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

I'M AMANDA VINICKY.

PARIS SCHUTZ HAS THE EVENING OFF.

WE WILL BE JOINED BY OUR "THE WEEK IN REVIEW" GUESTS IN JUST A MOMENT, FIRST, SOME OF TODAY'S TOP STORIES... >> A FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION PANEL SAYS COVID-19 BOOSTER SHOTS ARE NOT NEEDED FOR EVERYONE.

BUT THE F.D.A.

PANEL DID UNANIMOUSLY VOTE TO RECOMMEND A BOOSTER SHOT FOR THOSE AGED 65 AND OLDER AND INDIVIDUALS WITH HEALTH CONCERNS THAT PUT THEM AT HIGHER RISK.

MORE LATER ON THIS IN A FEW MOMENTS WITH OUR "THE WEEK IN REVIEW" PANEL.

>> MEANWHILE, GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER THIS AFTERNOON EXTENDED COVID RELATED EXECUTIVE ORDERS, MASKS ARE REQUIRED IN INDOOR PUBLIC SETTINGS STATE-WIDE THROUGH OCTOBER 16TH.

>> THE LATEST EXECUTIVE ACTION PUSHES BACK THE DEADLINE WHEN STATE EMPLOYEES AND CONTRACTORS THAT WORK AT VETERANS HOMES AND PRISONS MUST BE VACCINATED AGAINST COVID.

>> AND ILLINOIS HAS SEEN ALMOST 26,000 NEW CASES OF THE CORONAVIRUS THIS PAST WEEK.

SOME 2,000 COVID PATIENTS ARE ON VENTILATORS AND HEALTH OFFICIALS REPORT THERE'S NO MORE HOSPITAL SPACE FOR PATIENTS WHO REQUIRE INTENSIVE CARE IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS.

THE MOST RECENT DATA SHOWS 500 OPEN ICU BEDS STATE-WIDE.

>> UNVACCINATED INDIVIDUALS ACCOUNT FOR NEARLY EVERY SERIOUS CASE OF COVID.

ACCORDING TO STATE PUBLIC HEALTH DATA 142,000 VACCINE DOSES WERE GIVEN THIS WEEK, 63% OF ILLINOIS ADULTS ARE FULLY VACCINATED.

>> CONGRESS HAS AWARDED $175 CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDALS THROUGHOUT HISTORY AS WTTW NEWS FIRST REPORTED, CONGRESSMAN BOBBY RUSH WANTS CONGRESS TO GIVE OUT MORE.

HE IS THE SPONSOR OF AN ACT THAT WOULD AWARD THE SCIENTISTS BEHIND THE COVID VACCINE AS WELL AS VACCINE TRIAL VOLUNTEERS AND OTHERS AROUND THE WORLD RESPONSIBLE FOR THE VACCINE'S DEVELOPMENT.

MORE ON THIS STORY AND 0 OUR WEBSITE.

>> DOMESTIC WORKERS IN CHICAGO WILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO A WRITTEN CONTRACT STARTING JANUARY.

>> TODAY WE CELEBRATE A MILESTONE IN IMPROVING THE WORKING CONDITIONS AND INCREASING RECOGNITION OF THE PROFESSION OF CAREGIVERS, CLEANERS IN CHICAGO.

>> THE CITY ORDINANCE THAT TAKES EFFECT AT THE START OF THE NEW YEAR FINES EMPLOYERS $500 IF THEY REFUSE TO SIGN A CONTRACT WITH MAIDS, NANNIES OR HOMECARE WORKERS.

ARISE CHICAGO IS STARTING AN OUTREACH PROGRAM THIS WEEKEND HELPING WORKERS DRAFT LEGAL AGREEMENTS.

>> CHICAGO RESIDENTS OF MEXICAN HERITAGE ARE CELEBRATING MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY AND THAT MEANS A LOT OF HONKING FLAG WAVING AND TRAFFIC.

THE POLICE AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES WARN DRIVERS TO EXPECT ROLLING CLOSURES OF DUSABLE LAKE SHORE DRIVE, ROOSEVELT DRIVE AND COLUMBUS DRIVE TONIGHT AND THE REST OF THE WEEKEND.

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

JOINING US ARE MILA KOUMPILOVA OF CHALKBEAT CHICAGO.

A.D. QUIG OF CRAIN'S CHICAGO BUSINESS.

TAHMAN BRADLEY OF WGNTV AND DAN MIHALOPOULOS OF WBEZ.

A KEY ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION VOTING AGAINST RECOMMENDING A PFIZER COVID BOOSTER SHOT TO PEOPLE 16 AND OVER BUT ENDORSING BOOSTERS TO THOSE 65 YEARS OLD AND UP AND HIGH-RISK FOR SERIOUS CASES OF COVID.

LET'S LISTEN TO A CLIP FROM THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE F.D.A.

'S OFFICE OF VACCINES, RESEARCH AND REVIEW.

>> ONE OF THE ISSUES IN THIS IS THAT MUCH OF THE DATA PRESENTED THAT IS BEING DISCUSSED TODAY IS NOT PEER REVIEWED AND SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN REFUSED BY F.D.A.

>> -- REVIEWED BY F.D.A.

>> FIRST, A.D. QUIG, THE PRESIDENT TALKED ABOUT STARTING TO GIVE BOOSTER SHOTS TO EVERYBODY STARTING SEPTEMBER 20TH AND THAT IS MONDAY.

SO WHY DID THIS COMMITTEE NOT APPROVE THAT?

>> BASICALLY IT WAS ABOUT THE EFFICACY ABOUT THE VACCINE FOR FOLKS WEREN'T AT LOW RISK OR OLD AND THERE'S DUELING DATA THAT THE UNITED STATES HAS AND ISRAEL HAS AND THIS COULD VARY DEPENDING WHAT THE ADMINISTRATION CONSIDERS HIGH-RISK INDIVIDUALS.

WE HAVE TO WAIT-AND-SEE WHAT THE DATA SAYS ABOUT THE EFFICACY OF THE VACCINE FOR YOUNGER FOLKS AS TO WHETHER WE WILL HAVE BOOSTERS.

THE ETHICS OF THE UNITED STATES USING MORE BOOSTER SHOTS WHEN SO MUCH OF THE WORLD DOES NOT HAVE A VACCINE SUPPLY AND THAT THE VIRUS COULD BE MUTATING AROUND THE WORLD IN PLACES WHERE FOLKS ARE NOT GETTING VACCINATED.

WE HAVE TO WAIT-AND-SEE IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS AND WHERE THE REST OF THE WORLD IS.

>> MILA KOUMPILOVA, HOW BIG OF A SETBACK COULD THIS BE FOR THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION, AGAIN, HE WAS A BIG BOOSTER OF THE BOOSTER SHOTS AS PART OF HIS PROGRAM TO TRY AND CALM DOWN THIS SURGE IN CASES?

>> YES, EXACTLY.

AND OBVIOUSLY EVER SINCE COMING IN THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION HAS MADE A BIG CASE FOR FOLLOWING THE SCIENCE.

AND TRY TO BUILD TRUST AROUND RELIANCE OR SCIENCE AND USING SCIENCE AS REALLY WHAT IS HELPING DRIVE POLICIES HERE.

AND HERE WE HAVE A CASE WHERE IT LOOKED LIKE THE PLANS FOR THE BOOSTER SHOTS IN SEPTEMBER GOT AHEAD OF THE SCIENCE.

SO THAT'S A SETBACK RIGHT THERE.

>> AND TAHMAN BRADLEY, YOU ARE A POLITICAL REPORTER WHO ARE THE POLITICS OF THIS FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN?

WHEN HE IS SUPPOSED TO BE AGAIN THE SCIENCE-DRIVEN PRESIDENT?

>> WELL, I WOULD IMAGINE THAT THE WHITE HOUSE IS VERY FRUSTRATED ABOUT THIS DECISION BECAUSE CERTAINLY THEY WOULD LIKE TO TURN THE CORNER.

THEY WOULD LIKE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE ECONOMY IS THRIVING.

AND WE'VE SEEN WITH SOME SCHOOL DISTRICTS HAVING TO SEND KIDS HOME, SOME PEOPLE HAVE BEEN BACK TO REMOTE LEARNING AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT THE PRESIDENT DOESN'T WANT TO SEE.

IN TERMS OF RESTAURANTS AND BUSINESSES BEING OPEN, GATHERING IN PUBLIC VENUES THAT IS SOMETHING THAT THE PRESIDENT WOULD LIKE TO SEE AHEAD OF NEXT YEAR AND THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS.

IT WAS PART OF HIS STRATEGY TO ENCOURAGE US ALL TO GO OUT AND GET VACCINATED.

THERE IS A LOT THAT WE DON'T KNOW.

IF IN FACT THE VACCINES WEAR OFF IN SIX-EIGHT MONTHS.

SOME PEOPLE WILL BEGIN TO ENTER THAT PERIOD OF SIX-EIGHT MONTHS THIS FALL.

WE DON'T KNOW IF MORE PEOPLE WILL GET SICK.

SO IT'S GOT TO BE FRUSTRATING THAT WHEN YOU DID HAVE PFIZER SAYING THAT IN FACT IF YOU GOT THE BOOSTER SHOT IT COULD PROTECT YOU EVEN MORE THAN THE SECOND SHOT INITIALLY DID.

BUT WE JUST DON'T HAVE ENOUGH INFORMATION IT IS THE UNKNOWN POLITICALLY THAT I THINK IS KEEPING THE WHITE HOUSE UP AT NIGHT.

>> AND PERHAPS MORE CONFUSION WHICH I THINK HAS BEEN AN ISSUE THROUGHOUT THE PANDEMIC.

DAN, I WANT TO BRING YOU IN.

ANOTHER PART OF THE PRESIDENT'S PLATFORM IS REQUIRING VACCINES.

HE WANTS IT FOR ALL PLACES OF WORK WITH OVER 100 EMPLOYEES, ALSO FEDERAL EMPLOYEES, BY THE WAY WHO DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO GET TESTED THAT IS SOMETHING, HOWEVER, THAT GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER IS PUSHING EVEN THOUGH NOW HE HAS DELAYED INSTITUTING THAT REQUIREMENT FOR STATE EMPLOYEES AND CONTRACTORS IN SETTINGS LIKE PRISONS, VETERANS HOMES, CONGREGATE SETTINGS AND MAYOR LORI LIGHTFOOT HAS REQUIREMENTS.

WEIGH-IN ON THIS.

ARE PEOPLE GOING TO HAVE THE APPETITE TO GET THE VACCINE AMIDST THIS CONFUSION AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL?

>> SO IT'S NO SECRET THAT THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE GETTING VACCINATED STALLED.

SO THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE THE APPETITE WENT THERE IMMEDIATELY I WENT AS SOON AS I COULD.

I DIDN'T JUMP THE LINE BUT I WENT AS SOON AS I COULD AND COMING UP ON SIX MONTHS FROM THE FIRST SHOTS THAT JOURNALISTS COULD TAKE AS A SUBCATEGORY OF FRONTLINE WORKERS AFTER THE OTHER REAL FRONTLINE WORKERS.

AND SO THOSE OF US WHO WANTED TO ARE GOING.

AND YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE A BIG SUBSET NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE IN THIS COUNTRY.

YOU WILL HAVE A BIG SUBSET OF PEOPLE THAT DON'T WANT TO BE FORCED AS THEY PUT IT TO DO THIS.

AND THAT INCLUDES PUBLIC EMPLOYEES, ABSOLUTELY.

WE'VE SEEN A LOT OF PUSHBACK FROM THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE TO THE POINT THAT HE USED OFFENSIVE AND RIDICULOUS COMPARISONS THE HEAD OF THE FOP A COUPLE WEEKS AGO TO VACCINE MANDATES.

YES IT IS ABSOLUTELY AN ISSUE BECAUSE WE ARE VERY FAR FROM 100% OF PEOPLE HAVING THE APPETITE AS YOU PUT IT.

>> I THINK THAT 63% OF ILLINOIS ADULTS NOW BUT THAT IS REALLY HAS NOT SHUT BY MUCH IT WAS 61% LAST WEEK.

LET'S GO TO POLITICS THIS WEEK.

MAYOR LORI LIGHTFOOT NAMES THE NEXT C.E.O.

OF CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

THE CHICAGO PARK DISTRICT'S INSPECTOR GENERAL WHO WAS LEADING THE INVESTIGATION INTO ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL ABUSE RESIGNS.

AND COOK COUNTY STATE'S ATTORNEY OPENS AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE PARK DISTRICT'S HANDLING OF THAT PROBE.

ALSO, JIM GARDINER FACES A FEDERAL PROBE INTO BRIBERY AND PAY TO PLAY ALLEGATIONS.

SAN ANTONIO SCHOOLS CHIEF PEDOR MARTINEZ GOING TO BE THE NEXT C.E.O.

FOR C.P.S.

HERE IS A CLIP FROM MARTINEZ ON HIS PRIORITYS.

THIS IS THE TIME FOR US TO COME TOGETHER.

WE HAVE TO BE UNITED.

WE CANNOT BE FIGHTING WITHIN OURSELVES.

THE ENEMY IS COVID.

THE ENEMY IS THE SYSTEMIC RACISM WE'VE HAD IN OUR COUNTRY, THE ENEMY IS POVERTY.

THERE ARE MANY ENEMIES.

WE ARE ON THE SAME SIDE.

>> HE IS GOING TO BE COMING IN FACING A LOT OF IF NOT ENEMIES AT LEAST CHALLENGES.

WE HAVE A NEW ELECTED SCHOOL BOARD, REBUILDING DISTRICT LEADERSHIP AFTER A MONSTER BRAIN DRAIN AT THE TOP OF C.P.S.

WILL HE BE ABLE TO DO IT, AD?

>> THAT IS ALWAYS A QUESTION FOR THE NEW C.E.O.S AND WE'VE HAD SEVEN OF THEM IN THE LAST DECADE OR SO.

MILLION LA CAN CORRECT ME.

IT'S BEEN A TIME OF CHANGE AT C.P.S.

AND THEY HAVE SEEN DECLINING ENROLLMENT THEY HAVE UNDER ENROLLED SCHOOLS THIS UNRESOLVED WORKPLACE STANDARDS WITH THE CHICAGO TEACHERS' UNION.

A DELAY IN ROLLING OUT COVID TESTING A LOT OF PARENTS DEMANDING AN OPTION FOR REMOTE INSTRUCTION.

CHARTER INTERESTS.

WE HAVE CHARTER SCHOOLS THAT ARE UNIONIZING.

BUDGET PROBLEMS ONCE WE GET PAST THIS HUGE RAFT OF FEDERAL RELIEF.

IT IS A LOT TO HANDLE NOT TO MENTION THE SIZE OF C.P.S.

COMPARED TO SAN ANTONIO AND THE POLITICS OF CHICAGO IN GENERAL.

IT WOULD BE A CHALLENGE FOR ANYONE COMING IN AND IT IS AN ADVANTAGE THAT HE IS FROM HERE BUT HE HASN'T BEEN HERE IN A WHILE.

HE'S GOT A LOT TO GET UNDER CONTROL.

AND LIKE YOU MENTIONED HAVING FOLKS IN LEADERSHIP HE HAS TO RECRUIT PRETTY HARD.

HALF A DOZEN VACANCIES AT THE TOP OF C.P.S.

LEADERSHIP AND THAT IS NOT A SMALL TASK TO FILL.

ANYONE COMING IN, ALSO HAS TO RECOGNIZE THEY HAVE ALL THESE PROBLEMS TO DEAL WITH AND NOTHING IS GOING TO GET HANDED TO THEM.

AT LEAST FOR NOW, I THINK HAVING THAT FEDERAL RELIEF WILL HELP.

BUT COVID IS THE NUMBER ONE THING FACING HIM AS HE COMES IN.

>> MILA KOUMPILOVA YOU ARE OUR EDUCATION EXPERT.

WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT MARTINEZ' TIME LEADING SCHOOLS IN SAN ANTONIO?

THERE WAS CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES WITH CHARTER SCHOOLS?

>> THAT'S RIGHT.

PEDOR MARTINEZ HAS LED THE SAN ANTONIO SCHOOL DISTRICT SINCE 2015.

AND ONE OF THE DEVELOPMENTS DURING HIS TENURE THAT HAS BEEN SOMEWHAT CONTROVERSIAL IS AN EXPANSION IN CHARTER SCHOOLS.

AND THE MOVE THAT HE MADE TO HANDLE OR CONTROL DISTRICT RUN SCHOOLS TO CHARTER AND OTHER PRIVATE OPERATORS.

NOW, HE SAID DURING THE PRESS CONFERENCE EARLIER THIS WEEK ANNOUNCING HIS APPOINTMENT THAT A LAW THAT HAS GONE INTO EFFECT IN TEXAS RIGHT BEFORE HE TOOK OVER THAT DISTRICT LEFT HIM AND HIS SCHOOL BOARD AT THE TIME RELATIVELY FEW OPTIONS.

BECAUSE SCHOOLS THAT WERE FLAGGED AS UNDERPERFORMING BY THE STATE FACED CLOSURE UNLESS THE DISTRICT FOUND SOMEBODY WHO OUTSIDE A MORE INDEPENDENT ENTITY TO TAKEOVER.

I CHATTED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THIS WITH LOPEZ, THE HEAD OF THE TEACHERS' UNION THERE.

SHE TO SOME EXTENT ACKNOWLEDGED THE DISTRICT WAS IN A TOUGH SPOT BUT SHE FELT THAT THE DISTRICT DID HAVE OPTIONS INCLUDING PARTNERING WITH HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS AND NONPROFITS AND THAT PEDOR MARTINEZ DID NOT HAVE MUCH DIALOGUE WITH FOLKS IN SCHOOL COMMUNITIES BEFORE MAKING SOME OF THE DECISIONS.

HE HAS GOTTEN SOME CREDIT FOR IMPROVEMENTS IN THAT DISTRICT'S GRADUATION RATES, FOR INNOVATIVE EFFORT TO INCREASE RACIAL INTEGRATION OF THAT DISTRICT.

AND JUST IMPROVING THE DISTRICT'S STANDING IN TEXAS' RATING SYSTEM FOR THE DISTRICTS.

AND HE MADE SOME NEWS RECENTLY BY DEFYING THE BAN AGAINST VACCINATION AND MASK MANDATES THAT THE TEXAS GOVERNOR INSTITUTED.

>> CERTAINLY A VERY DIFFERENT SCENARIO THAN HE HAS IN CHICAGO WHERE THAT DECISION IS MADE MASKS ARE MANDATORY.

NOW, TAHMAN BRADLEY, WHAT ABOUT THAT RELATIONSHIP WITH UNIONS?

THERE HAS BEEN A TENSE ONE WITH PREVIOUS SCHOOL CHIEFS WITH C.T.U.

MARTINEZ COMING IN IT SEEMS LIKE WITH THAT.

DO YOU EXPECT THAT HE IS GOING TO BE ABLE TO BRIDGE THOSE DIVISIONS?

>> SO HE CERTAINLY HAS A WARM CHICAGO WELCOME FROM THE TEACHERS' UNION.

REMINDING EVERYBODY THAT HE WORKED AS FINANCIAL ADVISER TO DUNCAN WHEN HE WAS THE C.E.O.

OF CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

I ALSO TALKED TO THE HEAD OF THE TEACHERS UNION IN SAN ANTONIO THAT SAID THAT PEDOR MARTINEZ IS NOT ONLY ANTIUNION HE IS ANTI-WORKER.

SO HE OBVIOUSLY BUTTED HEADS DOWN THERE OVER THE ISSUE OF CHARTERS.

THEY ALSO SAID THAT HE WAS NOT INCLUSIVE NOT SOMEONE WHO WOULD LISTEN.

SO HE IS GOING TO IMMEDIATELY BE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STORM HERE WITH THE CHICAGO TEACHERS' UNION CONTINUES TO BATTLE OVER COVID SAFETY PROTOCOLS IN SCHOOLS NOW THAT THE SCHOOLS ARE REOPENED AND WE DON'T HAVE AN AGREEMENT.

I WENT TO THE NEWS CONFERENCE AND ASKED HIM TO GIVE US A SENSE OF SHORT-TERM AND LONG-TERM WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN FOR THE DISTRICT AND WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES IT FACES.

AND HE WAS FOCUSED ONLY ON COVID.

HE SAID IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO KEEP THE SCHOOLS OPEN AND THAT IS THE IMMEDIATE CONCERN AND HE WILL HAVE MORE TO SAY ABOUT THE BIGGER ISSUES DOWN THE ROAD.

IT MAKES YOU WONDER.

MAYOR LIGHTFOOT KNEW THAT HE HAD CHALLENGES WITH THE UNION DOWN THERE.

MAYBE SHE WANTS SOMEONE THAT CAN BE MORE OUT FRONT.

JANICE JACKSON WAS NOT OFTEN THE FACE OF THE PERSON TAKING ON THE UNION THAT WAS MORE RESERVED TO BOTH MAYORS LIGHTFOOT AND EMANUEL.

PERHAPS SHE WANTS THE C.E.O.

TO BE MORE AGGRESSIVE IN TAKING ON THE C.T.U.

REMAINS TO BE DETERMINED, BUT AS YOU PLAYED IN THE CLIP, HE SAYS THAT THE ENEMY IS COVID IT'S NOT THE TEACHERS AND THE ADMINISTRATION.

>> WE'LL SEE.

BY WARM WELCOME YOU MEANT ICY, AIR-CONDITIONING, THE WEATHER OUTSIDE THERE.

>> THAT IS HOW WE DO THINGS HERE IN CHICAGO.

>> DAN, WE ARE GOING TO MOVE ON TO A STORY YOU'VE BEEN COVERING THE CHICAGO PARK DISTRICT AND ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT AND VIOLENCE BY LIFEGUARDS AND THIS WEEK YOU HAD THE INSPECTOR GENERAL OVERSEEING THAT PROBE RESIGNING WHEN IT CAME TO LIGHT THAT SHE, HERSELF, HAD BEEN SUBJECT OF AN INVESTIGATION.

DAN, WHAT CAN YOU SHARE WITH US WHERE THIS STANDS AND WHAT THAT RESIGNATION MAY MEAN FOR GETTING TO THE HEART OF WHAT IS GOING ON AT THE PARK DISTRICT?

>> THERE WERE A COUPLE DRAMATIC DEVELOPMENTS IN THIS INVESTIGATION THAT HAS GONE ON FOR A YEAR-AND-A-HALF NOW AND IT WENT ON IN SECRET FOR MORE THAN A YEAR UNTIL WE REPORTED ON IT IN APRIL.

DOZENS OF EMPLOYEES ALLEGEDLY ROUTINELY ENGAGING IN SEXUAL HARASSMENT, SEXUAL ABUSE, SEXUAL ASSAULT OFTEN SUPERVISORS AGAINST LIFEGUARDS YOUNG WOMEN OR TEENAGED GIRLS AS YOUNG AS 16.

SO OBVIOUSLY A VERY SERIOUS ISSUE THAT HAS BEEN ALLOWED AN INVESTIGATION THAT DRAGGED ON FOR WEEKS MAYOR LORI LIGHTFOOT HAS COMPLETELY DEFENDED THE INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE PARK DISTRICT AND SAID LET'S GIVE HER SPACE AND WAIT UNTIL SHE FINISHES.

THIS WEEK HOURS AFTER WE PUBLISHED A STORY ABOUT ANOTHER INVESTIGATION THAT TARGETED THIS INSPECTOR GENERAL IN A PREVIOUS JOB AS A COOK COUNTY JUVENILE JAIL TOTAL ABOUT FACE FROM MAYOR LIGHTFOOT.

SHE -- THE INSPECTOR GENERAL RESIGNED AND THE MAYOR EITHER FORCED IT OR APPROVED OF THIS QUICK DECISION AND CHANGED HER TUNE COMPLETELY.

NOW YOU HAVE ESSENTIALLY A HEADLESS INVESTIGATION.

BUT THE SECOND BIG DEVELOPMENT OF THE WEEK WAS WE LEARNED THAT FOR A MONTH NOW, NEARLY STATES ATTORNEY KIM FOXX AND HER OFFICE HAS BEEN LOOKING AT NOT ONLY THESE ALLEGED SEX CRIMES, BUT ALSO OTHER ALLEGED CRIMINAL ACTIVITY SUCH AS OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE AND WITNESS TAMPERING.

THEY ARE DOING AN INVESTIGATION FROM THE LAW ENFORCEMENT ANGLE OF THE HANDLING OF THE CASE BY THE PARK DISTRICT.

>> AND THAT IS THE ONE TO PERHAPS TRULY KEEP AN EYE ON BECAUSE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION IS JUST THAT.

BRIEFLY, DAN, YOU SAID THAT THE MAYOR HAD A BIT OF AN ABOUTFACE.

DID LIGHTFOOT KNOW ABOUT THE PREVIOUS INVESTIGATION INTO THE WATCHDOG?

OR WAS THIS NEWS TO HER?

>> WELL, THE INVESTIGATION BY THE PARK DISTRICT WATCHDOG HAS BEEN KNOWN PUBLICLY SINCE APRIL.

AND SHE DEFENDED THAT INVESTIGATION.

AND SHE SAID THIS WAS -- >> I'M SORRY THE INVESTIGATION INTO ELAINE LITTLE WAS THE INSPECTOR GENERAL WAS IT NEWS TO LIGHTFOOT -- >> YEAH, BOTH OF THESE DEVELOPMENTS WERE NEWS TO HER.

SHE SAID SHE WASN'T AWARE UNTIL THE DAY BEFORE THE STORY WAS PUBLISHED WHEN WE SENT OUR QUESTIONS TO GET THEIR RESPONSE WHEN SHE BECAME AWARE.

ONE BIG SURPRISE.

SHE HAD ANOTHER SURPRISE LATER IN THE WEEK IF WE TAKE HER STATEMENT AT FACE-VALUE, WHEN SHE FOUND OUT FROM US THAT KIM FOXX HAD STARTED AN INVESTIGATION ON AUGUST 19TH.

AND SHE SAID SHE DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THAT.

>> LOTS GOING ON THERE AND HOPEFULLY THE LIFEGUARDS ARE SAFE AND THINGS ARE UNDER CONTROL.

MORE INVESTIGATIONS INCLUDING OF JIM GARDINER WHO APOLOGIZED TO THE CITY COUNCIL THIS WEEK FOR PROFANE AND MISOGYNISTIC TEXT MESSAGES AND HE IS FACING A FEDERAL PROBE AS WELL.

AND ALSO ETHICS INVESTIGATIONS.

TAHMAN BRADLEY DO YOU EXPECT THAT THERE IS GOING TO BE MORE FALLOUT HERE AS WE HAVE PROGRESSIVES CALLING FOR HIM TO RESIGN?

>> I THINK SO.

I THINK IT'S NOT GOING AWAY, OBVIOUSLY WITH THE F.B.I.

LOOKING INTO THIS MATTER AND THE CITY ETHICS BOARD POTENTIALLY FINDING HIM BUT OBVIOUSLY THE POTENTIAL FOR THIS TO PERHAPS BE CRIMINAL CHARGES OR WHATEVER MAY COME OUT OF THE F.B.I.

INVESTIGATION.

THAT'S VERY DAMNING.

HE DID APOLOGIZE AT THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING ON TUESDAY READING A WRITTEN STATEMENT AND YOU GOT THE SENSE SOME OF THE COLLEAGUES WERE NOT SATISFIED WITH THAT.

SUGAR SA SAID SHE WISHES HE DID NOT READ THE STATEMENT.

AND ROSSANA RODRIGUEZ-SANCHEZ CERTAINLY WANTS HIM CENSURED AND IS TRYING TO RALLY SUPPORT AROUND THAT.

NO, I DON'T THINK THIS IS GOING AWAY.

MAYOR LIGHTFOOT SAID HE OUGHT TO HOLD A NEWS CONFERENCE AND OTHER AVAILABLE TO JOURNALISTS TO ANSWER QUESTIONS AND THAT IS CERTAINLY SOMETHING HE WILL HAVE TO DO AT SOME POINT.

NO, THIS IS NOT DONE.

>> THUS FAR HE HAS NOT GIVEN ANSWERS TO THE MEDIA FOR THE PUBLIC.

AD, ALDERWOMAN ROSSANA RODRIGUEZ-SANCHEZ CALLING FOR CENSURE BY THE CITY COUNCIL.

HAVE WE SEEN SOMETHING LIKE THAT HAPPEN BEFORE?

HE AFTER ALL IS NOT THE ONLY MEMBER OF CITY COUNCIL UNDER INVESTIGATION?

>> NO, I HAVE NOT SEEN IT IN THE TIME I'VE BEEN COVERING COUNCIL AND PUT THIS INTO CONTEXT OF THREE ALDERMEN BEING UNDER INDICTMENT.

IT IS A REMARKABLE TIME IN THE CITY COUNCIL WE ARE SEEING A LOT OF THINGS WE HAVE NOT SEEN BEFORE.

AS FOLKS GET DETHROWNED FROM POSITIONS OF POWER PEOPLE ARE TRYING NEW THINGS AND I WOULD NOT EXPECT THAT TO LET UP AND I WOULD NOT EXPECT THE STORIES TO KEEP COMING OUT.

BLOCK CLUB AND PEOPLE'S FABRIC HAVE BEEN REPORTING ON STUFF ABOUT JIM GARDINER WAY BACK TO THE ELECTION.

AND THE MORE PEOPLE FEEL COMFORTABLE COMING OUT AND FEEL LIKE THEY HAVE SOMEONE THEY CAN TURN TO TO GIVE THEIR STORY TO, THEY HAVE BOTH THE F.B.I.

AND THE IG, I THINK THE MORE WE'RE GOING TO FIND OUT AND I WILL BE SHOCK FEDERAL WE HEAR FROM JIM GARDINER HIMSELF.

I THINK ALL OF US ON THIS VIDEO CALL HAVE TRIED TO REACH HIM FOR COMMENT.

>> ALL LISTENERS AS WELL IF ANYBODY WANTS TO SHARE THEIR STORIES.

DAN CAN I HAVE YOU WEIGH-IN?

PART OF THIS RETALIATION AND HELPING TO GIVE FAVORS TO FRIENDS PART OF POLITICS?

OR HAVE WE SEEN A SWING MODERN-DAY THAT IS JUST NOT TOLERATED?

>> NO, I THINK WHEN YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT THE F.B.I.

YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN AGAINST THE LAW ALWAYS IT DOESN'T MEAN IT DOESN'T GET BROKEN FREQUENTLY IN THE CITY COUNCIL AS AD SAID THERE ARE SEVERAL ALDERMEN RIGHT NOW WHO ARE UNDER INDICTMENT.

WE'VE SEEN LITERALLY DOZENS OF THEM OVER THE LAST FEW DECADES GET BUSTED.

BUT THIS IS VERY MUCH ACROSS THE LINE IF PROVEN IN MANY OF THE CASES.

AND I THINK ALL OF THE -- LET'S COUNT HOW MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE ARE INVESTIGATING JIM GARDINER.

>> I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE TIME FOR THAT.

WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME.

>> THE F.B.I.

AND THE U.S. ATTORNEY, THAT'S THE BALL GAME RIGHT THERE.

>> A D'BACK TO YOU BRIEFLY BECAUSE YOU REPORTED TODAY AT THE COOK COUNTY ASSESSOR PROPERTY TAXES GETTING HIGHER THOSE BILLS ARE COMING OUT HAS A COMPETITOR.

QUICK WHO IS FRITZ KAEGI LOOKING AT AS A POTENTIAL OPPONENT?

>> KERRY STEEL THE HEAD OF THE METROPOLITIAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF CHICAGO.

SHE IS A CHEMIST AND SHE HAS A LOT OF BACKING FROM SOUTH AND WEST SIDE ELECTED OFFICIALS AND SHE WILL BE COMING OUT WITH A MESSAGE ON MONDAY HOW FRITZ KAEGI HAS NOT GONE FAR ENOUGH OR ACTED QUICKLY ENOUGH TO REFORM THE PROPERTY TAX SYSTEM.

AND THAT IS CHICAGO BUDGET DAY IT WILL BE A BUSY ONE.

>> LOTS TO I DON'T KNOW IF TO LOOK FORWARD TO IS THE APPROPRIATE PHRASE BUT A LOT GOING ON.

AND TAHMAN BRADLEY LET'S TOSS IT TO YOU ACTION ON THE STATE LEVEL SWEEPING ENERGY LAW NOW IN PLACE.

HOW BIG OF A DEAL IS THIS FOR ILLINOIS?

>> OH, IT'S HUGE.

OBVIOUSLY THE IMMEDIATE IMPACT IS IT SAVES TWO NUCLEAR PLANTS EXELON WANTED BUT IT MOVES THE STATE TO RENEWABLE ENERGY IT SETS DEADLINES AND POWERS DOWN COAL BURNING PLANTS.

AND THAT THE CLIMATE CHANGE AGENDA THAT GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER HAD AND WE CAN EXPECT HE IS FLOODING OUR AIRWAYS WITH COMMERCIALS THAT SOON WE'LL SEE ABOUT ILLINOIS HAVING ONE OF THE MOST PROGRESSIVE CLIMATE CHANGE LEGISLATION IN THE COUNTRY.

>> MORE COMING OUR WAY.

THANKS TO GOVERNOR PRITZKER'S MONETARY LARGES BRAGGING ABOUT THAT.

WE HAVE ENERGY TO TALK MORE AND WE ARE OUT OF TIME.

OUR VERY MUCH THANKS TO MILA KOUMPILOVA, A.D. QUIG OF CRAIN'S CHICAGO BUSINESS, TAHMAN BRADLEY OF WGN-TV AND DAN MIHALOPOULOS OF WBEZ.

>> THANKS SO MUCH THAT IS OUR SHOW FOR THIS FRIDAY NIGHT AND NOW FOR "THE WEEK IN REVIEW", I'M AMANDA VINICKY.

THANK YOU FOR WATCHING.

STAY HEALTHY AND SAFE AND HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND.

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