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

I'm Nick Blumberg.

A surprise mass immigration arrests sparks fear and protests.

Federal agents reportedly detained at least 10 people who thought they were showing up for a routine appointment.

>> I'm going to always remain hopeful and confident that we can get a deal done.

That works for the people of Chicago.

>> As transit funding hangs in the balance, Mayor Brandon Johnson calls on lawmakers to make sure the wealthy contribute their fair share to public transportation.

I'm not going to run away from my back from you know, hopefully I've gotten some some judgment former Mayor Rahm Emanuel continues stoking rumors of a presidential run.

Meanwhile, the University of Illinois is on edge amid a Trump administration effort to revoke the visas of Chinese students.

Health officials warn at-risk groups to limit their time outside as smoke from Canadian wildfires fills the skies.

And the good kind of fire.

The Chicago Fire unveil an ambitious stadium plan for long vacant land in the South Loop.

>> And now to our week in review panel.

Joining us are Quin Myers of Block Club, Chicago, Laura Washington of the Chicago Tribune and ABC, 7 news Brett Chase of the Chicago Sun-Times and Simon on sale of city Kass, Chicago.

Let's get right to it.

Thank you all for being here.

Before we dive into those topics and more.

We have to mention 36 year-old Chicago Police officer Crystal Rivera reportedly fatally shot after a foot chase in Chatham last night.

Police say she'd been with the department for 4 years.

She leaves behind a 10 year-old daughter, Laura Washington.

You know, if it's a tragedy for her family, for her colleagues, even at a time when when crime is on the decline in the city, how does a killing like this?

You know, rattle Chicagoans, maybe change the perception of of the city as place that's becoming safer?

Well, it's a problem, particularly because this not an isolated incident.

She's the 4th officer to to be killed in a land line of duty last several years.

>> And so it creates obviously a lot of unhappiness in anger in the police department.

I think it also has can have an impact.

The negative impact police community relations because clearly is this is an example of of meals.

Criminal activity didn't have to happen.

And I think the attitude of many officers have us think they can't safely by crime.

That because the bad guys are not even afraid of them anymore.

That's right.

Yeah.

And I'm sure this is going to be something that we learn much more about in the coming days and weeks, but certainly some very difficult news now, as we mentioned earlier, federal agents detained at least 10 people in very chaotic scene outside a South loop immigration office this week.

>> Quin Myers, what do we know?

What are the details?

So I believe these people are checking in for routine appointment and then they were arrested and then it sparks this.

>> Protest you know, physical conflict with activists and ICE agents and Chicago, all the people.

said he was hit with a baton to believe either said they were So this is kinda latest.

And probably the most high-profile example of people in Chicago.

I'm trying to fight back against some of these immigration efforts.

We've seen other similar things happen in life in the app.

Listen, San Diego, but this is really a high profile incident and we don't really know that many details on who exactly was arrested or exactly how many people ICE has not been forthcoming with that information for this case or I I must say, like in general, they haven't really just closed how many people in Chicago they have arrested for deportation since the a big Trump push began about 6 months ago.

And it seems like almost a catch.

22 for folks that, you know, they say you have to show up to this appointment to show up.

They're arrested.

And if they don't show up, they would likely be a candidate for detention as well.

>> It means I'm on.

The mayor says he's his office is reviewing this arrest.

Realistically, is there much he can do to stop immigration actions like this?

>> directly.

I'm not.

I'm not sure about that.

But I think, you know, one thing that that some advocates and older people called for is a review into how CPD responded to the incident, sort of an it's a sort of a complicated scenario because you have the Chicago police responding to what is a chaotic scene as you would expect them to write.

But you have some advocates who accuse CPD of violating the welcoming city ordinance like are they helping ice truck?

Police say no, that's not why they were there.

They were there for for crowd control.

That was their purpose.

>> Yeah, I think that that's all sort of all the city can do is look at its own response to what has happened and analyze it.

But there's not I don't know what the city could do to you.

>> Physically are literally stop.

you know, cause of the city council has called for a hearing on city's response here to see very thing if they acted according with Chicago welcoming ordinance.

So we'll see if that happens.

There's going to be some pushback from some other all the people on whether that even happen or not.

Yeah, that's but that's really puts the mayor in a bind because the mayor and the governor could because they've both fierce advocates of the sanctions, sanctuary city policy.

>> And it's kind of catch.

22, as you point out, police are supposed to be there to keep order.

And if there's a disorder sorely event they have to.

They have to respond.

But they're being perceived helping helping ice and the and that's something that if you really a sanctuary city, you don't want to be accused of.

Yeah, apparently there was some, you know, report that they were responding to a call of perhaps an officer in distress.

You know, that that brought them do that because I can certainly be the What what what do they do that they stand back because they're not supposed to get involved this.

It's a no-win situation But, you know, the Chicago Tribune reported today that ICE has apparently subpoenaed records from Chicago's City I D program, which is open to migrants.

>> You know, Brett chased you expect to see the Trump administration keep trying to find sort of the cracks in Chicago status as a sanctuary city?

I think so.

You know, I've given up on trying to predict what the Trump administration is going to do, but it's it's been quite aggressive on all fronts.

You know, whether it's going >> the city or state or a company or individual, you know.

So, yeah, absolutely.

if the OJ still suing Chicago and Cook County and the state on ISO, you know that there are all these multipronged efforts here.

We are very much in the crosshairs and I expect that to be the case for quite a while.

>> Well, we heard earlier from Mayor Johnson really expressing confidence that Chicago area Transit's going to get the funding that it sorely needs.

He also seemed Laura to take issue with some of the revenue source.

Is state lawmakers propose that might hit working folks?

Does that seem to mirror some of the issues?

You know that that he's raising?

Well, you know, his his mantra from the very beginning is that we need to tax the rich to the rich aren't paying their fair share.

We don't want to burden the working class folks any more than we have to.

>> And I think there were some revenue sources that are considered Springfield that were rejected last week, precisely because they would have really hit people hard like that.

The a $1.50, tax on growth, deliver food deliveries.

And so I think that I think that the General Assembly in all elected officials right now are very sensitive to not bird working families in particular with more taxes.

But with the big question is where you're going to get these hundreds of millions of to fix the RTA and the CTA and there's and there's there go.

Those don't to be any real meaningful revenues outside of additional tax of some time on, especially in such a difficult budget year.

We saw lawmakers working right up until the deadline.

The little pass to, you know, to try and come up with a, you know, the money that that and they did it and they didn't come up with the money for the for the for a trip public transit.

They they dealt with a bunch of another going come back.

>> And they're going to prom and there's going to be even a higher burden political burned in terms so they're gonna need to be able pass something in spring.

That's right.

60% margins, not the simple majority.

I mean, you if they come back in the summer the fall, Simon, even if they come through them come through with the money, you know, maybe they come through with the, you know, some of the changes to how the system is run.

It's going to be a while.

I mean, if you're someone who relies on transit to get around, particularly if you're a transit worker, how nervous are you right now about the timeline just dragging on?

I think you're starting to see more and more transit riders like this is becoming a more salient issue and they're starting to become more nervous because I remember we start, you know, we've been reporting on this, this fiscal cliff coming.

>> For a year now, at least not right, like this has been talked about for years and years of.

But now all of a sudden you're starting to really see.

And of course, you have CTA put it, giving the push on 40% service.

Got how many lines could affect how many stations gonna fact?

And those numbers are really starting to come to bear.

I think for riders.

And so, you know, they there is some time he right that the money isn't running out until 2026.

Yes.

So, you know, lawmakers have at least the summer to do something.

I can't imagine they're I can't imagine they're going to completely just abdicate that well, it'll be curious to see what kinds of creative revenue they find.

If one would hope they would not complete.

that's about it.

So frustrating to neighbors who read the CTA.

You know, the fiscal cliff has been in the news for, you know, Ali, a solid year.

Its been really in the news.

And here we are coming out of the wire and the legislature and nothing happens.

I mean, >> that is a source of frustration for a lot of people with their with their state lawmakers right now, especially when you is that like this, public transportation is superb.

The states.

We've had a lot challenges with service over the last several years since COVID.

>> In terms of safety terms of the cleanliness of the trains and buses in terms of reliability.

And you're telling people now, but it's going to get a lot worse.

That's not the message.

People want to hear.

It certainly is not okay.

Here's another potentially unwelcome message state did away with its grocery tax.

But there's been some conversation Queen in Chicago about keeping it around here.

What's what's going on This is the one percent grocery tax that last year under JB Pritzker, Governor Pritzker's budget plan.

Lawmakers approved getting rid of the statewide at the beginning 2026.

>> But they left the door open to let individual municipalities, you know, re levee that accentuate continue it right?

Apparently over 200 cities and towns of already done this over the state.

Chicago is now looking to do the same thing.

However, I do think this is going to be a pretty big fight in the city council.

A lot of other people I don't want to be slapped with the label we do have an election coming up.

Not too far You know, putting even a small tax on Chicagoans after what was already a very bruising budget season.

But the city and Mayors Johnson's budget team says we need this This is gonna come up to maybe 80 million dollars, which is a you know, a big source of revenue, especially because the city is facing a projected 1.1 billion dollar budget hole this year.

So I think things are gonna get a little messy over this grocery tax.

And, you know, as as critics point out, its progressive on, you know, if you make $30,000 a year, you make a billion dollars.

You're paying the same fee.

So we'll see what happens.

Yeah, I can picture the campaign mailers now that all the person so and so raise taxes on Chicagoans.

>> Well, another local institution with a big budget gap that is Chicago Public Schools, 500 plus million dollars.

You know, Simon, that the school district, the school board, they're trying to figure out how to bridge that gap, including possibly delaying some of the provisions of the new teachers contract that's prompted see 2 to threaten to sue or are you surprised the board would would float an idea like this?

So soon after the contract was signed, I can't stand especially surprised just because I think, you know, the school district in the board are going to look for any way to potentially shore-up that budget and close that gap.

>> particularly any way that doesn't involve you know, high interest loan, a potentially risky loan.

You know, that was the thing that kind of set the showdown.

The last time we were talking about the CPS budget crisis, right?

The thing that, you know, got CEO Peter Martinez, will you know why he lost his job when one of many reasons ice, but I suspect and so it's not super surprising, but I do think it is.

It's also an surprising to see the CTU kind of come out strongly and say, hey, we just didn't.

We just agree on this week spent a year working on this agreement.

It took forever.

There was, you know, we talked potential strike at some point like this was a really hard fought thing.

And now you're going to delay parts of this.

It's also not clear.

You know, the parts of their sort of potentially thinking about tweaking or delaying how much that would actually save, how much that would go toward that 500 plus million dollars.

But one thing that this will district did say was that it wasn't gonna they weren't going to like rollback pay increases are are some of those big ticket items.

But maybe some of these other hires for other staff that was that were part of the contract pay increases.

He would have to imagine would be somewhat of a 3rd Yeah.

Yeah.

Just nuke the nuclear that would be violating the contract.

Yes, explicitly by lunchtime.

>> I think CPS had been messaging are telegraphing during the negotiations and at the end when they finally came to agreement.

>> That they did not have the money to actually pay for this contract they I think they've been saying all along the only at the money for the first year.

So this shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, right?

We agree in principle, but I practice right?

>> Well, Brent, we just Facebook's parent company meta strike a deal with the nuclear plant in Central Illinois.

What's that power going to be used for?

So this is really interesting because raises more questions than it really You know, there are there's this this rush to be the leader in AI in the Big Four's meta, which is, you know, Facebook, Instagram, spirit, Google and Microsoft.

And so you've seen around the country these deals where these companies are trying to figure out.

How to get power and because data centers in 5th, especially those to power a I take lots and lots and lots of energy, so much so that, you know, even things that are happening on the East Coast now are affecting our ComEd bills, which, you know, by the way, went on 11% this this month that it doesn't show its hand here.

They they but and they bought it in terms of the kind of like credit.

You know, they may not use the power right away.

It may be an accounting thing for them to say that like, hey, where we're powering our data centers around the country and around the world with with carbon free, you know, energy night, you know, not anything contribute to climate change.

So that's particularly important in Europe.

But it's it's a, you know, support a lot of politicians in the in the United States.

So there's there's there's different scenarios that could happen.

One is that they might very well build some sort data center around Clinton, which is in central Illinois because they the the second piece of this this deal is that they said they expand nuclear capacity on that.

That plant, which means.

Baby a baby nuke.

think these things are conceptual, local, small modular reactors, but they they can do that if they can, you know, foot the bill for it, which would be in that they could, you know, they could power something in the vicinity right now.

They have big data center in DeKalb and they can't take that power and transfers for one thing.

It's just got to get in the weeds here.

But it's 2 different grid system right so stay tune.

It could be something that develops over the next 10 years.

But they they have what they're doing basically is they're stepping in after we have for the last number years subsidize that plan to keep it open.

it was the energy bill that was during the Rauner administration where X then owner excellent was threatening to shutdown Clinton and the quad cities, nuclear plants.

Well, that might be developing over the next 10 years.

But developing here in the next couple of years, a presidential race brewing already, even though it feels like we just got through one.

>> We did we did lawyer.

You had a column this week about some of the dueling ambitions of former Mayor Emanuel current Governor Pritzker.

Do either of them have a likely path to the White House.

So they kind of elbowing each other out?

Well, there are deadly elbowing each other and they're sending strong signals that particularly Rahm Emanuel of late, you know, he's been all over the national media, hinting that he might run for president.

Of course, Pritzker been making the steps all along and they're both from Illinois.

They're both, you know, very prominent, very powerful folks here in Illinois.

I don't know if that necessarily is going to translate on a national level.

>> There's going to be expecting extreme amount of competition, you know, probably a dozen or more serious candidates are going to run for president in a Democratic primary.

So we'll have to see.

But I don't I don't see both of and Pritzker has been kind of out there a lot a lot longer than in many.

What I think maybe Emanuel is really trying to more around messaging strategizing to try to move his party back to the center because that's kind of the rhetoric that he's been using when he's been out there talking about where the Democrats need to be.

So I think he's hoping to maybe have some influence in that way and maybe not necessarily actually Yeah, even if he's not looking to be in the Oval, I don't think he's just doing it for the good of his party.

I think it's about power.

To have skin the game.

Oh, yeah.

And you can run, but don't know.

A lot of enemies out there and a lot of So I don't know that he would get very pop far, particularly with the progressive wing of the party.

Well, but if you know, if you can push the party in the direction that a president who's amenable to him, you know, see some as a potential cabinet material.

that also works.

>> Well, the Chicago Fire unveiled a plan for a new stadium.

This is in the long vacant so-called 78 neighborhood, which is not a neighborhood because there's nothing there.

Just south of Roosevelt Road.

>> You know, Quinn, given the idea that the construction here would be privately funded.

Do you think this latest stadium it we're talking about might actually have legs?

I think it does, especially compared to the plans that were proposed there, which was maybe Jerry Reinsdorf would build on the White Sox did and maybe the Bears would somehow end up there.

You know, they're asking for some public handouts.

The fire is not meant way.

Do want do is is going to put 650 million dollars of his own money into this project.

We are going to see some public money go to this, of course, infrastructure cost millions of dollars.

Certainly.

>> Under TIF district that was already created, I think 8 years ago now.

So certainly there is going to be taxpayer dollars on.

But already this is being received by the public and its city hall, much more favorably than anything.

The bears have come up with.

And that is certainly because of the private money and not asking for a huge handout.

Anyone thinking of this is going to 78, you know, that has sat vacant so long for decades.

The other player was Lincoln Yards.

Maybe this will go up between by town in Lincoln Park.

I think some of the that Sterling Day looking are just going through.

That's the developer putting trying to put to get that together.

They've been selling it off to banks and everything.

It's not a great situation.

I think that probably amongst other factors steered the fire to the 78 where this will probably go.

We'll see what happens in the few months.

And a kind of seems like the fans are on their side of seen a lot of folks supportive of it saying likely older fields, not really a soccer stadium.

It would be nice to have a.

>> A proper stadium there.

What we heard this Chicago's inspector general.

They've been looking into the city's database of gun offenders.

This is where people convicted of certain firearm related crimes are supposed to measure.

The watchdog found that it is, quote, incomplete and unreliable.

You know, Simon, this sort of puts me in mind of the city's former gang database, which has been decommissioned demeanor, these useful tools or is this sort of you know, more an exercise demonstration will they would be useful tools if the data that's being collected is useful Useful tools at the data is good.

But but, you know, it's interesting.

>> The story about the gun offenders registry is so is, you know, theoretically, that should be relatively easy to correct.

The point is when people are convicted of gun crimes after sentencing or when they got to the process afterwards, dishes to come out and register, that should be easy, right?

Be the keeping track of these people as they go through the system But it turns out the issue is that there's conflicting information coming from the city and CPD that the information to just tell these people, hey, you need to sign a this and we need to keep track of you.

They're not getting that information.

>> And so, you know, it seems like it should be a relatively easy problem to fix of just hey, can we communicate this better?

And, you know, I will be curious to see if we can get that data because directly.

I can see the theoretical.

You said it.

All right.

If you if you have a a registry of of gun offenders, then that can be useful information.

But it's only useful if you actually collect the data.

Yeah, I think the technology term is garbage in garbage out.

You need to have good inputs to get good information out of it.

>> Well, you know, Brett, anybody who has been outside this week has has seen and felt the hazy air from those Canadian wildfires.

Should we expect this to be our our new normal this time of year?

It's patients say that yeah, to 2 years ago, that was the message because this was unprecedented.

At that point.

You know, we're always going to get, you air pollution warnings throughout the summer.

>> for different types of pollution usually at the end of the summer, we have the West Coast.

Fire smoke.

And that's not nearly as intense as what we saw this week are certainly not 2023.

2023 was just it you know, opened her eyes to this new world.

It almost all accounts that is because of climate change.

We have hotter drier conditions and can it can not have wildfires years ago.

Now we then they're they're blowing here.

They're playing Detroit.

They're blowing it all over the country.

it's something that is, you know, but back to like talking about, you know, carbon-free, you know, energy and you talk about the, you know, the removal bill that to past This this last session, it's all connected.

You know, trying to mitigate adapt to climate change at the same time.

Yeah.

Tell us about that bill.

Briefly, that was another measure that didn't quite make it out of Springfield.

The says when when the when Governor Pritzker signed the clean so the climate will jobs act.

So years ago, it it was designed to just retire those coal plants worthy of the biggest, you know, polluters of any star power generator for, you that the century right.

in in to bring more wind and solar.

And that's not happening.

And so what's happening, you know, getting that like data centers that up all this power.

Well, we don't have enough generation to to to run these things.

you know, the legislature.

Left without doing anything.

And I don't know if they'll be a special session or focus dealt with in November when they have the short veto session.

that would have done it would also expand a new color to that was another part of that.

But definitely getting more wind and solar and then a big battery operations to store power that they can use later during peak times.

Yeah, they certainly got a laundry list of things that they might want to be addressing in in the special session are in the veto session in the fall.

>> Well, before we wrap up, we should mention a longtime investigative reporter Renee Ferguson has died at age.

75.

She was a groundbreaking journalist here in Chicago.

More than 20 years at Channel 5 of more Washington.

How we remember.

Well, she was the first African-American woman to do investigative reporting on television.

Chicago investigate report always been seen as this would ever find.

>> A high level of reporting she breakthrough broke through and did a number nationally recognized stories.

She also worked as a network correspondent some time revered and very respected journalists in Chicago after she retired.

She the case of an advocate.

She was a spokesperson for Carol Moseley Braun.

The former senator was she ran for mayor and she actually a mentor the transportation secretary and presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg.

He was he was an intern for her when he was that when she was a channel 5.

I remember she actually campaign with him and advocated for him and and she's a really good soul.

Who was whose lost too soon?

Yeah, she was a pretty remarkable person here.

And she certainly will be remembered.

Well, that is all the time that we have for today.

So we're going to give our thanks to Quin Myers or Washington.

Brett Chase and Simon we're back to wrap things up right after this.

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