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

I'm Nick Blumberg as President Donald Trump marks 100 days in office.

Governor JB Pritzker says Democrats need to get their act together.

>> I called for people to take out their megaphone to their microphone, stand upon so boxes and get to the ballot box.

Pritzker says it's time for, quote, do nothing Democrats to take the fight to the GOP.

>> Just because we have really doesn't that that's an obstacle.

called Democracy.

>> Mayor Brandon Johnson bats away accusations he hasn't built strong relationships in Springfield as he lobbies lawmakers for aid to Chicago.

Meanwhile, a proposal letting Chicago police implement snap curfew stalls and city Council.

Julianna Stratton Senate gets a high-profile endorsement for potential counterpart, Tammy Duckworth.

Federal prosecutors do an about-face and drop their attempt to claw back more than 3 million dollars from convicted former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.

>> It told me one time.

If you do something that you truly love, never work a day in your life.

>> Chicago firefighters pay their final respects to Captain David Meier killed in the line of duty in an alleged arson.

Former Illinois Governor George Ryan dies at the age of 91.

And now to our week in review panel.

Joining us are Michael Liptrot from Block Club.

Chicago, Rachel Hinton also from Block Club.

Chicago from WBEZ.

We have Lisa Korean Philip and joining us via zoom, our own Heather Sharon.

Let's get right to it.

Heather.

Sharon, George Ryan shares the ignominious distinction of being one of 4 Illinois governors to go to prison.

>> He also helped pave the way for the abolition of the death penalty.

What do you think Ryan's legacy will be?

>> Well, I think those 2 things will be inexorably to into entangled in remembrances of George Ryan before he became governor.

He had a long career in Springfield serving as secretary of state where he committed the crimes that he would be later convicted He also served as the House speaker.

And in 1982, almost single-handedly prevented Illinois from ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment, which of course, national political ramifications.

But he will be remembered for 2 things going to prison for corruption and that corruption just wasn't any kind of run of the mill.

Illinois corruption that corruption led to the death of 6 children because his office gave a license to an unqualified trucker who was driving unsafe vehicle that led to a fiery crash that claimed the lives of the 6 children of the Reverend Duane Willis.

And of course, at his federal corruption trial, he was accused of clearing death row to distract from the scandal that would soon and his political career.

So we remember both and probably one of the last bipartisan reach across the aisle run of the mill Republicans, Illinois will ever elected to statewide office.

>> Yeah, certainly not in and ideologues.

Very pragmatic leader.

One that, you know, is press becoming rarer and rarer by the Speaking of some political leaders that we are paying a lot of attention to, we have crossed the 100 day mark of the second Trump administration, though, for journalists trying to keep up with it might well feel like it's been longer than 100 days.

Heather sticking with you.

What are some of key takeaways for how Chicago has been affected in these first 100 days.

>> Well, you know, we would need to be here for at least another hour through all of the things that the ways the president has targeted Chicago.

But he has not fulfilled sort of his initial product, you know, promises to target Chicago.

vowed to sort of launch his mass deportation efforts in Chicago.

Those impacts in Chicago while a while severe on the individual level has not been as widespread as some people feared.

He also has been as yet unsuccessful.

If yanking nearly 3 billion dollars in federal aid from Chicago because it will not stop protecting undocumented immigrants.

But this is just the first act of what has already been and promises to be very, very consequential presidency.

And there's no doubt that the president will keep his sights trained on Chicago and other cities led by Democrats like Mayor Brandon Johnson.

And it will ultimately be up to the courts probably the U.S. Supreme Court eventually decide how successful he will actually be.

>> You know, we heard the Governor Pritzker saying he's more worried about the next 100 days.

The next 1000 days.

You know, Michael, let Trump polls now put President Trump's approval rating at historic lows.

Do you think that might push the administration to moderate some of its moves that have proven initially unpopular or controversial?

>> I believe that is going to definitely come down to how much the focus is on Trump versus the Republican Party because Trump truly has nothing to lose the he's not trying to build a base for another election and according him, he may have another election to come anyway.

But as far as Republican base, they may consider scaling back some of these some of these advances because realistically, the trade war that's going on and looking at fears by economists of recession looking at the targeting of universities across the country.

And just every aspect of American life seeming to have changed in a way throughout this most recent administration taking office.

So from federal workers on to college campuses is definitely something that Republican Party has to keep in mind how they want their perception to be after Trump.

>> Well, and speaking of the Republican Party, Governor JB Pritzker saying Democrats need to take the fight to the GOP.

They, you know, can't let Republicans know a moment's peace.

Trump adviser Stephen Miller tried to imply that that was sort of an incitement to violence.

Rachel Hinton, do do you think that argument holds water two-year year?

Was that what Pritzker was calling No, I don't think so.

I mean, I think Pritzker has been very consistent both with the news 100 days and also in 2016 about bringing the fight, quote, unquote, to Trump, bringing it to the things that he's fighting for.

2 tariffs, too.

also laying out the various ways that Trump's policies affect or hurt annoyance.

>> I think, you know, thinking of that street fire comment that he made, I think maybe in January February while ago, I think that's more so like rallying cry from the governor you know, the Democrats obviously need to get their house in order within several polls.

Yeah, like, you know, 60% of like independents disapprove of Trump.

But also 76% of those same independents believe the Democrats out of touch.

And I think what Pritzker is trying to do there, they say, look, we we have a lot of things to work on and we need to be out in the streets, you know, bringing this to to every ballot box and to every Republican weekend.

Well, certainly Pritzker doing a lot of work to rally Democrats.

Lot of political watchers also thinking that he's potentially gearing up to run for president.

>> In 2028 least Curry.

And Philip, how do you think voters outside of Illinois who don't necessarily know the governor might Yeah, it's just talking about this with my editor because we're like all our friends outside of Illinois talking about hand him.

And I'm sure, you know, with this viral moment he had last weekend of calling.

>> The Democrats and do nothing Democrats.

He is raising his national profile.

>> And I think that >> the way in which he is putting himself out there as a strong opponent of Trump will will resident with people who are looking for a Democratic leader to read really strong fight against the president's policies.

Yeah, and he certainly had quite the media blitz in recent days and months.

>> You know, Heather Pritzker is, of course, himself a billionaire.

Is there any concern among Democrats, perhaps that?

>> He might not represent the struggles of everyday Americans or as a kind of already overcome that with his, you know, demonstrated by his popularity here in Illinois.

>> that certainly is one of the ironies of this, right, because Pritzker has sort of staked out this place on the bleeding edge of the Democratic Party, appealing to progressives and those who want Democrats to confront Trump at every possible opportunity while at the same time being a billionaire himself at a time when everybody's talking about the dangers of Oleg are key.

And, you know, there's certainly been jokes that, of course, it takes a billionaire to confront a billionaire, of course, referring to Elon Musk, special adviser to President Trump.

But that is something that Crutcher is going to have to address.

If he does choose to launch a national campaign, it is not going to be an easy feat effective.

But you know, that is why serving at least 2 as governor will give him a record to sort point to and say, well, sure, I mind of cars from a very wealthy family, but you can tell that I've governed with an eye towards the working in the middle classes and that will certainly be the message that he attempts to get across in a potential presidential run.

But first, of course, he's got to decide whether he's going to run for a 3rd term.

And Illinois governor.

And if he doesn't, we saw the scramble that Durbin's retirement sent off for the seat in the U.S. Senate.

That will be nothing compared to the scramble.

It sets off a spritz for decides to not run for re-election as governor but run for president.

>> Yeah, it definitely doesn't hurt even if he hasn't decided.

Where what direction it's going in the similar to seeing IOC on the road with Bernie Sanders for the for their tour.

And it's interesting scene Pritzker and away bucking a lot expectations.

You have both a politician and a Democrat.

And in this post Trump era of politics it's something to see that because the traditional ideas of what political correctness was to have a billionaire governor go out and say I'm mad 30 years ago.

That would that would be unheard of Pearl clutching that would have gone to to say that to appeal to the working class, just the universal.

>> Feeling people have a be a mad as and the Democrats in a way throughout Kamala Harris's campaign.

People felt like the Democrats lost that connection to the everyday American.

And it's something where I see Pritzker regardless of his political direction, working to get in touch with the working class.

Despite everything that he has, that people be easy to dismiss him as being distant.

>> Yeah, it'll be interesting to see, you know, maybe a few leans into sort of his, you know, background, you know, his wealth that line at the DNC like take it from an actual billionaire kind of kind of get into Donald Trump.

You know, of the big moves that we've been following from the Trump administration have been all the pressure on international students.

Lisa, you wrote this week about USC students from India who status was revoked, then restored.

What's the latest with that student?

So he is back in India.

And, you know, as much as he loves the U.S. and really like credits his time here to you know.

>> Just to give an example, he had planned to go into computer science because his Indian parents.

Them were really pressuring to him to do that.

And he was able to come to the U.S. pursue a college degree where he was able to explore other things which maybe would have been able do back in India.

So, yes, it's deep love for that education system here.

And he would love to be a part of it, but he just does not see.

Place for him here right now because he's afraid that if he comes back, he could be target again again, another way and and that's not.

that's not even, you know, reflecting just the amount of 4 key would have to go to to get his visa reinstated reapply for another one and come back here.

So his plans right now are to stay in India from the meantime, and then applied to PhD programs in Germany.

You have to imagine there are a lot of students that are weighing even if they are able to return whether they want to.

>> sticking with higher Ed for a minute.

We also saw this group of Big 10 schools, essentially, you know, voting to join a packed to to support one another amid pressure from the administration how much can they actually do?

Yeah, it's a great question.

I think you might get a different answer.

If talk to a faculty member, right versus who has signed onto one of these packs.

>> I think it's a bold public statement.

But all these PACs are advisory to the administrations of these universities.

So what they're saying is like we are calling on our university administrations to come together.

If one of us is that active, one of our universities attacked.

Get attacked by the Trump administration.

Let's band together and and, you know, pull our resources in order mountain a real legal battle.

But it's on the university leaders to actually You know.

Take that up and make that packed real basically.

Yeah, you have to wonder whether perhaps some of the faculty members have been disappointed by the responses from universities.

You know, a lot of folks have been saying that there caving to pressure.

So it could be that the faculty's trying apply pressure of their own to leadership.

Yeah, absolutely.

I've heard that from faculty, a multiple universities, especially Northwestern right now which is been in the crosshairs of the Trump administration.

>> A lot for the past few weeks.

And right faculty there actually have signed their own.

It wasn't part of the Big 10 PAC, but their own pack kind of calling on the administration to fight back and resist.

But again, that's an advisory kind of just or so.

It's really on leaders to listen to faculty or You know, Rachel, we've heard from members of Congress saying they want to see Northwestern's president appear to testify again to discuss.

>> The issue of antisemitism on campus.

Do you know think we might see sort of a substantive hearing or is this, you know, the kind of an issue where just trying to haul the university leadership in to kind of read him the riot act.

>> Yeah, I believe it'll be more.

So the for I think at this point in this administration as well as you know, with the house, you know, being majority Republican, they can kind of do what they want to continue to put pressure on, you know, universities or other officials who aren't towing the line or who may not be toeing the line as much as they'd like them to.

so I think think they asked for like transcript or like a transcribed interview with him President Michael Schill.

And I think that that's more so to continue to keep pressure on him for his actions for for what they view as potentially like support for the encampment that was there last year.

>> turning to to Springfield for a moment.

Heather Mayor Johnson went down to the state Capitol this week with a whole list of asks, might it be a little late in the session for him to make much headway or does it seem like the mayor may get some of what he liked to acquire for Chicago or achieve.

I should say.

>> Well, time is certainly short.

We're staring down a memorial day or post Memorial Day deadline for the state officials to nail down their budget for the next fiscal year.

A lot of the hard work takes plate took place months ago.

Is they sort of get together this jigsaw puzzle of a budget which of course, had to close in nearly 3 billion dollar deficit at the state level.

So, yes, it is late in the game, but the real work, as we all know who cover Illinois politics is that the work doesn't get done until it has to get done.

So next couple of weeks will be crucial.

And the mayor has been clear that he's not asking for big changes or large amount of monies.

He's asks been modest.

And he's I think, sort of hoping that with that sort sort of knew perhaps approach to sort dealing with the legislature and dealing with Governor Pritzker.

That will prove a little bit more successful than it has in the past because he has in the past ask for a billion dollars more in funding for Chicago schools that certainly didn't materialize his his request this time around are much smaller, much more narrower in scope and much more possible in really hard budget year for everybody all the way around.

Will that sort you know, payoff in the end?

We won't know until all of the sausage is made.

>> journalists are deadline driven to so let's not cast aspersions too much on You know, Rachel, one of the mayor's asks was support for the city's shelter system.

You also had a deep dive this week on the city's system for helping connect people experiencing homelessness with housing and fact that it's kind of opaque about how people are prioritized.

What did you The system called court needed entry system began or was launched in 2017 as a way to.

>> Kind of help people experiencing homelessness have just one place where they put their name to hopefully be connected to services as well as potential like referrals or connections to housing.

And the people I spoke to about that system feel discouraged.

They feel like it's still a shot in the dark about whether or not they're going to get house.

They don't know when it's coming.

And the you know, officials I spoke to both from the city as well as all Chicago, which is a partner, nonprofit sale.

It's very difficult to tell people specifically where they are in the line to get house because there is no real line.

It's not like, you know, you pull a number at a deli counter and that's your number.

It's there's constantly changing factors and things to consider.

But the people I spoke to say that getting that answer getting that told to them is has been difficult to get.

I also looked at how that system and replace with see it's already moving events which we've seen happen more COVID.

It's the same system used prioritize people.

But those moving events happen largely in shelters as well as some other encampments to try to both help move people out of shelters to open up beds and also don't try to connect people to housing who might be at higher risk of COVID the system.

You know, that's a lot going on within.

It is murky.

It's hard to totally understand.

Where you stand in line, but also how how do these things work and are they working as well as they should?

The sense I got people are trying as hard as they can with a few resources.

They have few resources, meaning there's not enough affordable housing in the city.

But the people I spoke to are experiencing like we need We need something better than this.

Yeah, you can imagine it's got to be a very difficult and frustrating process for a lot of folks.

>> Michael, proposal to allow Chicago police to put these so-called snap curfews in place at a roadblock and city council.

Some concerns that it might not be constitutional, at least has written right now.

Do you expect to see this plan revive?

Do you think they're still the pressure on Alders to try and get something done here?

There's definitely pressure is still there, especially as we go into the summer months.

And as we've seen in recent years with the so-called team takeovers, as they refer to.

>> And just the need to find a solution to young people gathering downtown and really across the city.

And also the question of how can young people safely gather and not have things escalate that point.

And when it comes to the snap curfew, it's truly in the snap.

The idea of being able to set a curfew within 30 minutes and then being able to enforce that for young people, especially when talk about people who do not have licenses or cars.

That is a big ask for a group of people believe in area.

And so when I think about if you only in part save us.

And if you have a park how teenagers gather one person may say to maybe 5 people show someone else brought 5 people makes you know 20 people.

That's the threshold to be able to have this curfew.

And so if you don't expect there to be 20 people now, the 20 people curfews establish if you come from South Shore, are expecting on the metro and then on the weekends mattress on every 2 hours.

So for you to be a believe, you may have to wait and over an hour to get out and then buses make get packed.

And now with Uber being able to have geo fencing around areas, you can't caller, I should go there either.

So you likely could have teenagers stranded with police in closing in.

And so it begs the question, what is the expectation for these young people to do?

I think it's going to be a very difficult question members of the city council to answer if if they come up with one.

>> Heather, federal prosecutors are no longer pursuing a forfeiture trial against convicted former House Speaker Michael Madigan.

Do we know why they made this kind of sudden about-face?

>> Well, I certainly wish that the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois would call me up and explain their thinking on a whole bunch of issues.

But alas, that is not how the Department of Justice works.

They have not explained why they no longer want to recover.

3.1 million dollars from Michael Madigan that they sent was sort of the prophet of his criminal conspiracy that led him to be convicted on several but not all charges in a blockbuster trial that seemed to last for ever.

But we will have to see sort of what we can gather from the sentencing, which is scheduled for for in to see if that shed any more light on it may be a combination of pressure from Washington, which is made it clear that they do not see political car crash and is sort one of their major point of inquiry.

It may be that Department of Justice thinks that because it was such a split verdict from the jury.

They don't want to sort of continue to make these arguments.

It's really impossible to tell.

But it is good news for Madigan, who, of course, will be able to keep that money and use it to sort of continue to fund his criminal defense and any appeals if he should choose to appeal his guilty verdicts and potentially to pay for what his defense could be in a retrial on those counts that the jury did not reach a verdict.

Denton.

>> We've got about a minute left, but I want to get to this Julianna Stratton this week landing the endorsement of her potential colleagues.

Senator Tammy Duckworth.

Rachel, are you at all surprised if you see folks like Duckworth and Governor Pritzker jumping in with endorsements so quickly?

>> I'm a little surprised, but I am surprised about Governor Pritzker.

They work together.

They know each other.

It makes sense for him to support as Lieutenant Governor.

I'm a little surprised by Duckworth, although, you know, I'm sure a lot of things were happening behind the to warrant that early endorsement.

But I'll be curious to see how this plays out and who else jumps in the race.

one thing I I find kind of interesting, I you know, I don't people saw the came out with a story about, you know, how Governor Pritzker's allegedly bullying, you know, and trying to like, you know, throw his political clout around saying that Representative Lauren Underwood is damaged goods to try to like, you know, move people away from her.

Her camp to a Lieutenant Governor Stratton Scam.

And I think, you know, it would be on my politics without both allegations of bullying and also potentially So I'll be very curious to see this works out.

Well, it has worked out very well having the 4 of you on the panel tonight.

But unfortunately, we are out of time.

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>> All right, Lisa, next week we're watching out for collections are restarting on defaulted student loans.

folks need to know.

Yes, so folks need to know that basically, you know, you haven't been collecting on for 5 years potentially.

If defaulted on your loans, you haven't made a payment and more than 270 day.

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