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Confusion rules the day with no clear details about the possible deployment of troops and a surge of immigration agents in Chicago.

He wants to have troops on the ground.

>> To stop people from voting to intimidate people from going to the voting >> Governor JB Pritzker says sending the military to Chicago isn't about crime.

It's about the midterms.

>> Whether or not somebody can afford to post bond is not determinative of whether they are a risk to public safety.

The Trump administration takes aim at cashless bail policies as a judge blocks the move to pull federal funding from Chicago over its sanctuary policy.

>> What we see with this budget represents what's best for our students.

The Chicago school board says no to Mayor Brandon Johnson's push to borrow.

>> Plus, Johnson's administration says the city faces a 1.1 billion dollar budget hole next year.

The FDA moves to limit access to COVID vaccines and the Chicago reader Staves off a shutdown.

Thanks to a new owner.

>> And now to our week in review panel.

Joining us are Rufus Williams of WTO and our own Heather Sharon WBEZ.

These are selling Gomez Saldana and Michael Live truck from Block Club.

Chicago, thank you all for being here.

Let's get right to it.

Plenty on our plate to tackle Heather Chicago.

Police say they're preparing for the possible deployment of National Guard troops here in Chicago.

But how much can they prepare for when federal leaders are coordinating with the They are flying blind indeed.

And it's not clear exactly what the president's going to do.

It's not clear when he's going to do it and he's not.

>> And it's not clear what authority he's going to assert.

However, most people at City Hall now believe that the president is going to do what he did in Los Angeles and order a surge in immigration agents to Chicago to conduct immigration raids and then wait to see what the city's reaction to that is.

And if protests from Rupp and if protests turned violent, that would give him the authority.

He believes the order, the National Guard to Chicago.

So that is what we are all bracing for.

It's unclear when that sort of sequence of events will play out or even if that will be the sequence of events.

I mean, how about that are so, you know, we're waiting on this potential immigration crackdown reportedly 200 additional agents looking to be housed at Great Lakes Naval Station.

Some think they're setting up sort of a military scale operation, right.

And I think it just creates so much confusion with people living in Chicago and the surrounding areas.

>> We had all this talk about the National Guard.

What can they legally do here?

They can make any arrests without, you know, helping and law enforcement agency.

But now we're talking about DHS.

We're talking about ice and those are 2 completely different things.

And I think us as reporters were trying to figure out what we need to cover and how we can help residents because they're confused.

They ate.

What are they going to do if they see armed National Guard members in the city?

Well, you know, how about question of legal authority for his I mean, troops not supposed to engage in law enforcement without an emergency or express, Chris, the permission.

There's been some discussion that maybe on paper they'll be here to protect federal property, for example.

But do you expect the administration to operate within those confines?

No, I don't deal with some of the discussion about what took place in Washington, D.C., where there was an opportunity for the president.

>> To the clear what an emergency was as they move to.

These of the city's there restrictions on what it is they actually can do and protecting federal buildings, protecting federal property is what they can do.

Otherwise what what they do while they're here, this becomes one of these things.

You know, Chicago is the place of JB Pritzker, who is the real billionaire who's thinking about perhaps running for president.

It is the home of Barack Obama.

It is the place of Rahm Emanuel.

There are a number of reasons why he is being would look at Chicago doing something and the fun or the reason we're talking about.

And it's a lot of what he likes to do is to have us really pay attention to whatever it is he's doing is we control zones.

Headlines in the face of all else is going on.

You're entirely right.

And it is something when we think about it there's nothing more performative or egocentric that to send the military essentially 2 political rivals or because the state didn't vote for you.

>> And we think about the impact is going to have on a community level, the trauma it may inflict to have military on the streets.

The National Guard ICE all coming essentially just because like you said, a vindictive nature and for Pritzker and Obama be here.

People Trump targeted.

It's just going to become such political theater on this level of a stage that.

The public would just pots and that way when we heard a bit from Governor Pritzker earlier, you know, saying he sees this more about the elections.

I mean, what else have we heard from from local leaders this week?

>> It is something where when local leaders when thinking about that in terms of just a response and how everyone bracing for the worse and when thinking about how only leaders, community members we have coming.

Our will here in the question of how is this going to be done?

Should Trump the Florida National Guard and the question of what will be a vote because just this shroud of secrecy surrounding how it's going to deployed.

It's going to take so much longer for the state to mount a response and figure out legally how to challenge it or issue or have injunction issued to block it.

Units have a son at the top.

They haven't communicated with anyone, right?

So the conversations really been more.

>> We don't know what they're going to do.

So we don't know how to respond to it because the communication that should happen has not happened at all I do think that local advocates sent and just organizations are preparing.

>> Especially when we talking about immigration you know this, there's going to be ice on the streets.

I think that there's a lot of conversations happening locally about how can you communities, especially when I'm thinking about.

But, you majority communities and neighborhoods.

And there's a lot of conversation there as well.

And I do think it gets confusing when its National Guard when it's ice, when it's DHS and people really don't understand.

>> One, of course, another some 2000 troops in DC right now, you know, over 60 odd square Miles, 200 agents over Chicago, you know, Chicago, 230 square miles not quite the same infusion.

But you have to imagine they're going to be concentrated in certain areas.

So it might feel like that influx of troops, right?

And just kind of looking closely to see what >> people are seeing.

And I'm just waiting to see.

I mean, like like we mentioned, not a lot of answers this week.

Superintendent selling just didn't have a lot of answers during press conference earlier because they just don't know.

>> And Heather, a lot of this, I mean, as much as they may want to prepare a legal challenge, some of it by its very nature, I think we'll we'll have to sort of be reactive, correct.

So we don't know whether it's the president is going to nationalize the Illinois National Guard or whether he will send National Guard troops from other red states who have sort of volunteered those troops into Illinois.

I think that the legal challenge with Governor Pritzker and Attorney General Rule is said will come will hinge in large part about whether or not those troops block are, you know, sort native to Illinois are coming from other states.

It's hard to overstate how unprecedented it would be to for the president to send National Guard troops from one state into another state.

Also, you know, it's going to be a huge challenge for the Chicago Police Department, which is prohibited by state and city law firm assisting federal agents in conducting enforcement operations.

However, where they draw that line between assisting and sort stepping back in maintaining the please can be sometimes a blurry line.

>> If deployments do happen, Chicago police superintendents snowing said will be in uniform.

So they're equal easily distinguishable from federal troops or ICE agents.

And he says that he will no deploy officers to calls for help if they suspect it's an immigration enforcement app operation instead of superintendent or a supervisor will go report back.

And if it is a federal operation, no officers will be deployed.

That's a change since July after a big outcry over CPD handled a previous incident.

Yeah, of course that, you know, if it even if troops from within Illinois or certainly troops from outside, they may or may not be familiar with Chicago streets neighborhoods.

So another wrinkle there.

One thing he sure is that it is going to be very disruptive.

It's going to be disruptive to schools is going to be disruptive to business.

>> It's going to be disruptive to everything that happens within our city, which may actually be the point and then thinking about from a community standpoint, regardless of if it's Illinois, National Guard, other National Guard, CPD the community's relationship with law enforcement and especially when we think about black and brown communities where for so many years that we has been tense.

And this week I've been speaking to residents as well as non violence advocates.

And some thing that's clear is allowed to progress at CPD is made, particularly on the south and West sides to mend those relationships.

>> That National Guard occupied area.

Regardless of CPD, these active country contribution or not is still going to hurt.

And when we think about things just trauma and that way in the trainings.

How many consent decrees that CPD has been under to help improve their practices?

National Guard has no understanding of that and we don't know how involved going to be that that my white years decades of work off the Michael, staying with you for a moment, jumping to another big story this week of which there were many.

>> Chicago school, school board after much debate approved a budget.

No, no major loan in their no pension payment unless there's an expected revenue.

Re surprised to see that the interim CEO chosen by the mayor and several board members he's aligned with go against his wishes.

From a big picture.

Yes, it is a bit surprising, but thinking pragmatically about just how the state of the budget is and how much gridlock has been involved.

It is something that the weight resolve wasn't too surprising.

And one thing I think is big to look at is the 175 million dollar pension payment as well as the use funds.

And in a way the reliance on a tip surplus when it comes to the budget, which is wishful thinking.

But still it is risky to the bank.

Millions of dollars on a surplus, especially with so many different factors that can influence not only the general economy, but whether or not we see that come back in tax increment financing.

Everybody wants a piece of revisit it.

So your interim CEO Macklin King who hasn't said yet whether she wants the job full-time, do you think this could sour her relationship with the mayor somewhat?

Well.

Who want the job a tough position to about the mayor's to that But here you've got at least 21 bosses.

And you've got this big hole that you're trying to feel coming in.

I think when she came in the expectation.

>> And my first conversation with her was about the fact that they will take on this pension payments.

So the movement has happened within that process.

I think once you get in, you look at what you're trying to do and if the answer is we're trying to do what's best for children.

The South side pension payment doesn't fit into that equation.

And so when they are now, you know, there's a lot this talked about revenues to funding, borrowing all these other things.

We still have a lot of other parts of the system that need to be right-sizing need to be corrected.

We do need to go back and look at schools that are under enrolled significantly and see what the impact of that is.

There's just been recently this conclusion of the negotiations with the teachers, the conclusion negotiations with the principles, the payment of a lot of money that CPS simply doesn't have and how you get through those things.

These are the structural issues that they've still got to deal with when they get through whatever they've done in this budget.

They approved yesterday.

Well, from the from the district's budget woes to the city's Heather, the Johnson administration.

>> Is out today with the budget forecast and it is predicting a pretty eye-popping gap for next year.

What are the details there?

Well, the city is approximately 1.1, 5 billion with a B dollars in all in the hall.

And that is the largest deficit since the height of the pandemic.

When the economic catastrophe triggered by the stay at home orders from of blew a giant on the city's budget.

>> Gives you a sense of just the scale of the problem.

It is about 14% bigger than last year's budget deficit, which was pretty big all on its And there are no easy answers left for the mayor to sort of close this gap.

And to be fair to him, this is not a disaster of his making.

The city S budget has long been out of whack with skyrocketing pension payments, increasing personnel costs and just a massive amount of debt that you've got to make those interest payments on.

So this is the first step of the sort of a multi month process in Mid-October.

The mayor is going to outline plans sort of fill that gap.

He has said that it will not include a property tax hike, but that is the best easiest and most efficient way for the city to raise revenue.

And everybody will be waiting to see what he proposes to do instead.

was surprising?

Yeah, yeah, it was.

was really surprising.

Need to see him play that card.

This early of ruling out a property tax hike.

>> And it's something where I get from his camp from a campaign perspective.

That was a promise.

But seeing this, the state of the budget and then him introducing it last year.

And ultimately that being passed initially from what, 300 million down 250 to nothing.

>> And now before we even get into fully into the process, the proposals to just really completely out.

I don't know.

That may come back to bite.

this definitely question of is it at a point?

Are at a point she reneged on that promise?

Well, I think he's saying to the city council, you don't want you didn't want to do that.

This last year were in deeper hole this year's.

So you tell me what you want to do.

It's sort of like I I tried this.

You said >> your plan exactly of course, you know, economic projections, they always rely on.

You know, they're not being a major downturn of this.

A lot of uncertainty about, you know, trade and tariffs which the of federal judge knocking down tariffs, which could come back.

I mean, >> could things get even tougher for budget?

Here's if there's a recession or just any sort of a downtrend.

Absolutely.

The president has made no bones about the fact that he wants to yank nearly 3 billion dollars in federal funding from Chicago.

If that happens, the city's budget crisis goes from very bad to really unspeakably now a federal judge has tossed that lawsuit.

So that is not does not appear to be happening anytime soon.

>> there are other things that the Trump administration can do to make Chicago's sort budget significantly worse.

That's a really tough time for the city.

>> And when you think not raising property taxes because that was a promise in the campaign.

However, last year the idea was to raise and that's gone.

And that was just that that that horse is out of the barn when you're trying now to figure it out and talking about progressive taxes, more taxes on the ultra wealthy.

Well, tax on corporations and we've got to keep them in the city saying we've got to keep attacks the year.

It's a very tough position to be in.

And I know that there's been the accumulation of a number of very smart people to try to help the city figure this out very much looking forward to seeing what that is.

They come up one speaking of that, that issue of federal funding or Sally, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration.

>> From calling that back over the city's for immigrant protections.

And I think that my biggest takeaway from all of it was just >> the judge ruling that that would just be unconstitutional and really, I waiting to see what the reaction was going to We it's sometimes it's a you know, bad reaction that we get later later on.

>> But you have really interesting to see that and sure Heather's mentioning is there's just that money is needed and that money has specific purposes.

And so it was it was interesting when when it's already earmarked the budget wins, folks are already planning on this.

There's not necessarily always a plan before it.

That's right.

And so we waiting to see rings, event that seems to be a thing from this federal government, everything's about money, whether it's whether it's whether it's calling back.

>> Everything is about money.

And so that seems to be the where it's being used for whatever that is and somehow while it was determined some time ago, the Congress was the ones who should be making those determinations somewhere along the way.

Congress has got to stand up and do their jobs.

You have very different Congress than the one we had the first Trump term.

>> another move the president signed an executive order aimed ending cashless bail policies like Illinois has which she cannot do with just the stroke of a pen.

But Michael, what's the rationale behind that order?

It's.

There is a rationale behind it.

And when it comes down ultimately.

>> A lot of a similar vindictive nature.

Some of National Guard, the idea I cash bail system is helping enforce in force, justice.

cash bail is helping to keep the streets safe.

But ultimately the bail system boils down to economic.

school for people for people that simply just can't afford.

However, much 10% to get out and from DC to Illinois.

The Safety Act has been so instrumental in providing equity ensure justice for people that regardless of how much money you have, that if you are deemed to not be a threat to the public to be released until your court date.

And so now with Trump similar to the other finding a strong yank threatening bat over cashless bail being is to It's.

Making things as Rufus said more about money in taking out the humanity of people having their freedom in these things become is a cash is bill's situation.

It's also playing out in voting rights.

requiring certain.

>> Identifications of people may not be able to afford to get will be able to afford to have these different situations.

So its money on that side.

But it's also those who have the least who will be most impacted by what these things are that are doing because it's not about what is good or fear.

And to your point, it's really this bail system as it was taken away was not about whether it was about whether or not not guilty, not anything else.

And those who had a lot of money like the current occupant, was able to get around a lot of things because he has money.

But a lot of people who don't will be it's that lack empathy and that way because as you say, the current occupant of the White House.

>> Has a recent monk shot.

And so is something where you would think that.

There will be related ability about the body in the bail system, but but And as you said, it's coming down to who has money, who doesn't, who and the haves and the have nots another federal move this week are selling.

FDA signed off on some updated COVID vaccines.

But >> revoked approval for one variety for children under 5 says younger adults and children need an underlying health condition.

This is already been getting a lot of even before this week's big pushback from medical profession.

just just in time for flu season coming up, not and school and back in school.

So the restrictions, I think a lot of health experts and medical providers are kind of looking not scratching their head and saying.

>> Why would we need all of these restrictions to get a vaccine?

That is proven and science proven that it is effective.

So one thing that we are kind of talking to doctors about is what is a healthy young person going to do is they are cannot get access to COVID-19 vaccine.

And I think a lot about not that long ago when we were in a global pandemic and it wasn't just about your safety.

But it was a safety of the people that you were around.

So you might be healthy and think that you would be OK, but maybe you are around people that are immunocompromised or elderly or young children.

And really it comes down to how are they going to be able to how are young and healthy quote, unquote, none of these restrictions.

How are they going to get the vaccine?

Where are they going to be able to go and where they can have to pay out of pocket?

Because things are not cheap right now.

folks are anxious about that possibility.

>> Heather and we found out city records show that the Chicago has settled with the family of a teenager pinned down by an off duty Chicago officer.

Remind us about that incident.

Well, this happened sort of in the midst of debates about how policing should happen and how police use force against members of the public.

This teen was suspected by this off duty Chicago police sergeant of stealing his son spike.

>> He tackled him and pinned him to the ground to was actually charged with assault.

He was acquitted and then the family sued the city and the same city settled for $100,000.

Now, what's interesting about out is that had it then just one dollar more, it would have had to go to the full City Council for approval.

Also, Sergeant Michael he's no longer with the Chicago Police Department after the civilian Office of Police Accountability recommended he be terminated for his actions.

But he is now pulling his pension of a cool $76,000 annually.

And that's taxpayer money taxpayer money all the way around for the rest of his Well, some positive stories week other Chicago reader will continue publishing after its acquisition by a Seattle based media company with a pretty interesting business.

My whole tell us about that.

That's right.

So this is a company out of Seattle that really wants to sort reinvigorate the whole notion of alternative weeklies.

>> The Chicago reader is one of the greatest wines and this is sort of a lifeline for the reader that's been through a series of ownership changes over a number of This is kind of a, you know, a cool thing to see.

You like to you like to see papers being acquired, not fight just a hedge but by someone who is actual interest.

And I think the company longstanding kind of history with streets, types of publications.

I was excited to see that the reader is very committed to is still from print and really impasse talks that I've had with the reader.

It is it is a very important source of information, especially when you're talking about the unhoused community.

And that is a lot of the times how a lot of people get their information.

So it I was I was it was good news.

Yes, absolutely.

dedication.

But you said you can't be on notice.

I was a part.

>> Of the readers are racial justice writers 2 years ago and it was really helpful.

Just that mentor ship that they offer and especially just in this age of journalism, we've all been at Shops passes, been hit recently state of economy.

So it is a definite silver lining.

>> Well, the silver lining for my Friday was having the 4 of you But unfortunately, we are out of time.

So I thanks to Rufus Williams, Heather, Sharon, our Sally gonna sell Donna and Michael Live truck.

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The choir from Chicago's Leo Catholic High School going to the semifinals on September 16th.

America's Got Talent.

I hope you all watch exciting to see this happening with this group young black men themselves by just and a blend secular swim.

Cover a believer of I imagine Dragons is really And it was incredible to see the way they take up the stage, the choreography that they have.

>> The interplay among them.

I mean, these guys are it could be going somewhere.

this is this is the one small school down the side that had been on the verge closure.

I don't even know how for those boys.

I can give them a chance for One of college for choirs scholarships.

Yeah, absolutely.

That kind of exposure.

You good PR for Chicago at a time where we are in the president's crosshairs every day since the >> We need represented so well.

So many things.

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