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

I'M AMANDA VINICKY.

PARIS SCHUTZ HAS THE EVENING OFF.

WE WILL BE JOIN BY OUR "THE WEEK IN REVIEW" GUESTS BUT FIRST, SOME OF TODAY'S TOP STORIES... >> CHICAGO POLICE HAVE MADE ARRESTS IN CONNECTION WITH A PAIR OF HIGH PROFILE CRIMES.

SUPERINTENDENT DAVID BROWN SAYS IT IS A MESSAGE FOR OFFENDERS THEY WON'T GET AWAY WITH IT.

>> WE ARE GOING TO BE RELENTLESS, RELENTLESS IN PURSUING YOU AND BRINGING YOU TO JUSTICE AND CHARGING YOU HOLDING YOU ACCOUNTABLE TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW.

AND YOU CAN RUN, BUT CAN'T HIDE.

>> A 38-YEAR-OLD MAN FROM HAMMOND IS ACCUSED OF FELONY THEFT FOR A NASH AND BURGLARY, HE STOLE FIVE WATCHES FROM THE AUTO DEALERSHIP IN DECEMBER AND A SECURITY GUARD FACES A MURDER CHARGE FOR FIRING THE SHOTS THAT KILLED BOBBY JOHN SON SHE WOULD BE ALIVE IF NOT FOR THE BEHAVIOR OF THE GUARD WHO HAD BEEN AIMING FOR ANOTHER MAN STILL AT LARGE.

THE C.P.D.

IS UNDER PRESSURE TO SOLVE MORE CRIMES.

>> ILLINOIS' COVID POSITIVITY RATE DROPPED SIGNIFICANTLY FROM 9.4% TO 5.8.

STILL, GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER SAYS WHILE THE METRICS ARE GOING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION HE IS NOT READY TO DROP THE STATE-WIDE INDOOR MASK MAP DATE.

>> I'M VERY PLEASED WE WERE ABLE TO WEATHER THIS OMICRON COVID STORM THAT CAME THROUGH.

I BELIEVE WE SHOULD REMOVE MASKS AS SOON AS WE POSSIBLY CAN.

I'M CONSTANTLY LISTENING TO THE DOCTORS AND SCIENTISTS AND ENCOURAGING THEM WHAT IS THE RIGHT TIME AND RIGHT WAY TO DO IT?

VERY HOPEFUL WE WILL BE ABLE TO MAKE ANNOUNCEMENTS ABOUT THAT.

>> THE GOVERNOR DID NOT GIVE SPECIFICS, LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AND PRIVATE BUSINESSES WOULD BE ABLE TO IMPOSE THEIR OWN MANDATES.

THE PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT REPORTS 60,400 NEW CASES HALF THE AMOUNT OF NEW CASES REPORTED THIS TIME LAST WEEK.

>> NINE ACTIVISTS ARRESTED WHILE PROTESTING JASON VAN DYKE'S RELEASE FROM PRISON SAY THEY WILL NOT LET UP AS THEY SEEK JUSTICE FOR LAQUAN McDONALD.

>> WE ARE LITERALLY IN ANOTHER CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT RIGHT NOW AS WE SPEAK.

WE ARE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY.

YOU ARE NOT GOING TO SHAME US INTO THINKING YOU CAN ARREST THIS AWAY, YOU CANNOT POLICE AWAY RACISM.

YOU CANNOT INTIMIDATE US.

>> VAN DYKE A FORMER CHICAGO POLICE OFFICER SERVED LESS THAN HALF OF HIS PRISON SENTENCE FOR THE 2014 MURDER OF CHICAGO TEEN LAQUAN McDONALD.

HE WAS RELEASED YESTERDAY.

THE ACTIVISTS CALLING THEMSELVES THE LAQUAN 9 FACE DISORDERLY CONDUCT CHARGES.

THEY ARE PRESSURING U.S. ATTORNEY FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS, JOHN LAUSCH TO PRESS FEDERAL CHARGES AND WANT DICK DURBIN AND TAMMY DUCKWORTH TO HELP FORCE THE ISSUE.

>> AND WE'LL HAVE MORE ON THAT WITH OUR "THE WEEK IN REVIEW" PANEL.

JOINING US ARE SARAH KARP OF WBEZ.

CHUCK GOUDIE OF ABC7 CHICAGO.

LAURA WASHINGTON OF THE "CHICAGO SUN-TIMES" AND ABC7 AND A DEBUT FOR JACOBY COCHRAN FOR CITY CAST CHICAGO.

ACTIVISTS AND LAWMAKERS CALLING FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TO CONSIDER FEDERAL CIVIL RIGHTS CHARGES AGAINST JASON VAN DYKE.

"CHICAGO TONIGHT" SAT DOWN WITH McDONALD'S GRANDMOTHER AND HERE IS HER RESPONSE WHEN ASKED ABOUT VAN DYKE'S RELEASE.

>> IT IS A VERY HURT FEELING BECAUSE THAT MAN DIDN'T SERVE HIS TIME.

HE DID NOT SERVE HIS TIME.

THAT MAN TOOK EVERYTHING FROM ME.

THAT MAN TOOK MY FIRSTBORN GRANDCHILD FROM ME.

I'M TRYING TO GET YUZ FOR MY GRANDSON.

>> CHUCK, VAN DYKE WAS CONVICTED OF 16 COUNTS OF AGGRAVATED BATTERY AND A SECOND GRE MURDER CHARGE.

MURDER.

HOW IS HE OUT AFTER SOMETHING LIKE THREE YEARS IN PRISON?

>> WELL, HE DID SERVE HIS TIME UNDER THE LAW AND THE REGULATIONS IN THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.

SECOND DEGREE MURDER THE SENTENCE HE GOT, HE OR ANYBODY ELSE IS ENTITLED TO RELEASE AFTER ROUGHLY HALF OF THE TIME FOR GOOD BEHAVIOR.

THOSE ARE THE REGULATIONS IN ILLINOIS.

THEY CAN BE CHANGED IF PEOPLE DON'T LIKE THEM.

THEY HAVE NOT BEEN IN A LONGTIME.

BUT IN HIS PARTICULAR CASE, HE WAS TREATED NO DIFFERENTLY THAN ANYONE ELSE AT LEAST WHEN IT COMES TO THAT PART OF HIS RELEASE.

>> TREATED DIFFERENTLY IN OTHER WAYS OR PERHAPS WE COULDN'T LEARN EASILY HIS WHEREABOUTS?

>> CLEARLY, THE ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS OFFERED HIM ADVANTAGES IN TERMS OF THE RELEASE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION THAT VIRTUALLY NOBODY ELSE IS AFFORDED.

EVEN DREW PETERSON AS HE WAS TRANSFERRED AROUND IT SEEMED AS THOUGH THERE WAS MORE INFORMATION RELEASED BY THE STATE AND CLEARLY THERE ARE MANY FAR MORE DANGEROUS INDIVIDUALS, TERRORISTS, MASS MURDERERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND NOT ONLY FEDERAL AUTHORITIES BUT STATE AUTHORITIES WHEREVER THEY ARE HELD THERE IS FAR MORE TRANSPARENCY IN THE WAY THOSE CASES ARE HANDLED.

THE IDOC, THE ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS SEEMED TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE BLACKHAWK SCHOOL OF TRANSPARENCY IN THE LAST WEEK IF NOT THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS THAT VAN DYKE WAS MOVED AROUND TO DIFFERENT PRISONS, YOU WOULD ASK FOR INFORMATION AND YOU WOULD GET NOTHING AND THEY CLAIMED IT WAS SECURITY BASED BUT AFTER RELEASED THERE WAS NO SECURITY ISSUE AND THEY WERE SLOW AND PROVIDED VERY LITTLE DETAILS.

>> AND YOU SAID THAT HE SERVED HIS TIME FOLLOWED BY THE RULES OF THE LAW.

IS IT DOUBLE JEOPARDY AT ALL OR EXPLAIN AS WE HEARD FROM McDONALD'S GRANDMOTHER, AMONG THOSE SEEKING FURTHER JUSTICE ON THE FEDERAL LEVEL.

SO LAURA, WHAT COULD JOHN LAUSCH OR FOR THAT MATTER U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL MERRICK GARLAND DO IN THIS CASE?

>> WHAT THEY CAN DO AND WHAT THE ACTIVISTS ARE CALLING FOR IS THOROUGHLY INVESTIGATE THE CIRCUMSTANCES AND SEE IF THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO FILE CIVIL RIGHTS CHARGING IN THIS CASE.

THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR QUITE A WHILE.

IT WAS UNDER INVESTIGATION EARLY ON BACK IN THE 2014, 2015.

AND NOTHING CAME OF IT IN TERMS OF FEDERAL CHARGES.

IT APPEARS THAT THEY WERE SORT OF SET ASIDE WHEN THE STATE'S ATTORNEY'S OFFICE MOVED AHEAD AND FILED CHARGES AGAINST VAN DYKE.

AND BECAUSE THERE WAS A CHANGE IN ADMINISTRATION, AND DONALD TRUMP'S ADMINISTRATION CAME IN, THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT CAME IN AND THEY WERE NOT INCLINED INTERESTED IN PROSECUTING POLICE OFFICERS.

IN FACT THEY HAVE BEEN SUPPORTIVE OF POLICE OFFICERS.

NOTHING EVER REALLY HAPPENED.

I THINK WHAT YOU AND CHUCK WERE TALKING ABOUT POINTS TO THIS REINFORCES THE PERCEPTION THAT POLICE OFFICERS STILL TO THIS DAY EVEN AFTER ALL WE WENT THROUGH ARE TREATED DIFFERENTLY THAN OTHERS IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AND THEY ARE PROTECTED.

YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER IT WAS ALMOST A 50 YEARS FOR A POLICE OFFICER AN ON DUTY POLICE OFFICER TO BE CONVICTED OF A CRIME OF THIS NATURE.

SO, AGAIN, IT CREATES A CONCERN THAT POLICE OFFICERS ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO GET A BREAK EVEN IN THESE CIRCUMSTANCES.

>> JACOBY, WHAT OF THAT?

IS THIS A SIGN THAT THE FEDS NEED TO COME IN TO SHOW THAT TIMES HAVE CHANGED?

WOULD THAT REOPEN OLD WOUNDS?

OR PERHAPS WOULD NEW CHARGES HEAL WOUNDS?

>> I BELIEVE WE'RE SEVEN, EIGHT YEARS INTO THIS CASE AT THIS POINT.

IF THE FEDS WERE GOING TO BRING CHARGES I IMAGINE THEY WOULD HAVE DONE THAT ALREADY.

IT WILL PUT US IN A SITUATION WHICH WE'RE REACHING FOR THE MOST MINUSCULE THING WE CAN HOLD ON TO IS CHARGES MORE JAIL TIME.

BUT LAQUAN'S UNCLE SAID VAN DYKE COULD GET A THOUSAND YEARS AND IT'S NOT GOING TO CHANGE THE WAY THE POLICE OFFICERS MOVE THROUGH THE STATE OF ILLINOIS AND THE CITY OF CHICAGO.

IN THE LAST YEAR WE'VE WATCHED POLICE OFFICERS CHASE DOWN AND SHOOT PEOPLE AND SHOOT A KID IN THE CHEST IN LITTLE VILLAGE AND THEY WERE NOT REPRIMANDED THEY WERE TAKEN OFF THEIR JOB YOU KNOW, FULL-TIME.

AND SO I THINK WE'RE STILL WANTING MORE BUT WE ARE NOT GOING TO GET IT IN THIS CASE.

I DO FEEL WE ARE GOING TO TEAR OLD WOUNDS AS THE CITY ASKING FOR THE BARE MINIMUM AND CHUCK SAID IT ON HIS RELEASE HE WAS NOT TREATED DIFFERENTLY UNDER THE LAW BUT EVERYTHING PRIOR TO THAT THE WAY HE WAS SENTENCED, AND TREATED, THE WAY THE CHICAGO, THE UNION THE MAYOR'S OFFICE PARTICIPATED IN A COVER UP.

HE WAS TREATED DIFFERENTLY AT EVERY OTHER POINT.

THE RELEASE TIMING I DON'T CARE IF THAT GOES BY THE LETTER OF THE LAW.

>> SARAH, THE NOTION OF CHANGE.

MAYOR LORI LIGHTFOOT REMINDED THOSE DISAPPOINTED BY VAN DYKE'S RELEASE IT IS RARE FOR A POLICE OFFICER TO BE CONVICTED OF SOMETHING INVOLVING WHILE THEY WERE ON DUTY.

AND FURTHER, SAYING THAT IT DID SPUR CHANGE WITH THE CONSENT DECREE THAT NOW GOVERNS THE CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT.

WHAT HAS MATERIALLY CHANGED SINCE WELL, McDONALD'S DEATH AND VAN DYKE'S CONVICTION?

>> WELL, THE BIGGEST THINGS THAT CHANGED WE HAVE A CONSENT DECREE.

BUT WHAT SHE FORGOT TO SAY IS MUCH OF THE CONSENT DECREE HAS NOT BEEN FOLLOWED.

VERY SMALL PORTIONS.

THINGS ARE INCHING ALONG.

AND THERE IS A LOT OF CONCERNS BECAUSE EVEN IF YOU LOOK AT LIKE THE FOOT CHASE POLICY PUT IN PLACE POST ADAM TOLEDO'S MURDER OR DEATH, NOT A MURDER, BECAUSE HE WAS NOT CHARGED HIS KILLING THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN PUT IN PLACE PER THE CONSENT DECREE.

BUT DID WASN'T.

AND IT SHOWS THERE'S ALL THESE STEPS GOING ALONG THAT IS NOT CHANGE ON THE STREET WHEN POLICE OFFICERS COME IN CONTACT WITH PEOPLE THAT THERE'S NEW WAYS OF DEALING WITH THE PUBLIC.

I'M NOT SO SURE THAT MANY POLICIES HAVE BEEN PUT IN PLACE.

>> I WAS GOING TO SAY THAT THE WHEN THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT COMES IN THEY USE A PHRASE CALLED PATTERN AND PRACTICE AND THAT IS THE BASIS FOR THEN CREATING THIS CONSENT DECREE.

THERE CLEARLY HAVE BEEN CHANGES IN THE PATTERN, THE TEMPLATE, THE RULES, THE REGULATIONS.

WHAT REALLY IS IMPORTANT HERE IS WHAT THE PRACTICE IS ON A DAILY BASIS IN CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOODS AND THE JURY IS OUT ON WHETHER OR NOT THERE HAS BEEN ENOUGH CHANGE IN THE PRACTICE OF ALL OF THIS.

>> DAVID BROWN SAID HE IS FRUSTRATED BY THE SLOWNESS OF REFORM BY THE RELUCTANCE ON THE PART OF SOME OFFICERS HIGHER UP IN THE RANK-AND-FILE IN HIS ADMINISTRATION.

TO GET ONBOARD IN TERMS OF DOING A BETTER JOB OF COMMUNITY POLICING, DOING A BETTER JOB OF BEING ON THE STREET AND RESPONSIVE TO THE COMMUNITY.

HE HAS BEEN CRITICIZED INTERNALLY OFF THE RECORD COMMENTS TO "THE SUN TIMES" ABOUT BY HIS OWN TOP PEOPLE AND HIS RESPONSE IS THEY NEED TO GET WITH THE PROGRAM.

AND OF COURSE, AS WAS MENTIONED THE UNION HAS NEVER REALLY BEEN ONBOARD WITH SOME OF THE REFORMS AND CHANGES.

IT'S GOING SLOW AND PAINFUL PROGRESS SO FAR.

>> LET'S STICK ON THE CHICAGO POLICE.

ANOTHER FORMER OFFICER AND THIS IS SERGEANT RONALD WATTS, MORE THAN 100 CONVICTIONS HAVE BEEN OVERTURNED IN CASES THAT WERE CONNECTED WITH SERGEANT WATTS.

KIM FOXX, WHO WILL BE ON BLACK VOICES HERE ON WTTW TOMORROW NIGHT FOR AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW, WAS ON HAND THIS WEEK AS 19 CASES OF THOSE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED WERE TOSSED.

JACOBY, MORE THAN 100 CASES, HOW DOES SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPEN?

>> 115 CASES.

THE WAY THIS HAPPENS IS BY PEOPLE FOR GENERATIONS TURNING IN AND LOOKING AWAY.

WE JUST HAD CITY COUNCIL GIVE SOME OF THE BIGGEST POLICE MISCONDUCT SUITS IN RELATION TO COMMANDER JOHN BURGE IF ANYONE BELIEVES THEY ARE NOT POLICE OFFICERS STILL OUT HERE SHAKING PEOPLE DOWN, PLANTING FALSE EVIDENCE, YOU KNOW GIVING FALSE TESTIMONIES, THEN YOU'RE PROBABLY HIGHLY MISTAKEN.

THIS ONLY HAPPENS WITH MULTIPLE PEOPLE PARTICIPATING, MULTIPLE TURNING AWAY AND DECIDING THAT THIS IS OK.

DEPENDING WHERE IT IS HAPPENING.

BECAUSE IT WAS HAPPENING IN THE IDA B.

WELLS HOMES PEOPLE DID NOT CARE WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE PROJECTS.

AND YEARS LATER WE ARE SEEING CASE AFTER CASE BEING THROWN OUT BECAUSE THIS HAS BEEN A PROBLEM FOR GENERATIONS.

>> SARAH THERE'S BEEN SHUFFLING AT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT WITH DAVID BROWN MOVING MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY SAFETY TEAM TO NOW ANSWERING PATROLS.

IS THIS A SIGN THAT BROWN IS LISTENING TO FEEDBACK, COMBATING CRIME?

OR THAT HE LACKS VISION?

>> WELL, PUTTING MORE POLICE ON THE STREET I'M NOT SURE THAT THAT IS THE VISION THAT PEOPLE REALLY WANT.

PEOPLE WANT LAW AND ORDER BUT THEY WANT COMPASSION FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE IN SITUATIONS THAT LEAVE THEM VULNERABLE TO COMMITTING CRIMES.

I THINK THERE IS A BALANCE HERE.

DO WE TURN TO THIS LAW ENFORCEMENT STATE WHERE PEOPLE ARE BEING ARRESTED AND KEPT IN PRISON FOR LONG PERIODS OF TIME?

OR DO WE THINK HOW DO WE GET TO SOME OF THE REASONS WHY PEOPLE ARE COMMITTING CRIMES AND PEOPLE ARE INVOLVED IN VIOLENCE.

AND THAT IS A BALANCE AND I THINK TO SOME DEGREE, MAYOR LIGHTFOOT HAS TRIED TO SAY WE HAVE TO ATTACK THE ROOT.

BUT THEN, ON THE OTHER HAND, SHE IS VERY MUCH LIKE PEOPLE AREN'T BEING LOCKED UP ENOUGH AND STAYING IN PRISON ENOUGH.

DO WE SWING THE PEND USE LUMP WHERE WE KEEP FILLING THE PRISONS MORE AND MORE MOSTLY BLACK MALES AND LATINO MALES AND WE ARE IN THE STATE WHERE SO MANY PEOPLE OF THE COMMUNITY ARE PARENTS, BROTHERS, SISTERS, ARE SPENDING THEIR LIVES IN PRISON.

SO I THINK THERE HAS TO BE SOME BALANCE.

AND OF COURSE THE LONGER TERM SOLUTIONS ARE NOT THROUGH POLICING BUT THEY TAKE A WHILE TO SET IN IF YOU CAN GET TO THEM.

>> AND LET'S MOVE ON TO OUR POLITICAL NOTEBOOK BECAUSE THERE IS A LOT GOING ON THERE, INCLUDING THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE TODAY CENSURING TWO HIGH PROFILE REPUBLICANS AND THAT IS U.S. REPRESENTATIVE LIZ CHENEY OF WYOMING AND ILLINOIS' CONGRESSMAN ADAM KINZINGER.

THE RNC SAYS THAT BY PARTICIPATING IN THE U.S. HOUSE COMMITTEE INVESTIGATING THE JANUARY 6, 2021 RIOT THAT KINZINGER IS PARTICIPATING IN THE PERSECUTION OF ORDINARY CITIZENS ENGAGED IN QUOTE AGAIN, LEGITIMATE POLITICAL DISCOURSE.

YOU HAVE REPUBLICANS DENOUNCING IT AND DOWN-PLAYING, IS THIS AT THE POINT OUT OF OUT RIGHT DENIAL?

>> MAYBE THE PEOPLE WHO SAID THAT TODAY HAVE GONE ON A TV FREE JANUARY OR THE LAST YEAR.

BECAUSE THEY CLEARLY DIDN'T LOOK AT THE VIDEOS THAT WE CONTINUE TO REVIEW AND PUT ON TELEVISION OF WHAT HAPPENED ON JANUARY 6TH.

NO SANE PERSON COULD LOOK AT THOSE VIDEOS COULD READ THROUGH THE ARREST REPORTS COULD LOOK AT THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE HOSPITALIZED AND CONTINUE TO THIS DAY TO BE AFFECTED BY WHAT HAPPENED THERE AND SAY THOSE THINGS.

>> I MEAN PEOPLE WERE KILLED.

LAW ENFORCEMENT WERE KILLED DURING THAT.

AND THEY DIED BECAUSE OF ALL THE PRESSURE THEY WERE FACING.

AND I MEAN YOU CAN THINK THIS WAS JUST A TAMED POLITICAL COMMENTS I THINK THAT IS JUST A DIFFERENT REALITY THAT THEY ARE LIVING IN.

>> I THINK IT SHOWS HOW FER VENTLY THE DONALD TRUMP WING OF THE PARTY, THE DONALD TRUMP RESPONSE TO THE ELECTION TO THE JANUARY 6TH EVENTS TO THE WHOLE ELECTION DENIAL, THE DENIAL THAT JOE BIDEN WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT, I IT SHOWS YOU HOW FIRMLY THAT GRIP IS ON AND THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE THE BIGGEST REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION IN POLITICAL ORGANIZATION IN THE COUNTRY.

>> WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR KINZINGER?

HE IS NOT RUNNING FOR REELECTION DOES THIS HAVE AN IMPACT ON HIM?

>> KINZINGER IS OUT OF THE GAME OTHER THAN HE WILL CONTINUE TO SERVE ON THE JANUARY 6TH COMMITTEE AND WILL BE A VOICE OF SOME REASON ON THAT COMMITTEE.

HE ALREADY SAID HE IS NOT RUNNING FOR REELECTION AND HE WILL NOT RUN FOR HIGHER OFFICE.

POLITICALLY IT'S NOT GOING TO MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE.

IT IS A CHALLENGE FOR ILLINOIS REPUBLICANS ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO AGAIN WHO ARE FIRMLY IN THE GRIP OF THE TRUMP PHILOSOPHY BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO RESPOND TO MANY OF THE MODERATE REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS, PARTICULARLY IN THE STATE-WIDE RACES WHO DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS MENTALITY.

YOU SAW THIS WITH RICHARD IRVIN.

HE IS ONE OF THE NEWEST CANDIDATES TO GET IN THE RACE AGAINST J.B. PRITZKER AND HE IS NOT WILLING TO TALK ABOUT TRUMP.

TRUMP HAS A HUGE INFLUENCE IN THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.

TRUMP IS GOING TO BE FRONT AND CENTER IN THE RACES GOING FORWARD.

>> AND LET'S GET TO THAT.

ILLINOIS REPUBLICANS, THEY'VE SLAMMED GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER'S ELECTION YEAR BUDGET.

HERE IS WHAT THE GOVERNOR HAD TO SAY IN HIS ANNUAL ADDRESS.

>> INFLATION IS SQUEEZING ILLINOIS FAMILIES.

GOVERNMENT OUGHT TO DO MORE TO EASE THE PAIN AND PUT MORE MONEY IN THE POCKETS OF HARD-WORKING ILLINOISIANS.

>> AND SO CONVENTIONAL WISDOM MAY HAVE BEEN THE PANDEMIC WAS GOING TO MAKE STATE BUDGETING TOUGH INSTEAD PRITZKER HAS A LOT OF MONEY TO PLAY WITH.

JACOBY IS THIS BECAUSE HE IS FRUGAL, GOOD AT MANAGING?

WHAT?

>> WE GOT THEM FED DOLLARS SOME REVENUE RETURNED TO THE STATE.

BUT YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THIS HAS TO DO WITH THE WINDFALL OF FEDERAL MONEY THAT THE STATE WAS GIVEN.

AND PRITZKER SOUNDED LIKE A GUY WHO HAD MONEY TO SPEND.

I WAS PAYING ATTENTION TO THE POCKET HE ESTABLISHED HE DIDN'T WANT TO OFFEND ANYBODY AND HE USED WORDS IN STRATEGIC WAYS.

AND IT SEEMED LIKE I GOT ALL THIS MONEY I WILL GIVE IT TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS I CAN AND WHO IS GOING TO BE MAD AT ME?

WITH THAT BEING SAID AS WE LOOK AT THE FAMILY RELIEF PLAN HOW MUCH IS THAT BILLION DOLLARS GOING TO HELP ILLINOIS FAMILIES?

WHEN WE LOOK AT THE INVESTMENTS IN FAMILY AND CHILDCARE SERVICES, INVESTMENT IN VIOLENCE PREVENTION, WHAT IS THAT GOING TO MEAN IN THE LONG-TERM AND ESPECIALLY ONCE THE FEDERAL DOLLARS DRY UP.

PRITZKER TOUTED A $1.7 BILLION SURPLUS YOU GET INTO THE WEAVEDS IT MIGHT BE A $1.5 BILLION DEFICIT.

HE SOUNDS A MAN WHO GOT A LOT OF MONEY BUT I WONDER IF HE GOT AS MUCH MONEY FOR THE BUDGET AS HE DOES FOR REELECTION.

>> HE SOUNDS LIKE SOMEBODY WHO IS RUNNING FOR REELECTION.

THE DOLLARS ALWAYS APPEAR IN YEARS LIKE THIS.

>> TAX BREAKS THIS YEAR.

WHAT A GREAT THING FOR HIM TO GIVE A TAX BREAK.

>> I HAVE A FEELING I DON'T KNOW ABOUT 1.7 BILLION BUT MONEY SPENT ON COMMERCIALS WITH THAT PHRASE.

HERE IS WHERE THE JUSTICE SYSTEM AND POLITICS INTERSECT AND THAT IS WHEN POLITICIANS GET IN TROUBLE.

THE FEDS PUSHING TO SEND RICARDO MUNOZ FOR USING CAMPAIGN DOUGH ON PERSONAL EXPENSES.

AND PICK YOUR 10 FRIENDS MAKE THEM MILLION AREAS AND THEY WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU LEGALLY.

NOW, CHUCK, IS THIS JUST HOW ILLINOIS POLITIC HOW CHICAGO POLITICS WORK THERE IN WRITING?

>> I THOUGHT YOU WERE READING BACK THE STATE OF ILLINOIS MOTTO WHEN YOU SAID THAT.

WE LAUGH ABOUT THIS, BUT IT'S THE SAD REALITY IN THIS STATE WITH SO MANY PEOPLE HAVING BEEN PROSECUTED IN PUBLIC LIFE AND SENT TO PRISON.

IT IS THE WAY OF ILLINOIS.

IT REMAINS THAT WITH ILLINOIS BEING ONE OF THE IF NOT THE MOST CORRUPT STATE IN THE UNION WITH ELECTED OFFICIALS AT ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT BEING INVESTIGATED, PROSECUTED AND THEN INCARCERATED IN MANY CASES.

>> INCLUDING AMONG THEM A DALEY, A DALEY FACING CHARGES.

LAURA DID YOU EVER THINK YOU WOULD SEE THE DAY.

PATRICK DALEY THOMPSON?

>> HE WILL GO ON TRIAL KICKS OFF MONDAY.

HE IS BEING LOOKED AT FOR SOME FINANCIAL MISS DEEDS IN TERMS OF HOW HE PAYS HIS TAXES AND A LOAN TO THE BANK.

HE IS A DALEY.

THE FIRST TIME A MEMBER OF THE DALEY FAMILY IS RISEN OR SHOULD SAY DES SENDED TO BE SUBJECT OF FEDERAL CHARGES IT WILL BE A HIGH PROFILE RACE.

AND YOU KNOW WE ARE WE ARE AFEW YEARS AWAY FROM THE REIN OF THE DALEYS IF I WOULD SEE THIS?

SOONER OR LATER THE CORRUPTION CREEPS INTO EVERY ASPECT OF POLITICS AND THE MIGHTY FALL AND MAYBE PERHAPS WE'LL SEE PERHAPS THE DALEY DYNASTY MAY FALL.

>> THERE IS A SHAKE-UP AT THE TOP OF THE TEACHERS' UNION WITH C.T.U.

PRESIDENT JESSE SHARKEY WILL NOT SEEK REELECTION TAKE A LOOK.

>> AND THE POINT IS TO MEET GOALS, AND THEN PASS THE BATON TO THE NEXT LAYER OF PEOPLE WHO CAN CONTINUE SERVING THE MISSION OF THE UNION.

>> SARAH WE DON'T HAVE A TON OF TIME LEFT BUT HE IS LEAVING A LEGACY AND WANTING TO LEAVE THAT LEGACY BY HAVING THIS VP STACY DAVIS GATES TAKEOVER.

IF UNION MEMBERS CHOOSE THAT WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE UNION AND CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS?

>> YOU KNOW I PUT OUT THERE TO STACY DAVIS GATES THE MAYOR DOESN'T REALLY LIKE YOU.

IT'S MORE THAN LIKE.

THERE IS -- >> MUTUAL HATE.

>> THE DAYS WHERE THE 2019 STRIKE WAS BEING HASHED OUT THE LAST COUPLE DAYS.

STACY DAVIS GATES WAS NOT IN SOME OF THOSE FINAL MEETINGS.

JESSE SHARKEY WAS.

THE LAWYERS WERE.

BUT NOT STACY DAVIS GATES.

BECAUSE LIKE THE MAYOR JUST COULD NOT BE THERE TOGETHER YOU KNOW IT WAS THIS WAS NOT GOING TO GET SETTLED IF THEY ARE BOTH IN THE ROOM.

ONE OF THE THINGS THAT STACY DAVIS GATES SAYS IS LISTEN THIS IS SHARP DISAGREEMENT ABOUT THE WAY THE SCHOOL SYSTEM SHOULD BE RUN AND NOT JUST A PETTY FIGHT AND WHO LIKES WHO, IT'S ABOUT POLICY.

AND YOU KNOW, I DO THINK THAT -- I THINK THAT STACY DAVIS GATES AND A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE TEACHERS' UNION THINK THAT LIGHTFOOT IS NOT LOOKING OUT FOR THE BEST INTEREST OF CHILDREN AND.

AND PROBABLY LIGHTFOOT THINKS IN DIFFERENT WAYS THAT THE UNION DOESN'T LOOK OUT IN THE BEST INTEREST OF CHILDREN.

THERE IS DISAGREEMENTS.

AND THIS IS THE OTHER THING, A YEAR WHEN THE MAYOR IS RUNNING FOR REELECTION NEXT YEAR SHE HAS A REELECTION.

AND PUTTING STACY DAVIS GATES AT THE HEAD OF THE TEACHERS' UNION IS -- IT MAKES FOR A [INAUDIBLE] SITUATION.

>> AND MEANWHILE, WE HAVE A BLOWUP WITH ROCKY WORKS PUSHING BACK ON HOW THE BLACKHAWKS ARE GOING TO HANDLE SEXUAL ASSAULT GOING FORWARD MAYBE FANS WILL BE ON ICE WITH THE HAWKS AND FESTIVALS ARE COMING BACK.

A LOT OF FUN.

WANTED TO ASK YOU YOUR FAVORITE FESTIVAL AND WE'LL TAKE TO SOCIAL MEDIA WITH THAT.

WE ARE OUT OF TIME THANKS TO SARAH KARP, CHUCK GOUDIE, LAURA WASHINGTON AND JACOBY COCHRAN.

>> AND THAT IS OUR SHOW FOR THIS FRIDAY NIGHT.

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AND BE SURE TO JOIN US TOMORROW NIGHT AT 6:00 P.M. FOR "CHICAGO TONIGHT: LATINO VOICES" AND IMMEDIATELY AFTER THAT, "CHICAGO TONIGHT: BLACK VOICES" AT 6:30.

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

NOW FOR "THE WEEK IN REVIEW" I'M AMANDA VINICKY.

AND THANK YOU FOR WATCHING AND STAY HEALTHY AND SAFE AND WARM AND GOOD NIGHT.

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