there while heading to a speech in chicago. on october 2nd. lincoln had to wait on the platform for the great man, and then fight way through the crowd to get seward in his railroad car. after lincoln approached, seward delivered a calculated. as one reporter noted seward rose from his seat, shook hands with them, introduced him to the ladies and gentlemen in his company, and then, without entering into a converse session of even formal courtesy with him, resumed his seat. like most presidential candidates at the time lincoln sat out the election remaining at his house in springfield, refusing to comment on the crisis engulfing america. here he's up front to e ght of the door. a massive campaign parade stopped august 8th. he did communicate with an 11 year old girl named grace who advised him to grow whiskers. your face is so thin she. wrote of the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husbands, vote for you and then you would be president. lincoln listened and grew as famous beard. whether the whiskers helped or not. he did win the

he was a power broker in that kind of chicago classic sense. before politics, it was a nice relationship, but for the most part, respectful. and then because i was in the family, and i was actually pretty good at helping her dad, local politics, knocking on doors and trying to get him votes, there was an opportunity to run for office. in rod blagojevich, mell could see a guy that eventually, if he does it right, "i could sort of pass the mantle toward." rod was an immediate hit with illinois voters, who sent him first to the state house in 1992 and then to the u.s. congress in 1996. dick mell says, "i can see you being governor." and i gotta be honest, i'm sure if i'm looking at it from dick mell's position, he's saying, "man, if i can elect this guy governor, i can run the whole state." reporter: the campaign for illinois governor has gotten pretty lively. you've got chicago congressman rod blagojevich. what's that name again? -bala-jo-vich. -reporter: bala-jo-vich, huh? -bala-jo-vich. -you sure? positive. tapper: during rod's 2002 governor's

chicago vaccinating hundreds with at least ten cases reported there. >>> back now with the latest on the country's growing measles outbreak, with cases this year so far in 17 states tonight, the focus is on chicago, with at least ten measles cases, most of them tied to a single migrant shelter. jesse kirsch is there. >> reporter: tonight, chicago officials are trying to keep up with an outbreak of measles, hitting multiple communities, including at least two public schools overall, the city reporting 12 cases in just one week, ten of those infections connected to this specific city migrant shelter. at this point, would you say the situation is under control >> well, measles is quite contagious, and it spreads among those who are not vaccinated so we are trying to get it under control by vaccinating as many people as possible >> reporter: chicago's commissioner of public health says the city has vaccinated more than 900 shelter residents, but that was after the outbreak began. and immunization takes takes time >> it takes 21 days for the vaccines to become effective >> reporter: this

when chicago the average daily attendance for chicago public schools in the chicago teachers union willnt of state funding is based on the average daily attendance and andblack families and many othes in c.p.s. on the student population and enrollment declining, this is a godsend for them to prop up their salaries and their benefits and their political power. stuart: i knew there would be a rational explanation, that is a good one. there is an outbreak of measles, one of the city migrant shelters, seven cases reported so far. is there an element of panic in the city? >> i think there is pushback, i would not say panic, somebody boaters in chicago are dead from the neck up i don't know panic is an option but i think there is an element of pushback, resource issues and from a humane perspective you would think this will be spending hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars on a weekly basis and other intersection with people's money and incompetence. stuart: i work and live close to new york city and there's a sense that is spiraling down. you are in chicago, is there a sense that chi

chicago is the largest palestinian community in the country.is one of the largest palestinian communities in the world. we are not going away. we're still going to be in the streets. we're going to make sure the dnc knows where we stand on this issue. amy: let me ask neta heiman mina , i am wondering if you could talk about what is happening with the government right now? that netanyahu, to say the least, has a conflict of interest. if he is forced out of government, he could end up in prison. you now have benny gantz eating with vice president -- meeting with vice president and tony blinken and washington, d.c. do you see the government falling apart? >> i don't know if the government will fall apart. we need to remember the hamas -- october 7, hamas killed 1400 people, take 254 hostages. they were in their pajamas. the situation in gaza now as well as the hamas doesn't care about the israeli people and doesn't care about the gazan people. i think -- i don't know if the government will fall apart. the prime minister, bringing back the hostages

were pretty much everybody gets rich chicago politics. it's like go into a paper. when you go fishing, like give, you are as the curator, you can not be in illinois and not get something illinois steeped in a rich history of political corruption that dates back a century to the prohibition era, when bootlegging gangster such as al capone bought off politicians and police departments, keeping them drunk on power and also just drunk and rides lifetime illinois has developed a rap sheet that any mobster would be proud of >> more than >> 1,700 convictions for corruption, including nearly 30 chicago alderman, eight state legislators to us congressmen. and before rod came onto the scene, three governors in an odd way, the very people who should hate the idea of corruption or kind of proud that this is al capone is illinois chicago is a wink and nod town it's a shot and a beer town >> a lot of it has to do with family relationships because a lot of the political leadership in chicago in illinois, our family unrelated. there's the daily family ma

in a divided world, john henry and has the story from chicago into chicago studio, the meaning of instruments and voices of the world plan into a global symphony. to chicago, the immigrant orchestra is a rotating country, is up to 30 musicians, playing a unique blend of world music that combines persian vocal, the mongolian through the end instruments from around the world in each composition from a chinese rewan to and fro peruvian percussion uniting sound in society, music is a ard, the $0.10 boarders, and it's, it's $0.10 pressure. this is and, and, and stereotypes and it's, it's, it's something that everybody can kind of experience collectively. when is the rule or the groups, palestinian american co director plays the bazooka place in between notes that are not on the suitcase or on the piano or on the guitar. if this style is hard to pinpoint the speakers, the music is from no single place. the instruments of the world together through the universal language in music co director for read hon. the chicago born son, if a truly and mother and a pakistani father says instruments never playe

the chicago authorities had confirmed to the chicago media that the fbi was tracking andrew and he was that immediately went out all over the airwaves . >> in light of your, police say, a cell phone was activated from the stolen lexus taken from murder victim, lee miglin. >> andrew obviously heard it. >> in her book, maureen called the leak tipping off cunanan probably the most serious blunder of the entire manhunt. >> he then tried to destroy the intent of the car, try to rip out the phone, but the phone box was in the trunk of the car, which he did not know. in any case, he realized he had to get out of the car and find a race where he could get a vehicle. >> a place where he could fly under the radar, way off the beaten path, where no one would know he was coming with a gun. he drove through miles of marshland before finding this unlikely but, a silver war burial ground, fans point national cemetery in pennsville, new jersey. >> if i gave you directions or told you to put it in your gps, you probably would not be able to find it. >> at the time, alan cummings was a 32-year-old patro

chicago's mayor says don't blame the migrants. >> they didn't bring illness.fact, migrants are more vulnerable to the existing infectious diseases that we already have here. >> reporter: chicago says it's also offering vaccines right here at the city's landing zone when migrants get off buses to help protect against the potentially deadly measles virus. lester? >> jesse, thank you. >>> there is late-breaking news in the trial of james crumbley in the trial after his son killed four students in a school shooting. let's get right to adrienne broaddus. adrienne? >> reporter: lester, it took the michigan jury more than 8 1/2 hours to find james crumbley guilty on all four cases of involuntary manslaughter. as the verdict was read, james crumbley shook his head. members of the jury deliberating more than eight and a half hours. prosecutors argued that james crumbley could have prevented the shooting that led to the deaths of those four students. the defense said their client had no knowledge. family members relieved tonight. lester? >> adrienne, thank you. >>> and

how chicago mayor li lightfoot led and lost a city in crisis. in may, clinton white hou communications director and current abc host george stephan police will release the situate in room the inside story of presidents insis. and the newest book from washington examiner political columnist timothy carney is titled family unfriendly how our lture made raising ks much harder than it needs to be. and one more. fox news host jesse waters, his latest is called get it together. troubling tales from the liberal fringe. and we should note that there's a new book coming out about a journalist. usa today's susan page has written a new biography about one of the most well-known broadcasters in history. barbara walters, the book, which will be released in april, is titled the rule breaker. susan page's previous bestsellers were about former speaker of the house nancy pelosi and first lady barbara bush. now, as we continueÑ our spring book preview here are some notable upcoming titles about foreign policy. cnn's fareed zakaria will release his look at instab

chicago is dishing out big money, aishah and sandra. the public cost dashboard, which you can check out online, shows it spent nearly $300 million since august of 2022 on the crisis, but the mayor of chicago, brandon johnson, won't say exactly where those funds are going. a new report shows the city's spending a million dollars, you guys, on hotels for migrants every single week. city council members say taxpayers deserve to know where this money is going. >> people are frustrated, i think less about the funding and more about the lack of understanding of what's actually happening. so when they want transparency, that's fair. when they want to understand what the plan is, that's fair. when they don't get that information, they get upset at everything. >> so this weekend the city will start moving hundreds of migrants out of five park district field houses so kids can use in the summer. the plan is to then transition people into shelters across the city, and that's not all. chicago is also enforcing a 60-day shelter limit, so by the end

>> bret: mike tobin in chicago. mike, thanks.nt inquiry. first, here's what some of our fox affiliates around this country are covering tonight. fox 2 in detroit as the father of the teenager who killed four students at a michigan high school in 2021 is found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. james crumbly was convicted of the same charges as his wife. they are said to be the first parents in u.s. history to stand trial for a mass school shooting committed by their child. their son, ethan crumbley, has been sentenced to life without parole. fox 9 in the twin cities as uber says it's pulling out of the meo area may first. lyft has issued a similar statement. this comes after the minneapolis city council voted to override the mayor's veto of a ride hailing pay raise ordinance. this is a live look at chicago fox 32 one of the big story there tonight. the city prepares forrable saint patrick's day parades. the chicago river will be died green saturday morning. the downtown parade takes place tomorrow. the south side parade will hap

chicago mayor blamed the biden administration.mond lopez blamed the johnson administration. >> this is a really jacked up situation. the border in and of itself because of the failures of the federal government has placed burden financially, emotionally on the people of chicago. >> this is just the beginning of what i think will be a long sojourn dealing with this. the city refuses to deal with housing these migrants in a comprehensive way, leaving them in unsanitary, unhealthy dirty living conditions in old warehouses and fieldhouses. >> the health experts say measles is much more contagious, but most are vaccinated however, the vaccine can be harmful in pregnant women and babies. 100 people are taken to quarantine in a hotel, the state is paying for it. san doctor. >> sandra: thank you. >> john: any moment now, the white house will hold its briefing, expecting reaction to the georgia bombshell ruling may allow the prosecutor to stay on the election case. >> president biden: a year before i took office murder rates went up 30%. [

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>> you know, lawlessness is the order of the day in chicago. vehicles without a proper licenses basically what you're saying is it's okay to break the law in chicago and becomes next and if it's okay to go in store and hungry and okay to break other laws and we have to put our foot down and say listen, these are principles and precepts and laws of the land and abide by them and especially for individuals that are coming in newly and need to know the law. stuart: let me come back at you, pastor, what are the folks supposed to do. they're there and on the street. what are they going to -- what are they supposed to do? they need to drive and work and move around. i mean, what are they supposed to do? >> well, the good thing about chicago is we have an infrastructure with city transportation that's available to everybody and so if you need to get around, there are other ways to operate in the city without breaking the law. i think the moment we start saying it's okay to break the law, then that's a slippery slope that we don't want to go down, espe

a clipping from the chicago tribune newspaper. from the morning of march of april 15th, 1865, the morning that lincoln died and the clipping said hoof assassin kills the president to the stage, runs out the back door and escapes on a horse and then and that's where someone had cut the clipping off. and i was obsessed with reading the rest the story that hung on my bedroom wall for most of my life. i still have it and i thought, i've got to read the rest of the story and it's part of the research for man. i was able to buy an entire run. chicago tribune's from april and may 65, so i now possess the whole newspaper from that clipping inspired me to write man it and my grandmother's gift inspired me to write that book and ultimately led to apple tv plus mini series. and we enough that's coming out this march and so at random gift to a ten year old boy led into that world of writing that book and executive producing that show. my grandfather was a chicago policeman from the 1930s to the late 1960s. the civil rights and vietnam protest

u 0 chicago to georgia, zeros next. and elizabeth since going to be here in about half an hour with more and all these stories, including our top story to palestinians, have been killed several of an injured. and then these are the air strikes. me are all locks of garza and stay with the there. you're just in time for your weather report across asia, kicking it off in buckets, dawn and much pressure. feel here after showers in store and scroll through. so temperatures went down, but it's a completely different story. in india, we've got whether alerts in play through time on that do and on true project stage temperatures are crossing 40 degree is that humidity, really bumping in of that? they have been call. now for india as far northeast, we're talking to san states, our natural projects, we've got jolts and bolts here some century downpours could see some hail mixed in there. so nasty weather is also been that's the weather in southern trying to look at a watch this. the windows are about to blow out their powerful th

host: chicago, illinoisthis is .is coming across the wires regarding the former president trump's case in georgia on election interference, saying a georgia judge ruled that fulton county district attorney fani willis should not be disqualified from prosecuting the racketeering case against donald trump and several codefendants, with one major condition. fulton county superior court judge mcafee found the appearance of impropriety brought about by willis' romantic relationship with nathan wade should result in either willis and her officexx leaving the case, war wa -- or wade. if willis were to remove herself the case would come to a halt. but having wade recuse himself toward ensure the case goes forward without delay. finding that would have found willis to be disqualified "without evidence that the prosecutor required prosecutionr financial arrangements had any impact, claims of conflict must be denied. carol -- denied." that is where it stands as far as the case in georgia is concerned. it's hear from bill in pen

chicago into chicago studio, the mingled instruments and voices of the world planned into a global since we sent the, the chicago immigrant orchestra is a rotating country, is up to 30 musicians playing a unique blend of world music that combines persian vocal, the mongolian through the end instruments from around the world of each composition from a chinese rewan to and fro peruvian percussion, uniting sound in society. music is a ard, the $0.10 boarders, and $0.10 pressure. this is and, and, and stereotypes and it's, it's, it's something that everybody can kind of experience collectively when he subaru are the groups, palestinian american co director plays the bazooka place in between notes that are not on the books. ok. or on the piano or on the guitar. if this style is hard to pinpoint, the music is from no single place, the instruments of the world together through the universal language of using co director for read hon. the chicago born son of a truly and mother and a pakistani father says instruments never played together before combined seamlessly more so he says than the nation

my grandfather was a chicago policeman from the 1930s to the late 1960s.he civil rights and vietnam protests era. when he came home from work one night, he whispered to my mother, don't let jimmy at the newspaper tonight. there's been an awful anybody ie remember the name richard. yes. the who knifed several student nurses to death in their apartment and who vanished and was later captured because one of the nurses hid under the bed and remembered him and they had a tattoo that said born to raise hell. he forgot how many captives he had and she survived. and that's erika scott. my father was also a great storyteller. he attended lynn tech high school in chicago, the same high school attended by herbert hans haupt, onef the eight nazi saboteurs landed by u-boat on the eastern shore of the united states. 1942. you can imagine the rest of that story years later when i worked at the u.s. department of justice, i did. dad invited my dad to visit my office across the hall it to the w plaque that read in this room were tried the eight nazi saboteurs and it named

i was an undergrad at columbia college ing■ú chicago, and proy concentration was magazine writing.so i was doing a lot of, like, feature writing. t review of books, back of the book stuff for the new republic, the old new republic, and fast forward several. i got my master's in creative writing from the artist to initiate cargo. i was the critic at the arts paper, the art critic sorry, art critic at the school's paper. and i wound up on a whim apyi book critics circle. and i learned a lot from my mentors out there and, you know, a few years later down the line, i found myself on the board, which istillee crazy, but it's been over a long way around. i wasn't a straight path at all. what is the national book critics circle? we are a organization that seeks to promote literature and we have recently launched the translation in private believe is in its third year. we are not funded bypublishers. we're purely independent. so we like to believe that that allows us like latitudin termsu. independence as far as uniqueness, as far as titles, we li t more onerous than other lists just becau

you know, chicago, the city of chicago government has been corrupt my entire life.s old this has been a long time coming. unfortunately many of the voters and residents of chicago maybe didn't see it. didn't realize that the city and our elected leaders didn't really care about us. but everything is coming to bear right now. we are seeing that it's not a government of the people, for the people and by the people. it's of, for, and by elected and unelected bureaucrats here in chicago. so, i think the next municipal election you will see a huge difference in how people vote. but, even in this upcoming election, where we are voting for state reps, state senator, a lot of state offices, you will see people start to look for candidates that really live up to the constitution and create a more responsive government. and not a government that just plows over people, overtaxes them and sending the money to house and feed foreign nationals. we have 60,000 homeless people in chicago. the average city councilman only represents 56,000 people. and to date we are at about 40,000

and yet voters in chicago and people in chicago understand government swvices are being impacted. are being impacted by the quality of education that kids are getting is it negatively impacted. and in some cases they close at schools and told kids to go back to being online which we totally do not think needs to happen and we are one of the first organizations calling for schools to reopen. while they use the school accommodate the people who are here in this country illegally. that's one of the big things we are focused on. on then you mentioned several different things. that is the portion i was focused on. argument that trump just inherited a really good economy from obamare. >> if we look at what happened after the trump tax cuts passedt the economy grew. lows across every single demographic including african african-americans, for women, for everaphic was at historic lows. people had the ability to go and get jobs that they wanted. and if they weren't getting the kind of job they wanted they were able to go and negotiate either a better salary, better terms are yet a better i