIVEN THAT THESE BUDGETS CAN BE SO OPAQUE?

>> WELL, ABSOLUTELY THEY CAN BE OPAQUE AND THIS, OF COURSE, YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THIS IS A PRELIMINARY BUDGET.

AND SHE IS TRYING TO GET HER MESSAGING OUT TO PREPARE THE PUBLIC.

SHE STARTED TO HAVE BUDGET HEARINGS THIS WEEK.

IT'S NOT GOOD NEWS BUT IT'S BETTER THAN EXPECTED AND SHE IS SUGGESTING SHE DOESN'T THINK SHE WILL HAVE TO PUSH FOR A PROPERTY TAX INCREASE.

SOUNDS LIKE SHE IS LOOKING AT OTHER TAX INCREASES OR FORMS OF REVENUE.

IT'S NOT A BIG SURPRISE.

WE'VE KNOWN FOR A YEAR-AND-A-HALF THE CITY WAS DROWNING IN DEBT AND WAS NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO BRING IN NEAR THE REVENUES IT NEEDED TO BALANCE THE BUDGET.

THE STIMULUS SUPPORT AND THE FEDERAL SUPPORT HELPED A LOT SHE IS EXPECTED TO TAKE SOME OF THAT MONEY TO PAY DOWN SOME OF OUR DEBT.

BUT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS SUGGESTING SHE WON'T BE ABLE TO DO THAT.

I THINK IT'S PRELIMINARY AND WE HAVE TO WAIT-AND-SEE WHERE IT ENDS UP.

>> AND THAT IS $780 MILLION OUT OF $1.9 BILLION.

SO THE CITY IS GOING TO SAVE SOME FOR FUTURE YEARS AND GIVEN WHERE THE DELTA VARIANT IS GOING THERE MIGHT BE MORE ECONOMIC FALLOUT FROM COVID.

JEREMY GORNER, IT IS SURPRISING THAT THE DEFICIT IS ONLY 733 MILLION WHEN THERE IS A ONE-TIME PAYMENT FOR 250 MILLION FOR THE POLICE FOR BACK PAY FOR THIS NEW CONTRACT THAT THE POLICE RANK-AND-FILE RATIFIED TODAY.

AND THEY ARE SAYING THEY ARE GOING TO AFFORD THAT BE REFINANCING A BILLION DOLLARS OF DEBT AND WITH BETTER INTEREST RATES THEY ARE GOING TO GET 250 MILLION.

DOES THAT MAKE SENSE TO YOU?

>> WELL, I MEAN THAT IS A CONSEQUENCE OF GOING WITHOUT A CONTRACT FOR FOUR YEARS.

THAT IS SOMETHING THAT THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE TO DEAL WITH.

I THINK THAT IF THERE'S ONE GOOD THING TO COME OUT OF ANY RELATIONSHIP THAT CAN BE SALVAGED BETWEEN THE MAYOR AND THE RANK-AND-FILE IS THE FACT THAT THEY ACTUALLY HAVE A CONTRACT.

OR IT LOOKS LIKE THERE'S GOING TO BE ONE.

>> DOES THAT COOL ANY OF THE TENSIONS, DO YOU THINK?

>> PROBABLY NOT RIGHT NOW.

AND EVEN ADDITIONALLY WHEN IT DID HAPPEN, I KNOW THAT WAS ONE GOOD THING THAT THE POLICE APPRECIATED COMING FROM BOTH SIDES FROM THE MAYOR AND FROM THEIR UNION.

I MEAN THE RANK-AND-FILE WAS UPSET AT THEIR UNION BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT GET IT DONE WHY THEY VOTED OUT THE PREVIOUS PRESIDENT.

I DO THINK IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS, THOUGH, I THINK THE MAYOR HAS MUCH BIGGER PROBLEMS.

THE CONTRACT IS ONE POSITIVE THING SHE HAS GOING FOR HER RIGHT NOW.

THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE TO PAY THE 250 MILLION WILL BE THE RETRO PAY FROM FOUR YEARS WITHOUT A CONTRACT AND THEN, OF COURSE, THE FOUR YEARS GOING INTO 2025.

I SHOULD MENTION, TOO, THERE IS A REPORT THAT EVEN JUST LOOKING AT THIS YEAR ALONE, BEFORE YOU TALK ABOUT THE 2022 BUDGET THE POLICE DEPARTMENT'S GOING TO PROBABLY COST THE CITY 152, 200 MILLION IN OVERTIME THIS YEAR HIGHER THAN THE PROJECTIONS.

>> THIS SEEMS TO HAPPEN EVERY YEAR THEY BUDGET FOR OVERTIME AND THEN THE COSTS COME IN AND THEY ARE MUCH HIGHER.

I WANT TO MOVE ON TO THE CENSUS NUMBERS RELEASED THIS WEEK.

IT SHOWS THAT CHICAGO GAINED 50,000 RESIDENTS OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS IT'S BARELY HANGING ON TO THIRD CITY STATUS KEEPING HOUSTON AT BAY.

COOK COUNTY GROWING.

CHICAGO METRO GROWING.

DOWN STATE ILLINOIS LOSING POPULATION.

DO THOSE NUMBERS SURPRISE YOU AT ALL?

>> ONLY IN THE SENSE FOR THE LAST 10 YEARS I'VE BEEN READING NOTHING BUT STORIES HOW THERE IS A DECLINE IN POPULATION IN CHICAGO.

AND NOW WE HAVE AN OFFICIAL COUNT SAYING THAT THAT IS NOT ACTUALLY ACCURATE.

THERE IS NO MASS EXODUS.

GROWING AT THE RATE COULD BE OR SHOULD BE?

NOT NECESSARILY.

BUT IT'S NOT DECLINING.

WHAT IS DECLINING IS RURAL ILLINOIS, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, THOSE AREAS.

AND THIS IS RELATIVE AS WE HEAD INTO A REDISTRICTING PROCESS WHERE ILLINOIS IS LOSING A CONGRESSMAN IN THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND NOW WE HAVE THESE NUMBERS, WE CAN FEEL GOOD.

>> SO THE NUMBERS DO NOT CHANGE THAT WITH THE CONGRESSIONAL APPORTIONMENT?

ILLINOIS WILL STILL LOSE A SEAT?

>> YES, I THINK THAT IS GIVEN AT THIS POINT.

BUT WHAT IS NOW MORE CLEAR IS THAT THE PEOPLE THAT ARE MORE LIKELY TO LOSE THE SEAT WILL BE THE PEOPLE WHERE THE POPULATION IS DECLINING IN RURAL ILLINOIS.

THAT CHICAGO, THE CHICAGO REGION THE SUBURBS ARE NOT GOING TO BE SEEING THAT KIND -- THEY WILL SEE NEW BOUNDARIES BUT NOT THE LOSS OF ONE OF THE REPRESENTATIVES.

>> AND LAURA WASHINGTON TALKING ABOUT REDISTRICTING IN CHICAGO, THE CITY SAW ANOTHER DECREASE IN THE BLACK POPULATION AND INCREASE IN THE LATINO POPULATION.

WHAT DOES THAT SPELL FOR THE REMAP FIGHT HERE?

>> WELL, IN TERMS OF CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL IT SPELLS CONTROVERSY AND SOME TENSIONS.

MANY OF THE LATINO LEADERS HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS THEY ARE EXPECTING THERE'S GOING TO BE A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN THE LATINO POPULATION UPWARD AND DOWNWARD AND AMONG BLACK VOTERS AND AS IT TURNS OUT NOW, BLACKS LOST POPULATION IN CHICAGO.

LATINOS GAINED POPULATION AND RIGHT NOW LATINOS ARE THE LARGEST MINORITY GROUP IN THE CITY OF CHICAGO.

AND ALSO I THINK IN THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.

THERE'S GOING TO BE DEMANDS COMING FROM THE LATINO CAUCUS IN CITY COUNCIL AND OTHER VENUES FOR MORE REPRESENTATION.

THEY ARE GOING TO BE DEMANDING MORE SEATS AND THOSE WOULD COME AT THE EXPENSE OF THE BLACK ALDERMEN.

>> RIGHT.

AND THAT WAS THE WAY IT WENT DOWN 10 YEARS AGO WHEN SIMILAR NEGOTIATIONS WERE TAKING PLACE THEY ARE GOING TO TAKE PLACE AGAIN AND THEY MIGHT BE MORE HEATED.

>> BEFORE WE GO I WANT TO THROW THIS OUT, THE MLB SCORED A BONANZA WITH THE FIELD OF DREAMS GAME IT COULDN'T HAVE GONE MORE PERFECT ANYBODY WATCH IT?

LAURA AND TONY YOU ARE CUBS FANS ARE YOU SWITCHING YOUR ALLEGIANCE BASED ON WHAT HAPPENED?

>> NOT A CHANCE.

I WENT THROUGH THE DARK DAYS OF CUBS.

I CAN'T.

>> THERE ARE DARK DAYS RIGHT NOW, THOUGH.

>> CHRISTIAN DID YOU WATCH IT?

>> I DID NOT BUT I AM AMAZED BY THAT GAME.

I LOVE THE MOVIE AND JUST TO SEE THEM OUT THERE AND THE KIDS OUT THERE IT IS AN AMAZING SIGHT.

BASEBALL IS TRULY AMERICA'S GAME AND TRULY CHICAGO'S GAME.

I HAVE ONLY BEEN IN CHICAGO FOR 15 YEARS BUT TO BE IN A CITY WITH TWO TEAMS I AM A FAN OF BOTH BECAUSE I AM FROM THE EAST COAST.

TO SEE THE ARGUMENTS BETWEEN MY COWORKERS LARGE ARE WHITE SOX FANS AND A LARGE OF THEM ARE HAPPY RIGHT NOW.

>> AND MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SCORED BIG THE HIGHEST RATED REGULAR SEASON GAME IN SOMETHING LIKE 16 YEARS IT SEEMS TO BE GREAT MARKETING, TOO.

THE CORN THE PAT TORL NATURE OF THE -- PASTORAL NATURE OF THE MOVIE AND THE GAME.

>> I'M LOOKING TO THE BAD NEWS BEARS NEXT.

>> THE BULL DURHAM GAME AND THE CUBS MIGHT BE IN NEXT YEAR'S FIELD OF DREAMS GAME.

AND I MEAN I HAVE NOT SEEN KEVIN COSTNER IN 10 YEARS, TOO, GOOD TO GET HIM OUT OF HIDING.

>> THAT'S -- >> WHATEVER TEAM MIGHT BE USED TO THE CORNFIELDS AND THAT BECAUSE THAT IS WHERE THE MINOR LEAGUE BALL PARKS ARE.

>> AT LEAST WE GOT TO SEE ONE.

THAT'S -- >> ABSOLUTELY.

ALL RIGHT WE'RE OUT OF TIME.

EVERYBODY HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND THANKS TO TONY ARNOLD, CHRISTIAN FARR, JEREMY GORNER AND LAURA WASHINGTON.

AND THAT IS OUR SHOW FOR THIS FRIDAY NIGHT.

YOU CAN GET "CHICAGO TONIGHT" AND "THE WEEK IN REVIEW" STREAMED ON FACEBOOK, YouTube AND WTTW.COM/NEWS WEB.

AND BE SURE TO JOIN US TOMORROW NIGHT AT 6:00 P.M. FOR "CHICAGO TONIGHT: LATINO VOICES".

WE ARE GOING TO TALK WITH THE INTERIM C.E.O.

OF CPS JOSE TORREZ ABOUT THE VACCINE MANDATE.

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

THANK YOU FOR WATCHING AND HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!

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