>> Hello and thanks for joining us on Chicago tonight.

I'm Brandis Friedman.

Here's what we're looking at.

>> We stand by our budget.

>> Mayor Johnson says he's not backing down on his budget proposals.

Controversial corporate head tax despite the key setback.

Has Illinois waits on the Supreme Court rule on a potential National Guard deployment.

We hear from Retired Guardsman about role in military service.

And warships arrive in the Caribbean Sea as tensions escalate between the U.S.

and Venezuela.

>> First off tonight, the mayor of west suburban Broadview is issuing a civil emergency order.

>> It comes amid threats against village officials and escalating protests outside the ice facility.

There.

Mayor Catrina Thompson made the declaration after she said a group of out of town protesters and non broadview residence allegedly attempted to storm brought views Village Hall on Saturday.

21 protesters were arrested outside the facility last Friday in multiple law enforcement personnel were injured.

Some West and South side home owners are getting sticker shock with their most recent property tax bills with an average 30% increase across 15 neighborhoods.

Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas is office says the most recent property assessments have shifted more cities, tax burden from business owners to homeowners what she calls a record-setting 16.7% increase in the median home owners.

Bill.

But in West Garfield Park, for example, residential property tax bills jumped 133% or about $2000 in North Lawndale.

A 99% increase or $1900 and in Inglewood and 82.5% increase or $609.

But in Lincoln Park, one of the city's most affluent neighborhoods home to a majority white residents.

The median ville rose just 5.9% You can visit our website for more on why the treasurer thanks.

Bills have gone up.

Chicago Cubs fan favorite Kyle Hendricks is retiring from baseball.

The right-handed starter pitched 11 of his 12 big league seasons for the North Siders finishing his career with the Los Angeles Angels this past year.

Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts called Hendricks, quote, One of the best all-time Cubs pitchers among hit Hendricks career highlights 16 wins in a 2.1, 3 E R a in the Cubs 2016 championship season where he started the victorious game.

7 of the World Series just 10 Bucks is 270 games started ranks.

10th on the all-time Cubs list.

Santa and his elves are back on track for the holiday season with the CTA announcing its annual holiday train and bus schedule back for the 34 here.

The holiday train will feature 6 decorated passenger rail cars and one open flat car for the big guy and his sleigh and reindeer.

The holiday buses are pulling up with a new look featuring an exterior wraps showcasing the christkindl market and other iconic city landmarks the buses.

Interior will be refreshed with a gingerbread house themed layout.

Trains start rolling November.

28 buses on the 25th and we have those schedules on our website.

Important committee votes down the mayor's budget proposal or had a Sharon explains what happened Inside City Hall right after this.

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>> Mayor Brandon Johnson's budget proposal suffered a stinging defeat today.

A key city panel failed to advance his plan to impose more than 600 million dollars in new taxes on the wealthiest Chicagoans and largest firms.

>> But after the blow to mayor struck a defiant tone in front of reporters.

>> We stand by our budget proposal.

There are not any magic 3rd options between cut stuck or services and layoffs and revenue.

Anyone who wants to prevent pretend otherwise is being disingenuous.

>> Or Heather?

Sharon joins us now with more.

Heather.

So it's a confusing day at City Hall break down.

What happened today in the council's finance committee?

Well, despite concerns that Mayor Brandon Johnson hadn't done enough to win support for his budget proposal, he scheduled 2 key votes today and then scrambled.

When it was clear he didn't have the votes to send the package to the city Council for a final vote.

His allies tried to delay the vote, which is what you do when you don't have the votes.

But his opponents insisted on holding a vote in the Finance committee handing the mayor a stinging defeat on his tax revenue just heard from a defiant Mayor seeking to reframe the budget debate.

>> What does he want to focus on?

The city has a 1.2 billion dollar budget deficit.

He says it comes down to whether it's going to working class Chicagoans or what he calls the ultra rich, who will bear the burden of filling that gap.

>> He wants to tax the ultra-rich he says there are other good options left for the city.

>> So at the same Johnson is refusing to back down from his head tax proposal.

He ruled out several other ways that could generate and new revenue to borrow the budget or slash spending as options.

What did he say was off the table?

He says he will veto a budget proposal that raises property taxes.

Reimpose is the grocery tax or increases.

Garbage is now that really leaves the city with no good options to fill the budget get except that corporate head tax which fiercely opposed by many on the city council in Chicago's entire business community.

But he also real doubt ruled out making cuts to the Chicago Police Department, which has a 2.1 billion dollar proposed budget for 2026. budget director.

And that Guzman said today.

There's no way to make significant cuts to the city's budget without touching CPD.

And if that's off the table, too, there are not many options good or otherwise left for city officials are quite a few options that are off the table.

So what if he's proposed spending plan?

Also bar to cover the soaring cost of lawsuits alleging Chicago police officers committed a wide range of misconduct.

How much is the city set to borrow and what will it cost to pay off that debt in all the mayor's budget proposal borrows 283 million dollars to resolve those lawsuits.

And the plan calls for that money to be paid back over the next 5 years, which means we'll likely tack on another 52 million dollars interest costs to that bill.

Now again today the mayor said that it's the prudent thing to do.

>> To get these lawsuits resolved in off the city's liabilities.

essentially and he's not.

said he's going to crack down on officer misconduct with a new system that has been required by the consent decree that federal court order.

I talk so much about for 6 and a half years.

Yes, yes.

What's next, Well, the City Council's finance committee isn't going to come back until after Thanksgiving when they will face all of these same problems.

But perhaps a little more turkey filled by the end.

But no good options.

And a looming deadline and they have until December 30th to figure it all this happened last year.

I think we were hoping we can avoid it this year.

No such luck.

No, such luck had a Sharon.

Thank you.

Thanks.

Brandis.

>> And you can read Heather's full story on our website.

It's all at W T Tw Dot com slash news.

>> Hundreds >> of Texas National Guard members deployed to Illinois are reportedly being sent home.

The move is set to be part of a broader change to deployments after President Donald Trump began his crackdown in Democratic lead cities like Chicago.

>> This withdrawal represents.

And unconditional surrender by the Trump administration.

But more than that, it represents a massive waste of taxpayer dollars.

>> Meanwhile, the Trump administration awaits a Supreme Court ruling on whether he even has the authority to deploy the National Guard for the purpose of enforcing civil immigration laws and law enforcement.

Joining us via zoom are retired Major General William Enyart, former pageant general of the Illinois National Guard.

He's also a former congressman from Illinois and an attorney and retired major general Randy manner who served as the acting vice chief of the National Guard Bureau.

Generals.

Gentlemen, thank you so much for joining us.

So first, I want to get your reaction to the Trump administration's push to deploy the National Guard.

Not just a Chicago.

We know it's been happening in other cities as well to combat crime and what he's calling mob violence against immigration agents.

A major general.

And welcome to you first for that question.

Please.

>> Well, you know, I think the federal district courts both in Oregon and Illinois have made it pretty clear that President Trump as a vastly overstated that any problems that have been taking Yeah, in Portland and or in Chicago it's been a vast overreach on the part of the federal government to send a 2 mobile.

Its National Guard troops bring him in from out of state against the express wishes of both the governors and the local executive authorities, whether be in their county executive.

>> General Manners in question to you.

everyone has to understand is totally Un-American to use soldiers against our own citizens.

>> This is not with those young men and women signed up for.

There's no requirement for this.

There is no money for this allocated by Congress.

These are men and women are not trained in police operations.

And it also reduces the readiness of those young soldiers to be able to combat are true enemies for overseas and it drives a wedge between the American people and our military, which we have worked very long and hard, obviously after 9.11 to restore that faith.

Great.

And I think it also puts these young men and women at significant risk.

We're the rules of use of force are not well defined and that young man or woman on the street that young soldier could be making the best decision.

think in the moment.

But yet it's not the right want.

So again, bottom line is totally Un-American.

Totally inappropriate.

>> General endured what conditions would you think would or might merit deployment of National Guard?

>> We know that's pretty clear.

We've doing deployments of the National Guard for.

Centuries, frankly, in the protocols.

Ford are very well established.

You know, when Danny, the initial decision is made by the local executive, the mayor and the mayor after all is on site.

He knows or she knows what the nature his or her resources might be solar.

She also would what the nature of the problem And one says local resources are overwhelmed.

Then the mayor goes to the governor says, governor, I need help.

And the governor looks at the governor's resources, the state resources, whether it might be Illinois State police, conservation officers calling additional law, local law enforcement from surrounding counties.

All of those are options available to the governor.

And the last option, frankly, as the National Guard and the National Guard can be brought in a civil disturbance reaches, the extent that it is no longer capable of being controlled by local authorities.

But it is not the president's job to do this.

After all, the local authorities are the ones who are in charge of that community and they they not perform to the expectations of the voters.

You can rely on the getting rid of them next time they're there's in all.

>> So general man or a border Patrol tree Chief Gregory Bovino.

He is now we know on his way to Charlotte for similar a similar mission.

He's bragged on social media without citing any sources that crime in Chicago is way down since Border Patrol's arrival.

Despite violent crime having been on a downward trend since 2022.

So assuming that federal agents, you know, their presence did contribute to a drop in crime is not a long-term solution to crime fighting.

course, not.

>> And that also assumes that what he said was the truth.

And we already know the administration has been misrepresenting facts are making up own facts about the crime figures in every city.

All of us are against crime and obviously would like to have people persecuted prosecuted to the full extent of the law, respecting their rights under the law.

the same time, the military is not the method to be used for law enforcement.

I say they are not trained for this.

And so we don't want to put those young men and women, quite frankly in the situation.

They're not trained for.

And it's also important to understand that the concept of what ICE and Border Patrol doing they've been having unaccounted for, use of force.

It's only through citizens taking videos of the gross miss.

He's in many cases that have been happening that we need bring this to light, hold them accountable and ensure that we prosecute the individuals and those federal authorities and just hold them accountable to the law as well.

>> General and European people probably remember of the National Guard's presence here in Chicago back in 2020 during the summer of unrest.

How's that situation different from the moment we're in right now.

>> Well, it's it's much different because the local authorities requested that the National Guard commit and the National Guard really weren't doing police work.

They were doing investigations.

They were They were doing vehicle stops.

They were essentially backing up the local police forces controlling crowds in and that sort of thing.

But they certainly were investigating crime, nor were they conducting any kind on immigrants, whether documented or undocumented.

vastly different situation there.

They were requested.

They forced upon them by Washington, D.C.

>> And general manner.

You recently spoke to a room full of police chiefs from across the country at Georgetown Law School about how to prepare for how to work with the National Guard.

Should they be deployed and to their jurisdiction?

What would coordination look like between police officers and the guard?

>> It's extremely important that there be proactive coordination between the guard and local police and state police and vice versa.

I encourage those police chief to be able to reach out to their guard.

Representatives and to ensure that there are these aren't in place now so that they can have police officers participate in the emergency operation centers at the state as well as of course, to encourage a guard representative to participate in their towns or cities.

Emergency operation center for the police department as well.

You have to develop the relationships in advance of their truly being a crisis because the guard is there to help save lives of the American people not to watch over them, not to intimidate them and they are partner with the police to back them up whenever needed, particularly whenever there are.

storm hurricane forest fires or something of calamity that might require local forces to be augmented to help either establish or restore order and to help save lives.

>> That's where we'll have to leave My thanks to generals William endured and Randy manner.

Thank you for your service.

Thank you for joining us.

>> Thank be with.

>> Up next, a look at what's happening in the Caribbean as tensions rise between the Trump administration and Venezuela's president.

The USS Gerald R Ford, the world's largest aircraft carrier, has arrived in the Caribbean Sea.

Further escalating tensions between the United States and Venezuela.

The Trump administration has used drones to strike 20 alleged drug boats in the region, killing 83 people that the U.S.

claims are narcoterrorists.

The Trump administration also claims Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is the head of the cartel, their car, the cartel that of solace, the moves have come under scrutiny for both the tactics and the reasons for them.

Joining joining us with some insight Mina Brito, professor of Spanish Portuguese, Latin American and Caribbean studies at Northwestern University.

And on zoom, Alberto Cole, a professor of law and director of global engagement at DePaul University.

Thanks to both for joining us.

The professor Cole want to start with you with these military strikes on the boats in the Caribbean.

The administration says that it is going after the drug cartels using drones.

Are these attacks a violation of international law?

Can they do this?

>> The of talks might be a violation of international.

But I think what we need to keep our eye on is the more important development, which is the massive U.S.

naval buildup in the Caribbean, which I think is is going to use is being used right now at the pressure in a dual to leave power and that the administration, of course, is selling this to its base as campaign against drugs against illegal drugs.

And lots of illegal drugs are coming from Colombia through Venezuela and the cartels.

But there really a political issue here is what the United States may do to push mud or this is this is really the most important one for for all of Yes, yeah.

What?

We're going to get some more of that as But critics of the Trump administration say that even if the folks, the vessels that have been >> struck or bond, even if they are narco traffickers, that would still need to be investigated.

There would have to be arrests and given due process.

Is that the case?

>> And >> Normally that's that's been the practice of the United States that, you know, with pirates.

You know, we arrest them and then we try them and then we sent us them accordingly.

So, yes, this is a very new development.

The administration argues of these people are terrorists that they're being treated the way we tweeted out Qaeda.

But what that stretches the definition because al Qaeda was planning military attacks against the United States.

Whereas people that are being targeted on boats are bringing lots of staff that do cause the deaths and injuries to 10's of thousands of Americans.

But they're not treated as tax there.

They're just a very, very nasty kind of illegal trade that's going on.

And normally the practice has been retain them, arrest them, tried federal court.

>> So we talked about the reasons President Trump has called President Maduro a narco terrorist himself, alleging that the Venezuelan president is running the cartel.

That of solace.

The secretary of state Marco Rubio claiming that Maduro's an illegitimate leader that he interfered with the Venezuelan elections and basically stole it.

Can't be all of the above or is the Trump administration just building its argument greeting the framework?

>> Now both of these issues, the Trump administration is first of I recommend to our viewers that they look at the Department of Justice Web site, the indictment against Nicolas Maduro issued in March of 2020 and documents extensively I his ties with drug cartels.

Whether or not he's the titular head of the cartel or is irrelevant.

His regime very specifically is involved in allowing the cartels to operate as a major facilitator on makes lots of money from it.

And then, you know, the the other issue has to do with fact that of the regime did steal several elections most spectacularly the last election last year, which by the account all international observers, it lost by over 20 percentage points.

And so empowering legally.

And its tactic always has been to put effective as they tried to do it Monday, echoing Machado and they disqualified from running then and moved alongside rant and her place as the head of the opposition.

And he still be my by huge margin.

So that election was stolen.

new rule is in power illegally.

On top of that The massive amount of mystery that bad regime has brought to the Venezuela people.

8 million Venezuelans have sled.

They're all right, because such that happen doesn't possess that.

We know many them have fled to the United States that tightly over content >> want to get a 4 million Americans leaving.

imagine 94 million Americans leaving this country because of the Harvell regime that And minute I want to get Professor Brito and on here because critic critics believe that the Republican Party is using the conflict to access Boyle in the region.

What do you think is motivating the Trump administration to escalate and focus on what's going on in this region?

>> Well, definitely that's one of the reason's and actually strongly disagree with my colleague here about, you know, the evidence is that provide.

>> To show that Chargers are true.

They haven't shown any evidence even a cypress my duel, they haven't shown any evidence to any of the people that have been killed.

The United Nations High commissioner has say it.

We've a shade of a doubt that these are extrajudicial killings there.

No evidence against any of the 80 people so far that have been killed in these drone attacks.

So what is happening here a violation of international human rights law in the agreement among nations not Kazakhstan on to narcotics team.

It our law enforcement operation, not a military mater.

And that's when we see what Trump is doing to administration is doing right now is reviving and resuscitated interesting historical pattern here.

But he's using the war on drugs.

That's tool kit.

A set of resources, his strategies in these courses, including the these course calling everybody traffickers and terrorists.

I wait to administer state violence in moments of crisis, which is what we have right now in the United States.

Remind us a little bit of that history and the relationship between the U.S.

and Venezuela briefly.

>> Well, the thing is that in order to understand is he's 3.

We need to go beyond the very narrow scope of in a swift.

So everything is about in this one in for gene change in Venice.

One of the really what we need to understand these the U.S.

way addressing the relationship with the rest of the hemisphere.

And we Latin are generally 2 pieces of all business when.

yes, but he's so much Columbia is also about Ecuador is also about Cuba is also about central American Panama.

So really, this is kind of strategy for the whole region that goes beyond Venice.

Well.

>> Great and briefly, I think were actually out of time.

I wish we had more to get even further into this and more about to what Professor Cole raised about the the growing conflict in the region.

We will have more discussions about this and ask you to join us again.

And Professor Lena Brito, professor of article.

Thanks to you both.

And that is our show for this Monday night.

You can stream Chicago tonight on our W T Tw YouTube Channel every evening and catch up on any programs you may have missed and join us tomorrow night at 5.30, and a special time 11 now for all of us here at Chicago Brandis Friedman, thank you for watching.

Stay healthy and safe and have a good night.

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