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

I'm Brandis Friedman in for Nick Blumberg.

2 independent congressional candidates are booted off the ballot, fitting out the competition to take over Congressman to a Garcia seat.

>> And because he died yesterday 4th congressional district, it's very clear that Patty doesn't think she can win this election about box Byron Lopez and Myron May see us accused Petty Garcia's campaign and the Illinois State Board of Elections of Unfair treatment after review found they did not secure enough valid petition signatures.

>> Are these so-called housing providers for the people in crisis?

>> Making it burdensome for us to run or buildings only increases the cost.

Of housing.

>> The battle over renters protections heats up as 2 competing proposals work their way through City Hall.

>> We urge all Americans to follow CDC guidance on properly washing cooking raw ingredients to prevent this foodborne illness.

>> The number of confirmed cyclists pariah says cases ticks up as public.

Health officials continue to look for the outbreak's source.

This crisis.

Is a manufactured crisis.

a crisis that is that has happened because of the structural deficit that political leaders have not had.

The courage to address Chicago.

Public schools faces a 732 million dollar budget shortfall and possibly hundreds of layoffs for teachers and support staff.

>> Plus, 6 Cook County residents die of factors relating to extreme heat in the deadliest July in over a decade.

And Illinois prepares to commemorate its first Emmett Till date in memory of the 14 year-old Chicago boy whose murder galvanized the civil rights movement.

>> And now to our week in review panel joining us, our Monica of Axios, Sarah Karp of WBEZ.

Rufus Williams of Wv a win and million Mercado of Block Club.

Chicago.

Welcome back, everybody.

Thanks for joining Let's start with the lettuce home could this morning the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added Illinois to the multistate outbreak investigation of cyclists crisis linked to iceberg lettuce as of yesterday.

Illinois has 513 confirmed and probable cases of cyclists.

Bryce is 112 of which are in Chicago.

What happens to people who are infected?

Well, to rtd's explosive diarrhea.

>> you it here first.

I think it happened in my you does not spread person-to-person.

he's a few weeks ago on its its Actually.

28 people were hospitalized Illinois.

So it's it's no laughing matter, actually.

And it's in Michigan's got like thousands of cases.

And yet they still have not found the smoking gun or the smoking less sleep unless it is the Taylor farms iceberg lettuce that went to Taco Bell.

But at this point, there are still looking for the source of this is much bigger outbreak that we've seen in previous years.

Right is also kind of hard her to sort of like tested, right, like, you know, you like once you've been infected, you don't really know what's going on with your body for a couple of days, right?

Well, off a month, believe I incubate.

And you know, frankly, let's say it was in our house.

Maybe it was.

We didn't go and say, let's sign up and have it tested.

>> So they believe there could be thousands more.

This could be, you know, many factors larger them they're actually seeing in confirmed cases.

What are you all doing to avoid this ability?

Sarah Rufus?

>> I'm not eating lettuce.

I mean, they said that it takes 2 weeks to know whether or not they're asking people what they did in the last 2 weeks.

And I don't know how many of keeping track of what we did 2 weeks ago, but I do find myself getting a lot less a lot fewer salads a lot less lettuce at this I do tend to shop locally at the farmers market for my produce, which has been no suggestion for, you avoiding big box retail lettuce in general.

But, >> yeah, I've also been eating lauzon not totally upset about that, you know, I whatever we can do to stay safe >> use this opportunity to shop local >> I don't know.

I'm being risky.

I like iceberg lettuce, usually buy it.

And you know it already.

But to some a full head of lettuce because a bag versus a bag of lettuce.

I think that's been okay.

I mean, so far so far so good.

I feel like a sail it.

I don't know.

I love that I had of selling yesterday and one today before you guys.

So growing my own.

grow my own remain raspberry.

So I'm safe.

I want to be Give you some my home grown everybody.

Monica's our readers did tell us that they're reading a lot fewer sell How is this outbreak is is different or worse than previous ones?

Monica, much worse, much worse, which is I think we usually see it in the spring and the summer.

>> But not in these numbers.

And that's why it is so vexing that they can't find the source.

And I should say FDA has fewer resources to do that.

Okay.

We also experience waves of extreme heat this month.

It has since cooled down.

got out for a walk today.

It was a little cool.

Could have taken a but 6 people in Cook County have died from heat related deaths this July, making it the deadliest.

>> July in a decade for that reason, 5 out of 6 of those people, though, who died.

Rufus live on Chicago's south and West sides.

Why might communities on the south and West sides be more susceptible to heat related illness?

Well, it all has to do with affordability.

Doesn't matter whether or not you can pay your utility bill.

>> It matters whether or not you live in a place that has air conditioning.

It matters when it gets that that warm and, you know, we're now in a space where loneliness is a problem.

>> And people are disconnected.

Nobody's checking on them, knows no one's making certain that they have all the things that they need.

This is particularly acute on the south and west sides of Chicago.

That's what we're saying.

We're always reminded of what took place in 1995. when we lost so many people do to this heat wave.

So it's good that it's cooling down.

I was in Dallas last weekend came back on Tuesday.

The temperature was 106 degrees.

What I was in Dallas, so to get off the plane and if I had to put on jacket, felt cold when I got here.

So it's good that it's gone.

It's with the smoke blown over.

But that that is one that we pay particular attention to in July in Chicago because of what happened 1995. any talk about affordability and not everyone can afford, you know, to crank the AC cool themselves down on if they have it right?

right.

0 with when you hear that 5 out of 6 people die.

>> I mean, does that surprise you, especially knowing, you know, all the efforts that folks take post 9 5?

doesn't surprise me because >> people right now there's a lot of people can't pay their bills for a lot of basic necessities.

And so if you look at event and look at my air condition, might we have to have it on this high?

It's going to be really expensive on.

And then there's the issue of what are the cooling places and whether those calling places should stay open longer.

You know where?

Where is the library that you can go sit in or, you know, I know that you get to the library I can get I know they say that you can go to the police station and sat there, but I don't know relate My stinking hot house.

my first I couldn't see the people that saw the west side them are saying mind.

Let's go to the boys facing When I was in Dallas, the you may recall the World Cup.

>> And they're about things people were really infatuated.

>> With the fact there was air conditioning because a lot of the places that were coming from don't have air conditioners.

This was a real big boom here.

Even some very well developed nations in Europe that has air conditioning is not a thing for them the way it is for us to just have it.

They just find other ways to adjust.

>> So 2 competing renters ordinances.

They're making their way through the city Council melody, what do we know about these bills?

>> We know that one was drafted by the mayor's office and the other was drafted by the group known as the Budget Accountability Coalition.

If you're familiar with that group there, the folks that pass their own alternative spending plan instead of going with Mayor Brandon Johnson's plan.

The plans are somewhat similar.

The major difference is is that Mayor Johnson's plan is more progressive and has some more protections for renters such as just cause eviction, which means that you can't you can't evict someone just because you don't want to renew your lease their lease.

You have to have some very specific reasons for that.

And then it also required it would require relocation assistance if somebody were to not to be evicted through no fault of their own.

For example, that maybe the landlord wanted to renovate the space or or was selling the unit.

Then the renter would would be eligible for several $1000 relocation assistance.

The fair ordinance, which is being put on by this alternative group.

Pretty much.

Nick says all of a all of the Mares a lot more progressive policies geared towards renters protections because they believe that if the Mayor Johnson's ordinance were to pass, that it would lead to landlords passing down the cost to renters in the forms being more stingy with who they rent to in additions to having to raise rents.

If they have to have a backlog of several thousands dollars to be able to relocate somebody, this seems to me, Monica, like another example of city council do its own How has the mayor responded to sort of all proposal?

Well, he said, you know, basically the copied and pasted 98% of my ordinance and you know, check out these important protections.

>> And there are a lot of similarities, although the fair proposal also has these incentives for people who take currently unused space and turn it into housing.

>> But, you know, they're there were some things written into the fair ordinance, which seems to roll back current protections for renters.

And both Bill Villegas and Kohli who were some of the main sponsors said none of that was intentional.

Our intention is only to strengthen renters protections.

So we this is the starting point and we will see this evolve.

But we never want to propose anything that actually rolls back any current protections.

And so, you know, they're on the record.

So.

Either take them at their word or, you know, see if that actually happens, OK?

So another turn of events in the congressional race.

This one in the race to replace longtime Congressman Jesus Chuy Garcia, of to the independent candidates were booted off the ballot after review found that they didn't submit enough valid petition signatures.

>> Monica, how did those to respond?

>> They were not happy about They they're they're actually might be a challenge on it.

And I think this a lot of people don't understand the mechanics of these these kinds of independent candidates.

I didn't realize that they needed 11,000 signatures to get on the ballot where it's the major party candidate and 750 something that seems a little weighted towards University Board of Canada.

And so it built a little But, you know, the the Board of Elections said, look, we wanted to help you.

You this many.

You simply didn't think they were short by less than 2000, each.

>> Melanie, they're also saying that the pair, they're also saying that the these challenges were targeted attack.

We make that.

Yeah, I think everybody's kind of looking back at the history events of this and how Congressman Garcia chose to drop out and magically the station chief of staff part Patty Garcia, no relation all the sudden had signatures ready to to turn into to be on the ballot and left these independent.

>> Candidates sort of, you know, in the in the wind when it comes to trying to, you know, get get their names on the ballot.

And so I think people are really asking themselves, man, is this really the ledge in the history that Congressman Garcia really wants to leave behind?

Is is this what he wants to be remembered by?

That's leaving a bad taste people's mouths.

Rufus, what do you think this means for petty Garcia?

She's the Democrat on the ticket.

As as we mentioned, of course, former chief of staff or issues like the winner.

And then people go to her just as they do for constituent services and everything else.

But >> I can tell you and having spoken directly with Mira, she was a big supporter of to ease and feel really bad one in the way in which it happened that he dropped out and Patty was ready.

And then this just makes it even worse with the challenges to their petitions when they were looking to really try and bring forth the democratic process.

And this appears to be pushing further and further away from democracy.

There's also something to be said.

I think about the name recognition, right?

They share the same last name.

No relation necessarily.

But if >> if voters are kind of like not that informed and just bothered not to to look around and see who else is running.

Does she also have, you know, sort of an advantage there, unintended?

You know it, you can change your name.

But I mean, I think it's pretty clear in in Illinois, in Cook County, she's >> likely to be the winner regardless.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

>> So in the school board race, Chicago's first fully elected school board race, that's shaping up to be an expensive one.

Your reporting is showing the candidates have raised more than 1.8 million dollars.

Where's that money coming from years ago?

So the big one is that Victor Henderson, he's a candidate for the president of the school board.

>> Who is not really a very known figure on the education seen.

He's an attorney.

He's on Urban Prep, a charter schools board.

But besides that hasn't been that much in the Education around.

He donated $500,000 to his own camp pain.

He loaned it so that boosted everybody and it blew the on spending limits now anybody can donate anything to school board candidates also on some of the other school board candidates Henry's pretty significant amounts.

Most of the people down ballot have not raised all that much.

But on.

One of the really interesting thing, when you talk about the the petitions, you know, now we have 4 races that are uncontested, 2 of which because on the candidates that were the opposing candidates, not incumbent candidates were thrown off the ballots and on that was through about challenges.

And so it's kind of interesting And there's still many more that have to be ruled on by the board of the Chicago Board of Elections.

go ever Fasano said this is just interesting that we come to a lot to talk about the elections around our schools.

>> Given all the other issues that we have within our schools.

But this is really where the focus is on the focus will be because we now have an elected school board.

And 21 people being elected.

You know, these things become exciting at the very beginning and we'll see as time goes along, how much the interest will still be because these are not truly not easy jobs to do the job and they're on paid for.

And they I mean, actually, the thing is that not as many people as we thought entered the race.

I mean, there are 2 races in which >> nobody else and herbicides, the incumbent and the interesting thing is what I was asked sort of players.

Why didn't you enter people into that race?

They said we have had a really hard time finding people who can do this because it's an unpaid job it's so much time.

I mean, I I can't imagine why somebody want to kind of like the LSE, the local school council elections, right?

You know, that was something that was a big deal at the time was at night and >> there there are elections that happened sometimes do the schools to the communities around schools even know that the Elysee election is happening or but their positions open that need to be filled.

I think it was another one of the things once the novelty wore off of having achieved the thing you wanted is everybody still let interested in running and doing the work when when the time comes, Sarah, the board president's race, though, has become a focal point for fundraising wise Well, it's the biggest one.

It's the citywide election.

And one thing that we've sort of learned over the last 2 years is the power howled at the board.

President level because what what is happening now is that >> that foreign president is the one responsible for making the agenda for the school board meetings.

And so if anybody wants to put something in front, they really have to go through that board.

President.

And so now that that some of the people Jennifer Custer and Jessica Biggs, who are on the school board, they decided they did not want to run for their district seats because they have found.

I think that they don't have as much power as they would like to really affect things.

And they're running for school board.

President.

And so I just think there's this recognition that this is really a very powerful position, also it is the position you're running for that one.

Citywide versus in a much smaller district.

You're going to need more money to wage a citywide police train Rufus.

What do you think voters should be watching out for over the next few months as we get closer to the election?

What I think is fascinating to hear about the power of the positions.

I want to build time when they are also had some power in person is independent of the mayor.

Yeah.

Independent everyone which also begs the question of who's in charge now because you've got 21 people where they are.

>> Coming from all these different places.

So when something goes astray, who was in charge?

>> What's in charge?

What are you looking at in all of these different races?

I think in every case, people in each district and Chicago is segregated rich, poor, whatever.

We'll be looking out for what's best for their constituents.

But when you get to the board is a bigger discussion about what happens in the best interest of all of the city.

And that's really what the school board president has to kind of keep these things in order and see what's the best for the most.

respective who's asking for all and how you get to some parity in those places that whoever gets elected.

They're also going to have to deal with the district that is struggling financially because the board of education schedule to vote.

>> July 30th on CPS has proposed a 9.8 8 billion dollar budget.

They of course era they don't have to pass that budget until August.

So it sounds like they've got a little bit of time in case this doesn't go well next week.

But what are what are the cuts?

They're that they're looking at.

But one thing and have this is CPS officials.

>> Pressuring the board to pass the budget on July 30th, they say and this is very unprecedented Cps will not be able to pay payroll in September if they did not get the budget passed on July 30th because all know, there's been delays in the Cook County property tax and there's some money that CPS says the Cook County still owes them from from the first installment from April's installment.

And so CBS needs to take a short-term loan.

They take short-term loans all the time for to make payroll.

But I don't know that understand why it is.

But the ccps officials are very, very insistent that they must get this budget passed next week.

And this is a budget that it's you know, it has deep cuts about 760 teachers got layoff notices a week ago about 801 classroom aides on God layoff notices.

Countless other probably people who have gotten layoff notices.

You know, some of that things like security guards and tutors and and interventionists.

And there's there's a lot of other staff that we don't really talk about that that we don't really have one thing that struck a little not to maybe this will happen pretty soon, but they haven't put out school level information yet, which usually they do well before now.

And pretty upset about this.

But let me But but here's the thing like we do not really even have a sense of >> where these cuts are coming down like are, you know, is schools would just go the West Side is the South side is the north was what a CT you said about these.

What are now classroom cuts?

We're talking about teachers and aides and and things like that.

And the district typically tries to avoid making cuts that will impact the classroom.

He's gonna hit hard.

They are going to hit hard and you know, not just cherry.

Everybody is is up said and they really want for the state to come in and 2 faces is lighter, always out in state I mean, they restate what they believe to be right only about 73% of what the state has declared is an adequate education.

Is the state giving this to Chicago?

But, you know, there's there's a lot of other levels to nowhere where there's money that is owed.

Cps said whether it's Cook County, the state, there's some city money that you know, that they would like to have to fill some of the the And some of the district's critics are also like, how are you spending this money that the number of children you have has shrunk?

You still have the same number buildings, as as Rufus saying before we got started as well as just in the budget has ballooned compared to back when the student body was actually much bigger.

Can I say something too, though?

wrote a story last week that was talking about special education and how the number of kids a special education is actually increased.

>> Well, the numbers students in the city in and CPS overall has decreased and their needs have increased.

There's many more students who have autism, many more students with significant medical delays and developmental delays and this costing CPS a lot of money amount of your or in to educate CBS is double the amount of money that there's been a special education in the last 6 years.

Double that.

And thus the state and federal governments funny, he's stayed pretty static.

CBS is spending 1.3 billion dollars special education it's out of tax our own local tax payer money.

Now.

>> Where really quick and then we can expect for a long time.

We'll be talking about the schools because we've got so much turmoil with the things that you just pointed out with the changes in governance with a relatively new CEO.

She just came in to be permanent less than a year being.

So there's there's a lot of turmoil that's going on.

So we should expect to be talking about this.

Is that often the case for CPS?

Monica, I don't want to give this one a short trip.

But briefly, a Chicago man, Daniel Garrett, those faces a dozen felony charges after an alleged and off earlier this week left a woman and a SWAT officer.

>> Injured.

What happened there?

seems like there was a domestic altercation with his wife and his 14 year-old daughter were he was sending was screaming because he was beating them.

>> the mother-in-law, his mother-in-law came upstairs and what's going on shot at the door, went through the door, shot another long face.

Finally, SWAT team came in, try to knock down the door.

He shot at the SWAT team.

It hit one of the SWAT officers and they finally were able to get the mother and daughter somewhat safely.

But it just just a horrible, horrible heartbreaking situation.

>> Ability the Shedd Aquarium welcomed rescue beluga whales.

The plan is to take in 6 more.

What's the story there?

Yes, so Marine Land, which is located in Canada is a shuttered basically aquarium Marine Park.

>> That has had 30 stranded beluga whales for quite some time.

Now.

And the owner of the park has said, hey, if the government of Canada is not going to let me export these whales to a country that is of approval that I'm going to euthanize them.

So the government of Canada reached out to a bunch of certified Aquariums Start Aquarium was one of them.

And as a result, we're slowly starting to get some of beluga whales were going to get up to 10 of them.

The 4 of them that arrived are all female and they're all live in a in a mini pod which basically means budget and their friends.

So they're starting to adjust now to their new life at the shed and we'll see.

Moore has some of them start to arrive.

Whales aren't small.

They've got for while.

I believe I believe it's like someone of 3 million gallon tank and it's it's jarring arm us with just it's huge if you ever seen it at the shed, its not really a look smaller in-person there's yes is that we don't see the variables are team.

Yes, that will hopefully shed will let us know when we cannot get a look at the new that that is our weekend review.

Panel, thank you so much.

We're out of time, but thanks to Monica Eng and Sarah Hart.

>> As well as Rufus Williams and Melody Mercado.

And we're back to wrap things up right after this.

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Have a great weekend.

Everybody.

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