strike authorization vote passes overwhelmingly >> last time strike authorized in chicago public school teachers opted to strike lasted 19 days the year 1987 here we are today took 75 percent of teachers to say yes for approval last week 89 percent did just that almost 90 percent handed over authority to call for strike chicago public school officials say doing so and now is horribly amateur >> the results are not a victory indictment of and the strained relationship between management of cps at the largest labour force of ctu >> to authorize a strike in the middle of negotiations is not fair >> jean claude brizard says teachers to not know enough about what he and the rahm emmanuel a administrations are offering or denying teachers 89 percent said that they knew enough votes were cast last week counted by clergy to ensure integrity. >> the real estate in this state for everybody in the city of chicago is that a just fair good contract a cheap price to the school year to begin a new school year to continue to work to improve the quality of education in chicago >> this can be disruptive

wgn news @ 9 tonight cover story inside look what is being done to fix chicago most broken public schoolsdicated staff awarded contracts 18 chicago schools mandate to turn them around. unlimited access what is happening one turnaround high school bronzeville neighborhood >> two years ago it was the worst high school and the state of illinois wendell phillips academy located on the south side south side of king drive and pershing this school year principal says nearly one-third of wendell phillips academy incoming freshmen reading at third grade level or below some cannot read at all. nobody would deny drastic changes needed at the school we also found change was difficult. wendell phillips academy has the distinction of being chicagos first predominantly black high-school long list of accomplished alumni principal wants today's students but to have the same opportunities >> no. 1 goal to give them a chance to learn about life what options they have outside and for many students wendell phillips academy what they see every day is difficult >> communities a drug and tested violence to child

deceased pilot has not yet been released investigation is under way >>the city is more dangerous for chicago public school students in a report from chicago police shows that in years to increase in gun violence against cps students today members of the handle with community are introducing new programs to keep kids engaged through the summer amy rutledge has that story ... it's been launched in conjunction with the after- school matters program and to others ... it cost i mean an increase in violence among students harper high school and englewood.neighborhood is being targeted for the program the school has been affected by gun violence with three students killed there this year ... students are beginning summer jobs like training dogs for a therapy ... >>if you are hungry how do you behave, if you have been up all night and teased and frustrated at school all year how would you be a if ... when the dog is teased behind that fence how would he the eighth ... >>they asked us to give them positive activities that they can engage in and they would make sure there would stay away from the negative ac

registration for chicago public housing opens today. he chicago housing authority began accepting applications for its pubclic housing wait list this morning. the registration period will go through june 29-th. applicants must reside within the douglas, kenwood oakland new city, or fuller park communities. the c-h-a will hold an electronic lottery drawing to determine each applicant's place on the waiting list. today could be the last day in business for "felony franks"... the near west side hot dog stand known for hiring ex-convicts. the restaurant's owner says a bad element hanging around a nearby liquor store and a legal battle with the city over its name... has drained him of financial resources. it's menu of "misdemeanor wieners" and "probation burgers" was inspired by the criminal justice system. the owner says he has several interested buyers to whom he would license the controversial name... on condition they continue to hire ex-cons. the pastor who gained national attention from a rooftop ... is now taking his message on the roa

. >> chicago public schools ceo continues to plead for the teachers' unions to hold off plans for a strikeauthorization vote. he spoke to the conurbation at fellowship missionary baptist church this morning. the chicago teachers union plans to take a strike observation vote on wednesday. but an independent panel is reviewing the latest contract offer from both sides and will make suggestions on july 16th. he wants the teachers to wait until then to make a decision >> we are still in the middle of negotiation... >> the teachers union claims the cps proposals will lead to larger class sizes more children expelled and the lower student achievement levels >> pastor brooks is ready to start a new fund-raising mission. the new beginnings and church leaders spent three months last winter camping on the roof of an abandoned its motel. he was raising money for the demolition of that building making way for a new community center. his new goal is to raise the $15 million it will take to actually build the center to. he will do it by walking coast to coast. he got a big sendoff as he held his final s

the chicago public schools safe haven program is cutting back this summer chicago was coming off of a very violent weekend and mothers in the north lawndale neighborhood want to make sure their children return to school safe and sound next fall we have more on this story now. >>: 4 no empty seats and waving classroom chairs and air parents and it soon to be activists gathered in this elementary school to call on everyone to make sure all of the students make it back to school after the summer. >> we cannot quit if each one of us plays are rolled and stops at the senseless violence that our children are suffering every day we cannot stop. >> this call comes after a spike of violent outbreaks. teachers fear that there will be empty seats come next fall. >> our mission in goal is to keep the children safe. >> this child just graduated from eighth grade and says he is going to go to a school because it is too hard to concentrate when people are dying around you. >> people are talking about trying to get revenge they wanted to shoot someone else and that is not cool. >> as the students say

he will eventually move his way up through chicago public life until he's elected mayor of chicago in 1931. he's very famously assassinated a couple years later with a bullet that may or may not have been intended for franklin roosevelt who was standing next to him at the time. so it's a very dramatic story, but not really so much what we're looking at here. rather, this is an example of how immigrants could be mobilized outside of party politics to engage in public activity. the united societies became not just a group that agitates for liquor laws but it becomes a vehicle for a whole wide range of concerns and issues outside the civil society of imgrant communities. in this period. this is the most concrete, biggest example of this process, but it's happening all over the united states. it's happening all over american cities. you see the same thing in boston. you see neighborhood and ethnically based organizations. oftentimes they're tied to newspapers and part of the impetus, well, there's two other groups besides these clubs and societies that organize for the uniting of local se

community >> a demonstration in front of mayor todayhouse today >> the demonstrators say that chicago publicchool spends more money on strategy that push students out of school then on positive behavior. officials a disagree. they created a new department last year to address the issue >> a man dressed in a tuxedo headed to a prom missed his the when he took a detour it with a carjacking charge... friday morning he allegedly stole a car from a man at gunpoint. last night the victim called police and said he saw the man. they took him into custody >> lining up to say goodbye... >> protests in sight... breakout in egypt >> a beautiful night in progress... this time tomorrow there will be changes... break let's ring you up. mary? what are you doing here? it's megan. i'm getting new insurance. marjorie, you've had a policy with us for three years. it's been five years. five years. well, progressive gives megan discounts that you guys didn't. paperless, safe driver and i get great service. meredith, what's shakin', bacon? they'll figure it out. getting you the discounts you deserve. now, that's p

a coach at a chicago public school on the southwest side is accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old student. 39-year-old idris bridgeforth is charged with criminal sexual assault and felony indecent solicitation. investgators say the student's mother found incriminating text messages on her daughter's phone. bridgeforth is an assistance guidance counselor at ashburn community elementary school. he also coaches after school. parents at the school say they are stunned by the news. bridgeforth has been removed yemeni has a good reputation all the kids seem to like him i am devastated to hear this stuff ... >>i didn't know anything about it until i was given the letter ... he has been removed from his duties without pay, pending a hearing next week. he's being held on 250-thousand dollars bond. a chicago police officer in the 11th district has been relieved of police duties. we're told it's because of unspecified allegations of misconduct against the officer. the police department issued a statement to wgn: it says that the bureau of internal affairs and the cook county state's attorney

voting kicked off the date for the 30,000 chicago public school teachers looking for a better contract at the front of the lined union leader her case >> we need to make movement at the table to understand we have the voice of 30,000 people it has to be that and now >> pay raise teachers looking at 30 percent over two years school board offering to >> teachers want what is best for our children we hopes the city wants that definitely need to meet somewhere in the middle >> parents' group rallied behind teachers today red ribbons and solidarity cps and while attempt for support letter went out to teachers accusing the union of misleading them about the proposal said cps not changing class size. cps chief jean claude brizard making it clear strike authorization vote should be put on hold until district final offer comes out either way >> it should not change anything what we have to do negotiating in good faith union hoping to get 75 percent of teachers to authorize the strike they say enough for leverage in negotiations faith leaders set up as observers to validate any vote that comes a

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not right >> children here at this school very concerned did not know anything until today >> chicago public schools did that today inappropriate behavior. >> good reputation all of the kids seem to like them that is why devastating to hear this stuff >> idris bridgeforth cps since 2006 suspended with pay pending a hearing next week $250, $250,000 bond. >> charges of unfairness chicago teachers you get tonight strike authorization vote this week cps officials questioned the integrity of the process say arbitrator in line with the union cps attorneys wanted the labor board to preserve documents for review and debate while union filed a complaint school ceo jean claude brizard interfere and writing letters discouraging the vote >> commuters computers back city hall went down this afternoon to end 4:00 preventing workers of accessing the internet city hall blames the outage on a power issue still under investigation public still able to log on to the city website problems for people purchasing a vehicle stickers >> bp best getting help pair of dead monkeys ended up discovered opening a crate of

jean-claude brizard expressed optimism about reaching a contract whether not they'll authorize a strike chicago public schools has issued a statement saying that the strike vote should not be taken until the fact-finding proposal is released in mid july which will include a fair race for the teachers and move to strike at this time will hurt the children in the community and the teachers who will not have enough information ... >>three teenagers were killed in a car crash near oswego. 19year-old brian herrera was driving south on schlapp road when he tried to cross an yesterday. he made the turn and pulled in front of a semi-truck, heading east. the semi-truck struck hit the teen's car then toppled over. herrera died instantly. passengers 19year-old tyler montgomery and 18 year-old alexis banuelos were also killed. >>that is the most dangerous intersection i have ever seen ... lots of people have been killed on that corner how many will it take before they put a four way stop or a traffic light or something because it is just a dangerous ... >> the truck driver was also hurt his injuries are not life

. >> chicago public school officials make a move that could end up costing property owners big-time thisday. we played it to 101 today. >> 101.2 at midway airport. it was warm, and boy have we had some big storms blow up. they started about 3:00 this afternoon. they van pelt-watkinsed elgin with hail so large it stripped the leaves off trees and dented cars. look at the cloud here. sam augustus captured this view. there is another view. 60,000 feet were what the radar tops on some of these. it gets cold at the top of the cloud, 90 below zero. clean captured that hail stone. jay took one of the retherm terse -- therm terse and got 136 degrees. that is pretty hot. look at this. joe was descending into o'hare field and took this shot out the window of the plane on the way down. very nice shots. lots of hail shots. we will put them up on our wgn-tv.com website. this is our time laps of a hazy deed. you see the puffy cumulus clouds boiling up and the dark skies on the horizon as the thunderstorms starting coming together. they look like an eruption or explosion here. the lake breeze strengthe

uniforms for the city of chicago public schools. >> reporter: most money goes to non-black business ownersll them, invest in, or hire from the local community... seldom invest in the community. something the andersons link directly to the 14% black unemployment rate and other economic inequities and that they found the media fails ever to report. >> don't just say that black unemployment is four times that of whites. say that black businesses only get 2% of the $1 trillion of black buying power, and then say that black businesses are the greatest private employer of black people. then you might be able to say, wow, if there were more support of black businesses and maybe a little more of that $1 trillion got to those businesses, unemployment wouldn't be so high. >> reporter: they wanted to do something extreme enough that everyone, including their fellow members of the black upper middle class, would notice. >> most folks like us think that we are giving back to the community by living well. we're stereotyped negators. >> reporter: is that true, that middle class black folk think that just

and hospitals in chicago and was president of the board of education, tried to integrate the chicago publics are consistent with what he did in the '60s and '70s and spreading special olympics all around the world with my mom right up until he died. he's very consistent in behavior. >> consistent throughout. when we talk about martin luther king, jr., in 1960, he was in jail in georgia. >> he was. >> and your father went up against the political group around jfk, kenny o'donnell, principally, wanting the kennedys to call coretta scott king and do something about that. >> dad ran the civil rights unit in that campaign and was told by many people if kennedy said anything nice about khruschev, castro or king, they would throw their support elsewhere. but he had that relationship with king. it was really an act of hope. some said it was a great political move to get senator kennedy to call coretta scott king. >> is it true he waited until o'donnell went to the bathroom? >> that's the story, told by a number of folks, he waited until o'donnell went to the bathroom, they had a conversation on the

chicago public schools has a worse budget situation, a higher dropout rate than wisconsin, and so this and mayors across the country and governors across the country to implement those sorts of reforms and do what's in the best interest of kids and taxpayers. >> sure. ok, so the chicago public schools teachers are threatening to go on strike at the beginning of this upcoming school year. right now, i understand and correct me if i'm wrong, it sounds like rahm emanuel and the city wants to give him 3% to 4% pay increases but the teachers union wants 30%. >> that's right. the mayor has asked for a longer school day, a longer school year because of every urban district in the country, chicago has the shortest day and the shortest year. and they have a 56% graduation rate. and so he's saying this is a problem we have got to tackle. and so the union's response is well, we want a 30% raise and now they're taking a strike authorization vote today urging their members to give them the authority to go out and strike later this year so it's a union completely out of touch but that's why this is

afternoon protesters angry over closing of mental health clinics and chicago demonstration chicago department of public health south state street worked their way to the second floor of the building protesters want the health commissioner to resign bechara choucair also demanding six out of 12 clinics shuttered by the rahm emmanuel administration for budget reasons be opened. new approach to prostitution and sex trafficking cook county next small group working to pull women out of life of exploitation also chicago police department opening up checkbook more officers on the streets this summer. take a look behind to make some of the costumes and artifacts from one of the most popular television children shows of all time bozo's circus part of the new museum of broadcast medications showing you more of this coming up. and later jim ramsey great day streak will continue tomorrow and beyond ar eat good fats. avoid bad. don't go over 2000... 1200 calories a day. carbs are bad. carbs are good. the story keeps changing. so i'm not listening... to anyone but myself. i know better nutrition when i see it: great

out in the president's old backyard in chicago, mitt romney capped off a busy day with fawned razor of his own making $3.3 million at an event at the public hotel in chicago. he will hold a rally and ice cream social in new hampshire the president will hold a few events for l br gt bride month. they will celebrate a wedding and father's day and spend a few nights in their house there. >> peter doocy, thank you. >> 40,000 dollars. >> that's big money. >>> for a look at who's talking. >> mitt romney and obama going head to head delivering speeches on the economy each sending a different message. president obama saying there is a stalemate over the economy. >> these challenges are not new. we have been wrestling with these issues for a long time. the problems we are facing right now have been more than a decade in the making. what is holding us back is not a lack of big ideas, it is a misna matter of finding a technical solution. both laid out the policies for all to see. what is holding us back is a stalemate in washington between two fundamentally different views of which direction americas should take. and this election is your chance to

i live in the chicago public school district which has a 50%, 5-0% graduation rate. they spend more per student than the state average. yet, they have a graduation -- excuse me, yet, they're asking for a 23% grades. can you name any other industry where 50% success rate gets you a raise and not a pink slip? and i'd like to stay on and listen to the answer, if i may. guest: let me just ask this -- most industries, most markets have a niche and they get to decide where they are and what they do and who they sell to. our market is very different. we have an obligation, rightly so, to educate all children. all children. and i actually worked in a high school in new york where it didn't matter where kids came. it didn't matter if they knew mathematics in ninth grade. it didn't matter if they knew anything about u.s. history. i was their history teacher in 11th grade, my obligation was to help all kids. so sir, what you're seeing is you're seeing the effects of poverty, the effects of mobility and what we have to do is we have to do a better job. but our obligation is for

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chicago and new york. charter schools are public schools independently operated. last year, there was a boost from 33 to 35. giving the district more charters than any other in the state. >> over time, it increases the number of students in our district. ultimately getting 100% of the children who have access to a high quality educational option. >> reporter: last week was not the first time panell asked the city to open a charter. the district denied several charters last year. >> this is serious business running this school. we have to make sure the school will offer good quality option for their students the process is very rigorous. >> reporter: panell said the next step is to find a location for his school and a principal to run it. i'm gigi barnett. "wjz" "eyewitness news." >> >> school leaders approved the creative city charter school in baltimore, focusing on art programs for elementary schools. >> >> baltimore women's classic comes back to town. it was a good crowd that gathered for the race, nice weather for the run. the race dates back to 1976, since th

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you had major publications that no longer exist. in chicago, and philadelphia, and boston. competing wire services. those, among the correspondents, those really stand out. there were people who came over, hamilton, fish, armstrong, the editor of foreign affairs, came over and met hitler and wrote a book about the early days of the reicht, that was perceptionive, he was the head of the foreign policy association here in new york. later on, soon became the commissioner for reguges for the league of nations. he was a remarkable figure. he just came back and said, he is aiming too exterminate the jewish race, and nobody wanted to listen to him. he worked on the reguge board, and then after the war was the first u.s. ambassador to israel. yes? >> where hitler get the funds to outfit that elaborate army. the flags and so forth? >> the question is where did hitler get the funds in the beginning, i'm assuming, to outfit the brown shirts and all of that. it's interesting, if you read the accounts of his early rallies, he took the nazi party, which was nothing, a tiny, tiny group in

public. a few months into the process no one in nato would go to gatherings like these and talk about ddpr and it was published at the chicago summit without even as much as a press briefing. so not surprisingly, therefore, ddpr has only had sporadic public interest. i think the knowledge about ddpr is quite limited within gatherings like these. now when the ddpr was announced at lisbon, many, including myself, welcomed the process as an opportunity to get a proper discussion about nato's deterrence and defense posture, and particularly the future of the forward deployed nonstrategic nuclear weapons that are still based in five countries. perhaps naively i also thought that the ddpr in light of the changes in the international context, in nato's role and in light of the additional nato capability in missile defense might also discuss alternative ways of commitment, reassurance, and sharing of risks and burdens. unfortunately, this does not appear to be the case. i have to agree with former u.s. senator sam nun that the ddpr at best deserves a grade of incomplete. okay. so what's in the document? i think you're already guessi

public schools. we're back with dan, and bill, al colin levy from chicago.l, i never expected to see this, the national council of mayors siding with parents over teachers and solar eclipse? what accounts for it. >> remember the change, a few weeks ago, they started to kill the vouchers program and looked like nationally choice and accountability was dying and on the losing end and what's happened, instead. around the country, it's flourishing and people are having to embrace it. that said, the parent trigger, it's a good thing the mayors did it. we need a little more teeth in that. we need to pre vent them from blocking funds. a lot of this is-- >> which they are doing in the two place ins california. >> right. >> compton and where parents have pulled the trigger. >> i think what's happening, here, paul, the inner city school status quo is indefensible and obscene. >> northerly so. >> absolutely. because of the process of charter schools, more and more black parents have been engaged in at that system and they're discovering that the status quo was indefens

so realistically the view in chicago and boston, where these two campaigns were being run, is that these tend to be distractions that mostly distract the chattering public class. gwen: you mean us? what we're doing now? >> they describe chicago as the corridor, that they get fascinated by all that. they think that real americans are less distracted by these, and that these strategies, whatever the obama campaign is trying to do, whatever the romney campaign is trying to do, actually will resonate over time. gwen: who are the target audiences, if not us? >> well, the target audiences are the swing voters. there's two. one is to rev up their bases, but obviously they're trying to speak to the swing voters. this is a polarized election, and the president will roughly get nine and 10 democrats and governor romney will get nine and 10 republicans. but there's a slice that's in-between. the obama campaign desperately does not want this to be a referendum. and today's job numbers make that much more difficult. gwen: no incum bent really wants that. >> right. so they are trying to discredit governor romney. governor romney's view is that they are doing everythi

meanwhile, president obama is off the trail today, in chicago, with no public events scheduled.king all of this for us and she's live in washington. hi, molly. >> reporter: hi, heather, president obama is likely gearing up for a trip tomorrow to the g20 economic summit in mexico but in his weekly radio and internet address today, he pressed lawmakers to end the, quote, stalemate in washington, and, pass his jobs plan. >> president barack obama: congress passed a few parts of the jobs bill, like a tax cut allowing working americans to keep more of your paycheck and, when it comes to growing the economy republicans in congress have not lifted a finger and would rather wait until after the election in november. >> reporter: the president made a major immigration announcement yesterday in the rose garden changing u.s. policy to let young illegal immigrants brought here to the u.s. by their parents, to stay here and get a work permit and not get deported. governor mitt romney on a factory tour in pennsylvania today says the president doesn't want to talk very much about the economy b

public. a few months into the process no one in nato would go to gathering and talk about this as it was published at the chicago summit without so much as a press briefing. so not surprisingly, it has only had sporadic public interest and i think the knowledge about it is quite limited within gatherings like this. now, when it was announced at lisbon, many including myself welcomed the process as an opportunity to get a proper discussion about nato and the posture and particularly the future of the forward deployed american nonstrategic nuclear weapons still based in five european countries. perhaps 95ly i also hoped that in light of changes, in light of nato's role in the new strategic concept and in light of the additional capability in terms of dissent might also discuss alternative ways of showing commitment of reassurance and on sharing of risk and within there. unfortunately this does not appear to be the case and i have to agree with former u.s. senator sam nunn that at best deserves a grade of incomplete. so what's in the documents? well, i think you are already guessing what i'm going to say. there's n

public. this was by no means a certainty and was agreed before chicago. secondly, it's positive that the document makes rhetorical reference to the possibility at least of reducing or withdrawing nonstrategic nuclear weapons. thirdly and this i may be stretching it here, but it's positive that the weapons of mass destruction control and disarmament committee which was established as part of the process, will be replaced with a new committee that can function as a consultti tative and advisy forum. however, this may turn out tor a victory as the committee's man date has to be agreed, which could take a very, very long time because france is basically against this committee. also containing transparency measures and finally, it's positive that it does not close the process, but appears to be open for internal depate about the issues raised and i have to say i think this is the most positive aspect of ddpr. on the negative score sheet, there are more ironically, although a substantial issues and ironically although the document endorses the status quo, the r

the students physically went to chicago's local tv stations, they got the public file, but then they scanned the file and posted it online. and then they asked for other volunteers from around the country to do the same thing. "since tv stations won't put it online themselves, we decided to do it ourselves and we want your help. we intend to enlist more readers in checking their local stations as the election campaigns slog on. the general election is likely to usher in even greater spending and such spot checks could keep an eye on how big spenders are influencing the election." so far, we're told about 375 people from across the country have volunteered to help, to help gather this supposedly public information, to help make it actually available to the public. eight news organizations have been consulting with propublica on the project and they are now in the early stages of collecting all that wannabe public stuff. joining us now is justin eliot, the reporter who has been spearheading this effort for propublica, and you're the guy who reported on the birther infomercial. >> that'

i was in chicago doing book publicity a couple of weeks ago, and i was doing an event at the chicago, and someone said to me, would you like to go our newsroom? and i said, would i! and so i popped in to see some people because i just still find newsrooms so exciting. but in terms of getting work done, i get more work done at home than i ever would in an office. >> host: little less than an hour left in our "in depth" program, and the next call comes from omaha, nebraska. eunice, you are on the air. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. it's really an honor to speak with you. i'm originally from the newly-independent country of south sudan, africa. my mom and i came to america in 1995 after my dad died in the war. i am currently working on my first book addressing some of the issues you have discussed such as abortion, feminism. and molestation and rape that are within our commitments that it does not happen. case in point, i am a victim of molestation and know a number of girls who have been raped. excuse me. [inaudible] young girls and women are discouraged from speaking out or