phil frank would have done 10 cartoons on this bocce court. let's get the recreation and park director -- director and thank his commission for all of the work. thank you, sir. there are a lot of ways to describe our mayor and persistence is one of them. i worked for the mayor in a couple of rolls and this has been on your list for how long? we are thrilled to be able to pull this off. like many things we're trying to do, we cannot do it alone. i want to thank all of our partners, local 261, who we have an incredible relationship with, we just want to the first apprenticeship program, and we are very excited. bocce federation, peter, where are you? peter, so you know, was the driving force but the region behind the renovation in golden gate park. -- was the driving force behind the renovation in golden gate park. supervisor chu, supervisor avalos, thanks to all of you for being so enthusiastic. so, thanks to everyone. we are absolutely thrilled. we will be -- we will be back out here when, chris? in three months, we will be out here to play so

we had the first measurable snow of the season at midway airport and o'hare thasm from frank and philrider, cooperative observer for the weather service reports .3 of an inch in mundelein. and this is about when it happened last year. happened about december 4 last year. yesterday's first flurries were 37 days later than the first flurries hit last winter. hereth the windchill as the cold air rushes in over the growing snow pack in north america. 34% of the country under snow right now. schaumburg feels like 8 there. nine at de kalb. hammond at 13. naperville at 10. air temperatures in the low 20s. it's 24 at o'hare. thils the first day since february. the temperature hasn't made 30 in chicago. 24 at midway airport. and schaumburg at 20 right now and the mchenry at 23. it's cold across the board. and we have good wind gusts adding to the chills. yao can see. here is a look at the wind gusts across the metro area. takes a lot of wind sometimes to bring the cold air in and then you get the low windchills around the area. view from northfield and our weather bug camera and the fox valley

. >> hi, frank and. >> hi, phil. i'm just curious when collective bargaining came in, what was the response to that? it sounds like it was an invention of management, management's idea to do things this way. what was the response to that on the part of anarchists or marxists -- marxist tendencies? >> it actually came, the term collective bargaining actually came from to reformers in england, william and beatrice webb who were fabians'. i guess george bernard shaw was among their crowd. i am not sure it came from management, although it was something that was seen as a way. you know, management had begun, after a lot of the disruption, to look for ways that they could maintain productivity and not get to these work stoppages. i think as ever there was probably a lot of shading of reaction. in other words, the radical entities might denounce collective bargaining rhetorically, but then in practice when they themselves were involved in labor disputes they might actually push toward something like that. it's hard to say

frank act. host: do you have a quick comment? caller: that was a very general response about the nature of lobbying. phil gramm with his shenanigans during the clinton administration, he's not in the legislation at the end of the clinton administration which he was unable to for the months and years prior that enabled the banks, the legislation that enabled the banks to deregulate. with a man like you at the helm, we are in a lot of trouble. host: a quick comment? guest: i think he is talking about the pact signed by president clinton and endorsed by president kate -- clinton, endorsed by the secretary of the treasury, robert rubin. i think there is a lot of misinformation there. there is information about this that everyone should read host: this question came from twitter. can you ask why goldman sachs is still open and no banker is in prison? guest: i can't explain that except that goldman sachs has been investigated by the sec and they are currently probably being investigated by the justice department. it has never been determined that they did anything that was of a criminal nature. that is also tr

frank act. host: do you have a quick comment? caller: that was a very general response about the nature of lobbying. phil gramm with his shenanigans during the clinton administration, he's not in the legislation at the end of the clinton administration which he was unable to for the months and years prior that enabled the banks, the legislation that enabled the banks to deregulate. with a man like you at the helm, we are in a lot of trouble. host: a quick comment? guest: i think he is talking about the pact signed by president clinton and endorsed by president kate -- clinton, endorsed by the secretary of the treasury, robert rubin. i think there is a lot of misinformation there. there is information about this that everyone should read host: this question came from twitter. can you ask why goldman sachs is still open and no banker is in prison? guest: i can't explain that except that goldman sachs has been investigated by the sec and they are currently probably being investigated by the justice department. it has never been determined that they did anything that was of a criminal nature. that is also tr