>> Hey, everyone, thanks for joining us on the week in review on them.

2025, began with terror and neighbors.

>> The screams.

I mean, you can't we can think about and hear that in Army veterans alleged ISIS-inspired terror attack runs down and kills people celebrating in the French Quarter.

>> Prompting concerns about safety at Chicago's popular outdoor festivals.

If there's extra surveillance Trump Tower.

2, meanwhile, sparring over a new contract for the Chicago Teachers.

Union's moves from private talks at the bargaining table.

2 dueling bids for public support.

students are set to return from the holiday break.

That was anything but for school leaders 2025 also set to ring in budget challenges for the city and state and immigrant advocates are preparing for what President Donald Trump's administration has in store.

>> And joining us for our week in review panel, the first of 2025.

Us Steve Daniels, the Chicago Tribune's editorial board member from Siya Garcia Hernandez of Block Club.

Chicago to Greg of the Chicago Tribune and our own Matt Masterson W T Tw News.

So this New Year's attack in New Orleans obviously shocking and sad.

lot of questions front.

It was there a way to prevent >> Difficult question to answer for sure.

But I what authorities have said and have shown is there is so many hands alert for attacks in cities all over.

And we saw the attack in Germany at christkindl market just a few weeks before.

So I think authorities had to be on alert.

It is hard to predict every single attack, but every mass gathering, every large crowd has to be considered as a place potential safety threat.

And of course, Steve Chicago has a lot of these festivals front.

just brought up the christkindl market.

Chicago's.

>> Over unfortunately, I didn't get there this season, is there anything that can be done when a vehicle is used as a weapon, anything that you're looking for.

Chicago law enforcement to change?

I mean, you can put up barriers, concrete barriers >> targets areas that you think are on particularly enticing to a terrorist?

But but the short answer is no.

I mean, obviously you're going to have way too many gatherings of people and what you're going to have somebody putting a concrete barriers temporarily or permanently around sites might be a target.

We've seen these vehicle attacks around the world and not just recently, but over the years.

And it's sad, but it's it.

It almost seems like it's it's something we just have to live with.

>> again, the Chicago Street festivals.

you in a matter of days, it's not as if their long-standing events, unlike I guess, Bourbon Street in an area that was attacked every terrorist attack is different and it's.

>> For awhile feel safe going to movie theaters for why we didn't see it going to music festivals where we could be shot out from Jain hotel rooms.

A lot of this is not.

Preventable.

There's could do if someone is intent to do harm.

And Matthew, of course, cover a lot of law enforcement security.

What comes to one of the questions that are going through your mind again?

I mean, what else can there be done?

there were some barriers put up, I believe around there and the vehicle went around them.

I mean, there's only so much that you can do to keep people safe.

And it seems like there were definitely steps taken to do that.

But when somebody is dead set on doing this and there's a lot of planning that goes into it, it seems like.

>> They but things like this can happen, unfortunately.

And there's only so many steps that law enforcement can take.

They get all the information they want from other sources or what not.

they probably can hear much about this one ran a person who's going get a truck into this.

>> sad news there.

And of course, also condolences to the family of the state trooper who was laid to rest today.

Clay cards.

Let's move on to something more political and that is doing press conferences held just this afternoon between the Chicago teachers Union in the Chicago Public Schools.

Is there negotiating a new contract?

We're going to get to the new part in just a So Matt beware, want to go to you first because lot has happened over the holidays and for people that were maybe more concerned with spending family time wrapping gifts.

What have you they may missed Catch us up just the rundown of what all this happened at CPS.

Peter Martinez, still the CEO, but but but but, >> yeah, this was kind of like a stunning Friday right before.

I think everyone anticipating going on break.

>> We have been hearing rumblings that board was moving to fire.

Cps CEO Peter Martinez likely not for cars, which would mean that he would stay on for 6 months.

There were rumors they would try to install a Co-CEO and knowing this future Martinez's attorney went to court basically seeking to prevent that firing or any diminishment of his role as CEO.

Basically, the board has barred now from diminishing that role will how that goes in practice C to negotiations are ongoing.

But it sounds like Peter Martinez will at least be in place for the 6 months that is required in his contract, which means that seat who still has to deal with him and could still use them as kind of a punching It seem like the board was ready to dial things out there.

The new elected board is coming in obviously this month.

But >> previous board had had their monthly meeting and they called a special meeting on top of that to go ahead Adrian Martinez that again without cause.

So he'll be around for this year's more 6 more months.

But it was kind of a stunning surprise move.

I've seen the CEO put in jail.

I've seen a CEO resigned during an ethics investigation, but everyone fired by the board.

So abruptly like this one.

>> Abruptly and yet contract it at the same time because we had known that this was coming and then in such short order really sort of under the cover of Christmas and this occurred.

meant that stick with you because again, we did hear from both the administration in the Chicago teachers union today.

Could you give us an update on Martinez and other CPS administrators shared about negotiations slash what else?

was a little bit of optimism for both sides today.

They're both sides talk about progress, which is in a word that either side necessarily There's been significant.

Tentative agreements reached those aren't finalized but site they're they're in agreement in principle here is like a health care contribution increases.

Special education.

>> Stable community schools, things like that are generally agreed to.

But there's a lot more to be done on pay >> class sizes, staffing levels of these things still need to be sorted out.

But both sides today said that there had been some positive talks this week.

The CT board member, I'm sorry, the CPS board members had gone last week and they were no longer allowed be going.

So these are order backtrack after Martinez went to court about But after that kind of struck a tone with both sides, neither was super thrilled with how that was handled for a bit.

And then it seems like things have progressed further since then.

So a little bit of optimism from both sides that CPS has given too many updates during this today.

But Martinez did speak.

He said they've made progress on staffing, that they have offered 4% raises for us for CT members.

They're seeking 6% over the first 2 years.

5% for the second to use of the steel.

But they're still doing with a massive, massive structural deficit and they're going to have to kind of negotiate the current budget that's been approved.

They're gonna have to go back to that and ammend it whenever this deal is finalized.

But it's a matter of making all these numbers working there.

They some decent model work to be done on that.

>> So you said that both sides progress.

And yet the Chicago teachers, Union leader and President Stacy Davis, Gates accused Martinez of slowing down negotiations and continually referenced him.

Steve, as the Supreme what do you make of that moniker?

>> I think it's probably a derisive term that's meant to signal unhappiness with the fact that the mayor has been sort of sidelined here.

The board that, you know, represents the mayor has been sidelined here.

And here is a sort of bureaucrat who's been elevated through this court order into a position frankly ought to in the CPS.

Ceo should be the one negotiating contracts were just in a bizarre situation right here because we have mayor who is frankly.

tool of the union.

think that's been demonstrated that the stage normally would have a mayor who would be on the other side of the table from the union trying to protect taxpayers will not have that.

So it's Martinez is in that role and the Union Station to fix Davis cases like so that is calling supreme being effective.

What does that do?

>> I don't think so.

But I mean, if you're going to take constructive view of it, which Frank, I don't see much of one.

But here, if I'm going try that, again signaling to the public this isn't how she thinks things should be.

The mayor ought to be the one to call the shots.

What what the contract is going include.

Now, of course, also have a hybrid school board us about the with the with elected members for the first time we're going to be taking office in the middle of this month, which will introduce a whole nother area of interest here because many of those people are on Martinez's side.

I have expressed that they are on his side in this once that board sits down and meats and starts talking about all this, we're going to see open disagreements which we've never seen on a school board are almost never in terms of public airing of disagreements on the board itself, it's just going to be wild frontier.

What's your take care?

>> I think there's a lot of that thing coming board will have to take care of the another part of the decision that was made when the December 20th meeting was a resolution to keep a Sarah schools open.

7 of them, which announced to be closing next school year.

But U.S. officials said we haven't heard already.

We haven't seen his memorandum of understanding on how we will keep the schools open yet the resolution was approved.

So there are still questions about funding.

What will happen.

These are union unionized teachers who work at the schools.

But parents have urged CBS to keep the schools the same way, which would be interesting if they're not going to be run by the charter if they are a force by CPS.

So the board has a lot to to take as they start.

And I hope preparing for board management 101 and are in all the advanced courses because there's a lot to to handle its also come, Kate, what does have to happen in order to keep this acero schools open?

>> there needs to be funding and their next need to be a plan on whether a stay or charter schools.

A charter network will keep the schools open and where they'll get the funding because the network claims they don't have enough funding to keep the schools open.

Hence why they were close saying because of their enrollment numbers going down and federal funding going down this well.

So there needs to be some sort of funding solution to it.

And then a plan to transition the schools from a title, too.

CBS Now is that you noted requires money.

It's not as if CPS is flush with that.

And already the budget passed does not take into account.

>> Whatever degree of races are going to be brought in, you know, can you sort of clarify because I get Martinez has gone to court.

He cannot see diminishment of his authority as CEO, but he supposed CEO.

I thought take direction from the board.

So when he's called supreme being, how much unilateral power does he really have?

It's a very interesting dynamic between the board and the current CBS leadership.

That's never really been the case where there aren't completely aligned.

I can.

>> Think of I don't think there's ever been a single vote since I've been covering CBS where the board did not >> approve or unanimously in most cases unanimously approve items on their coming from CPS or vice versa.

Usually very much in alignment.

So this is a a very interesting time where the board and the CPS CEO or at odds with each other on such a massive issue like this and they have forced him out hope you're around for 6 more months, but he is going to be leaving because of the the board deciding that he hadn't met his duties.

So it's a very interesting time and I didn't even with Acero.

That's an issue where the board really was pressing on CBS.

CBS said that they were already looking at solutions.

But every single board meeting the members were speaking to Martinez about getting something done.

And during one of these meetings last, but I believe is in December CBS came up with these solutions of absorbing some of the school's absorbing all the schools, closing them, how it's going to be.

So a lot of this came about because of kind of a push between the 2 of them.

Some of this helped may spurred.

What's going to happen to this arrow but it's it's not something I can really recall of the sides really being contention, which I.

>> game this out some what does this mean politically?

You have again, teachers union aligned really with the mayor's administration, a CEO that is emboldened by court.

Hear it, but by court rulings.

And yet weekends in some regards because he's on a timeline.

What are we setting the school or these next 6 months?

And what does it mean for the mayor?

Well, the thing we have to keep in mind is that the majority of new board members that are joining our CTU or mayoral aligned.

>> So he's got that in his favor.

He had that with this outgoing board that he had appointed and mask after that and mass resignation.

But we're going to get through this complicated board dynamics.

We don't really know.

It's gonna be like to have a board this large with this kind of experience coming off an straight from the union.

That's going to be interesting.

What I'm paying attention to kind of looming over all of this is the money.

CPS is in.

I think a 500 million dollar deficit heading into next year.

I don't that counts.

4% raise for teachers or not.

that know that.

That's going to be a huge one.

And we have to also keep in mind, we have all of these overlapping budget crises and no one is going to come to the rescue.

The states going to have its own budget problems.

Ct is going to be asking for money, say Scott was going asking for money.

All these other school districts across the state are going to be asking for money.

Covid mice running out.

I think at the end of the day, hopefully people are keeping in mind.

How much money there is and what realistically be done to keep the district solvent.

Dave, you want to weigh on the matter.

Pedro Martinez on timeline.

Stacy Davis, Gates is on a shorter time line.

>> People need to remember that there's going to be spring CTU, leadership, elections.

And that's well before Pedro Martinez is done as CPS CEO, if they don't have a contract by then she's going to have to go try to win reelection without having secured a contract from from members.

And you're going to have definitely opposition parties coming in saying you didn't succeed your strategy didn't work.

And and so the pressure many respects is much more CTU and her than it is on paper marching when they think that one of the questions many being asked by families of CPS students is.

>> Will there be a strike?

Does that help or hurt her position and or that the seat who you might have a better idea that there hasn't really been any discussion of that yet publicly.

They've that they haven't ruled that out.

They haven't said that.

That's something they're looking at.

I think they would absolutely like to avoid that if possible, to see to that is.

>> That I think that things are probably progressing well enough at this point where that's not something that's going to get thrown out there.

There hasn't been much talk of a potential strike.

>> But the CTU leadership has put out some informal deadlines that have been met yet.

They wanted to contract by Christmas, didn't happen.

They want to win by the New Year.

That didn't happen.

They want one by Trump's inauguration and we'll see if anything happens in the coming weeks.

But if those keep getting set to formally and missed and I don't what's going to happen, are they going to continue to get upset as these negotiations go on and the CTU making the argument that the district has the tools, the financial wherewithal to avoid what they're calling.

>> Austerity measures.

What tools we just talked about this half billion dollar deficit.

>> They understand that there is the deficits real.

That's something that obviously the districts going to be dealing with in the contract is going to have to reflect that as well.

There.

They've come down and their pay requests.

The union has and some other staffing request as well.

This what CPS was talking about today, but there still needs to be some medium where they can all reach an agreement and get this also about where the finances are actually going to go with that as well.

>> a lot for students to come back to when get back to their classrooms.

On Monday.

This again, huge for the mayor's administration.

He does now have a 2025 budget and the fact which means that those of us who use streaming services, Netflix and paying more for that additional parking sticker costs in those residential zones, plastic bags costing more money, France, is this something regular which citizens of Chicago are paying attention to.

>> I think property hike was one of the most potential hike that Chicagoans were paying attention to him were not happy about.

But these will also.

Her a little bit.

Some families.

Some people are concerned.

Some of those who are very opposed to the mayor will call out everything will increase and everything will.

Increase of cost of living in Chicago something that is not beneficial to the city, especially with storefronts being bacon and businesses complaining about not having enough clientele safety and you know it It turns into a bigger conversation.

These are not asked.

Bad as a property tax.

I mean, yeah.

Property tax hike would have been for the mayor's administration if approved.

>> And Steve, what does this mean for the mayor's relationship?

does want to do in 2025?

that his relationship with all people that got pretty contentious over budget negotiations will be impacted by.

>> Well, I think that 2024 was just the, you know, opening chapter in what is unpleasant book.

And I think 2025 is going to be harder, frankly, in terms of the budget dynamics.

Yeah, City's the city didn't raise property tax levy residents will be paying more in property taxes for a bunch of complicated reasons that you guys all well know and I won't take ton time to explain.

But people are going to get their property tax bills on the on the residential level and they will be significantly in many cases.

And they're going to be wondering And at that time the city will be having to close whatever we don't have the exact deficit, but it's going to be significant.

They'll be having to try to plug that and figure out how to deal with that as people are getting those property tax bills, those second ones in the fall.

So it's going to be brutal ad you had done reporting on Cook County's attempts to in the future, perhaps even this year really over how this property tax.

>> system.

>> Do you happening this year?

there's no way it's too big, too complicated off.

Often requires like a lot of moving parts in Springfield.

>> And buy-in from this massive property tax system.

We I mean, we have million taxing We have.

We've got the Treasury that the assessor, the Assessor, the Board of review are fighting enough that they can't get minor agreement on a lot of stuff.

So if I to make a 2025 prediction, I would not say we're going to get major property tax reform.

I think we're going to get some interesting ideas this year.

I think we have.

More groups inside government buying into looking into this and reforming it?

Well, they get something big done this let's go back to the administration as you also time reporting on some turnover or within the Johnson administration in particular, 3 spots that he's >> got to fill.

What are those positions and is that a sign of any sort of disquiet within the 5th floor, regular old turnover.

If you talk to any of the people that left, it would be regular turned over its been a couple years.

They've gone through a lot.

This was a very tricky budget.

lot of people try to stay for a year and change say I talked to the transition time for me to do something else.

So the merest replace policy chief.

He's head of family and support services and his comptroller like come to or does not sound like a super important in the news position.

But the person that left had really good relationships in Springfield and did a really good job understanding and explaining the budget to all kinds of stakeholders.

The mayor has said I want to go down to Springfield, try to get progressive sources of revenue.

So that was that was a big loss policy chief.

This person was also person who drove the bring home entire campaign.

I'll be interested to see if the next bring in find some kind of alternative.

It kind of delivers on the mayor's vision and you have a sus I could see being important with potential deportations.

Coming up and just like regular run of the mill handling of homelessness and all kinds of other social services in the city.

We have no idea what kind of demand there will be on those services with the incoming Trump administration.

So from say, let's use that doesn't go to you.

We do have as of today Republican controlled Congress members installed in Washington and soon we'll have new president and President-elect Trump moving back into the White House.

Migrant community preparing deportations.

What are you hearing about preparations there?

>> There is a lot of fear and anxiety among families who have been here for a long time.

Undocumented families make status families, but also new arrivals.

People with asylum cases are pending asylum applications who were given temporary protected status or parole and are here in the country.

They're also trying to.

Get their footing.

They're trying to they're waiting on work permits.

There is a lot in the immigration system that needs to be processed even for the current immigrant.

And then there's the talk about mass deportations, mass deportations starting in Chicago.

But we also haven't seen plans on how that will be carried out.

And we've also seen reports that it would be very expensive and it requires a lot of manpower to carry out these operations.

Nevertheless, the threat is there.

threat feels real for many of these families and many advocacy groups are saying get your documents ready.

If you're that Hayne, be ready to have a lawyer in Get powers of attorney ready incase you're the pain and are separate from your children.

So obviously it's it's a complicated situation for many, for many families, any questions.

But it's very real.

And the Tribune reporting this week that, for >> one church canceled their Spanish speaking services right you know, just.

>> We don't want to have a whole bunch of people massed physical location where agents could potentially come in and, you know, take people It sounds, you know, like kind of draconian, horrible.

Thing.

But but that's the real fear that front he is talking about and and they're not taking any chances.

>> You know, man, we've got 30 seconds left.

So I want to go to you.

You are a guy on the Madigan trial and jurors were on break, but attorneys were in the courtroom this week figuring out jury instructions.

Why is this so complicated?

That takes multiple days in court.

It's been a three-month trial.

There's a lot of things to go through.

These jurors are going to have to figure out a lot of things on 2 most 2 dozen charges against mad again and his co-defendant Mike mclane.

>> There's a lot to parse through especially the Supreme Court decision sort of re-imagining how federal bribery statutes are listed.

That's a lot of what they were talking about this week.

So the wording that's gonna go into this could very well help decide if these 2 men are guilty or not guilty in some of these charges.

>> Thank you for that wrap-up.

100 pages of jury instructions are right there in 30 seconds with that.

We are out of time.

Our thanks Steve Daniels, France, Garcia Hernandez be quick and Matt Masterson, we will be back to wrap things up right after this.

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>> New Year brings new laws.

Some 300 of them in Illinois.

Steve?

>> Yeah, a lot of the well, you know, lot of big stuff that we're going have huge changes to health insurance system.

Most of this taken affected Twenty-twenty 6.

But I kind of like what the random little weird laws so, yeah, you're going to 3 days warning before your teaser rate on your subscription, your Netflix or your whatever so that you get some fair warning to cancel it before >> Rates take that.

I can goes up the understanding that the Chicago, prove that I want to I mean, I got a whole bunch of subscriptions.

I got to get rid of.

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