[♪♪♪] >> 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... >> INDOOR MASKS ARE BACK.

STARTING TODAY EVERYONE IN CHICAGO MUST WEAR A MASK IN INDOOR PUBLIC PLACES REGARDLESS OF VACCINATION STATUS.

SO THAT INCLUDES RESTAURANTS, STORES, GYMS AND BUILDING COMMON AREAS AND JUST ANNOUNCED THIS AFTERNOON SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY WILL BE IMPOSES ITS OWN INDOOR MASK MANDATE.

IN ADDITION, COOK COUNTY BOARD PRESIDENT TONI PRECKWINKLE ANNOUNCES ALL COUNTY GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES MUST BE FULLY VACCINATED BY OCTOBER 15TH IN ORDER TO RETURN TO WORK.

AND THIS COMES AS COVID CASES ARE ON THE RISE IN NEARLY EVERY PART OF THE STATE.

THE ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTS MORE THAN 24,000 NEW COVID CASES OVER THE PAST SEVEN DAYS WITH A TEST POSITIVITY RATE OF 5.3% AND RANGING BETWEEN 4-10% IN DIFFERENT REGIONS.

THE STATE ANNOUNCES THAT MORE THAN 77% OF ADULTS HAVE RECEIVED AT LEAST ONE COVID SHOT.

>> AND IT IS OFFICIAL: FORMER CHICAGO MAYOR RAHM EMANUEL IS HEADED TO JAPAN.

PRESIDENT BIDEN TODAY NOMINATED RAHM EMANUEL TO BECOME THE NEXT U.S.

AMBASSADOR.

THE POST IS SEEN AS A PROMINENT DIPLOMATIC POSITION GIVEN JAPAN'S PROXIMITY TO CHINA.

>> THE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE ANNOUNCES NEW MEASURES IT HOPES WILL CUT DOWN ON THE AMOUNT OF SHOOTINGS HAPPENING ON EXPRESSWAYS.

IT WILL INSTALL LICENSE PLATE READING CAMERAS ON CHICAGO AREA EXPRESSWAYS TO QUICKLY IDENTIFY OFFENDERS THAT COMMIT GUN CRIMES ON THE ROAD.

THE CAMERAS ARE PAID FOR BY A GRANT.

IN THE STATE THERE HAVE BEEN 157 REPORTED SHOOTINGS ON CHICAGO AREA EXPRESSWAYS AND THAT IS IN 2021 ALONE.

AND NOW TO OUR "THE WEEK IN REVIEW" PANEL JOINING US ARE MAUDLYNE IHEJIRKA, OF THE "CHICAGO-SUN TIMES".

LYNN SWEET ALSO OF THE "CHICAGO-SUN TIMES".

SARAH KARP OF WBEZ AND MIKE FLANNERY OF FOX 32 NEWS.

LET'S GET RIGHT TO T MIKE, MASKING IS IT BACK INDOORS WILL IT HALT THE SPREAD WITHOUT CORRESPONDING CAPACITY RESTRICTIONS OR SHUTDOWNS?

>> I THINK IT'S UNLIKELY.

BUT I FOUND IT INTERESTING THERE WAS AN EMMERSON COLLEGE POLL DONE WITH A LOCAL TV STATION THAT SHOWED STRONG SUPPORT FOR THE MASKING MANDATE.

BUT I DON'T THINK THAT THAT IS GOING TO HAVE ENOUGH TO STOP THIS DELTA VARIANT AS TRANSMISSIBLE AS IT IS.

>> LYNN SWEET FROM YOUR PERCH IN WASHINGTON IS THE SPREAD IN THE LATEST SURGE IT UNINHIBITED?

HAVE WE REACHED A PLATEAU OR IS IT CONTINUING TO GO UP?

>> THAT IS A MEDICAL QUESTION.

AND LET ME I COULD ADDRESS THE POLITICS OF THIS.

AND THAT IS AS LONG AS CASES ARE INCREASING, IT PRESENTS A PROBLEM FOR THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION JUST AS IT DOES FOR THE PRITZKER ADMINISTRATION AND MAYOR LORI LIGHTFOOT'S CITY HALL.

SO WE KNOW FROM THE DATA WE'VE SEEN IT IS INCREASING.

THE ORDER FOR THE BOOSTER SHOT, 0 SO, PARIS, I WOULD SAY IT IS A POLITICAL PROBLEM AS LONG AS IT IS INCREASING AND THE TRAJECTORY IS UP NOT DOWN.

>> LYNN IS IT A POLITICAL PROBLEM FOR THE GOVERNORS IN STATES LIKE FLORIDA OR TEXAS OR LOUISIANA WHERE HOSPITALIZATIONS ARE 100%?

>> WE'VE SEEING COURT CASES AND ACTIONS FROM LOCAL UNITS OF GOVERNMENT WHO WANT TO HAVE MASKING MANDATES.

I DON'T KNOW IF ESPECIALLY IN THE STATES OF TEXAS AND FLORIDA WHERE WE KIND OF TAKE AS A WEATHER VAIN OF RESISTANCE AND WHAT HAPPENS THERE IS A BAROMETER OF THE MOST EXTREME CASES OF RESISTANCE TO MASKING.

AND SO FAR IT SEEMS THAT THE GOVERNORS ARE NOT IN ANY DANGER OF BEING TOPPLED AT THE MOMENT.

SO I WOULD SAY IT'S TOO SOON TO SAY THAT IMPACT.

NOW, CERTAINLY IF I COULD BRING THIS HOME TO ILLINOIS TWO OF THE REPUBLICANS WHO WOULD LIKE TO REPLACE J.B. PRITZKER ARE USING HOW HE IS HANDLING COVID AND THE RESURGENCE IS PART OF THEIR BRIEF AGAINST HIM.

THOUGH IN ILLINOIS, WHICH HAS HAD ITS DIVISIONS ESPECIALLY AMONG REPUBLICANS WHEN IT COMES TO MASKS AND MANDATES I DON'T SEE HOW IT IS PERMANENTLY HURT.

>> AND THE TWO CHALLENGERS YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT GARY RABINE AND DOWN STATE DARREN BAILEY.

MAUDLYNE IHEJIRKA YOU WROTE THIS WEEK ABOUT AN EXPERIENCE YOU HAD GOING TO THE DOCTOR FOR A PROCEDURE WHEN YOU ASKED A NURSE WHETHER THEY WERE VACCINATED WHAT HAPPENED?

>> THE MEDICAL TECH ACTUALLY A PERSONNEL WHO PERFORMS ON RADIOLOGY TYPE TESTS, WAS TOUTING AWAY ANIMATEDLY INCHES FROM MY FACE AND WE WERE CHATTING AND I WAS ENGAGED IN HER SMALL TALK AND WE WERE BOTH LAMENTING ABOUT THE RESURGENCE AND SOMETHING ABOUT THE WAY SHE RESPONDED WHEN I WAS TALKING ABOUT THE UNVACCINATED, MADE KNEE SAY CAN I ASK IF YOU ARE VACCINATED?

SHE SAID NO I'M NOT.

SHE WAS THIS FAR FROM MY FACE.

AND I SAID WHY?

AND SHE SAID IT'S JUST MY CHOICE.

AND I SUDDENLY WANTED HER AS FAR AWAY FROM ME AS POSSIBLE.

AND THE ONLY WAY I COULD DESCRIBE THE REST OF THAT TEST WAS HELL.

>> AND YOU WROTE ABOUT THIS AND YOU GOT FEEDBACK AND THAT HOSPITAL SYSTEM INSTITUTED MANDATORY VACCINATION.

WHAT WAS THE FEEDBACK YOU GOT FROM THE PUBLIC AND THAT SYSTEM?

>> WELL, YOU KNOW IT'S INTERESTING BECAUSE THE VACCINE ISSUE IS SO FRONT AND CENTER IT REALLY HIT A NERVE.

I DIDN'T REALIZE HOW MUCH PEOPLE ARE VESTED IN THE ISSUE ON BOTH SIDES.

AND SO, YEAH, THE SAME DAY THAT MY COLUMN RAN, NORTH SHORE CALLED ME PERSONALLY TO TELL ME THEY WERE INSTITUTING THE NEW VACCINE MANDATE THAT VERY SAME DAY.

AND SO THAT WAS GOOD.

BUT, OF COURSE, NORTHWESTERN MEDICINE AND AANYTHING SA TELL ARE THE HOLDS OUT AND THE INBOX WAS FLOODED BY PEOPLE SAYING THEY HAD NO IDEA THEY HAD TO WORRY ABOUT THE VACCINE STATUS OF THE MEDICAL PERSONNEL TREATING THEM BE IT MEDICAL TECHS, NURSE OR DOCTOR WHEN THEY GO TO THE HOSPITAL.

>> MOST HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS BUT THOSE TWO YOU MENTIONED INSTITUTING THE VACCINE MANDATES.

SARAH KARP YOU REPORTED ON A DISPARITY IN TEEN VACCINATIONS THROUGHOUT CHICAGO.

WHAT DID YOU FIND?

>> WE LOOKED AT THE WHOLE SIX-COUNTY REGION AND WE FOUND NOT TERRIBLY SURPRISINGLY, THE TEEN VACCINATION RATE MIRROR WHAT THE ADULT VACCINATION RATES ARE.

WHERE THERE IS LOW ADUGOUT VACCINATION RATES THERE'S LOW TEEN VACCINATION RATES.

IN OAK PARK AND LYLE ALMOST ALL OF THE 12-17-YEAR-OLDS WHO COULD GET VACCINATED GOT VACCINATED.

AND THEN YOU SEE IN PLACES LIKE BOLTON OR ENGLEWOOD, IN THE CITY, YOU SEE LIKE LESS THAN 25%.

SO IT IS A WIDE SWING.

>> ARE THERE REASONS GIVEN FOR THIS WIDE SWING IN CERTAIN AREAS?

>> YOU KNOW THE SAME REASON AS ADULTS.

AND A LOT OF TEENS I TALKED TO SAID I'M LISTENING TO MY MOM.

IF MY MOM SAID I NEEDED TO GET THE VACCINE I WOULD GET THE VACCINE AND THERE ARE A LOT OF SOCIAL MEDIA MESSAGES KIDS BROUGHT UP MAYBE THERE'S GOING TO BE A CHIP PUT IN YOU OR MAYBE YOUR FERTILITY WILL BE [AUDIO INTERRUPTION] IN 20 YEARS.

WAS YOUR MOM VACCINATED?

CORRELATED VERY MUCH WITH WHETHER THEY WERE VACCINATED.

OBVIOUSLY THAT IS THE PERSON THAT IS HAVING IBS INFLUENCE AND YOU NEED TO MOM TO TAKE YOU.

IF YOUR MOM DOESN'T BELIEVE IN IT THEN YOU ARE NOT GOING TO GO.

>> ANOTHER POTENTIAL PERSON THAT COULD HAVE INFLUENCE IS YOUR LOCAL PRIEST OR RELIGIOUS FIGURE IF YOU ARE A PERSPECTIVE OF FAITH AND THIS WEEK CARDINAL CUPICH WROTE A LETTER TO PRIESTS SAYING DON'T TELL PARISHIONERS THERE IS A CATHOLIC EXEMPTION TO GETTING THE VACCINE IT'S CATHOLIC TO GET THE VACCINE.

MIKE FLANNERY WHAT DID YOU MAKE OF WHAT THE CARDINAL DID?

>> IT'S SIMILAR TO WHAT POPE FRANCIS HAS BEEN SAYING AT THE VATICAN THAT IT IS AN ACT OF CHRISTIAN LOVE AND CONCERN FOR OUR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS AROUND THE PLANET TO GET THE VACCINE.

BUT HOW MUCH INFLUENCE THAT HAS, I REALLY DON'T THINK THAT THAT IS A MAJOR FACTOR T MAY WELL BE.

I SUSPECT THAT WHAT SARAH FOUND THE RACIAL DISPARITIES MIGHT BE PRESENT IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, TOO.

CERTAINLY MY GUESS IS THAT AMONG WHITE COLLEGE EDUCATED ROMAN CATHOLICS, 90% PLUS, 95, 98% PLUS ARE VACCINATED.

AMONG HISPANICS MUCH, MUCH LOWER PERHAPS.

>> AS THIS IS GOING ON THE CHICAGO TEACHERS' UNION IS IN A STANDOFF WITH CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS OVER COVID-19 METRICS.

JESSE SHARKEY TALKED ABOUT SOME OF HIS CONCERNS THIS WEEK.

TAKE A LOOK.

>> NOT SEEN THIS AVAILABLE FOR STUDENTS AGED 12 AND OLDER AMONG BLACK STUDENTS IN CHICAGO 12% OF THE STUDENTS ARE VACCINATED.

>> ALL RIGHT THIS GOES BACK TO THE POINT YOU WERE MAKING.

ANOTHER THING I HEAR FROM C.T.U.

THEY DO NOT SEE A PLAN FROM C.P.S.

TO CLOSE DOWN SCHOOLS IF THERE IS A COVID OUTBREAK.

DO YOU SEE ANY PLAN LIKE THAT THAT C.P.S.

IS WORKING ON?

>> NO.

I THINK THAT C.P.S.

HAS SAID MAYBE THEY WOULD SHUTDOWN, THERE'S BEEN MOVEMENT OVER THE LAST TWO DAYS ON THIS IDEA WHEN THEY WOULD SHUTDOWN IF THERE WAS A SURGE BUT WHAT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IS SAYING IF THE GOVERNOR SHUTS DOWN SCHOOLS WE WILL SHUTDOWN OTHERWISE WE DO NOT WANT TO SHUTDOWN.

THE HEAD OF THE CHICAGO PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT HAS SAID SCHOOLS ARE SAFE.

SCHOOLS ARE A CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT.

AND WE'VE SEEN IN OTHER PLACES OF THE NATION WHERE THEY HAVE OPENED UP SCHOOL SCHOOLS WITH IN-PERSON LEARNING THAT IT WAS SAFE AND THEY DO NOT WANT TO GO BACK TO VIRTUAL LEARNING AT ALL COSTS.

WE DON'T KNOW ALL THE MET CONTRIBUTES BUT WHEN THE OFFICIALS LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED TO THE STUDENT BODY UNDER REMOTE LEARNING THEY ARE LIKE WE ARE NOT GOING BACK THERE IF WE CAN HELP IT.

>> WE DON'T HAVE TO TAKE A LOOK AT OTHER SCHOOL SYSTEMS IN REMOTE PARTS OF THE COUNTRY.

THE CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE HAD THE SCHOOLS OPEN LAST YEAR ACROSS THE STREET FROM ME AT THAT TIME ST. BARNABUS HAD HUNDREDS OF KIDS AND TEACHERS IN THERE AND IT WENT VERY WELL.

>> RIGHT.

THAT SORT OF THE POINT OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS.

BUT THE TEACHERS' UNION IS NOT BUYING IT THEY WANT METRICS.

THEY WANT TO KNOW AT WHAT POINT THE DISTRICT WILL SHUTDOWN.

>> AND WE REPORTED ON A FEW CATHOLIC TEACHERS AND SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS THAT DID NOT FEEL THAT THE ARCHDIOCESE WAS DOING THE RIGHT THING AND THEY FELT THEY WERE NOT GETTING ALL THE INFORMATION WITH COVID WITHIN THEIR SCHOOLS BUT YOU DID NOT HEAR A LARGE VOLUME OF COMPLAINTS.

AND POLITICAL NEWS.

LYNN, THIS WEEK IN SPRINGFIELD, THE DEMOCRATS HAD THEIR ANNUAL DEMOCRATIC BREAKFAST BEFORE DEMOCRAT DAY AT THE STATE FAIR ALTHOUGH GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER WAS NOT AT THAT BREAKFAST.

RUN BY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND CHAIRMAN ROBIN KELLY.

DO WE READ ANYTHING INTO THAT RIFT OR NOT?

>> IT IS NOT A RIFT I THINK YOU ARE OVERPLAYING IT.

I RESPECTFULLY SAY.

>> BECAUSE IT WASN'T A STATE PARTY EVENT IT WAS THE DEMOCRATIC CHAIR I BELIEVE EVENT.

BUT IN ANY CASE -- >> COUNTY CHAIRMAN.

>> SO THIS IS NOT A ROBIN KELLY EVENT THAT IS NUMBER ONE.

NUMBER TWO, OK, THE ORIGINAL PLANNING FOR THAT EVENT WAS TO HAVE IT INSIDE AND GOVERNOR PRITZKER WAS NOT GOING TO GO INSIDE IN A BIG EVENT IT WAS MOVED OUTSIDE.

HIS PEOPLE SAID TO OTHER REPORTERS AND TO ME, HE HAD PLANS WITH HIS FAMILY AND DIDN'T WANT TO CHANGE THEM HE HAD BEEN AT THE STATE FAIR FOR DAYS AND DAYS BEFORE THAT.

I KNOW HE WAS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DIVIDE WHEN IT CAME TO THE ROBIN KELLY ELECTION.

HE WAS FOR ALDERMAN MICHELLE HARRIS.

AND IT WAS REALLY OVER ISSUES DEALING WITH HER ABILITY TO FUND RAISE BECAUSE SHE IS A FEDERAL OFFICIAL.

HE IS GOING TO SEE HOW IT PLAYS OUT.

AND IT'S NOT A RIFT.

IT IS REASONABLE QUESTIONS HE HAD IF SHE WAS THE BEST ONE BECAUSE OF HER FEDERAL POST.

I THINK HIS COMING OR NOT COMING IN THE END IS MAKING MORE TO DO WITH IT THAN NOT.

WE'LL SEE -- BY THE WAY SO OUR LIST ENERS KNOW ROBIE KELLY DID CREATE A COMMITTEE TO DO THE FUNDRAISING.

IF IT TURNS OUT TO BE A BAD IDEA THIS EXPERIMENT, SHE IS UP FOR REELECTION AS PARTY CHAIR WITHIN A YEAR.

SHE WAS JUST TAKING THE -- MICHAEL MADIGAN'S PLACE.

>> THE ISSUE IS WHETHER SHE CAN FUNDRAISE FOR THE PARTY WHICH SHE CAN'T SHE PUT TOGETHER A COMMITTEE THAT WILL DO THAT SEPARATE FROM HER.

MAUDLYNE IHEJIRKA OTHER POLITICAL NEWS, DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO GO BACK TO SPRINGFIELD LATER THIS MONTH TO REDRAW THE CONGRESSIONAL MAPS.

NOW THAT THE SEPSIS NUMBERS ARE OUT -- CENSUS NUMBERS ARE OUT.

ONE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT IS GOING AWAY WHAT DO YOU THINK THAT IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE?

>> I THINK WITH THE DEMOCRATS IN CONTROL WE ARE GOING TO SEE DEFINITELY A REPUBLICAN DISTRICT FLOATED.

AND I MEAN THAT IS A NO-BRAINER.

BUT I THINK THAT YOU ARE GOING TO SEE DEFINITELY, GREATER DEBATE OVER THE ISSUE IN THE LIGHT OF THE NUMBERS THAT SHOW THE NEW RACIAL BREAKDOWNS.

AND SO YOU'RE GOING TO DEFINITELY SEE THE LATINO CAUCUS ADVOCATING FOR A GREATER SHARE.

SO WHO KNOWS HOW IT'S GOING TO PLAY OUT.

I THINK THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT OF COMPROMISES.

>> AND IT REFLECTS THE GROWTH OF THE LATINO POPULATION IN CHICAGO.

>> THE GROWTH IS RIGHT NOW UNDER THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT, WE HAVE THREE DISTRICTS THAT WERE CREATED TO DESIGNED TO ELECT A BLACK MEMBER OF CONGRESS AND ONE WHERE YOU HAD TO ATTACH THE TWO AREAS IN THE CITY WHERE YOU HAVE CONSOLIDATED HISPANIC POPULATIONS, PILL EXCEPT ON THE SOUTH AND PILSEN ON THE SOUTH AND HUM BOLD PARK ON THE -- BUMP BOLT PARK.

HUMBOLDT PARK.

IT HAS NOT INCREASED ENOUGH IN THE AREA TO CREATE A SECOND HISPANIC DISTRICT.

THE POLITICAL SHOW WITH LAURA WASHINGTON WE HAD ON CONGRESSMAN GARCIA AND HE WAS NOT READY TO CONCEDE THE POINT THAT YOU COULD NOT MAKE A SECOND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT BUT IT'S HIGHLY UNLIKELY.

LOOK FOR THE CHANGES MORE IN THE WARD AND LEGISLATIVE LEVELS.

>> RIGHT AND THE WARD LEVELS THAT WILL BE A FIERCE DEBATE OVER BLACK AND LATINO REPRESENTED WARDS IN CHICAGO.

MIKE FLANNERY GOING BACK TO THE CONGRESSIONAL MAPS DOWN STATE REPRESENT CONGRESSMAN RODNEY DAVIS SEEMS TO THINK THAT DEMOCRATS WILL COME AFTER HIM DRAW DISTRICT THAT WILL MAKE IT HARDER FOR HIM TO WIN.

DO YOU THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE THE CASE?

>> WELL, THERE IS A LOT OF DEBATE ABOUT THAT.

AND DOES J.B. PRITZKER WANT TO PERHAPS PUT BY WRITING THAT BY ELIMINATING DAVIS' DISTRICT OR MAKING IT A DISTRICT THAT HE DOESN'T WANT TO RUN IN HE SAYS HE IS GOING TO JUMP INTO THE GOVERNOR'S RACE.

HE IS ARGUABLY THE STRONGEST REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR.

AND I KNOW THERE IS A LOT OF DISAGREEMENT IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ABOUT THAT.

MY GUESS IS THAT J.B. PRITZKER WOULD PREFER NOT TO HAVE RODNEY DAVIS JUMP IN.

I THINK ADAM KINZINGER IS ON THE BUBBLE AND DEMOCRATS -- >> YOU DON'T THINK PRITZKER WOULD WANT TO FACE HIM.

HE WOULD BE A FORBIDDABLE AS DAVIS?

>> WELL, I'M OF THE SCHOOL THAT HE HAS A HECK OF A DOG FIT KINZINGER DOES IN THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY IN ANY.

AND A TOP RANKING VERY, VERY HIGH RANKING DEMOCRAT IN SPRINGFIELD IS CONVINCED THAT KINZINGER IS GOING TO LOSE WHATEVER REPUBLICAN PRIMARY HE WOULD FACE.

AND SO THEN THEY ARE THINKING LET'S GO AHEAD AND JUST GRAB THAT DISTRICT.

SO THERE IS A LOT THAT IS UP FOR GRABS.

BUT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT ROBIN KELLY, IF YOU ARE LOOKING HER DISTRICT IN THE WARDS ON THE SOUTH SIDE THAT ARE IN HER DISTRICT, THE DEPOPULATION THERE HAS BEEN BREATHTAKING.

ONCE AGAIN THE BLACK POPULATION IN THE CITY HAS DROPPED BY ANOTHER 10%.

WE HAVE ABOUT HALF A MILLION FEWER AFRICAN-AMERICAN RESIDENTS IN CHICAGO THAN WE DID WHEN HAROLD WASHINGTON WAS MAYOR.

AND I THINK THOSE TO MAIN TAN THREE DISTRICTS IN WHICH BLACK CANDIDATES ARE CERTAIN TO WIN, I DON'T THINK IT'S POSSIBLE ANYMORE.

>> WE NEED TO MOVE ON TO NEWS OF THE WEEK.

C.P.D.

OFFICER ELLA FRENCH WAS LAID TO REST.

LISTEN TO WHAT CARDINAL CUPICH SAID AT HER SERVICE.

>> LET US GRIEVE TOGETHER FOR ELLA FRENCH AND ALL THOSE SHE CARED ABOUT FOR THE CHILDREN YOUNG AND OLD CUT DOWN BY GUNFIRE EVERYDAY ON OUR STREETS.

>> VERY EMOTIONAL SERVICE AND SARAH KARP, THIS COMES AS A NEW POLL COMES OUT SHOWING THAT THE C.P.D.

HAS 70% APPROVAL WHILE THEY FEEL THAT THE CITY DOESN'T HAVE THEIR BACK.

WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THE STATE OF POLICE-COMMUNITY RELATIONS AND THE STATE OF POLICE MORALE RIGHT NOW?

>> IT WAS VERY INTERESTING TO SEE THE POLICE REACT TO MAYOR LIGHTFOOT OVER THE LAST TWO WEEKS SINCE ELLA FRENCH WAS KILLED.

AND ALSO WAS INTERESTING TO HEAR WHAT THE FATHER OF ELLA FRENCH'S PARTNER SAID THAT THEY REALLY DON'T FEEL SUPPORTED AND THEY FEEL LIKE SORT OF HER LISTENING TO THE DEFUND POLICE PEOPLE HAS HURT THE POLICE.

BUT, I ALSO THINK THAT THE KIND OF NICE THING ABOUT THE WAY THE STORY HAS BEEN OUT IS THAT PEOPLE HAVE BROUGHT UP SHE CARED ABOUT THE COMMUNITY AND SHE WAS SADDENED BY ALL THE GUN VIOLENCE IN THE CITY.

AND THAT THAT'S -- IT IS SUCH A DIFFICULT THING THAT THE POLICE ARE CONFRONTING AND THAT THEY KNOW THERE ARE GOOD POLICE OUT THERE WHO ARE VERY SENSITIVE TO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE OUT THERE STRUGGLING AND REALLY SUFFERING FROM THE GUN VIOLENCE.

>> AND AT THE SAME TIME THERE WERE A GROUP OF ACTIVISTS THAT CALLED OUT C.P.D.

FOR APPARENTLY RENEWING ITS CONTRACT WITH SHOTSPOTTER THE TECHNOLOGY TO DETECT GUNSHOTS AND DISPATCH OFFICERS.

MAUDLYNE IHEJIRKA WAS THAT CONTRACT RENEWED WITH THE CITY DO WE KNOW THAT 100%?

>> WE DON'T KNOW THAT 100%.

THAT IS WHAT IS BEING REPORTED.

AND WE HAVE YET TO HEAR FROM THE CITY CONFIRMING THE CONTRACT OR THE EXTENT OR CHANGES TO THE CONTRACT AT THIS TIME.

YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT THE ELLA FRENCH FUNERAL HAS HER KILLING BROUGHT THE CITY TOGETHER AND SHOWED THAT EVERYONE, OF EVERY RACE AND CREED IS IMPACTED EVERY TIME ANYTIME A POLICE OFFICER LAYS THEIR LIFE OR GIVES THEIR LIFE ON THE LINE TO KEEP US SAFE.

I THINK THAT ONE THING WE HAVE TO KEEP IN MIND IS THAT AS THE INSULTS HURLED AGAINST LIGHTFOOT FOR BEING OPEN TO POLICE REFORM, WE HAVE TO KEEP IN MIND THAT NO ONE INCIDENT DEFINES THIS DEBATE AND WE JUST ALL REALLY HAVE TO PRAY FOR OUR POLICE OFFICERS AS THEY EXECUTE THEIR JOBS IN THE LINE OF DUTY AND PRAY FOR THE CITIZENS AS THEY DRIVE TO AND FROM.

YOU KNOW, WE HOPE THAT JUSTICE WILL BE SERVED IN THE CASE OF THE PERPETRATORS AND NO ONE, NO ONE, WANTS TO SEE THIS PERPETRATOR I'M SORRY.

THE WHOLE THING IS TOO MUCH.

>> IT IS AN EMOTIONAL SITUATION FOR SO MANY PEOPLE.

>> LYNN, YOU WANT TO MOVE ON TO SOMETHING THAT YOU REPORTED ON THIS WEEK WITH THE OBAMA CENTER.

ANOTHER LEGAL CHALLENGE WAS FILED BY PROTECT OUR PARKS AND TODAY THE SUPREME COURT DECLINED TO HEAR THE CASE THAT THEY WANTED TO BRING.

IS THAT IT?

THE BACKHOES ARE GOING TO START DIGGING THE DIRT AT THIS POINT.

>> THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME GIVE YOU THE UPDATE ON IT.

THERE IS A COURT CASE THAT WILL CONTINUE AMY CONEY BARRETT WHO HANDLES EMERGENCY MATTERS FOR ILLINOIS DID NOT WANT TO WEIGH-IN AND SUGGEST OR RECOMMEND AN INJUNCTION TO STOP THE WORK THAT STARTED ON MONDAY.

SO THE HEAVY EQUIPMENT IS IN JACKSON PARK, CONSTRUCTION IS STARTING.

IT WILL TAKE ABOUT FOUR YEARS TO BUILD.

THE UNDERLYING COURT CASE WHICH IS A SECOND TRY BY THE OPPONENTS OF LOCATING THE OBAMA CENTER IN JACKSON PARK THAT CASE IS STILL THERE FOR NOW.

BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THE CONSTRUCTION WORK HAS BEGUN.

>> AND YOU REPORTED ON SOME HIGH DOLLAR DONORS THAT THE FOUNDATION GOT RECENTLY INCLUDING OLD NUMBER 23, CORRECT?

>> MICHAEL JORDAN AND HIS FAMILY.

IF YOU ARE CURIOUS THE BIGGER DONORS THEY DO HAVE A LIST IN THIS NEWEST ROUND TWO NAMES THAT STUCK OUT WAS MICHAEL JORDAN, AND CORPORATE HEADS DECIDED TO PUT IN MORE THAN $1 MILLION.

JORDAN IS IN FOR MORE THAN A MILLION.

AND THEN THE OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATIONS RUN BY GEORGE SOROS, THE WELL-KNOWN MEGA DEMOCRATIC INTEREST DONOR.

>> BEFORE WE GO AND THIS IS TALKED ABOUT ON WASHINGTON WEEK I'M SURE RIGHT AFTER US, MIKE FLANNERY, AFGHANISTAN AND THE EVACUATION OF AMERICANS IN AFGHAN ALLIES HAS BEEN ALL OVER THE NEWS.

SPEAKING OF POLITICAL DAMAGE HOW MUCH OF A POLITICAL HIT HAS PRESIDENT BIDEN TAKEN GIVEN EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED OVER THE LAST SIX DAYS?

>> I THINK HE HAS TAKEN A HEAVY HIT THIS WEEK.

I DO THINK THOUGH, THAT IN THE LONG-RUN, THE VOTER OPINION SURVEYS HAVE NOT WAVERED IN FINDING THAT LARGE SUPER MAJORITIES OF AMERICANS WANT US TO GET THE HECK OUT OF THERE.

THE PRESIDENT WHEN HE SPOKE THIS AFTERNOON SAID IF OSAMA BIN LADEN HAD NOT SOUGHT REFUGE IN AFGHANISTAN WOULD WE HAVE EVER SENT A SOLDIER THERE?

OF COURSE NOT.

AND TO BE THERE STILL 20 YEARS LATER, DOES IT MAKE STRATEGIC SENSE FOR THE U.S.

SWITCHING FOCUSING ON CHINA, THE REFERENCE YOU MADE ABOUT RAMP'S NEW -- RAM'S NEW JAB IN JAPAN THAT IS WHERE AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS ARE IN ASIA.

FOCUSED ON CHINA, FOCUSED ON THAT PART OF THE REGION NOT IN AFGHANISTAN.

>> CERTAINLY TAKING A HIT THIS WEEK FOR THE WAY THE PULLOUT WAS DONE.

BUT ATTENTION SPANS ARE SHORT AND NEWS CYCLES MOVES ON A LOT WILL BE CONTINGENT HOW THE EVACUATION GOES.

OUR THANKS TO MAUDLYNE IHEJIRKA, LYNN SWEET, SARAH KARP AND MIKE FLANNERY.

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