>> THANKS FOR JOINING US ON THE WEEK IN REVIEW.

I'M PARIS SCHUTZ CHICAGO ROILED AFTER THE RELEASE OF A VIDEO SHOWING THE FATAL POLICE SHOOTING OF DEXTER REED.

IT SHOWS PLAINCLOTHES OFFICERS AT A TRAFFIC STOP.

THEY'RE FIRING 96 SHOTS.

AND 41 SECONDS.

REID HAD REPORTEDLY FIRED AGAINST THE OFFICERS.

FIRST CHICAGO'S MAYOR AND COMMUNITY GROUPS HAVE EXPRESSED CONCERN.

AND TODAY.

>> A FRUSTRATED CHICAGO POLICE SUPERINTENDENT LARRY SNELLING WEIGHED IN ON THE RELEASE OF INFORMATION BY THE CIVILIAN OFFICE OF POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY.

PURPORTED SEAT BELT VIOLATION TRIGGERED THE DEADLY ENCOUNTER.

>> THAT INFORMATION SPREADS LIKE WILDFIRE.

A POLICE OFFICER WAS SHOT.

A MAN LOST HIS LIFE.

THIS ISN'T SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD TAKE A LIGHTLY.

THIS ISN'T SOMETHING THAT SHOULD PLAY OUT IN THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION.

PROPER INVESTIGATIONS SHOULD BE DONE BEFORE WE START LITIGATING.

ONLINE.

WE KNOW WHAT THESE TYPES OF SITUATIONS CAN LEAD TO.

IT'S A POWDER KEG.

DO WE WANT TO SEE OUR CITY BURN?

WE'RE SETTING THIS ON FIRE AND WERE THROWING FUEL ON IT BEFORE WE KNOW ALL OF THE FACTS.

>> JOINING US TO TALK ABOUT THAT AND ALL THE OTHER WEEK'S NEWS, OUR OWN AMANDA LAURA WASHINGTON, FROM THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE AND ABC, 7, EVENING FROM CHALK BEAT.

AND RICK PEARSON ALSO FROM THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE.

LET'S GET RIGHT TO WHAT YOU MAKE OF SUPERINTENDENT LARRY SNELLING IS RESPONSE THERE.

CERTAINLY ANGRY THAT THAT VIDEO IS OUT AND THAT FOLKS ARE ALREADY SORT OF JUMPING TO CONCLUSION.

WELL, YOU KNOW, SAYS HE'S THE CITY'S POWER KEEGAN-MICHAEL OF ELECTING.

IT PROBABLY IS NOT BLOWING UP BECAUSE THEY'VE BEEN MUCH MORE TRANSPARENT AND THEY'D BEEN IN THE PAST IN TERMS OF KIND OF INFORMATION.

>> RELEASING THE VIDEO EARLY ON IN THE INVESTIGATION SO THAT PEOPLE CAN SEE FOR THEMSELVES.

COURSE, PEOPLE CAN EXPRESS THEIR OWN OPINIONS, BUT THERE WILL BE AN INVESTIGATION.

AND WE'LL FIND OUT WHAT THE REAL FACTS ARE BEHIND THIS VIDEO.

WANT THEM LIKE UPSET ABOUT THAT.

BUT AFTER THE FALLOUT FROM THE KORAN MCDONALD, THE RULES CHANGED AND THIS IS PART OF CITY CODE.

NOW THESE VIDEOS DO GET RELEASED AND POLICE INVOLVED SHOOTING.

SO I'M NOT SURE WHAT THE SUPERINTENDENT IS ANGRY ABOUT.

THIS IS POLICY NOW.

WELL, IT IS POLICIES JUST ANGRY THAT IT'S NOT POLICY THAT HE OR CPD CAN CONTROL.

>> BUT HAVING BEEN SAID, I THINK THIS IS JUST SUCH A TRAGIC SO MANY LEVELS, UNLIKE LOOK, MCDONALD, YOU HAVE, YOU KNOW, WHAT DO WE DO?

WE BELIEVE THAT THIS WAS LEGITIMATE TRAFFIC STOP FOR A SEAT BELT.

I THINK THERE'S QUESTIONS THERE.

2 IS THE RESPONSE TO BEING PULLED OVER BY POLICE TO ALLEGEDLY SHOOT SOMEBODY.

3 IS THE RESPONSE TO THAT.

96 SHOTS.

AND 41 SECONDS.

I ALL OF THIS, I THINK NEEDS TO BE.

BROKEN DOWN AND EXAMINED IN A IN A VERY COMPREHENSIVE WAY BECAUSE THERE IS SO MUCH WRONG HERE SO MANY LOVED AND CERTAINLY THERE WILL BE MULTIPLE INVESTIGATIONS CALL BY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT INTERNAL AFFAIRS.

>> THE STATE'S ATTORNEY AND THERE'S GOING TO BE A NEW STATE ATTORNEY COMING IN.

YOU WONDER IF THIS INVESTIGATION WILL HOLD OVER UNTIL WHEN EILEEN O'NEILL BURKE OR WE SHOULD SAY, ASSUMING SHE WINS THE GENERAL ELECTION.

BUT AMANDA KOCH ALSO PUT OUT A LETTER THAT BECAME PUBLIC QUESTIONING.

YOU KNOW, THIS STOP QUESTIONING THE ACTIONS OF THE POLICE OFFICERS HERE.

IT SEEMS LIKE HE MIGHT BE UPSET THAT COPE OVERSTEP BY BY PUTTING THAT OUT.

>> WELL, IN THIS WAS A LETTER THAT I BELIEVE WAS MADE PUBLIC BECAUSE OF FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUESTS.

IT WAS IN ESSENCE LEAKS THAT EXISTED SOMEHOW OR WORD GOT OUT THAT AND EXISTED.

IT'S NOT AS IF COPA SENT OUT A PRESS RELEASE REGARDING THIS, BUT THAT'S WHERE THE QUESTIONS CAME OUT FROM THE HEAD OF COPA ABOUT WHAT THE BEGINNING OF THIS TO WHAT LED TO THIS WHOLE INCIDENT.

AND THAT WAS QUESTIONING WHY A SEAT BELT VIOLATION WOULD HAVE A TACTICAL TEAM TRYING TO PULL SOMEBODY OVER.

WE DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION.

WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE KNOW THAT IN THE POLICE REPORT.

THAT'S WHAT WAS MARKED.

WE DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE THE POLICE TRIED TO DO THE PULL OVER.

SO YES, IT DOES SEEM AS IF THAT WAS SOME OF SELLING FRUSTRATION.

I ALSO BELIEVE THERE'S FRUSTRATION ON THE PART OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AS TO WHY OFFICERS WEREN'T YET INTERVIEWED.

IT SEEMS TO BE THE MESSAGE BEFORE THIS WAS MADE PUBLIC BECAUSE THAT DOES SET QUITE THE NARRATIVE, NOT GIVING OFFICERS AN OPPORTUNITY BEFORE PUBLIC OPINION WEIGHS IN TO SHARE THEIR SIDE OF THE STORY.

SO THE FRUSTRATION CASES THE OTHER WAY AROUND.

GET THEIR STATEMENTS BEFORE THE VIDEO RIGHT NOW THOUGHT THAT THE VIDEO MIGHT NEVER COME OUT RIGHT WAY.

THEY DID ACTUALLY DO NEED TO BE INTERVIEWED.

BUT WHY HAD THEY NOT BEEN INTERVIEWED?

YOU KNOW, THIS MARCH 21ST.

AND HERE WE ARE.

>> AND THE OTHER ISSUE IS THAT, YOU KNOW, THESE VIDEOS ARE NECESSARY.

THEY THESE ARE BODY CAM VIDEOS BY LAW, THE HEAD TO RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC PRECISELY BECAUSE IMPORTANT FOR THE PUBLIC TO KNOW SEE FOR THEMSELVES.

WHAT HAPPENED YOU SIE THE SUPERINTENDENT'S POINT THAT IT MIGHT TAINTED INVESTIGATION THAT THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION NOW BECAUSE THESE VIDEOS ARE OUT THERE IS GOING TO BE DECIDED EVEN THOUGH IT'S JUST A VIDEO WE STILL DON'T KNOW FOR SURE WHAT HAPPENED HERE, WHAT EVERYONE'S GOING TO AN OPINION ABOUT IT AND THEY'RE GOING SEE IT HOW THEY WANT TO SEE IT.

THEY'LL PROTECT THEIR OWN THOUGHTS ON IT.

I'M SURE.

BUT I THINK, >> YOU KNOW, TO LAURA'S POINT THE POINT OF EVERYONE HERE, THIS IS THE POLICY.

NOW WE DID MAKE A LOT OF CHANGES AS A CITY IN THE WAKE OF THE KUAN MCDONALD TAPE BEING RELEASED.

>> THAT WHOLE CASE PLAYING OUT.

AND I THINK THERE OBVIOUS CONCERNS.

ALL OF THAT.

AND THAT HAS SPARKED A SHIFT IN DIRECTION OF MORE TRANSPARENCY ALL ALONG THE WAY.

CIVILIANS WILL INCLUDED IN THE CONVERSATION THROUGH THE COPA BOARD.

>> THAT IS HOW WE ARE NOW, YOU KNOW, WORKING THROUGH ALMOST A PROCESS THAT PEOPLE ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH.

AND I THINK THAT THAT IS SOMETHING THAT I THINK IT IS A VERY INTERESTING THING TO SEE PLAY OUT YOU HAVE IN YOUR POINT ABOUT FACT THERE HAVE BEEN REFORMS.

I THINK THAT'S THE REAL TRAGEDY HERE THAT YOU CAN CONSENT DECREE.

PHELPS CAUSE CONSENT DECREE WAS ANNEXED IN 2019.

>> AND WAS SUPPOSED TO PROVIDE FOR BETTER TRAINING FOR BETTER OVERSIGHT, FOR BETTER SUPERVISION OF OFFICERS.

SO THINGS LIKE THIS DID NOT HAPPEN.

AND THESE THINGS ARE STILL HAPPENING.

EVEN SPY OVER FOR POLICY CHANGE ABOUT YES, THE TRANSPARENCY THAT IF YOU SHINE A LIGHT ON IT, IT'S GOING TO, YOU KNOW, HOPEFULLY HELP MOVE THOSE THINGS FORWARD.

BUT YES, AS YOU A LOT OF QUESTIONS STILL TO ANSWER.

WE HAVE SOME OTHER CITY NEWS, RICK PEARSON, THE MAYOR JOHNSON.

>> AFTER FIRST APPARENTLY AGREEING TO PONY UP 70 MILLION DOLLARS TO MATCH COUNTY IN STATE FUNDS FOR MIGRANTS.

>> THEN SAID NOT SO MUCH NOW SAYS YES.

WHAT ACCOUNTS FOR ALL THIS FLIP-FLOPPING?

I WOULD LIKE TO WHO WOULD LIKE TO NOW.

>> I MEAN, WHEN YOU HAD TONI PRECKWINKLE AND GOVERNOR PRITZKER LEAVING THE INITIAL MEETING WITH HIM, IT WAS LIKE EVERYBODY IS ON BOARD, YOU KNOW, IN THE CITY'S CUT IS FOR THE 70 MILLION DOLLARS.

THAT AND ALL OF A SUDDEN HE'S NOT PART OF THE AGREEMENT.

NOW HE'S PART OF THE AGREEMENT.

I DON'T TO ME THIS IS KIND REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CHAOS THAT SEEMS TO EXIST IN ADMINISTRATION.

THEN YOU CAN'T GET STRAIGHT ANSWER FOR, KNOW, IN ALL THIS IS LIKE, WHY DID YOU AGREE TO IT AND THEN PULL BACK?

THERE WAS NEVER ONE COURSE, BECAUSE SUPPOSEDLY.

>> THIS MONEY IS NOW SOMETHING THAT THE JOHNSON ADMINISTRATION IS ADVOCATING FOR, KNOWING THAT THERE MIGHT BE MORE MIGRANTS COMING BECAUSE OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION.

>> IT'S NOT AS IF IT'S A SURPRISE STARTED I MEAN, WHAT IS THE CHANGE IN PART A GET 26% OF THOSE DEATHS.

ANOTHER KEY QUESTION IN, BY THE WAY, THAT'S A QUESTION AS WELL IN THE STATES.

MEAN, I DO THINK THAT PRITZKER HAS THE ABILITY TO TWIST ARMS.

THE STATE BUDGET IS FAR LARGER, BUT IT'S NOT AS IF EITHER STATE LEGISLATORS OR CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE FULLY ON BOARD WITH SENDING MONEY TO MIGRANTS GIVEN THAT THERE ARE SO MANY OTHER CAUSES THAT THEY WANT TO PUT MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TOWARD AND GIVEN THE TIMING OF THE LAST OF INITIAL WAS AMID BUDGET SEASON WHEN HE NEEDED VOTES TO GET HIS BUDGET PASSED.

>> NOW WE'RE OUT OF THAT PERIOD.

WE ARE IN THE SPRING.

WE'RE HEADED IN THE SUMMER.

WE KNOW WITH THE PAST 2 YEARS OF OPERATION LONE STAR, THE BUSES WILL PICK UP >> SUMMER MONTHS AND WILL PROBABLY HE'S PROBABLY ANTICIPATING ADDITIONAL.

MORE WAIVES COMING.

AND SO LET'S DO SOMETHING NOW AS A COUNCIL.

THIS IS THE TIME I SPEND SOME POLITICAL CAPITAL FOR THE SUMMIT, GOING TO FIND THE 70 MILLION IN THE BUDGET.

SPECULATIONS GOING TO FIND IT IN CITY RESERVE BUT I THINK GOING TO BE A LOT OF QUESTIONS FROM FROM THE CITY COUNCIL GOING TO BE HEARING ON MONDAY.

>> ABOUT HOW THIS MONEY WILL BE SPENT.

AND AND AND TIMKEN BECAUSE THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF QUESTIONS TO PASS BY THE JOHNSON ADMINISTRATION'S TO DECISION-MAKING PROCESS IN TERMS OF WHERE THEY PLAY SHELTERS, WHERE THEY DECIDE TO CONTINUE SHELTERS.

AND SO I THINK CITY COUNCIL'S GOING TO BE LIKE IT'S A LOT TOUGHER QUESTIONS MAY HAVE IN THE PAST AND WHETHER THIS IS GOING TO COME WITH ADDITIONAL SPENDING TO SAY, HEY, IF YOU CAN FIND MONEY FOR I WAS 20 MY PROJECT FOR MICHAEL.

WELL, AND THAT'S WHY I THINK FROM ANY STATE ASSISTANCE, IT'S NOT IS DIFFICULT BECAUSE THERE STILL.

>> LOG ROLLING THE STATE BUDGET THEY CAN PLUG THAT INTO A MORE COMPREHENSIVE BILL.

PRESUMABLY THAT MONEY'S PLUGGED IN.

SO WHAT WE DO KNOW, IT IS PUBLIC YET, CRAFTED THAT BUDGET KNOWN IT.

ALL RIGHT.

SOME STATEWIDE NEWS THIS RICK PEARSON, THE ILLINOIS ATTORNEY GENERAL INVESTIGATE SOME OF THE SO-CALLED PINK SLIME NEWSPAPERS.

THESE ARE THEY LOOK LIKE REAL, YOU KNOW, TALKS LIKE A WALKS LIKE A DUCK.

IT'S BUT IT'S NOT ADOPT PAPER, BUT THEY'RE CURRENTLY THEY'LL PROPAGANDA OUTLETS USUALLY.

>> FOR THE RIGHT WING, THEY APPARENTLY PUBLICIZE VOTER DATA WITHOUT PERMISSION.

SO WHAT THAT SAID THE AG CAN INVESTIGATE.

WELL, THESE ARE THE THESE ARE THOSE PAPERS THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE REMEMBER DURING ELECTION TIME THAT THEY SHOWED UP THAT THEY NEVER LIKE WEST COOK NEWS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT COULD REVIEW WHATEVER.

AND THEY'RE THE WORK ONE BRYANT AND PONY WHO WAS A FORMER POLITICAL OPERATIVE LIST FORMER JOURNALIST AND HIS OWN HE WAS FORMER SPOKESMAN FOR THE HOUSE.

REPUBLICAN LEADERS ONE TIME AGO.

>> BEING FUNDED BY VARIOUS START.

RIGHT WHEN GROUPS TO DO THERE'S SOME NEW LINE MONEY AND AS YOU LINEMEN DROPPING BEHIND AND AND PROF DOES A BUSINESS OF TIM PONY OF COURSE, IS VERY CLOSE TO LINE AS WELL AND TO PONY HAS RECENTLY EXPLAINED THAT.

HE'S GET TRYING TO PRINT VOTER DATA PINK SLIME PAPERS ALL ACROSS THE UNITED STATES.

SOMETHING LIKE 1200 OF THEM AND THEY'RE ALL TRYING TO PRINT VOTER DATA UNDER THE GUISE WELL, ONE, WE ALL KNOW THAT THE ELECTION STOLEN BECAUSE OF FRAUDULENT VOTERS.

OF COURSE NOT DIDN'T HAPPEN.

BUT THIS IS PART OF THAT MEDIUM OF TRYING TO DEVELOP THAT MINDSET AMONG VOTERS.

SO THEY GOT A DATABASE.

THEY'RE NOT SUPPOSED VOTING ROLLS ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE PUBLIC BEFORE OF A NON POLITICAL VIEWS.

BIRTH DATES, ADDRESSES THOSE KINDS OF THERE IS A PUBLIC VOTER DATABASE.

IT DOES NOT HAVE THE SAME INFORMATION THEY USED ONE THAT WAS RESERVED FOR POLITICAL USE.

ONLY AND ARE NOW PRINTING IT IN THEIR VARIOUS PUBLICATIONS THROUGHOUT THE STATE, PART OF IT IN SOME WAYS TO SHAME PEOPLE BECAUSE IT ALSO LISTS IF YOU DIDN'T AND SO THIS IS ALL UNDER THIS GUISE OF, YOU KNOW, THIS IS PUBLIC SERVICE JOURNALISM NOW THAT SCRAPPED ITS NOT EVEN JOURNALISTS, IT'S PRINTING WILL LIST AND TRYING TO FALL INTO THE THE MASTERS OF THESE PINK SLIME PUBLISHED AS YOU'RE SEEING, IS IT POTENTIALLY BREACH OF I NEED TO MOVE ON TO SOME EDUCATION NEWS AT THE QB, CPS.

>> THERE'S GONNA BE SOME CHANGES IN IN THE WAY THAT THEIR FUNDING SCHOOLS.

SO INSTEAD DOING IT BASED ON ENROLLMENT, IT'S GOING TO BE BASED ON NEED.

SO DOES THAT MEAN IF >> YOU'RE A SCHOOL?

THAT'S 100% ENROLLED.

YOU'RE NOT GOING TO AS MUCH MONEY AS YOU DID IN THE PAST VERSUS SOME A SCHOOL THAT'S IN A NEIGHBORHOOD OF NEEDS.

SURE.

SO NOT NECESSARILY.

AND I SHOULD SAY THE UNDERLINE FORMULA IS STILL BASED ON ENROLLMENT.

AND HOW MANY STUDENTS A BUILDING HAS, BUT THEY'RE ALLOCATING POSITIONS.

AND THERE'S SOME FORMULAS THAT THEY'RE USING.

>> TO, YOU KNOW, GIVE YOU A CORE CLASSROOM TEACHER FOR EVERY 26 STUDENTS WHO HAVE ENROLLED ON.

BUT THEN THERE'S ALL THESE OTHER WEIGHTS THAT THEY'RE PUTTING ON THE NEED THE NEED FOR ME.

LET'S CALL THE OPPORTUNITY INDEX.

AND IF YOU HAVE A HIGHER OPPORTUNITY INDEX, YOU GET LIKE PER PEOPLE NEEDS-BASED FUNDING FOR YOUR PRINCIPAL TO TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL POSITIONS.

YOU MAY ALSO GET, FOR INSTANCE, WE'VE FOR PAST 2 YEARS, WE'VE SPENT A LOT OF MONEY ON INTERVENTION US.

THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO ONE-ON-ONE WORK WITH KIDS WHO FELL BEHIND DURING THE PANDEMIC.

THOSE INTERVENTIONISTS ARE NOW ONLY GOING TO BE GUARANTEED AT SCHOOLS THAT SERVE HIGH POPULATIONS OF LOW-INCOME KIDS AND THE RICH ARE SCHOOLS CAN CHOOSE TO YOU KNOW, WELL, I PAY FOR MY INTERVENTION US OUT OF THIS DISCRETIONARY MONEY OR, YOU KNOW, LET THEM LET THEM LOOSE AT THIS POINT.

CHANGES IN THE FORMULA.

PRINCIPAL JUST GOT THESE BUDGETS THIS WEEK.

AND I THINK COMMUNITY SCHOOL COMMUNITIES, THE LOCAL SCHOOL COUNCILS STILL THE FINE PRINT.

AND THIS COMES AT A TIME WHERE IS ABOUT TO RUN OUT OF THE >> 2.8 BILLION DOLLARS IN FEDERAL COVID RELIEF MONEY THAT.

>> THEY'VE BEEN RELYING ON FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS.

I MEAN, IT'S BEEN A FISCAL.

>> BAD PICTURE THERE FOR MANY DECADES.

LET'S SAY SO.

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN NOW?

IN SOME WAYS THE COVID MONEY HELP SORT OF?

>> I'M KIND OF COVER UP THE LONGSTANDING STRUCTURAL DEFICIT.

OFFICIALS HAVE SAID THAT AND WE DID AN CHUCK, BE DOT ORG THIS WEEK THAT LOOKED AT EVERY SINGLE SCHOOL AND SORT OF THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT WAS.

>> KIND PLUGGING BUDGETS.

AND IT WAS ABOUT 7% OF SCHOOL BUDGETS ON AVERAGE WERE, YOU KNOW, FLOATED BY THIS COVID MONEY.

AND SO AGAIN, THEY SAY NEXT YEAR THEY'RE NOT GOING REDUCE THE OVERALL AMOUNT GOING TO SCHOOLS.

WE HAVE NOT SEEN A COMPREHENSIVE PICTURE OF THE SCHOOL BY SCHOOL BUDGETS.

WE KNOW LIKE I SAID OF TALK TO PRINCIPALS AND SOME ARE SAYING, OH, WE'RE BREAKING.

EVEN SOME ARE SAYING OVER LOSING A FEW THINGS ARE SOME GAMES, SOMETHING SO WILL SEE IN A MONTH OR 2 WHEN WE ACTUALLY GET THE FULL IF WE CAN WRESTLE IT BEFORE OUT OF A WORKING ON THAT.

BUT >> I THINK THE END OF THE FEDERAL COVID MONEY IS CERTAINLY GOING TO BE THE STORY OF SORT OF THE SUMMER AND HEADING INTO NEXT SCHOOL YEAR FOR CPS AND THE CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS.

WHAT THAT'S GOING TO BE YESTERDAY, BUDGETS SEE YOU WANT FROM SPRINGFIELD BECAUSE THEY HAVE BIG DEMANDS MONEY THAT DOESN'T EXIST RIGHT NOW IN THE SYSTEM.

>> BEFORE WE MOVE ON TO SOME OTHER ISSUES HOUSEKEEPING AND YOU ARE DOWN.

>> IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS FOR THE ECLIPSE, HOW DARK IT AGAIN?

I WAS.

IT WAS AWESOME.

MOST DISAPPOINTING BECAUSE ON MY PHONE WHICH, YOU KNOW, YOU GOT TO TAKE SOME PICTURES AND SOME SELFIES RIGHT?

>> IT DOESN'T LOOK ANYWHERE NEAR AS DARK AS IT WAS, BUT IT DARK ENOUGH THAT MY PHONE THAT DARK, THAT THE FLASH CAME ON, EVEN THOUGH I DIDN'T FOR IT COME OUT.

IT WAS BEAUTIFUL EU HERE TO GET REALLY QUIET.

IN FACT, THAT WAS TRUE.

WE FILMED THE WHOLE THING AND IT'S AMAZING HAS SORT OF A SPEED UP.

YOU HEAR FIRST GET REALLY QUIET.

AND THEN YOU HEAR MY FRIENDS AND I ALL SORT OF SCREAM WITH GLEE.

IT WAS REALLY BEAUTIFUL.

IT REALLY IS ON SPY RING.

AND SO RIGHT OVER SKILLING IS CRYING.

I LIKE NOTE.

ONE MORE ISSUE I WANT TO I WANT TO THROW UP A TWEET THAT I SAID SO THIS IS MY LAST DAY AFTER A COUPLE YEARS WITH I WALKED, I WALKED IN AS AN AND SO.

>> I'VE INGEST I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FUNNY PUT UP A TWEET OF OUR GREAT SECURITY GUARD.

AS COURTING ME OUT.

IT WAS A I'M NOT BEING ESCORTED OUT.

I SURPRISED HOW MANY PEOPLE TOOK THAT SERIES.

THEY THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FUNNY.

BUT YOU KNOW, TO DO THIS YEAH.

WE'RE GOING TO WE'RE GOING TO GET TO SOME OF THAT IN JUST A BIT AT RIGHT NOW.

OUR THANKS TO A MAN GIVEN A KILLER, WASHINGTON BANK EV IN RICK PEARSON, AS I JUST MENTIONED, TODAY IS MY FINAL DAY AT W T TW WOW.

BUT DON'T GO ANYWHERE YET.

I STILL HAVE TO SAY GOODBYE.

AND A SPECIAL GUEST JOINS US NEXT TO HELP SEND ME OFF.

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

THE POPE BROTHERS FOUNDATION, ADDITIONAL SUPPORT IS PROVIDED BY.

>> AND JOINING US NOW IS MY LONGTIME PARTNER IN CRIME BRANDIS FRIEDMAN.

WELCOME TO THE THANK YOUR HELLO, EVERYBODY.

THE SPECIAL SO HERE IS, AS YOU MENTIONED, OF COURSE, WE ALL KNOW IT.

IT IS.

PARIS HOSTING.

WE CAN REVIEW AND SO FOR FOR SOME GOOD FUN.

WE'LL TALK ABOUT A LITTLE BIT.

BUT FOR FUN, WE DID CAPTURE JUST A TINY SAMPLING YOUR W TO DOUBLE YOUR BODY OF WORK.

I'VE SEEN IT SO GOOD.

LET'S START AT THE VERY BEGINNING.

>> A PAIR OF FIRST OF ALL, THE PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW THAT YOU YOU ARE YOU'RE AN INTERN IRAN, RIGHT?

YOU HAVE SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS.

AND WHICH IS ONE OF THE REASONS WE INVITED YOU.

EVERYTHING IS GEARED TOWARD.

YOU GO TO A BAR AND YOU LISTEN TO MUSIC WITH SEXUALLY EXPLICIT LYRICS AND YOU SEE THIS DANCING, YOU KNOW, GRINDING.

THAT'S LIKE THE DANCE.

THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE DO.

THEY GRIND AND IT MAKES, YOU KNOW, ELVIS SWIVELING, HIS HIPS LOOK LIKE IT'S SOMETHING YOUR GRANDMA DOES AT AT A HER 100TH BIRTHDAY PARTY.

BECAUSE, THAT'S BABY PARIS APPEARING ON CHICAGO TONIGHT FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME THAT WHEN HE WAS AN INTERN IN 2005.

SO AND THE CONVERSATION WAS ABOUT ON CAMPUS.

>> IT WASN'T LONG BEFORE PARIS WAS HIRED AND A FEW SHORT YEARS LATER BEGAN REPORTING STORIES LIKE HIS FIRST ONE ABOUT A YOUNG PILOT AND SCIENTIST.

ONE OF THIS AMAZING YOUNG 14 YEAR-OLD IDEAS IS EVEN CAUGHT THE ATTENTION OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND PARIS NEVER LOOKED BY THE WAY, MORE ABOUT THAT YOUNG SCIENTIST IN A BIT.

MANY OF PARIS'S EARLY STORIES WERE FEATURES INTRODUCING US TO INTERESTING PEOPLE FROM AROUND THE CHICAGO AREA.

WHALEY SAYS THAT IF YOU CAN LEARN A MAKEUP PUPPY, YOU CAN EVENTUALLY DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS.

I WOULD BEG TO DIFFER WITH PARIS QUICKLY BECAME A MAINSTAY ON THE AIR COVERING BREAKING NEWS AND EVENTUALLY GRADUATING TO DOING ONSET INTERVIEWS LIKE THIS ONE.

HIS FIRST ON CHICAGO TONIGHT WITH THE LATE COMEDIAN RICHARD LEWIS, RICHARD LEWIS.

IT IS A PLEASURE TO HAVE YOU BACK TO SHOW THAT I WOULD MISS YOU A PVS.

HERE'S IS REPORTING.

TOOK HIM AROUND THE STATE AND THE REGION WHERE HE PROVED GAME FOR TRYING JUST ABOUT ANYTHING.

HERE WE GO.

KARP ADM.

BUT WHILE A GOOD CARB SANDWICH MIGHT MAKE PARENTS HAPPY HIS REAL BREAD AND BUTTER IS POLITICAL REPORTING.

THAT'S REALLY THE SUPER BOWL OF POLITICS FROM THE CITY COUNCIL TO STATE AND NATIONAL GOVERNMENT.

HERE IS BREAK STORIES AND ALSO GET POLITICIANS TO OPEN UP WITH HIS STRAIGHTFORWARD STYLE AND FOCUS ON FAIRNESS ABOUT THAT POLL FROM OGDEN FRY.

WHY DO YOU BELIEVE SO MANY PEOPLE NOW ARE CALLING FOR YOUR RESIGNATION?

>> I'VE BEEN IN PUBLIC LIFE.

A LONG-TIME RELATIONSHIPS BUILT ON MUTUAL RESPECT.

HAVE ABOUT 30 SECONDS LEFT IN HAVE A 45.

HERE'S HIS PASSION FOR POLITICS.

MAY ONLY BE MATCHED HIS PASSION FOR HERE HE IS PLAYING ON THE SHOW WITH ROLLING STONES TOURING BASSIST DARYL JONES AND ALONG WITH A MEMBER OF THE CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, HE CO-WROTE ARE OLD CHICAGO TONIGHT THEME SONG.

BACK ON THE AIR.

PERHAPS PARIS'S MOST IMPORTANT ASSIGNMENT WAS COVERAGE OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC.

GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO CHICAGO TONIGHT.

I'M BRANDIS FRIEDMAN HERE IN OUR NORTHWEST SIDE STUDIO.

>> AND I'M PARISH REPORTING LIVE FROM CHICAGO'S CHINATOWN COMMUNITY IN OUR COVID ACROSS CHICAGO SERIES, HARRIS CO ANCHORED OUR PROGRAM FROM A DIFFERENT CHICAGO COMMUNITY OR SUBURB EVERY DAY FOR 3 NEIGHBOR.

WE WERE AMONG THE FIRST TO REPORT ON THE DISPROPORTIONATE IMPACT.

THE PANDEMIC WAS HAVING AMONG COMMUNITIES OF COLOR.

ME.

THANK YOU, PHIL.

AND AS I MENTIONED, I'M BROADCASTING FROM HOME, I GUESS, ARE COMING TO US VIA VIDEO CONFERENCING TECHNOLOGY AND THEY ARE MIKE FLANNERY OF FOX.

32 NEWS AND DURING COVID HIS LIVING ROOM BECAME OR STUDIO AS HE HOSTED THE WEEK IN REVIEW FROM THE COMFORT OF HIS OWN HOME OVERTIME.

PEERS HAS BECOME PERHAPS THE CITY'S PRE EMINENT DEBATE MODERATOR AND ONE OF ITS MOST RESPECTED JOURNALISTS FRANCHISE.

AND BRING PAUL VALLAS, BRING UP YOUR SUPPORT OF THE TEACHERS UNION.

SUPPORT TO TEACHERS.

UNIONS HAVE PROVIDED THE BULK OF YOUR FUNDING.

YOU WORKED AS A TEACHER.

YOU ARE PART OF THE TEACHERS UNION NAME SPECIFIC POLICIES FOR ME THAT YOU DEFER.

>> FROM THE SEA TO YOU ON.

>> WELL, FIRST OF ALL, I'M GRATEFUL TO BE SUPPORTED BY WORKING PEOPLE IN THE CITY OF CHICAGO.

>> SO PARIS, WE'VE WATCHED YOU GROW UP HERE ON THE AIR AND BEHIND THE SCENES OF IT.

AND REMEMBER THAT WHERE EVER YOU WTW WILL ALWAYS BE YOUR HOME.

>> FOR CHICAGO TONIGHT.

THIS IS PARIS SHOTS.

>> THANK YOU FOR THANK YOU FOR UNEARTHING THAT CLIP OF ME AND DARYL JONES.

I DOING THAT JAM.

THAT WAS A HIGHLIGHT.

THAT WAS SO MUCH FUN BECAUSE I WAS ACTUALLY JUST I WAS IT WAS GOING TO BE ON THE SHOW AND I'M IN HERE JUST LIKE PLAYING THE PIANO.

HE COMES IN.

LIKE A MAN.

THAT'S PRETTY YOU WANT TO JAM WITH US?

>> ME A YOU KNOW, YES.

OKAY.

SICKLY.

HOPE THOSE GOING TO PROS WILL SHOW UP AND ASK ME TO JAM OF COURSE WE ALSO PROMISED INFORMATION ABOUT THAT YOUNG PILOT AND SCIENTIST FROM YOUR VERY FIRST ON-CAMERA STORY.

ACCORDING TO INFORMATION WE FOUND ONLINE, SABRINA GONZALEZ POSTERS KEY.

SHE GRADUATED FROM HIM.

IT IS A TEENAGER WITH A 5 POINT O GRADE POINT AVERAGE.

SHE WENT ON TO GET HER PHD FROM HARVARD.

SHE'S THE THEORETICAL PHYSICIST WHOSE WORK WAS CITED BY STEPHEN HAWKING AND SHE WAS NAMED TO FORBES 30 UNDER 30 SCIENCES.

BUT PARENTS, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE COME A LONG SO IN AND OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, I JUST >> MORE LIKE AND I THINK IT GOES BY.

>> YOU KNOW, GOES WITHOUT SAYING, OF COURSE, WE WILL MISS YOU HERE.

I KNOW THE WILL MISS YOU.

YOU WERE HERE WHEN I STARTED AS A REPORTER'S, I WAS ABLE TO LEARN FROM YOU A BIT.

>> YOU'VE ALWAYS HAD, YOU KNOW YOUR FINGERS ON THE PULSE OF CHICAGO NEWS.

SO WITHOUT YOU, IT WILL BE A LOSS FOR US.

BUT ESPECIALLY FOR ME THE LAST 4 YEARS, YOU HAVE BEEN MY PARTNER IN TV CRIME.

ATV HAS BEEN MY WORK.

HUSBAND WHEN IT WILL BE IN.

GOOD HANDS, THOUGH, WITH AMANDA, WHO'S TAKING OVER AS THE HOST CONSCIOUS UNCOUPLING >> YES, I MEAN, SO THE BUT IT GOES TO MY DEAR BELOVED FRIEND AMANDA >> AND AMANDA >> IT'S EXCITING, BUT I AM SAID, PARIS, YOU ARE MY MY WORK BROTHER.

MY REAL BROTHER AND SO HAVE SUCH RESPECT FOR ALL THAT.

YOU HAVE DONE EVERYTHING EXCEPT FOR THAT.

THE AND AND THANKS TO EVERYONE HERE.

THANKS, LAURA.

THANKS, BECKY.

THANKS.

THANKS, RICK.

FOR BRINGING THE CHAMPAGNE BEFORE WE I WANT TO MAKE A THOUGHTS PUBLIC HERE.

19 YEARS AGO.

>> IT WAS A COLLEGE INTERN WHO WALKED INTO THE BEST TELEVISION NEWS OPERATION IN THE COUNTRY.

IT'S BECAUSE OF WTW IS UNIQUE MISSION AND ITS PEOPLE.

AND THERE ARE MANY THAT I HAVE TO THANK THIS EVENING.

>> FIRST OFF, MY SUPER BEEN COUNTED CO-HOST BRANDIS FRIEDMAN, A JOURNALISTIC DYNAMO WITH A HEART OF GOLD.

ALSO ARE IMPECCABLE PHOTOGRAPHERS.

EDITORS, GRAPHICS, TEAM CREW AND DIRECTOR.

WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO PULL ANY OF THIS OFF WITHOUT YOU.

OUR NEWS DIRECTOR JAY SMITH FOR ALWAYS BEING A FRIEND AND SUPPORTING AND FOSTERING MY GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT AND ALLOWING ME TO GO ON THE AIR WITH THAT HAIRCUT.

HAHA STORIES ABOUT BALLOONS.

JOE WISEMAN SHOUT OUT TO JOEL, THE FOUNDER AND LONGTIME HOST OF THIS VERY PROGRAM WHO TAUGHT ME THAT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WAS TO KEEP THE CONVERSATION FUN AND LIVELY.

CHICAGO POLITICS IS FUN.

IT'S NOT.

IT'S NOT BORING.

AND ALL IT'S ALWAYS INTERESTING.

JAY CHEF SKI, THE BEST FILMMAKER AND VISUAL STORYTELLER I'VE EVER SEEN.

IT TOOK ME ON MY VERY FIRST EVER STORY WAS ABOUT THE CHICAGO BASED HAMMOND ORGAN COMPANY, MARY FIELD.

MY FIRST AND LONGTIME NEWS DIRECTOR TAUGHT ME NEARLY EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT TELEVISION JOURNALISM.

ONE OF THE LOCAL GIANTS OF CHICAGO, TELEVISION JOURNALISM, ANOTHER ONE, THE LAKE, RIGHT, ELIZABETH BRACKET WHO TOLD A SCRUFFY YOUNG PRODUCER TO STEAL A CAMERA CREW AND SHOOT A STORY.

IF YOU WANT TO BE ON THE AIR AND I DID.

THANK YOU, ELIZABETH AND CAROL MARINE THE BEST TO EVER DO IT FOR ALWAYS BEING A MENTOR, FRIEND AND THE NORTH STAR OF TELEVISION JOURNALISM.

AND OF COURSE, PHIL PONCE, MY TELEVISION DAD, THE FIRST PERSON I MET WHEN I WALKED IN AS A 21 YEAR-OLD, HE EXTENDED HIS HAND TO ME MADE ME FEEL PART OF THE FAMILY RIGHT AWAY.

AND THEY HAVE BEEN EVER SINCE.

AND A SPECIAL SHOUT OUT TO JON CALLOWAY, THE FOUNDER OF CHICAGO TONIGHT WHOSE VISION WE ARE SIMPLY STEWARDS OF HERE.

I WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO KNOW HIM FOR A BRIEF PERIOD OF TIME.

LONG ENOUGH TO ODD BY THE DEATH OF HIS INTELLECTUAL CURIOSITY AND HIS DEVOTION TO THIS MISSION.

AND LESLIE, LASTLY, THANK YOU.

THE VIEWER FOR YOUR ENDLESS SUPPORT.

I'M IN THIS BUSINESS FOR YOU.

I ALWAYS WILL BE AND I WON'T BE GOING FAR.

SO AS THEY SAY IN THIS BUSINESS, STAY TUNED.

THANK YOU, EVERYBODY.

IT'S BEEN A WILD RIDE AND THAT IS OUR SHOW FOR THIS FRIDAY NIGHT.

NOW FOR THE WEEK IN REVIEW AND PARIS SHOTS.

THANK YOU FOR WATCHING.

STAY HEALTHY AND SAFE AND HAVE A GREAT NIGHT.

>> THANK RIGHT?

I THINK WILL GOING TO BE THERE'S THE CAKE FOR >> CLOSED CAPTIONING IS MADE POSSIBLE BY CLIFFORD AND CLIFFORD LAW OFFICES, A CHICAGO PERSONAL INJURY AND WRONGFUL DEATH THAT IS PROUD TO BE A MULTI-LINGUAL LAW FIRM