>> THANKS FOR JOINING US ON THE WEEKEND OF YOU.

I'M PARIS SHOTS.

THE FATE OF FORMER ALDERMAN ED BURKE WILL SOON BE IN THE HANDS OF JURORS.

IN CLOSING ARGUMENTS PROSECUTORS SAY HE TRIED TO TRADE CITY APPROVALS FOR, QUOTE, LANDING THE 2 NET.

DEFENSE ATTORNEYS SAY HE NEVER SAW A DIME AND OLD DANNY SOLIS SET HIM UP TO SAVE HIS OWN HIDE NO ONE PERCENT WHO TO SEE.

>> CAN SOLVE THE DECADES OF DISINVESTMENT.

IT IS LITERALLY GOING TO TAKE MAYOR JOHNSON RELEASES WHAT HE TERMS A PEOPLE'S PLAN FOR PUBLIC SAFETY.

FUTURE MIGRANT TENT CAMPS SCRAPPED AFTER LAST WEEK'S BRIGHTON PARK FIASCO.

>> CITY COUNCIL REJECTS A BALLOT INITIATIVE ASKING VOTERS WHETHER OR NOT CHICAGO SHOULD STAY A SANCTUARY CITY.

OTHER PERSON, RODRIGUEZ, AND ALSO REJECTS CONTROVERSIAL POLICE UNION PROVISION TO ALLOW SERIOUS MISCONDUCT CASES TO BE DECIDED BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.

THAT SETS UP A LENGTHY COURT FIGHT.

>> OUR SCHOOL CHOICE SYSTEM THAT WE OPERATE WAS BUILT ON THIS FOUNDATION THAT EXISTED ALREADY OF STRUCTURAL RACISM AND SOCIOECONOMIC INEQUALITY.

>> CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS HINTS AT A MOVE AWAY FROM CHARTERS AND HIGH-ACHIEVING.

SELECTIVE ENROLLMENT SCHOOLS AS PART OF ITS 5 YEAR STRATEGIC PLAN.

>> JUSTIN FIELDS, HIS EYES ARE ON THE END ZONE.

TOUCHDOWN AND IN SPORTS.

>> THE BEARS LOOK TO MAKE IT 3 IN A ROW AGAINST CLEVELAND THIS SUNDAY.

>> THE RED HOT THEIRS WILL GET TO THAT IN JUST A BIT.

BUT THERE'S A LOT OF A SERIOUS WE'VE GOT TO GET TO AS WELL.

JOINING US ARE RAY LONG FROM THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE.

OUR OWN HEATHER SHARON RIMA MEAN FROM CHOPPY AND BRANDON POPE FROM WCA YOU AND WBEZ.

LET'S GET RIGHT INTO IT.

CLOSING ARGUMENTS.

REBUTTALS AT RAY LONG SET THE STAGE FOR US.

WHAT HAPPENED TODAY?

WELL, IT WAS REALLY, REALLY INTERESTING.

I MEAN, THIS IS A CASE WHERE BURKETT HAS 14 COUNTS AGAINST >> THE OTHER 2 CO-DEFENDANTS LESSER COUNTS, BUT THEY ALL HAVE GREAT ATTORNEYS.

SO THE DEFENSE LAWYERS FOR BURKE AND OTHERS REALLY TOOK AIM AT A LOT OF DETAILS IN THE CASE AND TRIED THEIR BEST TO POKE HOLES INTO IT.

WHAT WE SAW THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE WEEK, OF COURSE, WAS DANNY SOLIS, THE MOLE, THE FORMER ALDERMAN WHO HAD BEEN WIRED FOR YEARS BURKE AND OTHERS THE GOVERNMENT DID NOT CALL AND IT WAS THE DEFENSIVE BECAUSE THE CALLED AND PUT HIM ON THE STAND OTHER SHOW.

BUT THEN THEY SAID HE'S A QUOTE, CON MAN, RIGHT?

YEAH.

AND ESSENTIALLY THE ARGUMENT THAT WE HEARD FROM BERKS ATTORNEYS TODAY WAS THAT.

>> PROSECUTORS, YOU KNOW, SENT DANNY SOLIS AFTER BURKE.

CAME BACK WITH NOTHING SAID AND THEN THEY SAID THE FEDERAL PROSECUTOR SCRAMBLED.

AND THAT'S WHAT LED TO THE CHARGES INVOLVING A BURGER KING IN THE FIELD MUSEUM.

AND THE POLL SIGN IN PORTAGE PARK.

THEY REALLY PAINTED A PICTURE OF >> OF THE GOVERNMENT OUT TO GET BURKE AND THEY SAID, LOOK, HE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WRONG.

IT WAS NOT ILLEGAL FOR HIM TO BE WORKING AT THAT TIME AS A PROPERTY TAX ATTORNEY, HE'S ALLOWED TO SOLICIT THAT BUSINESS AS LONG AS HE DOES NOT TAKE OFFICIAL ACTION IN RETURN FOR THAT MONEY.

AND THEY SAID YOU CAN'T POINT TO AN OFFICIAL ACTION THAT HE TOOK BECAUSE THERE JUST WASN'T, IN FACT THAT THE LEAD DEFENSE ATTORNEY BRANDON POPE CALLED ITSELF PROMOTION.

IT'S JUST SELF-PROMOTION.

SELF-PROMOTION IS NOT ILLEGAL.

DOES THAT DEFENSE FLY?

YOU THINK WE'LL START SAY I WOULD LEAD DEFENSE THAT DEFENSE IS GOING TO BE TOUGH TO TEST A MANAGER.

IT'S IT'S IT'S FENCING TO WALK THIS WHOLE THING PLAY OUT HERE, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE >> NO ONE SEEMS TO BE TALKING ABOUT IT OUTSIDE OF US HERE AND THE JOURNALISM BUBBLE.

I DID ON THE STREET.

THAT'S RIGHT.

A MAN ON THE STREET WITH PEOPLE.

I HAD TO EXPLAIN THE STORY TO THEM, WHICH I FIND FASCINATING PART OF THAT IS THIS HAS BEEN HAPPENING FOR WELL OVER 4 AND A HALF YEARS.

THE PROSECUTORS ARE MAKING THEIR CASE HERE.

A LOT OF THE BIG JUICY DETAILS CAME OUT IN COURT FILINGS EARLY.

SO I THINK AT THIS POINT THE PUBLIC WE'VE GOT THAT REPUTATION IN CHICAGO FOR BEING ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPT CITIES IN THE COUNTRY.

ONE THAT A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIMES IN IN A IN A ROW NOW.

SO PEOPLE JUST KIND OF SHRUGGING THEIR SHOULDERS.

BUT I THINK THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT FOCUS ON BECAUSE THE THINGS BURKE IS BEING ACCUSED OF HERE AND ALL THE THINGS SWIRLING AROUND IT POINT TO DECADES AND DECADES OF WHAT COULD BE SOME REALLY DEEP AND DARK STUFF THAT MEAN FROM THE PEANUT GALLERY, WHAT DO YOU THINK?

THINK THE JURORS ARE GOING TO SEE THIS.

GOSH, I MEAN, I THINK THERE'S THERE SEEMS TO BE SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE CLAIM THAT.

>> DID MISUSE HIS SEAT POWER.

AND I THINK THAT THAT'S KIND OF BEEN THE TALK OF THE TOWN FOR HIS ENTIRE TERM IS ALL HIS TERMS AS ALDERMAN.

>> I DON'T KNOW.

I I'M JUST FASCINATED BY SOME OF THE REALLY ELEMENTS OF THIS CASE.

THE QUOTE, STANDING SOLIS AND HIS HIS PART IN IT.

I THINK WE'RE JUST AT THE TAPES ARE NO DOUBT THE SUPER STAR, THE STAR WITNESS IN THIS AS YOU DID DID YOU GET A CHANCE TO LOOK AT THE JURY AND THEIR REACTIONS, ANY ANYTHING YOU CAN GLEAN FROM THE WAY THEY WERE TAKING ALL THIS AND WE SUSPECTED ONE OF FELL ASLEEP.

ONE POINT WHICH >> WORD, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T KNOW THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE A LITTLE A VIBRATOR ON ARM OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.

BUT THERE WAS SOME THOUGHT THAT THAT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED.

BUT A LOT OF THEM WERE VERY ATTENTIVE AND THE OTHER THING THAT THAT GOES INTO THIS IDEA OF PEOPLE NOT KNOWING WHAT'S GOING ON, LIKE BRANDON SAID WHEN THEY SELECTED THE JURY WHEN WE WENT THROUGH THE JURY SELECTION PROCESS, A LOT OF HAD NOT HEARD OF BIRD OR THEY SAID, HEARD OF HIM, BUT I DON'T KNOW TOO MUCH ABOUT HIM IN ANYTHING.

WELL, THIS GUY'S BEEN AROUND FOR 54 YEARS.

HE'S BEEN ICONIC IN MANY WAYS OF WHAT THE COUNCIL IS ALL ABOUT.

AND THEN YOU SAY YOU'VE NEVER EVEN HEARD OF HIM.

YOU GOT TO WONDER HOW MUCH THE PUBLIC PAYS ATTENTION.

GOT TO WONDER HOW MUCH THEY'RE WATCHING THIS SHOW ARE READING A LONG.

OKAY.

SO HEATHER, SHARON OF THE 4 ALLEGED SCHEMES, THE FIELD MUSEUM INTERNSHIP THE BURGER KING DRIVEWAY.

>> THE OLD MAIN POST OFFICE SAID AIR RIGHTS OVER THAT AMTRAK, THE BINNEY SIGN ON IRVING PARK.

ANY ANY OF THESE ALLEGED SCHEMES, A STRONGER OR WEAKER THAN THE OTHER?

I MEAN, THE MOST ELABORATE SCHEME IS THE OLD POST OFFICE ONE.

AND THAT WAS THIS SCHEME THAT THE PROSECUTION SPENT THE LONGEST ON.

AND I THINK IT WAS IN SOME WAYS THE MOST EMBLEMATIC OF SORT OF WHAT THEY WERE TRYING TO SAVE, HOW BURKE OPERATED BEHIND THE SCENES AS SOMEBODY WHO REALLY SAW HIMSELF.

>> AS ALMOST A FIXER IS THAT IF YOU NEEDED SOMETHING FROM THE CITY, YOU HAD TO COME FOR HIM IN THE PROSECUTION'S ARGUMENT IS THAT THAT COST WAS HIRING.

HIS FIRM HAS PROPERTY TAX ATTORNEY INC. YOU KNOW, THE INTERESTING PART ABOUT THE BURGER KING IS THAT ONE HAND, SO SMALL.

IT'S SUCH PENNY ANTE STUFF, RIGHT?

DRIVEWAY UPRIGHT TO REMODEL A DRIVEWAY.

BUT WHAT THE PROSECUTION ALLEGES THAT THESE ARE TEXAS BILLIONAIRES BURGER KING AND THAT BURKE SAW THAT THEY WERE SORT OF THERE'S AN IMBALANCE OF POWER BECAUSE HE UNDERSTOOD HOW THE CITY OPERATE.

IT.

AND THOSE TEXAS BILLIONAIRES DID NOT.

AND HE AND PROSECUTION SAID, LOOK, I'M GOING TO HOLD UP WHAT THEY NEED UNTIL THEY GIVE WHAT I WANT.

AND HE WAS ABLE TO DO THAT BECAUSE HE PRETTY MUCH ALONE KNEW THEY NEEDED A DRIVEWAY PERMITS.

AND THEN DEFENSE ATTORNEYS SAYING, WELL, LOOKING OUT FOR HIS WAR, THEY DON'T THEY DON'T WANT TO DRIVE AWAY.

THAT'S GOING TO BE A AGAINST COLDER PROBLEMATIC.

THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT IS THAT BERG ALSO KNEW THAT THEY HAD MAYBE 100 OR AT LEAST OVER 100 OTHER POSSIBLE.

>> BURGER KING, FRANCHISE HE THEY SAID WOULD YOU WANT TO LAND THE GROUND BEFORE HE WAS OUT FOR THE WATER?

BUT I DO THINK THAT THE PROSECUTION WAS LOOKING HARD AT THE THE POST OFFICE IS HEATHER WAS SAYING BECAUSE THAT IS A KEY ONE FOR THE RECORD TEARING CASE EACH ONE OF THOSE 4 HAVE ELEMENT COULD BE USED IN THE >> RACKETEERING CASE.

OLD POST OFFICE TO AND YOU ONLY NEED TO HAVE 2 OUT OF THOSE 5 ELEMENTS TO GET A RACKETEERING CONVICTION.

WE'VE GOT TO TALK ABOUT DANNY SOLIS ON THE STAND.

WHAT WAS HIS DEMEANOR LIKE?

>> OBVIOUSLY SAID THINGS LIKE, YEAH, I DIDN'T DO THIS I LOVE A CLEAN GOVERNMENT.

I WAS PROTECTING NIGHT FROM ALL THE TROUBLE THAT I WASN'T THAT HE WAS SO SOFT-SPOKEN AND VERY CALM AND CHRIS CARE BERKS LEAD DEFENSE ATTORNEY WAS IN FULL THEATRICAL MODE, SHOUTING WAVING HIS ARMS.

HE HAD MOVED PODIUM TO START BETTER SORT OF DIRECTLY ADDRESS DANNY SOLIS IN A WAY THAT HE HAD NOT QUESTIONED ANY OTHER WITNESS.

AND HE BASICALLY PAINTED AND SOLIS HAS THE CRIMINAL IN THIS WHOLE ENTERPRISE AND THAT, YOU KNOW, THEIR CASES SPEND THAT IT WAS DANNY SOLIS WHO HARASSED AT BURKE ABOUT OLD POST OFFICE THAT IT WAS DANNY SOLIS, WHO SORT OF PUT THIS ALL INTO MOTION AND THAT ALL AND BURKE WAS TRYING TO DO WAS TO HELP FROM EMMANUEL ACHIEVES HIS HEART'S DESIRE OF RENOVATING THE OLD POST OFFICE IN REMOVING AND I SWEAR THAT SEVERAL TIMES CAUGHT ON FIRE DURING RUSH HOUR FROM SORT DECREPIT I WAS.

I WAS I DID A STORY INSIDE THAT OLD MAIN POST OFFICE BEFORE THEY DID THAT AND CRAWLED INTO SOME OF THESE CREDIT.

I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT IT STOOD UP OVER THE SO IS THAT A DEFENSE THAT THAT DANNY SOLIS IS A, YOU KNOW, HE WAS IN HIS OWN TROUBLE?

HE GOT THIS SWEETHEART DEAL WHERE HE'S GOING TO KEEP HIS PENSION IS NEVER GOING JAIL IS NEVER GOING TO BE CONVICTED.

>> IS IS THAT DEFENSE SAYING THAT BERG DID NOTHING WRONG.

>> THAT'S THE ARGUMENT THEY'RE TRYING TO MAKE HERE.

THERE ARE TRYING TO MAKE IT SEEM LIKE SO HE SAYS THE BED BAD PERSON TO USE THE BETS OR ESPECIALLY AS ONLY SOURCE CORRUPTED HIMSELF AS THEY'RE SAYING, LIED HIMSELF AS THEY'RE SAYING.

AND SO THEY'RE SAYING JUST MAKE UNRELIABLE ONE THAT SITS OVER.

THE WHOLE THING IS THROWN OUT BECAUSE OF THAT.

I THINK THE SUCCESS RATE THAT'S GOING TO BE TOUGH PROSECUTOR.

THEY DO THINGS LIKE THEIR SUCCESS.

RATES WENT 98% WHEN IT COMES TO STUFF LIKE IT'S GOING TO BE A TOUGH THEY'RE THERE.

BUT THAT PROBABLY PRETTY CLOSE TO 1000, RIGHT.

SO TELL US WHAT'S NEXT.

JURY INSTRUCTIONS AND THE JURY INSTRUCTIONS ARE 300 PAGES.

NOW.

IT'S NOT SINGLE SPACE.

THANK GOD.

>> BUT IT IT IS A LOT OF THAT THAT FELL ASLEEP.

I NEED HAVE PROVEN TO HAVE.

BUT WE DO SUSPECT.

BUT THERE IT'S GOING TO TAKE A WHILE FOR THAT TO GET GOING.

THEN IT GOES TO THE JURY AND THEY WILL START DELIBERATING AND WHO KNOWS WHETHER THE CHRISTMAS CREEP WILL HAVE SOME KIND OF EFFECT ON WHETHER THEY'LL THINK, WELL, LET'S CONVICT A MALL.

REAL QUICK.

WE'LL HAVE TO SEE HOW THEY GO.

AND IT'S ALWAYS A JUMP BALL WHEN YOU GET TO A JURY WE HAVE TO MOVE ON TO SOME OTHER NEWS THIS WEEK.

SO CITY COUNCIL REJECTS A CONTROVERSIAL POLICE SHOOTING IN PRISON VISION THAT ALLOW CLOSED ARBITRATION FOR SERIOUS POLICE MISCONDUCT MEAN, IT'S PRETTY CLEAR THAT CITY COUNCIL IS GOING TO REJECT THIS, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THE END OF THIS CONTROVERSIAL PROVISION.

KNOW I THOUGHT ONE OF THE INTERESTING ELEMENTS OF THIS STORY WAS THERE ARE SOME OLDER PEOPLE SUGGESTING THAT THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS INVITE MORE LITIGATION.

IT'S GOING TO GET KICKED BACK TO AN ARBITRATOR.

>> FOR SOMEONE WHO'S GOING TO MAKE THE DECISION AGAIN THAT THIS DOESN'T BELONG IN THE PUBLIC'S EYE.

AND I SAW THE REALLY INTERESTING ARGUMENT THERE WAS, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS ONE OTHER PERSON WHO I READ IT TO BE EASY STORY WAS SAYING THIS IS JUST GOING VITE MORE LITIGATION AND IT'S GOING TO END UP THE POCKETS OF OF BAD COPS.

PEOPLE WHO WOULD HAVE LOST THEIR JOBS ANYWAY.

AND, YOU KNOW, THE MARKET RATE OR IN SOME OF THESE, THEY ALREADY HEAR SOME OF THESE LESSER MISCONDUCT 70% OF THE TIME.

ACCORDING THE A G. >> THEY RULE IN FAVOR OF THE POLICE OFFICER.

THAT'S RIGHT.

AND I MEAN, THE COUNTER ARGUMENT TO THAT WAS ANOTHER ALDERPERSON SAID, YOU KNOW, WELL, I MEAN, >> WE ALREADY PAY TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.

I THINK THAT'S RIGHT.

WHO KNOWS?

MAYBE FISCAL YEAR, HUNDREDS 100'S OF THERE YOU GO.

HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS SETTLEMENTS AGAINST ALLEGATIONS OF POLICE BRUTALITY AND MISUSE OF POWER.

SO IF THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN, WE MIGHT AS WELL HAVE SOME ACCOUNTABILITY.

I THOUGHT THAT WAS INTERESTING.

SO AT CITY COUNCIL REJECTS THIS, HEATHER, BUT IT'S GOING TO GO TO COURT BECAUSE AGAIN, AN ARBITRATOR RULED THAT THIS IS CONCURRENT WITH STATE LAW AND THIS IS THE WAY IT SHOULD BE.

>> NOW GOES BACK TO THAT ARBITRATOR.

CLEARLY GOING TO BE LITIGATED IN COURT FOR A WHILE, RIGHT?

SO THERE'S GOING TO BE ANOTHER CITY COUNCIL VOTE IF THE ARBITRATOR MOVES TO UPHOLD HIS DECISION.

AND THEN ONCE THE CITY COUNCIL TAKES THAT SECOND VOTE, THEN IT KICKS OFF THE THE LITIGATION.

AND WHAT WE HEARD FROM SOME OLDER PEOPLE WAS THAT THIS WAS ESSENTIALLY A FIGHT WORTH HAPPENING HAVING BECAUSE IT'S REALLY HARD TO OVERSTATE HOW THIS ONE UP AND THE POLICE DISCIPLINE SYSTEM WOULD BASICALLY GOT THE ABILITY OF THE CHICAGO POLICE PORT TO FUNCTION.

AND THAT IS REALLY THE ONLY WAY TO TERMINATE AN OFFICER OR SUSPEND THEM FOR A REMIND VIEWERS RIGHT NOW, THE PROCESS IS FOR THE SERIOUS MISCONDUCT CASES LIKE A SHOOTING.

>> OR ASSAULT.

THEY GO BEFORE THE POLICE BOARD.

AND THAT IS A PUBLIC PROCESS WHERE FOLKS KNOW THE NAMES.

THEY KNOW WHEN THE HEARINGS ARE, THIS WOULD BE A PRIVATE BRANDON POPE.

SO IF JUDGE ULTIMATELY RULED THAT THIS IS THE WAY TO GO, THEN IS THERE SOME KIND OF COMPROMISE WHERE THERE COULD BE A TRANSPARENT ARBITRATION PROCESS THAT'S PASSING IT.

YOU KNOW, YOU HAD A GREAT DISCUSSION WITH 2 SIDES ON THIS IS WHERE IT SEEMS LIKE THERE MAY BE SOME HOPE THEY CAN ACTUALLY GET TO THE TABLE AND WORK OUT SOMETHING THERE.

>> YOU WOULD THINK THAT PROBABLY BE THE BEST OPTION HERE BECAUSE LIKE YOU MENTIONED, THIS IS GOING TO KICK BACK AND KICK BACK THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE PART OF THE FOP CONTRACT.

THAT CAN JUST BE A WHOLE NEW PROCESS ITSELF.

MAYBE THE STATE LEGISLATURE GETS INVOLVED IN THIS WHOLE.

THEY MAY GET KICKED DOWN TO 2025.

2026 WITH EVERYTHING THAT COULD HAPPEN.

SO A COMPROMISE, A PART OF BEING THE BEST INTEREST OF BOTH PARTIES.

CLEARLY A FIGHT THAT THE THE UNION LET'S ALSO MOVE OUTSIDE OF THE CITY COUNCIL BUSINESS.

THEY REJECT BY A LARGE MARGIN.

THIS INITIATIVE OF THIS BALLOT INITIATIVE THAT WOULD HAVE ASKED CHICAGOANS IF THEY WANTED THE CITY TO STAY A SANCTUARY CITY.

THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT RAY LOPEZ ALDERMAN ANTHONY BEALE PROPOSED THAT THIS WAS ALWAYS GOING TO FAIL.

IS THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS EXERCISE?

WELL, SO I DON'T KNOW THAT IT WAS ALWAYS DESTINED TO FAIL BECAUSE IT'S HARD TO OVER OVERSTATE JUST HOW MUCH ANGER THE MIGRANT CRISIS IS SORT OF GENERATED IN CHICAGO BECAUSE I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE HAD NEVER REALLY THOUGHT.

WELL, WHAT DOES IT MEAN THAT WE ARE A SANCTUARY CITY?

>> AND IF DECLARING OURSELVES, THE SANCTUARY SITTING IS COSTING US HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.

ARE WE REALLY A SANCTUARY CITIES THAT WHAT WE WANT TO BE SO ALDERMAN LOPEZ AND BEAL HAVE LONG OPPOSED CHICAGO BEING A SANCTUARY CITY AND THEY USED TO THIS CRISIS TO SORT OF FOCUS ATTENTION ON THAT REALLY SORTED USING THE MIGRANTS IN MUCH THE WAY THE TEXAS GOVERNOR GREG ABBOTT HAS TO MAKE POLITICAL HAY.

SO 3 FIFTHS OF THE CITY COUNCIL VOTED YESTERDAY ESSENTIALLY REAFFIRM CHICAGO SAYS THE SANCTUARY CITY, WHICH I HAVE TO MENTION, I'M A BROKEN RECORD ON THE SUBJECT.

HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE MIGRANTS WERE ALL IN AMERICA LEGALLY.

APPLES AND ORANGES AFTER REQUESTING ASYLUM.

SO WHAT THE SANCTUARY CITY DESIGNATION DOES IS PROTECT UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS FROM DEPORTATION, WHICH MEANS THAT CITY POLICE AND CITY WORKERS CAN'T HELP FEDERAL IMMIGRATION AGENTS DEPORT PEOPLE.

AND ARE IN LARGE PART PEOPLE WHO HAVE LIVED IN CHICAGO FOR UNDOCUMENTED.

BUT IT'S BEEN HERE FOR DECADES AND HAD DEEP TIES TO OUR COMMUNITY.

AND I THINK THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE POINTED TO THE ONGOING PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP THAT IF THIS STATUS WAS SOMEHOW REVOKED OR WEEKEND, IT COULD PUT THOSE PEOPLE IN VERY DEEP PERIL IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE.

ALL RIGHT, RIGHT ALONG THE CITY COUNCIL'S OF THIS WEEK, THEY SAY THEY'RE GOING TO SCRAP THESE NEW PROPOSED RULES THAT WOULD HAVE LIMITED MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC FROM.

>> ATTENDING MEETINGS, THEIR OF THEIR GOVERNMENT, PUBLIC MEETINGS IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS.

THEY WOULD HAVE HAD TO GO UP TO THE 3RD FLOOR IN THESE GLASSED IN CHAMBERS.

MAYOR JUST TO KIND OF STEP IN IT WITH THIS ONE.

YES, ALLOW THE PUBLIC AND THE PUBLIC MEETINGS THERE IS JUST NO WAY THAT THAT WAS A SMART THING.

CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT HAPPENED DURING HAROLD WASHINGTON'S TIME?

IF HARRELL HAD SAID NO, WE'RE JUST GOING TO LET THE PEOPLE IN WHO LIKE WHAT I DO.

WOULD HAVE GUN CRAZY END.

>> HE WOULD HAVE BEEN SHOUTED DOWN, BUT HE LET THE DEBATE HAPPEN AND SO HAVE OTHER MAYORS SINCE IN SHUTTING OUT.

THE PEOPLE ALWAYS A BAD IDEA.

GOT A LOT OF PUSHBACK THAT FROM THAT, ESPECIALLY FROM THE BG.

THAT'S AND THAT ONLY A BAD IDEA.

BUT ILLEGAL.

WELL, STATE LAW ME I UNDERSTAND CONCERNS ABOUT SAFETY.

I MEAN, IF YOU'VE BEEN TO THESE COUNTIES LATELY.

>> THEY HAVE BEEN A LOT MORE HEATED THAN I'VE SEEN IN THE PAST.

YOU'RE HEARING RACIST THINGS ROLLED OUT.

THE ANTI IMMIGRANT SENTIMENT BEEN A PART OF THAT.

BUT STILL IT'S THE PEOPLE'S HOUSE, RIGHT?

AND PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO FREE EXPRESSION.

YOU START LIMITING THAT GOES A REAL SLIPPERY.

AND THEN DOWN INTO THE CHAMBER USED TO GO DOWN THERE EVERY DAY WHEN I WAS COVERING IT IN DIFFERENT MANY STATIONS SECURITY.

BUT IT DOES SEEM TO BE A LOT WILDER RIGHT JOHNSON, KIND OF LET IT PLAY MORE THAN LIGHTFOOT WOULD OR RIGHT OR THAN RAHM WITHIN THE PAST, TENDS TO JUST LET IT KIND FESTER.

>> THAT GREAT.

BUT THAT DOES MAKE SOME MORE TENTS.

ALL RIMA MEAN, THERE WAS ALSO A CPS, A BOARD MEETING THIS KIND UNDER THE RADAR, A CPS TO PROPOSE ITS 5 YEAR STRATEGIC PLAN.

THE INTERESTING THING HERE IS THAT REFERENCES KIND OF A MOVE AWAY FROM CHARTER SCHOOLS AND THEN SELECTIVE ENROLLMENT SCHOOLS IN FAVOR OF INVESTMENT FOR NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL.

SO DOES THIS MEAN DAYS MIGHT BE NUMBERED FOR CHARTERS?

ARE SELECTIVE ENROLLMENT SCHOOLS.

I ACTUALLY THINK THAT'S PROBABLY GOING TOO THE RESOLUTION IS IS INTENTIONALLY >> THE BOARD IS PROPOSING TO NOT EVEN PROPOSING ANYTHING.

THEY BUT LIKE PARAMETERS, AS THEY SAY TO BE SET UPCOMING STRATEGIC PLAN.

AND PART OF THAT IS KIND OF DELIVERING ON THIS JOHNSON CAPE, YOU KNOW, CAMPAIGN PROMISE TO MOVE AWAY FROM THE CITY SCHOOL CHOICE SYSTEM WHERE FAMILIES CAN APPLY TO TEST IN SCHOOLS.

MAGNETS.

THINK ABOUT YOUR SELECTIVE ENROLLMENT AND CHARTER SCHOOLS AND IF YOU KNOW REPEATEDLY SAID AND AND THEY HAD TO REPEAT AT THAT BOARD MEETING THE OTHER DAY THAT THIS IS NOT A MOVE TO CLOSE.

ALL CHARTERS TO CLOSE YOUR SELECTIVE ENROLLMENT SCHOOLS.

THIS IS KIND A GUIDING LIGHT FOR US TO DECIDE AS CITY AND THE BOARD.

HOW WE WANT TO APPROACH ADMISSIONS GOING FORWARD.

AND REALLY IT SEEMS THAT THE FOCUS IS ON RESOURCES FOR YOUR LOCAL NEIGHBORHOOD.

SCHOOLS SAID THE SCHOOL DOWN THE STREET WHERE EVERYONE IN THE ATTENDANCE ZONE ALLOWED TO GO.

ALTHOUGH EUROPE PAPER'S EDITORIAL BOARD TO RE LONG THE WHERE THEY'RE COMING FOR THE SELECTIVE ENROLLMENT, WHICH TEND TO BE THE BEST PERFORMING SOME OF THE BEST PERFORMING SCHOOLS IN THE COUNTRY.

>> I'M NOT GOING TO STAND FOR THEY WANT TO DO OVER THERE.

THEY'RE THERE.

FOLKS, WE JUST STICK TO THE FACTS.

>> NOW REENA A LINE.

THERE IS WHAT'S HAPPENING.

AND I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, THE QUESTION I HAVE IS WILL THIS ALSO STIR THE A POSSIBILITY OF ADDING MORE CTU MEMBERS I DON'T KNOW WITH THE OUT OUTCOME OF THAT WILL BE.

BUT IF THERE, IF THEY'RE CUTTING BACK ON SCHOOL CHOICE OR OR CHARTER SCHOOLS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, THAT COULD HELP BOOST TO SEE TO EU MEMBERSHIP TO.

>> WELL, SO ONE PART OF THE RESOLUTION IS TO FOCUS ON BEEFING UP STAFF.

AND THAT I THINK IS ONE ELEMENT THAT COULD BE ONE OF MANY ELEMENTS IN THERE, YOU KNOW, PLAN TO KIND OF BOOST RESOURCES FOR NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS.

AND THEY'VE THE BOARD IS KIND OF GROUNDED THIS MOVE IN REDUCING INEQUITY.

WE ALL KNOW APPLIED TO IF YOU'VE APPLIED TO SCHOOL IN CHICAGO, PART IS PART OF CPS.

IT'S A STRESSFUL PROCESS.

IT INVOLVES TAKING TESTS.

>> AND YOU YOU CAN GET INTO SELECTIVE ENROLLMENT TO GRADE SCHOOLS.

AND SO YOUR KINDERGARTEN BASICALLY, THANKS, RIGHT?

4 YEAR-OLDS CAN TAKE A TEST TO GET INTO GIFTED PROGRAM SINCE YEAH.

IT'S A HUGE DEPARTURE FROM PREVIOUS BOARDS AND PREVIOUS MAYORS AND IT'S GOING TO BE SUPER INTERESTING.

IT'S MORE SYMBOLIC TELL AND THE RESOURCES MEANS YOU NEED FIND THE MONEY.

CPS CAN ONLY RAISE ITS LEVY A CERTAIN AMOUNT.

IT'S FACING A FISCAL CLIFF.

TALK ABOUT THIS BOARD MEETING WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO FIND THESE KNOW THEY HAVEN'T.

I THINK THAT'S A QUESTION WE'VE BEEN DISTRICT LEADERSHIP A LOT LATELY WITH THE FISCAL CLIFF COMING.

YOU KNOW, THE DISTRICT IS STILL INTERESTED IN INVESTING IN A LOT OF THESE PROGRAMS THAT THEY HAVE BEEN OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS WITH PANDEMIC RELIEF MONEY AND FREQUENT ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION IS WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO KNOCK ON THE STATE'S STORE AND ADVOCATING ASK FOR THE STATE TO SEND MORE MONEY DOWN.

AND FRANKLY I'M NOT SURE I'M HOW GOING TO PLAY OUT.

IT SEEMS EVERYONE'S WALLETS ARE TIGHTENING UP.

ALL RIGHT.

IT'S GOING TO BE VERY INTERESTING TO WATCH THANKS FOR GIVING US THE UPDATE ON THAT.

REALLY, WE HAVE TO TALK ABOUT THE MIGRANT CRISIS LITTLE BIT TO HAVE TO BE TOLD ME RIGHT BEFORE THE SHOW, THE MIGRANT THAT WAS STAYING AT A POLICE STATION HAS BEEN MOVED OUT.

SO MY QUESTION IS.

>> THERE WERE HUNDREDS AT POLICE STATIONS AND AIRPORTS A COUPLE WEEKS AGO.

WHAT WAS THE POINT OF EVEN TRYING TO BUILD THIS BRIGHTON PARK TENT THAT WE ALL KNOW WAS A FIASCO NOW.

WELL, THERE IS NO SORT YOU KNOW, CERTAINTY THAT THE BUSES WERE GOING TO SLOW AS THE WAY THAT THEY HAVE IN THE PAST SEVERAL WEEKS.

I THINK A COMBINATION.

>> YOU KNOW, PEOPLE COMING TO CHICAGO AND TELLING PEOPLE BACK, YOU KNOW, IN VENEZUELA AND THE OTHER COMPANIES AND HIGH, THERE'S NO SPACE HERE AND IT'S VERY, VERY COLD.

>> AND I THINK THAT THE MAYOR HAS WORKED VERY HARD WITH, YOU KNOW, HIS COUNTERPARTS IN TEXAS, YOU KNOW, TO LET PEOPLE KNOW WHAT THEY WERE GETTING INTO WHEN THEY CAME TO CHICAGO.

SO TYPICALLY, IMMIGRATION, LEGAL OR OTHERWISE SLOWS DURING THE WINTER MONTHS.

THIS HAPPENED LAST YEAR AND LORI LIGHTFOOT, THE FORMER MAYOR HAS FACED INTENSE CRITICISM FOR NOT DOING MORE DURING THOSE MONTHS TO PREPARE FOR THE SPRING SEARCH.

SO JOHNSON HAS SAID THAT HE IS NOT GOING TO MAKE THAT SAME MISTAKE AND THAT GOING TO USE THIS RELATIVE TO SORT OF MAKE SURE THAT THE CITY IS READY FOR A RENEWED SURGE IN THE SPRING, WHICH EVERYBODY EXPECTS TO BEAT EVEN MORE INTENSE THAN THIS PAST YEAR BECAUSE CHICAGO WILL BE THE HOME OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION, WHICH MEANS THAT IT WILL CONTINUE TO BE A TARGET FOR REPUBLICANS LOOKING TO HARM PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN.

AND I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY IT'S NOT GOING TO BE A SEASONAL SURGE IS GOING TO THE CONVENTION CERN'S AND THEN WE PREDICT IS GOING TO COME.

>> BRANDON POPE, THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BE A RESIDENT SPORTS GUY TODAY.

SO THE BEARS THEY WON 2 IN A ROW.

THEY THINK THEY'VE WON 3 OF 4 ALL THE SUNDAY.

ONE OF THE BETTER DEFENSES IN THE NFL.

YOU'RE YOU'RE AN OHIO GUY.

BROWNS FANS ARE GOING TO PLAY THE BROWNS WHEN THEY OUT THE LAKE TAHOE REGION.

SPENT SOME TIME IN OHIO LIKE IN THE CLEVELAND BROWNS.

I LOVE.

I LOVE HOW YOU TO SOFTEN TO BE AS OBJECTIVE AS POSSIBLE.

HERE THE BEARS ARE IN TROUBLE.

THE BROWNS DEFENSE, ONE OF THE BEST THE NATION.

>> THE BEST RUSHING DEFENSE AS WELL.

AND THE BEARS THAT'S THEIR BREAD AND BUTTER IS ONE OF THE FOOTBALL.

BUT WE'VE GOT TO GIVE THEM CREDIT HERE.

THEY'VE BEEN HOT.

THEY'VE BEEN REALLY HOT 5 IN A RIGHT NOW.

THEY HAVE TO WIN OUT TO MAKE THE PLAYOFFS.

THEY HAVE A CHANCE TO MAKE THE PLAYOFF TO THIS POINT.

THEY HAVE TO WIN THE REST OF THEIR GAMES.

YOU'VE GOT A THING NOW AT THIS POINT, ORGANIZATION'S PRETTY CONTENT AND ONCE A MAYBE KEEP MADEIRA FLOODS.

THE HEAD COACH QUESTIONS STILL AROUND.

JUSTIN FIELDS AND AROUND THE OFFENSIVE QUARTER.

GET TO ESPECIALLY WITH THE BEARS HAVING THE NUMBER ONE OVERALL PICK AND THEN ANOTHER HIGH DRAFT INTENTIALLY AS WELL CAROLINAS PICK WHICH IS GOING TO BE NUMBER AND THE THING ABOUT THAT IS WHAT YOU DO WITH THAT PICK.

IF JUSTIN FIELDS HAS A GREAT LAST 4, I THINK HE.

>> I THINK HE'S PLAYED PRETTY WELL.

HASN'T PLAYED SUPERSTAR LEVEL.

BUT IF HE PLAYS REALLY WELL, THE LAST 4 GAMES.

WHY USE THAT NUMBER ONE PICK ON A QUARTERBACK LIKE CALEB WILLIAMS WHEN YOU COULD BE GENERATIONAL.

BUT IT'S ALWAYS A ROLE THAT REMEMBER RYAN LEAF ALL THESE FOLKS THAT DIDN'T PAN OUT, YOU KNOW, 2 REASONS.

A CONVENTIONAL WISDOM WOULD SAY ROOKIE CONTRACTS CHEAPER JUSTIN FIELDS.

IS CONGRESS GOING TO BE GETTING DOWN TO MAYBE ONE YEAR LEFT?

HE'S GOING TO MANDATE PAID ROOKIE CONTRACT.

YOU CAN SAVE SOME MONEY THERE.

A CONVENTIONAL WISDOM IS TO BE THE SECOND STRAIGHT YEAR.

THE BEARS PASSED ON THE FIRST OVERALL PICK.

THAT IS A HARD PILL TO SWALLOW.

IF YOU MISS ON THIS.

BUT THE BALANCE YOU GETS GREW PRETTY GREAT.

SPEAKING OF OHIO STATE, MARVIN HARRISON, THE WIDE RECEIVER.

THAT'S OPTION.

YEAH, THAT COULD YOU COULD BE NUMBER ONE.

HE COULD BE NUMBER ONE.

YES, MORE ON ONE SIDE MARVIN ON THE OTHER.

A SURE THING.

WE HAVE TO ASK THIS TO JUSTIN FIELDS AT THIS POINT.

EVEN WANT TO STILL BE IN CHICAGO.

IT'S BEEN A TURBULENT TIME.

THE BAGENT SAGA.

PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT HOW HE COULD LEARN FROM TYLER, BEIJING FIELD MAY BE DONE CHICAGO SELF AND WANT TO MOVE ON TO A TEAM WITH THE FALCONS WITH THE RAIDERS WHERE THEY CAN GET AN OFFENSIVE SYSTEM IN PLACE FOR I HOPE HE'S NOT DONE, BUT WE ARE TIMES.

OUR THANKS TO RAY LONG, HEATHER SHARON RIMA MEAN AND BRANDON POPE.

AND WE'RE BACK TO WRAP THINGS UP.

>> RIGHT AFTER THIS.

>> CHICAGO TONIGHT IS MADE POSSIBLE IN BY ALEXANDRA AND JOHN NICHOLS.

THE POPE BROTHERS FOUNDATION.

AND THE SUPPORT OF THESE DONORS.

TONIGHT'S PRESENTATION OF CHICAGO TONIGHT WEEK IN REVIEW IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY AND AND RICH CAR AND THE MULLANE.

HOW ARE PROGRESSIVE PHILANTHROPIC FUND IN HONOR OF EVEN MOMENT HOUSE.

>> SUPPORTING QUALITY JOURNALIST.

>> THAT IS OUR SHOW FOR THIS FRIDAY NIGHT.

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I'M PARISH SHOTS.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WATCHING AND HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEKEND.

LET'S TALK ABOUT RUDY GIULIANI, 748 MILLION DOLLARS DEFAMATION FOR THESE 2 ELECTION WORKERS IN GEORGIA.

THEY WERE JUST DOING THEIR JOB.

HE HE MADE UP THIS CONSPIRACY AND THEY GOT HARASSED IN THEIR LIVES ARE RUINED.

ABSOLUTELY HE WILL BE ABLE TO PAY THAT FULL 143 KNOW.

HE MAY EVEN TRY TO WELL, I NEEDED FOR MY CRIMINAL DEFENSE AND ALL THESE OTHER CASES.

BUT I DO THINK >> THIS SENDS A STRONG SIGNAL THAT PEOPLE WHO JUST DOING THEIR ACTION WORKERS SHOULD NOT BE BLOWN OUT OF THE WATER.

BUT A BUNCH OF PEOPLE WHO ARE JUST SHOOTING MISSILES AVOID THEIR OWN PROBLEMS AND WAS CLOSED.

CAPTIONING IS MADE POSSIBLE BY CLIFFORD AND CLIFFORD LAW OFFICES.