[♪♪♪] >> 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, FIRST, SOME OF TODAY'S TOP STORIES... >> MAYOR LIGHTFOOT IS CALLING FOR AN INVESTIGATION INTO AN ALDERMAN THAT HAS BEEN ACCUSE OF RETALIATING AGAINST RESIDENTS WHO OPPOSED HIM.

45TH WARD ALDERMAN JIM GARDINER WHOSE WARD COVERS THE NEIGHBORHOODS OF PORTAGE AND JEFFERSON PARKS HAS BEEN FACING CALLS TO ISSUE APOLOGIES AND FROM RESIDENTS TO RESIGN.

TODAY THE HEAT WAS TURNED UP.

>> THE MAYOR AT A MORNING EVENT CALLED FOR A SWEEPING INVESTIGATION INTO ALLEGATIONS ALDERMAN JIM GARDINER USED THE POWER OF HIS OFFICE TO TARGET HIS CRITICS.

>> WE ARE GOING TO RECOMMEND TO THE INSPECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE THAT THAT INVESTIGATION HAPPENS SO WE CAN GET TO THE BOTTOM OF WHAT DID HAPPEN VERSUS WHAT DIDN'T HAPPEN.

>> WTTW AND OTHER OUTLETS TALKED TO A LAUNDRY LIST OF RESIDENTS WHO HAVE FACED ACTS OF INTIMIDATION OR RETALIATION FOR GOING AGAINST THE ALDERMAN FROM BRICKS THROWN THROUGH WINDOWS, VISITS BY CITY INSPECTORS TO A CAR DRIVEN THROUGH A YARD.

A STAFFER MADE ALLEGATIONS THAT JAMES SUH AFTER JAMES SUH ORGANIZED TO SUPPORT A RALLY AT THE SIX CORNERS INTERSECTION.

JAMES SUH NOTICED GARDINER SUPPORTERS REFERENCING THE COURT CASES ON SOCIAL MEDIA.

>> THE INTENTION WAS TO HARASS AND INTIMIDATE AND EMBARRASS ME.

>> WTTW NEWS REPORTED THAT COOK COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT CLERK IRIS MARTINEZ OPENED AN INTERNAL INVESTIGATION AS TO WHETHER ONE OF THAT OFFICE'S EMPLOYEES ACCESSED THE COURT RECORD TSZ AND IMPROPERLY SENT THEM TO GARDINER'S OFFICE.

JIM GARDINER HAS NOT RESPONDED TO REQUESTS FOR COMMENT.

STAFFERS TURNED US AWAY WHEN WE VISITED HIS OFFICE IN JEFFERSON PARK.

LIGHTFOOT SAYS RESIDENTS SHOULD BE FREE TO SUPPORT OR OPPOSE PUBLIC OFFICIALS WITHOUT FEAR OF RETALIATION.

>> NO ONE SHOULD BE DENIED ACCESS TO CITY SERVICES BECAUSE OF THEIR POLITICAL OPINION, WHO THEY MAY HAVE SUPPORTED IN AN ELECTION.

THAT IS JUST NOT HOW WE DO THINGS.

>> BEYOND BEING REPREHENSIBLE AND I THINK AS IT'S TURNING OUT, ILLEGAL IT'S JUST VERY, VERY UNAMERICAN.

>> ALL THIS COMES AFTER OTHER TEXT MESSAGES REVEALED COMMENTS GARDINER MADE ABOUT FEMALE COLLEAGUES AND RESIDENTS AND WE'LL HAVE MUCH MORE IN A BIT WITH THE BLOCK CLUB REPORTER THAT HAS BEEN FOCUSING ON THE ISSUES FOR SEVERAL MONTHS.

>> THE CHICAGO PARK DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT ANNOUNCES LIFE RINGS ARE COMING TO A BEACH WHERE A TEEN DROWNED.

MICHAEL KELLY SAYS THE DISTRICT RELUCTANTLY DECIDED TO PUT LIFE RINGS AT THE PRATT BEACH PIER WHERE THE TEEN DIED LAST MONTH.

THEY CAN BE USED AS FLOTATION DEVICES IF SOMEONE IS DROWNING.

KELLY SAYS THEY WILL BE PLACED UP AND DOWN THE LAKEFRONT BUT HE WASN'T HAPPY ABOUT PUTTING THEM IN.

>> WE STILL FIRMLY BELIEVE WE SHOULD NOT BE ENCOURAGING OR GIVING FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY THAT THAT LIFE RING WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE IN AN AREA WHERE YOU ARE NOT TO SWIM.

>> MAYOR LIGHTFOOT PLANS TO PROPOSE AN ORDINANCE THAT ALLOWS THE CITY TO SUE GANG MEMBERS TO TAKE THEIR MONEY AND ASSETS.

THE MAYOR SAYS IT'S PART OF A STRATEGY TO FIGHT GANGS AND CRIME AND THE A.C.L.U.

OPPOSED SIMILAR MEASURES IN THE PAST CLAIMING THEY DON'T WORK.

LIGHTFOOT SAYS THE MEASURE WOULD INCREASE COMMUNITY SAFETY.

>> WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BRING THESE VIOLENT STREET GANGS INTO CIVIL COURT OUT OF THE SHADOWS, EXPOSE THEM FOR WHAT THEY ARE AND IF WE'RE SUCCESSFUL, THEN I THINK WE WILL BE, TAKE THEIR ASSETS AND THE PROFIT FOR KILLING OUR BABIES.

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

JOINING US ARE MAGGIE HENDRICKS, OF BALI SPORTS.

CRAIG DELLIMORE OF WBBM NEWS RADIO, AIREL PARRELLA-AURELI OF BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO, DAN PETRELLA OF THE "CHICAGO TRIBUNE" AND LET'S GET RIGHT TO IT.

AND STARTING WITH THE ENERGY BILL DEMOCRATIC LEADERS CELEBRATED THE PASSAGE OF THAT MASSIVE BILL.

LET'S TAKE A LOOK.

>> WE'RE HELPING COMMUNITIES ALL OVER THIS STATE.

WE'RE HELPING PEOPLE.

THAT'S WHY WE'RE HERE TONIGHT.

LET'S PUT THE RHETORIC ASIDE.

THE POLITICS ASIDE.

AND THINK ABOUT THE PEOPLE THAT WE ALL REPRESENT.

>> DAN PETRELLA, THIS HAS BEEN DEBATED FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS AND MONTHS AND IT INVOLVES STRUGGLING NUCLEAR PLANTS, CLEAN ENERGY, A COAL-FIRED PLANT.

GIVE US THE FINER POINTS OF THE BILL THAT THE HOUSE PASSED?

>> IT IS A MASSIVE PACKAGE PROBABLY THE MOST HIGH PROFILE THING IS A $700 MILLION BAILOUT FOR THREE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS OWNED BY EXELON, THE PARENT COMPANY OF ComEd WHICH VIEWERS MAY REMEMBER ADMITTED IT ENGAGED IN A YEAR'S LONG BRIBERY SCHEME TO VANS ITS AGENDA IN SPRINGFIELD AND THERE'S ETHICS PROVISIONS TO REQUIRE LAWMAKERS TO DISCLOSE IF THEY HAVE RELATIVES WHO WORK FOR PUBLIC UTILITIES.

THERE ARE LOFTY GOALS OF ELIMINATING CARBON FROM OUR ENERGY SECTOR BY THE MIDDLE OF THIS CENTURY.

COAL-FIRED POWER PLANTS WOULD SHUTDOWN BY THE END OF THIS DECADE.

NATURAL GAS PLANTS BY 2045.

A COUPLE CAVEATS FOR PUBLICLY OWNED COAL PLANTS DOWN STATE THAT REALLY IS WHAT HELD UP THE BILL FOR MOST OF THE SUMMER.

EVERYBODY THOUGHT THE EXELON FEES WOULD BE THE STICKING POINT AND THAT WAS RESOLVED AND THIS ISSUE ABOUT THE GENERATING CENTER IN ST. LOUIS AND THEY WOULD HAVE TO GO OFF LINE.

THAT WAS RESOLVED THIS WEEK.

>> DAN, A LOT OF MOVING PARTS BUT YOU MENTIONED THE $700 MILLION IN SUBSIDIES FOR THE PLANTS.

CRAIG DELLIMORE THAT COULD REPORTEDLY WINDUP IN EVERY UTILITY PAYERS' ComEd BILL TO THE TUNE OF 4 OR 5 DOLLARS PER MONTH TO KEEP THOSE PLANTS OPEN SHOULD RATEPAYERS BE HAPPY THAT THEY ARE GOING TO PAY MORE TO KEEP THE PLANTS OPEN?

>> WELL, I THINK RATEPAYERS HAVE GOTTEN USED TO THE FACT THAT THEIR BILLS GO UP ANYWAY.

AND AT THIS POINT, THEY ARE BEING TOLD THAT THIS IS CLEANER ENERGY, IT CERTAINLY IS CLEANER THAN COAL.

IT WAS ONCE UPON A TIME SUPPOSED TO BE CHEAPER ENERGY.

MAYBE IT ISN'T THAT.

BUT IT IS STILL PROBABLY THE BIGGEST GENERATOR OF POWER THAT WE HAVE GOING RIGHT NOW.

AND THE COMPANIES SAY THEY WANT TO KEEP IT GOING AT LEAST FOR NOW.

AND THIS IS THE WAY TO DO IT.

IT IS A COMPROMISE.

THERE WILL BE PEOPLE HOLDING THEIR NOSES ON BOTH SIDES AS IT GOES THROUGH.

>> IT IS DEJA VU BECAUSE IT'S BEEN TWO PREVIOUS BILLS IN PREVIOUS YEARS THAT ACCOMPLISHED THE SAME THING.

DAN PETRELLA THE SENATE PASSED ITS OWN VERSION AND IT WILL COME BACK INTO SESSION MONDAY, IT IS A CINCH IT'S GOING TO PASS?

>> WELL, NOTHING WHAT [INAUDIBLE] MONDAY IS THE DAY THAT EXELON SAID IT WILL SHUTDOWN ITS NUCLEAR POWER PLANT IN BYRON, SOUTHWEST OF ROCKFORD IF THEY DON'T PASS THE BILL.

THE SENATE IS COMING BACK FOR AN UP OR DOWN VOTE ON WHAT WAS PASSED OUT OF THE HOUSE LATE LAST NIGHT.

THE HOUSE NEVER TOOK UP WHAT THE SENATE PASSED THAT IS THEIR LAST CHANCE TO SAVE A FEW HUNDRED HIGH PAYING UNION JOBS AT BYRON.

>> DAN, AS THIS IS HAPPENING POLITICS A NEW ENTRANT ON THE G.O.P.

SIDE IN THE RACE FOR GOVERNOR.

JESSE SULLIVAN.

A WEALTHY VENTURE CAPITALIST FROM DOWN STATE PETERSBURG.

CAME FROM NOWHERE TO ANNOUNCE HE RAISED $11 MILLION BUT MY QUESTION IS DOES HE LIVE IN CALIFORNIA OR LIVE IN ILLINOIS SINCE HIS BUSINESS IS REGISTERED IN CALIFORNIA?

>> MY UNDERSTANDING IS HE IS HERE IN ILLINOIS.

I INTERVIEWED HIM 10 YEARS AGO WHEN HE WAS AT ANOTHER NEWSPAPER AND HE WAS THE AREA RESIDENT WORKING IN AFGHANISTAN WITH THE ARMY AT THE TIME.

BUT ALL OF HIS FINANCIAL SUPPORT SO FAR THAT HE DISCLOSED HAS COME FROM OUT OF STATE.

THAT RAISED EYEBROWS ESPECIALLY ON THE REPUBLICAN SIDE OF THE AISLE THAT THIS NEW ENTRANT A LITTLE KNOWN GUY IS COMING IN WITH A FEW MILLION DOLLARS OF MONEY FROM FOLKS IN CALIFORNIA AND COLORADO.

>> WE WILL HAVE TO WATCH THAT AND CITY POLITICS WITH ALDERMAN JIM GARDINER, WE MENTIONED HIS PROBLEMS YOU WROTE AN ARTICLE TODAY OUTLINING SEVERAL DIFFERENT COMPLAINTS FROM NOT ONLY CONSTITUENTS AND BUSINESSES, GIVE US A SENSE OF THE SCOPE OF THE COMPLAINTS HERE?

>> YEAH, I MEAN I'VE USED THAT AND REPORTING ON SOME OF THESE ISSUES FOR QUITE A FEW MONTHS.

AND I THINK NOW THAT THE TEXTS ARE COMING OUT MORE STORIES ARE ALSO COMING OUT OF WAYS THAT PEOPLE HAVE FELT TARGETED BY THE ALDERMAN.

MY LATEST ARTICLE JUST LOOKS AT THE PEOPLE THAT KIND OF THOUGHT THAT THEY WERE ONE OFF'S MAYBE LIKE WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO ME?

AND NOW MORE STORIES ARE COMING OUT, PEOPLE ARE SEEING THERE IS A PATTERN.

I THINK THE SCOPE IS PRETTY BIG AND I'M SURE THERE WILL BE MORE THINGS COMING DOWN THE LINE.

MOST PEOPLE ARE SPEAKING UP ABOUT THIS.

>> THE MORE STORIES YOU SEE THE MORE PEOPLE PERHAPS FEEL EMBOLDENED TO SPEAK OUT.

AND MAYOR LIGHTFOOT SPOKE OUT SAYING SHE WANTS THE INSPECTOR GENERAL TO INVESTIGATE.

DO YOU BELIEVE AN INVESTIGATION LIKE THAT WILL HAPPEN?

>> I KNOW THAT RESIDENTS REPORTED THE ISSUE TO THE OIG IN THE PAST.

SOME TELL ME IT'S NOT ENOUGH.

PEOPLE WANT HIM TO RESIGN.

PEOPLE WANT OTHER THINGS TO HAPPEN AS WELL.

I THINK IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN WHAT THAT INVESTIGATION MEANS, WHAT IT ENTAILS, HOW LONG IT TAKES BECAUSE I THINK YOU CAN SAY THAT BUT THE STEPS AFTER THAT ARE IMPORTANT.

>> MAGGIE HENDRICKS LET'S BRING YOU IN.

ALL THIS COMES AS THE REPORTS LAST WEEK OF TEXT MESSAGES THAT SURFACED WHERE HE REFERRED TO FEMALE COLLEAGUES AND FEMALE CONSTITUENTS IN UNSAVORY TERMS.

WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF A PUBLIC OFFICIAL USING LANGUAGE LIKE THAT?

>> YOU KNOW, I THINK OBVIOUSLY WE'RE ALL CHICAGOANS AND WE ALL USE COLORFUL LANGUAGE FROM TIME TO TIME.

CONSIDERING HOW OFTEN HE SAYS THESE THINGS ABOUT WOMEN IT MAKES ME WONDER HOW THE WOMEN IN HIS CONSTITUENCY ARE BEING SERVED AND IF A WOMAN DOESN'T AGREE WITH HIM HOW HE IS GOING TO REACT TO THAT.

JUST SEEING SOME OF THE REPORTS LIKE THE WOMAN WHO WASN'T IN HIS WARD, SAID FROM CRITICAL THINGS ALL OF A SUDDEN HAD AN INSPECTOR SHOW UP BECAUSE SHE HAS CHICKENS IN HER YARD.

THINGS LIKE THAT CONCERN ME NOT JUST ABOUT HIM IN ALDERMAN HAS THAT KIND OF POWER TO SAY, NO WE WON'T TRIM THE TREE ON YOUR STREET BECAUSE I DON'T LIKE YOU.

IT'S WORRYING BECAUSE HE IS TAKING IT TO A BAD EXTENT BUT ALSO HOW EASY IT IS TO ABUSE THAT POWER.

>> AERIAL, YOU HAVE REPORTED ON THESE INSTANCES.

GIVE US EXAMPLES OF SOME OF THE MORE BIZARRE INSTANCES WHERE PEOPLE FELT LIKE SOMETHING HAPPENED TO THEM AN INSPECTOR VISITED THEIR HOUSE, AND THEY HAD BEEN CRITICAL OF THE ALDERMAN?

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>> WELL, BELLA'S STORY, THAT IS A GREAT EXAMPLE.

I THINK ALSO I SPOKE TO THE FORMER OWNER OF FISHMAN'S AT SIX CORNERS AND HE WAS TELLING ME THAT BECAUSE HE HAD ALSO POSTED CRITICAL COMMENTS WHEN GARDINER WAS RUNNING FOR ALDERMAN AND WHEN HE WAS ELECTED AS WELL THAT GARDINER CAME TO HIS BUSINESS, AND THREATENED HIM AND THEY HAD ALMOST A FISTFIGHT WHAT HE WAS SAYING AND HE WANTED HIM TO PUBLICLY APOLOGIZE FOR HIS COMMENTS AND GUS SAID HE IS NOT GOING TO DO THAT AND HE HAD INSPECTORS COMING IN AND HE HAD SOME TICKETS FOR THE TRASH CANS THAT WEREN'T REALLY TRASH CANS THEY TRIED TO TARGET HIS BUSINESS IN VARIOUS WAYS.

AND I MEAN I THINK YOU ALSO MENTIONED THE STORY EARLIER OF THE CAR THAT DESTROYED THE LAWN OF THE... >> AND IT TOTALED ANOTHER CAR BASICALLY.

>> IT DID, IT DID, YEAH.

PRETTY AWFUL PHOTO THERE.

BUT YEAH, LIKE THAT'S LIKE IT'S KIND OF STICK THERE BUT PIECES, THE REPRESENTATIVE SAID THAT THAT WOMAN CAME BY EARLIER IN THE NIGHT AND SHE SAID STOP CALLING THE ALDERMAN.

>> AND THIS IS THE WOMAN CHARGED WITH WHAT I UNDERSTAND TURNED OUT TO BE A TRAFFIC INCIDENT FOR DOING THAT.

>> CRAIG DELLIMORE THIS COMES AS SOME CITY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES LIKE ALDERWOMAN GARZA, ARE CALLING ON HIM TO APOLOGIZE IS THERE A GROWING REVOLT ON CITY COUNCIL?

>> I WOULD NOT CALL IT A REVOLT BUT THIS IS AN EXAMPLE IF ANYTHING IF THIS STUFF IS PROVEN OF GOING WAY TOO FAR.

THE ALDERMAN DO HAVE THAT POWER BUT THIS IS A TIME WHEN ALDERMANIC PRIVILEGE AND THINGS LIKE THAT ARE ALREADY UNDER SCRUTINY.

AND HERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF AN ALDERMAN ALLEGEDLY GOING WAY BEYOND AND ALSO TAKING OF AN ABUSIVE ATTITUDE TOWARD HIS CONSTITUENTS AND FRANKLY TOWARD OTHER ALDERMEN.

ONE OF HIS COMMENTS TEXTED, AGAIN, HE IS WRITING THESE THINGS DOWN, WAS A SALACIOUS COMMENT ABOUT A FELLOW ALDERMAN.

THAT IS I THINK FAIRER THINKING WE NEED TO HAVE HIM EITHER GET A CLEAN SLATE ON THIS AND I SUSPECT THAT THERE WILL BE PRESSURE BECAUSE OF HIS CONSTITUENCY UP FOR HIM TO STEP AWAY.

WE'LL HAVE TO SEE HOW HE RESPONDS.

HE HAS NOT RESPONDED AT ALL.

>> YEAH, YOU ARE RIGHT.

WE'VE TRIED TO GET AHOLD OF HIM AND YOU HAVE.

>> AND WE HAVE, TOO.

>> AND MAYBE THERE'S MORE TO COME.

I WANT TO MOVE ON TO COVID AND PRESIDENT BIDEN TODAY -- THIS WEEK ISSUED THAT EXECUTIVE ORDER MANDATING THAT BUSINESSES OF 100 PEOPLE OR MORE REQUIRE VACCINATION FOR THEIR EMPLOYEES OR DO WEEKLY TESTING.

DAN PETRELLA, IT'S GETTING PUSHBACK ALREADY.

DO YOU THINK IT WILL END UP BEING CONSTITUTIONAL?

>> YOU KNOW, VERY GOOD QUESTION.

I THINK THERE'S CERTAINLY PRECEDENT FOR THAT HAPPENING.

I MEAN VACCINES ARE REQUIRED IN LOTS OF INSTANCES.

BUT IT'S SOMETHING THE COURTS WILL HAVE TO FIGURE OUT.

AND IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW COMPANIES RESPOND, HOW INDIVIDUALS RESPOND AND OBVIOUSLY THERE'S LOTS OF STRONG FEELINGS OPPOSED TO THIS AND THERE ARE MANY, MANY PEOPLE WHO ARE CHEERING THIS DECISION AND THINKING IT MIGHT BE THE THING THAT GETS US OVER THE HUMP WE HAVE BEEN STUCK AT IN TERMS OF GETTING PEOPLE VACCINATED.

>> ON THE LOCAL LEVEL THERE ARE ALDERMEN WHO WANT MAYOR LIGHTFOOT TO MANDATE PROOF OF VACCINE FOR MOST INDOOR SPHIFT OF ACTIVITIES.

SHE SAYS SHE IS NOT READY TO GO THAT FAR.

MAGGIE HENDRICKS DO YOU THINK THAT IS THE RIGHT MOVE OR TAKE THAT EXTRA STEP AND ISSUE A MANDATE?

>> I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HER TAKE THAT EXTRA STEP.

WE'VE SEEN OTHER CITIES DO IT.

NEW YORK CITY IS DOING IT AND IT'S WORKING.

AND THERE ARE SPORTS TEAMS RIGHT NOW IN CHICAGO, THE BULLS, THE BLACKHAWKS AND THE SKY HAVE ALL SAID THAT AT THE UNITED CENTER AND WINTRUST YOU HAVE TO SHOW VACCINATION OR A TEST WITHIN THE PAST 48 HOURS.

SO I THINK THERE IS GOING TO BE SOME PRIVATE BUSINESSES THAT SAY YES THIS IS WHAT WE WANT.

BUT I THINK IT'S GOING TO NEED TO BE THE MAYOR THAT PUSHES IT OVER THE EDGE.

>> I WILL GO BACK TO YOU AIREL PARRELLA-AURELI, I KNOW YOU'VE HAD YOUR HEAD IN THE 45TH WARD BUT THIS WEEK THE TEACHERS' UNION IS CLAIMING THAT C.P.S.

'S COVID TRACKER IS NOT ACCURATE.

THE SCHOOLS ARE REPORTING 160 COVID CASES AND POSSIBLY 3 THOUSAND EXPOSURES.

DO YOU THINK THOSE SHOULD BE CONCERNING NUMBERS TO PARENTS AND TEACHERS AND KIDS?

>> YES, I THINK IT SHOULD.

BUT I THINK A LOT OF PARENTS HAVE SAID THAT THEY DON'T WANT TO GO BACK TO REMOTE LEARNING.

NOW IS THAT CRITICAL MOMENT OF WHAT DO YOU DO?

AND I THINK THAT'S THE DIFFICULT THING.

I'VE SPOKEN TO PARENTS ABOUT THIS IN THE PAST, AND YOU'RE STUCK BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE.

IT'S HARD TO SAY I DON'T KNOW.

IT IS CONCERNING, THOUGH.

>> A LOT OF THINGS TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT AND IT SEEMS UNIVERSALLY PARENTS DO NOT WANT TO GO BACK TO REMOTE LEARNING.

CRAIG DELLIMORE AS HAS BEEN TALKED ABOUT A LOT THIS WEEK THIS IS THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 9/11 TERROR ATTACKS.

FIRST OF ALL WHAT ARE THE IMPRESSIONS THAT STAND OUT TO YOU ABOUT THAT DAY?

>> I THINK THE THING THAT -- PARTLY BECAUSE OF THE STORY THAT I TOOK OVER THIS, SOME HAS BEEN ABOUT HOW MUCH HAS CHANGED FOREVER BECAUSE OF 9/11.

AND MY STORY THIS WEEK WAS ABOUT HOW AIR TRAVEL LITERALLY OVERNIGHT CHANGED FOREVER.

I MEAN, ON SEPTEMBER 10TH, YOU COULD WALK YOUR LOVED ONE TO THE GATE AND SAY GOOD-BYE AND WAIT FOR PEOPLE AT THE GATE WITH YOUR LITTLE SIGN OR WAVING AND JUMPING.

AND THE NEXT DAY THAT WAS OVER.

AN AIRPORT LIKE MIDWAY HAD JUST BEEN REDESIGNED AND THAT DESIGN DIDN'T WORK BECAUSE PEOPLE HAD EASY ACCESS TO THE GATE AND EASY ACCESS TO THE PLANES.

SO YES, SO MUCH IS DIFFERENT.

OUR FEELING ABOUT TRAVEL IS DIFFERENT.

OUR HESITATIONS ARE DIFFERENT.

I JUST THINK THAT TO ME THE THING THAT REALLY STAYS WITH US AND WILL ALWAYS STAY WITH US.

OUR LIVES TURNED AROUND THAT DAY.

>> AND CERTAINLY THERE'S BEEN REFLECTING THE LAST 20 YEARS AS THE AFGHANISTAN WAR WOUND DOWN.

REFLECTING ON IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN AND ALL THAT WAS LOST AND WHETHER OR NOT THEY ACCOMPLISHED THE OBJECTIVES THEY SET OUT TO ACCOMPLISH.

CRAIG I WILL STAY WITH YOU, WE WILL COME BACK LOCAL.

YOU HEARD AT THE TOP OF THE SHOW THE PARK DISTRICT IS REVERSING COURSE A BIT AND DECIDING TO PUT LIFE RINGS OR THE PRESERVERS NEAR THE BEACH THOUGH THEY DON'T WANT TO DO THAT.

WHY THE CHANGE OF HEART?

>> WELL, PART OF IT IS BECAUSE OF MIGUEL CONTRERAS WHO DROWNED OFF OF PRATT BEACH.

>> THAT IS SISER IN ROSS.

>> SIS ROSS.

>> DROWNED OFF OF PRATT BEACH.

THAT BEACH WAS AN AREA WHERE THERE WERE NO LIFE RINGS AND IT DID HAVE SOME PROVISION FOR SWIMMING.

BUT THERE WAS NO LIFEGUARD THERE AT THE TIME.

AND THE RESIDENTS IN THE AREA SAID THEY WANTED A LIFE RING THERE AND THE PARK DISTRICT REFUSED TO PUT ONE THERE EVEN AFTERWARDS.

AND THE REASON FOR THAT IS BECAUSE THE LAWYERS FEEL THAT THERE MIGHT BE LIABILITY IF YOU PUT A LIFE RING IT INDICATES THAT SWIMMING IS OK. AND PEOPLE WILL THINK OK WE CAN GO AHEAD AND DIVE IN.

AND THERE IS A WAY TO HELP US IF WE GET INTO TROUBLE.

BUT IN FACT, THE REAL YOU'LLING THAT THEY INDICATE -- RULING THAT THERE WILL BE LIFE RINGS AT MANNED PLACES.

IN OTHER WORDS PLACES WHERE THERE OTHERWISE BE LIFEGUARDS THERE WILL BE RINGS BUT THE EXCEPTION WILL BE PRATT.

AND THEY WANT THE LAW CHANGED SO THAT THERE WILL BE SOME KIND OF PROTECTION FOR THE CITY IF THEY DO PUT RINGS IN PLACES WHERE YOU ARE NOT ALLOWING SWIMMING.

THAT THAT CANNOT BE TAKEN AS A APPROVAL OF PEOPLE GOING IN THE WATER.

>> RIGHT.

THERE MIGHT BE A LEGAL LIABILITIES THERE.

OBVIOUSLY A TRAGIC STORY.

LET'S MOVE ON TO SPORTS THE BEARS OPEN THE SEASON AGAINST THE RAMS SUNDAY NIGHT.

THE SKY CLINCH A PLAYOFF BERTH FOR THE THIRD SEASON.

THE WHITE SOX LOSE THEIR SERIES AGAINST THE A'S BUT MAINTAIN THEIR LEAD AND THE CUBS KICKOFF A SERIES AGAINST THE GIANTS WITH A 6-1 LOSS.

AND FORMER STAR CHRIS BRYANT IS ON THAT SAN FRANCISCO TEAM.

MAGGIE, THE BEARS ARE THEY MAKING THE RIGHT CALL STARTING ANDY DALTON OVER JUSTIN FIELDS?

>> IT IS THE BORING CALL WE ALL WANT TO SEE JUSTIN FIELDS PLAY, EVERYBODY DOES.

BUT I UNDERSTAND WHY THE BEARS ARE BEING SLIGHTLY HESITANT AND JUST LETTING DALTON TO PLAY A FEW GAMES.

THERE'S ONLY 17 GAMES IN A SEASON.

HOW MANY GAMES ARE THE BEARS GOING TO GIVE UP TRYING TO SEE [INAUDIBLE] WHO KNOWS MAYBE ANDY DALTON WILL SURPRISE US.

I NEED TO STICK WITH MY RED HEADED BROTHER THERE.

>> AND CERTAINLY SEEMS LIKE COACH NAGY THINKS HE WILL SURPRISE ALL OF US.

AND THE WHITE SOX THEY LOST AGAINST THE A'S THEY ARE A LOCK FOR THE PLAYOFFS BUT ARE THEY PLAYING THEIR BEST BASEBALL RIGHT NOW?

>> I DON'T THINK THEY ARE PLAYING THEIR BEST BASEBALL RIGHT NOW AND I DON'T SEEM TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT.

WE ARE AT THE BEGINNING OF SEPTEMBER NOT THE END IT GIVES THEM TIME TO WORK LAST LATE IN THE SEASON KINKS OUT.

IT IS A LONG SEASON AND YOU GOT TO GET A COUPLE OF THOSE DAYS NOW INSTEAD OF LATE IN SEPTEMBER.

>> AND THEY HAVE A COUPLE INJURIES, JIMENEZ, A MINOR INJURY.

HOW SERIOUS ARE THEY?

>> ONE IS SCARIER BECAUSE I BELIEVE IT IS A HAMSTRING AND THAT IS ONE OF THE ONES THAT YOU CAN'T SEE IT BUT MAN YOU KNOW IT'S THERE.

>> AND ESPECIALLY WITH A PITCHER THAT IS A PROBLEM.

BUT I ALSO DON'T SEE A WORLD WHERE LUCAS DOESN'T PITCH FOR THE WHITE SOX IN THE PLAYOFFS.

>> THEY ARE GOING TO NEED HIM.

THE CUBS SURPRISED PEOPLE AFTER THEIR BIG SELL-OFF RIPPING OFF SEVEN WINS IN A ROW I BELIEVE, DOES THAT MEAN THAT MAYBE THERE'S PROMISE FOR NEXT YEAR?

>> I MEAN, MAYBE.

I THINK THE SEVEN WINS HAD MORE TO DO WITH THE FACT THAT THEY ARE PLAYING BAD TEAMS.

SO YOU KNOW, SWEEPING THE PIRATES OK.

I GUESS THAT'S GOOD.

BUT THEY ALSO SWEEP MY LITTLE LEAGUE TEAM, TOO.

>> WE'LL SEE.

MAYBE IT IS NOT A SURE BET THEY WOULD SWEEP YOUR LITTLE LEAGUE TEAM THE BEST TEAM IN TOWN RIGHT NOW IS THE CHICAGO SKY?

>> YEAH, BETWEEN THE SKY AND THE RED STARS AND THE SKY CLINCHED THE PLAYOFFS FOR THE THIRD YEAR.

THEY ARE GOING IN ABOUT MIDWAY THROUGH THE 6TH PLACE OUT OF A 12-TEAM LEAGUE THEY WILL HAVE A HOME GAME AND IT IS A REALLY TOP HEAVY LEAGUE, THE WNBA AND THERE'S THE FIRST TWO ROUNDS OF THE PLAYOFFS ARE ONE-GAME PLAYOFFS.

>> THERE IS A PLAYOFF TEAM IN CHICAGO RIGHT NOW.

QUICKLY, MAGGIE, SUNDAY PREDICTION FOR THE BEARS?

>> I THINK THE BEARS WILL LOSE 27-10.

SORRY BEARS.

>> YOU HAVE TO CALL IT LIKE YOU SEE IT.

AND WE ARE OUT OF TIME.

FOR MAGGIE HENDRICKS, CRAIG DELLIMORE, AIREL PARRELLA-AURELI AND DAN PETRELLA I'M PARIS SCHUTZ AND THAT IS OUR SHOW FOR THIS FRIDAY NIGHT.

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