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

WE WILL BE JOINED BY OUR "THE WEEK IN REVIEW" IN GUESTS A MOMENT BUT FIRST, SOME OF TODAY'S TOP STORIES... >> POLICE SAY THEY ARE INVESTIGATING ANOTHER SHOOTING DOWNTOWN THIS ONE KILLING TWO AND WOUNDING SEVEN.

CHICAGO POLICE SUPERINTENDENT DAVID BROWN DESCRIBED THE INCIDENT AS STEMMING FROM AN INTERPERSONAL CONFLICT AND IT TOOK PLACE OUTSIDE THE CTA REDLINE STATION ON CHICAGO AVENUE NEXT TO MCDONALD'S.

POLICE RECOVERED A FIREARM AND HAVE TWO PEOPLE IN CUSTODY.

BROWN SAYS THERE WILL BE BEEFED YOU HAVE POLICE PRESENCE IN THE AREA GOING FORWARD.

>> WE CREATED FIXED POST IN THE AREA ON STATE STREET.

AS WELL AS THE ROVING POST.

AND WE ALSO ADDED FIXED POST IN THE CTA TERMINAL THERE ON STATE STREET IN THE 800 BLOCK.

>> THE SHOOTINGS COME AS THE CITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE APPROVES MAYOR LIGHTFOOT'S PLAN TO MOVE THE TEEN WEEKEND CURFEW TO 10:00 P.M.

IN RESPONSE TO LAST WEEK'S SHOOTING IN MILLENNIUM PARK.

THE ORDINANCE PASSED DESPITE OPPOSITION FROM THOSE WHO BELIEVE THE CURFEW CANNOT BE ENFORCED AND WILL NOT DO MUCH TO QUELL VIOLENCE.

LIGHTFOOT SAID THE CURFEW WOULD BE ENFORCED.

>> PARENTS DID NOT KNOW THERE IS A CURFEW.

AND NOW WITH THE IF IT'S PASSED OUT OF CITY COUNCIL NEXT WEEK EVERY NIGHT SEVEN DAYS A WEEK, 10:00 P.M. >> THE CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCES THE OFFICER INVOLVED IN THE SHOOTING OF A 13-YEAR-OLD ON WEDNESDAY HAS BEEN RELIEVED OF POLICE POWERS.

POLICE WERE TRYING TO STOP A CARJACKING SUSPECT WAS RUNNING AWAY WITH HIS HANDS UP WHEN SHOT.

THE VICTIM IS REPORTED TO BE AT STROGER HOSPITAL IN CRITICAL CONDITION.

THE CIVILIAN OFFICE OF POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY IS INVESTIGATING THE SHOOTING.

>> CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLTEACHERS ARE VOTING TODAY TO ELECT A NEW UNION LEADER.

TEACHER UNION PRESIDENT JESSE SHARKEY IS NOT SEEKING ANOTHER TERM.

THE CON TEPIDER ARE VICE-PRESIDENT SAYS SAYS AS WELL AS MEMBERS FROM OTHER COMPETING CAUCUSES WITHIN THE UNION INCLUDING THE MEMBERS FIRST AND THE REAL CAUCUS.

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

JOINING US FROM DAN PETRELLA, OF THE "CHICAGO TRIBUNE".

CRAIG DELLIMORE OF WBBM NEWS RADIO.

MARIAH WOELFEL OF WBEZ AND ERIK RUNGE OF WGN-TV NEWS.

>> FILL US IN WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT AND WHAT THAT CRIME SCENE WAS LIKE TODAY?

>> WELL, IT WAS REALLY SAD.

THERE WAS A LOT OF BLOOD AND MEDIC EQUIPMENT LEFT ON THE SIDEWALK BECAUSE PEOPLE WERE WALKING TO WORK.

SUPERINTENDENT DAVID BROWN SAID IT WAS A CRIME SCENE BUT PEOPLE WERE WALKING THROUGH IT ALL MORNING LONG AND IT WAS A SAD SITUATION THAT STARTED OUTSIDE OF THE MCDONALD'S.

TWO GROUPS OF PEOPLE THAT HAD SOME SORT OF INCIDENT THEY GOT INTO A BIG FIGHT.

YOU COULD SEE IN THE VIDEO PEOPLE THROWING PUNCHES IN FRONT OF POLICE AT THAT POINT.

SUPERINTENDENT BROWN SAID THAT SOMEONE HANDED ANOTHER MAN A GUN.

WHO STARTED FIRING AND HIT NINE PEOPLE KILLING TWO AND RAN TO THAT CTA SUBWAY STOP AT CHICAGO AND STATE.

POLICE CHASED HIM DOWN THERE.

THEY WERE ABLE TO ARREST HIM AND RECOVER THE WEAPON.

WHICH, OF COURSE, NOW HAS LED TO ALL OF THIS BEEFED UP SECURITY THAT YOU MENTIONED IN THE OPEN OF THE SHOW SOMETHING THAT MAYOR LIGHTFOOT TALKED ABOUT MOVING FORWARD EVEN BEFORE THIS SHOOTING.

BUT IT PUT IT INTO PLACE AND NOW THAT MCDONALD'S WHERE THIS TOOK PLACE WAS SHUTDOWN THIS AFTERNOON BY THE CITY CITING A NUMBER OF ELECTRICAL PROBLEMS AND OTHER THINGS THAT THE MAYOR SAID NEEDED TO BE FIXED BEFORE IT COULD REOPEN.

>> CRAIG DELLIMORE SPEAKING OF THAT BEEFED UP SECURITY BRENDAN REILLY WAS SAYING THE POSTS WERE SUPPOSED TO BE MANNED TO THAT LEVEL ALREADY.

SO WHAT HAPPENED?

>> I SUSPECT BECAUSE THEY HAVE HAD OTHER INCIDENTS ALSO DOWNTOWN THAT THE FLOW OF POLICE IS PROBABLY HAS BEEN BACK AND FORTH.

SO I THINK THAT IT'S JUST A MATTER ALMOST LIKE PLAYING WHACK AMOLE WITH DIFFERENT AREAS BECOMING HOTSPOTS.

>> CERTAINLY AND AT THE 18TH POLICE DISTRICT LOTS OF ACTIVITY AND THIS COMES AS MAYOR LIGHTFOOT'S CURFEW CHANGE PASSED THE CITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE.

NOW WITHOUT CRITICISM THE A.C.L.U.

IS SKEPTICAL ABOUT THAT AND THE MAYOR'S MILLENNIUM PARK PLAN.

TAKE A LOOK.

>> THEY DON'T NEED TO BAN YOUNG PEOPLE FROM MILLENNIUM PARK TO KEEP PEOPLE SAFE.

IT'S ONLY GOING TO MAKE COMMUNITIES FEEL LESS SAFE, YOUNG PEOPLE FEEL LESS WELCOME AND LESS TRUSTING OF THE POLICE.

>> MARIAH WOELFEL, FIRST ON THAT CURFEW CHANGE THE MAYOR IN THAT CLIP WE PLAYED SAID AT THAT TIME THE CURFEW WILL APPLY TO ALL SEVEN DAYS OF THE WEEK, IS THAT CORRECT?

>> RIGHT.

SO THE CURRENT CURFEW IS 10:00 P.M. FOR TEENAGERS MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY I BELIEVE AND THIS IS CHANGING IT FROM -- THEY ARE ALLOWED TO STAY OUT UNTIL 11:00 P.M. ON THE WEEKENDS AND THIS IS CHANGING IT TO 10:00 P.M.

SEVEN DAYS A WEEK FOR 12-17-YEAR-OLDS.

>> IT PASSED CITY COUNCIL'S PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE TODAY DOES IT MEAN IT WILL HAVE THE COUNCIL'S SUPPORT NEXT WEEK?

>> WELL, IT PASSED THE COUNCIL'S PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE ONE OF THE MOST CONSERVATIVE COMMITTEES IN THE CITY COUNCIL.

SO IT WASN'T NECESSARILY A SURPRISE THAT YOU KNOW, THE BEEFED UP ENFORCEMENT EFFORT PASSED THE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE.

I THINK IT WILL BE A DIFFERENT STORY NEXT WEEK THERE'S BROAD OPPOSITION.

A LOT OF CRITICISM.

IT DID PASS 14-3 AND NOT WITHOUT PEOPLE WHO VOTED IN FAVOR OF IT, CRITICIZING IT, ACROSS THE SPECTRUM.

PROGRESSIVES SAYINGTH IS IS GOING TO TARGET BLACK AND BROWN YOUTHS WITH INCREASED ENFORCEMENT AND CONSERVATIVE ALDERMEN SAYING IT DOESN'T HAVE -- POLICE TESTIFIED THAT EVEN WHEN TEENS ARE STOPPED FOR CURFEW VIOLATIONS THEY ARE NOT CHARGED.

THEY ARE NOT CITED.

THEY ARE TAKEN INTO CUSTODY AND RETURNED TO THEIR PARENTS.

CONSERVATIVES ALDERMEN SAYING THAT THIS IS GOING TO TURN POLICE OFFICERS INTO CHAUFFEURS DRIVING KIDS HOME AT NIGHT.

I THINK IT'S NOT ABSOLUTELY NOT A GIVEN THAT IT'S GOING TO PASS NEXT WEEK BUT THE MAYOR DID ISSUE AN EXECUTIVE ORDER THAT SAYS THE SAME THING THAT SHE SAYS IS LEGAL AND IN PLACE AND THAT THE WHOLE OTHER STORY.

>> AND DAN PETRELLA SAY IT DOES PASS, CAN POLICE ENFORCE THIS PROPERLY OR DRIVE PEOPLE HOME WITHOUT VIOLATING CIVIL RIGHTS?

>> WILL WELL, THAT IS THE QUESTION.

FOLKS WITH THE A.C.L.U.

WILL BE WAFFING THAT AND IT RAISES THE QUESTION OF WHO THE DOWNTOWN OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO IS FOR.

THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS IN THE MILLENNIUM PARK RULES THAT THE MAYOR INTRODUCED FOR PEOPLE ATTENDING TICKETED EVENTS.

I'VE HEARD CRITICISMS THAT WILL BE WHITE KIDS FROM THE SUBURBS COMING DOWNTOWN FOR EVENTS DURING THE SUMMER AND KIDS WHO LIVE IN THE CITY AND OR NEIGHBORHOODS ARE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO ENJOY THE AMENITIES THEIR CITY IS OFFERING THEM.

>> CRAIG DELLIMORE ON TOP OF THIS WE'VE GOT THE MAYOR'S PROPOSED BAN ON UNACCOMPANIED MINORS AT MILLENNIUM PARK AND SHE REALIZED SHE NEEDS TO GO THROUGH CITY COUNCIL ON THIS.

WILL THIS HAVE THE SUPPORT OF CITY COUNCIL?

>> I THINK IT EVENTUALLY IT WILL.

BUT THE ISSUE OF WHETHER OR NOT SHE HAS THE POWER, THE LAW DEPARTMENT CONTINUES TO INSIST THAT SHE DOES HAVE THE POWER.

SHE WAS USING HER EMERGENCY POWERS AND THE EMERGENCY OF COURSE BEING THAT WE HAVE A SHOOTING.

SO AND ONE OF THE PROBLEMS WITH THIS IS THAT THE ORDINANCE THE CURFEW HAS NOT REALLY BEEN ENFORCED MUCH ON ANYONE.

LAST YEAR, THEY HAD SOMETHING LIKE 365 INSTANCES WHERE THEY PICKED KIDS UP.

NO ONE WAS CHARGED.

THE YEAR BEFORE, IT WAS SOME 600.

SOME OF THE CRITICISM WAS WHY ARE YOU TIGHTENING SOMETHING THAT THE POLICE DON'T EVEN USE?

>> AND ERIK RUNGE WHAT ABOUT THAT NOTION THAT DAN PETRELLA BROUGHT UP THE EXCEPTION HERE FOR KIDS THAT ARE GOING TO TICKETED EVENTS LIKE LOLLAPALOOZA IS THAT LIKELY TO BRING OPPOSITION AND PERHAPS LEGAL CHALLENGES?

>> YOU KNOW, I MEAN ONE OF THE EXCEPTIONS WAS A FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT TO ASSEMBLE IF I READ THROUGH THAT CORRECTLY.

WHICH I THINK YOU COULD PRETTY MUCH SAY IF YOU HAVE A GROUP OF PEOPLE YOU NEED A SIGN TO SAY YOU ARE PROTESTING THAT WOULD BE YOUR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT.

THEY ARE GOING TO RUN INTO PROBLEMS.

THE BIGGEST PROBLEM IS THAT OFFICERS LIKE CRAIG WAS SAYING, THEY NEVER REALLY USED THIS TO BEGIN WITH AND NOW YOU'RE PUTTING SOMETHING ON OFFICERS WHERE YOU ARE SAYING BY THE WAY DON'T ROUND EVERYBODY UP JUST TELL THEM TO GO HOME.

I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY CAN INTERPRET WHAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO DO.

AND I ASKED OFFICERS THAT I KNOW SOURCES OF MINE AND THEY ARE LIKE WE DON'T KNOW.

THERE'S NO ONE IN LEADERSHIP TELLING US WHAT TO DO.

SO THEY ARE GOING INTO THIS BLIND.

BUT THE MAYOR IS INSISTING UPON IT WILL BE ENFORCED BUT WE'RE NOT GOING TO ROUND PEOPLE UP.

>> AND ERIK RUNGE, I WILL STAY WITH YOU, WE TALKED ABOUT THAT POLICE INVOLVED SHOOTING OF A 13-YEAR-OLD THAT POLICE SUSPECTED OF BEING A CARJACKING SUSPECT.

WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THAT CASE RIGHT NOW?

WHAT IS THE LATEST?

>> SO WHAT WE KNOW RIGHT NOW, THE LATEST IS THAT THE OFFICER THAT DID OPEN FIRE HAS NOW ALLEGEDLY LOST HIS POLICE POWER AND PUT ON DESK DUTY THAT IS RELATIVELY ROUTINE IN SHOOTINGS IN RECENT MEMORY HERE.

BUT WHAT HAPPENED WAS EARLIER IN THE WEEK, THERE WAS A CAR STOLEN IN CHICAGO.

THEN IT WAS ALSO USED ACCORDING TO OAK PARK IN ANOTHER CARJACKING WHERE THERE WAS A THREE-YEAR-OLD CHILD INSIDE THE CAR.

THEN POLICE WERE ABLE TO FIND THAT CAR, THE CHILD WAS UNHARMED.

BUT THEN, THE NEXT DAY, THE CAR THAT WAS INITIALLY STOLEN IN CHICAGO WAS STARTING TO HIT ON THE LICENSE PLATE READERS AND POLICE BEGAN TO FOLLOW IF AND THE TASK FORCE BEGAN TO FOLLOW THAT CAR.

THEY HAD THE HELICOPTER UP FOLLOWING THAT CAR AS WELL.

THERE WAS THEY TRIED TO PULL THAT CAR OVER.

AT SOME POINT, THE 13-YEAR-OLD JUMPED OUT OF THE CAR WHILE THE DRIVER JUST KEPT GOING AND RAN INTO THE GAS STATION AND YOU'VE SEEN THE POD CAMERA VIDEO THE CITY VIDEO THAT CLEARLY SHOWS THE OFFICERS CHASING THE 13-YEAR-OLD INTO THE GAS STATION.

AS HE TURNED YOU CAN SEE HE PUT HIS HANDS UP AND HE TURNS TOWARDS THE OFFICER AND THE SHOT WAS FIRED.

HE WAS TAKEN IN CRITICAL UPGRADED TO SERIOUS.

BUT NOTHING INTERESTING PART WHERE HE WAS SHOT WAS CLOSE TO A GAS PUMP.

OFFICERS PICKED HIM UP AND MOVED HIM PROBABLY 10 FEET FROM WHERE HE WAS SHOT BEFORE THEY BEGAN TO REALLY RENDER ANY TYPE OF AID AT ALL.

AND WE HEARD FROM WITNESSES THERE THAT THEY WERE RUNNING TO THE PATROL CAR THAT SMASHED INTO THE GAS STATION WERE DOING BEFORE LOOKING AFTER THE TEENAGER HERE.

AND THEN SUPERINTENDENT SAID THAT THERE WAS NO WEAPON RECOVERED THERE AND NO SHOTS WERE FIRED AT POLICE.

>> A SITUATION HERE EARLY REMINISCENT OF ADAM TOLEDO.

AND THE GIANT CASINO PLAN THE VOTE ON CHICAGO'S FIRST REIGN CASINO HAS BEEN PUSHED BACK UNTIL NEXT WEEK.

MAYOR LIGHTFOOT SAYS SHE IS SURE SHE HAS VOTES.

>> THIS IS MISSION CRITICAL AS WE ARE PLANNING FOR FY23 BUDGET TO KNOW WHAT OUR REVENUE STREAMS ARE GOING TO BE SO WE DON'T HAVE TO GO TO THE TAXPAYERS.

>> MAYOR LIGHTFOOT IS SURE SHE HAS THE VOTES.

ARE YOU AS SURE?

>> NO.

I MEAN, I DON'T THINK THIS IS A SURE THING.

ALDERMAN JASON IRVIN SAID IT ON YOUR PROGRAM WHERE THIS IS BY FAR A DONE DEAL.

I THINK ALDERMEN HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS AS EVIDENCED BY A THREE-HOUR COMMITTEE MEETING ON THE CASINO WHERE THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO VOTE AND IT WAS DELAYED.

I THINK ALDERMAN TUNNEY KNEW IT DID NOT HAVE THE SUPPORT TO PASS TODAY.

SO THEY'RE TRYING TO PUSH IT.

IT'S SIGNIFICANT IN THAT IT DIDN'T HAVE THE VOTES AS THE MAYOR HAD HOPED AND THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO HAVE TODAY.

BUT IT'S INSIGNIFICANT IN THAT THEY'RE SCHEDULING ANOTHER MEETING FOR MONDAY WITH HOPES OF PASSING IT MONDAY AND GETTING IT PASSED THROUGH THE CITY COUNCIL ON WEDNESDAY.

WHICH WAS THE MAYOR'S GOAL ALL ALONG.

BUT THERE IS A LOT OF DETAILS THAT ALDERMEN ARE LOOKING FOR.

THEY HAVE HUNDREDS OF PAGES COMMUNITIES TO SIFT THROUGH OVER THE WEEKEND AND ALDERMAN TUNNEY ENDED THE COMMITTEE MEETING SAYING HAPPY WEEKEND GO DO YOUR HOMEWORK AND SO WE'LL SEE HOW THIS WORKS OUT ON MONDAY.

CRAIG AND I WILL BE AT CITY HALL FOR A VERY LONG DAY.

>> IT WILL BE A MARATHON DAY.

DAN PETRELLA ALDERMAN REILLY CALLED IT A PARKING METER DEAL.

THAT WAS HOISTED AMONG ALDERPEOPLE AND THEY DID NOT HAVE A CHANCE TO DIGEST IT.

REMINDS ME HOW THE STATE BUDGET PROCESS WORKS.

THOUSANDS OF PAGES AND NO ONE KNOWS WHAT IS IN IT.

DO YOU THINK THINGS ABOUT THE PLAN HAVE TO CHANGE IN ORDER TO GET SUPPORT?

>> THAT IS A GOOD QUESTION.

THERE IS A LOT OF OPPOSITION FROM AT LEAST SOME MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND PEOPLE IN THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOODS BOTH THE PERMANENT PLACE GOING TO BE WHERE OUR PRINTING PLANTS ARE AND THE TEMPORARY SITE OF MEDINAH TEMPLE.

BUT I THINK IT SEEMS LIKE THE MAYOR HAS WORK TO DO TO MAKE SURE SHE HAS THE VOTES SHE THINKS SHE HAS LINED UP.

>> AND CHAIRMAN OF THAT COMMITTEE TUNNEY DID NOT FEEL READY YET.

WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS.

ALSO THIS WEEK, CRAIG DELLIMORE, CITY COUNCIL PASSED THAT NEW COMPROMISE WARD MAP AFTER MONTHS OF STALEMATE BETWEEN THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN CAUCUS AND THE LATINO CAUCUS.

I THINK WE'VE BEATEN THIS THING TO DEATH.

THE ONLY QUESTION I HAVE LEFT IS: WILL THERE BE A LAWSUIT TO CHALLENGE IT?

WHEN YOU CONSIDER SOME OF THOSE STRANGE LOOKING WARDS LIKE THE 36TH?

>> THE 36TH IS THE STRANGEST CERTAINLY IN MY MEMORY AND THIS IS MY THIRD.

IT LOOKS LIKE A BARBELL.

AND THE THIN PART IS ALONG GRAND AVENUE NEW AND THIS IS THE WARD THAT HAPPENS TO BELONG TO GILBERT VILLEGAS, WHO HAPPENS TO BE THE HEAD OF THE LATINO CAUCUS.

WHO WAS THE LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION TO THE MAP THAT DID PASS.

SO, YES, IT LOOKS LIKE A MESSAGE.

BUT IN FACT, I SUSPECT THERE WILL BE IF YOU CAN MAKE A CASE FOR ANY WARD THAT IS PERFECTLY GERRYMANDERED THAT'S THE WARD.

BUT WHETHER IT WILL BE VILLEGAS WHO BRINGS THAT SUIT OR SOME PERSON WHO IS IN THE WARD A RESIDENT, I SUSPECT THEY WILL HAVE MORE STANDING AND THEY SHOULD.

BECAUSE IMAGINE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT YOUR ALDERMAN IS IF YOU LIVE SOMEONE OR GRAND AVENUE NEW AND IT DEPENDS WHICH SIDE OF THE STREET YOU ARE ON FOR STRETCHES OF THAT.

YEAH, AND THERE ARE A COUPLE OTHER WARDS WHERE PEOPLE ARE UNHAPPY.

YOU COULD SEE A COUPLE OF LAWSUITS.

BUT UNLESS THEY ARE WELL FUNDED AND THEY MIGHT NOT GO VERY FAR.

>> THAT STRETCH ON GRAND AVENUE NEW SPOTS IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S LESS THAN A BLOCK IN WIDTH FOR THAT WARD.

IF YOU ARE A RESIDENT HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT WARD YOU ARE IN?

I WANT TO MOVE ON TO STATE NEWS.

DAN PETRELLA THE CENSUS REVISED ITS POPULATION COUNT FOR ILLINOIS.

SURPRISE, ILLINOIS' GAINED POPULATION NOW ABOUT A QUARTER OF A MILLION WHEN THE ORIGINAL COUNT SAID IT LOST 18,000 OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS.

WHAT ACCOUNTS FOR THE DISCREPANCY HERE?

>> THERE WAS UNDER COUNTS IN HALF A DOZEN STATES ILLINOIS WAS ONE OF THEM.

ILLINOIS WAS ONE OF THE LARGER PERCENTAGES TO GO UP.

THERE'S ISSUES NOT SPECIFIC TO ILLINOIS BUT NATIONALLY WITH UNDER COUNTING THE LATINO POPULATION AND THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN POPULATION IN THE STATES JUST ALL SORTS OF CONFUSION SURROUNDING THE 2020 CENSUS AND THE WAY THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HANDLED IT AND GIVEN HOW FOR THE PAST DECADE THE LOST OF POPULATION SUCH A TALKING POINT PARTICULARLY FOR FOLKS IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY FOR SOME MORE CONSERVATIVE LEANING POLICY ORGANIZATIONS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

IT WAS A FREQUENT TALKING POINT AMONG REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR THIS YEAR.

INTERESTING TO SEE HOW PEOPLE RESPOND TO THAT NEWS.

>> THAT IS MY NEXT QUESTION, ERIK RUNGE ILLINOIS HAS THE HIGHEST POPULATION ON RECORD, 13 MILLION.

DOES THAT POKE A HOLE IN SOME OF THE ARGUMENTS THAT EVERYONE'S FLEEING THE STATE BECAUSE OF HIGH TAXES AND CRIME?

>> WELL, GOVERNOR PRITZKER HOPES SO.

I THINK HE WAS OUT WITHIN HOURS OF THAT ANNOUNCEMENT WITH THE PRESS RELEASE THAT HE GOT IN FRONT OF CAMERAS TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY KNEW ABOUT THE RECOUNTING THAT CAME IN THERE.

HE IS BANKING ON IT THAT IS FOR SURE.

IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW THE REPUBLICANS RECALIBRATE THIS TO SEE TRY AND TURN IT AROUND ON HIM IF THEY CAN.

WHICH I'M SURE THEY CAN.

THEY HAVE A LOT OF SMART PEOPLE WORKING ON THESE THINGS.

J.B. PRITZKER IS HOPING THAT THIS IS GOING TO TAKE HIM PLACES.

AS WE MOVE CLOSER AND CLOSER TO THE ELECTION.

>> TALKING ABOUT FOLKS WORKING ON CAMPAIGNS, CRAIG DELLIMORE, IF YOU WATCH OTHER STATIONS AND WE HEAR AT WTTW ARE FINE IF YOU WATCH OTHER STATIONS JUST NOT BETWEEN 7-8:00 P.M.

BUT YOU CAN'T ESCAPE ALL OF THE CAMPAIGN ADS, PRO AND CON FOR RICHARD IRVIN AND DARREN BAILEY AND JESSE SULLIVAN.

WHO IS FUNDING THESE ADS?

>> A LOT OF CASES IT'S WHAT WOULD FOR OTHER REASONS BE CALLED DARK MONEY AND THAT IS NOT NECESSARILY THE CAMPAIGNS THEMSELVES.

ALTHOUGH SOME ARE.

FOR EXAMPLE, A LOT OF THE COMMERCIALS THAT SEEM TO HELP GOVERNOR PRITZKER ARE COMING FROM THE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR'S ASSOCIATION.

AND REALLY EVERY YEAR WE SAY BOY, THERE ARE MORE NEGATIVE THAN WE'VE EVER SEEN THEM AND EVERY YEAR THEY GET MORE NEGATIVE AND THE REASON IS BECAUSE IT WORKS.

SO WE ARE SEEING SOME OF THE NASTIER CAMPAIGN COMMERCIALS WE'VE SEEN AND IN SOME CASES, FOR EXAMPLE, OF ALL THINGS RICHARD IRVIN'S CAMPAIGN IS PORTRAYING CONSERVATIVE DARREN BAILEY AS BEING A LIBERAL.

ANYBODY WHO COVERED DARREN BAILEY KNOWS THAT IS THE LAST THING YOU WOULD WANT TO CALL HIM.

AND, YET, HE HAS TO FIGHT IRVIN HAS TO FIGHT THE REPUBLICANS WHO SAY HE IS NOT REPUBLICAN ENOUGH AND NOT CONSERVATIVE ENOUGH.

SO IT'S LIKE A BATTLE OVER WHO CAN BE MORE RIGHT THAN THE OTHER.

AND EVERYBODY AIMED AT PRITZKER.

BUT AT THE MOMENT ALL THE REPUBLICANS WHO AREN'T IRVIN ARE AIMED AT IRVIN.

THAT IS THE KIND OF CAMPAIGN IT'S GOING TO BE UNTIL THE END OF JUNE.

>> AND IRVIN, DAN PETRELLA THE TRIBUNE HAD A STORY THAT IRVIN HAD COME TO THE SCENE OF A POT SHOP IN AURORA AFTER HIS GIRLFRIEND AT THE TIME HAD ALLEGEDLY CAUSED A RAUCOUS AND POLICE WERE CALLED TO THE SCENE AND ACCORDING TO POLICE REPORTS, WTTW FILED A RECORDS REQUEST FOR THOSE REPORTS.

AND THE REPORTS SAY THAT IRVIN SAID THE CHARGES WOULD QUOTE BE TAKEN CARE OF.

IRVIN SAYING HE DIDN'T MEAN ANYTHING NEFARIOUS BUT THAT HE WOULD GET A LAWYER FOR HER.

ARE WE TO BUY THAT?

>> YOU KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING.

I THINK MOST PEOPLE IF THEY HEAR THE MAYOR OF A TOWN SAYING THE CHARGES WILL BE TAKEN CARE OF WOULD NOT INTERPRET THE WAY THE POLICE OFFICER WHO WROTE THE REPORTS SEEMS TO HAVE.

IT'S INTERESTING BECAUSE IT RUNS COUNTER TO THE NARRATIVE OF THE CAMPAIGN, HE IS THE LAW AND ORDER CANDIDATE AND WILL BE TOUGH ON CRIME AND HE BACKS THE BLUE AND HAS POLICE OFFICERS BACKS AND THEN WHEN HE IS NOT THE SUBJECT OF A POLICE REPORT BUT WRITTEN ABOUT IN A POLICE REPORT HIS DEFENSE IS THAT THE POLICE REPORT IS WRONG AND THE OFFICER MISINTERPRETED WHAT HE SAID.

IT IS SOMEWHAT CONTRADICTORY TO THE WAY HE IS TRYING TO PORTRAY HIMSELF IN THE SUPPORT WITH HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT.

>> IT IS A BATTERY CHARGE AND THEY'VE CHARGE TO DO AS AN ORDINANCE VIOLATION AS OPPOSED TO A STATE CRIMINAL VIOLATION.

AND THE ORDINANCE VIOLATION IS MINOR BECAUSE IT DOESN'T GO ON ONE'S PERMANENT RECORD.

IT IS A TICKET THAT SOMEONE HAS TO PAY.

I WANT TO MOVE ON TO ANOTHER ELECTION, MARIAH WOELFEL THE CHICAGO TEACHERS' UNION THEIR MEMBERS ARE VOTING RIGHT NOW ON THE PATH FORWARD FOR THE UNION THAT HAS HAD A LOT OF ISSUES WITH MAYOR LIGHTFOOT.

DO WE KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE RESULTS AT THIS POINT?

>> NOT SINCE I LOGGED ON.

I THINK WE ARE EXPECTING LATER TONIGHT OR TOMORROW MORNING.

>> ALL RIGHT.

TELL US ABOUT THE DIFFERENT CAUCUSES HERE.

WE HAVE STACY DAVIS GATES WITH THE VICE-PRESIDENT RUNNING AGAINST TWO CHALLENGERS.

>> RIGHT.

SO THERE'S STACY DAVIS GATES IS RUNNING AS PRESIDENT FOR HAS BEEN IN OFFICE FOR THE PAST DECADE.

THERE'S MEMBERS FIRST, WHICH IS CHALLENGING CORE TAKING AN APPROACH IT SEEMS PUSHING THE UNION TO FOCUS MORE ON ISSUES DIRECTLY AFFECTING TEACHERS LIKE WAGES, PREPARATION TIME, BENEFITS, ACCUSING STACY DAVIS GATES AND SHARKEY WHO IS STEPPING DOWN OF FOCUSING TOO MUCH ON SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUES THAT THEY ARE OUT OF TOUCH WITH MEMBERS.

AND THE REAL CAUCUS WHICH I THINK DOES WOULD POTENTIALLY CONTINUE TO FOCUS ON SOCIAL JUSTICE, ACTIVISM AND CORE HAS OVER THE PAST DECADE.

BUT CLAIMS SIMILAR TO MEMBERS FIRST THAT STACY DAVIS GATES AND JESSE SHARKEY ARE OUT OF TOUCH WITH MEMBERS' NEEDS.

SO TIME FOR NEW LEADERSHIP CHALLENGING THE CORE CAUCUS AS WELL.

>> IF MEMBERS FIRST IF THAT CANDIDATE WINS DOES THAT MEAN THAT LABOR RELATIONS WITH THE CITY MIGHT BE LESS TEMPESTIOUS?

>> WELL IT IS, THINK LIGHTFOOT IN HER YOU KNOW, STANDOFF WITH THE C.T.U.

THAT WE'VE SEEN DURING THE PANDEMIC AND IN THE STRIKE THAT WE'VE SEEN, HAVE ACCUSED -- HAS TRIED TO APPEAL DIRECTLY TO PARENTS, DIRECTLY TO TEACHERS, TRIED TO GO OVER THE UNION'S HEAD SO YOU WOULD THINK THAT A CAUCUS LIKE MEMBERS FIRST WOULD BETTER ALIGN WITH LIGHTFOOT AND GET ALONG WITH THEM.

AND THEY ARE GOING TO COLLABORATE WITH ALL STAKEHOLDERS INCLUDING THE MAYOR.

SO YOU COULD SEE MAYBE A BETTER RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MEMBERS FIRST AND THE MAYOR.

>> ALL RIGHT.

WE'LL AWAIT THOSE RESULTS TONIGHT.

BUT FOR THE TIME BEING WE ARE OUT OF TIME.

THANKS TO DAN PETRELLA, CRAIG DELLIMORE, MARIAH WOELFEL AND ERIK RUNGE.

AND THAT'S OUR SHOW FOR THIS FRIDAY NIGHT.

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

>> 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".

YOU CAN SEE THE PROGRAMS SUNDAYS STARTING AT 10:00 P.M. AND THEN WE'RE BACK AT 7:00 P.M. ALL 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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