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

I'M PARIS SCHUTZ COOK COUNTY STATE'S ATTORNEY'S PRIMARY RACE.

STILL TOO CLOSE TO CALL WITH MAIL IN BALLOTS STILL BEING COUNTED.

>> WELL, WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THE VOTES ARE COUNTED.

TOUGH-ON-CRIME CANDIDATE EILEEN O'NEILL, BURKE HAS A SLIM LEAD ON PARTY-BACKED OPPONENT CLAYTON HARRIS.

AFTER TUESDAY'S PRIMARY ELECTION NIGHT COMES AND GOES ANYONE BELIEVES.

THAT ONE ISSUE THAT WE STILL HAVE TO ADDRESS.

IT'S GOING TO CAUSE ME TO PUT THE BRAKES ON MY BUT MAYOR JOHNSON VOTE TO CONTINUE THE FIGHT FOR A NEW GRADUATED REAL ESTATE SALES TAX TO FUND HOMELESSNESS.

THIS IS VOTERS APPEARED TO REJECT THE BRING CHICAGO HOME REFERENDUM.

THE RESULT A BLOW TO HIS PROGRESSIVE AGENDA AND THAT OF THE CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION.

TIME CHICAGO CONGRESSMAN DANNY DAVIS AND GARCIA CRUISE TO VICTORY AGAINST UPSTART CHALLENGERS.

CITY COUNCIL SETTLES TENS OF MILLIONS MORE TAXPAYER DOLLARS IN POLICE MISCONDUCT AND SPEAKING OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS, ARLINGTON HEIGHTS SWEETENS THE TAX DEAL TO KEEP THE BEARS FROM MOVING FORWARD ON LAKEFRONT STADIUM >> MATTER WE CAN REVIEW PANEL.

JOINING US ARE RICK PEARSON FROM THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE.

LAURA WASHINGTON, ALSO OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE AND ABC, 7, OUR VERY OWN HEATHER SHARON AND ROB HEART FROM WBBM NEWSRADIO.

THIS POST PRIMARY ELECTION EDITION OF THE WEEK INTERVIEW.

HEATHER SHARON AT THIS MOMENT.

WHERE DOES THIS STATES ATTORNEYS COUNT STAND?

WELL, IN PROCESS IS THE BEST WAY I CAN PUT IT.

THERE ARE SOMEWHERE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF 60, 70, MAYBE 80,000 MAIL IN VOTES COMING FROM CHICAGO ALONE.

>> WHICH MAYBE AND MAYBE AS MANY AS 30,000 MAIL-IN VOTES COMING FROM COOK COUNTY SUBURBAN RESIDENTS THAT HAVE TO BE COUNTED.

WE ARE EXPECTING THE BULK OF THOSE VOTES TO BE COUNTED TONIGHT FRIDAY.

SO ALL I CAN SAY IS STAY TUNED AND GO TO OUR WEBSITE.

WE PROMISED AT THE LATEST, RIGHT?

AND AS WE'RE TAPING RIGHT NOW AT 5.30, WE DO NOT KNOW THE RESULTS HERE.

NOBODY HAS CONCEDED ARE DECLARED VICTORY OUTRIGHT, BUT THAT COULD CHANGE AS THE EVENING WEARS ON.

DO YOU THINK THAT THIS IS A TOUGH MARGIN, THOUGH, EITHER WAY FOR CLAYTON HARRIS TO MAKE A PILING HARRIS IS HELD ON EILEEN BURKE HAS HELD ONTO A PRETTY STABLE LEAD.

I DO, ALTHOUGH WE HAVE SEEN AS THE BALLOTS HAVE COME IN LATER THAT THE LEAD HAS SHRUNK FROM 8800 TO ABOUT 8100 >> BUT >> I THINK THE TRENDS ARE SUCH WHERE YOU HAVE TO PICK UP SO MUCH MORE THAN WHAT YOU'RE YOU'RE DOWN BY I THINK IT PROBABLY IS LEANING IN HER DIRECTION.

SEEMS LIKE CLAYTON HARRIS HAS THE CITY TO A LITTLE OVER BURKE.

BURKE HAS A SUBURBAN VOTE OVER HARRIS.

DO WE KNOW WHERE THE OUTSTANDING VOTES ARE AT THIS POINT TO BE COUNTED?

WELL, NOW THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE MAIL IN BALLOTS, WE DON'T REALLY KNOW ON TOP OF THAT WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT AN ELECTION WHERE THE TURNOUT WAS SO LOW TO BEGIN WITH, MEAN, YOU HAVE 100,000 OUTSTANDING BALLOTS.

THE QUESTION IS, DO THEY ACTUALLY FILL THEM OUT AND PUT THEM BACK IN THE MAIL?

>> RIGHT.

AND THEY'RE MAKING LARGE PERCENTAGE OF THOSE THAT NEVER COME BACK.

LAURA WASHINGTON, LET'S SAY THAT THIS RESULT HOLDS UP.

IS THIS.

>> A REBUKE TO THE KIM FOXX APPROACH TO THE STATE'S ATTORNEY'S OFFICE THAT TONI PRECKWINKLE APPROACH GOING SOFT OR ON LOW LEVEL CRIME?

WELL, AS IT WILL CERTAINLY INDICATE THAT CLAIM, HARRIS, WHO IS GOING TO BE THE KEEPER OF THAT GOING FORWARD BETWEEN PRECKWINKLE KIM FOXX.

VERY STRONG, CRITICISM HAVE BECAUSE WE'RE SUPPORTING HIM.

BUT THIS TURNOUT WAS SO LOW AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE NUMBERS IN TERMS OF COOK WHO PREVAILS AND NOT NECESSARILY A MANDATE.

AND I THINK I THINK I LEAN ON OBERG UNDERSTOOD THAT IT IN HER CAMPAIGN AND SHE WASN'T COME.

SHE WAS REALLY PUSHING, YOU KNOW, ACCOUNTABILITY, TOUGH ON CRIME.

BUT SHE WAS ALSO SAYING THAT YOU WANT TO CARRY ON SOME OF THE REFORMS CAN FOX HAD HIT HEAD TO PUT INTO PLACE.

SO I DON'T I DON'T THINK THAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE OF RADICAL CHANGE.

I THINK THAT EVERYONE IN THIS COUNTY THINKS IT WILL NOT EVERYONE BUT THE SHIP EXCEPT EFFECT THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM IS IMPORTANT.

WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO BALANCE JUSTICE WITH CRIME.

AND I THINK THAT'S GOING TO REMAIN VALUE, WHICH IS HOW YOU GOT TO EXECUTE.

THAT STRATEGY ONE OF THE MAIN ATTRACTIVE FEATURES OF EILEEN O'NEILL.

BURKE TO THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY WAS SHE WAS GOING TO MORE FORCEFULLY PROSECUTE RETAIL THEFT.

THAT'S RIGHT.

SHE MADE THAT SORT OF THE BIG AREA DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HER AND CLAYTON HARRIS.

>> I'M GOING TO PUSH BACK A LITTLE BIT ON THIS EMERGING NARRATIVE THAT SORT OF A LOW TURNOUT ELECTIONS.

SO RIGHT NOW THE TURNOUT IS AT TWENTY-TWO 0.9% AND THE LAST TIME THERE WAS AN UNOPPOSED DEMOCRATIC INCUMBENT DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT RUNNING FOR RE-ELECTION IN ILLINOIS.

THE TURNOUT WAS 24%.

SO I THINK THAT WE'RE GOING TO SEE A VERY SIMILAR TURN OUT THIS TIME AROUND AS WE DID IN 2012.

I DON'T KNOW THAT WE CAN MAKE ANY SORT OF SWEEPING SORT OF CONCLUSIONS ABOUT VOTER APATHY OR ANYTHING THAT LIKE THAT NOW, CERTAINLY THE PROGRESSIVES HOPES THAT THE COMBINATION OF BRING CHICAGO HOME AND THE ABILITY TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR FOR KIM FOXX WAS GOING TO BOOST THOSE NUMBERS.

BUT I JUST DON'T THINK THAT TURNED WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE TOP OF THE TICKET THERE IS NO ENTHUSIASM THERE FOR JOE BIDEN AND THE NUMBERS.

>> SHOW IT'S NOT A COMPETITIVE PRIMARY IS STILL.

YOU HAVE IT.

YOU WANT TO DROP OUT BETWEEN PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T VOTE FOR PRESIDENT.

DEMOCRATS HAVE CAST A BILL WHO DIDN'T VOTE FOR PRESIDENT OR VOTED FOR PRESIDENT.

DIDN'T VOTE FOR JOE BIDEN.

THAT WAS ONE IN 4 DEMOCRATS.

BUT I THINK THAT REALLY SAYS IT DOESN'T SAY YES, MAYBE IS OF SIMILAR TRACK TO WHAT WE HAD IN THE PAST.

BUT >> WE'RE IN ERA WHERE THERE'S ALL THIS TALK AND DEBATE ABOUT SAVING OUR DEMOCRACY AND HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO BE ENGAGED IN TO VOTE.

AND THIS THE RESPONSE WE GET FROM VOTERS IN A PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY YEAR.

I THINK IT RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW YOU KNOW ABOUT VOTER APATHY WHAT WE CAN EXPECT HE WORRIED ABOUT TURNOUT APATHY.

IT'S ALSO WE HAVE SUCH DIVIDES THAT EXIST.

PEOPLE WANT THEY DON'T WANT TO IT ON TO BE IDENTIFIED.

TAKE THE OPPOSITE.

TAKE, ON HOW JOE BIDEN DID NOT ONLY IN COOK COUNTY AND THE CITY OF CHICAGO AS WELL.

>> AND THAT IS A STATEWIDE IN ILLINOIS.

HE BEAT HIS OLD BOSS IN THE LAST UNCONTESTED PRIMARY.

HE GOT MORE VOTES THAN BARACK OBAMA DID IN 2012 AND WITH A MORE CROWDED FIELD.

OBVIOUSLY THE 3 OTHER MARIANNE WILLIAMSON AND DEAN WE'RE WE'RE ALL ALSO OUT.

BUT IN 2012, OBAMA WAS RUNNING AS RANDALL TERRY, THE ANTI-ABORTION ADVOCATE WHO WAS RUNNING AS A DEMOCRAT THAT YEAR.

TOP OF THAT, HE DID BETTER IN THE CITY OF CHICAGO.

THEN A LOT OF THE BALLOT IN ADDITION ISSUE IS THAT AS WELL?

YEAH, TALK ABOUT THOSE THOSE BALLOTS THAT WERE BLACK, THOSE DEMOCRATIC BALLOTS WHERE THERE WAS NOT A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT.

MAYBE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ANCESTRAL DEMOCRATS WHO ARE NOW REPUBLICANS WHO PULLED A DEMOCRATIC BALLOT TO VOTE FOR OR AGAINST BRING CHICAGO HOME OR ENCOURAGING RIGHT TO FOR BEEN THE STATE'S ATTORNEY'S PRIMARY.

MAYBE THAT WAS GOING ON.

BUT STILL WALKED AWAY WITH 91% OF OF THE VOTE IN A SNIPPET OF GRANTED.

YOU KNOW, THE LOW TURN, WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT THIS.

THIS IS THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF ELECTION RESULTS, RIGHT?

WHEN YOU HAVE 50% OF THE BALLOTS BEING CAST BY MAIL, THE VOTING IS GOING TO BE DIFFERENT RESULTS ARE GOING TO COME IN DIFFERENT.

>> AND YOU KNOW, I INCLUDING MYSELF IN THIS, BUT OUR JOB IS TO SORT YOU KNOW, TAKE DATA IN AND MAKE CONCLUSIONS AND SORT OF FIGURE OUT WHAT IT ALL MEANS.

I THINK IT'S REALLY PROBLEMATIC TO DO THAT WITH LITERALLY TENS OF THOUSANDS OF VOTES YET TO BE COUNTED.

AND I THINK THAT WOULD BEHOOVE US ALL IS SORT OF A NEWS MEDIA TO SORT OF TAKE A DEEP BREATH SAY HERE'S WHAT WE KNOW.

AND HERE'S WHAT WE DON'T KNOW.

THAT'S HARD WHEN WE WANT TO SORT OF TELL PEOPLE WHAT WE DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING ON ELECTION NIGHT.

AND THE OTHER EARLY VOTING IS THAT PEOPLE ARE MAKING DECISIONS MUCH EARLIER NOW AND THEY'RE MAKING THIS IS BEFORE PERHAPS BEFORE ALL THE INFORMATION THAT THEY NEED.

>> TO INFORM THE COMES OUT.

YOU WERE BEFORE CANDIDATES HAVE DROPPED OUT.

RACING IN THE IN THE CASE OF THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY.

NIKKI HALEY DROPPED OUT BUT DONALD TRUMP STILL.

>> NEEDS MARCH 19TH PRIMARY GETTING >> SO 73% RIGHT NOW.

I THINK PERCENT NOT VOTING FOR HIM, RIGHT.

IS THAT SPELL DOOM FOR HIM IN THE GENERAL ELECTION?

WHY THINK THESE ARE FACTORS TO LOOK BOTH SIDES AND AGAIN WITH BOTH OF THEM, HAVE TO LACK OF ENTHUSIASM.

CANDIDATES.

NOW THESE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THE PARTISANS THAT ARE SHOWING UP AT THE BECAUSE IT'S PARTISAN ELECTION BOTH SIDES.

AND I THINK THAT SHOWS REAL WEAKNESS, PARTICULARLY IN THE SUBURBS FOR REPUBLICANS WHO ARE TRYING TO RECAPTURE THE THEY'RE STOPPING GROUNDS FROM DEMOCRATS WHEN YOU'RE GETTING 73%.

DUPAGE COUNTY FOR DONALD TRUMP, THOSE SUBURBAN WOMEN, THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BE WITH DONALD TRUMP.

I MEAN IT.

THAT DOES NOT BODE WELL FOR REPUBLICANS IN THE SUBURBS WITH WITH DONALD TRUMP IN THE THEY'RE NOT HAPPY WITH THE MOTHER FOR CHURCH SO.

THIS IT'S KIND OF 100 THAT PROTEST AGAINST FIGHT.

AND IF IT'S RELATED TO GAZA OF SOME OF THOSE FOLKS VOTE IN ELECTION.

YEAH, AND THAT'S THE THING IS.

AND OF COURSE, EVERYBODY, THE OLD ADAGE ABOUT WE HAVE OUR DIVISIONS AND BUT EVERYBODY COMES HOME AGAIN.

I DON'T KNOW IF EVERYBODY COMES HOME AGAIN, THIS YOU BUT WAS WAS ABOMINABLE.

IT WAS SOMETHING LIKE 17%, OF THAT.

THAT THE KEY AGE GROUP BETWEEN 25 AND 35.

>> THAT THAT WAS WHAT THE TURNOUT.

THERE IS EVERY YEAR.

EVERY EVERY YEAR IS A PERENNIAL POINT.

YEAH, WE'RE GOING TO GET YOUNG VOTERS ENERGIZED JOB.

I GOT ALL THE SOCIAL MEDIA ALL GEARED UP TO GET THEM OUT AND IT DOESN'T HAPPEN CHICAGO, THOUGH, AS WE JUST HAD A MAYORAL ELECTION.

AFTER BEFORE THAT, WE HAD WE HAD, YOU KNOW.

NATIONAL ELECTIONS AND SALEH'S FATIGUE, THE WAY THESE ELECTIONS ARE ARE SCHEDULED OUT IN CHICAGO.

WELL, THERE THERE WAS AN INTERESTING PIECE IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL OF IT LAST WEEK ABOUT WHAT?

>> IT JEN?

NOW?

WHAT?

WHAT'S WHAT'S BEYOND GENESEE?

WHAT'S ON THE LINEAL TODAY.

YEAH.

IT'S GEN Z AND WAS EXPLAINING WHAT'S THEIR THOUGHT PROCESS.

WHAT ARE THEY THINKING GOING INTO THE ELECTION YEAR?

AND THIS IS A GENERATION THAT WHEN THEY ARE ABOUT TO GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL OR THEIR RIGHT TO GO TO PROM EVERYTHING SHUT DOWN 4 YEARS AGO THAT THIS IS THE COVID GENERATION AND THAT'S IN THE BACK OF THEIR MIND THAT THINGS COULD DISAPPEAR AND SHUT DOWN AND GO AWAY IN A MATTER OF A WEEK.

AND I THINK THEY BELIEVE THEY LOOK AT THEIR PARENTS GO ACTUALLY NOT ABOUT POLITICS ONE WAY OR THE OTHER ON FACEBOOK RE-EVALUATING FRIENDSHIPS BECAUSE OF THAT.

AND THEY SAID THIS IS NOT MERELY APPLYING TO ME.

AND THIS ALL THESE DEBATES, THEY THEY DON'T REALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO ME.

ALL I KNOW IS THAT I GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL, MY HEAD SPINNING AND I'M STILL TRYING TO GET MY BEARINGS 4 YEARS LATER.

WELL, LISTEN, I ALWAYS THROUGH A YOUNGER VOTER, THEY DON'T REALLY, REALLY TO.

FIRST OF ALL, WE HAVE TO HAVE 2 OF THE OLDEST CANDIDATES TO THE OLDEST CANDIDATE IN HISTORY RUN FOR PRESIDENT.

>> AND THE ISSUES THAT THEY'RE RUNNING ON OR JUST NOT ISSUE SAID EXCEPT FOR MAYBE GUYS ARE NOT ISSUES THAT THEY THAT THEY REALLY CARE ABOUT.

SO THEY'RE NOT GONNA RESPOND OTHER THAN ABORTION.

IT THAT MEAN IT SEEMS LIKE.

>> MOST OF THE ISSUES ARE ARE TAILORED TO ANOTHER VOTE VOTING POPULATION.

WE HAVE TO TALK ABOUT THE BRING CHICAGO HOME REFERENDUM AT THIS POINT.

NOTHING HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY OFFICIALLY CALLED ON IT.

BUT THAT VERY LIKELY HEADED FOR DEFEAT.

IT'S FACING A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT HAUL OF ALMOST 20,000 VOTES.

AND I THINK MOST PEOPLE WOULD BE PRETTY SHOCKED IF WAS ABLE TO SORT OF CLOSE THAT GAP WITH THESE MAIL-IN BALLOTS.

>> AND I THINK THAT YOU DID NOT HEAR A LOT OF OPTIMISM FOR MAYOR BRENDA JOHNSON ARE THE SUPPORTERS OF THE OF THE OF OF THE PROPOSAL THIS WEEK AT CITY HALL THERE SORT OF PREPARING TO SORT OF FIGURE OUT WHAT'S NEXT.

HOW DO WE MAKE THE CASE?

DO THEY TRY AGAIN IN NOVEMBER, WHICH I THINK IS A REAL OPTION OR DO THEY SORT OF GO AFTER PROBLEM PROBLEM OF HOMELESSNESS IN A DIFFERENT WAY?

IT WILL BE HARD BECAUSE THIS WAS NOT AN INITIATIVE OF MAYOR BRANDON JOHNSON.

STARTED ALL THE WAY BACK IN 2017.

IT WAS BLOCKED BY FORMER MAYOR LORI LIGHTFOOT.

HE SORT YOU KNOW, EMBRACED IT DURING THE CAMPAIGN AND THEY FULLY ON THE BANDWAGON ONCE IN OFFICE.

SO THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO'VE BEEN WORKING A LONG TIME FOR YET FOR TUESDAY'S VOTE VERY, VERY DISAPPOINTED TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT'S NEXT.

AT THE SAME TIME, BRANDON JACKSON DID PUT HIS FULL WEIGHT BEHIND IT, ESPECIALLY WITH THE CAMPAIGN.

SO IT'S HARD TO NOT SEE THIS AS PERHAPS BLOW TO SO DO THINK PART OF REJECTION OF IT IS IS A REFERENDUM ON HIS FIRST YEAR IN OFFICE.

>> I MEAN, I THINK THERE'S LOT OF QUESTIONS.

AND IF YOU LOOK AT THOSE NEGATIVE OPPOSITION HANDS, THEY WERE ALL ABOUT THE MAYOR.

THEY LIKE, ARE YOU HAPPY WITH THE WAY THINGS ARE, YOU KNOW, BASICALLY TRUST THE MAYOR WITH 100 MILLION DOLLARS OF TAX MONEY THAT HASN'T THAT IS NOT SEGREGATED OUT FOR I AGREE A GREEN AND THE OTHER ISSUE IS THAT THE MIGRANT ISSUE, I THINK THAT PLAYED A ROLE WELL.

SO, BECAUSE YOU KNOW THIS ABOUT HOMELESSNESS AND WE HAVE WITH, YOU KNOW, 1000 MIGRANTS RIGHT NOW WHO DON'T HAVE HOMES.

>> AND I THINK THERE'S A LOT CONCERN THAT WE KNOW BRINGING ON ADDITIONAL BURDENS HOMELESS PEOPLE THAT WE REALLY CAN SOME.

WELL, IT'S THE UBS TAKING HERE.

AND WHAT CARE OF ME MY RIGHT, RIGHT, RIGHT.

ROB HEART TO BRANDON JOHNSON, THE MAYOR SAYING HE'S GOING TO DOUBLE DOWN.

HE'S NOT GIVING UP ON THIS.

IS IT SMART POLITICS TO TRY AND GO AFTER THIS AGAIN OR MAYBE LOOK AT THESE RESULTS AND CHANGE OR TACK A LITTLE BIT IN RESPONSE TO WHERE PERHAPS THE ELECTORATE IS GOING?

WELL, FIRST I THINK THIS HAD A TOUGH.

>> THAT THIS WAS A TOUGH, TOUGH SLEDDING TO BEGIN WITH.

JUST GO BACK TO 4 YEARS AGO, GOVERNOR JB PRITZKER, WHO WON BY A MUCH LARGER MARGIN IN 2018 COMPARED TO BRANDON JOHNSON LAST YEAR.

>> WHO HAD A LOT MORE FRIENDS IN SPRINGFIELD TRYING TO GET THE GRADUATED INCOME TAX ON THE LINE WHO ACTUALLY HAD HIGH MARKS FROM THE ELECTORATE IN TWENTY-TWENTY BECAUSE OF HIS HANDLING OF COVID AND AND INCOME TAX REFERENDUM WENT DOWN TO DEFEAT.

IT'S JUST VERY EARLY ON IN THE PROCESS EITHER YOUR 2 YEARS IN OFFICE FOR LESS THAN A YEAR TO ASK FOR THESE A REFERENDUM THAT THE EITHER RADICALLY CHANGE THE TAX CODE OR ASK FOR A WHOLE LOT OF MONEY AND GIVE THE CASE TO BRING CHICAGO HOME.

IT DIDN'T ANSWER SOME BASIC QUESTIONS.

HOW ARE YOU GOING TO ADDRESS?

HOMELESSNESS?

IS IT THAT UNIT BUILD MORE AFFORDABLE HOUSING?

ARE YOU GOING TO BRING IN MORE SOCIAL SERVICES?

AND THERE'S EVEN A DISPUTE OVER THE COUNT THE CHICAGO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS SAYING THERE 64,000 PEOPLE WHO ARE ON HOUSE IN CHICAGO, THE CITY'S COUNTS AS 6,005 1000 SHELTERS AND 1000 ON THE STREET.

THE COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INCLUDES FOLKS THAT MY COUCH, SURFER, STATE RELATIVES, PLACES.

SO YES, HUGE DISCREPANCY IN THOSE NUMBERS.

>> AND YOU'RE RIGHT, THERE WAS NOT SPECIFICS IN TERMS OF HOW THIS MONEY WAS GOING TO BE SPENT.

WHAT THE PLAN IS GOING TO THEY'RE SAYING, WELL, GIVE US THE MONEY FIRST AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO HAVE AN ADVISORY COUNCIL THAT SORT OF PUT ALL THIS TOGETHER.

MAYBE THEY CHOOSE TO GO A DIFFERENT TACK IF THEY PUT THIS REFERENDUM ON THE BALLOT AGAIN.

>> AND MAYBE EVEN SHORTER.

>> I THINK THAT WAS ALSO FAR LESS COMPLICATED OR LESS COMPLICATED BUILDING.

UNDERSTAND OR COULD PEOPLE SAY, COULD THEY SAY, WELL, YOU KNOW, ALL THESE LEGAL CHALLENGES AND RULINGS, EVERYONE'S CONFUSED SO WE SHOULDN'T WE SHOULDN'T REALLY EVEN WE COULD TAKE YEARS WITH A GRAIN OF SALT.

BUT THEY THEY CHOSE TO PUT IT ON THE BALLOT.

NOW HAS POLLS IN NOVEMBER BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT THEY WOULD HAVE A BETTER SHOT AT YOU KNOW, PRIMARY PRIMARY.

>> SO THEY COULDN'T PASS THIS TIME AROUND WAS THAT WAS GOING MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN NOVEMBER?

YEAH, I MEAN, I THINK IT WAS SORT ROCK AND A HARD PLACE, RIGHT?

BECAUSE THE NOVEMBER ELECTION, THERE'S GOING TO BE THE TRUMP OF IT.

ALL RIGHT.

SO IT'S GOING TO VERY, VERY HARD TO BREAK THROUGH IN TERMS OF EARNED MEDIA AND SORT OF TO CAPTURE PEOPLE'S ATTENTION.

I ALSO THINK THEY WERE BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE WITH THIS SORT OF THE LENGTH OF THE BALLOT QUESTION BECAUSE THEY FACED ACCUSATIONS OF ROLLING.

I'M TRYING TO DO TOO MUCH WITH THE BALLOT QUESTION.

SO IS THERE A SWEET SPOT?

I MEAN, MAYBE.

BUT I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE CONFUSED, WASN'T ON THE BALLOT WAS NOT GOING TO COUNT.

NOW, I I HEARD FROM A LOT OF THE SUPPORTERS THAT THIS WAS GOING TO DOWN TO THEIR BENEFIT BECAUSE PEOPLE WERE TALKING ABOUT BRING CHICAGO HOME.

BUT WE WEREN'T TALKING ABOUT THE SUBSTANCE OF BRING CHICAGO HOME WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ISN'T ON THE BALLOT.

IS IT NOT?

IS IT LEGAL IS A NOT.

SO THERE WAS NOT A LOT OF SORT OF FOCUS ON WHAT EXACTLY THIS WOULD DO OR WHAT WOULD HAPPEN AFTER THE VOTE IF IT PASSED OR IF A SALE?

I THINK THE SUPPORTERS ARE DEEPLY FRUSTRATED.

I WAS TALKING WITH SOME OF THE CONGRESSIONAL RACE IS NOT A BIG SURPRISE.

DANNY DAVIS, HE BEATS BACK MULTIPLE CHALLENGES GETS OVER 50% OF THE VOTE.

>> JULIE GARCIA BEATS BACK THE MORE RAY LOPEZ, A CITY COUNCIL MEMBER VERY HANDILY, THEN DOWNSTATE REPUBLICAN MIKE BOST.

HE GETS THE TRUMP ENDORSEMENT TO DARREN BAILEY WHO WOULD RUN FOR GOVERNOR THOUGHT THAT MAYBE HE COULD GET THE TRUMP AND HE WAS MORE TRUMP HERE THAN MIKE TURNED OUT.

TRUMP HIMSELF THOUGHT BOSSES TRUMP ENOUGH.

THIS ONE THINK IS A VERY INTERESTING WANT TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT BECAUSE.

>> YES, AFTER MY BOSS, THE 5 TERM INCUMBENT, BOTH OF THEM, CONSERVATIVE BAILEY RUNNING TO OUT CONSERVATIVE CONSERVE OUR CONSERVATIVE.

BOSS GETS THE ENDORSEMENT FROM A TRUMP.

DONALD TRUMP AND EVERYBODY WAS KIND OF THINKING AND THE OUTSIDE GAME OVER.

BAILEY JUST KEPT GOING ALMOST AS TRUMP ENDORSEMENT DIDN'T MATTER.

HE STILL LOVE TRUMP.

IT WAS GOING TO SUPPORT TRUMP AND ENDS UP BOSS WINDS BY LIKE 2500 VOTES.

IT ALMOST LOOKS LIKE TO ME MEGA MOVEMENT MAY HAVE IN SOME RESPECTS AND SOME OF THESE AREAS SURPASSED DONALD TRUMP.

AND THEN THIS IS THIS IS BAILEY.

CERTAINLY IT REAL TOUGH.

A DOWN THERE, HEATHER.

A FOR ADULTS ARE I AM TRYING TO USE MY PHONE LIKE A DIGITAL NATIVE THAT I AM NOT TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IT IS.

>> SO WE'LL SEE WHEN YOUR POINT ABOUT BAILEY IN BOSTON, HASN'T DISTRICT CHANGE TO IS NOT PART OF THE ISSUE THAT?

>> THEY'RE THAT BUS HAD A LOT OF NEW VOTERS WELL, BUT KNOW, YOU TO THIS WOULD THIS WAS THE SECOND TIME WITH THOSE WILL.

ALL RIGHT.

SO AND IN THE OLD EASTERN BLOC.

WE REFERRED TO IT IN SPRINGFIELD.

>> AND LITERALLY INTERSTATE 57, EVERYBODY WEST OF THERE THE SOUTHERN 3RD, THE STATE VOTED FOR MIKE BOSS, THE INCUMBENT, EVERYBODY TO EAST VOTED FOR BAILEY AND THAT'S NEARING MILLER'S OLD TERRITORY.

AND MARY MILLER, ONE OF THE MOST CONSERVATIVE MEMBERS ARE ON.

ROBERT, ANY OTHER OUR RESULTS SURPRISE YOU?

FOR INSTANCE, HOW IS THAT MARIANAS BRA?

PLUS.

>> GOING TO BE DIFFERENT AS COOK COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT CLERK.

THEN IRIS MARTINE.

IT'S VERY INTERESTING BECAUSE I WAS LOOKING AT THE CANDIDATE QUESTIONNAIRE ON THE CHANNEL 11 AS WE'RE APPROACHING ELECTION DAY.

>> AND A LOT OF THE QUESTIONS SO IRIS MARTINEZ, WHAT ABOUT THIS?

WHY HAVEN'T YOU FIX THIS?

WHY IS THIS STILL GOING ON?

WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?

WHAT'S GOING ON USING CARBON PAW >> THE CASE, SO I HAVE TO SAY SOME OF THOSE RECORDS HAVE BEEN DIGITIZED.

YES.

SO 100 DOROTHY BROWN MAKING THAT'S A LOT OF PAPER.

AND TAKES A LONG TIME DURING AN OFFICE THAT WAS IN THE 20TH CENTURY INTO THE 21ST CENTURY.

>> BUT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE ABILITY OF ORGANIZATIONS SWAY ELECTIONS.

AND IN THIS CASE, THIS WAS WHERE THE BUT TONI PRECKWINKLE ORGANIZATION ACTUALLY HAD AN UNDISPUTED WHEN THEY HAD A WELL FUNDED CANDIDATE AND SHE GOT HER PEOPLE TO GO OUT AND VOTE FOR MAYOR OUT.

IT'S PROBABLY ON THE CONGRESSIONAL SIDE, THOUGH.

AND THIS GOES BACK THE DISCUSSION OF JOE BIDEN AND ENTHUSIASM.

DANNY DAVIS WINS.

SO YOU CAN'T COUNT OUT OLD TIGER, EVEN WITH 81 YEARS OLD, EVEN WITH A NUMBER OF CANDIDATES GOING AFTER HIM.

AND YOU ALSO WONDER TO YOURSELF, IS THIS AN AUDITION FOR SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE RUNNING AGAINST HIM?

WELL, AND I MADE POINT EARLIER THIS WEEK, YOU KNOW, DANNY DAVIS, WHEN THERE WAS FLOODING, HE WAS OUT THERE IN THE COMMUNITY.

IT COMES DOWN TO, YOU KNOW, DO RESIDENTS THINK THAT WORKING ON BEHALF OF OUR INTERESTS, OUR LOCAL INTERESTS, BUT OTHER PERHAPS MORE SO THAN IDEOLOGY?

WELL, IT'S THE OLD STORY YES, PEOPLE ABOUT CONGRESS.

YOU CONGRESS, THANKS, BUT I LOVE MY CONGRESSMAN, RIGHT?

I WANT TO GET BACK TO A CITY ALMOST IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE ELECTION OF THE MAYOR'S CHIEF OF STAFF RICH GUIDICE IS STEPPING DOWN NOT EVEN A YEAR INTO THE JOB.

TONIGHT.

BREAK-IN GUARD FROM BREAKING IS CLAYTON HARRIS.

THE 3RD IS NOW IN THE LEAD IN THE RING STATE'S ATTORNEY WITH 51.0 48 1% OF THE VOTE TO 48.52 THAT'S A STUNNING YOU KNOW, NEAL BURKE ON THIS IS A MASSIVE SHIFT IN.

I THINK THE NARRATIVE OF THIS ENTIRE ELECTIONS.

TO SEE YOUR POINT, HAVE TO WAIT OUT TO US IS THAT THE OK DOES NOT WE THERE ARE MORE BOAR BALLOTS THAT AS LONG AS THEY WERE POSTMARKED BY ELECTION NIGHT ON MIDNIGHT WHERE THEY WERE DROPPED OFF ON ELECTION DAY.

>> IF THEY ARRIVE BY APRIL SECOND, THEY WILL BE COUNTED.

BUT THAT IS THAT MAY BE A SIGN THAT THE PRACTICAL ORGANIZATION DIDN'T DO SO POORLY IN THIS EITHER.

GIVEN THE FACT THAT EILEEN O'NEILL, BURKE LIKE HARRIS, BY QUITE A BIT 3 TO ONE, I I WOULD SAY THAT THIS IS SIMILAR TO THE PATTERN THAT WE SAW AFTER THE MAYORAL RUNOFF, THOUGH IT DIDN'T MATTER BECAUSE JOHNSON WAS LEADING ON ELECTION NIGHT.

BUT BETWEEN ELECTION NIGHT AND WHEN THE FINAL VOTES WERE COUNTED IN THE ELECTION WAS CERTIFIED.

>> JOHNSON MOVED ABOUT 3 PERCENTAGE POINTS AWAY FROM DALLAS.

NOW NOBODY NOTICED EXCEPT FOR ME BECAUSE I GET PAID TO GO THIS IS A SIMILAR SORT OF CHANGE THAT SHOWS THAT DEEPLY PROGRESSIVE VOTERS ARE COMMITTED TO VOTING BY MAIL IN A WAY THAT VOTERS SORT OF OTHER POLITICAL PERSUASIONS ARE NOT.

SO WE STILL MIGHT NOT KNOW FOR A WHILE BECAUSE THERE'S, YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE TO SMART.

SO WE MIGHT HAVE TO WAIT ANOTHER WEEK AND TRENCH IS IN THE OF THOSE FOLKS ARE FROM THE SUBURBS TUITION, WHICH I WOULD THINK WOULD BE O'NEILL BERKS TERRITORY.

SO THAT EVEN NOW THANKS ALL RIGHT.

STAY TUNED AND KEEP EYES ON OUR WEBSITE.

WWW DOT COM HEATHER WILL UPDATE THAT.

I GOT A LOT OF WORK TO ABOUT THIS ISSUE OF THE MAYOR'S CHIEF OF STAFF RICH GUYS THAT HE'S INTERESTING BECAUSE >> HE'S KIND OF INSTITUTIONAL GUY.

HE GOES BACK TO THE DAILY DAYS.

NOW HE'S LEAVING.

WELL, HE WAS WHEN HE WAS HIRED.

HE WAS LIKE, LET'S SIGN OF STABILITY FOR A NEW UNTESTED MAYOR.

THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY WAS DELIGHTED BECAUSE THEY FELT LIKE IT WOULD BE A GROWN UP IN THEIR VIEW, A GROWNUP IN THE ROOM.

>> AND THAT HE WOULD UNDERSTOOD HOW CITY GOVERNMENT WORKS.

AND, YOU THEY'RE JUST DOES NOT MEAN THE PEOPLE AROUND HIM THAT THERE ARE ACTIVISTS.

THEY'RE THEY'RE NOT HERE CRAFTS AND KNEW HOW BIG EVENTS WORK.

AND SO THAT TO ME IS WHAT SURPRISED BECAUSE I STAND FOR THE DNC.

ABSOLUTELY.

ABSOLUTELY.

DOES THAT SIGNAL PERHAPS A RISK TO THAT MAYBE HE'S NOT HAPPY WITH WITH WITH THE WAY JOHNSON HAS TACK SO FAR, THE ADVICE IT IS GETTING MAYBE IS NOT LISTENING TO GUIDE US AS MUCH AS SOME OF THESE OTHER FOLKS.

I WOULD AND SEEMED TO ME THAT THEIR GUESTS ARE DEFINITELY SOME ISSUES FOR HIM TO STEP OUT.

IT IS.

I'M WONDERING, THOUGH, IF THEY MIGHT BRING THEM BACK IN SOME KIND OF CONSULTING ROLE BECAUSE MEAN, HE'S REALLY ALMOST A SINGULAR PERSON TERMS OF HAVING THE SKILL TO BE ABLE TO MANAGE A BIG EVENT LIKE THE DNC IN JOHNSON'S SHIRT THAT GOES WELL, WANT TO BRING UP A BREAKING NEWS.

NO, I JUST DOUBLE CHECKING, JUST CHECKING VERY GOOD HAD TO BRING UP THE THIS OTHER LEARNED ABOUT TODAY IN THE ONGOING SAGA OF HOW TO SETTLE SERIOUS POLICE MISCONDUCT CASES.

>> SO A JUDGE IS NOW RULING THAT THE ARBITRATION PROCESS, WHICH THE FOP AND FOUGHT FOR BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO BE KIND OUT OF PUBLIC VIEW.

WELL, ACTUALLY, HAVE TO BE IN PUBLIC VIEW.

IS THIS THE FINAL WORD ON SO IT'S NOT THIS DECISION COULD BE APPEALED AND IT LIKELY WILL BE.

SO WHAT THIS MEANS, THOUGH, IS THAT EVERYBODY GOT A LITTLE BIT OF SOMETHING THAT THEY WANTED.

THE POLICE UNION WANTED THE ABILITY TO HAVE AN ARBITRATOR MAKE THIS DECISION.

AND SO THEY GOT THAT IN THE CITY, WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THESE.

>> YOU KNOW, DECISIONS WERE MADE IN PUBLIC, WHICH MEANS ESSENTIALLY THAT THE CITY, IF DECISION IS UPHELD, IS GOING TO HAVE TO UPHOLD, CREATE A WHOLE NEW POLICE ARBITRATION SYSTEM AND WHAT THAT ALL MEANS.

WE WILL HAVE TO SEE.

ALL RIGHT.

WE'LL ALSO HAVE TO SEE WHETHER OR NOT THE AND THEIR FLIRTATION WITH THE CITY.

>> THEY CHOOSE TO COME GO HOME TO ARLINGTON HEIGHTS.

NOW UNITED SWEETENING THE TAX POT.

>> WINNING HERE?

WHO'S WINNING THIS BATTLE BETWEEN THE LAKEFRONT IN ARLINGTON HEIGHTS?

I WOULD LOVE MORE THAN ANYTHING GET IN TOUCH WITH A TIME TRAVELER TAKE ME TO 2034 JUST SO I CAN SEE WHERE THE WHITE SOX ARE PLAYING AND WHERE THE BEARS ARE PLAYING.

I MEAN, I'VE ALWAYS BEEN OF THE MIND THAT ARLINGTON HEIGHTS IS KIND OF.

THIS IS THE NATURAL CONCLUSION.

>> TO A 50 YEAR PROCESS THEY WANT TO BUILD IN ARLINGTON HEIGHTS STADIUM IN THE MID 1970'S.

AND SO THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR DECADES.

THEY HAVE THE LAND, THE TRANSIT CONNECTIONS THERE.

AND ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS BUILD UP HIGHWAY CONNECTION THAT CAN MAKE THIS HAPPEN.

BUT THE MORE YOU HEAR ABOUT THE CITY PROPOSAL, THE MORE YOU THINK MAYBE THEY'RE SERIOUS ABOUT STAYING BY SOLDIER FIELD AND BUILDING THIS NEW DOME STADIUM IN THE SOUTH.

PART OF PUT UP NUMBERS AND NOW APPARENTLY THEY'VE MET WITH FRIENDS OF THE PARKS, A GROUP THAT WAS GOING POSE THEM BUILDING ON THE LAKEFRONT DOESN'T MEAN THEY'RE NOT GOING TO STILL OPPOSE THEM BUILDING ON LAKEFRONT.

I DON'T SEE HOW ANY OF MEANS IS NOT A BLUFF THAT TAKING IT SERIOUSLY?

I THINK IT'S PART OF THE PROGRESSION OF HOW YOU DO THINGS.

I STILL THINK WE'VE GOT A LITTLE BIT MORE BREAKING NEWS.

OKAY.

HAD MORE BALLOTS DROPPED FROM SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY, WHICH MEANS EILEEN O'NEILL, BURKE IS BACK IN LEAD.

BUT ABOUT SET BY SENATE BY 6,786.

OKAY, HERE FOR WAY WE BEGAN.

THAT A MISTAKE.

AND YOU STRIKE MY COMMENTS OVER MAIL-IN BALLOTS FROM THE RECORD.

BUT NOW ALL RIGHT.

WELL, YOU'VE ALL BEEN RELEVANT TONIGHT THAT WE'RE OUT OF TIME, THANKS TO RICK PEARSON.

>> LAURA WASHINGTON, HEATHER SHARON AND ROB CARS.

WE'RE BACK TO WRAP THINGS UP RIGHT AFTER THIS.

>> CHICAGO TONIGHT, IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART WHY THE ALEXANDRA AND JOHN NICHOLS FAMILY.

THE POPE BROTHERS FOUNDATION, ADDITIONAL SUPPORT IS PROVIDED BY.

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WE HAVE TO TALK ABOUT PLUMBERS.

>> SO TIP, YOUR WAITERS COULD SMELL THAT RIGHT TO 3 MILES AWAY.

SIR, AND WINDY DAY BECAUSE THAT WAS THE OF THE CITY.

YOU KNOW, THAT WAS THE SWEETNESS OF CHICAGO, RIGHT PLAYER.

IS.

ON THE HAND, THE END OF A OF AN INDUSTRIAL AREA TO THAT WAS THE LAST CUSTOMER.

AND THAT CLOSED CAPTIONING IS MADE POSSIBLE BY CLIFFORD AND CLIFFORD LAW OFFICES, CHICAGO, PERSONAL INJURY AND WRONGFUL DEATH.

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