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

I'm Nick Bloomberg.

Mayor Brandon Johnson makes it official.

He's looking for 4 more years.

>> I made a promise 4 years ago to build a better, stronger, safer Chicago.

We've done that.

>> Johnson touts gains in public safety, mental health care and affordable housing and slams opponents.

He calls fake progressives, brazen.

>> that is a lie.

A family is a very good >> All President Donald Trump endorses Republican gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey, even as Bailey's tried to distance himself from Trump in his second bid state.

>> You're treating us like we're complete.

It We're not.

Indians were intelligent, hard-working people that build our homes.

left And you think you're going to and take it away from us?

Well, guess what, you're not taking away from us.

>> In South Siders pack, a public meetings slamming a plan to move in Amtrak rail yard into Bridgeport, but developer and future White Sox owner Justin Ishbia is a no show.

Meantime, all the people say they've reached a deal to extract concessions as part of the sale of Chicago's parking meters.

2 dueling renter protection ordinances advance.

And attorneys filed claims against the Department of Homeland Security alleging federal immigration agents violated U.S.

citizens rights.

>> And now to our week in review panel.

Joining us are rob part of WBBM Newsradio Rufus Williams of Wv O N Truth saying of Bloomberg News and Quinn Myers of Block Club, Chicago, thank you all for being here.

It's good to see you having us.

All right.

Lots to get to Quinn.

They're finally put the speculation to rest in for another term.

You're at his campaign kick off.

What stood out tie?

Well, he had a lot of elected officials, their older people.

Congressman Danny Davis, >> he's gone for all and he's calling out the billionaire's posers, the fake progressives.

I think a slight against Alexa, June You know, you can debate that, but there are no questions he is running as the farthest left candidates so far in this race and we'll see what happens.

Billionaires and millionaires mentioned many Thais and people like Michael Saxons other, you know, powerful interests in Chicago.

You know, Rufus, we had the mayor on the show, you Monday, the day after his announcement, he said one of the things he wanted to do that he kind of learned he had to do differently during his first term was, you know, spend much more time on the ground in neighborhoods.

His campaign has started doing.

>> Just that kicking off a working people's neighborhood to I think they called it this afternoon.

What do you make of that approach?

Well, I make that approach lets, you know, is 22 million dollars and Brandon Johnson does not.

>> And so the way in votes matter and at the end of the day, it's not the dollars as the vote.

You've got to go out and get the people come out and really be those will making it happen.

So them being on the ground doing that.

all makes sense because that's what he's got to go to really get people engaged involved in this campaign.

And certainly if you're talking about Brandon versus the billionaires, which is what I heard, the people are the ones who you really got to get to billionaires on the one's was door knock on and get them.

So I think his grassroots campaign is really what's going to be necessary to make moves in this particular race with his many people's go.

I think I counted 16 now who may be running, but in order to distance yourself with different differentiate yourself, even as the incumbent, you've got to get to the people, have the people really show up to the polls?

Well, you know, and universes point.

The mayor waited.

That's been a couple months after petition passing started to make this announcement.

I think that was sort of a strategic move.

>> You know it so that the incumbents kickoff wouldn't get drowned out by 15 other folks.

Let's head it helps is the incumbent know the size and scope of the field some of the arguments are.

>> And what I see in this field is to take shape for next February.

>> Is that Brandon Johnson has a very wide lane in which to run and that is called the lane of being.

I'm Brandon Johnson, everybody else who's running against him is I'm not Brandon Johnson.

And that's 15 people.

And so it's it's like driving down the Kennedy Expressway and you're stuck in the locals, bumper to bumper and everyone's doing by the express lanes that that's Brendan Johnson in the Brandon Johnson lanes.

So that could be enough to get him into the runoff.

I also think he waits around because he was trying to say I'm just covering here.

All right.

I'm you know, he was basically taking moves that, you know, or to his passing executive orders and that sort of thing.

But he was able to say I'm above the fray.

I'm not wading into this That'll happen later.

And finally, here we are.

yeah, but I think, you know, speaking of governing the backdrop to this campaign starting is that the mayor.

>> crafting his budget, right?

And so we've gotten a preliminary understanding of what the deficit looks like.

Now people are waiting to see what is he gonna do.

Speaking of millionaires and billionaires, is he going to introduce any new taxes or reintroduce some taxes that he's proposed in the past that have failed, whether its property taxes ahead tax for something else.

What is he going to be campaigning on and is his proposal within the budget going to be part of that.

That's something that I'm going to be watching for will.

And I wonder, too, as well, you know, so much nearly 900 million dollar deficit facing the city next year, which is not uncommon for Chicago's, you know, budget cycles.

>> And so much of the problems the city finances face or structural.

But do you think that's something that his opponents are gonna try to make him wear the jacket for even though it's not necessarily he's doing well.

I think several of his opponents have been around a long time, right.

And several of them are already in government.

>> Some of state government, some of them in federal government.

I think no one can deny that.

Chicago's problems have all of them almost repeat this regularly like these problems didn't come about overnight and they're not going to be solved overnight.

So if someone wants to try to blame the mayor for these structural problems, they can, but I'm not sure.

>> It's going to necessarily work because I think that most Chicagoans know this has been building for decades.

And so let's this has got to be one of the key questions is asking all the debates and forums.

>> How are you going to fix the structural issue within Chicago's finances?

Jim Reynolds of New Capital can from in Wilson of the Urban League.

Let us study that talked about the fund, the finances of Chicago.

talked about how deep and how long this deficit is existed in game up with some ideas about how to move it for.

The question is who's going to pick up on those ideas?

Because the reality is of all the things that the city needs to have done.

There's not a lot of discretionary money to do those things.

Lot of it has already been factored in to the structural deficit.

So in boxing who wants to really run the city, they've got to have some real understanding of what those finances au.

>> Yeah, I mean, some, you know, one in $5 are dedicated to pensions.

Another, you know, percentage is dedicated to service.

And so there is very little discretionary spending available.

But there are going to be questions about the size of the government.

I think some of the candidates are already bringing those up right in terms employee headcount, other types of services that I think some candidates want to spend on and others don't.

So the budget is I think going to be a central factor in this.

I think that's going to be tough Things are going to lay people off are going eliminate middle management positions.

The mayor has said we are not doing that or not necessarily for this budget season, but he's hinted that that probably won't happen.

Ease.

>> Rejected in years past challengers are saying, actually, we should look at these positions and shrink the workforce of the city except in.

I know you want to move that to us so much let you cook so much in here.

And even you can't cut your way out of what our deficit is, there's so much else.

>> To be done.

And when we start to look at some of the other parts of what we are now with the whole concept of progressive affordability, socialism, all these things.

It is expensive to live here in the city of Chicago and will one of the things that we may get to.

just the the the bike lanes and whether or not to park there anything that again looks like a parking ticket just becomes really expensive to anybody.

Whos is trying to get through life here in the city.

all right.

So we've got a dozen and a half candidates already look into your crystal ball.

But got another announcement this week as well.

And William Quinlan are going to see more home.

I this happen my crystal ball to voter to Get through the big Start at 12.

0, 1, on Wednesday after the midterm election, I will have my official prediction by Swami hat will be on.

>> For the for the mayoral election.

But on on the budgetary issues to a lot of the ideas that and present it to raise revenue in the last 4 years.

Even going back to the Lightfoot administration have not lived up to their promise and their projections.

Let's all talk about legalized gambling in the city and how presenting the permanent city casino was going to fix some of the municipal pension shortfall and that has come nowhere close to hitting projections.

Yeah.

Well, a source of revenue the city once had but does no longer a Buc when a group of all the people say they've managed to get some concessions.

>> Might help grease the wheels for the resale essentially of Chicago's parking meters.

Would we here at U.S.

is not official Susko City Council, but a group of alderman have been negotiating with Stone Peak.

This group that wants to buy parking meters after the dreaded Parking Meter deal 2008 on the got some concessions of 75 million dollar payment.

Apparently still think it's going to sell this airline that they own has been used in ICE deportation fights, which was a stipulation.

Many older people were pushing for.

There are other revenue shares in there.

So everyone is kind of saying, wow, we got this great deal.

It's looking way better than we thought you get out of them.

will see there's going to be a committee meeting next week about that on.

So hopefully we get a look at some of the actual details.

But that is may be good news for Chicago Again, we'll see yesterday.

You've covered the studio in the past.

What you make of this week's news?

I think it was.

It's interesting because on this seems to be another example of where the city council has taken a much more active role.

>> In terms of whether it's spending or revenue in this case.

>> And we saw that the last few budget cycles and we've seen this in this vote.

As you know, city council, let's be clear, was only supposed say yea or nay, right like this wasn't necessarily they didn't have in opening necessarily to negotiate, but they did.

So this is another example of where they are really entering the fray for budget.

>> And it's good that they did.

And we just wish they had in right?

Because 9.1, 5 billion dollars.

And now it's at 2.5, 3 50 years left in 50 years left on the deal and they've already more than double the money that they paid for the deal.

Just imagine if our city didn't have to deal with the deficits that we that kind of money to put into our coffers and look for with that.

The ultimate just been as active then as they are now we've got another place.

So it's good that they are.

I think, some positive change there.

>> Rob, as we heard in the setup package, Amtrak officials got quite the year full last night trying to convince folks and Bridgeport Armory Square China Town that a rail yard near their homes wouldn't be such a bad thing.

Does it seem like they maybe weren't quite prepared for the level of pushback they got?

the people live in Bridgeport, this, that they're fighting the good fight.

The problem here for the the neighborhood, a position is that we're dealing with federal land.

That is not really local controls.

Don't necessarily apply.

And they're obviously will be some legal challenges and people who live around the proposed moving of the Amtrak yard from Roosevelt and Canal 2 between 33rd and 35th Street.

They'll do what they It seems like the biggest hang-up is this lack of environmental review.

And we have assurances from Amtrak saying that this this will be less intrusive and then the intermodal freight yard that had been in operation on those tracks until 2019.

Now the neighborhood is pushing back by saying, well, this is different because you're moving the that rain washing facility down to 30th, just west of Shields.

A 4 story building that is going to occupy 2 current rate field parking lots.

One part a lot.

G which I guess the Amtrak are going to be as well.

We're putting this facility across the street from and IDOT, maintenance facility for and it will fit the character of the industrial block time.

But the other side lot see.

That's next to the ballpark and and the White Sox, regardless of what happens, they're in the rate until 2029.

So if this goes through the White Sox and the and Amtrak will be neighbors.

But the neighborhood is up in arms and every community meeting involving Amtrak just gets bigger and bigger as you move to a larger has happened yesterday.

It was quite the seems interesting to have rich for the upset about something.

The home of the 2 longest-serving mayors ever.

>> Seem to be a community that always got with a guy would never have.

This kind of thing happens was just kind of one thing to hear this happening from Bridgeport of all places in has turned well in math.

You know, the mention of the state's a sports facility authority.

You know, they still owe 10's of millions of dollars from helping finance.

You know, new socks park, you know, that opened back in the 90's.

>> You know, they're certainly concerned about South loop move because even if there is a shiny new park where the railyard sits now, they're still on the hook for all that bonded.

on for that as well.

As you know, the soldier field renovations.

And that certainly comes up as people continue to talk about what is going to happen and where the bears are going to go.

And, you know, a lot of that is paid to the hotel taxes.

So that goes right back into the questions.

But the economy of Chicago.

Yeah.

And folks coming here renting there it was and paying U.S.

money.

>> guess that helps pay debt.

So we'll take that.

Alright, grab for 2022, I think Darren Bailey would be celebrating an endorsement from President Trump.

>> He's tried to chart a more independent course in this round.

You know, what do you think how Trump's endorsement might that complicate his messaging here?

Well, I it's it's >> To give an idea the state of play in this race is that Governor Pritzker is already looking beyond November of 2026.

He's trying to set himself up as a national figure for 2028 wink he's he's he's already traveling the country and trying to make sure that other Democrats win races outside of the state of Illinois.

all of it is a posture of a man who does not think he is in danger of losing at all.

Darren Bailey said he would appreciated President Trump's kind words, especially expressions of sympathy because his family dealt with profound personal loss this year and that helicopter accident out West and it.

But but Bailey has just been waging this Facebook campaign trying to be very conciliatory and and doing the best he can without a whole lot of money.

Yeah.

And spending quite a bit of time and in Chicago this time I saw a picture of him on maybe today he was on the red line down.

Don't come come shy with me on the red line.

And so that is certainly a different posture from Bailey.

4 years ago.

>> When he derided Chicago and then I got a lot of pushback for difference in so many ways.

He was looking for Trump's endorsement for right to go.

And now he's not sure where they want to because >> Trump's.

Ratings in the toilet.

And so here we are with him being in Chicago and being in all these places and indeed they called Chicago.

Hello, would you try to explain as he just was trying to get some attention at the time.

So it hardly seems to be the way in which to curry favor with the people that he really wants to do.

So so the fact that he and his wife have now moved here and all these other things that just it's not surprising that the governor would be looking beyond this race.

And it's interesting to I was seeing some reporting that.

>> A lot of Republican midterm candidates are using the president in their ads.

They aren't using Trump in their messaging.

So I guess we are really moving into lame-duck talked to aides of 4 years ago when a lot of Democrats in red states didn't want to have.

Again, the same stage is Joe Biden or 2 years ago when Democrats in Montana and Ohio didn't want to be in the same stages.

Kamala Harris politics comes for all.

Yeah, someone is until Trump because he right for right?

Yeah, but there yet.

This midterm convention.

>> Alright, some news this week in the fallout from Operation Midway Blitz.

And of course, there's should mention, you know, ongoing enforcement actions more than a dozen citizens and permanent residents file civil claims saying federal immigration agents were violent and abusive.

You know, as we've seen sort of a lack of official law enforcement action prosecution Rufus, do you think we might see more of these kinds of civil claims in lieu of, you know, sort of official action in this only we can go.

I listen our turn to on Oberg.

>> Talk about the ability of them to really prosecute federal officers.

And so the only way in which people are going to get any restitution is through the claims court, it's not going to happen criminally.

And, you know, the things that happened were egregious and every single level.

And when we continue to hear about immigration and immigrants now and this continued push about criminality and crime and justice.

That's not.

That's what they said.

What happened?

It is not at all what happened.

A lot of people harmed in this process and there has to be some consequences and some restitution to them.

All right.

Switching gears session at the U Interesting piece this week about a subject very much on people's minds lately.

>> Data centers and you looked kind of the flip side of how pushing those centers away could mean losing out on a windfall for some towns that really need tell us about that.

data centers have become a very emotional topic for a lot of people.

Most of the data centers that are existing right now are in cities or their suburbs.

>> But most of the proposals that are coming out now for new data centers are going to be in rural and small towns.

And so this is something that a lot of Cobb County boards village councils around the country are starting to battle with some of these are very small towns and counties.

They have budgets of 24 million or 25 million a year or 40 million dollars a year.

Think about Chicago's budget, which is 16 billion dollars all told.

So, you know, these towns and counties are taking a look at very large projects.

Some of them are indebted.

One county.

I looked at has been dipping into the reserves and has actually sold bonds to replenish.

So thank you take a loan to replenish its reserves.

One city that we looked in Iowa had to double its debt level because it had a major sewer project to do 3 years ago.

So these are some of the places where data centers have proposals.

But local residents are saying is money everything.

What about noise pollution?

What about our water supply?

What about our electricity bills in a variety of other things like the quality of their life?

Some of these places are agricultural.

Some of them are residential.

They're not used to massive buildings being, you know, right next to their homes.

And so there's a lot of questions about the budgets, but also about the quality of life.

One professor I spoke with at the University of Iowa is actually built an online tool for communities to use to see what are the pros and cons of data centers and is a data center right for your community.

And she said to me that one of the reasons this topic is coming up and the data center proposal is being entertained is because of some of the fiscal challenges that almost every state and local government is facing right now.

And I think it's interesting to talk about into the emotional aspect of it because >> that puts a lot of local leaders and a really tough spot.

You know, it's good.

I thought that tool was really fascinating idea to help people, you know, kind of way all this stuff.

But if there's kind of an angry crowd of residents at a county board meeting, it's not necessarily easy for a local leader to break through and say, well, let's talk about this.

You know, the more pros and cons.

>> Yeah.

So the emotions, are anchored in day-to-day life, right?

So if a community, for example, one that we looked at uses wells for their water supply there asking, well, if the data center comes in here, what is going to happen to our water supply?

Are those wells going to become dry?

Then?

And there's not a lot of information.

And so that's one of the frustrations that community members with these landing, whether it's Chicago, whether it's any other big city or small town, they're looking for the information, right?

And so that's where some of the motion lies because they just don't necessarily have all the answers.

And as journalists, we want the answers to.

>> Alright Rufus, it's been months of court battles, but the shuttered west Suburban and Weiss hospitals are being sold off to incite health systems, although getting them reopened its it's hardly a done deal.

It is hardly.

And under these a safety net hospitals that people rely on for a while that aren't there.

>> And if you think about the ways in which you get health care, what you can trust and where you would way anybody would go.

Are these going to be able to come on line and be up to steam up to the ways in which he would be comfortable with going there.

>> To receive care.

It's one of the things that we'll still see and do.

Some of the certifications were taken away and there's a lot to be done before these hospitals can Yeah.

A lot of nearby residents eagerly hoping that they will be.

>> Alright, rob battle of the dueling renter protection ordinance is barreling toward full City Council.

Do you think maybe that could be some sort of a compromise deal pro versus fair?

And I was trying all week to say this person, this con on but the opportunity ever presented itself nab it.

But this this does speak to the larger issue that we've been talking about in the mayor's race and what comes to data centers.

And as this the larger issue of affordability, 600,000 people and they are households in the city of Chicago.

They're renters.

And of that group, 40% spend almost a 3rd of their take home pay on rent the average rent in Chicago.

It's now $2000 a month or close to it.

And this is all about Pro Act, which a lot of progressive others are on board with.

And that real estate interest don't like with set up tenants rights organization or or an office of tenants rights that would give renters some recourse in the event of large rent increases and also.

Make sure priority private provide more transparency in who owns the buildings because normally there's just a web of shell companies, especially if it someone who is not keeping that building up and in a state of good repair.

So speaking of the larger issue of affordability that vote, that is one way of addressing that and making sure you're getting a good deal out of the department that you're renting them.

And another piece of city councilors.

I want to get to Quinn.

You know, Alders are also considering expanding the program that puts cameras on city vehicles and buses to catch people who up a bike or a bus lane.

Do we know?

>> Is there widespread support?

There actually is.

So this is the smart streets pilot program.

It's been 2 years in the making.

It started downtown since expand to include a large part of the North side.

Basically it's automated ticketing.

There are any new rules or laws they're just using cameras to basically send out more finds.

It started with people who are blocking the bus lane or the bike lane now includes on bus stops.

And even if you're parking meters expired, Kentucky for that.

And the city says this is working its brought in 2.5 million dollars, but not just that, they say it's working because I think 80 something percent of people got a warning.

The first infection, just get a warning.

And then they did not reoffend.

They're basically saying this is working.

People are getting the message.

Are we sending this morning?

So now this pilot expires in December.

At least half the council.

I think more want to see it.

Expanded citywide and make permanent.

All right.

Well, no warnings needed with the 4 of you.

You're all great.

But we are out of time.

So our thanks to Rob heart, Rufus Williams, truth saying and Quinn Myers and we're back to wrap things up right after this.

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