>> Hello and thanks for joining us on Chicago tonight.

I'm Brandis Friedman.

Here's what we're looking at.

>> We don't want >> The Trump administration is considering adding dozens more countries to the current travel ban list.

The state has a new budget in place that includes millions of dollars in new taxes and one-time revenues.

And Chicago police officers have shot and killed the same number of people so far this year as they did in all of last year.

We dig into that data.

And what is vaccine guidance?

Look like going forward now that the health secretary has dismissed members of a key vaccine advisory panel.

>> And now to some of today's top stories.

The state's 55 billion dollar budget is now law.

Governor JB Pritzker signed the budget touting the limited spending despite a challenging fiscal season.

>> The budget maintains core investments for Illinois's families without raising their taxes in a year when revenues are expected to increase by 3.5% We're a in our discretionary spending to a less than one percent increase.

>> Pritzker criticized the Trump administration for sowing fiscal uncertainty.

But praised lawmakers for passing a budget that still needs pension obligations and includes investments in education and early childhood learning House Republican leader Tony Macomb be, though, says the use of one-time revenue sweeps and nearly a billion dollars in tax hikes set the state up for failure in fiscal year.

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If you're heading down town over the next few weeks, check your Route street closures to prepare for the 3rd annual NASCAR Chicago Street race are starting.

>> Beginning today, Balbo drive between Columbus and you saw Lakeshore Drive will be fully closed with parking restrictions.

Also in place on Columbus Drive between Jackson and elbow.

More closures start next week and will continue in the lead up to the race on July 5th and 6th businesses and residences will still be accessible the entire time.

But be sure you know how you're getting there.

And it's the restaurant industry's biggest night.

The James Beard Awards often referred to as the Oscars of the food world are taking place in Chicago tonight.

But we already know one of the honorees, Chicago's beloved rib joint limbs barbecue.

The South Side staple was named one of America's classics by the James Beard Foundation.

Back in February.

>> The coveted category honors locally owned restaurant with Timeless appeal that served quality food and our beloved by their communities.

We spoke with some local fans of the 70 year institution while they were lined up outside to hear what makes lens special.

>> I've coming since was 9 and my sister been 6 or their black on establishing there's been an existing 71 years.

The same land.

>> Everything and saying good food.

Like the real tips.

I like the hot I like everything.

They smell first.

>> We draw by down the street.

You can always get it first he's in smoke coming until this year.

So, you know, we've got to stop line and pretty >> Congrats limbs looks delicious.

5 Chicago restaurants are up for awards tonight.

for Outstanding bar, delete for outstanding restaurant and 3 finalists for Best Chef, Great Lakes, tightening of Jesus, Chris Young, an early move.

Our of Maxwell's trading and Noah Sandoval of Oriole, best of Luck to them.

Up next, what's behind an increase in Chicago police shootings more than 6 years after a court-ordered reforms.

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>> Chicago police officers shot 12 people and killed 6 during the first 5 months of this year.

That's the same number of people officer shot and killed in all of 2024, according to an analysis of city data by W T Tw News reporter Heather Sharon joins us now with more.

Heather Breakdown.

This increase in police shootings for us.

So of the 12 people shot and 6 people killed between January first and may 31st.

>> The same amount as in all of 2024.

6 people were shot by police officers in the month of May alone.

2 were killed all but 2 of the shootings since the first of the year took place in the South and the West side for involved people that police said were with knives.

3 the shootings followed foot chases which are among the most dangerous interactions police officers and members of the public have.

And on June Officer Crystal Rivera became the 7th person to be shot and killed by Chicago police officer officials say her partner unintentionally shot her after a foot chase.

Heather, what do we know about whether these other shootings were justified?

All of the shootings remain under investigation by the civilian Office of Police Accountability.

And it is likely that it will take months if not most of the next year for Copa to figure out whether the shootings complied with department.

He'll use of force policy.

Do police officials are Mayor Brandon Johnson?

Do any of them have an explanation for this increase in the number of shootings?

So the superintendent, Larry Snelling representatives of the police department declined to answer questions that I sent to them.

Mayor Brandon Johnson said that there's no evidence that the shootings are evidence that the ongoing reform effort is ineffective or impractical, OK?

so more than 6 years ago, though, city and police leaders, they agreed to this extensive oversight from a federal judge in an effort to prevents deadly encounters between police and members of the public.

You spoke with police reform advocates.

Are they concerned by this Are at the heart of the consent decree, which, of course, is supposed to change the way officers are trained, supervised and disappointing was the goal of making these interactions between police officers and residents of Chicagoans less deadly Alexander block of the ACLU, which was one of the groups that sued the city to force the city to enter into consent decree since the CPD owes the city an explanation for the shootings and she says they will continue and demanding those Astor those answers as part of the consent decree ongoing process had own study on the case for Thanks, Brandis.

And you can read full story on our website is all at W T Tw Dot com Slash news.

The Trump administration is reportedly considering a large scale expansion to its travel ban.

>> And then, though, from the State Department reveals 36 additional countries, most of them, African or majority black nations could soon face full or partial entry restrictions.

This is in addition to 12 countries, the administration already banned earlier this month.

The news has sparked outrage from local immigrant rights groups saying the policy, quote, endangers lives, fuels anti-black, an anti immigrant sentiment and just honors the contributions of Haitian and African immigrants.

Joining us to discuss more are let's work on top of president of the Dusable Heritage Association and Alejandro Palacios staff attorney at the University of Illinois, Chicago's International Human Rights Clinic.

Thanks to both for joining us.

So earlier this month window President Donald Trump, he announced the travel, the travel restrictions on 12 nations.

Yesterday we learned, you know, via The Washington Post reporting really that 36 more countries could join that list.

And as I mentioned, most of them, majority black, as you can see by the map, many of them are in Africa.

That's On top of what is your reaction to this news?

So thank Brenda, having me first.

And it to make tradition past president of sub would have huge thank you see ship.

>> so.

>> you, chair of the.

>> coalition of Haitian American organizations.

So this is something you know, that doesn't sit well with us because we don't know that Haiti is a.

Is enemy of the U.S. We don't know that that that Haiti has had any kind of immunity against us.

In fact, ad he's one of the surest allies of the U.S. given it a national community.

So we we always what it lacks.

That would be us.

You know, so we don't understand where that's coming from.

what this in context, this isn't the same time that the the administration is warning out to red carpet for kind you and Suffolk and supposedly that they'll arrest, that being subject to general site and then same time, so big that they are doing to against the African countries.

I don't kind of threat security threat we posing to to the U.S.

I mean, we don't have any kind of a weapon.

across the Atlantic, you know, to you us citywide, Alice, trying where and how it could be.

Well, if you know, we mentioned the press release from the coalition of Haitian American organizations in the Chicagoland area, United African Organization.

They're calling the policy.

>> Anti-black, in your view, are countries that are selected for these travel bans is is this blatantly racist?

mid contrast.

>> we did red carpet do about Exactly.

So if you something that's you that we should put in context of do replacement theory.

He says that is the U.S. what's at play.

That I mean, there was some you give us when we when we see that drowning of the I mean, again.

Countries is that something that we need?

That causes?

some people, some sectors to be.

a flight full of.

So as I said, so there is no rhyme or reason.

I think that the I mean, if you think that's when that is, you know, is good So it the country's outlined in the cable, the site that are the concerns outlined in the cable, should say, cite these countries apparent lack of identity documents.

>> And the questionable security of those countries, passports.

It also mentions that some of the country's lack cooperation to facilitate the removal their nationals who have overstayed their visas in the U.S. and are these are these valid national security concerns?

So according to the Trump administration, they are.

And as we understand, given the history of of how the courts have also received.

>> lot of the policies that have come down from the Trump administration.

He has broad powers to control immigration law and so he is just defying these actions through the need for increased national security.

But what's interesting and what I would like to point out is that the countries that are named in the in the struggle band, right?

None of these countries except for believe Iran are listed on the United States terrorist list.

And so there seems to be some confusion there.

But what we do see, we do see this impacting U.S. citizens.

We do see this impact.

The we do see justifications.

>> On the basis of national security and on this idea these countries are not accepting individuals who have been deported and that these countries lack appropriate screening and vetting procedures.

>> that then result in some kind of danger to U.S. citizens.

But, you know, even thinking about President Trump tried to conflate the the attack in Colorado as a reason to justify this travel ban, that individual was an Egyptian national and Egypt is not on on the list, right?

And so it it there seems to be a lot of doesn't seem to be a lot of rhyme or reason behind some of these policies.

How to you think this differs from the travel ban in Trump's first administration?

We know that was majority Muslim nations.

The U.S. >> And so during the first administration, what we saw is a lot of a lot more chaos.

A lot.

A lot of short notice and a lot of racist rhetoric around this around on the travel ban to mean it was called the Muslim travel ban for a reason Trump made openly racist remarks about how he was targeting Muslim countries.

And so that caused a lot of public instruction.

Individuals were arriving at airports and and being and not being allowed to enter.

Right.

And from one day to the next this new travel ban has a lot more legal precision.

It is broader and it has specific exemptions and waiver options as well.

And so I believe that the Trump administration have learned from the litigation that occurred during the first administration to now overcome those legal hurdles that they faced during during the first round of litigation related to this issue.

And this new Muslim enter this new travel ban.

Excuse me does not signal does not single out Muslim countries rather.

It is a more extensive list and the administration has also made remarks about how this list was created.

Also because the governments that are the governments of those nations are not respond.

receiving their nationals back or there's, you know, it's not the best relationship with those countries.

Yeah.

And reports show that the governments of those list of nations they've been given 60 days to meet new benchmarks and requirements established by the U.S. State Department in a deadline of 08:00AM on Wednesday to say, hey, this is the initial action plan.

>> That we've come up to to meet that.

Of course, the White House has not necessarily responded, were confirmed any of this just yet.

It's or this, you know, course, this all comes on the heels of, you know, the mass deportations and the detainment of pro-Palestinian students that we've been seeing.

Do you think this travel ban as part of greater anti-immigrant sentiment?

>> Well, yes, So so deputy deputy.

And indeed, this is as far as heat is said this is yet another front to he people.

So we know that back in the fall.

I mean, I'm in the coming We're just comments that were made.

But Haitians, so those so it's so death and that in >> is an appendix, you know, to know that sentiment against immigration.

It's a type of immigration, as I've said Okay.

So I do want welcome.

but what for?

But for some of African countries, obviously it doing.

And it seems that there's some better that are not so welcome and that thank you.

So like the administration seems to picking and choosing.

But I'll curious to see >> what the State Department and the White House says on the record right now.

are.

We know that this is based Washington Post reporting.

We'll have to leave it there for now.

If this continues.

We'll have you back.

Of course, it's a con job and 100 Lafayette.

Thank you both for joining Thank you.

Because of that.

Up next, changes to a vaccine advisory panel are raising concerns over public health.

Illinois health officials are calling out the Trump administration's move to oust members of a vaccine advisory panel.

Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Junior recently dismissed all 17 members of the advisory committee on Immunization practices in named 8 new vaccine Policy Advisors to replace them.

Kennedy insists the move was necessary to, quote, re-establish public confidence in vaccine science.

However, some public health officials are calling the move deeply concerning.

Joining us now on what it could mean for vaccine guidance going forward.

Our doctor, Tina Tan, professor of pediatrics and infectious diseases at Northwestern School of Medicine and physician at Lurie Children's Hospital.

And on Zoom, Doctor, Samir Vohra, director of the Illinois Department of Public Health.

Thanks you both for joining us.

Welcome back.

Thank you, Dr. Tan first to you.

Remind us what the advisory Committee on Immunization Practices does Cip is a committee of highly that.

It expert.

>> On vaccines, infectious diseases and they're all different fields and what they do is a very carefully review.

All the scientific information on the vaccines.

And they put together sound recommendations for the use of the vaccines and persons of all ages.

What are some of their their backgrounds, the mix of of, you know, >> professional disciplines that that makes up a good panel.

So it's a panel made up of people that are infectious diseases, Pediatrics, family practice OBGYN Public Health epidemiologist researchers.

So it's a very, very diverse panel which basically looks at all the scientific data from all the different angles to come up with the most sound recommendations for the use of the vaccines.

>> Dr for a Secretary Kennedy.

He got through his Senate confirmation with a vote from Republican Senator Bill Cassidy because Cassidy said that Kennedy promised that he would, quote, not mess around with vaccines too much.

Will these new members that he has appointed to this?

Will they have the power to affect vaccine policy?

>> Well, Doctor 10 mention right?

rigorous process in which members a cip are hard shows and and cip as currently constituted often set important recommendations in which practitioners like Dr Tan and I have used to make in recommend vaccine guidance to our patients.

Also a number of states use a CPA cip guidance are mentioned in state law those things were done and often states and local jurisdictions respected cip process based on the credibility and the non-partisan way in which those recommendations were made, the decisions by the secretary now put that trust and credibility at risk, which is why it has been concerning to many states, including us here in Illinois as well as national state and local leaders and specialty societies and other individuals that depended on a cip guidance for decision-making.

>> Dr Tan RFK Junior, the secretary.

He has retired all 17 members, replace them with 8 new members.

As we mentioned.

Is that enough can do the job of 17?

And is that enough of the diversity that we were talking about earlier?

So it's not the number that makes a difference is expertise.

>> And the 8 members that RFK basically chose are not experts.

Many of vaccine skeptics, some of them are anti-vaccine anti-science and some of them are not even in the medical field.

Was that make you think is a practitioner, whatever as a practitioner, it's going to be very difficult.

>> For that group to point out scientifically sound recommendations for the use of vaccines and all age groups.

cip is recommendations also determine which vaccines get covered by the Vaccines for Children program.

That's readily funded initiative provides free access to slow low income and underinsured children.

>> Who will be most impacted by this movie are tense.

So >> basically here in the United States, we have been very fortunate in the past that Vfc basically uses the exact same vaccines that children whose parents have insurance Hughes now, if there is an impact on the F C there's going to be a problem with regards to access to the vaccines.

So that, you know, kids that are on Medicaid or who don't have insurance, going to find it very difficult to get vaccine.

If the vfc basically suffers from this.

>> Dr or what about those of us who do have insurance?

Will we will?

Our insurance companies continue to cover if we would like to get vaccines will pay for it.

>> I think part of Has been created a lot of uncertainty from the secretary's recommendations.

>> And as we've seen kind of changing recommendations around COVID-19, it's unclear where those a set recommendations will be and how insurance companies will fall and it places a situation where as we look at this, we don't know what the landscape will look like and we'll all be waiting.

And I think it really puts both >> are.

>> The residents that we serve here in Illinois providers, but also how the medical and health care system works.

Even a cloud of uncertainty that is really causing concern throughout the nation.

>> Dr got about 45 seconds left on.

How is it pH responding to these changes to ensure that you all and practitioners have sound information to guide patients with.

>> Well, we're definitely not standing.

Still part of great mission here.

The only apartment public health is to ensure that credible Processees founded on up-to-date scientific evidence are being followed in our recommendations.

Follow that as well.

We're working to make sure that we're analyzing Illinois, specific data.

We're convening independent experts like a doctor tan and her colleagues in Illinois to have robust conversations, including with our Immunization Advisory committee to ensure that residents that here the only apartment public health we are a credible source.

So that individuals information that they need.

>> I'm sure and I'm sure that the work continues.

That's what we'll have to leave it.

Doctor Tina Tan, Doctor Samir thanks you both for joining us.

We appreciate it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And that's our show for this Monday night.

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