>> Good evening and thanks for joining us on the week in review.

I'm Brandis Friedman.

Bloomberg has the evening off has more brutally cold temperatures push into the city this weekend.

Some Southside neighbors looking for new homes.

>> It's not that people don't want to leave.

>> It's not that people are dragging their feet is that it's hard.

People found out about fake a date November.

26 residents have until today to move out of there South Shore apartment complex.

That was the site of an immigration raid earlier this year.

>> After a judge denies an extension request dropping off the kids at school.

Going to the park with your family, going to the doctor showing up at your job.

Has meant risking your safety and your livelihood.

Governor JB Pritzker signs a bill aimed at protecting immigrants living in Illinois from federal enforcement near court houses, hospitals.

>> College campuses and daycares.

But will it pass legal muster?

>> We continue to be open to negotiations and compromise, but we will not sacrifice the poor and working people of Chicago to balance this budget.

>> Budget deadlock at City Hall as a rival proposal pushes forward.

I want Indiana all 3 times by a landslide.

>> And I working on very hard.

Would have been nice.

I think we pick up 2 seats that we did that Indiana Republican lawmakers break with President Trump reject a plan to redraw the state's congressional maps.

Plus, the Trump administration threatens to withhold CTA funding.

There's still no consensus on whether to implement a citywide him ban and keep your shovels handy.

Chicago sees the snowiest start to winter in nearly 50 years.

>> And our week in review panel joining us, our Maxwell Evans from Block Club, Chicago, Monica, paying from Axios our own Patty, what Lee and Rufus Williams from W Vo in.

Welcome in everybody.

Thanks for joining us.

So we just heard Governor Pritzker talking about some legislation in order that he signed earlier this week.

But just today, he also signed the medical aid in dying Bill.

This makes Illinois the 12th state to give terminally ill adults the option to use life ending medication, sometimes known as Doctor, assisted Suicide.

Monica rather controversial.

Bill, bring us bring us up to speed on what it does and to the concerns.

Sure will.

Governor Pritzker said that he thought a lot about this before he signed it, but he says that they're going to put in place safeguards to make sure, you know, the least harm can be done as possible to different doctors have to assure that.

>> The patient in question has less than 6 months left.

They have to give oral and written requests for can't be a surrogate.

It has to be the actual person.

They have to be considered of sound mind when they do it.

And I have to be informed of pretty much all the details around it.

going to happen and it would go into place in September and was some of the concern.

Well, that, you know, a family member, some there could be foul play or someone would not be thinking clearly when they do it and maybe they're not as sick as maybe someone.

so I I think some of those safeguards could help that.

>> Next on what's been some of the reaction to this, what it do you think of >> Yes, I CTA come as does law being introduced by a and actual person going through a situation like this.

I thought it was really interesting to have a patient advocate for I actually come from Michigan.

And so the name Jack Kevorkian has been on my mind.

Honestly, since I was a young, a young kid.

And so being able to kind of see the conversation on this develop from purely on talking stick and the sounds like an awful thing to the fact that our governor signing something into law around this is been really intriguing to see over the last few years, that were becoming 12th state to do this right states have been doing this.

>> All along sense, of course, we've heard of the jacket work all of that.

And that happened back when it did.

Yeah.

>> How did you want to add?

>> it's not scary.

Name attached to it.

I think which has given a certain reputation over the years and this making sure that people are well informed and those anchored you said it has to be, you know, spit specific conditions are going terminal diagnosis within 6 months.

That takes a little bit of the kind of I guess, scary to scare out of out of it.

just a tough one, you know, morally and otherwise.

I lost my mother of 2 months ago.

>> And I know we love every single moment all the way to the very, very end.

And so to think about shortening that in any way, Watson may seem selfish and some points.

This is a very difficult thing because final when it when it happened.

So I suspect this will be one that will be just working was will continue to discussed until the end.

It.

condone condolences on your mother on tough day as well.

For residents in the South Shore.

Today's the eviction Day for residents of that's outside building.

That was also the site of that very high profile immigration raid back in September.

You were there today as it was moving day for them.

Describe what you saw yesterday, but was widely seen a lot of residents were a this has been such a fast process.

>> lot of residents were pulling out their suitcases, pulling out their items that they are just packed up in the past week or so.

A judge had ordered them out as of late November to be out by today.

And with this kind of being the final chance that residents had to see their homes, a lot of them felt glad to not be in a building that it had so many problems.

So many so much negative attention around it.

But if they didn't have other place to go, they really felt kind of rushed.

And as quite a few of them actually told me they were going to be on the streets for tonight if they weren't able to from the city help from private charities.

So, yeah, it was really a sad scene to watch.

People leave their homes.

>> We're going to right there is on the scene there to help.

>> The the mayor's office was actually connecting people with Catholic Charities to hopefully find temporary housing.

I did speak with a couple of people who told me early in the morning that they had nowhere to go, who then after the mayor's office had showed up, said, OK, I've got a place at least for the short time.

But looking at the long term, it's not easy to be a renter.

prices are very high.

It's very difficult to get approval process ease.

If you if your landlord doesn't like your credit less certain aspects about you.

So temporary relief seems to be there for a lot of the residents but long term.

A lot of people aren't sure what's going to happen.

>> those they had also been complaining for a very long time about the conditions of the building, which the rest of us didn't really know about until that immigration raid that happened back in September.

So to bring us up to speed on why this building is getting so much attention.

Yeah.

So some of the reporting that I've done that come out of this one that really shocked me is that over last 5 years, there has been on average one emergency call more than one emergency call around that building about that building every day for the past 5 years.

So I think about being in my own building where in 3 years, I don't think there's been one police call an emergency call.

>> To have one more than one every day for 5 years.

I kind of that to me speaks for itself in terms of the conditions at this building.

And so again, people worse in some ways celebrating to not being a living situations such as that.

But again, who's to say where they're going to go after this is immigration raid just to sort of, >> you know, compounds the existing issues.

Rufus long history of, you know, displacing black people in the city of Chicago.

Do you think this is just a reflection of that legacy?

This certainly elevates it.

>> And there has been a long history.

We go back into the whole issues of contract leasing and redlining losing property.

It was a big discussion now about property taxes in the same south and west side areas that are, again, just have the potential displacing black people.

Hear what you saw on the raid that happened when when ICE came in you saw a lot of people who were removed from the building.

The building was for the impacted by that.

When you start to hear the stories of how people living, you know, that's very difficult situation.

But you also know that this is what people have to do.

And if they had some plays better to live, they probably live someplace better.

It's kind of the end of the road and to think that we are now on one of the coldest weekends of certainly the season and people are now looking for some place to go.

And even with the 5,000 of the $7500, that's going to be given to them.

It's not a lot.

It's not much.

They get you through these very difficult times.

And you've got to start over.

So yes, the displacement and what you saw in the media of the people who outside talking about these were all black people from down in this area.

And it's just really troubling to see here at this point.

And I think it ended up being $5,000 and a loan assistance they received the request of 7500.

I think it was denied.

>> Monica, you publish an article this week about the 12 disputed or disproven claims made by DHS regarding operation Midway Blitz.

The South shore rate, of course, was mentioned.

Dhs initially claiming, though that that building was filled with gang members and violent criminals.

>> That was really the case was in the case 0 charges ever came out of that entire dramatic and TV style.

You know, video Other things were there are only going after the worst of the worst.

Well.

>> Only 26% of anybody nationally that detained right now as any criminal conviction.

Only 3% of those picked up Midway blitz have any violent criminal convictions.

The vast majority have 0 charges against them.

Another one is a Christie Noem said not picking up any citizens.

Will ProPublica says 170 citizens have been detained and arrested under this ABV know said he didn't throw the the tear gas in Little village until he was hit on the head with a rock.

Well, guess what?

In deposition, he was like I guess that's not true.

And that he said, well, I was almost hit by rocket and I guess that's not true.

It's a perjury.

I don't know.

this pattern basically I was quoting my reporting, but also that of wonderful block club WBC, ProPublica reports and just putting in one place.

And there's real value in that because it shows a pattern.

And so when you see all of these live, I have never covered an administration lies with Wolf.

It puts out statements that turn out to be untrue with such impunity.

And I think that really kind road the trust in institutions of the reporting that you say that, you know, you put all in one place so you can see all of these 12, you know, these reporters there also.

>> If you know, figure all this out by examining, you know, video other, you know, evidence that proves that, you know, that these claims are what they say.

They are.

Were there any other disputed claims that really stood out to you?

>> Well, the one Miramar Martinez, who was shot 5 times because supposedly she rammed her car into a DHS officers car.

That car was so damaged that he drove it to Maine.

He bragged in text messages that he shot her and then the charges against her were totally dropped.

Her lawyer says she's the one who was She's the one who was physically, you roughed while more than survive.

Time And so these things are overturned time and time again.

you assaulted or impede officer.

Well, then why is the U.S.

attorney dropping the charges?

Rufus, you think they'll any be any sort of retribution repercussions for these misleading statements and actions?

You know, let's just I was thinking because is lack of there's no accountability there.

Don't doesn't seem to be any repercussions for any of this.

>> But what they do is then go to another city and do the same thing.

And so we see all these things happening.

We don't we don't want to be in the place consistently suing the federal government except when a place where they will consistently be lawsuits coming against the federal government.

And somewhere there's got to be some pushback.

We're getting closer to the time of the next elections of the midterms with the become some guardrails around some of the things things that are happening.

We watched them go into Congress.

Watch them.

Go into the hearings and watch them continue lie about the same things and come out and we still wonder where is the accountability?

Where are the repercussions that right now other than the ballot box?

We don't see that happening.

>> Governor JB Pritzker has signed a law this week to spur prohibits federal immigration agents conducting their business near courthouse is university campuses.

Hospitals in daycares.

Monica, what you think the governor is trying to accomplish here, given that federal law supersedes state law?

Yeah.

And you see the feds say, hey, what about the supremacy clause?

Which means, you know where in the course of doing our duty as business.

>> We cannot be impeded by a local law enforcement.

I've asked the governor this a few times in the last time is like Monica.

I've got the same answer.

We have very limited in what we can do.

But this same provision that prohibits arrests outside these areas makes it easier to sue the federal government.

I haven't seen exactly the details on how it's easier.

America's to get $10,000.

If you are arrested and detained illegally.

But we are really hamstrung.

And with the governor says is normally it would be the bosses of these agents who would hold them accountable or the I tease.

Their bosses don't seem to see anything wrong with We're not seeing that happening yet.

Additionally, federal prosecutors, they allege that Chicago Border Patrol agent Luis were of a is a, quote, serial rapist.

They've arrested and charged him with 10 counts.

>> Of deprivation of civil rights.

One count of brandishing a firearm during a violent crime.

Prosecutors say incidents took place in 2022, so not to be confused anything that happened during Operation Midway Blitz.

He's scheduled to appear in court next week.

Monica, what we know about this and how investigators found out it's such a disturbing case and the fact that it's 2025 now and happened in 2022 and they just they just apprehended him.

>> This week, you know, got to the point where they sent an envoy the worker to meet with him at a restaurant where that picture was taken and said to him, if you stop all these assault, if you stop basically sexually assaulting women at gunpoint and using your badge to do it.

We will give you free.

And he said, yes, OK?

And then he did it again.

It's just so depressing to hear this.

And that went on for so long.

And this was law enforcement officer and they're just branding him enforcement officer also using the officers who out with masks on their faces.

So we don't know whether he was one of them.

What else happens still unclear within these cases.

But to think that this is someone of that.

>> Who's supposed to protect who's supposed to watch out for people in this is what he's doing.

There's so many things and it just so troubling around all of this.

We are people don't feel safe anymore with own places within our own country respective what our work for what our jobs are.

>> turning to city Council, Mayor Johnson has made little headway on his spending bill for some the for some aldermen, this corporate head tax that the mayor has been trying to tweak.

Henry working as it's been a nonstarter.

Monica, where major concerns there.

Well, you know, talked to the group of 27 who presented alternate proposal and I said to them, is there any version of the head tax that you would except?

>> And at least matters.

Shipman 19 said no, it's a nonstarter others didn't quite say.

And then when they presented their alternate plan with a garbage checks, that isn't $18 0.15 a month.

The mayor said he couldn't accept anything that would have increased garbage tax.

So you see a lot of he'll digging on either The corporate tax is the big issue.

But then you have liquor taxes.

You have introduce introduction of video gaming terminals.

You have the garbage tax.

You have cloud computing taxes and, you know, I think it's not going to help cut to.

Some are 30 per says.

Our deadline.

Everybody's got to get in a room and say what's going to be the shared sacrifice because it can't all be corporate.

It can't all be taxes on the people.

It can't all be labor.

But there are going to be some sacrifices to be made or else we get a government shutdown.

The first one I've ever seen Chicago and then another one that the mayor has said he will not tolerate is any cuts to the police department.

Nothing that would mean fewer police officers considering what are they still?

1700.

>> Vacancies of of officers and city council.

As you said, got less than 3 weeks to approve a budget and avoid a government shutdown last year.

They approve this budget with just 18 days to spare.

Rufus, how close are we going to get considering where we are?

It's going to very, very tight considering where we are because it seems like everybody's Duggan it in the places that there'd again.

>> This is one of the interesting things because with the mayor has put the budget is saying we can get from these sort of tax is the kind of things that support programs to keep violence down.

And we have seen those things happened here all the way through.

So it's kind of big asking the question of the other alderman.

Do you want to see violence continue to be down?

Does it make sense that we get money from the from the wealthy or when you start to get into things like.

Garbage fees, those are hitting everyone.

And we've already talked about the lack of this term.

That Israel, affordability, those things get hard and everybody staying away from property taxes, but it's still going to hit.

I stand with the property taxes because it was already a big issue, particularly on the south and west side of Chicago.

So this is still going to hit those same people in different ways.

>> There is still no general consensus on a citywide hit.

Banda new proposal would carve out an exemption for THC infused drinks, sold many restaurants and breweries McCurry surprised that the you know, some people see this as a potential compromise.

>> Yes, you know, the original plan, which would have found the THC drinks and topical and pats, all of which are carved out of this one.

I think that that actually could pass.

It got, you know, to pardon published.

So will not could not be voted on at the meeting this week probably will be voted on January.

And I know that a lot of the pushback was the restaurants and the lake or distributors or the drink distributors who did not like drinks were going to be included.

So this could be the thing that pushed pushed over the edge.

I think that we're brewers as are, you know, we had huge.

>> microbreweries and they're kind of surviving by pivoting into these THC drinks.

And that would be a hit to and their important communities.

And as it is there already in a place where probably seeing a bit of a hit on their beer, actual side or fewer people drinking it and more people are sober, curious and the next generation doesn't drink as much as the last one doesn't have marijuana as well.

>> So Alderman Brian Hopkins, he's got another attempt to impose teen curfews as a way to deter the treatment team trends, you know, gathering in mass often causing a disturbance.

Maxwell you familiar with this new proposal that to being proposed?

Yeah.

And to be frank, I really struggle with the lack of opportunities for teens and for children to to congregate in any sort of way.

It's very clear that there are >> certain teams that are organizing these takeovers.

We've seen some very violent things happen.

But at the end of the day to entirely say they are you population, the city will have even fewer places to go even fewer times to go to those fewer places.

really struggle hearing that I'm I'm not that far removed from my own team life.

I know that I struggled with having places to go as a child myself and it's if I don't have the same spaces, if I don't have times that I can be out if I can't be with my friends, got learning myself exploring things.

What am I supposed to be doing?

That frustration that grows within you is to me equally as dangerous as any sort of violence situations that you may be worried about.

>> Well, as someone who was arrested for curfew, not last we paternity party still in high school, got much not happy police but now someone who has adult kids.

I do see this as a compromise.

It's not the snout curfew that he had suggested before the time and place curfew.

That would have to be 12 hours before it happened and have very a specific time and place and only if they know that there is going to be 18 trend that could possibly be an issue.

So we'll see if these changes are NAFTA again, get it out.

The door kind of feels like how hard is it to monitor that these are going to happen if the teens where and getting together you in the Lee, they knew about the one on the tree lighting night and they put 700 extra officers out there.

But Brenda Johnson said because it was so crowded, they just didn't have the kind of agility and mobility they needed to address it.

I don't know how this does that, it's yes.

People are just searching just grasping answers.

What is interesting, we just talk about the situation where they don't want to put more money in for the teams that have what want to do more programming.

>> But then you put in these kind of snap curfews and then what a children's supposed to do in those situations.

You know, the the police chief is also one who said the way in which it's been constructed so that it's the police chief and the head of hearing gets a pretty Doesn't seem like enough, you know, within those cases is pieces of making the decisions.

curfew, right, Ed, before we went on time.

I definitely want to talk about the sad news about the family of a police officer.

Crystal Rivera.

She >> was killed in the line of duty earlier this year by her partner.

Now her family is suing both CPD and her partner who is the shooter, her former partner.

>> They claim that Rivera had broken off a romantic relationship with him.

Officer Carlos Baker shortly before the shooting, she was concerned.

Roughest, what do you make of this?

This revelation?

I think it's staying from the very beginning.

>> And so they go into a building allegedly after someone there's one shot fired and the shot is fired pinning this officer in the back.

We have some other people in there and I don't remember what happened with them in terms of charges or anything else because of going after the drugs that with someone else with weapons and this shooting happens.

And now we find out all this back story and all these other things about it.

It's one about Crystal Rivera and her family 2 about again, trust that we have with officers, but its also down in and in a neighborhood of black neighborhoods.

now we've got all this other consideration about what happens and how you perceive people in these places is just everything about.

This is just bad everything, right.

More to come on Patty.

>> Yes, it's been a very snowy winter.

And it's not technically tonight.

Yeah, meteorological winter.

What did what's up with that?

Well, we have so far had the most snow this early in season and almost 50 years.

>> And as we talk about the budget, it's like it might sound fun that I go sledding and skating, have to pay more for snow removal is that builds into the from a personal standpoint.

Folks are possibly going have to pay more for snow removal.

I know a lot of contracts.

Have, you know, limits will only shovel up to 38 And then we're going to start charging you more.

A lot of these landscaping companies are the same companies that loss staffing during immigration bill.

so they're struggling to get crews.

So they're charging customers more money.

I mean.

Snow might sound like a silly subject that it can actually have some serious economic implications for people at all levels.

Yes, that's a lot of you around the 1979.

Your name Michael seeing those pictures.

I went to school 1979, I was climbing of snow hills.

>> So quick started from Lincoln Park Zoo pad.

We've got about 45 seconds.

Or even Wildlife Institute found that actually aren't that helpful with the rat population or the air.

They're very picky eaters.

They and perhaps aren't.

might and they're not eating them or they might just chasing them away for for fun.

But I mean, it is an issue because a lot of people that promoted feral cat colonies as a great solution to the rat problem.

But if they're just pushing.

>> The rats from my house to your house, then that's not really the most efficient way to all wrapped at all.

But the other issue is that we are using rodenticide anticoagulant Rodenticides which unfortunately the rats are kind of building up immunity to but Raptors like our snowy owl visitors are unfortunately eating these rats.

And that was the first thing that I heard from people.

And I saw the snowy owls was like, oh, my God, I hope they're not, know, getting ready see really concerns.

But I feel like we're going to have to come back to that later on Thanks to our week in review panel, Maxwell Evans, Monica >> And Patty, what Lee and Rufus Williams.

And we're back to wrap things up right after this.

>> Chicago tonight is made possible in part why the Alexander and John Nichols family.

The Pope Brothers Foundation.

And the support of these donors.

>> And that's our show for this Friday night.

Be sure to sign up for our free email newsletter.

The Daily Chicago when it W T Tw Dot Com Slash newsletter.

Now for the weekend Brandis Friedman, thank you for watching.

Stay healthy, safe and informed and have a great weekend.

Okay.

So you also wrote a story about scientist David Willard who devoted his career to documenting the birds killed cancellations, Kabul, killing once more about he Such an amazing career like we all know about but I mean, >> next conditions teen South America to last where discovered.

Multiple is the birds.

>> And one cases said was that he led a tour of like people using members to enter the cause.

I asked what did you see Antarctica?

she's like, yes, but I also heard a lot of complaints people Police went up to close captioning is made possible.

>> By Clifford and Clifford Law offices, Chicago, personal injury and wrongful different.