
The Week in Review: Vice President Comes to Town
9/16/2022 | 27m 2sVideo has Closed Captions
Paris Schutz and guests discuss the week’s biggest stories.
Vice President Kamala Harris in town as more migrants are sent to Chicago, GOP candidate for governor Darren Bailey moves to the city amid uproar over a racially motivated ad, and the undefeated Bears head up to Lambeau.
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
Chicago Tonight is a local public television program presented by WTTW
WTTW video streaming support provided by members and sponsors.

The Week in Review: Vice President Comes to Town
9/16/2022 | 27m 2sVideo has Closed Captions
Vice President Kamala Harris in town as more migrants are sent to Chicago, GOP candidate for governor Darren Bailey moves to the city amid uproar over a racially motivated ad, and the undefeated Bears head up to Lambeau.
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
How to Watch Chicago Tonight
Chicago Tonight is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, and Vizio.

WTTW News Explains
In this Emmy Award-winning series, WTTW News tackles your questions — big and small — about life in the Chicago area. Our video animations guide you through local government, city history, public utilities and everything in between.Providing Support for PBS.org
Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[♪♪♪] >> 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 BUT FIRST, SOME OF TODAY'S TOP STORIES... >> A CHICAGO POLICE SERGEANT AND OFFICER HAVE BEEN CHARGED WITH THREE FELONIES EACH IN CONNECTION WITH A JULY SHOOTING OF AN UNARMED MAN.
KIM FOXX ANNOUNCED CHARGES OF AGGRAVATED BATTERY WITH A FIREARM, AGGRAVATED DISCHARGE OF A FIREARM AND OFFICIAL MISS CARGO AGAINST SERGEANT CHRISTOPHER LIAKOPOULOS AND OFFICER REUBEN REYNOSO.
THE SHOOTING HAPPENED JULY 22 WHEN THE OFFICERS STOPPED TO INVESTIGATE A GROUP OF PEOPLE WALKING NEAR CLOSED BUSINESSES NEAR 18TH AND MORGAN STREETS.
FOXX SAYS THE OFFICERS MADE STATEMENTS TO LEGAL AUTHORITIES THAT CONTRADICTED VIDEO EVIDENCE.
>> THE OFFICERS INVOLVED IN THIS INCIDENT DID NOT HAVE PROVOCATION OR JUSTIFICATION TO SHOOT THE UNARMED VICTIM DURING THIS INCIDENT.
THE EVIDENCE DOES NOT SUPPORT THE USE OF DEADLY FIERCE RELATED TO THE SHOOTING OF THE UNARMED VICTIM AND WAS NOT LAWFUL.
>> AND CHICAGO POLICE ANNOUNCE THAT TWO MEN HAVE BEEN ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH FIVE COUNTS OF FIRST DEGREE ATTEMPTED MURDER TIED TO A SEPTEMBER 13TH SHOOTING OF A 12-YEAR-OLD BOY.
ISAIAH RENTERIA AND ANOTHER MAN ARE SUSPECTED IN THE SHOOTING WHICH THEY ALLEGEDLY OPENED FIRE ON THE BOY, HIS FRIENDS AND UNCLES AS THE GROUP WALKED HOME FROM A STORE IN WEST 21ST PLACE.
>> WHEN THEY WERE WALKING BACK TO THE PARTY THERE WERE TWO GUNMEN IN AN ALLEY THAT BEGAN SHOOTING THEIR WEAPONS IN THE DIRECTION STRIKING THIS 12-YEAR-OLD VICTIM IN THE HEAD.
THE VICTIM IS IN EXTREMELY CRITICAL CONDITION.
>> VICE-PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS ARRIVED IN CHICAGO GREETED ON THE TARMAC AT MIDWAY BY CHICAGO MAYOR LORI LIGHTFOOT AND COOK COUNTY BOARD PRESIDENT TONI PRECKWINKLE AMONG OTHER LOCAL DIGNITARIES.
THE VICE-PRESIDENT IS IN TOWN TO PARTICIPATE IN A ROUNDTABLE ABOUT ABORTION RIGHTS AT UIC AS TEXAS GOVERNOR GREG ABBOTT SENT A BUS OF MIGRANTS TO WASHINGTON D.C. AND DROPPED THEM OFF OUTSIDE THE VICE-PRESIDENT'S OFFICIAL MANSION.
WE WILL GET INTO SOME OF THAT IN JUST A MOMENT BECAUSE IT IS TIME FOR OUR "THE WEEK IN REVIEW" PANEL.
JOINING US ARE CHERYL RAYE-STOUT WHO COVERS CHICAGO SPORTS FOR WBEZ, DAN MIHALOPOULOS INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER ON WBEZ'S TEAM.
AND LORRAINE FORTE EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR AT THE "CHICAGO SUN-TIMES" AND RICK PEARSON CHIEF POLITICAL REPORTER AT THE "CHICAGO TRIBUNE".
BURR RIDGE MAYOR GARY GRASSO HAD A BONE TO PICK WITH GOVERNOR PRITZKER OVER FAILING TO NOTIFY HIM OF MIGRANTS BEING SENT TO A HOTEL IN THAT COMMUNITY.
HOWEVER, HE HAD KINDER WORDS FOR MAYOR LIGHTFOOT.
>> SHE APOLOGIZED AFTER A A LITTLE BIT SHE IS PRETTY FEISTY AND SHE GOT A LITTLE FEISTY ON THE PHONE WITH US.
BUT IT TURNED OUT TO BE A VERY PROFESSIONAL CONVERSATION.
AFTER THAT SHE ADMITTED I HAD EVERY RIGHT TO KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON AHEAD OF TIME SO WE COULD PREPARE FOR THE NORMAL QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED.
SHE THEN CALLED ME ON TUESDAY, AND WANTED AND FOLLOWED UP AND WANTED TO KNOW IF THERE IS ANYTHING MORE SHE CAN DO.
I GIVE HER CREDIT NOT SO MUCH THE GOVERNOR.
>> AND DAN MIHALOPOULOS, THE GOVERNOR SENT A LETTER APOLOGIZING TO MAYOR GRASSO.
WHY ARE THEY THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE?
>> THEY HAVE BEEN BUSSED FROM THE BORDER SOME HAVE COME FROM VENEZUELA THEY WALKED THROUGH CENTRAL AMERICA THROUGH MEXICO, THROUGH HAZARDOUS SWAMPS AND JUNGLES AND THEY FIND THEIR WAY TO THE U.S. WHERE THEY APPLY FOR ASYLUM WHICH IS LEGAL.
IT IS NOT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION OR UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRATION.
THEY ARE ALYING FOR ASYLUM FROM A COUNTRY THAT IS IN A VERY, VERY BAD SITUATION.
AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN, THE GOVERNOR IN SOME OF THE STATES, FLORIDA IS INVOLVED AS WELL, BUT TEXAS PRIMARILY, ARE SENDING THEM TO SANCTUARY CITIES WHERE THEY SAY THEY DO NOT ENFORCE THE IMMIGRATION LAWS ON A LOCAL LEVEL.
PLACES LIKE NEW YORK, CHICAGO AND THERE WAS A PLANE LOAD THE OTHER DAY TO MARTHA'S VINEYARD.
I WOULD REMIND PEOPLE WHETHER WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE CITY OR THE SUBURBS THIS IS CHICAGO.
THERE HAVE BEEN WAVES OF IMMIGRANTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD AND MIGRANTS FROM THE SOUTH OF OUR COUNTRY WHO HAVE COME TO CHICAGO AND TO THE SUBURBS FOR GENERATION AFTER GENERATION.
MY NAME IS NOT SMITH OR JONES OR DUSABLE.
NOT FROM THE FOUNDING FATHERS I AM A SECOND GENERATION AMERICAN AND A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE ARE REALLY NOT PLUSSED BY WHAT I THINK THE GOVERNORS THOUGHT I'M NOT SURE WHAT THEY THOUGHT WOULD HAPPEN HERE.
HOW WE WOULD REACT.
I THINK FROM ALL ACCOUNTS INCLUDING FROM THE MIGRANTS THEMSELVES AND SOME ARE IN THE NORTHWEST SUBURBS WERE TELLING REPORTERS THAT THEY HAVE BEEN TREATED VERY WELL AND THEY NEVER IMAGINED THEY [INAUDIBLE] >> CHERYL RAYE-STOUT DAN MON MENTIONED THERE WAS THE PLANE FLOWN FROM TEXAS TO MARTHA'S VINEYARD, DE SANTIS SAID HE ORCHESTRATED THIS.
IS THIS JUST FLEXING FOR CONSERVATIVE MEDIA FOR THE BASE TO SAY LOOK WE'RE BEING TOUGH ON IMMIGRATION?
>> THIS IS A HOT BUTTON ISSUE FOR THEM TO PROMOTE FOR THE ELECTIONS.
THEY KNOW THAT THE ROE VS. WADE IS THE ISSUE ON THE OTHER SIDE.
THIS IS SOMETHING THEY WANT TO PUT FRONT AND CENTER OUT THERE TO THEIR BASE.
THIS MEETS FOR THEIR BASE AND THAT IS WHAT THEY WANT TO DO.
AND THEY WANT TO CAUSE CHAOS WITH THE OTHER CITIES AND STATES.
THE ONE THING IS THAT EVERY GOVERNMENT THAT HAS THESE LEGAL IMMIGRANTS COMING HERE, NEEDS TO BE TRANSPARENT ABOUT EVERYTHING SO WE ALL KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON AND IF YOU DO IT CORRECTLY, IT SHOULD SMOOTH THE WATERS WITH THE PUBLIC.
>> RICK PEARSON HOW ARE GOVERNOR PRITZKER AND MAYOR LIGHTFOOT HANDLING THE MIGRANTS THAT HAVE BEEN BUSSED UP TO CHICAGO SOME AS WE MENTIONED OUT TO THE SUBURBS IN BURR RIDGE?
>> WELL, IT SEEMS TO BE PRETTY SEAMLESS DESPITE THE FACT OF THE COMPLAINTS.
THESE ARE ASYLUM SEEKERS ARE SHOWING UP IN BUSES AT UNION STATION SOMETIMES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT.
THERE IS NO ADVANCED WARNING PROVIDED BY GOVERNOR ABBOTT AND TEXAS OR HIS AUTHORITIES.
THERE IS NO REAL CONTEXT TO TRY TO CONVEY TO THESE PLACES THAT ARE THE DESTINATION AREAS BE IT NEW YORK OR WHEREVER THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHEN THESE BUSES ARE ARRIVING.
AND SO IT'S BEEN AN ACTIVE EFFORT BY THE STATE TO USE ITS EMERGENCY RESOURCE ABILITIES FOR TEMPORARY HOUSING.
THE GOVERNOR FILED A DISASTER DECLARATION TO TRY TO HELP LOCALIZE SOME OF THE LOGISTICS IN MAKING IT EASE THOSE.
HE IS ALSO CALLED UP 75 NATIONAL GUARDS MEN FOR LOGISTICS PURPOSES.
MAYOR GRASSO IT CERTAINLY A COURTESY WOULD HAVE BEEN TO SAY WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING THIS.
BUT THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS, THE HOTEL WAS RESERVED BY THE STATE HAD BEEN RESERVED BY THE STATE FOR EMERGENCY SERVICES.
THERE'S REALLY NOTHING THAT MAYOR GRASSO NEEDS TO DO.
EXCEPT TRY TO BE WELCOMING TO THESE PEOPLE.
>> PRITZKER MENTIONED THE STATE HAS A CONTRACT WITH THAT HOTEL THEY HOUSED AFGHAN REFUGEES.
LORRAINE FORTE ALREADY MIDTERMS AROUND THE CORNER AND EVERYTHING IS POLITICAL, WHO DOES THIS HELP MORE, REPUBLICANS TRYING TO LOOK TOUGH AND STRONG OR DEMOCRATS TRYING TO LOOK EMPATHETIC AND COMPASSIONATE?
>> I THINK IF YOU LOOK AT THE RECEPTION THESE PEOPLE HAVE RECEIVED, IF YOU WANT TO LOOK AT IT IN HORSERACE TERMS IT BENEFITS THE DEMOCRATS.
THE DEMOCRATS DID NOT PANIC.
THEY DIDN'T TREAT THEM BADLY.
THERE'S BEEN NO REJECTION OF THESE PEOPLE.
WE'VE BEEN WELCOMING OF THEM.
ILLINOIS HAS BEEN WELCOMING OF THEM.
WELCOMING MARTHA'S VINEYARD IS WELCOMING.
I SUPPOSE IF IT DEPENDS IF YOU ARE IN TEXAS OR FLORIDA AND WANT TO SEE RON DE SANTIS AND GREG ABBOTT LOOK LIKE THEY ARE DOING SOMETHING AND FLEXING IF YOU WANT TO CALL IT, THEN MAYBE IT HELPS THEM.
IF THEY LOOK AT THE RECEPTION, IF THEY THINK THAT IT'S SOMETHING THAT IS GOING TO DESTABILIZE CHICAGO OR MAKE US LOOK BAD OR YOU KNOW, MAKE ILLINOIS LOOK BAD OR MAKE NEW YORK OR OTHER PLACES LOOK BAD, IT HASN'T.
BECAUSE THESE ASYLUM SEEKERS HAVE BEEN WELCOMED FOR THE MOST PART.
>> AND I SHOULD MENTION WE HAVE SEEN MEDIA OUTLETS IN SOME CORNERS MISREPRESENT THE FACTS.
AS DAN MENTIONED AS WE UNDERSTAND THESE ARE MOSTLY HOR ALL ASYLUM SEEKERS THEY ARE NOT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.
THEY HAVE A LEGAL STATUS WHILE THEIR CASES GET ADJUDICATED HERE.
MOVING TO A BIG ISSUE IN THE GOVERNOR'S RACE THE SAFETY ACT OR THE PRETRIAL RELEASE PART THAT IS BLOWN UP IN CAMPAIGN MAILERS AND MEMES ON-LINE.
A LOT OF MISINFORMATION OUT THERE.
DAN MIHALOPOULOS, ARE DEMOCRATS HAVING TO PLAY A LITTLE BIT OF DEFENSE ON THIS MASSIVE BILL?
>> RIGHT.
THEY ARE HAVING TO COUNTER DISINFORMATION AND MISINFORMATION ON A GRAND SCALE.
IT WAS THE SAFETY ACT LAST WEEK, THIS WEEK IT'S J.B. PRITZKER TRANSCOUSIN.
>> WHO IS A BIG REPUBLICAN DONOR BY THE WAY WE SHOULD MENTION.
>> YEAH.
AND THESE ARE ISSUES THAT ARE HOT BUTTON ISSUES THEY ARE TRYING TO LEVERAGE IN THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS IN THE STATE AND THE FEDERAL LEVEL.
AND I GET THAT.
BUT YOU KNOW, THEY ARE FAKE NEWSPAPERS THEY ARE NOT NEWSPAPERS THAT ARE THERE AND THEY WOULD COUNTER THAT I THINK DAN WAS THE NPR "SUN-TIMES" BECAUSE NOW OUR STATION AND "THE SUN TIMES" ARE BOTH UNDER CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA OR HE WOULD ARGUE THAT THE TWO NEWSPAPERS ARE TOO FAR TO THE LEFT.
BUT YOU KNOW, THIS WEEK I DID A STORY ABOUT ONE OF THE TOP DEMOCRATS IN SPRINGFIELD.
YOU ARE NOT GOING TO SEE A STORY ABOUT ANY REPUBLICANS NEGATIVE STORY IN THE NORTH COOK NEWS OR ANY OF THESE PROPAGANDA SHEETS.
THEY ARE POLITICAL MAILERS MASQUERADING AS JOURNALISM AND THEY HAVE EVER RIGHT TO DO THAT AS LONG AS THEY DON'T LIBEL OR DEFAME ANYONE.
I'M NOT SURE I CAN CLEAR THEM OF THOSE CHARGES.
BUT I CAN SAY THERE IS A LOT OF MISINFORMATION PARTICULARLY AROUND THIS LEGISLATION AND THE FACT OF THE BEGINNING OF NEXT YEAR.
>> THOSE ARE CAMPAIGN MAILERS DISGUISED AS NEWSPAPERS, DAN PROFT PEOPLE PLAY BY THE RULES FUNDED BY RICHARD UIHLEIN AND THE AD THEY PUT UP THAT WAS TAKEN DOWN IN A MINUTE.
RICK PEARSON, BACK TO THE SAFETY ACT, I INTERVIEWED STAKEHOLDERS THIS WEEK AND MY TAKEAWAY IS THERE IS SOME CONFUSION ABOUT MANY PROVISIONS IN THIS LAW AND WHAT IT DOES SPECIFICALLY WHAT CRIMES EXACTLY A JUDGE CAN HOLD SOMEONE IN PRISON FOR.
AGAIN THIS GETS RID OF CASH BAIL FOR ALL BUT THE MOST SERIOUS OF FELONIES S THIS GOING TO BE A PROBLEM IN JANUARY?
>> YOUR BASIC QUESTION TO DAN WAS ARE DEMOCRATS PLAYING DEFENSE, AND YES THEY ARE.
THIS IS A VERY, VERY COMPLICATED PIECE OF LEGISLATION.
AND IT MAKES IT EASY FOR DISINFORMATION.
NOT JUST DAN PROFT'S FAKE NEWSPAPERS BUT DISINFORMATION FROM STATES ATTORNEYS AND DISINFORMATION FROM SHERIFFS.
DISINFORMATION FROM REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR OFFICE TRYING TO PAINT DEMOCRATS SOFT ON CRIME.
AND IT'S EASY DISINFORMATION TO DISSEMINATE BECAUSE IT IS VERY COMPLEX.
BUT THERE ARE FUNDAMENTAL NATURES HERE AND A LOT OF DISINFORMATION COMES DOWN TO THE IDEA THAT ON JANUARY 1, WHEN THE LAW GOES INTO EFFECT THAT THE JAIL DOORS ARE GOING TO SPRING OPEN AND ALL OF THE PEOPLE CHARGED WITH HAIN NOWS CRIMES WILL BE FLOODING INTO YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
NOT TRUE.
NOT TRUE.
WHY YOU ARE SEEING STATES ATTORNEYS, 100 OF THE 102 ARE OPPOSED TO THIS BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE THEM WORK HARDER.
EVERYBODY THAT IS AVAILABLE FOR RELEASE HAS TO FACE A HEARING BEFORE A JUDGE.
SAY SOMEBODY GETS A HEARING AND IT'S NOT CHALLENGED BY THE STATE'S ATTORNEY THAT PERSON GOES OUT AND COMMITS A HEINOUS CRIME WHO IS GOING TO WEAR THE JACKET?
THE STATE'S ATTORNEY.
THEY ARE ELECTED.
JUDGES AREN'T.
THAT IS WHERE PART OF THIS WHOLE DISINFORMATION AND OPPOSITION CAMPAIGN IS COMING FROM.
THAT BEING SAID, DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT TIGHTENING UP SOME OF THE LANGUAGE TO MAKE IT CLEAR ABOUT WHAT POLICE DUTIES ARE AVAILABLE.
BUT THE LINES THAT PEOPLE CAN TRESPASS ON YOUR FRONT LAWN AND THE POLICE CAN'T DO ANYTHING, NO.
THEY CAN ARREST SOMEBODY THEY CAN DETAIN THEM AND MOVE THEM OFF YOUR PROPERTY.
THEY STILL RETAIN THEIR POWER.
>> GETTING RID OF CASH BAIL THE LAW SAYS WITHIN 48 HOURS IF SOMEONE IS GOING TO BE DETAINED PRETRIAL AND NOT RELEASED THEY ARE GOING ANGELA TOVAR A HEARING.
IT ADDS ANOTHER LAYER.
LORRAINE FORTE SHOULD DEMOCRATS ALL THIS BEING SAID SHOULD THEY AFTER THE MIDTERMS PERHAPS GO BACK AND TWEAK PARTS OF THIS LAW THAT ARE CAUSING CONFUSION?
>> WELL, I THINK ONE OF THE MAIN THINGS THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN FIRST OF ALL IS FOR PEOPLE AND AS RICK SAID, THIS IS A VERY COMPLEX BILL.
IT'S HUNDREDS OF PAGES LONG, I BELIEVE.
EXPLAIN SOME OF THE PROVISIONS.
EXPLAIN HOW THIS MISINFORMATION IS MISINFORMATION.
AND IF THERE ARE THINGS THAT NEED TO BE TWEAKED REGARDING WHEN PEOPLE WHO ARE WHAT THE CRITERIA ARE FOR JUDGING WHEN SOMEONE IS A SAFETY RISK WHAT ARE THOSE CRITERIA, IF THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN, THEN THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN.
PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT CRIME.
BUT WE CANNOT -- YOU CANNOT LET THEM BE SWAYED BY MISINFORMATION.
BUT AT THE SAME TIME, IF THERE ARE THINGS IN A BILL THAT NEED TO BE TIGHTENED UP, YOU JUST HAVE TO TIGHTEN THEM UP.
>> AND GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER AND OTHER DEMOCRATS TRIED TO COUNTER THAT AND THE REPUBLICANS SAY THAT IS MISINFORMATION WHICH MAKES A JOURNALIST'S JOB MORE IMPORTANT TO GET INTO THAT 700 PAGES AND ALL OF THOSE PROVISIONS AND TRY TO DETERMINE WHERE THE TRUTH IS HERE.
BUT STILL MAY BE SOME OF THOSE PROVISIONS WILL BE TWEAKED IN THE COMING MONTHS.
I WANT TO MOVE TO THE CONTROVERSIAL AD BY THE PACT WE MENTIONED.
IT WAS TAKEN DOWN BUT IT SHOWED A WHITE WOMAN IN LAKEVIEW WHO WAS ATTACKED BY BLACK MEN.
CHERYL RAYE-STOUT DID THIS AD CROSS A LINE IN TERMS OF A RACIAL PROVOCATION?
>> IN MANY WAYS IT DID.
WHEN I FIRST SAW IT, IT PUTS IN MY BODY IT SHOCKED ME.
I SAW IT ON TWITTER.
ORIGINAL THING.
BUT THE WAY THIS WAS PRESENTED, THE WAY THIS -- THE SOUNDS.
IT JUST GETS TO YOUR CORE.
AND I THINK IT'S JUST -- AND THE VICTIM SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED THEY WERE GOING TO DO THIS.
THEY DIDN'T DO THAT WITH HER.
SHE NEEDED TO KNOW THIS HAPPENED.
CAN YOU IMAGINE SHE IS WATCHING TELEVISION AND SHE HAS TO RELIVE THIS INCIDENT THAT REALLY HURT HER LIFE?
THAT WAS UNCONSCIONABLE.
>> THE LAWYER FOR THE VICTIM SAID SHE WOULD NOT HAVE APPROVED THIS TRAUMA USED.
AND TV STATIONS HAVE TAKEN THIS DOWN.
DAN MIHALOPOULOS IS THIS AD FROM DAN PROFT AND DICK UIHLEIN IS THIS IN LINE WITH LIKE THE WILLIE HORTON AD FROM THE 80s FOR FORMER PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON'S SOUTHERN STRATEGY A STRATEGY OF SCARING WHITE PEOPLE BASED ON RACE?
>> I THINK THOSE ARE GOOD ANALOGIES.
WE ARE LOOKING AT A SITUATION HERE WHERE WHAT THEY ARE TRYING TO DO IS TAKE THE CRIME DATA FROM THE CITY AND REALLY SCARE PEOPLE IN SWING AREAS.
OUTSIDE THE CITY OR IN WEALTHIER PARTS OF THE CITY THAT CRIME IS RISING THERE ALSO AND THAT I WOULD ALSO POINT OUT ONE OF THE REASONS WHY THIS ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER WAS TAKEN DOWN IS NOT JUST THE REASONS YOU BROUGHT UP ALREADY BUT ALSO BECAUSE IT WAS ALTERED.
AND AGAIN THIS IS SOMETHING YOU WON'T SEE JOURNALISTS DOING.
AND AGAIN THIS WAS A CAMPAIGN AD.
BUT NEVERTHELESS THERE WERE CHANGES MADE IN THE SOUND AND IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THAT VIDEO FOR THAT AD TO MAKE IT MORE OF A FEAR MONGERING TACTIC.
AND AGAIN, I THINK THAT IS ABSOLUTELY UNETHICAL.
>> WHEN HE TALK ABOUT AS A BAR BEEN SET THIS IS DAN PROFT.
OK. WE'VE SEEN THIS BEFORE FROM HIM.
WE'VE SEEN THE FAKE NEWSPAPERS FROM HIM.
WE SAW THE GREAT FAMED JEANNIE EYES AD THAT MOCKED GAYS AND TRANS.
IT MOCKED WOMEN SEEKING ABORTION.
THERE IS NO BOTTOM HERE.
AND HE DOESN'T CARE.
AND FRANKLY WHAT HE CARES ABOUT MOST IS JUST GETTING THE ATTENTION.
>> AND CERTAINLY THAT DID GET ATTENTION IF THAT WAS THE GOAL AND CERTAINLY A VISCERAL REACTION.
>> I DON'T THINK IT'S ABOUT ELECTORAL POLITICS, IT'S ABOUT GETTING ATTENTION.
>> PERSONAL ATTENTION?
>> YES.
>> THAT IS INTERESTING.
LET'S SWITCH TO G.O.P.
CANDIDATE TO DARREN BAILEY WHO THAT AD IS IN SUPPORT OF ALTHOUGH THEY ARE NOT AFFILIATED WITH THE CAMPAIGN.
DARREN BAILEY'S TAKEN UP TEMPORARY RESIDENCE IN THE BUILDING FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE JOHN HANCOCK TO IMMERSE HIMSELF IN THE CULTURE OF CHICAGO AND CALLED OUT GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER ON CRIME ON WEDNESDAY.
>> SOMEONE WHO LOVES ILLINOIS WOULD NOT TRY TO PAINT A ROSIE PICTURE WHILE MORE THAN 500 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MURDERED IN CHICAGO.
MAINLY IN THESE BLACK AND MINORITY COMMUNITIES.
WHERE ARE YOU AT?
JB YOUR ADMINISTRATION IS ABSOLUTELY INCOMPETENT.
OUR GREATEST CITY IS A CRIME HIDDEN HELLHOLE AND YOU DON'T CARE.
>> AND THERE'S THAT WORD OR TWO WORDS THAT HE HAS DOUBLED DOWN.
WHAT IS LIVING IN THE HANCOCK BUILDING ALL ABOUT?
>> WELL, YOU KNOW, YOU ALMOST THINK ABOUT GOING BACK TO THE DAYS OF "JANE" BYRNE MOVING INTO CABRINI GREEN AND RATHER THAN GOING INTO A HOUSING PROJECT HE IS GOING TO NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT KIND OF CULTURE HE IS EXPECTING TO BE EMERGE IMMERSED IN.
AND IN FACT WHEN HE WENT TO WASHINGTON PARK FOR THAT PRESS CONFERENCE AFTER THIS REMARKS HE WAS GREETED BY VARIOUS RESIDENTS OF THE COMMUNITY INCLUDING VIOLENCE INTERRUPTION GROUPS WHO BASICALLY SAID DON'T USE US AS YOUR POLITICAL PROP.
YOU ARE COMING HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME AND YOU KNOW WHAT ARE YOUR ANSWERS?
AND OF COURSE HIS ANSWERS TO A LOT LIKE THEY HAVE BEEN TO A LOT OF THINGS ARE WE'RE GOING TO SIT AROUND A TERRIBLE AND TALK ABOUT IT.
>> HE TALKED ABOUT REPEALING THE SAFETY ACT.
>> WHICH IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.
>> WITH THE MAJORITIES.
LORRAINE FORTE SINCE YOU ARE AN OP-ED WRITER I SHOULD POSE THE QUESTION TO YOU ABOUT THE AD.
WAS IT OVER THE LINE?
>> WELL, OF COURSE.
I MEAN, ANYTIME YOU HAVE AN AD WITH A SCREAMING WOMAN WHO HAPPENS TO BE WHITE AND TWO FOLKS WHO ARE APPEAR TO BE BLACK OR WHENEVER YOU DARKEN SOMEONE'S SKIN AS HAPPENED WITH MAYOR LIGHTFOOT OF COURSE IT IS NOT A DOG WHISTLE IT'S A DOG HORN AT THAT POINT.
I MEAN, OF COURSE.
NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT.
>> SURPRISING SOME OF THE STATIONS RAN IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
I SAW IT DURING THE BEARS GAME.
>> I DON'T KNOW WHETHER THEY KNEW IT WAS ALTERED OR NOT BUT THAT IS UN-- THAT IS UNACCEPTABLE.
>> AND SPEAKING OF THE BEARS THEY SEEM TO SHOCK THE NATIONAL PUNDITS THAT THE BELIEVE THEY ARE THE WORST TEAM IN THE FOOTBALL OVER A CONVINCING WIN OVER SAN FRANCISCO.
WHAT ARE THE ODDS IN GREEN BAY THIS WEEK?
>> IT'S NOT GOING TO BE EASY BUT THE FACT IS AARON RODGERS AND HIS TEAM LOST ON SUNDAY.
HE USUALLY DOES VERY WELL HIS SECOND GAME BACK.
BUT HE DOESN'T HAVE A LOT OF WEAPONS HE HAD BEFORE AND ALSO HIS OFFENSIVE LINE IS REALLY HURTING RIGHT NOW.
THERE'S A LOT OF INJURIES.
IT WILL BE IMPORTANT FOR THE BEARS DEFENSE TO TRY TO PIN HIM TO NOT ALLOW HIM TO SCRAMBLE AND NOT ALLOW HIM TO GET THE BALL OFF TOO QUICKLY.
IF THEY CAN DO IT AND DO WHAT THEY DID ON SUNDAY THE BEARS WERE DISCIPLINED.
THEY DID NOT GET MANY PENALTIES.
THEY HAD THREE PENALTIES IN THE WHOLE GAME AS OPPOSED TO SAN FRANCISCO WHO HAD 12.
AND THAT WAS THE TALE OF THE TAPE.
AND JUSTIN FIELDS IF HE CAN PLAY LIKE HE DID IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE GAME, DESPITE ALL THOSE ODDS WITH THE RAIN GOING CRAZY IF HE CAN PLAY THE WAY HE DID, HE CAN HAVE SUCCESS.
IT WILL BE AN INTERESTING GAME.
BECAUSE TALKING TO MATT, THE HEAD COACH OF THE BEARS, HE DOESN'T PUT A LOT OF STOCK INTO THE RIVALRY.
BUT I'VE TALKED TO -- >> HE HASN'T BEEN HERE LONG ENOUGH.
>> TALK TO PLAYERS AND COLE FROM THE SUBURBS HE IS INTO IT.
SOME OF THE PLAYERS ARE AND VETERANS LIKE ROBERT QUINN, HE'S PLAYED NINE TIMES AGAINST AARON RODGERS AND HE HAS NEVER WON.
HE WANTS TO GET TO THE QUARTERBACK THIS TIME.
>> THAT IS MOTIVATION.
WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE RECORD UNDER BRETT FAVRE AND AR ROB RODGERS PACKERS ARE 45-15 AGAINST THE BEARS.
UNBELIEVABLE RECORD.
IT'S TIME TO TURN THAT TIDE.
AND THE WHITE SOX HAVE TURNED THE TIDE A LITTLE BIT ON THE SEASON ACETONE ANY LARUSSA STRUGGLED WITH HEALTH ISSUES.
THREE GAMES BEHIND CLEVELAND.
THEY ARE PLAYING THE SERIES THIS WEEK.
WHAT IS THAT MATCHUP GOING TO BE LIKE?
>> FIRST THIS WEEK IS GOING TO BE IMPORTANT BECAUSE THEY ARE PLAYING THE TIGERS.
IF THEY CAN WIN THE SERIES AGAINST THE TIGERS AND LOOKING AT CLEVELAND'S PLAYING MINNESOTA FOR FIVE GAMES.
THE NEXT SEVERAL GAMES IS GOING TO BE IMPORTANT ONCE THE WHITE SOX HAVE TO PLAY CLEVELAND.
SO IT WILL BE REALLY TOUGH.
YOU ONLY HAVE 18 GAMES LEFT.
IT WILL BE A HARD TO GET INTO THE POST SEASON AT THIS POINT BUT YOU NEVER KNOW ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN.
AND THE WAY THE TEAM HAS BEEN PLAYING WITHOUT TONY LARUSSA AND CABRERA IN THE DUGOUT THEY'VE PLAYED VERY WELL.
THEY ARE SCORING RUNS.
THEY ARE SEND -- THEIR STARTING PITCHING IS IN SYNC.
BUT I DON'T KNOW IF THEY CAN MAKEUP ENOUGH GROUND.
>> THREE GAMES TO GO WITH 18 LEFT THEY WILL HAVE TO WIN A LOT.
IS LARUSSA DONE FOR THE YEAR AND PROBABLY CAREER?
>> HE IS NOT WITH THE TEAM STILL IN DETROIT AND THAT IS AN INTERESTING NOTE.
I'M KIND OF CURIOUS HOW UPPER MANAGEMENT AND OWNERSHIP IS GOING TO HANDLE THIS.
THE BEST THING IS SIT DOWN WITH TONY AND SAY LOOK THIS IS YOUR HEALTH.
YOU HAD A HEALTH SCARE.
YOU HAD TO HAVE YOUR PACEMAKER REPLACED.
IS THAT WORTH IT?
AND ON THE OTHER HAND THIS TEAM IS WINNING WITHOUT YOU.
YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT THAT REALISTICALLY AND REALIZE THAT YOU GO INTO THAT DUGOUT IT COULD BE A DISTRACTION IT COULD UNRAVEL WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN DOING.
>> COMPLICATED SITUATION THAT OWNERSHIP HAS TO DEAL WITH.
WE ARE OUT OF TIME OUR THANKS TO CHERYL RAYE-STOUT, DAN MIHALOPOULOS, LORRAINE FORTE AND RICK PEARSON.
THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH.
AND BEFORE WE GO TONIGHT TOMORROW THOUGHTS ON A CHICAGO ICON WHO DIED THIS WEEK.
RAMSEY LEWIS WAS A GIANT OF JAZZ AND A CHICAGO CIVIC TREASURE.
HE DEVELOPED THE FLAIR OF PLAYING THE PIANO AT THE CHURCH WHERE HIS FATHER WAS GOSPEL DIRECTOR.
HIS MUSIC WAS SOULFUL, FUNKY AND COMBINED EVERYTHING FROM BLUES TO WORLD TO CLASSICAL.
HE MADE SURE THAT JAZZ AND ART FORM SOMETIMES RESERVED FOR THE MOSTS TOW TEARIC OF YEARS WAS AVAILABLE FOR EVERYONE.
AND HE WAS UBIQUITOUS AROUND CHICAGO PERFORMING FREE CONCERTS.
OUR CITY IS INDEED RICHER BECAUSE OF HIS ARTISTRY AND DEVOTION.
LEWIS WAS 87 YEARS OLD AND WE HAVE HIS BEAUTIFUL MUSIC FOREVER AND THAT IS OUR SHOW FOR THIS FRIDAY.
FOR "THE WEEK IN REVIEW" I'M PARIS SCHUTZ.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WATCHING.
STAY HEALTHY AND SAFE AND HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND.
[♪♪♪]

- News and Public Affairs

Top journalists deliver compelling original analysis of the hour's headlines.

- News and Public Affairs

FRONTLINE is investigative journalism that questions, explains and changes our world.












Support for PBS provided by:
Chicago Tonight is a local public television program presented by WTTW
WTTW video streaming support provided by members and sponsors.