Governor JB Pritzker set to hold a news conference this week where he will likely announce a run for a 3rd term as governor.

Meanwhile, Mayor Brandon Johnson issuing a rare veto to the snap curfew ordinance and a new agreement on Chicago.

Police officers searching vehicles if they smell cannabis here with all that and more is our spotlight.

Politics team Heather, Sharon and Nick Wimberg taking.

So Heather Governor Pritzker set to announce that he's running for a 3rd term.

What do we know about this?

What we don't know much.

This is based on anonymous sources to a number of news organizations saying that it is time he's made the decision and he is likely to announce on Thursday.

>> That he will become a candidate for a 3rd term as governor, which is little bit unprecedented in Illinois because the conventional political wisdom is as you want serve 2 terms and go on with your life.

But Pritzker apparently is going to try to stay in office in.

It's not really clear that he's going to have serious competitor either in the Democratic primary or in general election.

Nick, what does this mean for the possible interest in the 2028 Democratic nomination for president?

Well, I think certainly, you know, Governor Pritzker has to recognize that as folks have pointed out that, you know, a 3rd term carries political risk anytime your in office.

>> You can do things that folks might want to use against you in a campaign, but it also helps him keep his national profile out there.

You know, former governors can be very high profile of voices in the party, but a lot of times when you're a former, you know, your profile starts to fade a little bit.

And Governor Pritzker absolutely does not want that to happen.

You know, certainly he has got plenty of his own money to help sell fund, you know, campaign for governor as well as mounting, you know, potentially a presidential run operation.

You know, just shortly after that.

But he won't have to resign.

If you know he decides to run for president.

Should he be re-elected?

Which I think a lot of folks think he would have a very good shot at doing so this is a way for him to keep his name at the game.

You know, in spite of the fact that sometimes folks do want to step away after 2 terms, that's probably timing is early right for him.

If he wants to keep his name up, could take a break for 2 years.

other who could be look at who could he be looking at as his running mate?

Because, of course, current Lieutenant Governor Stratton.

>> She is running to replace Senator Durbin.

Yeah, this is going to be I think a big decision for him because if he does choose to run for president, let's say he wins.

The Lieutenant Governor would become governor.

So this it's kind of a sort of a race that nobody pays a whole lot of attention to in most cycles.

But there would be more attention on it in this cycle and it will be interesting to see what sort of message he sends with Think this going blow.

It would like for somebody from the more moderate of the party because we've really started to move to serve progressive and communit Anti-Trump.

>> It's not clear sort of what calculations he is sort of undergoing there.

He doesn't have to make this decision this week.

It no further down the line, but it is sort of one of those high profile decisions that if he wasn't going to run for a 3rd term, he sort of wouldn't have to make so high level of difficulty.

even if he, you know, doesn't mean it's not even a question if he doesn't have to make the announcement right now, it's also smart for him not to make the announcement because then that becomes a renewed source of the tension on his re-election.

Correct?

Of course.

But of course, we all know he's thinking about it.

Yes of The governor did, though he signed a new bill last week that will make changes to the prison review board with changes.

That's right.

So this does a whole slew of For example, victims might be notifying are set to be notified when an offender is released, gives them the opportunity to make impact statements against them.

The opportunity to get an order of protection.

When someone is still incarcerated.

It also calls for board members to have more relevant experience either judicial or law enforcement.

Now, this is a less robust package of reforms.

Then one that had started to move through the General Assembly before it stalled last year.

>> That would have done things like make the board's meeting subject to the Open Meetings Act in Crete, this big task force to oversee it.

Governor Pritzker and other folks had some questions largely around the feasibility of those reforms, especially like live streaming the meetings and the fact that there wasn't really any funding tied to that reform This is a more slim down package of reforms, but still one that a lot of advocates were eager to see.

Remind us how we got to these changes.

That's what this comes after the murder last year of 11 year-old Jaden Perkins was at the hands of a man Chris City brand who'd been harassing Perkins's mother, his his former partner.

She was unable to get an order of protection against him because the judge said this man is still behind bars.

So that's why that was part of the reform package.

But one day after the review board approved brands released, he attacked La Tarea Smith and killed Jaden Perkins to members of the board resigned in the wake of that murder.

And Smith has since filed a negligence.

Okay, Heather?

Last week city Council passed that snap curfew ordinance.

Mayor Johnson issuing the rare veto on it.

What happens now?

Well, it will become official when it has read into the record at the July 16th City Council meeting and that will give supporters an attempt to at least a chance to override that veto.

Now they would need 34 votes on the city council to do That seems at least right now a big lift because it passed with just 27 votes.

So >> Alderman Brian Hopkins, who is the lead sponsor, says he's going to try to override it because he is really committed to this being the right path that the city.

However, it's not clear that he could say anything to any of his colleagues to change their mind on this issue, which I feel like I've been reporting on since the dawn time.

James, with now, is it possible that there is a team take over in the next couple weeks that turns violent that sort reset this narrative perhaps.

But there has not been a team take over in Chicago that turned violent since Mid-March.

At the same time, there have been 3 in Naperville each of those have turned violent.

And it's not clear whether Chicago police need or want additional tools to help them keep a lid on these Nick, a federal judge blocking the Trump administration from using the state's cooperation with immigration efforts as a condition for receiving transportation funds.

Illinois was one of 20 states part of that lawsuit.

What's next?

Well, this is a preliminary injunction saying that the transportation secretary cannot put these kinds of mandates on the funding that goes to states.

>> Now, if Secretary Sean Duffy has vowed to fight this in court about to appeal that decision, calling this judicial activism by an Obama appointed judge.

What this is just one of many lawsuits that Illinois and others other states have been launching against the Trump administration for these sorts of funding freezes conditions, clawbacks, things that they say are not illegal precondition or a legal way to treat that that money that is promised to states.

>> Heather, you were reported today that there's a new agreement on when and why Chicago police officers can search vehicles if they smell cannabis.

Tell us about these new rules.

Well, it's complicated because it involves the consent decree and everything involving the consent decree is complicated.

But essentially the coalition of police reform groups led by the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois said the CPD was.

>> Impermissibly trying to rewrite their policy for investigatory searches to allow officers to search a vehicle if they smell raw canvas.

Now this is based on an Illinois Supreme Court decision that said that that was permissible reason to search a car since state law requires raw cannabis to be kept in an airtight container in cars.

Now, however, the coalition said, nope, the consent decree said no searches based just on the smell of cannabis either burned or raw.

And they said today in a court filing that they had reached an agreement and they were relieved that CPD, it's sort of dropped this push and that in this policy it will only be permissible for officers to search a car if they smell cannabis.

Raw cannabis.

If they have another reason to suspect criminal activity.

So it's complicated, but it is a very important sort of, you know, push towards resolving this.

these issues at the heart of the consent You've also done some reporting on the city's 28 year contract with calm.

It expired a little over 4 years ago, but there is still no new one.

Why not?

Well, back in 1992, the big issue was in weeks like this where it was very hot.

There were frequent in very serious power outages.

People didn't have AC.

They couldn't keep their food called and that agreement all the way back when I was a school was designed to prevent those outages.

Flight boarding on events.

Yeah, you know, I was since city and comment really haven't started negotiating in Ernest with over a new deal.

Now there was a bunch of flurry of activity all the way back in 2020 when comment found itself embroiled in the middle of the scandal that would eventually lead to former House Speaker Michael Madigan's conviction and now looming incarceration.

>> It's not clear why there's been no sort of, you know, moving forward on this.

But it means that the city has not been able to make changes to this really old agreement that reflects, you know, the 21st 30 seconds left, Nick, because everyone in northern Illinois is going to be paying more for electricity this summer.

Why?

That's right.

Those prices are going up some 45 to 50% utilities like Ahmed say they're paying higher prices at recent, you know, power capacity auctions because >> there's more demand from data centers which are cropping up all over in Illinois.

And there hasn't been enough renewable energy added into the pipeline.

>> There was a push to make some more of that happen as well as provide relief from bills for low-income consumers in the most recent General Assembly that did not move forward.

We should find out our new rates post summer rates in October, but we have not heard yet from come out