Chicago Newsroom - 05/30/19

Published on May 30, 2019

Mayor Lori Lightfoot is our first guest on this final Chicago Newsroom. She talks about the personal impact on her life as she realized that she was almost certainly going to win. She discusses her relationship with the police, and tells us she believes that despite her frosty relationship with the police union, they will be able to forge a labor contract. She says the police academy legislation has been completed, so it will be built despite her objections before the election. But, she says, she may be able to influence the project in some significant ways. She also predicts that, despite the CTU’s endorsement of her opponent, she will be able to reach a contractual agreement with the teachers. She says that she feels the rank-and-file teachers supported her in large numbers, and that their support will be helpful in the future.

We’re also joined by WLS-AM morning news host John Dempsey, who talks fondly about his lengthy career in both public and commercial radio, much of it with CN host Ken Davis. They discuss the stratification of electronic media and the partition of audiences into interest groups.

Our final guests are two great friends of Chicago Newsroom, A.D. Quig and Heather Cherone of the Daily Line. They help us evaluate the first ten days of the Lightfoot administration – and the mad dash toward the close of this Illinois legislative session, which seems poised to hand major victories to Governor Pritzker and his Democratic majority.

This program was produced by Chicago Access Television.