>> HEY THERE.

THANKS FOR JOINING US ON THE WEEK IN REVIEW.

I'M NICK BLUMBERG.

PARIS SHOTS HAS THE EVENING OFF.

THE SUPREME COURT WEIGHS A KEY BALLOT CHALLENGE TO FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP.

>> IT WILL COME DOWN TO JUST A HANDFUL OF STATES THAT ARE GOING TO DECIDE THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

THAT'S IT PRETTY.

DAUNTING CONSEQUENCE FOR AN INSURRECTION THAT NEEDS TO ORGANIZED, CONCERTED EFFORT.

SO I AM GOING TO GO CHAOTIC EFFORT TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT AN INSURRECTION.

WHILE A MAJORITY OF JUSTICES APPEAR SKEPTICAL OF ARGUMENTS TO KEEP TRUMP OFF THE COLORADO BALLOT.

A COOK COUNTY JUDGE RULES A CHALLENGE TO TRUMP APPEARING ON THE ILLINOIS PRIMARY BALLOT CAN MOVE FORWARD.

>> SHOTSPOTTER OFFICIALS TRY TO MAKE THE CASE THAT THEIR CONTROVERSIAL TECHNOLOGY KEEPS CHICAGO IN SAFER AT A PUBLIC MEETING AND GET A MIXED RECEPTION FROM RESIDENTS AND ACTIVISTS.

THIS AS MAYOR BRANDON JOHNSON DEBATES RENEWING THE COMPANY'S CONTRACT.

MEANWHILE, TO MAYOR SITS DOWN WITH GOVERNOR JB PRITZKER AND COOK COUNTY BOARD.

PRESIDENT TONI PRECKWINKLE AMID TENSIONS OVER HOW TO TACKLE THE ONGOING MIGRANT CRISIS.

AND DEVIN HESTER JOINS 2 OTHER CHICAGO BEARS GREATS JULIUS PEPPERS AND STEVE MCMICHAEL WHO'VE BEEN VOTED INTO THE PRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME.

AND NOW TO OUR WEEK IN REVIEW PANEL.

JOINING US, OUR GREGORY PRATT FROM THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE.

>> MONICA ENG FROM AXIOS, POLITICOS, SHIA CAPUS AND PAUL SULLIVAN FROM THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE.

LET'S GET RIGHT TO IT.

GREG PRATT, THE CASE CHALLENGING FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP'S ELIGIBILITY TO APPEAR ON COLORADO'S BALLOT WENT BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT.

MANY OF THE JUSTICES DID NOT SEEM PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN TAKING HIM OFF ANY SURPRISE THERE.

>> YOU KNOW, GUY REPRESENTING COLORADO WAS DID A PRETTY BAD JOB OF THE COLORADO VOTER.

I MEAN, HE SEEMED HE'S GETTING DRAGGED, AS THEY TWITTER FOR NOT BEING PREPARED TO ANSWER A LOT OF THEIR QUESTIONS.

BUT, YOU KNOW, THEY SEEM TO THINK THAT IT'S GOING TO BE A FEDERAL ISSUE AND THAT THEIR FACT QUESTIONS OF DIDDY, YOU HOW DO WE DEFINE THAT?

HE DID INTERACT.

AND SO NOT A SHOCK, BUT HE'S GOT OTHER CASES THAT MUCH MORE PRESSING.

>> TO THAT POINT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S PIECE IN SLATE YESTERDAY SUGGESTING THAT THE SUPREME COURT'S ENDURED SUCH REPUTATIONAL DAMAGE BEING SEEN AS HIGHLY PARTISAN THAT THEY MAY MAKE SOME SORT OF A SPLIT DECISION THAT THEY'LL SAY HE CAN STAY ON THE BALLOT, BUT THEY'LL RULE AGAINST HIM IN THE CASE WHERE HE ARGUES HE'S IMMUNE FROM PROSECUTION FOR TRYING TO OVERTURN THE 2020 ELECTION, MONICA.

AND YOU THINK THAT WOULD DO ANYTHING TO REPAIR THE DAMAGE TO THE COURT'S REPUTATION?

>> GUESS WE'LL HAVE TO SEE.

I WAS SURPRISED TO KNOW THAT EVEN ELENA KAGAN, WHO IS SORT OF A MORE RELIABLE PROGRESSIVE, SHE SAID, YOU KNOW, SHOULD WE BE LETTING A SINGLE STATE WHO GETS TO BE ON THE BALLOT?

AND SO THERE THERE WAS MORE THAN JUST RESISTANCE FROM THE CONSERVATIVE, COURT JUSTICES.

I'M SURE THEY WILL OFFER AND HE'S LIKE A SORT OF BALANCE.

AND THINK BALANCE.

BUT THE THEY'RE NOT THEY'RE NOT THE SAME THING.

ONE IS PRETTY NOVEL IN ONE A CRAZY IDEA THAT THE PRESIDENT IS THE KING, YOU KNOW, AND THE PRESIDENTS ARE KINGS AND QUEENS AND ME.

>> CAN EVER BE PROSECUTED FOR ANYTHING WHICH THAT'S JUST NOT GOING TO HOLD UP OR ELSE.

THE COUNTRY IS NOT GOING TO HOLD WE HAD A LITTLE BIT OF A WAR OVER WHETHER WE SHOULD BE REPRESENTED KINGS AND QUEENS A WHILE BACK.

>> SHE KEPT AS COOK COUNTY JUDGE.

IN THE MEANTIME SAID A CHALLENGE TO TRUMP'S.

>> ELIGIBILITY TO APPEAR ON THE ILLINOIS BALLOT CAN MOVE FORWARD.

HOW LIKELY IS THAT CHALLENGE TO PREVAIL OR TO HAVE ANY REAL, YOU KNOW, SAY IN THE MATTER HERE, I THINK IT GO FORWARD, BUT THEY'RE GOING TO LOOK AT WHATEVER HAPPENS TO THE SUPREME COURT.

AND I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF IT ALL HAPPENED AROUND THE SAME TIME.

>> THE COOK COUNTY FOLKS GOT IT BECAUSE ILLINOIS STATE ELECTIONS BOARD DIDN'T WANT TO DEAL WITH IT BECAUSE THEY FELT IT WASN'T REALLY THERE PLACE TO BE DECIDING WHETHER HE.

WAS AN INSURRECTIONIST OR NOT IT.

IT FELT TO THEM MORE LIKE IT WAS LEGAL ISSUE.

AND NOW THE LEGAL ISSUE WILL JUST DEPEND ON WHAT HAPPENS IN THE SUPREME COURT.

THANK.

YEAH.

IT CERTAINLY SEEMS LIKE THAT'S VERY LIKELY TO TRUMP.

I'M SORRY.

ANY OF THE OTHER STATE OR LOCAL LEVEL CASES THAT ARE GOING ON HERE REALLY INTERESTING THAT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PROFESSOR WAS THE FIRST WANT TO SERVE ADVANCES AND HE'S NOT.

>> YOU KNOW, SEEN AS A LEFTY.

HE'S ACTUALLY MEMBER OF THE FEDERAL SOCIETY AND CONSIDERED ORIGINALIST.

A BODY BELIEVES HIS NAME.

YOU CAN HEAR OF REALLY TERRIFIC PODCAST WITH HIM LAYING OUT THE CASE.

WELL, YOU KNOW, OUR OUR CIVIL SOCIETY HAS NOT REALLY EVER BEEN EQUIPPED TO DEAL WITH TRUMP DOES BECAUSE IT'S TOO SLOW.

ITS.

>> IT'S VERY IT'S IT'S SLOW.

IT'S GENTLEMANLY.

YOU KNOW.

I MEAN, I I THINK ABOUT THE GUY, JEFFREY CLARK AT THE DISAPPOINTMENT OF JUSTICE, WHO WAS THE GUY THAT THEY WERE TRYING TO GET TO FINISH THE IN JANUARY 2020 2021.

SO IT'S IT'S INTERESTING TO WATCH HOW THE INSTITUTIONS KIND OF ARE FLAILING AROUND TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW DO WE DEAL YOU SAW STATEMENT BY BROWN JACKSON ABOUT THE INSURRECTION.

AND IF IT'S IN, SO IF IT'S DISORGANIZED AND DID HE INCITED?

HE DIDN'T.

>> PARTICIPATE IN IT.

HE SAYS TO.

SO DOES THAT MEAN HE'S PART OF IT?

YOU KNOW, THERE'S THAT'S WHAT ANOTHER COURT WILL FIGURE OUT.

IS KIND LIKE LATE IN THE PICTURE HERE.

SHOULDN'T ALL YEARS POINT ABOUT CIVIL SOCIETY AND HOW IT WORKS CLOSE THE COURTS ARE AND HOW SLOW THE FANS ARE.

YOU KNOW, AND IT'S IT'S REMARKABLE.

AND EVEN THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT SCOTUS HEARING THIS ON AN EXPEDITED BASIS, BUT STATES HAVE ALREADY BEEN GOING TO THE POLLS IN PRIMARY ELECTIONS AND CAUCUSES.

I MEAN, THE TRAIN IS ROLLING DOWN THE TRACKS WHETHER OR NOT THE LEGAL SYSTEM IS, YOU KNOW, EQUIPPED TO TAKE CARE OF THIS.

>> IN A TIMELY MANNER.

AND I MEAN, YOU KNOW, TO THAT PAUL SULLIVAN INTO TRUMP SO FAR BEEN BARRELING TOWARD RECLAIMING THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION.

DO THESE BALLOT CHALLENGES SEEM LIKE THEY'RE HAVING ANY EFFECT ON GOP PRIMARY VOTERS WHILE ABSOLUTELY NOT FROM THE LOOKS OF IT.

AND THEN THE POLL SHOWING THAT HE'S A, YOU INCREASING HIS LEAD ON BIDEN.

I REMEMBER WHEN THIS ALL HAPPENED ON JANUARY 6.

>> I THOUGHT, WELL, DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THIS GUY EVER AGAIN.

AND HE SEEMS TO BE USING THAT ALMOST AS AN ADVERTISEMENT FOR BOTH FOR ME BECAUSE OF THIS.

YEAH.

AND THEN WE JUST HAD THE REPORT AS WELL OVER MISHANDLING OF CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS THAT, YOU KNOW, PRESIDENT BIDEN, YOU KNOW, ENGAGED IN AFTER HE LEFT THE WHITE HOUSE DURING TIME AS VICE PRESIDENT SAYING THAT HE'S, YOU KNOW, FORGETFUL AND AN OLDER GUY MEAN, IS THIS GOING TO SOMETHING BE SOMETHING THAT WE LOOK BACK AS A, YOU KNOW, CLINTON EMAILS KIND OF A MOMENT.

THIS IS GOING TO BE PARTICULARLY POLITICALLY.

>> DAMAGING FOR BIDEN POTENTIALLY.

>> IT MIGHT.

BUT YOU KNOW, HIS SUPPORTERS ARE GOING TO STAND RIGHT BESIDE, YOU KNOW, BEHIND JB PRITZKER ALREADY COME OUT SAYING, YOU KNOW, LOOK THAT THAT SEEMS LIKE WHAT DID HE SAY?

I SMELL A RAT, MEANING THE PERSON WHO WROTE THE REPORT WAS A TRUMP APPOINTEE AND MAYBE HE HAD POLITICAL MOTIVATIONS TO WRITE THAT SORT OF AND IN FAIRNESS, I BIDEN IS OLD AND HE >> CONFUSE PEOPLE.

AND, YOU KNOW, MEAN HE CAN BE PRESIDENT OF THE ME CAN'T BE PRESIDENT VERSUS TRUMP, YOU KNOW.

AND >> AS TRUMP DOES, THE SAME THING SHARE BIDEN DOESN'T GET STUFF BUT, YOU KNOW, REMEMBER 10 REMEMBER MY FIRST POLITICS IS AN EXERCISE IN ELECTIONS ARE AN EXERCISE AND I WANT TO MARRY YOU UNLESS YOU WERE THE LAST PERSON ON AND THAT'S LIKE BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, YOU MIGHT BE REALLY UNHAPPY WITH FACTS, BUT YOU, YOU KNOW WHY?

WHY?

THAT'S RIGHT.

WELL, TURNING TO SOME LOCAL NEWS, THE CIVILIAN POLICE OVERSIGHT COMMISSION HAD.

>> A PUBLIC HEARING LAST NIGHT ON THE SHOTSPOTTER GUN DETECTION TECHNOLOGY CURRENTLY USED BY CHICAGO POLICE.

THIS HAS BEEN UP MATTER OF DEBATE AND CONTENTION FOR MANY YEARS.

REMIND US WHY THIS IS SO CONTROVERSIAL.

>> WELL, YOU KNOW, THE SHOTSPOTTER IS A GUNSHOT DETECTION.

TECHNOLOGY.

AND DRAWS POLICE TO LOCATIONS WITHOUT A 9-1-1, CALL.

SO IF I YOU KNOW, I WE HAVE A REALLY GREAT SHOW TONIGHT AND I GO OUT AGAIN, MY HANDGUN.

I SHOOT IN THE AIR TO CELEBRATE.

YOU KNOW, SHOTSPOTTER WILL PICK THAT UP AND YOU KNOW, AND IT DOESN'T KNOW IF THERE'S A CRIME.

IT DOESN'T KNOW IF IF IT'S JUST SOME WHO ARE LIKE A OR A FIRECRACKER ARE HIGH.

AND SO, YOU KNOW, SO THERE'S IS IT IS INEFFECTIVE.

AND THEN YOU HAVE PEOPLE WHO DON'T WANT POLICE COMING TO NEIGHBORHOODS BECAUSE THE THING POLICE ARE BAD, WHICH WHICH IS PART OF THIS DISCUSSION.

AND SO YOU HAVE A REALLY COMPLEX THING.

AND MAYOR JOHNSON, WHO COMES >> MORE >> POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY BACKGROUND.

HE SUPPORTED BY MORE POLICE, DEFUND OR ADVOCATES PROMISE TO GET RID OF THIS.

AND NOW NOW IT'S TIME TO PAY THE PIPER WELL, AND HE DID CAMPAIGN GETTING RID OF IT.

THE CONTRACT RIGHT MORE OF AN AUTOMATIC THING.

BUT NO, IT'S NOT AUTOMATIC.

SO ON FEBRUARY 16TH, WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN?

HE'S HIRED POLICE CHIEF WHO ALSO LIKES IT AND IT IT.

AND HOW THE POSITION IS THAT RIGHT?

AND I MEAN, WHAT IT WHAT DOES.

THAT'S KNOW WHAT THE ANSWER IS.

HAS HE GIVEN US ANY INDICATION OF WHAT HE PLANS TO DO IN U.S. IS NOT THE LARRY SNELLING.

YOU KNOW, HE'S HE'S IN A SPEECH WEEK.

HE SAID WELL, YOU KNOW, IT'S IT'S IT HAD SOME.

>> SOME BENEFIT.

BUT YET NOBODY'S REALLY SPEAKING OUT ABOUT IT.

BUT I MEAN, THERE WAS THAT LEAKED REPORT BY KIM FOXX OFFICE SAYING THAT WHAT IT'S LIKE LESS THAN ONE PERCENT OF CASES RESULTS IN A JOHNSON'S GOING FIGURE OUT WHO I WANT TO MAKE HAPPY TO.

I WANT TO MAKE MY POLICE SUPERINTENDENT UNHAPPY BIG BELIEVER IN THIS.

>> I WANT TO MAKE MY SUPPORTERS UNHAPPY TO I WANT TO MAKE THEM BOTH UNHAPPY BY BRINGING IT BACK WITH SOME REFORMS.

BUT IT'S STILL THE SAME THING.

AND HEY, GUYS, WE NEED TO WE NEED TO COMPROMISE.

I DON'T KNOW.

IT WILL BE INTERESTING MUCH OF IT THE FINANCIAL PART OF THAT ME WOULD SAVE A LOT OF MONEY IF THEY GOT RID OF ENTERS IT JUST TO WELL, THAT'S CERTAINLY SAVE A MILLION TRACKED MANY MILLIONS.

AND IF IT'S NOT, YOU KNOW, RESULTING IN CASES AS YOU KNOW, SOON TO BE.

FORMER STATES ATTORNEY SAYS >> THAT COULD BE A BIG SAVINGS FOR FOLKS SHOTSPOTTER.

PEOPLE SAY IT HELPS POLICING AND THERE ARE SOME.

>> GENERALLY BEEN A PRO LAW ENFORCEMENT ALDERS WHO HAVE COME OUT FAVOR OF RENEWING THE CONTRACT RIGHT.

>> ANOTHER BIG ISSUE THE MAYOR IS DEALING WITH.

HE SAT DOWN WITH GOVERNOR PRITZKER, COOK COUNTY BOARD, PRESIDENT TONI PRECKWINKLE TO DISCUSS HOW BEST TO HANDLE NEW ARRIVALS IN THE CITY AMID THE ONGOING MIGRANT CRISIS.

SHE KEPT US.

DO WE KNOW HOW THAT MEETING WENT?

THE MEETING?

THAT WAS THE SECOND THE FIRST MEETING WAS CALLED BY TONI PRECKWINKLE WHO SAID GOVERNOR PRITZKER, MAYOR JOHNSON, YOU GUYS NEED TO GET TOGETHER AND KIND OF WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO DEAL WITH DID IT ONCE THEY DID A SECOND TIME.

IF YOU'VE NOTICED, NEITHER THE MAYOR NOR THE GOVERNOR HAS SAID MUCH MORE THAN IT WAS A GOOD PRODUCTIVE MEETING.

>> I THINK THAT BEEN PART OF THE DISCUSSION.

WE'VE GOT TO QUIT TALKING ABOUT IT JUST GET THINGS DONE.

>> AND THEY'VE GOT, YOU MIGRANTS ARE OUT OF AIRPORT THERE OUT OF SHELTERS.

SO YOU'RE SEEING MAYBE A LITTLE BIT MORE ACTION.

>> BEHIND THE SCENES, BABY, IT WAS BECAUSE OF THAT MEETING.

I DON'T KNOW.

YEAH, OVERSEAS TODAY, THIS IS THE FIRST DAY I LOOKED AT MY E-MAIL FROM MILLIAM C. >> THERE IS 0 MIGRANTS WAITING FOR SHELTER BACK IN OCTOBER 30, 800 FOR WAITING FOR SHELTER, SLEEPING ON POLICE FLOORS AND THE CITY IN THE STATE WILL BE WORKING OVER THE NEXT 6 MONTHS TO COMBINE THE NEW ARRIVALS.

YOU KNOW, THE HOMELESS MISSION, WHICH I HOPE WHICH THEY HOPE WILL REDUCE SOME OF THE TENSION BETWEEN ADVOCATES FOR THE HOMELESS AND ADVOCATES FOR NEW ARRIVALS.

YOU CAN CERTAINLY WE'VE HEARD A LOT FROM MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL SAYING.

>> WHERE WAS THE SENSE OF URGENCY?

WHERE WAS ALL THIS FUNDING?

YOU KNOW, PRIOR TO ALL THESE MIGRANTS BEING BUSED INTO THE CITY OF CHICAGO?

SO, YEAH, PERHAPS THAT COULD HELP TO ALLEVIATE SOME OF THAT TENSION.

MAYOR JOHNSON'S ALSO BEEN GETTING SOME PUSHBACK THIS WEEK FROM THE TRIBUNE EDITORIAL BOARD, WHICH WILL NOTICE ENTIRELY SEPARATE FROM THE NEWSROOM ABOUT SOME OF HIS SCHOOL'S INITIATIVES, ONE OF WHICH REMOVE POLICE FROM SCHOOLS.

GREG PRATT, COULD THIS BE POLITICALLY PERILOUS AT A TIME WHEN WE'VE SEEN FATAL SHOOTINGS OUTSIDE OF, YOU KNOW, CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS, YOU KNOW, JUST FROM AN OPTICS STANDPOINT, EVEN.

>> SURE.

I MEAN, THAT'S WHAT THEY WOULD SAY.

IS THAT THE RISK?

THEY'RE RIGHT.

THE THING THAT PROBABLY KEEPS THEM OFF AS YOU TAKE A S ARE OUT OF SCHOOL AND SOMEBODY GET SHOT AND IT'S A PROBLEM.

WE HAVE A MASS SHOOTING IN.

NOBODY HELPS OR BUT YOU KNOW, THEY'RE THERE.

THEY RAN ON AN AGENDA TO CHANGE THE WAY THINGS HAPPENED TO THE SCHOOLS.

AND, YOU KNOW, YOU YOU RUN FOR OFFICE TO DO THINGS NOW THEY'RE DOING THIS AND THE THE QUESTION IS, HOW MUCH PUSHBACK ARE THEY GOING TO GET?

HOW HOW HARD DO THEY GO?

AND WE'LL KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT FOR A WHILE.

BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT PUSHING BACK IN.

THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE ROOTING THEM >> THERE'S A CHANCE THERE'S A A DISCUSSION ABOUT WHY NOT JUST LET THE COMMUNITIES ACTION UL AND FOR A SCHOOL THAT MIGHT WANT IT, MAYBE THEY CAN GET IT.

BUT TO DRAW A HARD LINE.

I THINK THAT'S, YOU KNOW, THE QUESTION WHETHER THAT IT WAS THAT PRINCIPAL, I THINK WHO WROTE AN ED FOR THE TRIBUNE SAYING, HEY, >> WHY CAN'T YOU LET MY DECIDE AND WE SHOULD NOTE THAT HALF LARGELY LAW ENFORCEMENT, COMMUNITY YET.

>> THERE'S ALSO BEEN SOME PUSHBACK OVER MAYOR JOHNSON'S CALL TO PUT JUST 10 OF THE FUTURE ELECTED SCHOOL BOARD SEATS UP FOR ELECTION, GIVING HIM THE POWER TO APPOINT 0.11 OF THEM.

A MAJORITY OF THE BOARD, MONICA.

AND AS MAYOR JOHNSON RISK ALIENATING SOME OF HIS BASE BY ASKING FOR THE POWER TO HAVE A MAJORITY SAY AT LEAST FOR THE TIME BEING.

WELL, IT'S CERTAINLY CONTRADICTION TO RUN ON SAYING I BELIEVE IT SHOULD BE FULLY ELECTED THAN HALF?

>> IT'S SUCH A GOOD POLITICAL >> BECAUSE YOU HAD THE CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION WANTED CONTROL OF THE BOARD WHEN MAYOR LIGHTFOOT WAS MAYOR BECAUSE THEY HAD A LOT OF TENSION BETWEEN THE 2 OF THEM.

SO THE TEACHERS UNION GOT CONTROL OF THE BOARD.

BUT NOW MAYOR LIGHTFOOT IS AND THE UNIONS GUY IS IN THE MAYOR'S OFFICE.

SO THEY'RE LIKE, OH, WELL, MAYBE IT'S OK IF HE HAS CAN YOU KNOW SOME CONTROL, WHICH DOESN'T REALLY DO ANYTHING TO KNOCK DOWN THE ARGUMENT THAT MAYOR JOHNSON IS JUST THE CT NEWS GUY THROUGH AND THROUGH THE OTHER THING IS IT COSTS A LOT OF MONEY TO RUN RACES AND THE CTU IF IT'S GOING TO RENT.

21 RACES THAT COSTS A LOT OF MONEY.

SO THEY'RE SAYING OR MAYBE WE ONLY DO HALF OF THE RACES THIS TIME SO WE CAN SAVE MONEY FOR OTHER YOU IF YOU ALL PROBLEM GOES, THERE'S A MOCK RECEIVING THERE'S HERE.

WE'RE GOING TO HAVE DEMOCRACY.

YOU CAN'T BEAT CITY HALL.

THAT'S THE HE GOT THERE ARE A COUPLE THINGS HERE THE MAYOR HAS SAYS ONE THING BEFORE.

HE'S THE MAYOR AND NOW HE'S THE MAYOR.

USE.

>> SO IT'S LIKE, YEAH.

THEY GET INTO OFFICE AND REALIZE, THERE'S A REASON.

THINGS ARE YEAH.

SOME OTHER FOLKS IN OFFICE, OUR GENERAL ASSEMBLY DOWN IN SPRINGFIELD, THE SPRING SESSION IS UNDERWAY AND ACTUALLY FELT LIKE SPRING WEATHER TODAY.

>> THERE'S AN EFFORT TO CHANGE THE TIPPED MINIMUM WAGE IN ILLINOIS.

SHE WHAT WOULD THAT MEAN FOR WORKERS?

AND HE'S BACKING THIS THE SAME ORGANIZATION BROUGHT THAT MEASURE TO CHICAGO WHERE TIPPED WORKERS NOW GET A MINIMUM WAGE OR THEY WILL REMEMBER WHEN IT STARTS, TIPPED WORKERS WILL HAVE THE SAME MINIMUM WAGE HAS NOT ACKNOWLEDGED YES, YOU KNOW, FOR FOR YEARS, RIGHT?

NOW THEY WANT TO MAKE IT A STATEWIDE.

THINGS ARE 7 OTHER STATES THAT HAVE IT, INCLUDING CALIFORNIA.

THE CHALLENGE IS IT'S AN ELECTION YEAR.

SO IT'S INTRODUCED IN THE LEGISLATURE.

THIS BUT I DO NOT THINK YOU'LL SEE ANYTHING UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION IN NOVEMBER BECAUSE NOBODY WANTS TO BE ON RECORD.

VOTING FOR SOMETHING WITH, YOU KNOW WHAT?

MAYBE THEIR RESTAURANTS IN THEIR COMMUNITY WHO MIGHT DISAGREE THAT.

SO THEY GET ELECTED IN NOVEMBER.

AND THEN DURING THE VETO SESSION LATER IN NOVEMBER, IT WILL PROBABLY TO EVEN NUMBERED YEARS HAVE A WAY THINGS GETTING PUSHED OFF UNTIL AFTER THE TIME FOR BOTH SIDES TO REALLY TALK ABOUT WHY IT'S GOOD OR BAD.

I MEAN, YOU'RE A RESTAURANT GOOD WHERE, YOU KNOW BETTER.

WHAT I'M HEARING FROM RESTAURANT.

IS IT SORT OF A BLUNT INSTRUMENTS TO DEAL WITH AND WHO WANTS TO ISSUE?

>> I MEAN, THERE ARE A LOT OF SERVERS AND HIGH-END RESTAURANTS.

MAKING A LOT OF MONEY AND IT'S NOT AN AND THE THEIR THEIR BOSSES SAY WE'RE ALREADY PAYING THEM.

THAT.

BUT IF PEOPLE STEP TIPPING, THEN THAT'S GOING TO CHANGE THE EQUATION, FRIEND.

BUT THEY ALSO SAY THE MOM AND POP RESTAURANTS IF THEY'VE GOT TO RAISE IT UP TO, I THINK ABOUT $15 AN HOUR.

IT WILL BE DIFFERENT.

BUT I MEAN, IN CHICAGO RIGHT NOW THE TIPPED MINIMUM WAGE IS ABOUT 9, SOMETHING IN TEXAS.

IT'S $2 AND $0.13 SO IT'S IT'S NOT A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD ACROSS THE NATION OR EVEN THE STATE.

AND YOU'RE SEEING SUBURBS EVEN LIKE IT WAS A BIG SURPRISE AT CICERO SUPPORTS IT BECAUSE >> THEY'RE SEEING THEIR RESTAURANTS ARE SEEING PEOPLE LEAVE CICERO TO GO OVER THE BORDER AND WORK IN CHICAGO.

NOW THAT THEY'VE APPROVED THAT.

SO, YEAH, SOME OF THESE COLORS AND IT WILL INTERESTING.

YOU KNOW, THEY THERE'S A LOT OF ORGANIZING JEWS BY THE PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT MAYOR JOHNSON IN OFFICE.

>> AND I'M NOT SURE THAT THAT EXIST IN THE LEGISLATURE IN QUITE THE SAME WAY.

SO WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS.

>> WELL, THERE'S ALSO SOME BIG MOVEMENT IN THE EMPTY LAND NEAR THE SOUTH LOOP KNOWN AS THE 78 OR AT LEAST PROPOSALS FOR IT.

NEW RENDERINGS OUT THIS WEEK FOR A PROPOSED WHITE SOX STADIUM.

SOME INTERESTING IDEAS ABOUT HOW TO REUSE THE LAND WHERE SOX PARK CURRENTLY SITS.

WE JUST HEARD THAT GOVERNOR PRITZKER SAYS HIS OFFICE IS GOING TO MEET WITH THE DEVELOPERS, PAUL SULLIVAN, WHO FOOTS THE BILL FOR THIS IF IT GOES FORWARD.

THAT'S THE BIG QUESTION.

THIS THING IS IT WHEN FROM NOWHERE TO THE RENDERINGS, UNLIKE A SECOND AND RENDERINGS LOOK GREAT.

LOOKS COOL.

I THINK EVERYONE I'VE TALKED TO.

>> IT IS REALLY EXCITED ABOUT IF THEY DO DO IT.

NO ONE SEEMS VERY EXCITED ABOUT.

>> PAYING FOR IT.

IF WE KNOW JERRY WE KNOW THAT HE'S NOT PLANNING PAYING I DON'T KNOW.

IT WILL HAVE TO SIGHT.

SEE WHAT THEY'RE GOING THAT SPORTS FACILITIES AUTHORITY THAT ALREADY FUNDS STADIUMS IN CHICAGO STILL PAYING OFF.

AND YEAH, I MEAN, WON'T BE A SURPRISE IF THEY TAKE THAT TO THE LEGISLATURE AND SAY, HEY, CAN YOU JUST A LITTLE BIT IN WHAT THE BEARS ARE DOING?

VARIOUS THINGS.

SO THEY'RE ALL OVER THE PLACE.

AND, YOU KNOW, AM.

>> THEY'RE GOING TO WANT SOMETHING FROM SPRINGFIELD TO IN ALL LIKELIHOOD.

SO YOU YOU DON'T WANT TO DO ONE AND THEN THE OTHER AND GO BACK TO BACK.

YOU WANT TO DEAL WITH BOTH OF THEM.

>> AT THE SAME TIME, SOMEONE'S GOING TO COOL THEIR JETS FOR A LITTLE ABOUT THAT IDEA.

THE BEAR.

SO GO INTO SOCKS.

PART.

I JUST DON'T SEE I MEAN, WHY WOULD THEY WANT PUT I THINK THIS IS AN ADMISSION THAT IT WAS A MISTAKE.

I MEAN, THAT BUILDING A NEW STADIUM WAS A MISTAKE.

BUT THAT.

>> ARCHITECTURE, EVERYTHING WAS NOT REALLY.

WELL.

WE'RE CAN HAVE AND CHICAGO IS NOT REALLY A SOCCER TOWN AND THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT 5 MILLION PEOPLE AT THIS NEW STADIUM FOR THE SOX.

AND THERE IS NO CHANCE.

BUT THE WHITE SOX WITHDRAW TEAM DRAWS 5 MILLION.

OH, COME ON.

YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN THE NEXT NEXT.

NEXT TO WELL, AND WHAT ABOUT THIS IDEA OF HOW THEY'RE GOING TO READ POTENTIALLY REDEVELOP THE LAND TO HAVE NO SOCCER STADIUM?

THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT HOUSING.

THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, BUILDING LAND ON THOSE SEEMINGLY ACRES OF PARKING LOTS.

>> IS THAT THE KIND OF THING THAT COULD HELP GET SOME, YOU KNOW, SUPPORT BEHIND THIS MEASURE TO MAYBE DRUM UP A LITTLE PUBLIC MONEY.

>> WELL, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE IT'S LIKE GOING ON A YOU KNOW, YOU MAKE A LOT OF PROMISES AND THEN WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENED ALSO, DOES SEEM TO BE TRYING TO QUELL THE PAID ONLY BRIDGEPORT AND ALERT AND TRYING TO MAKE NICOLE LEE HAPPY THAT THAT WE'RE NOT GOING LEAVE YOU WITH NOTHING.

BUT YEAH, WHO KNOWS?

IT WILL KEEP THAT PROMISE, RIGHT?

BECAUSE SO FAR WE'VE HEARD FROM ULTIMATELY THAT, YOU KNOW, SHE SEEMS LIKE SHE'S COMMITTED TO TRYING TO KEEP THE SOX IN BRIDGEPORT THERE WHERE THEY'VE BEEN FOREVER AND EVER.

>> YOU KNOW THAT THEY'D STILL BE A SOUTHSIDE TEAM ON THIS LOCATION.

DO YOU THINK FANS WOULD BE LIKELY TO GET ON BOARD WITH A MOVE LIKE THIS?

>> I DON'T THINK FANS ANYMORE THAT IN BRIDGEPORT.

I GOT TO BE MAYBE IF YOU'RE IN BRIDGEPORT, BUT MOST SOX FANS, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE COMING FROM ALL AROUND.

THEY'RE NOT JUST COMING FROM THE SOUTH SIDE THAT WE LIKE TO CALL ON THE SOUTH SIDE TEAM MINUTES.

YOU KNOW, MOSTLY SOUTH SUBURBS.

I THINK IF THEY GO TO THE SOUTH LOOP AND THEY HAVE A NICE STADIUM THEY PAY FOR IT, MOSTLY I THINK PEOPLE BE ON BOARD WITH THAT.

>> SPEAKING JERRY REINSDORF PROPERTY, THE NBA TRADE DEADLINE CAME AND WENT AND THE CHICAGO BULLS DID EXACTLY NOTHING HIM.

DO YOU THINK THAT WAS THE RIGHT CALL?

>> BUT I MEAN, IT IS NOT SURPRISING.

PRETTY MUCH FIGURED THEY WOULDN'T TO.

PEOPLE KIND OF WORRIED THEY MIGHT TRADE TOMORROW, THEIR BEST PLAYER CARUSO, THEIR MOST POPULAR PLAYER.

IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE TO ADD-ON.

>> YOU KNOW, THEY JUST IT'S BEEN 3 YEARS IN A ROW.

THEY'VE DONE THE SAME THING.

THEY JUST.

BELIEF THAT THIS TEAM SOMEHOW GOING TO JUST COME OUT OF NOWHERE HASN'T HAPPENED.

SO IT'S VERY FRUSTRATING FOR BOTH FANS.

ON THE OTHER HAND, IF YOU LOOK AT IT FROM RYAN STARTS PERSPECTIVE, THEY'RE SELLING OUT ALL THE TIME.

THEY'RE NUMBER ONE IN ATTENDANCE AND THE SO, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE DO LIKE THESE PLAYERS AND THEY LIKE GOING TO STAY THE UNITED CENTER FOR THE GAME >> WE HAD A ROCKY START TO THE SEASON, BUT THEY'VE BEATEN SOME PRETTY GOOD TEAMS THIS YEAR.

THEY, YOU KNOW, BEAT THE TEMPLE TIMBERWOLVES EARLIER THIS WEEK.

YOU KNOW, WOULD IT BE A MISTAKE TO BLOW UP THIS ROSTER RIGHT NOW WITH THE WAY THEY'VE BEEN PLAYING WELL, BLOWING UP BY.

YEAH, I.

>> WITH THAT I WOULD BLOW UP THE ROSTER.

BUT, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE TRYING TO YOU'VE GOT DO SOMETHING TO GET SOMETHING UNDER.

CERTAINLY THE WAY KOBE RIGHTS PLAYED IS EVERYONE'S VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT.

YOU KNOW, ZACH IS INJURED.

SO THEY THEY REALLY COULD HAVE USED ANOTHER SCORE.

AND IT'S JUST A FRUSTRATING.

LAST 2, 3 YEARS FOR BOTH STANZA BECAUSE THAT THE INDIVIDUAL PLAYERS THEMSELVES ARE PRETTY GOOD.

BUT GROUP JUST HASN'T.

TOGETHER LAST 2, 3, 2 HOW TO TEAM THAT?

>> YOU KNOW, THEY CAME OUT OF THE REBUILD PUT THIS TEAM TOGETHER.

AND SINCE LONZO BALL'S BEEN INJURED.

REALLY BEEN A 500 TEAM.

YEAH.

>> WE HEARD THERE ARE 3 FORMER BEARS HEADING TO THE HALL OF FAME, DEVIN HESTER, JULIUS PEPPERS, STEVE MCMICHAEL, ESPECIALLY EMOTIONAL FOR MCMICHAEL AND HIS FAMILY IS ANY BATTLE LSU IS THIS REALLY SEEMS LIKE A FITTING TRIBUTE FOR YEAH IS A HEARTBREAKING STORY.

YOU KNOW, MCMICHAELS SUCH A BIG.

COLORFUL CHARACTER AND THEN COMING DOWN L S A COUPLE YEARS AGO.

>> IT'S SO GREAT THAT THE LEAST ALIVE GET.

TO GET IN.

AND OBVIOUSLY WITH THAT DEVIN HESTER GOING IN THE SAME JULIUS PEPPERS YOU KNOW, FEW YEARS.

YEAH, THERE'S BUT DEVIN AS MEAN, MONICA WERE TALKING EARLIER THE 2.

BALL JUST GOING TO BE A COOL EXPERIENCE AND FOR FRANCHISE THAT REALLY HASN'T HAD MUCH GOING FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS.

SO THIS IS REALLY COOL YET.

DEVIN HESTER, THAT KICKOFF RETURN.

WE SAW THE ONLY PLAYER TO RETURN THE FIRST KICK FOR A TOUCHDOWN IN A SUPER BOWL GAME.

>> I MEAN, YEAH, I SAW SMILE ON YOUR FACE WHEN WE'RE WATCHING THE CLIP.

I MEAN, WHAT MADE HIM SO SPECIAL AS A PLAYER TO WATCH?

WELL, I MEAN, I THINK JUST FOR THAT KICKOFF HE WAS SUPER BOWL AND THAT PRETTY AMAZING.

AND SO I THINK 3, 3, BEARS AT ONE TIME.

>> WE'LL TAKE IT.

YOU HAVE WE HAD THIS MANY IN THE CLASS AND THINK SO.

ALTHOUGH THEY DO LEAD NFL AND HALL OF FAMERS I DON'T THINK WE'LL EVER SEE ANOTHER KICK RETURNER IN >> HALL OF HE'S THE FIRST ONE AND IT'S A VERY RARE.

BUT YOU KNOW, THEY TO THE TRIBUNE MAD SOMETIMES LEAK I WAS WONDERING ABOUT THAT BECAUSE THERE IS AN EMBARGO ON THOSE I HAVEN'T TALKED TO ANYONE, BUT I WOULD ASSUME SOME PEOPLE DID BREAK OR DO ACCUSING ANYONE BUT THAT SOMEBODY IS GETTING A PHONE CALL.

SOMEBODY GOT A GOOD SOURCE.

THEY GOT A DIFFERENT I THINK THE TRIBUNE YOU KNOW YOU KNEW THEY WERE GOING IN, BUT WHERE'S THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO NOT SAYING?

FOR ABOUT 30 SECONDS LEFT YET PEPPERS 9 TIME PRO BOWLER.

YEARS WITH THE BEARS MOSTLY CAROLINA.

ONE OTHER TEAM TO THE NORTH WE'RE GETTING THE BUT A DESERVING YOU KNOW, I THINK HE'S 4TH UNDER.

>> SACKS ALL HE HAD GREAT YEARS WITH THE BEARS.

AND JUST, YOU KNOW, HE WASN'T HERE LONG ENOUGH TO REALLY MAKE A >> LIKE A MARK THAT TO, YOU KNOW, TOTALLY ONE OF GREAT RUSHERS OF ALL TIME.

YOU KNOW, IT'S GOING TO BE A LOT OF BEARS FANS DOWN THERE AND NEXT AUGUST FOR THE HALL OF ALL RIGHT.

WELL, WE HAD A HALL OF FAME PANEL TONIGHT.

SO THANK YOU ALL FOR JOINING US.

>> WE'RE OUT OF TIME.

MY THANKS TO GREGORY PRATT, MONICA SHE KEPT US AND PAUL SULLIVAN AND WE'RE BACK TO WRAP THINGS UP RIGHT AFTER THIS.

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

THE POPE BROTHERS FOUNDATION, ADDITIONAL SUPPORT IS PROVIDED BY.

>> AND THAT'S OUR SHOW FOR THIS FRIDAY NIGHT.

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I'M NICK BLUMBERG.

THANK YOU FOR WATCHING.

STAY HEALTHY AND SAFE.

GOOD NIGHT.

OKAY.

SUPER BOWL SUNDAY.

SPECIAL DISHES, SPECIAL PLANS FOR YOU.

I WOULD PICK FOR OKAY.

THERE YOU YEAR-OLD'S BE MAKING DUMPLINGS STRING SUPER BOWL RAIDERS.

I WAS GOING SAY AFTER THE AFTER THE KICK RETURN, I WISH THE REST OF THE GAME GONE THAT WAY.

WHERE, YOU CAPTIONING IS MADE POSSIBLE BY ROBERT, A CLIFF AND CLIFFORD LAW OFFICES, A CHICAGO PERSONAL INJURY AND WRONGFUL DEATH.

>> THAT SUPPORTS FREE