>> Hey, everyone, thank you for joining us on the weekend review.

I'm Brandis Friedman that Berg has the evening off.

Mayor Brandon Johnson just celebrated 2 years in office.

He reflected on changes to policy and his personal life.

>> This is so humbling for us to be able to serve.

The working people of this city been the joy in honor of our.

>> Of R r for of our like violent crime is down and the migrant crisis is speeding from the spotlight.

But other challenges have emerged like a worsening financial picture and federal funding threats you don't will forget.

We're fighting Daniel Biss jumps in the race to replace outgoing Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky.

>> The administration seeks jeopardize readiness for disasters and safe roads to try to force Illinois law enforcement officers to shift their focus away from addressing serious crime in our communities.

In order to instead do the federal government's job of civil immigration enforcement.

>> And Illinois joins a coalition of states suing the Trump administration over withholding federal dollars from states with sanctuary status.

Meanwhile, Chicago gets a population boost reversing a previously shrinking trend.

The Supreme Court hears arguments on birthright citizenship, possibly reshaping what it means to be American and not even severe weather could drain on Beyonce's parade as the star kicks off 3 shows at Soldier Field.

>> All right.

Let's get you up with our week in review panel.

Joining us now are Jake Sheridan from the Chicago Trib.

You Carry Shepard from Axios.

W t Tw Zone.

Patty, what Leann Wbb ends.

Rob Heart.

Welcome or everybody.

Good to see you.

Let's get right to So Mayor Brandon Johnson had a big week officially 2 years in office as Mayor Jake, what is he touting for his first 2 years?

You know, I think the mayor touts his his >> support for labor for working people more than anything else over and over again.

He says he's, you know, the best mayor for workers and all of America.

But one thing that really stuck out to me in this kind of media tour, he did marking his 2 years in office are some of the apologies that he made.

You know, he said that he needs to do a better job of communicating with Chicagoans and of communicating with alderman too, to get his message across to explain to people why some of the Boulder visions that he has are needed in the city.

>> He says, you know, he sort of doing good work, but he just needed to tell everybody, hey, everybody, look at all the good work we're doing.

But what were some of his What didn't go his way over those 2 years?

You know, some of the bigger things and you think of the bring Chicago home referendum.

I think there was maybe a failure to his vision.

He didn't really get in that race and they're certainly ban a struggle to communicate with alderman.

That's what they say.

At least that they often feel left out.

So I think that's where a lot of the budget struggles in the last year came from Kerry He struck a tone of gives me a humility, but it was sometimes especially in his interview with Jake and Kelly Wallace at the Tribune that it was a little bit one of those like when you do a job interview and it's like, what was your worst quality?

I'm too much of a perfectionist like it was a little like was a little like I've done all these great things which he has said to reporters before.

I've done all these great things.

It's up.

It's on you all to get the message out to Chicagoans.

And I'm doing all these things for everyday Chicagoans getting rid of sub-minimum wage, cetera.

>> But it did accept some responsibility that maybe there's some problems with his own messaging on that.

What we see is his biggest challenge is going forward.

>> I think the biggest thing is going to be dealing with budget cuts from Donald Trump.

But another thing is going to have to contend with is rising political pressure here in Chicago.

We reported last week that there's a dark money pack of that's raised 10 million dollars to oppose the mayor and to, you know, fight in the city council.

That's going to be a big deal as we get closer to You know, aldermen are going to be aware that that out there, that it might might slap people who are side with mayor too much.

That's has he learned anything as he demonstrated that he's changed his approach over the last couple years has I think they have worked harder to communicate, certainly with reporters.

I think they work harder to communicate directly with the public.

>> As you know, as for whether the policy direction will change, I think that remains to be seen.

>> He has not explicitly said if he will seek re-election, although a lot of us can probably though, he remains unpopular among Chicagoans within him.

3 strategies poll from earlier this year showing in nearly 80% disapproval rating among residents robbed.

Do you think a second term is a possibility for the mayor?

I would not rule that out.

There is a non-zero possibility.

And the reason why is that you need somebody to run against him.

>> And even though you have this, this the money out there, too, support an opponent if that opponent were to make him or herself parent.

I think the nature of the job and the mayor talk touched on this in the interview, too, is that it's it's a different mayors.

The mayor of Chicago is a different job than it was 30 years ago.

And the Chicago machine, even though it had many, many, many problems and there have been books written about it.

It was an organizing principle that got all of the stakeholders on the same page.

It made it easier to be the mayor because he was made it easier to just get everybody together.

Same time that has since broken down and politics in the city of Chicago are changing.

The stakeholders are changing.

The coalitions are changing and regardless of who wins the mayor's office in 2027, he or she or Mayor Brandon Johnson will have to contend with that and maybe a lot of challenges.

You could say, yeah, I would be him an election would say, do we really want this like a dog chases?

The ambulance going to do that when you get it?

I mean, would he be coming out on this lake two-year tour?

>> If he wasn't thinking about running, he's got to be like making his case for 2 years from Patty, any thoughts on why he's so unpopular?

I think that there's just this is case out there of everybody's upset about everything.

And, you know, like everything is kind of trickling down to the city level, things that are happening at the national or the state level.

It all kind of comes down to the local level.

even if it's not his fault or the city spot for something, that's where people are going to still feel the most frustrated.

You're the most frustrated what's happening on your street in your neighborhood.

It doesn't really matter who's causing the chaos.

It's where it comes down to.

And that's kind of where it stops for a lot of people.

I think there's just overall frustration here.

Big target.

Easy to direct your yes disappointments, wrapping it into the machine.

And like we like to say, oh, we hate machine, but actually a lot of people like the machine because got it got stuff done.

And issue that you mentioned with the mayor is there's a little bit of like stop airing your dirty laundry.

>> Get secure the votes with council members.

Before you get to the council meeting and don't show everyone how the sausage is made.

So right.

I mean, if you do don't write because like we complain about that sausage get made in the back smoke-filled room.

Also, it's tricky, though, last year there has not been a lot of sausage really struggled past legislative That is a thing where nobody wanted rubber stamp.

But by the same token, when you have fights over voting again.

>> There's that mobbed him and things aren't getting that message.

Frustrating.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You don't want any idea, Robin, if you can speak to this but like his any, have we seen any other mayor have favor ability ratings?

This low?

She is good question back to me.

And if you spent like in the history of Chicago or in the history of American history, I mean, I would Dalton's second most famous.

Tiffany had yes.

added a field.

I do, too.

But that was for entirely different reasons.

>> But I just think that the nature of and the mayor touched on this in his interview and that is asked him, Jake, you know, what's the diff between your tenure in office and 40 years ago in Mera, Washington was in office and 40 years ago you had to go through columnists.

You had to go through Mike Flannery ago through decay had to go through Andy Shaw and now it's all taking place on social media and that process of watching the sausage being made there all you can now watch it being made and see the compromises and decide you hate that.

So even though the sausage is being made, you're angry that as as a voter or as an observer, that one thing or 2 things were taken out and those are deal breakers to The art of compromise, which everybody likes and everybody says they want to see when.

The thing that you like is taken out of a piece of legislation.

I right when when when reaches the finish you're angry about it.

So I just think the whole Nick nature of governance and this is everywhere.

If look at the just the New York centric media, everybody hates the mayor of New York, every man of the mayor of San Francisco lift everybody's may and that the mayor of Los Angeles, you're just you're just mad at the person in power.

So that that that's part of the dynamic that exists today.

But at the same time, though, I think part of Mayor Brandon Johnson's problem is, as Jake pointed it was was self-inflicted.

There was some on-the-job learning and that and he suffered for that.

So let's talk about the Evanston Mayor, Daniel Biss because he's announced that he is running for outgoing Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky seat in Congress.

Jake, what is he running on?

What we know?

>> You know, I I think he wants to as a lot of Democrats here in Illinois have articulated be a fighter against the Trump government against the Donald Trump's agenda.

>> Yep.

>> All remind folks why his name might be familiar if they don't live in Evanston and he's not from the time he ran for it And then before that, he was a state senator, which ironically Senator State Senator Laura Fine, who also is in the race house, the seat actually took Daniel.

This seat in the state Senate.

Did you get all you some people would remember from And yes, he ran in 2018 and you lost, of JB Pritzker in the primary who went on to be governor, right, distant second.

He came in that time.

So as you mentioned, you know, competition so far, state Senator Laura Fine of Glenview who replaced him in the Senate how but also progressive media star Kat, because ala?

>> Any idea how crowded this race might get.

Kerry Rob?

>> I mean, I don't know that it's going to get much more crowded than it is to to Jake's point, you said, you know, what is the running on?

He's very progressive.

But I think that Democrats have made they have been very honest and candid that we need younger folks to represent Koski and urban are legends and what they've done and they did great work.

They're both older.

They're, you know, 80 some, you know, 80 or 80 something.

So everyone has said we need a little fresh blood in there, you know, and the national side Democrats of taking a beating for being a little sleep at the wheel.

You know, from the past election.

So, you know, I mean, I think he's trying to run on this idea that were younger were going to fight harder.

We're not gonna let Trump step all over us.

So we'll housing district.

little research.

There's only been like 3 people who the year going back you keep and said, yeah, it's going back to 1948.

Except for that one time in the early 60's.

>> One Republican one and then said to heck with this on to be a to get was saying it was back.

>> Wow.

Okay.

And then shokalskiy until obviously also Governor JB Pritzker.

He also signed an executive order blocking the federal government from obtaining personal health data related to autism making Illinois the first state to do this.

Carrie, what prompted Pritzker to take that action?

Well, as we know, HHS, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy junior, he has made this quite big point for his administration now and even before he was in the role of secretary, he has been pretty vocal about how he's anti-vaccine.

He says that.

>> Vaccines cause autism, which, you know, a lot of autism groups say is incorrect language.

Further stigmatizes people with autism spectrum disorder.

So there's pushback on that.

But, you know, this is also Pritzker and Illinois saying its overreach by you and we don't want to make we want to make sure the Illinois residents are not susceptible to whatever thing you're planning to do with this data.

Of course, HHS it H H s as we are not going.

We are practicing all safety protocols.

But what about folks who get get Medicaid or Medicare that the federal government could have access to that?

So there's a lot of pushback from advocacy groups and of course, the governor as well.

Illinois has expanded access to prep.

That is, of course, the medication that can help prevent HIV infection.

Carry back to you.

How exactly is prepped being made more accessible?

So prep now you can get it for people who needed obviously qualify for.

You can get it with a prescription from a pharmacist.

So you don't have to necessarily go to a doctor to get it.

There is, you know, the law.

There was a like passed in 2022. and then training has been being implemented and is is like a standing order that the head of the Illinois Public Department, Illinois Department of Public Health IDPH, they are sort its consider that they are allowed to say okay.

Now, you know, pharmacists can distribute prep.

This is significant, too, because as we've seen is that the federal government, the Trump administration, has been restricting a lot of funds and I h funds that, you know, go to HIV and AIDS research.

I've reported on this in the past.

So, you know, the folks I talked to said this is a really big deal because this is about accessibility.

This is about making, you know, not everybody has access to get to a doctor to get a prescription.

So the goal being that there will be, you know, they will access prep sooner and maybe a little easier.

What do we know about how HIV infection rates are trending lately?

They consistently for the last probably more than a decade.

They tend to hit black and Latino men harder.

This disproportionately hits them.

They do.

They have been going down probably because of the prevalence of prep hopefully, but that's a really big concern for people in the community who are worried about these federal funding cuts, especially people who are getting who got, you know, grants who are studying, you know, how HIV is transmitted.

How about accessibility?

They're very concerned that the numbers are going to go in the other direction.

I had one researcher told me we're on the precipice of of curing HIV and this could set us way back.

pretty start.

That's pretty stark.

Absolutely.

City of Chicago this week announcing that it is committing 7 million dollars in raises for early childhood education workers.

>> Of rob, give us a sense of what this might amount to for childcare workers.

Now.

This is staggering.

I see this is somebody who is married to someone who is the director really childhood to school in the Chicago area.

So this is a a >> topic near and dear to my heart.

But if you're working early-childhood education, the average salaries, $36,000 a year now, think about this.

Someone who works in early childhood education.

This is someone who lays the building blocks for your child's educational foundation helps them learning now.

those first helped them to sound out letters and learn to read and learn basic math and the you're baking $36,000 a year, any little bit helps.

And also it builds up early childhood programs that already exist.

One of the challenges that early childhood education is facing right now.

Well, I would say right now one of the big challenges is that it's just getting kids up to speed and getting them socialize because in, you know this that there there was definitely an impact during the COVID-19 education years, whether it's virtual school are trying to to see how people are sunny thing out.

Sunny, things out through masks.

There was the of wheat that there are numbers now that show there was some learning loss and involved in that and getting kids back on track, but also just making sure that, you know, kids have that foundation starting at age 3 or 4, like the old days of kindergarten starts when you're 5 like that's that's pretty.

That's far down the road.

Now we do.

You start.

There's there's there's Pre-K.

There's preschoolers, kindergarten like theirs.

That's that's part of your educational evolution.

Yeah, I mean, early education folks are also facing the same fear funding cuts as well, particularly with Head start, which is an education program for low income.

>> Children and are very fearful that head start will be on the chopping block so far.

Not yet.

All of Pritzker, though.

He is also set to testify on Capitol Hill next month over the states immigration policies.

Now Illinois is suing the federal government along with 19 other states over federal funding between being withheld because of that sanctuary status.

Rob, how is the saga going?

Well, this is again, this has been ongoing since January.

And this goes back to the issue that we had.

>> On day one of the second Trump administration, which was the Congress appropriated these funds legally.

This money is already supposed to go out.

You can't sit there and say Tsai crippling it back because you're not doing what we what we want.

And this was not a fight that was had during the first Trump administration, even though it was something that had been talked about.

But like all the other, you know, tends all the other hundreds of legal issues have been going to the court January 20th.

This is another one that's gonna probably make its way to the Supreme Court.

>> We also know Chicago had a population boom this past year.

Jake, to what can we attribute this growth?

Chicago was 7th in the country this year and overall population gain and what the demographers we talked with said is that has a lot to do with people who are immigrating into Chicago into the United States, including some of the folks who are bused from Texas to Chicago, but also as people moving to Chicago to there wasn't demographic data shared.

>> And the status that's that's a little hard to tell.

But that's what we expect right now.

>> At the same time, so the trip editorial board of what you are not a part criticized the mayor for celebrating this population increase.

But a couple of years ago decrying, you know, the crisis that happened and basically calling out saying you can't have it both ways.

I found interesting.

And I'm like do they have a point here?

you know, the immigration crackdown that the Trump administration is is working on right now.

Jt think that will hurt some of this progress.

Yes.

So that's another thing that that we heard from experts is that the crackdowns on immigration will probably stop people from moving into cities.

Lot of people who come into cities in this country.

>> Our immigrants who are coming here to find work and, you know, play important roles in the city.

So might hurt this population growth that is really important.

Our >> The Supreme Court heard oral arguments yesterday over birthright citizenship.

President Trump tried to put an end to that, of course, with his executive order.

One of many Kerry, Phyllis in on this a this is this is interesting because this.

Most people didn't think this would make it to the courts.

There are these scholars, these legal scholars who call it this obscure argument and that is that.

>> Trump had said something about know, know that that amendment was meant for slavery.

know, for slaves who were not born here, they are allowed to become citizens.

But no, no, no.

If you're born in the U.S., which is as long as that is how the that is, how it's been, you know, interpreted for however, long 100 shared whatever.

And as long as you're born in U.S., you are a citizen.

And now they're trying to say, no, this is not the case.

This all is part of the theme we're all talking about.

This is the Trump administration's continued sort of assault on immigration and immigrants who are coming here and, you know, the birth rate is just another example of this.

Rob, if Trump's executive order holds up, what would that mean for lots of people who were not born in this country, but live here?

Well, I think the first thing is is based on the way the Supreme Court justices were listening to the arguments this week.

>> They'd seen very cool to that idea to the idea of doing away with birthright citizenship entirely.

One thing, though, that they were a lot more amenable to, which was this idea of that one federal judge could not in issue a nationwide stay on an executive order or a law that that has been passed by Congress and signed into law by the president, which is it is an interesting piece of legal maneuvering because that has bedeviled presidents, Democrats and Republicans over the years and one would imagine that if a Democrat is elected president in 2028 war at some point in the future 2032, the Supreme Court will say.

They'll be another case of the tumor as we can issue stays again.

That's fine.

So that's something to watch as well.

Ok?

>> Boeing reached a tentative non prosecution agreement with DOJ Department of Justice.

There are reports anyway over the fraud case related to the 2 fatal 7.37 Max crashes in 2018 19 killing 346.

People.

Carrie, how are people reacting to this news?

Particularly the families of those who died?

Those graves actually not very well.

They're saying that it's an assault on the families and the victims of people who are.

I think those flights in 2018 2019 Ethiopia.

I think the other one was no great.

Need to.

>> And you know, this is just a string of what Boeing's been dealing with the DOJ has not confirmed that they're agreeing to the settlement tune and basically it would would be if they didn't settle this, it would say that Boeing was a felon essentially because they would have said that they, you know, lied to regulators, that, you know, people who are seeking justice from the Department of Justice for the families of these victims feel like it's sort of cheats them.

Yeah.

A lot of a lot of complicating factors at work there.

Patty, let's talk about trees because the park district has plans was a Park district has planned to take inventory of the amount of trees in the park.

why are they counting Well, Morton Arboretum is administering a 1.3 million Dollar Grant, the park district going about 3 years that they're outsourcing this work.

But >> as we've seen with recent storms, you know, having a healthy tree canopy is very important.

And if you don't know, >> the number of trees you have what's be.

She's you have and especially how healthy those trees are.

How many are large trees?

How many are small trees?

How many are invasive species?

This is all really important to know how to manage it going forward in may need too much like the city has been trying to do with its parkway trees, create an overall management plan for do we need to get on the pruning schedule?

Do we need to add more of this species?

You know, plans have changed a lot since a lot of our parks were formed in their trees were planted.

You know, there's a lot of probably non native species out there.

We want to get more native trees and you need more trees, different ages and you need to make sure that you're not going to have them falling down well and Marge that effect.

Of course, you know, there are some storms last night delays, Beyonce concert by 3 then show got to tell us a little bit about the damage.

Had horse that there is a big tree that's down right that does culinary reports were 700 trees, but that was just of last night.

I imagine when people woke up today, there was a lot more.

>> The city crews, you know, to their credit, got to work right away, getting the ones off of the street like there might still be debris, but they're not mostly blocking streets.

>> Cook County Forest Preserve had its crews out so that no trails were blocked.

But again, it just points to 4 going to have more of these storms.

We've had to rage we've had tornadoes, you know, the ones that I saw down, those were crushing cars.

You know, that's a lot of damage.

And you have to start thinking, are we going to be seeing more of that?

And so that's where the health of these trees become so important, making sure that their print making sure that they're taken care of in are as healthy as they can be putting lot of sticks in the ground.

like we take care them have to know.

I have to have a sense of how many of them we have.

okay.

What we're out of time.

That is it for we can rhino.

Thank you, everybody.

Don't We keep My thanks to Jake Sheridan, Kerry Shepherd.

>> Patty Wet Lee and Robert Hart.

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