chicago reader crain's chicago business, chicago magazine and others. leigh giangreco covers government politics policy and civic life and the city is a power elite for crain's chicago business. before coming to crain's in july 2023, john greco worked for several years as a freelance reporter whose work has appeared in the guardian. guardian, politico magazine, bloomberg, the washington post and pew's state line. she previously the defense industry in washington d.c. thank you very much. lynn vance. thank you again much for being here today. really enjoyed your book. it's a fantastic primer as well for politics in chicago, not just for, you know, learning the history of the different types of here. you opened the book by telling us that two men david barksdale, the founder of the gangster disciples and richard j daley legendary or some might say infamous mayor of chicago had never met. so why profile these two men in the same book. i have to blame it on my sitting in the back cracked that when she you know she gave me an idea she's a historic preservati

chicago yeah. and i would add to that. so we're doing lot of work right now around media, the museum, the media production process, working with our media producers. we have linear media narrative storytelling pieces as well as interactive media where we can really engage with their input, their reflections is one of the spaces that we have created. it is actually a civics primus space. thinking about the impulse, the importance of civics education, how government works, how a bill becomes a law. those kinds of issues. but in order to think about civics education, i was really drawn to the idea of the graphic novel because. we know that comic books, cartoons can engage learners of all ages. it's a way to pair the visual with the written. and so we've engaged a cartoonist who's also a historian, joel christie and gail, who will be creating a three dimensional comic book graphic novel brought to life, which will tell the story of of the founding understanding of civics in the us. there's wonderful media piece which we used t

genius of chicago.g a lot of work right now around media and that museum media protection processd work with our media producers. we have linear media storytelling pieces as well as interactive media or we can really engage people with their input the reflection importance of >> education. howbi government works how a bil becomes a law, those kinds of issues. but it order to think about education i was really drawn to the idea of a graphic novel. we note comic books, cartoons can engage of all ages. it's one that can pad the visual with the w written. and so we have engaged a cartoonist who is also a historian who will be creating a three dimensional comic book a graphic novel brought to life which will tell the story of the founding and understanding in the u.s. is a wonderful media piece we used to loosely call schoolhouse rock were calling it civics mix tape. will be a series of animated vignettes bring for the story of civics occurred that media produce work with focus group including a youth, a 15

she is series editor with the chicago visions and revisions series at the university of chicago press. newport's research has been supported recently by university of connecticut humanities. university of, illinois at chicago libraries and, the black metropolis research consortium. she received a ph.d. in history temple university in 2016. newport hails tulsa, oklahoma and tacoma and lives in west hartford, connecticut. dr. amanda klonsky is a lecturer at the university of chicago crown school of social work and the author of the forthcoming book pandemic of punishment to be published by beacon press. this pivotal work chronicles the experience of people in american jails and prisons during the covid crisis. until recently, she served as a at the ucla law covered bars data project. amanda led education programs in jails and prisons for more than 15 years and holds a doctorate in education leadership from harvard universal. thank you very much for being here. thanks to everyone for coming and thanks for supporting. good. can you hear me now? thanks, everyone, for coming. nice to see yo

of the city of chicago. of control violent crime crisis, police stations being closed and used for migrant shelters due to scabies outbreak. you don't want it. now sources tell me that we -- there is very serious concern they need to close down chicago's o'hare international airport due to scabies. >> steve: this is something. wish we could take a look on the other side of the curtain. i know we have minors who do not want you to take a look. >> i suppose. i really don't know how to do that. this gentleman doesn't want us to do that. can you tell us what is behind the curtain? >> you popped up out of nowhere, didn't you? >> how many migrants are here at the airport? >> no comment. >> they are sleeping on the floor, do you think the governor should put the migrants in his hotel. >> now you are spitting, okay. >> governor written letter to joe biden asking for more funding, we thought perhaps he was asking for joe biden to close the border. no, governor pritzker, he is gearing up for that and wants more money.

but we were told by people here, there is not good communication between texas in chicago. chicago hasn't asked for these shipments of migrant, so they have welcome them here in the city. and it's caused arguments not just between states and republicans, and democrats. here in this city, we're almost everyone is a democrat. their massive arguments between the mayor, the republican governor and president biden. all of them are democrats for the mayor here needs more state help. he says he needs more federal help, so he's asking for money for both of those. uh, you know, both of those offices and here in chicago, a city that's one 3rd, black, one 3rd, white, one 3rd, hispanic. there are huge arguments every time in a or says he wants to open a shelter somewhere, no matter what neighborhood it is. and this includes latino neighborhoods, people in those neighborhoods get upset, and those meetings become shouting matchers with people saying not in my backyard. and one of the big problems here is that your condo has a huge, impoverished population. in many people on the west and south sides wit

my german journalist david, one day elijah's president, ought to be submitted to faith chicago state university certificates of the night during the election commission. following the us district court order for the release of the document for the by the university. the local registrar confirmed the identity of the certificates submitted to the night during the election commission does not match the one on record. we spoke to mr. hyundai himself, who said that the college was compass. it can be miss misplaced presenting b major and need those records from the spot. when a university is us on the of the certificates, or would you need from you or not? the only 2 possible answers to that question is either yes, we issued the certificates or no. we did not issue the certificates. yeah. so they gave was no, we did not issue the certificates. i only mean once they back, i don't even mean that if he's advocates, which was presented or causing to be from this university, was actually from that university. always has the logos on the markings of that university on it. that is for jerry, i ta

scott is published by the us department of justice ranch chicago, as americans most corrupt cities. the 3rd time in the role chicago's long history of political corruption believes to impact on each institution and the nice invitees. a former university administrator was conflicted from best, with millions of dollars from the school. also, according to reports, a university professor was come, fix, etc, for defrauded the government of millions of dollars in research grants. february's election was the most controversial in my to yeah, in recent history with incidents of violence and allegations of daily breaking my new police on a boat. i see for approval car james 2nd place start in the election. but he and 3rd party candidates. p dot will be halfway challenging, suitable as victory imports boatman claiming they won the vote. but last month and a few points in a point upheld, suitable victory. who prefer and will be appealed. the ruling of the supreme court, the hearing will begin soon. and the car is hoping to fresh allegations the ops in his favor. timothy appears. we are to uplo

as of today are living in and outside of chicago. those police stations and temperatures are dropping to the race to get them in doors before the brutal midwestern winter is on. chicago has agreed to pay $29000000.00 to build massive heated 10 villages across the city like these in new york. but here in a city with a massive poverty problem of it's own many residents resent resources going to their new migrant neighbors. i see the bus is pulling in here every day, all day long. i get off at night. i see the bus is still coming in, you know, how do you have other states other cities sending buses here to settle back? responding to the crisis president job id reversed himself this week agreeing. there's been more to build new barriers along the border. new york mayor eric adams visited mexico in ecuador and his heading to the dairy and get a heart a full it is, but our resources on chicago mayor brandon johnson plans to visit the u. s. southern border. soon as the long journey comes to an end for many migrants, the cities work is just

that is for jerry, i talked with his lawyer specifically aust, the representative from chicago state university on the oath. can you verify like i, you see 4 sites and that the students you have on file known as well, that each a member and then a gen present or the same person. and the response was yes, based on the fact that that's the information on the transcript that we have. and then the question, thank you. me again. that's. so are you seeing that? so you have the state university, just assuming that these are the same person, those for obviously us as well, meaningful states. and i guess i was that is correct. so that's not as close as you agree. so it gets to pretty much i see evidence of chicago's age invested, basically a meeting that they actually have no way of knowing without another person to have a file. he's actually the same person as the major and president. the deposition is all that we need. these are fema on the deposition, contain all the information that we need to know. what we do know from what is provided in the deposition, is that 1st of all, well that's h

can denver in chicago or asking for more money to cover the costs? john 100 reports from chicago. are they come by? the bus float a dozen times a day, hundreds of them. it's a grueling bus track from texas to chicago when the american heart late 2000 kilometers from the southern border. you know, the name of it took us 24 hours to get here. we made a few stops where the bathroom in for food, but now we're here. critics say they are ponds in a political feud. republican texas governor gray garett has transported 50000 migrants on buses to sanctuary cities in the past year and a half. so far, $17000.00 have ended up here in chicago with the democratic mayor and the democratic governor for many like maria, the ride marks the end of a months long journey through the perilous dairy and gap between panama and columbia. then on to mexico in texas, and the crime is the reason i left on his way to i wanted to protect my children. i had to walk through jungle in panama, were lots of people died. it was really hard with texas increasing his bus fleet from a 100 to a 150 the daily buses to ch

as of today are living in and outside of chicago. those police stations and temperatures are dropping to the race to get them indoors before the brutal midwestern winter is on. chicago is agreed to pay $29000000.00 to build massive heated 10 villages across the city like these in new york. but here in a city with a massive poverty problem of it's own, many residents resent resources going to their new migrant neighbors. i see the bus is pulling in here every day, all day long. i get off at night. i see the bus is still coming in. you know, how do you have other states, other cities sending buses here? settled back, responding to the crisis president job id reversed himself this week, a green just been more to build new barriers along the border. new york mayor eric adams visited mexico in ecuador and his heading to the dairy and get a heart a full it is. but our resources on chicago mayor brandon johnson plans to visit the u. s. southern border. soon as the long journey comes to an end for many migrants, the cities work is just begin

chicago's rough and tumble. i don't think the glare that you get when you're on a presidential stage running for president for for for national office in a very tough race that was i think was unexpected. so, you know, that that first, you know, proud of my country. right. we can go down the list you know that which then led to the fist bump which then you know and it was angry black women meme the level of the vitriol i think was surprising at first and but then we came to expect it right and we knew that it was going to happen being referred to various animal terms by certain right wing radio people. so that we came to expect, you know, she never watched cable news actually. and she said this publicly. you know, it was, you know, sportscenter was what was was on the tv during workouts both for him and for her and or hgtv is what we watched on the plane when we were we were traveling places and so so that was one way to manage it was to sort of keep it up. it was our job again. what was part of my job? my job w

the 2nd thing we know for sure is that at the very least, if i'm being very charitable, so chicago state university, i would say that there information on the thought handling is at best to not even making jobs. they don't keep possible data pages. they don't keep the driver's license is really if i'm being realistic, i would say there's a criminal conspiracy going on there and their degrees meal as a lots of corruption going on. on the i mean people agreed to go to prison or are we spoke to the media director of the ball that's in the book and being castle. he says the trip was election. that's president was not solely based on his academic credentials, a doable one. this election by the and i do i the lead, so each easy, not present the set, the 2 thought degree for the blow my duty and i do them to let going to assess that is not our business. i left these as be my due, is that the mass of the people that went for elections, elected to move, i mean defeated? the job, one is now the technicalities of what i you as a degree i. those are now the degree. these are pretty election motus. t

hyundai alleged that, the president, more like changeable submitted, a fake chicago state university certification to the 9th join the election commission. following the us district court order for the release of a document for the by the university. the local registrar stated that the identity of the certificate submitted to the night during the national commission does not match the one on record. a we spoke to the for, to mr. david tomb dane, so actually he said that the college was completed in initially miss representing the niger and need his records when a university is us on the of the certificates or would you need from you or not? the only 2 possible answers to that question is either yes, we issued the certificates or no. we did not issue the certificates. yeah. so they gave was no, we did not issue the certificate. the only mean one say back, i don't even mean that if he's advocates, which was presented because in to be from this university was actually from that university, always has to know goes on the markings of that university on it. that is for jerry, i talked with

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the 2nd thing we know for sure is that at the very least, if i'm being very charitable, so chicago state university, i would say that their information on data handling is at bist community negligence . they don't keep possible data pages, they don't keep the driver's license is really, if i'm being realistic, i'll say there's a criminal conspiracy going on there and there are degrees meal. there's a lot of corruption going on. on the, i mean people agreed to go to prison that we spoke to the media director of the black to book campaign cancel the he says, but 2 boys election. this president was not solely based on these academic credentials. a beautiful one. this election by the and i do, i have a mentor, it's easy, not presently, such as the tooth or degree or people might do not do them to let going to assess that is not our business. i want these as be my do is that the mass of the people that went for elections, elected to move on even defeated? the job one is now the technicalities of what i you as a degree i those. and now the degree these pre election motus, they are not marked a

dozens of voters were blocked in chicago but the mayor of chicago trying to get in there to talk to thed the mayor about a new migrant camp the mayor and democrats want to build and a neighborhood there could look at that but it should talk to julia next. stick right there. liz: political reporter julia manchester of the hill, widely read and capitol hill, we are showing images and footage no angry voters residents in chicago really angry and outraged chicago mayor brandon johnson, walked him from attending a community meeting about chicago's plan to put it to shelter for illegal immigrants are angry remake of the story. >> yes will, really no surprise to me that we see another democratic mayor from a big predominantly democratic city, have backlash in the issue of immigration had a lot of this assessment a lot of these - meaning essentially flown transported to cities like chicago and new york city, washington dc tuning sent and essentially these democratic mayors or sort of learning what it is like to be a border town. i border city's other trying to figure out how to navigate this an

>>> and increasingly, the migrant crisis is being felt far from the border, including cities like chicago, where officials say resources are running thin julia ainsley is there tonight. >> reporter: tonight, officials warning chicago is approaching a breaking point tents full of desperate migrants lining chicago's iconic lakeshore drive. migrant shelters inside o'hare airport. a total of 17,000 migrants showing up since last august, and officials expect 1,200 per day to keep coming now chicago is building sprawling tent camps to get migrants off the streets of places like this ahead of the cold winter months. democratic illinois governor j.b. pritzker slamming president biden for not doing enough, writing, "the federal government's lack of intervention and coordination at the border has created an untenable situation for illinois." the white house blaming congress for not acting and saying they've accelerated work permits and provided a billion dollars to cities nationwide >> i don't want them there! >> reporter: but protests here are growing. >> to have the government come in and dump 30

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that is for jerry, i talked with his lawyer specifically aust, the representative from chicago state university on the oath. can you verify that can you see for the sites and that the students you have on file known as well, that each a member and then a gen present are the same person and the responsible is yes. based on the fact that that's the information on the transcript that we have. and then the question then can begin this. so are you saying that you have the state university just assuming that these are the same person, that's probably the best as well, meaningful states him? i mean, as i was, that is correct. so that's, that's as close as you agree. so it gets to pretty much i see evidence of see that it was age invested. basically i me think that they actually have no way of knowing without another person to have on file is actually the same person as the major and president. the deposition is all that we need. these are fema deposition, contain all the information that we need to know what we do know from what he's provided in the deposition. is that 1st of all? well that

so he goes to chicago in 1966, moves into the west side of chicago in north lawndale, a new apartment there with coretta, and tries to demonstrate. because one of the things that king realizes is that he's great at focusing media attention. he's, wherever he goes, the cameras come. so if he goes to chicago, he can call attention to the fact that chicago schools are just as segregated as birmingham's. chicago's housing, especially it's low income housing is just as segregated as anything you'll find in the south. so he's going to chicago to try to call attention to that. but he finds that he's up against forces that he's not accustomed to dealing with. the black community for one thing isn't as united. there are thousands upon thousands of black city employees who are loyal to the mayor who won't march with him, who won't join him . and his message comes a lot more clear to the media, what he wants. so mayor daley in chicago basically offers king these compromises to go away, and doesn't often king any of the compromises when he leaves. that's why my hometown of chicago, is probably st

we're approaching our winter months where in chicago it gets quite cold. we have to be concerned about their safety as well as the well-being of the migrants which also includes young children and families. >> alderman, there's been some tension, not only between your governor and chicago's mayor and the white house, but also between local officials as well over what to do. i'm wondering what you would ask the white house or biden administration to do to intervene immediately to help alleviate the issue. >> i think immediately the president has done it, and that's authorizing temporary work permits, but i think there needs to be an even greater step and more security at our borders right now. we're getting an inflection of people from particularly texas. it is my belief that our president needs to step up and tighten border security until we can get this growing problem under hand. >> on that question, what would you say to texas governor greg abbott? he argues as bad as things are in chicago right now, they're much worse and the southern border. >> well,

a legendary linebacker for the chicago bears.lence for him last night before going on the field to beat the washington commanders, their first victory in 14 games. jim gray is with me now. good morning. i think about chicago, i think about butkus, and mike ditka and michael jordan. and i think that's the trinity there. >> yes, of course. you think about ernie banks and, of course, you think about jim mcmahon and you can go through a long list of guys. but very few, very few are like dick butkus. he embodied what the bears were all about and the toughness of the city. when he came out at the university of illinois he was so tough and so fierce and intimidating and so everything. you put any word after that that's an adjective and that was dick butkus. >> bill: he was a linebacker with ray nitschke. those guys were big, tough and mean. butkus had six all nfl celeb you shuns, 22 interceptions in ate pro bowls. he was an actor. he was pretty good from necessary roughness, check out this clip here. >> gentlemen, this is your home fiel

invited migrants to come to chicago.hat they are actually coming and not staying in texas, arizona or new mexico our governor and mayor are crying for help and changing their tune. and your residents that you just pointed out on the west side of chicago, a neighborhood i grew up in. i boxed golden gloves out of that park. the moms talking about places for their kids to play sports and do constructive things as opposed to hanging around on the street corners doing criminal things. it is all about making choices and setting priorities. right now democrat leaders created a crisis in cities like chicago and new york because they didn't expect the rhetoric would be acted on. they just figured let the governors of texas and arizona and new mexico deal with the problem. now at their doorstep they've changed their position and we have mayor johnson going down to the border to do something that president biden refuses to do. >> sandra: the mayor in his own words on that trip. governor, thank you. listen. >> i have a wife, i have

chicago history writers digest, chicago athlete and men's fitness. he's the author of two books, sam's boys the history of chicago's leon beach and legendary lifeguard sam leon and most recently, war football, world war one and the birth of the nfl's, which was selected by the professional football researchers association as winner of the 2019 nelson ross award for outstanding achievement in pro football historical research. will you please join me in welcoming chris serb to the stage. thank you, laura, for that introduction, and thank you to the national world war one museum and memorial for having me here tonight. and thanks to all of you for showing up to hear me and listen to what i have to say. both those of you who are here in person and those of you who are watching this remotely. before i start, i want to acknowledge a couple of special guests. first and foremost, my wife, emily, who's a high school english teacher, and also the best editor that i've ever had. and also our school age daughters, helen and maggie, who probably learn more about

chicago history writers digest, chicago athlete and men's fitness. he's the author of two books, sam's boys the history of chicago's leon beach and legendary lifeguard sam leon and most recently, war football, world war one and the birth of the nfl's, which was selected by the professional football researchers association as winner of the 2019 nelson ross award for outstanding achievement in pro football historical research. will you please join me in welcoming chris serb to the stage. thank you, laura, for that introduction, and thank you to the national world war one museum and memorial for having me here tonight. and thanks to all of you for showing up to hear me and listen to what i have to say. both those of you who are here in person and those of you who are watching this remotely. before i start, i want to acknowledge a couple of special guests. first and foremost, my wife, emily, who's a high school english teacher, and also the best editor that i've ever had. and also our school age daughters, helen and maggie, who probably learn more about

so what happened in chicago? i mean, it looked like the movement almost turned a made a diversion when he went north, when he went to chicago trying to to work civil rights there. what happened in chicago? why wasn't he well-received king? you know, we often tell the story of king as if in last years of his life, he became more radical. and then he began to focus northern segregation and northern racism. i make the contention others have written this as well, that he was radical all along and. he was calling out northern racism all along just we weren't listening because. he was making big headlines in places like birmingham and selma. and that's where the news was really focused. but as he traveled the country money all those years and as he went to los and chicago and san francisco and he wasn't raising money there by saying, we need your help in birmingham, he was saying, you've got a problem here, too. you know you northern whites, who you know, i'm asking you for money, but you need to turn around and look a

this is chicago resident. speaking about the pro problemsn chicago. >> i don't understand why our mayor has not stepped in and asked to at least temporarily suspend chicago's sanctuary city status at least until we have a handle on this crisis that is at hand. i don't understand why it's not apart of the conversation and i don't understand why they're not turning buses around. we're not helping these people. they're here primarily living in squaller. we're cass cassioppi cementing - accepting it as if it's the way things are supposed to be and it's unacceptable. pete: i spoke to a chicago alderman in the program and put a lot of blame in the biden administration and that's not going to stop the problem chicago is facing right now with their question saying we're a sanctuary city or state. that's on democrat politicians and on the mayor and alderman to say no more. it was a nice little project to talk about and till the reality came to our doorstep and our citizens are turning against us and rightfully so. you

the democratic convention is in chicago next year.re you confident your city and state will have a better grasp on it by this time? >> i am confident that we can handle it, but again, it will require help from the federal government and someon needs to work in texas with these border politicians to have them stop sending people only to blue cities and blue states. and the president of the united states and the white house has the ability to help disperse folks across the country. that will help a lot. we are managing in the city of chicago and the state of illinois as best we can in these circumstances, but not if just those few politicians in texas are taking responsibility for this. it needs to be a federal, national problem that gets handled at the national sflleve. thank you for your time this morning. >> thanks, margaret. (femalale) i grgrew up in a a home thatt didn't't have runnnning wate. my s shoes alwayays had d holes in t them. i knknow how it t is to be p . i listeneded to a messssage of d dr. stanleyey's, tatalking abouou

chicago alderman and duane trust join us now.me for you because you coach the youth football team whose facility has now turned into a migrant shelter. so how is this decision going to impact the kids? >> well, i was a former coach. yeah, both my sons played there with darryl harris the director of the windy city football youth and share program. going to have a very negative impact because for 40 years ♪ just joe harris but the people of that community have built that park into almost like a europe topian park. that park sour sanctuary. and the mayor is proposing to take it away from our children as well as our senior citizens. >> carley: oh, wow, so does this mean they can't use the football fields as well outside, inside facilities, locker rooms? explain exactly what is going on here. >> i understanding is that the entire park will be closed off to the community gives them team building and structure: alderman, what can be done here because you heard from the residents they said you work for us. we have got violence. we have g

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