>> Good evening and thanks for joining us on the weekend review.

I'm Nick Plummer.

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan caps a 50 year political career with 7 and a half years in prison and a 2 and a half million dollar fine.

>> At a sentencing hearing this afternoon, a federal judge says Madigan's lies on the stand not see a ting display of perjury and evasion.

>> I will stand in the way of Tom Homan going after people who don't deserve to be frightened in their communities.

You don't deserve to be threatens terrorized.

Jb Pritzker punches back at Republicans in a Capitol Hill hearing on immigration policies that the governor calls a political circus.

>> I am calling on all of Chicago to resist.

And this mom.

Because whatever particular vulnerable group is being targeted today, another group will be next after a week of demonstrations in Chicago and around the country against the Trump administration's immigration enforcement.

The city prepares for a massive no Kings rally on Saturday.

Meanwhile, the secretary of state's office says out of state police illegally accessed local license plate readers in immigration and abortion cases.

>> And City Council considers a crackdown on short-term rentals like Airbnb.

>> We'll be joined by our we can review panel in just a moment.

But first we go to the Dirksen Federal Courthouse with a reporter Matt Masterson who is there for Matic and sentencing today.

Matt, what was the scene like at the courthouse?

>> And that top floor courtroom of Judge John Blakey was absolutely packed with media observers, members of Michael Madigan's family once hearing got underway.

There were no fireworks.

There are no live witnesses.

It was mostly just a clinical reading from Blakey of charges against Madigan, the bribery schemes that he outlined it was convicted of.

And the sense is that he faced ultimately handing down the 7 and a half year 90 month prison sentence along with a 2 and a half million dollar fine.

The maximum allowable under the guidelines.

Madigan made some brief statements, but there is no one else.

He spoke his favor outside of the hundreds of letters that were turned in before the hearing today.

seemed like it was quite the lengthy proceeding.

What did Madigan have to say when he was appealing to the judge what was his demeanor the hearing lasted about 4 hours.

Matt, again made some brief comments.

He apologized simply putting the state of Illinois through say he tried his best to represent his constituents as he was a politician, but that he admitted he isn't perfect what he did not do admit to any of the specific allegations against never admitted that he accepted bribes in exchange for his trading.

His public official action eyes.

Attorneys actually during the hearing maintained that he is still not guilty of all of these crimes, even once he was convicted of his demeanor was mostly relax throughout the hearing.

He didn't have person was as he normally is very stoic.

Taking notes.

You smiling and chatting with family and his attorneys.

But after the hearing after the sentence was handed down, it did appear that some realization was coming through of what had just happened to him, that he's going to be spending 7 and a half years in prison.

Warren, Matt, it seem like Judge Blake.

He certainly was not pulling his punches.

What did he have to say to meta can before he handed down that sentence?

>> Yeah, absolutely.

Judge Blake.

He absolutely took issue with Madigan's decision to testify and willfully perjured himself repeatedly.

Blakey, as you noted, called this a nauseating display called his testimony, which lasted parts of 4 days earlier this year.

Difficult to watch it part.

He's found that Madigan lied about basically regards of the schemes.

He lied about efforts to solicit bribes from common Commonwealth Edison, he lied about his relationship with his co-defendant.

Michael met Michael McClain.

He lied about his intention to secure a lucrative state board seat for Danny Solis Lake.

He went through all of these and it was very clear that this played a role significant sentence was handed down, not only the prison term, but as I said for the 2 and a half million dollar fine, the maximum allowable Blakey clearly relied on his issue with the perjury to come to that conclusion.

>> Well, certainly a remarkable ending to Michael Madigan's career into a lengthy trial.

Matt Masterson, thanks for your coverage.

We appreciate it.

And now to this evening's panel.

Joining us are Chris Jones from the Chicago Tribune.

Truth saying from Bloomberg News.

Frontier Garcia Hernandez from Block Club, Chicago and our own Heather Sharon from W T Tw News.

Heather, it's not the 12 and a half years that prosecutors wanted, but nonetheless, a pretty stiff sentence for former House Speaker Madigan.

Were you surprised by that?

I I was surprised because the I think the obvious point of comparison is the two-year sentence that former Alderman Ed Burke received just earlier this year on somewhat similar, although not identical charges.

He also got a 2 million dollar fine.

What I think made the difference between the 2 sentences was Matic INS decision to roll the dice and testify in his own defense.

>> That the judge seemed personally offended by the other thing is that like Burke, Madigan had hundreds of people right in to the judge and say how much meant to them, how much he and help them.

Judge Blakey, unlike U.S. District Court, Judge Virginia Kelley Kendall did not seem to care about those letters at all during Berks sentencing hearing.

Judge kinda went on at about how moved she was by some of the stories in those letters.

>> And I'm truly fascinated by the different approaches that each judge took in those 2 cases.

The other thing I'll say is park just before he was sentenced, expressed a bit more remorse for what he did then Madigan did today and perhaps that made the difference.

However, if I'm at Burke in prison and tonight I am looking at this knowing that I dodged years in prison and is due back released in March.

5th Amendment exists for a reason.

you know, Chris, is that federal prosecutors have had some some setbacks and some failures recently in their various corruption trials.

Prosecution efforts.

>> How big of a win Madigan's conviction, even if partial and the sentencing?

Well, I think it's a big win a win for justice in Illinois.

But on the other hand, I agree with had a that was a bit longer than I thought he was going to get.

>> I think the business of sent a sentencing up to January and people is a complicated one.

If you think about it, most of those guys don't go on forever past it.

And if you really is the sort unpleasant map to do, but that you have to sort of say there's a chance that he won't come out of jail alive.

And I think I think that says something to be sober about this is sort of human tragedy at the heart of this.

I think federal guidelines is what 85% of the center city has to That's a long time.

That's that's rough on him.

But it's hard to say that it's on Justin.

It's also sort you know, picture of the danger of testifying in your own defense when he can be used against you.

But I think he generally doesn't feel that he was guilty and out my my thing and he couldn't bring himself to lie again.

So to speak expedient way to get to get a shorter sentence.

And so you look at it, you go.

Well, he's very elderly guy who is now.

Maybe not gonna come He's 83 years old and his wife, Shirley Madigan.

They've been married for decades.

She is also very ill and she recorded a video pleading with the judge not to send her husband to jail for a long time telling him that she did not want to spend her final days alone.

And I think that that sort of >> family and human tragedy, we can't look past to add, but I think that sometimes in these white collar cases, people say, oh, well, it wasn't a violent crime.

There weren't any actual victims.

I think your point, Chris, is that the people of Illinois where the victim in this case and will this longer than anticipated sentence make other politicians think twice?

I think that is the longer-term question you know, an end to that point introducing sometimes their economic implications for these.

I mean, the perception of Illinois is a hotbed of political corruption.

>> You know, for example, markets are looking Illinois, how does that affect things?

So in 2022, actually asked investors about that very question when this case had started, when the legal proceedings had started.

And one of the things that one of the investors said to me is that some of this is baked in, unfortunately into the perception of Illinois.

>> Now, Illinois has had a few years where the where they've had credit upgrades their financial trajectory has been improving is still marginally.

Still the lowest rated state in the country.

But their trajectory has been positive and has had several notches up.

But when investors are thinking about these, the long history that, you know, Heather mentioned a couple of cases and there's been others as well.

It's on what what somebody said to me, one of the investors was that it's baked in.

Unfortunately, there.

Well, I think this is a case that we are not going to be done discussing for quite sometime.

We could probably do the full show on it.

But a lot of news this week, I want to get to.

>> Governor JB Pritzker testifying at a congressional hearing on Illinois and other sanctuary status.

Although he also faced some completely off-topic questions, for example, about transgender Illinois INS frontier.

Do you think the governor accomplished what he set out to do and trying to defend state?

I think his message was loud and defying >> tactics regarding immigration raids and protest handling immigration rates as well.

And he also made clear that sanctuary laws are >> lawful and that he will continue to protect and to find the sanctuary state and counties and city policies that exist.

So that was a strong message.

He also was very defiant of Trump's authoritarian measures.

What he call and was very defiant against breaking the Constitution, the law or going about in terms of enforcing immigration policy.

>> Yeah, it was certainly a bit of a high wire act for the governor meant rookie.

This hearing comes as Illinois lawmakers are bracing for perhaps the Trump administration to try and, you know, take back some federal funding.

We heard a lot about that in this last legislative session.

Could a hearing like this be used as perhaps justification for funding clawbacks.

Governor Pritzker has been warning about the uncertainty about federal funding for months even before the budget was last month.

At the end of last month.

>> Since he's introduced his budget, he has been warning that there could be potential policy changes that put billions of dollars at risk for the state of Illinois, along with other state.

The other thing that he's also mentioned is that it's not just Illinois, but that every state would have a challenge if there's any sort of claw back because of policies or any measures just cuts in general because the federal government he's looking broader cuts that are not tied specifically to politics.

You just funding in But he has said any state would have a problem back, feeling those billions of dollars.

Yeah, it's not an easy an easy thing to make up a stretch.

And he's also mentioned that there's a lot of uncertainty still.

So we don't know exactly what's going to happen here.

>> Well, you know, you mentioned some of the Trump administration's immigration agenda enforcements.

>> Several members of the City Council want to investigate whether Chicago police aided ICE agents in a mask.

The tension earlier this month.

What are all the people concerned about there?

>> There was a heavy police presence at a scene in the South Loop where there is ice contract or monitors immigrants on their a monitoring program.

Ice agents showed up and were detaining people under check INS and CPD was present inside the building and at the front and back of the building.

several city council members are wondering whether that was.

Helping eyes, whether they responded to ice or a call for local law enforcement from ICE officials and how those decisions are made with CBD is dispatched to a scene and then they discover that isn't an immigration enforcement operation.

Yeah.

And you have to imagine that we may be seeing more of these immigration actions.

>> You know, Chris Trump has sent the military into Los Angeles amid protests there.

The Tribune had an editorial this week headlined that MAGA Morrison to Make America Cool Again.

What are the worries there about potential presidential over reach?

Well, I think we were concerned about the national God and the Marines being sent on to it in 2 American cities onto American streets.

>> I view is that going after the police is not the way to that those all done and not helping the situation that I think we have to police.

I think we have to make the case to be the when there is any kind of >> unrest if that happens this weekend in Chicago, that that that's about for full, the Chicago police don't think the Chicago police are trying to enforce immigration laws and deportations.

I think the issue is that it's a police issue.

It shouldn't be one that requires the imposition of the military on the streets of Chicago.

But that, but we were also trying to say that it was ending really noticeable cruelty and how these thing up before development, let's say in how these deportations with being carried now.

I mean, to get in the very assignment of Marines and National Guard, that's the guy and shots.

That's what he likes to do.

think that doesn't sit well with having someone like Dr Phil going along.

so much before motive.

Nonsense is true of the prince.

Caring Stu.

I mean, it's just too much, you know, people people have to be treated decently.

And I think I think the preschool is right in the congressional hearings to talk about the lack of immigration reform.

That's a very good blue state defense against the Republicans in Congress saying essentially it's on you.

You didn't get this done when you have the opportunity to do it.

Now, look ice chaos, but maybe that's a good defense.

And he was right to say we need to have an immigration enforcement forced to issue.

Also said which some of his progressive allies I think wouldn't agree with.

Well, you know, Heather, to Chris mentioned that that massive, no Kings rally that's prepped for tomorrow.

>> Time to coincide with a military parade in DC for the 200 50th anniversary of the Army which happens to coincide with the president's 79th birthday.

How unusual is is that military parade when we expect to see there?

So we're going to see rows of troops marching in formation.

We're going to see tanks rolling down >> the boulevards in Washington, D.C., and it is unprecedented word.

I sorely saying for the last 5 that has really a scene that's really never been seen in an American city before an is reminiscent a scene in coming as Russia, North Korea.

This this is not typically how Americans celebrate our military.

And I think that Americans are have never before seen this level of weaponry and artillery city.

And I think a lot of people are very nervous about sort of what this heralds going forward.

Noon.

But, you know, France some local immigrant advocates have been protesting the president's new travel ban.

Barring residents from 12 countries limiting travel from 7 others.

What if we heard from the White House about why these bands might be necessary?

Well, the White House put out a fact sheet saying that some of these countries were selected for the band's people have visa overstay rates.

They have the countries themselves don't have enough or sufficient vetting process ease for visas and other >> security purposes and some of them refused to cooperate with the United States for.

Several matters.

So it seems like that is the reason I have to say it similar to the Trump travel ban that we during his first term.

It's just revive and expand it to a majority of Arab and African countries.

>> I want to turn to some local news that, you know, sure, to a big piece recently looking at some Chicago's financial woes, things that are kind of baked into the budget.

Just how far our economic and job growth lagging behind here, you know, compared to some of our peer cities.

So let me start out with some of strength of Chicago, right?

Yes, and then I I like that.

It's been the other >> So Chicago is still the economic engine.

The economic center of the Midwest and >> in terms of the number of STEM students universities produce.

There's really no comparison in the Midwest, at least.

And it is still a center for Fortune 500 companies.

So all of that true and undisputed in terms of facts, but also the growth that it has seen in the decade through say 2023 has been lagging other cities, particularly those in the West and the Southwest and cities such is the next Houston San Antonio are seeing greater growth in terms of population in terms of job GDP growth.

Now they are starting from a smaller base.

Chicago still has 2.7 million people and actually did see a little bit of a bump up recently.

But some of the other cities proportionally saw bigger increases.

So what does that mean?

So there's questions about if there isn't as much growth in Chicago compared to its here's around the country.

What does that mean in terms of business?

And so one of the longtime developers that I spoke with that has been developing properties in Chicago since say the Mid 1980's.

He recently has been shifting more of his business over to the Phoenix area.

Some of the things you mentioned are population growth.

Isn't this strong?

He's concerned about property taxes, which I know Heather's also quite so these are these aren't surprising.

But what is happening is that there's a greater competition amongst cities in the U.S. >> And internationally in terms of looking for people looking for job jobs, employers as well as investments.

So when you're putting a lot of money into things like pensions, which are a cost that the city does have to pay or debt.

For example, then those are dollars that cannot be then put into economic development and that therein lies the question.

One of the CEOs I spoke with that is still here in Chicago.

And, you know, has a very large, popular of employees in this region has said the focus should be more on growth and not as much on the cost side of the ledger.

>> Well, there are certainly plenty of challenges for us to address.

But yes, thank you.

We've still got a lot going for us and we like it here, Other people are considering tighter restrictions on short-term rentals.

Things like air bnb and verbal.

What are what are they looking at their well since Homesharing came to Chicago all the way back in 2016, it has been a perpetual problem that people will rent these houses or apartments and throw giant parties that create a neighborhood.

New sense and older people are fed up about it.

They've tried a couple of times most recently as last month to sort of rain in those parties.

Many feel like they haven't been successful.

So they want to expand their favorite power aldermanic power to basically give each alderperson the chance to say in each precinct that new short-term rentals are band.

Now, somebody wants to reopen that precinct to short-term rentals, they can go in petition, everybody at all of the voters in that that precinct.

if they collect 10%, then it would be reopened.

But this would be a large expansion of aldermanic power to sort of rain in the short term rentals.

Airbnb is vehemently opposed to this.

They say they good corporate citizens and that this would basically be swatting a fly with a hammer.

It is set for a vote on Wednesday.

However, there are a lot of questions about what this will mean to the city's budget because short term rentals bring in millions of dollars and they are specifically used to fund to parts of the budget domestic violence, services and services for unhoused Chicagoans.

You take away the ability new short-term rentals.

You're going to restrict the growth of that of those budget items.

And I think surety and I would probably agree that that's something that the city should probably think twice about.

Well, we're doing and the kind of thing that you can easily see going on, say an attack mail person, so and so voted to cut funding domestic violence.

I mean, you're Chris.

What do make of the motivation behind this crackdown?

Is this really that big of a problem?

No, to question.

We had an editorial saying leave it alone.

It's all fine.

We're not.

Venice were not Dubrovnik.

We don't have, you know, building after building filled with Abby and bees and hoteliers are often behind these kinds of things because they like to raise rates and bnb provides competition and that this was a big issue in New York City where they insisted that hosts actually remain in the apartments when there even people with that.

So, of course, everybody stopped renting there and B and B's hotel rates went through the roof.

Is anybody goes to knows how expensive it is.

>> had to point out is a lot of city income from all of that.

And if there is bad behavior going on, well, then you can address it.

People have parties and houses to where they live.

So, you know, I think on balance, there's already restrictions on individual buildings can already restrict having these.

I think the idea of just sort of batting by FIA.

And let's remember, too, that the small businesses.

So when people staying in an Airbnb and Wrigleyville because they want to be close to a Cubs game, they go down and they spend money in the You know that by stuff in the stores, they buy a T-shirt families do like hotel rooms because the kids are everywhere, right?

So you want in a palm and I stated one in Boston just a couple weeks ago.

So I loved it.

It was great have you be way better than a hotel So I think, you know, come on that we've got other things to worry just want what want to mention to Chris, you to Senate President Don Harmon was pushing a measure this past legislative session that >> we've gotten his campaign fund off the hook for some alleged violations that Tribune editorial board called It was what trying to do their well.

I think he, you know, he was just trying to make things work for himself because he or already had this done this is egregious thing.

And then he was kind it was kind of that post facto manipulation of what was going on.

It didn't fly in the legislature.

So we we were pleased about that.

But we thought it was kind of sneaky, good try, but pretty sneaky.

Well, you know that the legislators got to take a sometimes we've got about a minute left.

You know, Heather, Northwestern University, e-mail faculty and staff about cost cutting measures following the administration.

The Trump administration's move.

>> Defreeze about 790 million in federal funding.

The university has got a 14 billion Dollar Endowment II.

Think we'll see them use any of that to plug the gap.

Are they leaving?

It put?

Well, they would.

There are certainly professors and staffers and students who would like to see them start dip into that endowment use.

It is sort of a rainy day fund to get the university through this sort of period of uncertainty.

You know, university financing is only just as complicated as city financing.

I do not profess to be an expert on it.

>> But this is something that universities across the nation are grappling with it.

Harvard, you know, all of the Ivy Leagues, Columbia and in particular.

And, you know, there are a lot of university presidents are going have to make a lot of hard decisions and the people who will feel the brunt of that will, of course, be the faculty and the staff.

>> All right.

Well, hopefully nobody here was feeling the brunt of anything too bad.

You are a great panel, but we are out of time.

So our thanks to Chris Jones treaty saying from to Garcia Hernandez and Heather, sure around.

And we're back wrap things up right after this.

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Okay.

I think maybe my favorite headline I saw this week, Chicago Man wears White Sox cap to work.

That man, of course, is I guess the odds of getting him out of his investments into a jersey are probably pretty slim.

But does it feel like the pope is from Chicago?

Bloom is still going strong going strong and still going strong and I could not resist resist making a star key post on social media because of course, the Cubs claimed that he when it turns out he was a Sox fan.

Important to check your facts before you post and as much as I would love for him to be a Cubs fan, it just didn't work out that They eat a team of journalists who are before they put it up on the big marquee there.

Yeah, but be interested to see even the pope.

They've got a big, massive, Sox park tomorrow and expecting to hear a video with.

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