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

I'm Nick Blumberg.

Governor JB Pritzker tells federal immigration agents were watching.

They have already and we'll continue to.

Abuses of power across the legal limits of their authority and attempt to justify dangerous attacks that threaten our people and our communities.

Illinois sets up a new accountability Commission to track allegations of illegal activity amid operation Midway Blitz.

>> Our communities are not a war zone.

This is our home.

>> But Chicago communities are repeatedly choked by tear gas.

I on well as federal agents cretan and detain elected officials and city staffers.

>> And the time are already very much worried about affordability in the city.

I am concerned of all the taxes and fees we are adding on on Chicagoans here.

>> Taxes and tips.

Sweeps and slots.

Oh, my.

The mayors spending plan is under the microscope as city budget hearings get underway.

Meanwhile, some state lawmakers cast a skeptical eye toward redrawing congressional maps and USC says it will stop taking race and gender into consideration for hiring or financial aid.

And now to our week in review panel.

Joining us are.

>> Jeff Buckholts of WBBM Newsradio Rufus Williams of Wv O N it's not always of city.

Cast Chicago and Justin Kaufmann of Axios, Chicago.

Let's get right to it.

Thank you all for being here.

So this New Accountability Commission, Rufus, it's set to have a series of hearings.

It's chaired by the former chief federal judge for our area.

What you make of Pritzker's announcement and they have putting behind it with these folks.

You know, there's got to be something and we should as Chicago becomes ground 0 for number things that are coming out of Washington.

There's got to be something that happens.

>> And clearly, Governor Pritzker has been one who has been fighting hard and being a model for a lot of other places.

It just makes sense because you see rights being trampled on.

So many different ways.

And the question becomes what can be done.

And when we looked a minute, this is happening from the federal government.

The next level that we have is our state government is our governor.

And so to try to do that is to something that put some muscle behind something that gives citizen some degree of safety.

I think it's good and important to do.

Well, one of the things that was interesting about the announcement this week was the governor's statement that this commission part of the job of this commission is going to be to create a recored, right.

That will eventually be used.

>> 2, as he put it, I think bring people to justice.

Once leaders are in a position to do that, signaling that Congress has shown in his view, no particular interest in holding ICE agents or anyone else accountable for any actions that are happening on the streets of Chicago or anywhere in the area.

And of course, you have to imagine we might see some of these videos and up as evidence and in court, you know, absent to cancel the governor is counting on that, by the way.

And again asked people to record what they see.

Share it on social media so that that >> record exists.

Now, I had asked the governor if there would be subpoena power for this commission that will not have that.

so it runs the risk of being seen by some people as a political exercise.

Right?

But the idea I think for him is and for the commission is to just get it on the record and then to what happens.

Recreating a record is pretty much the entire strategy of city and state officials right now.

The whole idea is if you have a record, not only can you use that for any future legal challenges, which in itself is also a record.

If you have a judge on the record saying >> ordering you can't use tear gas to the neighborhoods ordering the National Guard is not coming or during you know what it what have you that in and of itself is a record, but also to pursue any legal challenges and potential.

I guess actual accountability that that could that could come when someone else is in charge, that that's kind of the whole thing right now.

I wonder and I completely understand the idea of a commission and there's very limited things that the governor of the state government can We're talking about report.

>> That's coming out in January of 26.

Present.

Really get right say Lake view today there, know, these raids that are happening in different places, tear gas is flowing through neighborhoods.

Whether you're talking about Lakeview or Ukrainian village or.

>> 26 in Ogden, I mean, you're seeing it almost escalate in the face of the of of what we've seen from jet from the courts here from the from the judge from the state government.

So it I don't know if it's enough for Chicagoans right now to be like, are we safe are things to get based on a commission we're going to we're going to fill out a report looking at this point, what we're not safe and some of what is being seen and done here.

>> Is nothing noles.

They're saying they're being the vino and others that they're not doing anything that's breaking any laws.

>> And some where there's got to be accountability for some point there's got to be accountability for that all we can do at this point is to make the record, you know, that's kind of all we can do is not asking people to go out on street with arms and fight back in that way.

So this is a way to do it.

Yeah.

But to that point about, you know, Border Patrol Chief Craig Gregory Bovino, we saw him apparently deploying tear gas.

>> You know, without any justification, he's been ordered back into federal court on Tuesday.

We've seen officials in court all week talking about the different tactics that they use.

You know, Jeff, to these legal proceedings seem to be slowing down operations here.

I wouldn't say that they based on what we've seen today.

Certainly on the north side of the city pretty emboldened to go into neighborhoods, quiet and even not so quiet neighborhoods, I guess in and round up people and and without any particular check or balance on what they're able to do, the only deterrent seems to be this army of volunteers are in various neighborhoods who are caring, whistles around to try to alert people about the presence of ICE Well, into that point with, you know, folks going around with Wessels, many of them have been local elected officials.

You know, Simon, Lisa, elected officials this week, you know, warning folks and, you know, getting targeted by agents.

You know, it's not clear that they were targeted because they are politicians.

But, you know, to seeing them get swept up in it feeling it raises the stakes somehow in this kind of local federal conflict.

Yeah.

I mean, when there's pretty much, you know, you've initially right alderperson Jessie Fuentes, who was handcuffed to a hospital bed while trying to ask for a warrant to try to say do you have a warrant to be making this arrest at a hospital?

>> Other alters as well.

I think.

yes, Rodriguez Sanchez, and then Michael Rodriguez had staffers who I think we're at least detained.

And then later released us.

It too.

And one of them who's on the police accountability?

you know.

And and a state representative as well who was stopped in a vehicle who repeatedly identified himself as a state representative in video, there's there's there's video evidence of this and, you know, I think the trick here is I don't know.

I don't know if they're being targeted specifically because they're elected officials.

I think Border Patrol ice and the federal government is targeting Chicago.

They're targeting Chicagoans.

It goes to this problem that has yet to be solved.

And we've seen this, you know, with these this unbelievable resistance effort that's happening from neighbors around high schools and elementary schools or people that are 2 and whistles.

>> Or following or even though these controversial concepts of boxing in.

So you can't somewhere.

You're getting closer and closer.

Each one of those elected officials was in pursuit of ICE agents and Rodriguez Sanchez.

She moved she pulled into an alley after them.

They got in the car say stop following You seen video all over the place of people say you can't follow a stop stop blowing that whistle.

You know, always kind of things that you would think from the know your rights campaigns and these are OK, you can do this but didn't get the ICE agents, Border Patrol art, on that same page.

And that's an issue right here where you have people like you have JB Pritzker, the governor saying, hey, send us your video, put the commission together.

So what does that that send somebody out to the corner of Belmont Laker go?

I got to get this for the governor of items they might say get in the car.

You're next.

Because there's a big difference, though, between some of the vehicle stuff I think is really touchy because it following a vehicle in any situation is a dangerous like if you have road rage in your falling like, right, right.

That's you shouldn't be doing that.

>> I think that gets touchy.

But if you happen to be there and you honk your horn.

All right.

That's not the same thing.

If you happen to be there and you take your phone out.

That is not a record 72 to any law enforcement agent, federal or otherwise.

They seem to be emboldened agents, whether you're talking about federal agents through immigration or Border Patrol to to detain and ask questions later, it seems almost be their many of somebody is up as somebody you feel is obstructing.

>> Take care of to take whether that is that's going to play out that you're going to see it play out again this week in the courts.

This is really what's at the at the core of what's happening in Chicago.

Is any of this legal, especially when it comes to people who are observing or around some of these federal detention a resistance is so important because it begins in little village, right?

Then you see them coming down and Black Hawk.

>> Helicopters in South shore.

>> And now they're in Lincoln Park Lakeview.

And so who are you looking for?

I know name was changed years ago.

You don't have the same level immigrants there as you did once before.

So it is a takeover of the entire city in different places to try and show for whatever reason, for whatever reason, the show of power that can happen in a city like Chicago last place.

Under last Friday, I was at a church in Albany Park and the minister there had said that ICE agents followed somebody on their block right as church was letting out, is something an escalation.

I think that we hadn't seen before that ICE agents are now apparently targeting historically sanctuary.

Yeah.

now feel free to target houses of worship.

Well, and speaking of of show of force Rufus, we're also currently waiting on a Supreme Court ruling for >> whether national depart guard troops can deploy in Chicago, which the Trump administration agreed to a block on those troops from a lower judge until SCOTUS weighs in.

Do you think that projects confidence from the Trump administration that the order work will go his way?

We know you see what they're doing and then you hear what they're saying about what they're doing.

The reality is when the National Guard, if they are allowed to come here, the coming here to protect ICE troops to come here to protect federal buildings.

But he will talk about them coming to solve, climbed to stop all the crime that's happening.

Those things are inconsistent.

A lot of the crime is happening as crime imposed by the Age is being here and doing those things.

So the narrative that he's giving about saving cities and what they're doing and just very different certain that the judge is allowing these things to work through, but they see the the Incan ruins and what it?

We talked about this last time I was here.

This idea of the ideological ideological.

I you know, just just the concept of execution.

>> So you'll have you know, ideology.

And then at the end of the day, it's how you execute that ideology.

>> And the Trump administration, especially in the first term, had real tough time with that.

They stumbled all over is every time these big grandiose ideas of what they're going to change a country that stumbled out in front structurally.

I mean, really think about almost everything time this is the second run.

And here we go again with the ex.

If you really are feeling that your base, the Republican base believes that there needs to be something done about immigration policy in this country.

Is this the way to do it to Pannell militarized troops, especially agents and Border Patrol into a century make videos to to to brutalize people and to detain what they call Antifa protesters.

Is that I mean, what is that that that can't be a good look for the administration.

But at the same time, Nick, and this is the problem is we're not watching the same And so you made there's no Tom Brokaw.

There's no, you know, everyone's around the table.

They're making videos bovino when he's throwing the tear gas that's being taped when there is social media network dedicated right Truthsocial where the president posts, that is where he's meeting.

So they look like they're to to his crowd to the crowded voting from they think only winning everything is winning.

They're not seeing tear gas in the neighborhoods and and the the way that everything is becoming destabilize or they are seeing the tear gas and the neighborhoods and they're going finally Chicagoans that's exactly.

But then you look at places like it was important as one building.

And it makes it look like it's the entire city appointment with the videos put out.

It's just.

>> This is not what we expect from any government and certainly not from the federal government.

And that's why just in to your point to this question of like the whole thing we're trying to work out in the courts right now is is any of this legal by by any measure of what we consider legal or constitutional?

>> But the question even if the courts do find illegal, then what right?

>> Usually the executive branch is charged with enforcing rulings of the judicial That is the thing that sort of power.

>> Now for 6th grade civics class.

exactly.

And that's what we have to see.

it will be.

I think we will all be getting more and more of a civics lesson in these coming months.

interesting on Tuesday when but you know, goes before the judge because we we everybody seeing the videos.

Of course, the judge has to And so then when you sit there and you say identify to order, are you gonna lie and say I didn't either way, there should be some consequence to that in that moment.

And what will everyone except though, playing devil's advocate on it for a second.

If he goes and says, listen, my agents are in trouble.

know, protesters come upon us.

It becomes a dense neighborhoods.

And I don't if you've been on seminary you know, that's not street.

Yeah.

And so if everyone's coming up, there's there's not ways to necessarily get their agents out of harm's way.

That's where we are getting from the judge last time.

He's going to do it again.

The question just will be if the judge believes and there's a lot of other narratives, a lot of media around it.

But at the end of the day, it's about the safety of their agents is which is why President Trump at the end of the day is trying to bring the National Guard >> To have they the at the end, the seminary.

You're not getting past.

Maybe there's a question of why did you put your troops in harm's way?

>> Why did you do Well, I think they're going to be a lot of eyes on Tuesday's hearing, some other hearings that have been getting a lot of attention, she had a fun-filled week down at City Hall of budget season officially upon us.

Yes, it's like a combination of the first day of Festivus.

justify your life great movie with Oliver speaking of airing of the grievances of the mayor's proposal declares a billion dollars in tip money as surplus.

What of all the people said about that?

So far, the big concern about surplus a billion dollars which would be the highest of surplus ever.

>> Declared by a Chicago mayor, by the way.

>> Is that at least what they said in budget hearings on Tuesday with the Mayer's finance director and the chief financial officer.

Is there concerned about losing money for developments in their water V?

city has argued that even after we pulled this money out, these funds, these 108 tips, they're pointing to and someday I will make a video explaining what a tax increment financing funding 5.30, is too early to put folks.

you're right about that.

I and they have said that, look, all of these funds because property values are are rising in the city.

Those funds are accumulating an extra 1.3 billion dollars a year and the fund currently has 3 some odd billion dollars in it.

That's not really enough to placate the alders right now.

I think there's some concern that that this is money that would no longer be controlled by them and instead would be spent by the mayor's office.

Right?

50 many mayors are hard to wrangle that it is like to that is correct.

In fact, this week on Wednesday I spoke with Stacy Davis.

Gates was a big ally of Mayor Johnson is also the head of the Chicago Teachers union who said, look, they need to look at return on investment a different way.

If you build a new school learned Parker New Library in a neighborhood that's going to develop the neighborhood more than some business.

And she cited the target in Chatham got TIF.

Money opened soon as the TIF fund right up the target close.

Well, and to that point, you know, speaking of Stacy Davis, Gates Universe, this plan also sends a big chunk of money CPS's way.

>> Including to cover that looming unfunded pension payment.

>> Were you surprised to see Johnson pitched the idea of sending this much tip money toward schools?

Absolutely not.

Okay.

Yeah.

It just fits and the schools are suffering through their own.

Pretty significant deficit.

He was with the teachers union chairman.

We know that we know the engagement.

>> Of Stacy Davis, Gates in the campaign and also the fact that they want to shore up schools.

You get that here.

becomes a challenge whether it's used the TIF money in the city or whether she was schools.

We have a structural issue and that structural issue was not handled by pulling money out of the tips taking care of that one surprising idea.

We heard just in the possibility of slot machines at Midway and O'Hare move over Las Vegas.

make of what you guys.

But when I go into the air pled to the airport, I'm thinking about teaching.

yeah.

This has this has been talking to seen the video poker discussions of happened in the suburbs.

You see now in Chicago, it's happening at the at the airport and talking about Belize already staked out a spot midway to be like next to the papa we're going put everything.

But I think that it's probably.

>> Probably a step a moment in time for us.

There is not a lot of options.

All right.

We're talking about tremendous budget gap.

>> And, you know, we saw this back in 2019 before the pandemic where you saw the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois to be like gambling.

Yes, yes, everything.

Yes, because we need cash.

And so, you know, now that the pandemic money has dried up, we're back to the Dylan at the table again.

>> And I think that slot machines for tour is set at Midway and O'Hare, probably better slot machines at City or in the Thompson, the you're gonna put slot machines in Chicago.

>> Airports, right?

Maybe that's the place for them.

Yeah.

And you know, people love it.

It's a way pass the time before your flight.

The statement, how much money on sports gambling right in the past couple years?

I been in the news, Theresa, until this issue of the slot machines was still looking at a level of regressive taxes.

there is the wealthy people not going and playing slot machines in the airport.

There time for him accept million for your million.

Had friends.

You know.

>> Again, the forgive me.

But the part of the deal in part of the push for this, of course, is that the Bally's casino downtown is not doing as well the city needs it, too.

And >> I feel like every time I turn around, there's some new problem with the permanent Bally's Casino site that is under development.

Yeah.

So I mean, they've when the problem with putting your eggs in that basket is at some point, you know, they've got a you've got to break some nexus.

That contract was really well that didn't publicly process ought 2019.

And you talk about legal marijuana and you talk about casino license in Chicago.

>> The thought was this would be a windfall charity said this could be so much and never materialized.

we're now enough.

You're now there's a pandemic in between and you can make you can say, OK, bubble.

But now we're 2025, or 6 years from that time.

And so a lot of taxpayers like, wait, I thought you're going to take care of schools with this.

I thought you're going and it didn't come to fruition.

So it's harder to trust politicians right now are lawmakers who are like, hey, I got a new idea, you know, and that's gonna make so much money, particularly at the municipal level like we have not seen that trickle really into the city's, although again, state coffers managed to and the city has so few levers that it can pull that it's trying to do it.

can see an idea may have been a good one when it first came up and now you start, you can just count the number of casinos that are out.

yes, Horseshoe casino.

But now it's Jolie.

It's when Creek, rivers, its casinos everywhere, right?

Don't require you to go to Indiana and don't require you to go to Las Vegas and and a lot of those casinos like the ones in Joliet ones are are going to be easier to get to because they're building them along the freeway.

don't have to go into downtown >> when the big one comes up, it's not just going to be a casino, Came District.

Various risks love just a minister in Yeah.

Well, you never know.

But yeah, I think the these hearings are not for this budget process is not going to get any easier for the mayor and for all others.

All right.

Well, there's a new candidate in next year's gubernatorial race.

Before we get into that, we, of course, have to mention the loss of Darren Bailey son, daughter-in-law, 2 of his grandchildren, something that just goes.

>> Far beyond politics.

And I know a lot of Illinois ins thinking about that family this week.

Bailey does intend file petitions to stay in the race.

And Jeff, there's another candidate on the GOP side.

Tell us about him.

Rick Heitner, the head of gold, Rush gaming room talking sitting here talking about video poker machines.

>> And also briefly, business partner with White Sox legend Frank Thomas in the ownership of the Field of Dreams site Iowa has filed papers indicating he would like to run for governor and he backed it up with a million dollars of his own money is his first donation must be nice.

Yeah.

He has been in the news here and there he was one of the driving forces behind the effort at one point to build a horse racing track and casino complex at the Old Tinley Park Mental Hospital site that could because the Tribune I covered information that he had had some past business dealings with people who have been linked to organized crime.

Never a good look the Illinois Gaming Board.

So and the mayor of Homer, Glen, apparently as his running mate now so that the field is getting just a little bit more crowded along with him.

Mister Bailey, Ted Dabrowski from Wire points.

James Mendrick, sheriff of DuPage County.

And then just of Reno, the businessman and social media gadfly from what I can gather from you know, I haven't.

It's been a while since I've been a tension gubernatorial politics.

But those don't sound like household names to Yeah.

And when you when you look at, you know, I'm and incumbent in Pritzker who's got all this money and he's got all of this right now.

This this.

>> Attention.

It's surprising to me that the the GOP field is as grassroots as it that, you know, one point Porter was talking about like that, there's this idea of maybe someone is going to be little bit more like bring everybody from the from the right into the state.

But right now, it seems like it's a very split feel.

Yeah, I'm old enough to remember when they're LaHood was kicking the tires run for governor and apparently he decided that being in the House majority was a better deal for And for break probably now get these feel-like grassroots candidates right?

>> Dabrowski has been in that sort of conservative idea.

Cinematic universe for a while and he has the backing of.

>> and Liz, you line right who were writing checks for Darren Bailey 4 years ago.

And so now prosecute getting that money.

I mean, in that field, as you talk about the person with the best name recognition, he's the guy who lost in 2022.

Right?

Yeah.

Run in a race is always going to get some eyes on you.

Well.

>> Here in the week in review, cinematic universe you our 4 of our biggest stars.

But unfortunately, that's all the time we have for week's show.

Our thanks to Jeff Buckholts, Rufus Williams.

Simon, and Justin Kaufmann.

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

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