[♪♪♪] >> 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 MINUTE BUT FIRST, SOME OF TODAY'S TOP STORIES... >> THE CITY OF CHICAGO ANNOUNCES IT WILL DENY A PERMIT FOR METAL SLED SHREDDING COMPANY THE DECISION IS A MAKE WIN FOR LOCAL GROUPS THAT FOUGHT TO STOP THE PERMIT AND IT IS A DAY AFTER A HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT BY THE CITY CONCLUDED THE FACILITY WOULD NOT HAVE AN ADVERSE IMPACT ON NEARBY RESIDENTS' HEALTH.

NEVERTHELESS, CITY OFFICIALS CONCLUDED THE FACILITY WOULD PRESENT AN UNACCEPTABLE RISK TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD BECAUSE OF THE HISTORY OF INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION THERE AND A HISTORY OF COMPLIANCE ISSUES WITH THE COMPANY WHEN IT OPERATED AS GENERAL IRON FOR DECADES IN LINCOLN PARK.

>> RMG SLAMMED THE DECISION SAYING IT WAS MOTIVATED BY POLITIC IT IS WILL GO FORWARD WITH A LAWSUIT AGAINST THE CITY.

>> MASKS WILL BE MANDATORY FOR ALL CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS THIS DESPITE AN ILLINOIS APPELLATE COURT RULING THAT CAME DOWN LAST NIGHT AFFIRMING A LOWER COURT DECISION TO TOSS THE SCHOOL MASK MANDATE.

THE RULING DOES NOT IMPACT C.P.S.

BECAUSE THE DISTRICT HAS A AGREEMENT WITH THE TEACHERS LABOR UNION TO KEEP THAT MANDATE IN TASK.

A DECISION OF A GENERAL ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TUESDAY NOT TO RENEW THE MANDATE.

ILLINOIS ATTORNEY GENERAL KWAME RAOUL SAYS HE WILL APPEAL THE DECISION IMMEDIATELY TO THE ILLINOIS SUPREME COURT.

AND GOVERNOR PRITZKER STILL BELIEVES SCHOOL DISTRICTS SHOULD FOLLOW MASK MANDATE GUIDELINES BECAUSE IT WAS PART OF AN EXECUTIVE ORDER.

WE WILL HAVE MUCH MORE ON THIS IN A MOMENT.

>> PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN SAYS HE BELIEVES RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN HAS DECIDED TO INVADE UKRAINE.

THIS COMES AMID REPORTS THAT RUSSIA INCREASED ITS TROOP PRESENCE ALONG THE BORDER AND REPORTS THAT KREMLIN OPERATIVES ARE SPREADING PROPAGANDA ABOUT FALSE FLAG UKRAINIAN OPERATIONS TO JUSTIFY AN INVASION.

HE BASES THE CONCLUSION ON U.S. INTELLIGENCE ASSESSMENTS.

>> AT THIS MOMENT I'M CONVINCED HE MADE A DECISION.

RUSSIA CAN CHOOSE DIPLOMACY.

IT IS NOT TOO LATE TO DEESCALATE AND RETURN TO THE NEGOTIATING TABLE.

>> FAVORITE TIME OF YEAR WITH THE PITCHERS AND CATCHERS REPORT FEBRUARY DAY ALL BUT OUT.

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL ANNOUNCED SPRING TRAINING GAMES THEREBY CANCELED THROUGH MARCH 4 AS A LABOR DISPUTE BETWEEN THE PLAYERS ASSOCIATION AND LEAGUE OFFICIALS DRAGS ON.

TALKS ARE SET TO RESUME NEXT MONDAY WITH THE TWO SIDES FAR APART ON A HOST OF ISSUES.

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

JOINING US ARE MARIAH WOEFEL OF WBEZ.

NADER ISSA OF "CHICAGO SUN-TIMES".

RICK PEARSON OF THE "CHICAGO TRIBUNE" AND MIKE FLANNERY OF FOX 32 CHICAGO.

LET'S GET RIGHT TO IT.

RICK, THE APPELLATE COURT RULED AND THE LOWER COURT RULED AND THE ASSEMBLY'S COMMITTEE RULED IS THIS THE OFFICIAL END OF THE STATE-WIDE SCHOOL MASK MANDATE?

>> I DON'T THINK IT IS.

BUT YOU COULD TELL BY THE ISSUES INVOLVING THIS COURT RULING, THE LOWER COURT RULING AT THAT TIME PRITZKER APPEALED AND HAD THAT APPEAL THROWN OUT.

I THINK YOU CAN TELL THAT AMONG DEMOCRATS WHO HAVE BEEN CONTENT ALL ALONG IN THE LEGISLATURE TO LET GOVERNOR PRITZKER TAKE THE LEAD THROUGH THE EXECUTIVE ORDER PROCESS THAT DEMOCRATS THEMSELVES ECHOING REPUBLICANS' LONG COMPLAINT MAYBE IT'S TIME WE DO WEIGH-IN HERE AND WHEN THEY WEIGH-IN, IT SEEMS LIKE IN THE CASE OF JAY CAR AND SOME OF THE DEMOCRATS WERE PUTTING THE POLITICS AHEAD OF THE SCIENCE THEY PROFESSED TO FOLLOW BY REFUSING TO REINSTATE THE RULES.

YOU HAVE THIS GOOFY SITUATION WHERE YOU HAVE THE LOWER COURT IN SPRINGFIELD ISSUE A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS OVER 150 THAT HAD GONE TO COURT TO CONTEST THE ABILITY OF THE STATED THIS.

AND YOU HAD THAT RULING AND A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING.

THEN YOU HAD THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON ADMINISTRATIVE RULES BIPARTISAN OF THE LEGISLATURE IN AN EFFORT TO REINSTATE THE RULES, THE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE SAID NO.

AND THAT INCLUDED DEMOCRATS AS WELL.

SOME OF THEM SAID, HEY, WHY ARE WE TRYING TO REINSTATE THE RULES WHILE THEY ARE BEING LITIGATED?

LET'S HAVE THE APPELLATE COURT GIVE US GUIDANCE AND IN THE END THE COURT SAID THE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE DID NOT ACT SO THERE ARE NO RULES AND THE ISSUE IS MOOT.

>> DOES GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER STANDS TO GAIN POLITICALLY TO PURSUE THIS?

>> HIS PEOPLE CLAIM THAT IN FACT THE VOTERS ARE WITH HIM.

THE GOVERNOR SPOKE ABOUT THIS THE OTHER DAY AND HE ASSERTED APPARENTLY BASED ON THE POLLING THAT THEY ARE REFERENCING IN THE PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS THE GOVERNOR ASSERTED A MAJORITY OF PARENTS HE HAS BEEN LISTENING TO PARENTS AND HE TRUSTS PARENTS A LINE USED BY HIS OPPONENTS AND THE CLAIM IS HE WINS IN THE POLLING ON THIS IN DIFFERENT DEMOCRATIC DISTRICTS, THOUGH, INCLUDING MEMBERS OF THAT JOINT COMMITTEE ON ADMINISTRATIVE RULES JAY CAR THAT RICK REFERENCED, I DON'T THINK SOME OF THOSE DEMOCRATIC LAWMAKERS ARE CONVINCED AT LEASTTH THEIR DISTRICTS IT IS A WINNING ISSUE.

NOW, THERE'S NO INDICATION THE STATE SUPREME COURT IS IN ANY RUSH TO DEAL WITH THIS.

AND WE'RE BEING TOLD DON'T EXPECT A QUICK DECISION AND MAYBE YOU GO BACK AND ASK THE LAWMAKERS TO DEAL WITH IT AGAIN.

POTENTIALLY NEXT WEEK, I'M TOLD JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO BY A LAWMAKER THERE ARE DISCUSSIONS.

SPEAKER WELCH, THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE DON HARMON AND OTHERS HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT MAYBE RECONVENING JAY CAR AND TRYING IT AGAIN.

>> AT SOME POINT, MIKE, FEBRUARY 28 IS GOING TO COME AND GO WHEN THE NONSCHOOL STATE MASK MANDATE EXPIRES.

NADER ISSA, IT'S MOOT IN CHICAGO PAUSE OF THAT AGREEMENT BETWEEN C.P.S.

AND C.T.U.

SO DOES THAT OVERRULE THE COURT DECISION AND WILL MASKS CONTINUE TO BE MANDATORY IN CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS?

>> YES.

IT'S FOR A COUPLE REASONS.

ONE IS THE AGREEMENT WITH THE CHICAGO TEACHERS' UNION.

THE COURTS HAVE MADE CLEAR JUST BECAUSE GOVERNOR PRITZKER'S MANDATE ISN'T IN PLACE ANYMORE, DISTRICTS ARE NOT REQUIRED TO MANDATE MASKS.

THEY STILL HAVE THE OPTION ON THEIR OWN INDEPENDENTLY TO MANDATE MASKS THAT IS WHAT C.P.S.

IS DOING.

THEY'RE SAYING MASKS WILL STAY IN OUR SCHOOLS.

THERE IS ANOTHER ISSUE IN C.P.S.

AT ONE SCHOOL IN MOUNT GREENWOOD A COUPLE PARENTS SUED SAYING THEIR KIDS WERE TOLD THEY CANNOT COME INTO THE BUILDING WITHOUT MASKS AND PEDRO MARTINEZ IS DUE DOWN STATE IN COURT NEXT WEEK IN THAT CASE.

SO THERE IS MINOR ISSUES POPPING UP HERE AND THERE.

IN GENERAL IN C.P.S.

IT HASN'T BEEN A HUGE DEAL T HAS BEEN A BIG DEAL IN OTHER DISTRICTS.

YOU ASK ANY EDUCATORS AND A LOT OF FAMILIES THIS IS ONE OF THE TOUGHEST TIMES OF THE PANDEMIC THE PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS HAVE BEEN ALL OF THE FIGHTS ALL OF THE POLITICS BOILING OVER.

LEAKING INTO THE CLASSROOMS.

KIDS WEARING MASKS KIDS NOT AND THAT IS SORT OF TENSION BOILING OVER.

>> AND THAT WAS THE POINT OF A STATE-WIDE MASK MANDATE TO TAKE THAT RESPONSIBILITY AWAY FROM ADMINISTRATORS SO THERE WOULDN'T BE THESE FIGHTS.

MARIAH WOEFEL IN CHICAGO, Dr. ARWADY SAYS THAT THE CITY'S OVERALL INDOOR MASK AND VAX MANDATE MIGHT LIFT WHEN THE STATE'S DOES ON FEBRUARY 28.

DO YOU READ MIGHT TO MEAN LIKELY WILL?

>> I THINK SO.

I THINK SHE WAS CLEAR SHE DOESN'T WANT TO SEE CONFUSION OVER A THREE OR FOUR DAY LAG AFTER THE GOVERNOR ANNOUNCED THAT FEBRUARY 28 DATE.

THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE THREE OF THE FOUR COVID METRICS THAT THEY MEASURE ICU BEDS, HOSPITAL BEDS, UTILIZATION, COVID CASES AND POSITIVITY RATE THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE THREE OF THE FOUR OF THOSE IN A LOW OR LOWER TRANSMISSION ARENA FOR TWO WEEKS BEFORE THEY FOLLOW THAT MANDATE.

AND SHE WALKED THAT BACK A LITTLE BIT SAYING WELL, YOU KNOW, IF WE'RE IN THAT AREA FOR A WEEK AHEAD OF FEBRUARY 28, AND IT'S GOING TO BE A MATTER OF WE WILL BE THERE THREE OR FOUR DAYS AFTERWARDS WE ARE NOT TRYING TO CAUSE CONFUSION AMONG PEOPLE WHERE THERE'S DIFFERENT GUIDELINES AT THE STATE AND CITY LEVEL.

IT SEEMS LIKE SHE IS PRIMING US TO BE READY IF THE STATE DOES LIFT THE MASK MANDATE WE WILL SEE THE SAME THING IN THE CITY.

>> WHY ADD TO THE CONFUSION THAT IS THERE.

MEANWHILE, A MASK MELEE IN SPRINGFIELD A HEATED DEBATE OVER MASKING BREAKS OUT ON THE ILLINOIS HOUSE FLOOR.

TAKE A LOOK.

>> YOU ARE WORRIED ABOUT A CLOTH MASK?

YOU ARE WORRIED ABOUT A CLOTH MASK AND YOU WILL BE IN THE BREAK ROOM AND EATING AND WITH LOBBYIST DINNERS AND OUTSIDE OF THESE CHAMBERS IS THE HEIGHT OF HYPOCRISY.

ARE YOU NOT FIGHTING FOR ANYBODY 800 PEOPLE DIED IN YOUR CITY AND YOU SAID NOTHING.

>> LET'S NOT FORGET IT'S MINDSETS LIKE YOURS THAT CREATED THOSE MURDERS.

YOUR PRIVILEGE AND TO SAY THAT WE ARE HERE PLAYING GAMES AND THAT WE'RE NOT DOING REAL WORK, LOOK AT WHAT YOU'RE DOING.

YOU'RE INTERRUPTING A SESSION THAT YOU KNOW WE HAVE IMPORTANT BILLS OUT THERE THAT WE NEED TO VOTE ON.

>> RICK PEARSON POLITICAL THEATRE HARSH WORDS EXCHANGED.

IS ANYONE SCORING POLITICAL POINTS WITH THIS?

>> CERTAINLY THIS IS PART OF THE AIM OF THOSE REPUBLICANS THAT WERE EVENTUALLY TOLD TO LEAVE THE CHAMBER BECAUSE OF THE RULES AND THE ATTORNEY WHO HAS BEEN FIGHTING THESE MASK MANDATES IN SCHOOLS AND MUNICIPALITIES, APPARENTLY NOW MAKING A CHALLENGE TO THE ILLINOIS HOUSE RULES WHICH IS ABOUT AS FRIVOLOUS A LAWSUIT AS YOU CAN IMAGINE BECAUSE THE CHAMBER DETERMINES ITS OWN RULES.

THIS WAS ALL ABOUT SCORING POINT FOR THE FOLKS AT HOME IN THE REPUBLICAN DISTRICTS.

A GROUP LED BY THE EASTERN BLOC THE ONES WHO WANT TO SEPARATE THE REST OF THE STATE FROM CHICAGO.

THIS IS PURELY IN THE PLAYBOOK THAT THEY WANT TO DEMONSTRATE THAT I'M PLAYING FOR THE CAMERAS BACK HOME.

>> LET'S MOVE BACK HOME TO CHICAGO.

MIKE FLANNERY THE LIGHTFOOT ADMINISTRATION THIS AFTERNOON DECIDES TO REJECT THE PERMIT FOR RMG THAT METAL RECYCLING COMPANY TO OPEN UP THAT SCRAP METAL FACILITY ON THE SOUTHEAST SIDE THOUGH A HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT SAID IT WOULD NOT ADVERSELY IMPACT RESIDENTS' HEALTH.

WHY DID THE CITY MAKE THE DECISION?

>> POLITIC IT IS BECAME UNTENABLE FOR THE MAYOR TO GRANT THIS.

THERE HAVE BEEN SO MUCH FOCUS ON THIS PARTICULAR MOVE OF THIS COMPANY FROM THE ALONG THE RIVER ON THE NORTH SIDE THERE IN A GENTRIFYING NEIGHBORHOOD TO THE SOUTHEAST SIDE.

THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN IN THE WORKS FOR OVER A DECADE THIS MOVE.

IT CERTAINLY IS TOUGH.

THESE ARE INDUSTRIAL JOBS THE KIND THAT THE SOUTHEAST SIDE USED TO HAVE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF.

AND NOW IS I THINK PROBABLY PRETTY HUNGRY FOR BUT IT WAS POLITICAL.

>> AND THERE IS A HISTORY OF HEALTH IMPACTS IN THAT COMMUNITY BECAUSE OF THE INDUSTRIAL COMPANIES THERE.

GARZA HAD SUPPORTED THIS MOVE.

MARIAH WOEFEL ALSO THIS WEEK, SCARY STORY WHERE AN ALLEGED STALKER OF THE MAYOR'S WAS ARRESTED AFTER FIRING GUNS ALLEGEDLY NEAR HER HOUSE.

DO WE NEED TO TAKE A MOMENT TO ACKNOWLEDGE WHETHER YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE WITH THE MAYOR IT IS A FRAUGHT TIME TO BE A PUBLIC OFFICIAL ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND A WOMAN?

>> OH, YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.

AND THE MAYOR HAS SAID THIS THROUGHOUT HER TENURE THE GRIEF SHE FACES AS A BLACK, LEZ MAYOR ALSO LESBIAN MAYOR AND LISTENING AND USED IT AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT AND NOT THE ONLY CASE.

I THINK WE SAW WAS IT LAST MONTH, A FLORIDA MAN ADMITTED IN FEDERAL COURT TO THREATENING COOK COUNTY STATE'S ATTORNEY KIM FOXX WITH DISGUSTING DEROGATORY RACIST AND SEXIST LANGUAGE.

ABSOLUTELY IT IS A MOMENT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT.

>> CERTAINLY WE WISH FOR THE SAFETY OF EVERY PUBLIC OFFICIAL RHETORIC SHOULD NEVER GO SO FAR IT INSPIRES THAT KIND OF ACTION.

MEANWHILE, CONTROVERSIAL ORDINANCE IN CITY COUNCIL TO HAVE THE CITY HAVE IS THE POWER TO SEIZE ASSETS OF SUSPECTED GANG MEMBERS.

IT PASSED CITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE YESTERDAY.

NADER ISSA CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS SAY THIS IS POTENTIALLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL OR AT BEST FRAUGHT WITH LEGAL PROBLEMS.

HOW COME A MAJORITY OF THE COMMITTEEMEMBERS DID NOT AGREE WITH THAT?

>> WELL, IT MADE IT OUT OF COMMITTEE THE FULL CITY COUNCIL WANTED IT TO BE DEBATING IT.

THERE IS A WIDE CONSENSUS OUTSIDE OF CITY COUNCIL AMONG PEOPLE WHO STUDY VIOLENCE THAT THIS TYPE OF SORT OF OUTDATED ACTION TO SEIZE GANG ASSETS IT'S BEEN DONE BEFORE AND IT DOESN'T SOLVE ROOT CAUSES OF VIOLENCE.

I MEAN AT THE END OF THE DAY, THAT IS SORT OF WHAT THE MAYOR IS AIMING AT HERE, RIGHT?

IS TO UPEND GANG SYSTEMS, UPEND GANGS AND TAKE ASSETS IN AN ATTEMPT TO CURB VIOLENCE IN THE CITY.

BUT IT IS AN OUTDATED METHOD THAT LIKE YOU ARE SAYING CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS DO NOT AGREE WITH THEY DON'T THINK IT'S CONSTITUTIONAL AND HASN'T PROVEN TO WORK.

>> AND GIVEN PROBLEMS WITH THE DATABASE CAN YOU ENVISION A SCENARIO WHERE A SUSPECTED GANG MEMBER'S ASSETS IS SEIZED AND THEY GO TO COURT AND THE CITY LOSES THE CASE AND THEY ARE LIABLE FOR A LOT MONEY?

>> THAT IS WHAT OUT SITED OPPONENTS ARE ARGUING AND I ADD TO NADER'S COMMENTS IT IS NOT SURPRISING THAT THIS THE CITY COUNCIL'S PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE WITH THE MAJORITY OF THE CITY'S MOST CONSERVATIVE MEMBERS ON IT AND I THINK IT SETS UP THIS POTENTIAL FOR A SHOWDOWN OVER A VOTE OR PARLIAMENTARY MANEUVERS ON WEDNESDAY.

SO WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS.

>> WHEN SOMETHING PASSES COMMITTEE IT IS A CINCH TO PASS ARE YOU SAYING THE VOTE MIGHT BE IN DOUBT FOR THE FULL CITY COUNCIL?

>> YEAH, I'M SAYING THERE IS A LOT OF OPPOSITION AMONGST PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATES WHO DO NOT WANT TO SEE IT GET A VOTE OR PASSED.

IT IS NOT A SURE THING THIS GETS A VOTE OR PASSES ON WEDNESDAY.

>> I THINK IF WE COULD THROW IN FOR 15 SECONDS BACK IN THE 80s, KING LARRY HOOVER, THE KING OF THE DISCIPLES WAS SHOWN BY FEDERAL PROSECUTORS, RON RUNNING THROUGH THE NUMBERS.

150 MILLION A YEAR WAS THE MINIMUM REVENUE THAT THE GD'S WERE HANDLING AT THAT TIME.

THERE IS NOTHING LIKE THAT.

THOSE BIG MEGA GANGS HAVE BEEN SHATTERED AND WE'RE DEALING WITH HUNDREDS OF TINY CLICKS THAT CONTROL A FEW STREET CORPSES AND A FEW BLOCKS.

IT IS NOT LIKE IT USED TO BE.

>> AND THE QUESTION IS HOW DO YOU PROVE WITHOUT DOUBT IN A COURT OF LAW THAT SOMEONE IS A GANG MEMBER?

THIS IS THE PROBLEM THAT HAS COME UP WITH THE GANG DATABASE.

I WANT TO MOVE TO SOMEONE PROVED TO BE GUILTY IN FEDERAL COURT AND THAT IS FORMER ALDERMAN PATRICK DALEY THOMPSON.

RICK PEARSON JURY JURY TOOK ALL OF FOUR HOURS TO CONVICT HIM.

HE LIED TO FEDERAL BANK REGULATORS.

HOW MUCH PRISON TIME IS HE FACING?

>> HE IS FACING AS MUCH AS 30 YEARS IN PRISON.

ALTHOUGH I'M NOT SURE THAT WILL BE THE CASE.

BUT WHEN YOU MENTIONED FOUR HOURS THAT INCLUDED LUNCH BY THE JURORS.

THIS WAS NOT A GOOD DEFENSE PRESENTATION ON HIS BEHALF.

THAT HE GOT BEFUDDLED AND GETS CONFUSED AND IT'S THE BANK'S FAULT WHATEVER.

THIS IS NOT WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT FROM ' ALDERMAN.

AND IT'S INTERESTING TO SEE IN THIS GREAT HISTORY OF ALDERMANIC INDICTMENTS AND CONVICTIONS, YOU FINALLY HAVE A DALEY THAT GETS INDICTED AND CONVICTED.

AND IT WAS SURPRISING TO SEE SOME OF HIS ALDERMANIC COLLEAGUES COME TO HIS DEFENSE AND SAYING WELL WHEN YOU HAVE THE DALEY NAME YOU GET A TARGET ON YOUR BACK.

>> AND SOME OF THOSE JURORS DID NOT KNOW THE DALEY NAME.

THE FEDS BAT IN NOT A THOUSAND CLOSE TO A THOUSAND ON THESE POLITICAL CORRUPTION CASES WHY ON EARTH WITH A WEAK DEFENSE WOULD THIS ALDERMAN WITH A YOUNG FAMILY AND A LOT TO LOSE NOT STRIKE A PLEA DEAL IN WHICH YOU COULD SURMISE HE MIGHT AVOID PRISON TIME ALTOGETHER?

>> ONE OF THE GREAT MYSTERIES HIS DEFENSE LAWYER I THOUGHT DID AN EXCELLENT JOB WITH A WEAK HAND.

AND YOU KNOW, I KNOW I'M TOLD THAT Mr.

GATHER AND THE DEFENSE THERE WERE NEGOTIATIONS OVER A PLEA BARGAIN BUT DALEY WOULD NOT HAVE ANY OF IT.

IT MAY BE A SLIGHT OVERSTATEMENT BUT NOT MUCH.

I THINK MANY CHICAGOANS AND SUBURBAN MANY DOWN STATE FEEL THEY ARE ALL CROOKS.

IT'S ALMOST AT THE POINT WHERE IF YOU ARE A DEFENDANT AND A LAWMAKER AN ALDERMAN, YOU GO INTO COURT AND THESE GUYS AND GALS HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT MANY JURORS CONSIDER THEM GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT.

IT IS TOUGH TO OVERCOME THAT.

>> TOUGH TO OVERCOME.

MARIAH WOEFEL, MAYOR LIGHTFOOT VOWED TO GET ON SELECTING A REPLACEMENT QUICKLY.

IS IT A FOREGONE CONCLUSION THAT WHOEVER THE NEXT PERSON IS WILL BE ASIAN-AMERICAN GIVEN THE MOMENTUM TO MAKE THE 11TH WARD A MAJORITY ASIAN-AMERICAN WARD?

>> WELL, NO I DON'T THINK IT IS A FOREGONE CONCLUSION.

IT'S INTERESTING BECAUSE THE MAYOR HAS STAYED OUT OF THE REMAP FIGHT.

AND KIND OF TRIED TO BE HANDS OFF ABOUT THIS STANDOFF BETWEEN THE TWO CAUCUSES TRYING TO REMAP CHICAGO'S WARDS.

AND THE 11TH WARD HAS BEEN A PART OF THAT DEBATE BECAUSE ACTIVISTS A GROWING POPULATION IN AND AROUND CHINATOWN ARE PUSHING FOR THE 11TH WARD TO BE THE CITY'S FIRST MAJORITY ASIAN WARD AND THAT HAS THE PRESSURE ON THE MAYOR TO APPOINT AN ASIAN-AMERICAN CANDIDATE.

WE DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT WHAT THE PROCESS IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE.

SHE HAS 60 DAYS TO DO IT AND UNILATERAL CONTROL OVER WHO SHE WANTS TO CHOOSE.

I COULD SEE A SITUATION WHERE SHE APPOINTS SOMEONE WHO IS MAYBE NOT ASIAN-AMERICAN AND SAYS THAT SHE IS GOING TO LET THIS REMAP PLAY OUT AND LET THE VOTERS DECIDE ONCE THIS IS AN ASIAN-AMERICAN WARD.

OR SHE MIGHT HEED THE CALL OF ACTIVISTS AND TAKE THE STEP FORWARD.

I THINK IT IS A TOSS UP AND WE DON'T KNOW SHE PROMISED OPEN AND TRANSPARENT PROCESS SO WE'LL SEE HOW THAT SHAKES OUT.

>> AND PATRICK DALEY THOMPSON HAS RESIGNED THERE ARE 49 ALDERPEOPLE ON CITY COUNCIL RIGHT NOW.

AND NADER ISSA SPEAKING OF THAT REMAP, THE MAP FAVORED BY THE LATINO CAUCUS, GOT A BOOST FROM THE SO-CALLED PEOPLE'S MAP WHICH WAS SORT OF THE CITIZEN-DRIVEN EFFORT TO REDRAW THE CITY'S WARDS.

HOW DOES THAT IMPACT THIS REMAP FIGHT?

>> IT GOT SOME SUPPORT.

IT GOT A BOOST.

I THINK THE SORT OF CRUX OF THE ISSUE IS THE LATINO CAUCUS AND THE BLACK CAUCUS DO NOT AGREE.

THIS WEEK IT BECAME CLEAR THEY DON'T AGREE ON WHAT THEY DISAGREE ON.

SO I'M NOT SURE I'M NOT POSITIVE THAT IT'S GOING TO NECESSARILY AVOID A REFERENDUM.

I THINK THE LATINO CAUCUS STILL HAS WORK TO DO TO GET ITS MAP PASSED AND, YEAH, THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE TO NEGOTIATE WITH THE BLACK CAUCUS AND SORT IT OUT.

AND MY EYES IT SEEMS STILL SET TO GO TO A REFERENDUM.

>> LIKE MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYERS AND OWNERS THEY DON'T AGREE WHAT THEY DISAGREE ON.

SHOULD ANYONE BOO SHOCKED THAT RICHARD IRVIN GOT $20 MILLION FROM BILLIONAIRE KEN GRIFFIN WHEN IRVIN HAS BEEN HIS CANDIDATE FROM THE BEGINNING?

>> THERE IS A REASON TO BE SHOCKED IT WAS ONLY $20 MILLION AND NOT MORE.

YEAH, THIS HAS BEEN THE STORY SINCE IRVIN'S NAME WAS BEING FLOATED THIS WAS PART OF AN EFFORT TO RECRUIT A SLATE THAT WAS GOING TO HAVE THE FINANCIAL RESOURCES OF KEN GRIFFIN.

THE STATE'S WEALTHIEST INDIVIDUAL AND GRIFFIN WHO HAS BEEN IN A BATTLE WITH PRITZKER, THE BATTLE OF THE BILLIONAIRES, GRIFFIN PROMISING TO GO ALL IN.

THIS $20 MILLION IS LITERALLY A DROP IN A BUCKET FROM A PERSON WORTH 26 BILLION.

PRITZKER WORTH MORE THAN THREE BILL.

AND IT WILL BE THE FIRST OF MANY MORE HERE.

AND IT'S GOING TO TRY TO FORMALIZE THIS ORGANIZATION.

BUT THAT HAVING BEEN SAID, GRIFFIN'S RELUCTANCE TO SPEAK TO THE MEDIA, THE OVERHANDLING THAT HAS OCCURRED OF HIS LAUNCH HERE, DOESN'T BODE WELL.

AND I WOULDN'T SAY THAT MONEY IS GUARANTEE OF SUCCESS RIGHT NOW.

>> AND SPEAKING OF OVERHANDLING BY HANDLERS, MIKE FLANNERY, HE SPOKE TO YOU WHERE IT SEEMED LIKE HE LOOKED AT A HANDLER TO GET AN ESCAPE HATCH?

>> YEAH.

AND I WAS PURSUING A QUESTION ABOUT JUST WHAT EXCEPTIONS TO HIS PRO-LIFE POSITION ON ABORTION THERE MIGHT BE?

AND I WAS TRYING TO CLARIFY IT AND HE SAID WE'RE DONE.

NOT A ARTFUL WAY TO CONCLUDE THAT.

THERE'S BEEN ONE OTHER BIG MONEY DEVELOPMENT THIS PAST WEEK.

RICHARD DICK AND LIZ UIHLEIN OF THE PACKAGING GIANT THERE THAT IS BASED IN PLEASANT PRAIRIE, WISCONSIN THEY LIVE IN THE NORTH SUBURBS.

THEY ARE IN FOR A MILLION BUCKS OR MORE FOR DARREN BAILEY.

AND YOU KNOW, IT CERTAINLY IS SHAPING UP LIKE A BAILEY VERSUS IRVIN CONTEST IN THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY.

>> EVEN WITH THE BATTLE OF THE BILLIONAIRES MIKE UIHLEIN IS FOUND TO HAVE GIVEN MONEY TO GROUPS INVOLVED JANUARY 6.

WE HAVE TO LEAVE IT THERE.

THANKS TO MIKE FLANNERY, RICK PEARSON AND MARIAH WOEFEL, AND NADER ISSA.

AND ONE NOTE WE LOST A MEMBER OF THE WTTW FAMILY WITH THE PASSING OF JO MINOW.

ONE OF OUR BIGGEST CHEERLEADERS AND SUPPORTERS AND ONE OF THE STARS OF THE WTTW AUCTION WHEN WE USED TO RAISE FUNDS ARE A TELEVISED AUCTION OF DONATED GOODS AND SERVICE.

JO AND NEWT WHO IS A FORMER WTTW BOARD CHAIR AND F.C.C.

CHAIRMAN UNDER PRESIDENT KENNEDY WERE MARRIED FOR NEARLY 73 YEARS.

SHE IS A LIFETIME TRUSTEE OF WTTW.

JO AND NEWT RAISED THREE ACCOMPLISHED DAUGHTERS.

AND OUR THOUGHTS ARE WITH JO'S FAMILY AND MANY, MANY FRIENDS.

>> AND TOMORROW AT 5:00 P.M., WTTW WILL PRESENT NEWTON MINOW IN AMERICAN STORY THAT DETAILS THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE MINUTE KNOW FAMILY.

THAT IS OUR SHOW.

DON'T FORGET YOU CAN GET "CHICAGO TONIGHT" AND "THE WEEK IN REVIEW" STREAMED ON FACEBOOK, YouTube AND WTTW.COM/NEWS.

AND TOMORROW AFTER NEWTON MINOW AIRS JOIN US FOR "CHICAGO TONIGHT: LATINO VOICES" AT 6:00 P.M. AND "CHICAGO TONIGHT: BLACK VOICES" AT 6:30.

AND WE'RE BACK AT 7:00 P.M. NEXT WEEK.

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

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WATCHING.

STAY HEALTHY AND SAFE AND HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND.

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