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

I'm Brandis Friedman, Nick Lambert has the evening off.

Chicago City Council is at a budget impasse as Mayor Brandon Johnson struggles to get his proposal across the finish line.

>> We stand by our budget.

If there are not any magic 3rd options between cuts to core services and layoffs and revenue.

Anyone who wants to pretend otherwise is.

>> Being disingenuous.

The mayor's 16 billion dollar proposal faces a major setback.

Is the Finance Committee fails to advance a plan?

>> That's about $700.

That's tacked on to the tax bill of every single home in Chicago.

>> Chicago homeowners are experiencing sticker shock as the study shows the median property tax bill rising more than 16%.

>> A federal appeals court pauses in order that restricts federal immigration agents use of force across the Chicago area.

This as the detaining population at a suburban ICE processing center plummet.

>> Those in favor say Aye.

Those opposed say no.

>> Congressman Hastens to Garcia is reprimanded by his colleagues over his late reelection decision.

>> Its UK shun is local.

It should be overseeing locally.

The Trump administration is making moves to dissolve the Department of Education to Chicagoans meet up in Vatican City.

>> And now to our week in review panel.

Joining us are violent Miller from the Chicago Sun-Times.

Rima, I mean, of Chicago, the Chicago Tribune's Allison Myrick from the Invisible Institute.

Thanks everybody for joining us.

Welcome back.

Ok, so we've got to talk about the budget is not Mayor Johnson's best week.

He's 2026 budget proposal.

It failed in committee earlier this week with a 25 to 10 vote number of all the people opposing his controversial head on corporations.

Alice, what happened?

Did he not see this opposition sort of rising?

Yeah, I know continuing to I guess live in unprecedented times and city council.

I believe.

>> Not since the council wars of the 1980's has a city council right rebuke, the mayor on a budget.

But like this and the signs coming together last week, Demers on finance chair who he's in charge of the committee where this revenue Bowden's ordinance is being voted, warned him publicly and in front of us it was premature and that she herself did not support talks, his administration did, you go to the 11th hour negotiating with alderman trying to find a way to get to that threshold.

But Alaska to get there, couldn't pull it off.

You Alderman Pat dousing, you know, let's let's push this off until a little bit later on accurate.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, no.

He argues that denying this head tax would mean cutting course services layoffs, which use 100% opposed to he has said, but >> course, services layoffs.

Wasn't this funding intended to cover youth services and anti violence Intervention?

>> Yeah.

The 100 million dollars his administration is projecting to raise from this levy would go towards offsetting expiring funds from the federal stimulus package under Joe Biden on a lot of it would go towards 50 Million.

We go towards jobs of 18 million would go towards community violence interruption programs and he's also set a hard line against reducing funding for that.

>> Right.

So he is against raising property taxes because we know that there was there was a lot of opposition to last budget season, but he's also against cutting any service is laying off any police officers.

What are his options?

Well, he's kind of backed into corner because he said right after the vote failed, that he veto any budget that includes.

>> A property tax hike.

alderman across the spectrum of said not open to a property tax hike either.

So they've kind of also putting themselves in a corner.

But, you know, the last 2 years some kind of see this coming since it is technically it is politically easier to pass property tax hikes earlier on in your term.

The new closer Election City Council has until the end of December we've gotten gun farther along in this process at this time of the year than we thought we would.

>> Violet, do you think we're going to have to make it right?

Like it's going to be as bad as it was last year.

You know, I like to be an optimist.

We just came out of the longest government shutdown in history.

So I'm just going to, you know, say we're going to do it.

We're going we're going to remain a festing.

We're going to that in to So, you know, speaking of property taxes, Cook County Treasurer, Maria Pappas is office releasing a study this week showing that some west in Southside homeowners.

So their most recent property tax bills increasing an average of 30%.

Violent.

What's to blame for this increase?

So this is building on a report that came out earlier this year.

Also from the treasurer's office showing a broken property tax appeal system as well.

So >> we businesses getting 25.5 billion dollars in reductions to the property tax appeal system last year.

Words, homeowners just got 2.8 billion dollars in reductions.

So ultimately homeowner saw 16% reduction.

Were businesses saw a 20% reduction and the homeowners hit hardest.

Of course, are those with the least.

So folks making $50,000 or less a year, they saw the largest tax increases on.

And so that's what's being reflected now.

You know, this study coming out showing that the south and West sides, again, an shockingly are being hit the hardest by this.

So to that point, there's a disparity, as we said between the south and West side, home owners in predominantly black and Latino neighborhoods.

>> Where they're saying, you know, 9900 plus percent increases compared to property owners in Lincoln Park.

Only seeing barely a 6% increase at what was happening there.

Yeah.

The way assessing property values works in Cook County is not, you know, one part of the city of Moore County has their property values decrease.

And the other parts of the city will in it more share of the burden.

by the way, the Cook County Assessor, several elected office the mayor and City Council don't determine your property values.

But yeah, that does paint the mayor in even bigger pickle to getting to 26 out of 50 votes he can't just get over the hump.

But with progressive caucus and support and they don't all support his budget.

But the Black caucus will be hard pressed to prove tax increases as well.

All that much harder.

Obviously, when you look at communities that are experiencing a greater increase in some of the others, is there a solution of his property tax situation?

>> violent?

The million dollar question really what Yeah.

so I think you know, the blame has been kind of toss around.

I mean, some folks say of the assessor's office, some folks pointed at the COVID pandemic, even, you know, properties were vacant during that time.

And so, you know, they were assessed differently for vacant office space and things like that.

So all these things kind of factor in.

But the bottom line is that, you know, folks in pilsen other neighborhoods like it are being priced out of their homes, price of their businesses, even cause even the business owners in those areas are being forced out.

So it really doesn't seem like there's any solid solution in sight.

But the fact the matter means people are suffering.

Rima, what's your reaction when you look at the the amount of increase that some communities are facing?

Yeah, I mean, it just feels like one more thing piling on just kind of this broader affordability crisis that we've heard about with housing with even groceries, up, talk to.

>> You talk to voters here, you talk to voters in other places.

This is kind the top of list of things.

People are concerned about.

So just makes that burden heavier.

It seems like just that much harder.

Myra.

I want to get you in here because you're part of a team, Chicago area journalists, you all investigated the use of chemical irritants by federal immigration agents.

And real quick.

I just want to shout out like this cross section of groups.

They got together to work on this block club.

Chicago sister Independiente de.

>> The investigative Project on recent Equity Invisible Institute South Side Weekly and the tribe.

And you found that they use that tactic nearly 50 times during Operation Midway Blitz.

Why did DHS say they need to use it so much?

Oh, that's a great Well, I think that DHS has showed us time and time again that they they act as if they are above the law.

>> That they feel like they're doing what they need to do to clear out street to make their arrests and in comparison to what we know about chemical weapons in Chicago, a superintendent the superintendent has to approve the use of Fort before to hasn't used on protesters since 2021.

And so the way that DHS has been using it with reckless abandon I mean shows that just haven't disregard for for residents for bystanders, for protesters.

The point is to make a spectacle out of what they're doing and show ultimate military style force.

>> We know that on November 6, a federal judge ordered agents not to use such riot control weapons like tear gas unless they felt it was absolutely necessary that someone was to stop someone from physically harming another person.

And then, you know, there's been some back and forth over that ruling as well.

But did the use of chemical irritants to be a lesson at all after that November 6th ruling?

>> So since that November 6 ruling, we found that they use it at least 4 times in a way that appears to violate that order twice in those times they were firing pepper spray from their moving vehicle into another moving vehicle.

So causing, you know, a lot of danger on the roads for the driver, but also to, you know, other passengers, children inside the car.

And so, yeah, they've been violating.

Yeah.

We've seen that video that circulated on social media.

What appeared to be tear gas being fired into a moving car as people were.

>> Driving away and an infant was in the backseat and exposed to it.

Myra in your analysis of the videos.

Were the agents protecting themselves from violent crowds most of the time?

So we found that two-thirds of the time you could completely confidently say that it fairly peaceful.

now we found that there were 6, 6 moments where >> people did throw objects.

But those objects were mostly throne after tear gas had already been deployed that day and by objects, I mean, like water bottles, things like that.

So so in my view now, I don't think they were like.

Acting in self, but they were protecting themselves as Sara Lee.

Now, you mentioned.

>> Cpd and how they don't resort to tactics like tear gas and pepper spray.

For the reasons that you mentioned earlier, federal agents are they just under less restrictive rules today?

Not also have to have a supervisor sign off on the use of the tear They do operate under less restrictive rules.

We don't have a complete picture of >> what they're supposed to be doing the most recent rules that we know are not from this administration.

I'm not sure if those rules have changed, but yeah, they they operate under different set of rules and CPD.

But I think it's useful useful to know what's up.

These rules are so we can kind of understand like what is the standard of law enforcement and how would this group of people acting differently from what we know and it sounds like we don't know what federal immigration agents rules are.

If whatever the rules are operating under from a previous administration, I would say it's pretty clear that if CBD that don't half of what we see in federal agents our city would be in an even worse of fiscal crisis.

this crisis and also I think a different sort of response from the people of Chicago as well.

Not that they have not responded because we know that they have.

>> Rima federal appeals court halted a sweeping order that restricts federal immigration agents use of force across Chicago has discussed.

>> Do you think that's the sort of step backwards?

>> I mean, I think many people would probably view it that way.

Even given given the reporting that just described, there seems to be lot lot of evidence that, you know, they are kind very much just violating the order that the court has put in place.

And I think I mean, I think more broadly, it probably already, you know, agents actions have had this huge chilling effect on immigrant communities across the city.

They're not sending kids to school as as an example.

And so I think and action like that probably, you know, I don't think it would be and I'm going to be too much to say it has another chilling effect.

And speaking of excessive force, federal prosecutors, they're expected to dismiss the charges against the woman who was accused of assaulting federal immigration agents.

>> think when she was virus, remind us what happened.

That incident.

on October DHS accuse this young woman.

>> But assaulting their vehicle, basically driving into the vehicle.

Again, we know that DHS has a pattern of lying.

So this is what DHS says the officer inside the car shoots her 5 times.

He later on brags about his aim about his calls are, you know, derogatory names.

She drives herself to like continues to drive herself bleeding to a place where she can get help.

>> And and then they yet that the DOJ has.

>> I filed a motion to drop the charges.

So I do think that that is indicative of their understanding that just lies like they know they don't have a case otherwise.

Why would they trying give up on So, yeah, the young woman is talking about this is a huge success.

And I think a lot of community members are too.

>> We've got quite a talking to from federal judges yesterday about the unprecedented amount just like a lack of information, lack of evidence and some of these cases leading to a lot of these charges being dropped.

And this is something we've seen both in Chicago in DC across the country now.

And CBP, ICE DHS in general has moved across the country kind of engaging in conduct the way they have.

>> the detainee population at the ICE processing center in Broadview dropping significantly.

Now, this follows, as we know, federal agents leaving the Chicago area last time we checked, we think they were in Charlotte for what they are calling Charlotte's But there is there's talk that they also may have moved on from Charlotte, even but violent.

What do we know about the conditions that detainees were living in a broad view?

So from the folks that I've spoken to protesters who were detained, who got inside, they said it was quite filthy.

>> Lots of folks being held in very small rooms, crowned from testimony of those who have been held inside the facility as immigrant detainees.

We know that they were, you know, did not have room to sleep.

They're being forced to sleep near open toilets on not being provided food or water or even in some cases medication.

And so, you know, there's just this kind of laundry list of items in the courts went through issuing that temporary restraining order.

And the MacArthur Justice Center, ACLU of Illinois, they brought a class action lawsuit seeking a temporary restraining order to address these what they're calling inhumane and unlawful conditions at the facility.

>> There's a hearing about it this week.

What's happening with this case?

Yeah, so it's interesting because it almost difficult now with this one.

population, as you mentioned, you know, CBP agents, I should know, moving out of the Chicago area, not entirely but >> that large contingent, we still have ICE agents here.

We still DHS and other federal agencies who are working on immigration enforcement.

But more importantly, we recently saw attorneys for those groups on tour the facility alongside the judge.

They are currently withholding their statements for legal filing.

So we'll hear more as they, you know, find more evidence into court.

>> Mayor Broadview Catrina Thompson.

She's declared a civil emergency in her town.

Know what does that mean for residents and what led her So it's a really fancy way of saying their town board meetings are going to be on zoom they're not on There are not like other, you know, consequences of this executive order and that will go until the mayor herself determines that this threat is no longer there.

She cited, you know, protests that have gotten rowdy, though protesters have pointed the finger back at police as we've seen with recently, the video of past are being pulled from the crowd amid, you know, relative calm.

And so, you know, she also cited a death threat against her last month as well as a bomb threat against Village Hall.

And so, you know, this comes after a couple of board meetings have been canceled early amid You know, it seems like there's a couple of different things here, but it definitely seems like a way to avoid criticism at these meetings.

met you spoke with, you mentioned, you know, parents and how they're handling this earlier.

You spoke with a team of moms who are helping school communities.

>> Amid all of this aggressive immigration enforcement.

What do those efforts look like?

Yes, is that this is a group of moms that work as some parents as part of parent mentor teams at schools.

volunteer your time or work part-time to just provide extra support to kids in schools.

And this group of Moms Live on the South West Side, which has seen a lot of immigration activity and they've kind of, you know, pulled together to bring together resources for families they work with and and their neighbors and in some cases themselves, they have, you know, one sparked the idea for a food donation or flick a food drive at the school she works at after hearing from families with particularly young mothers who are afraid to step outside to get diapers milk.

You know, another mom is giving other kids rides to school.

There's another mother who is part of a rapid response team that checks for ice activity.

So really kind of interesting to hear these moms kind of handle that figures of immigration enforcement in their own lives, but also do what they felt was necessary to support their schools and their community.

What we know about the impact on students grades attendance.

Yeah.

So we did an analysis a few weeks ago that found that attendance has dropped compared to years prior to this one just right after Operation Midway Blitz was announced, there was like padded doubling of the attendance dropped.

That usually happens around the time of school year nearly 2 dozen people we spoke to, you know, believe that to immigration concerns, other things that are split year to kind of, you know, quantify.

But that I keep hearing about is this effect on student mental health.

There's kids who you know, just like anxious that their parents aren't going to come home constantly texting They're afraid to go to school.

We know we've seen that in the 10 state as well.

you know, just a lot of things that you can quantify and then other things you just keep hearing.

It's really kind of steeped into really that daily lives of immigrant communities here very tough time.

Meanwhile, President Trump is making good on his promise to dismantle the Department of seeing that it's, quote, overrun well as a quote, Saints overrun by liberal thinking.

>> How's he doing this?

So, you know, these efforts started when he took office.

You know, the the the administration has cut back a lot of federal funding that goes to specific programs.

>> But also he's trying to actually dismantle, dismantle the departments of this latest move sends offices like the one that oversees K through 12 education to the Department of Labor.

believe there's other offices that are set to go there.

But there's other departments that they haven't quite decided what to do with, including, you know, the one that oversees the overseas services for students with disabilities.

The meeting of this is still again, it's not clear how this is going to affect students and schools compared to other actions.

His administration has tried to take earlier this year, but some people have concerns that this is going to actually add bureaucracy when the administration's line has been like we need to remove, you know, bureaucracy from schools and give schools back to the states.

And also, you know, think there's a broader concern about what what is the administration's actual plan here?

You know, you're moving things around like chess pieces because Congress needs to take action.

If you actually want to get rid of the department.

So what's the end goal?

have to say we're going find out Alice, the family of decks to re.

They're asking a federal judge to reinstate their lawsuit against the city over the death of 26 year-old who was killed while exchanging gunfire with Chicago police officers.

>> Last year remind us of this case spring of 2024.

And this man was pulled over on the West side he fired shots at officers and they fired over 90 shots back and he died.

>> family sued the city, but City Council's finance committee actually rejected Does settlement eventually landed on a little over a million dollars which brings to a jury trial.

So >> goes to a jury trial.

Now what what's kind of the case that the city is going to have to make case that the family is going to have to make that matter.

Yeah, the city's going to have to make the case that the officers on dacs within the bounds, Lauber acting in self-defense.

>> Even though you the former cub had of COVID the police oversight agency has criticized how the officers handle that.

>> So there's also attack.

It's very disturbing attack that happened on the blue line.

Federal terrorism charges were filed against a Chicago man who's accused of lighting a woman on fire on the Blue line train.

What we know about this attack.

>> On the suspected suspect, another arsons around City Hall on convicted in a Thomson Senator.

Fire.

>> But yeah, late Monday he allegedly went up to woman doused gasoline and set on fire and she's now in critical condition.

>> Recovering and now he's being charged federal court.

They're seeking the death penalty against him.

So, yeah, so all of that serving.

You put it all together so So we've got.

>> Hersman, Jesus, Garcia.

He was censured by his colleagues in the House this week for his late exit from the race.

Some are arguing that it sort of sets up the succession plan for his chief of staff to be in a position to run for his place.

How serious is that accusation?

How serious is it as if so, a number of houses centered pretty serious?

I I would also say to be fully.

>> Frank, we in the Chicago media probably didn't expect the story to blow up nationally, but once it did, you know, I feel like it did kind of mix.

And I think the Democratic base for a while now has been fed up with this perception Party insiders are, you pulling the strings instead of letting voters get their say.

And yet even some Democrats sided with Republicans on this Mayor, it is it's only sort reflection of the Chicago even of brightness for selection here, he knock someone off the the things that the Chicago and also just like the Democratic Party way.

And so I definitely understand why this became national news because I think people are looking for these examples of like, okay, how can we intervene and stop this?

>> From continuing.

And this you know, I'm sure Garcia was not expecting to receive this attention.

Probably not.

>> violent celebrations across the city for transgender day of remembrance.

The first 8 yesterday in honor of that day, how 2 locals come together for it.

>> So lots of folks a lot of different things.

A lot of candlelight vigils.

That's definitely the main thing.

But a lot of folks doing kind of celebrations of life celebrating those that have been lost, you know, throughout the year.

But it's kind of a moment to reflect on.

You know, we're looking at some of the data that we're getting and it's tough to come by because nobody is tracking the deaths of trans people, suicides of trans people.

It's not something the Cook County medical examiner dies or or other larger agencies.

But according to nonprofits involved here, organizations that have done the tracking this year, we've had 29 trends, youth suicide since the beginning of the year.

That's compared to 4 last year and 6 the year before.

So obviously, you know, this is something that we're seeing and in that kind of data that like I said is Patrick, as it's reported to them, though, you know, parents always feel comfortable coming out whether they don't feel comfortable with their child's identity or they fear retribution from the larger media ecosystem.

And so it's it's hard to tell.

But we do know that the states suicide crisis line for LGBT youth, he's seen over 150,000 calls this year expected surpassed 180,000.

So this is all just kind of a widening crisis as the federal government continues to target trans people essentially push them out of public this will have to leave Thank you for your coverage on that.

Thanks all of you for joining us on weekend review.

>> We're out of time.

Violent Miller Rima.

I mean, Alice, again and my required thanks again.

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