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

I'm Nick Blumberg.

Chicago says good-bye to a civil rights icon and a political force of nature.

A person of faith.

For most fire on just law.

>> Well, Warren.

>> He was a freedom fighter.

And a towering voice for justice.

>> Reverend Jesse Jackson dies at the age of 84.

Illinois has suffered through similar hardships before.

>> And we know the way out.

Governor JB Pritzker unveils his budget proposal facing a 2.2 billion dollar deficit and massive uncertainty over federal funding.

>> We're forging a relationship that will be the foundation with public.

A partnership lean to construction.

world class stadium.

>> As Indiana legislators advance a bill aimed at luring the Bears over state lines to a site near Wolf Lake Illinois.

Lawmakers are caught off guard saying they had productive negotiations with the team this week.

Meantime, City Council punts on a measure and a nice accountability and rejects empowering residents to report parking violations.

Under pressure from elected officials.

The Cook County State's attorney outlines a policy for prosecuting federal immigration agents.

And after a long legal battle, clergy are allowed into the broad view detention facility for Ash Wednesday ministry.

>> And now to our week in review panel.

Joining us are that alarm and Trout of the Chicago Sun-Times W t Tw Zone.

Heather?

Sure around WBEZ is Michael and Maxwell Evans, a block club.

Chicago, thank you all for being here.

Busy weekend.

Lots to get to before we get to those stories, there is big breaking news today as the Supreme Court blocked President Trump's sweeping tariffs in a 6 to 3 vote with the president saying he's ashamed of the justices who opposed him and refusing to back down.

Let's take a listen.

>> The other alternatives will now be used replace the ones that the court incorrectly rejected.

We have alternatives.

Great alternatives could be more money will take in more money.

>> All right, Heather Sharon, the president says he's got alternatives, different authority he can use, but, you know, given his proclivity for pushing the bounds of the law, do you think we may see future legal challenges to his tis tariff schemes?

Sure.

We saw in Justice Kavanaugh's dissent.

He laid out a road map for the president to use other legal authorities to do the tariffs.

But it will be more complicated and it will give Democrats a chance to sort of pounce on this issue.

Now that there's this ruling from the Supreme Court.

>> That has ruled over and over and over again in favor of the president.

In fact, late TODAY, Governor JB Pritzker sent the president invoice for $1700 on behalf of every Illinois family.

He says that's what the terrorists have cost.

Illinois residents and on our behalf.

He wants that money back.

He, of course, is weighing a twenty-twenty a run for president yet.

you're not one to miss an opportunity to chat with the president.

All right.

Well, let's get to the story that's been on everyone's minds this week.

The death of the Reverend Jesse Jackson.

>> And iconic figure in civil rights and politics in civic life.

But next, what you spoke with some folks who who knew him differently, who knew him as their neighbor.

How did folks in South Shore remember him?

Most?

Definitely.

So a lot of neighbors, which is actually the neighborhood I live in as well right up against the Jackson Park Highlands neighborhood where he called home, where his family still calls home so many neighbors remember him not only as the powerful public figure that he was, but as a friendly person willing to share how links at a barbecue with you or to say God is so good at a birthday party or a Christmas party.

>> It's really kind of a magical experience.

Getting to see how many people kind of saw him in this personal lens as opposed to all the historical remembrances, all the ways he was remembered as a political figure.

Yeah, I mean, talk about that a little bit.

You had a great obituary outlining he's long.

He's very active lafe and the public arena.

Was there something in there that particularly stood out to you?

Yeah.

So I think about how his community work really was at the center of even his national pushes international presence.

>> I think back to his time as the founding director at the Kenwood Oakland Community Organization back in the 60's going all the way up to 2025.

When I saw him at a conference to push back against dei, rollbacks and companies, you just saw him at all of these neighborhood events at all of these community events in a way that you would not really expect to see the Reverend Jesse Jackson at a neighborhood meeting Operation Push meeting out in the community.

And so, yeah, just hear reflections from neighbors as to this human being that they got to see as opposed to a a Demi God or anything above human it.

It was really kind of inspiring that.

>> Anybody can can kind of take that presents.

Anybody can take that motivation and inspiration.

>> Yeah, he really didn't slow right until the very end almost.

You know, I mean, Mike, looking over his life, working with Dr King runs for president, organizing boycotts, protesting the Oscars.

I mean, he really is just kind of a figure whose everywhere you look 20th and 21st century history, absolutely.

Out a few times covering him, especially he was very close to the late Gary Mayor Richard Hatcher.

He was very instrumental in the historic 1972, the first black political convention in Gary, where they had so many different African-American politicians.

So he was close to that family.

So I had a chance to talk coming, Gary and different political He was he was a dynamo.

He was on the front lines.

A lot of people maybe take shots at him.

But when you're on the front lines of that kind of movement, civil rights movement, you're you're going to get shots.

Just feel like pretty much all of us at this table probably have a look at Jesse Jackson story.

reporter Matt, what my first year at the Sun-Times I was at a press conference and >> something came up inspect me on the back really hard and started talking to me like they knew my whole life Jackson.

And I'm like this is a guy I read about textbooks obviously, you know, just a genius country media attention for causes he supported.

But on a personal level like a really fun person to report on.

Yes, yeah.

I had a similar experience when I was producing a political campaign for him here years and years ago that we had an in-person audience and >> started chatting to me like we've known each other, a set dumbstruck liquid.

What's happening?

I mean, it's you the road to this week about how his role in politics helped open the door for a lot of Democrats.

What's his legacy?

is legacy stretches long, far and wide of most notably perhaps in the presidency of Barack Obama.

>> Looking back Jesse Jackson's 1988, presidential run, literally change the rules and how Democratic primaries are run with candidates taking up.

essentially with the book, the Voting bloc that he garnered that race.

He was able push for proportional awarding of is to be a winner.

Take all affair in these contests and that was one of the key things that lets the nomination of Bill Clinton.

Eventually Obama and they kind of have their own personal beast behind the scenes.

you know, we heard from a lot of folks talking about how important, obviously that was to Jesse Jackson obviously the entire black community because and African American men elevated to the White House.

But really, just was an inspiration to generations of politicians in Chicago and beyond what you think of what's going on in the whole controversy with immigration enforcement getting into.

>> The broad ICE facility.

I kept thinking back to my during the summer.

If there's one person who could have gotten in was Jesse Jackson.

And so that's the kind personality his nature.

that that we're missing.

>> Yeah, I remember, you know, when he made his appearance at the DNC last year in 2024, rather, the room was up for grabs when he came out.

it was not by mistake that Kamala Harris used a slogan that he coined.

You know, her slogan was when we fight, we win.

started with Jesse Jackson.

It was picked up by the Chicago Teachers Union.

>> You know it if not for Jesse Jackson, of course, Barack Obama would not have been president, it goes even back further and more locally in Chicago.

It's not for Jesse Jackson.

Choosing to make Chicago is home.

Harold Washington would never have been mayor Chicago and that I think transformed Chicago politics and he spent decades fighting the daily's generations and then 5 at Birkin fed-up flight and for Jolie Act and he is at once both and national figure of political significance, but also intensely important here in Chicago.

Yeah, I mean, talk about that.

That role at City Hall.

He he was no stranger he was not.

He was there fighting for what he as the regular as the regular person.

And I think it's important to understand that the whole notion of across racial political coalition did not exist before Jesse Jackson.

He is somebody who reached out 2 Latino communities.

He reached out to the Appalachian community in in Uptown.

He built on the work of Fred Hampton in the Black Panthers in Chicago, his legacy so deep in Chicago that it can be a tendency, I think for us reporters to just sort of it's always been that way it.

You can't really sort of see it for that's where the impact that it has.

And, you know, I think it is I I have reflected this week about how perhaps on a national stage his legacy was.

You are persona was more of a punch line than it ever was in Chicago.

Chicagoans, we can be a provincial people.

But if adopt Chicago, we will adopt you back.

Jesse Jackson may not have been born in Chicago, but he was of Chicago through and through.

I talking about the breadth and depth of his work.

Maxwell does it feel like we have someone like him with that statue with that cache and civic life right now, I think in hearing from a lot of at least my neighbors on the topic, it's it's kind of the Reverend Jackson inspired them to stand as a person individually and to come together collectively.

I don't think there's really an appetite for in community organizing at least one person to kind of stand up as a figure to be worshipped or to stand up as a figure to dominate over others.

I think really looking at the coalitions that Reverend Jackson was able to build what a lot of my neighbors take from that is the power of coming together, the power of unity in your community.

And so that's what lot of a lot of these reflections on his life focused around.

>> Yeah, carrying forward his values, but not necessarily just one singular figure, truly.

Yeah.

a remarkable life.

We could easily to help the full half hour on the good, Reverend.

But lot of other things happened this week.

Mich Governor Pritzker presented his 8th budget proposal on Wednesday.

He's pitching it as sort of a cautious, prudent budget.

What we hear from the governor, he said basically that this is sort of a status quo budget because >> there are a lot of threats to funding under the Trump administration.

His budget address last year he likened the Trump administration to the early days of not teacher money.

Didn't go quite that hard this time around but really made try to get home.

The point that the billions of dollars that have been caught away Illinois government and billions more in other states that that's really the reason that we have to scale back.

A lot of those social service programs and other progressive measures that he's really championed in the first 7 years of his tenure.

>> And that he's looking to extend to 12 running governor this year.

>> So, yeah, not really rocking the boat this year.

there this idea of a new social media tax charging companies like Facebook and Twitter for the number of users in Illinois.

I think that's likely to face a court challenge.

It's idea that Brendan Johnson has also champion in Chicago.

So kind rare point maybe quotation you.

Folks kind of.

But it has in the common ground but but yeah, I was in the budget presented in February is not the one that's going to pass by the end of May.

So it's going to be a and interesting few months ahead.

And it was interesting to hear from Republicans in Springfield reacting to the >> It kind of agreed with a few of the governor's points.

You know, maybe not full-throated agreement, but a lot of them were basically saying this was just a 2028 stump speech, right?

Yeah, that's kind of the main complaints.

A lot of Republicans have against JB Pritzker's that they say he's using this as a stepping stone towards the White And and yet voting a lot of time in budget address to >> federal issues that they say are pertinent Jen, but that's the governor sort of brings to the table.

I think we'll probably be hearing complain a lot more over next couple of years.

>> Heather, the governor is also calling for overhauling zoning laws around the state trying to get more housing built.

You know, lots of folks love the idea.

But as any city hall reporter knows, well, zoning is a very touchy issue bullying.

I mean, expect he's going to face some pushback He is and not just from Chicago because, well, there is no doubt housing crisis in Chicago and in Illinois and Pritzker seized.

This is a way to sort of speed up the pipeline of creating new homes apartments in new condominiums.

It is perhaps more loved in theory than in actuality because there's nothing that makes people more angry than the fact that they might not have control over what gets built in their neighborhood.

And that is a lesson any Chicago Alderperson could tell you in great detail and what this would essentially do would prevent sort of some of these roadblocks that we've seen from blocking big apartment buildings that are designed to let people have access to public transportation and other issues.

If there is this is one of those proposal went.

The devil is in the details, but it would be a sea change in sort of who gets to build what and who gets to have that final say.

And it is not something that is going to be just opposed by Chicago.

But we're also talking about suburbs who really sort of guard their abilities to include sort of rules.

That means you've got to have, you know, properties of no more than a half Acre acre this with sort of undue those restrictions.

And while everybody wants to build more housing, maybe not everybody wants to be right in their backyard.

So to speak, like there's an accurate.

Thank you.

All right, Mike here or northwest Indiana expert at the table.

Flake lawmakers are now setting their sights on location in Hammond near Wolf Lake for a possible bear stadium.

But there's been >> so much back and forth when you make of things.

That's right, Amy, every hour I get a new text message from somebody saying, hey, now Arlington High.

Now back to northwest Indiana.

>> You know, this is far are we to the press conference yesterday in Hammond and God bless them.

God bless the the mayor of hand.

McDermott.

He really want to cross that finish line the goal.

But there's still so much that needs to be done already.

You're hearing rumblings from people in Porter County was going to have to pass food and beverage tax to help finance Lake County is going to have to do the same.

They're going to be an admission tax.

So it's far from being done and he's still got the state out out prove it.

And the governor has been assigned they say they're going to do this.

But going to be a fight on there and that we're not quite there yet.

Yeah, there's a lot to happen.

And, you know >> what, India, Indiana lawmakers moved ahead with this bill.

But the end of the Bears are applauding that that didn't sit so well with with the governor and other Illinois politician.

Now, the governor's just had other latest 3 hour meeting with team officials and the.

>> Some of the Chicago Democrats who are trying to return to some sort of consensus for Bears to state, Illinois, presumably in Arlington Heights.

>> was essentially off the table at this point.

It got to give Bear's PR sort of credit for, you know, the discussion last few years is apparently Chicago and now that's kind of accept it as a given.

Now it's just let's get them in Illinois.

cost.

But but you have Michael, you're saving just wild watching this Indiana House committee like their elected officials like choking up at the prospect of this happening.

If you listen to sports talk radio around Chicago, you think the sky falling?

it's hard you really can't overstate how far away this is from actually happening and the Bears about even identified a spot in Hammond where they would actually do this They're talking about doing around a golf course that's across the street from an oil refinery.

It's built over a landfill, industrial and fell its near a beautiful natural area.

To say that it's like tough road ahead an understatement.

>> The one thing I do have say where the mayor of Hammond was kind of correcting this.

If you put it in downtown Chicago, leave it at Soldier Field.

Doesn't still do much for the city.

And you put Arlington Heights early tonight.

Already a beautiful summer.

This would catapult northwest Indiana really into the 21st century.

You need something to boost it up to bring people backwards.

The northwest, Indiana and the region to spend their money there.

This will definitely do that.

Yeah, that could be a big that, you know, points favor you.

And I would also say the southeast side of Chicago about northwest Indiana immediately.

I think a lot of people may even forget that there is a southeast side, which one I live in South Shore is not possible So I'm always thinking about how it would be so much quicker for me to get to the Indiana border to get to him and to get to northwest Indiana than it is to get to Arlington Heights.

Frankly, I don't know how long it would take on the how far it is away, even but I know exactly how I would get to a northwest Indiana site.

So there are still so many details to be worked out.

But it's not as if this is way out of the way or anything.

>> I feel obligated to point out that the state of Illinois is still paying hundreds of millions of dollars for and the renovation of Soldier Field back in the early 2, thousands before we heard Governor Pritzker say, hey, if the Bears one additional help for a new stadium, how that they how about they help pay off the debt for the old stadium.

And I think, you know, that's a big question.

And you know, it is one of the very big complications in all of this.

And we have been through this so many times.

We were saying before the show OK, it's gonna be really tonight.

back to Chicago, back to Arlington Heights.

And I think there's a lot of whiplash, right?

That is making everybody somewhat skeptical that this is actually really.

I think and not that it's not a beautiful park, but I will add we're paying tens of millions of dollars for the new Kaminsky.

30 years old.

So lest we forget coming to us, always, yes, exactly.

>> All right.

Well, Maxwell this week marked Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the season leading up to Easter after a long court battle.

Clergy were finally allowed into that broadview detention facility.

Were you surprised to see that that it took legal action?

The DHS took such a hard line on something we have to imagine.

It's pretty bad optics to most folks across the political spectrum not to allow ministers and want to be honest.

I think we're far past the point of optics.

I mean, you look at outside a broad view, the or clergy being shot at with pepper being shot at with right controlling materials.

>> And we're so far beyond the conversations of optics that really isn't surprising to me that it did take a legal battle to to get something that seems so simple.

>> Yeah, it'll be Kerry interesting to see whether this, you know, signals a greater openness.

We finally seen lawmakers being allowed in to inspect the facility.

But you know, certainly a lot of questions still around the conditions there.

>> All right.

Well, Heather, a lot of the news at City Council this week was about what didn't happen.

They didn't override the mayor's veto of a headband.

>> And tell us about the push to have Chicago's police watchdog investigate whether CPD is cooperating with immigration agents.

What's of the big issues we confronted during what the Trump administration called Operation Midway Blitz was whether the Chicago Police Department was following both the letter and the spirit of the welcoming city ordinance which prohibits.

>> All city employees from helping federal agents enforce civil immigration laws.

Now superintendent Larry Snelling Mayor Brent Johnson says that they had done everything by the book.

There are many Chicagoans who are not quite so sure, but there's a loophole essentially and city law.

There's it's not clear who has the authority to figure out whether those violations are actually taking place.

So a group of city council members led by Alderman Andrea Vasquez and Alderperson Jessie Fuentes got together and said, well, let's get the civilian Office of Police Accountability that power.

It was set to be approved.

But for >> conservative members of the City Council used a procedural measure to block a vote.

It will come back the next city council meeting whenever that might happen to be it is not clear to me that is in danger of failing, but it's clearly a hot remain, a hot button issue, especially as everybody sort of waits for the weather warm up again, got warm.

It got cold that's that spring in Chicago are almost spring in Chicago.

And if agents returned to Chicago and in large numbers, I think you're going to see a distinct outcry for the city council to take quick action.

obviously, you know, they're they're building the plane as they fly.

And it'll be interesting to see what cope was actually able to do.

instances.

>> Well, you know, Mitch is sticking with the immigration issues for a minute.

Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill, Burke came out with a policy for when her office might charge federal immigrations immigration agents with criminal misconduct.

This follows a public spat with the mayor.

It follows pressure from Cook County Board.

President Toni Preckwinkle.

Do you think elected leaning on her may be factored into into the push for finally releasing this policy?

Yeah, I think she really didn't have any choice but to at least take some sort of more a stronger public >> You know, her approach towards the federal government in this respect, I think looking at the policy itself, look at it, it sounds a lot prosecutors money like at just about any a criminal defendant.

Just this idea of basically, you know, accepting evidence from investigating law enforcement agency evaluating if a crime is taking place paneling a grand jury, if you know, they've if that's needed to sort of a side of charges are warranted.

But really, I think I think the one thing that distinguishes that is this idea of determining whether or not federal agents are a lot federal law enforcement exceed the powers granted to them.

So really like anything too radical.

And this policies are that I can tell.

But, you know, taking up a bit with making a public statement about it.

You know, the order from Brandon Johnson to pretty much had to make some sort of response for agency.

Yeah.

>> All right.

Well, jumping back to City Council for a minute.

Older people also rejected a pilot program that would have let residents send in pictures of cars illegally parked blocking lanes make.

Do you think this may be just felt a little too big brother for all the people to get behind?

Absolutely.

We're talking be there to be sending in hundreds or thousands of pictures.

How are they going to go through all that?

So it seems a little impractical.

Yeah, I mean, does it feel like there's any hope for this pilots come back?

There is a a lot of enthusiasm about it from its backers.

Sure.

I think the problem is is there were concerns that this was going to sort of turn everybody into parking enforcement agents and that.

>> It could potentially lead to violence if somebody is, you know, parked illegally and they see somebody taking a picture of them, you know, do they make a bad decision?

I also think the other problem is is that Chicago's downtown relies on delivery trucks being parked illegally.

And the sense was especially from Alderman Brian Hopkins.

He was saying, look, this could come to a position, a place where these delivery stop happening at all and that could threaten restaurant industry.

So there are a lot of questions about sort of sort of how this would work in practicality, but it is drawn from a desire of just greater inforcement of parking lots across the city.

Yeah, I would definitely say that as a cyclist, I understand they're all of these problems and all of these problems to be worked out before any sort of legislation went through.

But at this point, I was waiting for some sort of protections at bike, protected bike lanes are too much.

If the enforcement is too much of the monitoring monitoring is too much.

It just gets to a point where I would like to see some sort of safety improvement actually pass through.

biking through Chicago streets is a very dangerous thing.

I know firsthand.

There's got to be some sort of solution we can come to to actually make us safer.

Absolutely can be very treacherous for a view, not treacherous at all.

A great but unfortunately, we are out of time.

So our thanks to.

>> That's alarming Trout.

Heather Sharon.

>> Michael and Maxwell Evans.

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