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

I'm Lumber, a state commission slams federal immigration agents alleging illegal and violent conduct during operation Midway Blitz and pushes the Cook County State's attorney to act.

>> The U.S.

Justice Department.

Will not be doing any investigating.

Of these agents who committed these atrocities.

So what is left?

What is left is?

Our local prosecutor's work.

But states attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke says she can only act after getting a completed investigation from law enforcement how a judge can make this decision.

A judge should have made the decision to keep that person in jail.

>> Democrats defend the law that ended cash bail in Illinois after a suspect released on electronic monitoring is accused of shooting 2 police officers.

One fatally.

Meantime, a federal judge denies former state House Speaker Michael Madigan's appealed it.

Mayor Brandon Johnson nominate a new Chicago inspector general has the former watchdog takes over as chief of staff for the Illinois Attorney general.

And after more than 2 months, Congress votes to end a partial government shutdown.

And now to our week in review panel.

Joining us are Jake Sheridan of the Chicago Tribune, our own Heather Sharon of Wt Tw News.

>> Monica Ang of Axios, Chicago and Matt Lederman of Block Club.

Chicago.

Thank you all for being here.

let's get right to it.

So Heather, before we jump into all that news earlier today, reporting that the president has told Congress the war on Iran has been, quote, terminated.

This is ahead of a 60 day deadline that would require lawmakers to further authorize the conflict to have a clear sense of where things are going from here.

We don't.

There's been no withdrawal of troops from the Persian Gulf.

And there's no indication that the Strait of Hormuz, which is, of course, why gas prices have increased significantly.

>> Have sort of changed also that there's no indication that the president announced military blockade of the nation of Iran is ending.

So it's very not clear what this means, if anything, but it is no doubt an attempt to sort of head off another vote in Congress that could sort of to clear that the president does not have the authority to execute military maneuvers in are on or around.

could be a determination in name only at least for now.

All right.

Well, the Illinois Accountability Commission delivered its report this week on the conduct of federal agents during Operation Midway Blitz.

What are some of the key takeaways folks need to know about?

>> Well, it was clear that the commission found the Department of Justice directed by the White House essentially lied about what agents were doing while they were here in Chicago and that they said they were here to sort of take away the worst of the worst and find people who had criminal records.

the commission found.

There is no evidence of those sort of people being targeted, but that raids were indiscriminate.

And as they said, explicitly violent, they also called in Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke to use the power of her office in charge.

Those agents criminally not just the agents who shot Mary Martinez in early October, but the other agents that sort of created the chaos of the tear gas and pepper and everything else that we reported on during the fall.

But it's not clear as we heard whether the state's attorney is going to sort take that referral really do anything with it.

>> Yeah, you know that they're saying they've referred their findings to a number of law enforcement agencies.

As you mentioned, the Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burg, Clinton, what do we have a good sense of why the state's attorney and all these other officials are at sort of an impasse here.

She's saying I can't act yet and they said, no, we've given you the information that you need.

Yes, she seems really dug in on our position here on Nick.

And a lot of that just relates feeling like her hands are obviously on the county prosecutor's work very closely at ATF, other federal agencies are a number of cases it would take quite the stomach, too.

Prosecute a federal officer who was doing work while on the job.

That's largely unprecedented really something we haven't seen throughout the country.

So the state commission so far has begun to unravel everything that happened in a split Senate was of what's happened so fast.

beginning to see the evidence that body camera footage to reports all coming out and beginning to be made sense and put in front of heard what happens with that.

I think it's unclear.

But I think it's a very high bar to actually bring a prosecution last week in a second representatives for the state's attorney's office said.

>> Look, we can't be scouring the Internet to look for this evidence and we need a law enforcement agents who to bring this to us.

Well, I think watching those Illinois accountability hearings, they have created these dossiers.

These really dossier showing here are all the times when we believe they've committed a crime here.

All the statements they've made that are directly contradicted by body cam footage.

It's almost as if they're saying, OK, you need a case to like perfectly way for you or hand it and around the clock out.

Yeah.

Well, you know, it was interesting.

We heard yesterday on our air from the chair of the Accountability Commission saying he expects to see local prosecutions of federal agents in other states and other jurisdictions.

You think that's the kind of thing that might turn up the heat here?

Yeah, I think that absolutely could.

And we've seen that in a lot of the different executive orders or anything like that in one state or one city.

You know.

>> There's been a lot of copy cat responses to this really unprecedented moment across the country where as political pressure to do something people see someone else do Yeah, you know, Monica Midway Blitz was among the reasons that congressional Democrats have been demanding big changes to the Department of Homeland Security of course, led to a partial shutdown that ended yesterday.

Where does it feel like things go from here?

I mean, is this sort a lost for congressional Democrats or have they been able to apply some successful pressure?

I think that certainly highlighted the issue of what DHS agents have done.

>> Were they successful and in restricting the the funds?

Probably not.

But I think they think there's a certain level of success and highlighting the issue, which has very, very negative.

mental issue for Trump's approval rating.

>> You know, immigration, one of the many issues for demonstrators at today's May day protests that it sparked a big fight between CPS and CTU.

spokesperson said about 2200 students went on field trips.

Preliminary numbers show elementary attendance about on par with other day's high school attendance.

A little bit down Jq some of today's action.

Would you say yeah, I was at the protest.

There hundreds of people You know that the thing I heard most from the speakers on stage was tax the rich.

You know, it was definitely I think as moment expect focused on big corporations ultra wealthy people.

But there are a lot of other complaints and demands being made.

A lot of focus was on the war in our Enron and the spending that's going on in that You know, this is something that, you know, CTU is able to come to a deal with CPS to create this sort civic action day.

You know, how you think this might be something we see in in future years on May first?

Well, they certainly want to make it an annual event and part of their contract allows for a day of sort of civic action.

It's not clear whether it will look exactly like it did today or whether they'll try to make other changes.

But it's clear that, you know, the CTU is not sort of abdicating their sort of self-proclaimed role as political powerhouse in Chicago politics.

>> And we are about to go into a local election year.

So they are certainly going to be looking to flex those muscles that some Muslim you when you when you strike.

And that's where the power of these organizations comforts comes from.

>> You know, one day when you have a mayor that you like and school board you can tolerate shows that you still have this ability.

Reminds boaters reminds these elected officials that you can do something bigger if you need to keep in mind.

This wasn't the giant day of protests that many had hoped walk out of school, walk out of work.

No business as usual.

>> I got a call from Brit National radio station.

So look, nobody going to work in Chicago today.

All right.

And that the protest itself, it wasn't like totally hundreds wasn't thousands and thousands of people.

yeah.

It's going to be a Cold Day 2.

I was going to say we're not necessarily conditions out there.

That one might hope for on May.

1st.

>> All right.

we are seeing a another huge conversation around electronic monitoring after the weekend shooting at Swedish hospital.

>> Suspect released on monitoring that he'd reportedly violated the terms of now charged with the murder of a Chicago police Officer, Jake Youth and their colleagues at the Tribune had been taking a look at kind of the chain of events.

What exactly happened?

What's the latest that we?

Yeah, we know that 2 officers are being investigated for this search that occurred of the man who had a gun.

I mean, he he got a gun into a hospital after being apprehended.

You know, clearly something went wrong there.

So they're being investigated And, you know, there's all sorts of debate back and forth, which we've seen since the passage of the Safety Act about whether this is the right idea.

You know, Monica supporters of the law say it's not it's not about cash bail.

It's about whether judges make the right call here.

>> I think everybody is pointing to like who let people do not like any more judge like made the decision.

This guy was already out on of electronic monitoring for another felony.

And then he gets put out electronic monitoring for this felony.

They wonder why that was the best idea.

And we're still not finding out we've got the transcripts Still not finding out what happened and why after a warrant was issued for his arrest more than a month later, nobody it seems had moved to apprehend someone who's whose electronic monitoring technology have been turned off and he hadn't shown up hearings.

What happened there?

Clearly something's wrong and assist.

Yeah.

I mean, Mac, is this more of a question of there are gaps in other parts of the system that that need to be addressed rather than an issue with monitoring itself.

Perhaps.

I mean, this feels like something we continuously right about any time.

There's high profile crimes.

I was covering incident when 24 when it.

>> A man on what ballot is like trying my ring killing his wife.

despite being on that monitoring for a crime related to that in his system didn't ring when he was in her face.

And he's a lot of questions around.

They're on.

And, you know, on the system has been large and on.

We live on Willie for a very long time now over 55,000 people on electronic monitoring and Cook According to a study that's compared to Los Angeles County, which only has about 300 people right on the system.

So there's been efforts to consolidate this under the county clerk.

But when the eye to the circuit court on, was told that system would have to be there they push back on a date and wanted the sheriffs didn't want it.

So will be how we do who runs and how many people are on, I think is really open question.

Yeah, there's a lot a lot of logistics that go into something like that first.

Certainly.

>> Alright, Heather Federal appeals court today upheld former House Speaker Michael Madigan's conviction.

This comes after 2 of the so-called comment for caught up in the corruption investigation.

Here were granted new trials.

you surprised to see that split at all?

I wasn't.

So if you remember the timeline events and who does really, it seems like this happen the calm so-called comment for who are going to get new trials.

It seems like we're tried before the Streets and Supreme Court decision sort of narrowing the definition of bribery.

Madigan, however, was tried after that Supreme Court decision was in Prosecutors and defense were able to sort tailor their arguments in the charges that he was facing to sort of abide by those guidelines.

>> And it was clear that the appellate court did not buy mannequins argument that this was just business as usual.

He said, I think that is perhaps your problem.

think this is business as usual and perhaps why you should stay in jail?

There's no doubt that it was a big blow to Madigan, who I think was heartened by those the other sentences being overturned.

I would not be surprised to hear us lawyers were a little bit surprised at sort of that, you know, straightforward in an ambiguous definite decision by the appellate court.

>> Yeah.

And you have to imagine prosecutors, you know, in presumed 3 trials of some refiled charges are going to try to use some of what they learned during Matic.

And that's absolutely they will have different arguments.

They will have a different jury.

However, ComEd 4 cases were just a little bit different than that.

write it was sort of they were the bribe ERs as opposed to the bride.

The ease.

>> And it's a little bit unclear whether the Supreme Court thinks that you should be held criminally responsible by giving somebody a bribe or gratuity or, you know, I don't know.

Kudos.

So we'll have to see what happens.

I think has to do, though, of not making And again, while ruling was affirmed on I think in the decision they mentioned, you know, this is not politics as usual.

So really Madigan.

I think it's a staple.

Barrett just corruption.

The state of Illinois is so.

>> Walking back on his sentence.

I think it's something nobody really had the appetite for.

Yeah.

Even if you know, other folks may have been criminally liable, they may not be as high profile.

You know, the average person might not be able to name all 4 members of the comet for certain land, Yes, but that is our own problems with >> Alright, sticking with some high profile trials, MAC federal prosecutors.

They're dropping the felony conspiracy charges against the protesters were arrested after a demonstration outside the broad view ice facility.

So facing misdemeanor charges here.

Yet prosecutors say they're going change felony charges of misdemeanor charges against progressive activists category Allen.

3 other candidates to other political candidates wrapped up in this have already had charges dropped.

So.

>> Another example of just seeing federal charges crumbley upon inspection against politicos protesters related.

So the immigration crackdown on this incident has a lot to do because they love other.

Candidates blocking a federal vehicle from exiting the broad view facility in a protest in September.

You know, definitely a very low bar put charge someone there with a crime.

interesting to see if they'll continue this fight in court.

Yeah, yeah.

You have to wonder whether those misdemeanor charges might just go away at some point.

Well, I think it bears sort of pointing out that these charges for conspiracy were dropped after Judge April Perry ordered the Department of Justice to provide grand jury transcript proving to sort of, you know, detail how they prove to the grand jury that these charges were a permit to be brought instead of doing that.

They said we're going to go ahead and drop those cases, which I think raises a lot of questions as we have seen nationwide about how the Department of Justice is doing their jobs and what sort of arguments they're making behind closed doors that don't seem to be able to stand up.

>> To the light of a courtroom.

Yeah.

Prosecutorial track record here.

Not necessarily great.

Also say this trial is really circled on our calendar is at least says the next landmark case relates immigration enforcement in Chicago.

So I think, >> you know, federal prosecutors, they didn't have the juice, Ford and could potentially have been another embarrassment for the Trump administration.

Had this gotten farther along?

Yeah, I think it's worth pointing out that there have only been 2, I believe, convictions related to people sort of, you know, at in the midst of operation, Midway Blitz, you know, sort of attempting to thwart federal agents in both of those cases were relatively minor.

Sort you know, especially when we sought sort of the beginning of Operation Midway Blitz, just sort of this, you know.

>> All-out effort to sort of criminalize what some people said was protesting in their First Amendment rights.

And what other people said was sort of illegal you know, sort of attempt to prevent federal government from carrying out there duties, which, of course, was the heart of the argument behind President Trump attempting to deploy the National Guard to Chicago.

Yeah.

The old argument that a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich.

Maybe maybe no longer so true anymore.

>> Alright, Jake Mayor Brandon Johnson didn't waste anytime nominate a new city inspector general.

What do we know about his pick?

Yeah.

So he's because David clocking or and he has a long history of working and public and private service for different companies.

You work for Citadel most recently for AXA, Long comments, owner.

>> Following up on some of different corruption stuff across the state.

you know, also was a top prosecutor for the federal prosecutor here in Chicago very prosecuted even more.

A high level state officials.

You know, Chicago's number one export is his >> yeah, so you know, I think one thing that's really interesting is also what happens with past Inspector General de Pere Berg.

>> You know, the mayor had a pretty bad view of her.

She she was pretty likely to not get another term from him.

She said she didn't want it.

Now she's heading to Attorney-General Camaro was office as chief of staff.

So she's somebody I think is really interesting.

Keep an eye on and the city and the state's politics.

Yeah, it'll be interesting to see what his relationship with the new it is like.

Yeah, I'm fascinated that temper with burden.

The attorney's general office will still have a role in enforcing the consent decree Russia called police department is under now hurt.

>> Department was the first and so far only department to fully comply with the consent decree.

She will have a much larger poll now in enforcing that decree.

And I will be watching closely.

just find it fascinating that the mayor has this job of choosing someone who isn't doing their job, right.

It's going to become enemies with him.

And just so let's let's watch the honeymoon between Doctor Johnson.

One thing to look out for with him is, you know, it's bird had a tendency to go to the press and to speak about her investigations.

And that's where a lot of the power and her work came from was publicizing it because she has the ability to investigate.

Just really have a ton of inforcement power any really just light it and hope people with that.

But I know that wrinkle that mayor's administration a lot.

So will partner do that.

I the question that start going out for drinks with them now.

he's watching relates to All right.

So Monica, this weekend, the Supreme Court issued a ruling a weakening the Voting Rights Act as it relates to taking into account race and ethnicity.

When drawing congressional districts.

But a lot of conversation about how Springfield might respond, but nothing quite concrete yet.

No.

In fact, the Senate had to sort of dropped a constitutional amendment that would have made it easier and now maybe they're reconsidering.

>> We've had on 4 talk to my colleague it Axios, Justin Kaufmann say, you know what, the black caucus was actually against redistricting because of some of the dilution that might cause in some of their despair of black majority districts.

>> But now he's saying maybe we should You know what I'm saying this bring got bring a stick, a gun to a knife fight it's it is still unclear.

We have one person speak out anonymously saying, you know, I'm not sure there are the votes for it in Springfield right now to try to go 100% blue state.

But the landscape is changing.

Yeah, always seems to mac election-related story of a very different kind.

This is.

>> Centering on accusations by libertarians that the randomly drawn order in which candidates appear on the ballot wasn't so random after all.

What are the details there?

So you guys know this and the drag the county buildings downtown, is where a look like.

every for every election determine given a Tory ul hoops and a presidential.

>> They hold a ballot drawing has literally they take out a place to go bowl and they put names of each political party in them.

And now the county clerk comes and picks him out.

Democrats had won the last 4 times in a row.

So the odds of the 5th consecutive top finish for Democrats was under one percent.

And the only people to really pick up that where the libertarians who attended view usually poorly attended ballot drawing.

So there were 3 of them there.

And then there was me journalist and they sent out this e-mail blast, the hope rescue.

I watched a Democratic political machine win for a 5th straight time is a mathematical improbability.

But not court in the county clerk went up there and she picked out the Republicans first of all, good.

areas concerns were silenced and that they have things on the pix was in or we have sad Bulls fans watching I think it was your presence there.

They they knew the power of around 40. that's right.

Yeah, it is an odd process.

It's sort of it's very church.

Bingo.

actually see happen.

>> Alright, Jake, there's a lot of consternation after Congressman Chuy Garcia is a last-minute announcement.

He wouldn't run effectively cleared the way for his chief of staff Patty Garcia to get the nomination.

independents running for that seat.

You wrote about a bit of a packed of sorts.

They have what what are they trying to do that?

So I went to a town hall last night.

That was just for the independence.

And, you know, there are a bunch of candidates Myra messy as Chris Keddie Byron Sigcho Lopez among couple others.

And they all focus so squarely on criticizing Patty Garcia for participating and think it's fair to call this political stunt that that handed her the Democratic nomination.

And, you know, they all said that they need to coalesce behind.

The candidate has the best shot of beating her and a beating Republicans instead of all just running.

They were led on specifics about how they'll choose who actually has to drop out.

now, you know, I'm very It's my job to be a cynic, but I'm skeptical that people actually drop drop out, not everyone's on the ballot yet.

They got to collect a ton of signatures 11,000. well, that's where the winnowing I imagine will happen.

So, you know, if there is one candidate or 2 candidates that makes the ballot, I imagine they'll be some tough discussions.

But as we saw in the 9th district race.

>> It is not easy Vance.

Other candidates that they should drop out so that you can win.

This will also be an election where Democrats seem to be ready to call crawl over hot coals to vote whoever is bearing that Democratic label, which will boost Patty Garcia, whether it will be enough to sort of overcome, you know, sort of fat.

The other thing is, is that we might know Alderman Byron Lopez, you know, other people might know, you know, the other candidates, they don't have a ton of recognition.

And a lot of people think wrongly that Patty Garcia's related to Chili Garcia will point in her favor even though it's incorrect.

Yeah, it's going to be very interesting to see where that goes.

But yes, I think the point about how hard it is to get on the ballot very well taken >> one story that I wanted to talk about.

City Hall.

Jake, a fight between Alders and the Johnson Administration of the budget.

It's not over.

Never ending, don't expected to any time soon.

So what do we have this So this week there was a hearing about the city's finances through the 1st quarter.

And looking ahead at how some of the parts and the budget been implemented, what's coming up?

>> And, you know, basically older men in the coalition that voted through a budget against the mayor is wishes in December argue that he hasn't done a good job of implementing the most controversial parts of their plans so far his budget director certainly argue that they haven't argue that they have been particularly transparent, pointed to sort of just like matrix of implementation, right, green, you know, yellow for stuff that's kind of in the works.

But they were buying They also learned that day that there's another Ernst and young contract for 6, 7, 6.7 million dollars over over 2 years on implementation.

So they were pretty shocked and frustrate here that thank you for saying point on, say macro most out of time.

you covered the closure of the much loved Skyway Lanes, Black on bowling alley.

It's been around since the 50's.

>> What did you hear from folks about the significance of that?

Yeah, actually, I couldn't a full hour on bowling.

If you want to the goal ball at me after guy's too, if you're interested, yeah, Skyway lanes the last black on Bowling alley to see Chicago during Bowling's heyday.

There's actually over 100 bowling alleys in the throughout the city.

But I'm now only down to less than a half dozen.

Less than a dozen.

>> And Skyway lanes on put out this viral fundraiser.

They sound the alarm that they needed help on their boat facility that lost a lot of bowling leagues during the pandemic.

You know, a lot of kids these days sticking their heads in their phones and not really seeking out 3rd spaces in sports like that anymore.

That's hurt the bowling alley on.

They've actually raise over $25,000 an effort that kept it open for a year longer like to think that maybe all the neighbors got to have.

>> One more birthday party at the bowling alley.

But unfortunately the problems caught up to them and it was a bittersweet feeling for the people there you know, are out there, you know, Central place to go in the neighborhood.

Well, no bitter sweetness at this table to 4 of you are great.

But we are out of time.

>> All right.

Thanks to.

>> Jake Sheridan, Heather Sharon, Monica and Matt Lieberman.

back to wrap things up right after this.

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We marked international Jazz Day this week.

Monica, you did a great piece about how Chinese restaurants help keep jazz, you know, alive for a long time.

Grandpa.

Joe, he had Garfield park giant Jazz club with the House band Metairie, her playboys.

She later went on post Most House band.

>> was, you know, blues bands.

It was dancers from dancers acrobats and Chinese restaurants for don't for that.

They're very risky place China's entry.

So much of city council shut all of them down.

Yeah, I think history.

A lot of folks don't know about, you know, that they maybe wouldn't put together a to see, you know, they think of the green mill and things like that.

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