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>> The Trump administration's policies are facing a slew of legal challenges.

Illinois's attorney general joins us to talk about his officers.

Actions.

Mayor Johnson prepares for his testimony before Congress and the stock market plunges on the first day of new tariffs.

Our spotlight team has analysis.

And in honor of Chicago's birthday today, we explain the history of how the city got its shape.

>> And now to some of today's top stories, the stock market takes a dive today as Wall Street reacts to President Donald Trump's tariffs going into effect.

>> The Dow tumbled 670 points today on top of yesterday's 650 point drop.

The Nasdaq is down more than 6% since Trump took office in January.

And the gains made made by the S and P 500 since Trump's election in November have been wiped out.

Trump imposed 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian imports while doubling the tariff on Chinese products to 20% launching a trade war with America's 3 biggest trade partners.

The 3 countries all retaliated with tariffs of their own.

We'll have more on the local reaction to those tariffs coming up in spotlight politics.

A coalition of immigrant advocates are making the case in favor of the city's sanctuary city policies.

As Mayor Brandon Johnson prepares to testify before Congress about the issue tomorrow.

>> We reject these attempts to demonize immigrants and divide our communities.

We have our own story to tell and are testimony to give one speaks to our deeply held values reaffirm Chicago's long history of welcoming to neighbors and rejects the Trump in MAGA plan to criminalize our families and friends.

>> The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee rights along with several faith leaders say Republicans are trying to demonize the immigrant community to distract from cuts to the social safety net.

The Trump administration has threatened to pull federal funding from cities that protect undocumented immigrants.

Preservation.

Chicago releases its annual list of most endangered buildings in an effort to save them.

This year's list includes the loops, Delaware Building a landmark that rose from the ashes of the Great Chicago fire only to become an abandoned McDonald's location.

The Darrell Bridge originally known as the Columbia Drive Bridge is one of the few surviving elements of Frederick law Olmsted original design for Jackson Park there.

That one is.

The J J Walser House in Austin designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 19.

0, 3, in an attempt to build affordable housing browns bills, all of It Baptist Church which has the second oldest African American Church congregation in Chicago.

The Central Manufacturing District Clock Tower located in McKinley Park the Western Boulevard, industrial buildings in the back of the yards.

And finally, Saint Martin's Church in Inglewood.

And we have much more in the history of these buildings on our website.

A one-on-one with Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul on his office's actions under Trump's administration.

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>> There have been nearly 100 legal challenges to the Trump administration's executive orders all filed in the 6 short weeks since he assumed office.

That's according to the digital Long Policy Journal.

Just security, Illinois has joined in on those complaints that range from pushing for transgender rights to fighting for public health care funding.

Here now with more is Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul Attorney General.

Welcome back.

Thanks for joining us.

Thanks for having How busy would you say this administration has kept your office these last 6 weeks?

Quite busy.

Quite busy in and it spans beyond.

>> Just the past 6 weeks because we anticipated many of the actions would come forth.

We began preparing see almost a year ago, not knowing what the outcome of the elections would be, but knowing that we couldn't wait until January 20th to begin to prepare for the types of things that were being laid out, instance, in project 2025. is this very different or how would you say this compares to the first 6 weeks of Trump's first term?

Well, I came in halfway halfway and we were quite busy that I think there were some wind every of 138 lawsuits against the administration June.

The first administration where we prevailed in about 80% of those for those of U.S. attorneys general had the experience of dealing with this before.

It's so just some preparedness for what we're dealing with now, except that the pace.

That the administration is taking with something sections and sort of a that city of the unconstitutional and unlawful actions a bit different from the first time around.

>> We know that tomorrow.

Mayor Brandon Johnson is testifying before Congress along with several other mayors about the city's sanctuary status.

The state is also considered a sanctuary state.

And you've issued guidance to law enforcement on this issue.

What's been your advice?

>> Then actually we've been sued by the Department of along with the city of Chicago and the county, a the state with regards to our trust act and the city and the county with regards to essential sanctuary city ordinance.

Since we filed a motion to dismiss today and basically the same advice that we give to law enforcement is that local and state law enforcement officers offices cannot be commandeered by the federal government to do immigration is we have ingrained in Constitution, the 10th amendment that kind of sets up the coexistence of of in federalism, of state and federal government and there's to that supports a motion to dismiss.

We've been sued on this before and 7th circuit has moved on it before the federal government cannot commandeer local governments to do the federal government's work.

And to be clear, you said you just file that motion to dismiss the lawsuit today.

Yes, this morning, OK?

start with we would have on yeah.

I want to be clear that since the outset of my administration as attorney general, I have collaborated with federal law enforcement, including the FBI, ATF, DEA and Homeland Security.

And we've collaborated on all sorts criminal activity, some activity that might have been committed accept might may have been committed by citizens and some acts that may have been committed by noncitizens.

And we continue to do to work towards that.

Collaboration has been a framing fetch that somehow the sanctuary city or the trust back suggest that we would not collaborate on capturing immigrants who are who have committed criminal acts.

And that's the furthest thing from the truth.

>> You are also working with a coalition of state attorneys general to protect a provision of the Affordable Care Act creates the Preventive Services Task Force.

First, tell everybody what this task force does.

Well, it's about access to preventative health care.

I, myself.

>> have the warning of my father and my grandfathers who succumb to prostate cancer and because of that morning, I had access to preventative health care that led to my early detection.

That allows me to sit before you to hear today.

And we believe that every all all citizens should have that access.

And so it's aimed at trying to make sure that folks have access to preventative healthcare, such that they can be the beneficiaries like I am of her early detection and and live long lives and healthy lives.

And right now the case Kennedy versus Braidwood management.

That is before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

What is your concern if this task forces?

>> Ruled an unconstitutional by the court?

Well, would be devastating to to health care outcomes for a lot of people throughout through throughout the Affordable Care Act is provided access to health care and and with a focus on preventative health care and not having people seek there, health care and emergency rooms and be be the beneficiaries of primary care and again, preventative health You've also sued the Trump administration over the federal funding freeze that the president implemented back in January.

A federal judge blocked that order through a separate other lawsuits.

But Governor Pritzker still says that funds are still not flowing the way they should be.

>> To all departments and agencies to the tune of about 1.8, 8 billion dollars.

What more can your office issue deaths that we're going to write We first off at the outset, the the the these funding freeze is and really cold.

They violate.

>> Again, the Constitution.

Congress has the power of the person article one section 8 set set out in spending clause and we we filed suit got injunction.

And we've since filed motions to and for us because has been evidence of violation of the court's order.

And so we will can continue to as as that comes to our attention, continue to take action.

>> What are your thoughts on you know, should the courts rule against you in any of these cases?

Because there are a lot of them.

And of course, there are going to be federal judges on some of these courts that were appointed appointed by Trump and we'll see his in his administration's perspective.

>> Well, I mean, you take very first lawsuit on birthright citizenship.

I myself, was born to a mother, not yet naturalize Haitian immigrant.

That's why I am a birthright citizen.

That's again, clear language in our Constitution.

It was a Reagan appointed judge that pointed out that it was a blatantly unconstitutional action and that he saw he could not understand how any member of the bar would come before a court to try to defend such an action.

So even the most conservative judges cannot twist.

The plain language of our constitution and the laws that Congress have said as well.

>> You recently gave guidance on diversity equity inclusion and accessibility in the workplace.

In a letter that was written alongside 100 join Campbell, the Massachusetts attorney general.

And in it, you write, quote, Employment discrimination is a serious and persistent problem in the United States over the last 5 years, more than 28500,000 discrimination complaints have been filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by employees in our states alone.

Combatting continuing discrimination is a strategic priority for our offices.

How do you recommend employees were excuse me, employers or any departments for that matter ensure diverse, equitable, inclusive and accessible workplace without running afoul of the federal government.

>> first of all, the federal government is is suggesting things that are not factual with regards to the law.

The case of Sff a v Harvard weighed in on missions.

Whether or not race can be used as a factor admissions.

And so that settled by may have disagreed with the opinion.

But it is the law and I respected as a law, but it cannot be stretched into all of the different things that this administration has suggested try to outlaw any sort of diversity training to outlaw it.

Affinity groups or employee resource groups within companies try to outlaw outreach.

2 communities that are underrepresented.

All of those things are are legal and there have been studies that have supported that diversity is not only right and moral thing to do, but it's a good business interest thing to embrace.

And so I advise those corporations to not be misled and not be intimidated backing away from initiatives that are legal backing away from the nomenclature even up diversity, equity, inclusion, somehow DUI or these words, diversity, equity and inclusion have made been made out to be evil.

Words and that that that nonsensical.

All right.

Well, we've got plenty of work for yourself.

Attorney General thank you for joining us.

Thank you for having me.

>> Up next, our Spotlight POLITICS team with what we might expect during Mayor Johnson's testimony on Capitol Hill tomorrow.

Stay with us.

Brandon Johnson is in DC with other sanctuary city mayor is preparing for what could be combative questioning before Congress tomorrow.

And as the president prepares to give his speech before Congress tonight, the stock market continue plummeting on the first day of new tariffs while here in Chicago, a Supreme Court ruling caused a federal judge to toss out 4 of the 9 convictions in the comment bribery case here with all that.

And it's a plenty and more is our spotlight.

Politics team Amanda Heather, Sharon and Nick Blumberg.

So as we mentioned, of course, the mayor Heather testifying tomorrow before Congress going to be in the hot with the future of Chicago's protections for undocumented immigrants hanging in the balance.

What is at at tomorrow's hearing for Chicago's immigrant communities?

Well, Chicago has been a self-proclaimed sanctuary city dating all the way back to 1985.

The federal government is suing the city and the state of Illinois to sort of say those laws violate the Constitution.

And if you don't undo them, we're going to strip all of the federal funding from the city which total somewhere in the neighborhood 4 billion dollars.

>> Every year.

So there's going to be a lot of pressure on the mayor to defend those rules to say that they do not interfere with federal agents, sort of carrying out orders if they have a judicial warrant, but that it's necessary to protect undocumented residents of Chicago to encourage them to seek out the services that they are entitled to and needs such as police protection.

Medical care and protection from those who might otherwise wish them harm.

The mayor will do it alongside, as you said, 3 other mayors, including New York Mayor Eric Adams.

There will be a lot of focus on sort of how he interacts with the Republicans on the committee.

But there will also be a lot of focus on Brandon Johnson who is coming off a series of bruising financial battles in front of the city council.

And this could be.

Sort the beginning of perhaps his comeback or another sort of thing that pushes him down a little bit and makes it harder for him to prepare to run for re-election in 2 now.

Well, Mayor Johnson is preparing to testify before Congress tomorrow.

We all know the president he is preparing to give a big speech tonight.

The home address, a joint session of Congress and one of the things he's expected to address is the war in Ukraine.

Nick, both politicians and the public have been making their voices heard and Chicago about this issue.

>> that's right.

Just this past Sunday, there was a rally and a march down Michigan Avenue that featured hundreds of demonstrators.

>> As well as some members of the Illinois congressional delegation, Senator Durbin, Representatives Delhi Ramirez.

We're talking about this issue on the program last night.

Representative Mike Quigley has been very active as a strong backer of Ukraine.

And this came on the heels of that pretty unprecedented combative press conference or press event in the White House with Ukrainian President Zelensky and President Trump and vice president bans that was even before there was the announcement that there's going to be a pause in funding for, you to Ukraine.

I think a lot of people are going to be paying very close attention to this.

There's a very large population of Ukrainians here in Chicago, numbering in the 10's of thousands.

So not just, you know, some of our local politicians, but a lot of residents going to be very curious to see what Trump says that, by the way, a couple of those Congress people not going to be in the audience to see it they will be watching from TV.

That includes.

>> Congresswoman Schakowsky, as well as Congressman quickly have said they're not going to be in attendance, the threat they have Trump will also he's likely going to discuss new tariffs that went into effect today.

Amanda, and we've seen how the stock market has reacted tumbling 650 points yesterday, 670 points today.

How does the governor has Governor Pritzker think this is going to impact Illinois industry will.

So he, of course, is out there his job to stick up for Illinois.

And this is certainly something that could cause harm to some of Illinois's biggest industries.

You look at manufacturing.

You look at things like agriculture given that Illinois is very large exporter of things like, you know, beef and soy and corn, particularly to Canada into Mexico.

So then there's this fear of reprisal.

Pritzker has, course, been very out in front attacking President Trump.

Every opportunity that he has, including on this one.

And he is taking it to the message that it is largely seen as something that Kamala Harris and her run for presidency.

And that was not addressing enough the matter of the economy.

And he's saying that President Trump promised to tackle inflation, said this is going to be the opposite.

So Pritzker has characterized it as a tax on working families and by the way, one of the expected consequences if all of this has, you know, wanting to take a drink.

Well, that one of the consequences governor, frankly, brings up it is expected that this is going to cost more.

If you are the beer-drinking type because that tax on aluminum is going to make it more expensive.

So it is going to like show Roya Patrick's Day.

I do not in Chicago bring it back.

2 Chicago Cubs Heather.

>> Mayor Johnson just appointed one of his fiercest allies to head up to Chicago Park district.

What changes can we expect from all the person, Carlos Ramirez, Well, he is going to have a big task on his hands.

He not only has overseas 600 parks the U.S. to see the Park District 6,000 employees.

He has never held an executive position.

So it will be a whole new set of challenges, including the growing number of unhoused people who have begun to camp in Chicago's parks.

We have all seen sort of the footage from got conference park where there is a large tent encampment.

City officials will sort attempt to clear out that encampment this week, but it will be up to now.

Superintendent Ramirez Rose as of April.

First to sort of make sure that those tent encampments don't pop up again.

>> While sort of struggling to oversee all of the other issues involving the park district's.

Of course, he replaces Superintendent Rose as Kareen Yo, who took over after a massive scandal involving the Park district's lifeguards and allegations of abuse.

And a federal judge tossed out 4 of the 9 convictions in the comment bribery case.

This is related to a Supreme Court ruling from last summer.

Right?

Yeah, it is.

And so this one is really essentially redefined what bribery is in the eyes of the law and >> it wasn't new at the time.

But that judge who had presided over the comment for, by the way, a very respected judge passed away.

So now we have a new judge that he's said that it's not per se that there wasn't evidence that this was bribery, rather, that the jury instructions were such that it didn't address this new definition per the Snyder case has decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.

So that is where there could be a retrial.

Now we aren't sure if that is going to happen.

The prosecution hasn't said whether they will do that because, of course, there are still those 5 outstanding charges.

And so may not be necessary.

That already could bring sentences for life for these individuo.

The comment for.

There are, however, Brandis additional complications.

Those 5 outstanding charges, 4 of them deal with the foreign corrupt Service, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

And that is something that President Trump, one of those many executive orders.

His said needs to be under review.

So they're still a whole lot of uncertainty.

This huge, major case as well as perhaps even Speaker Madigan.

What this could mean for them ultimately, we've got 15 seconds.

So we can't really talk about former Mayor Rahm Emanuel, I thought it was important to bring up because he did make some headlines yesterday at the Economic Club luncheon in folks can go to our Web site.

They want run into us on the street and start asking us, okay, spotlight thanks to Lambert road him >> Up next, how did Chicago Good Shape Wbtw News explains right after this.

Happy 100 and 88th birthday, Chicago.

You don't look a day over.

>> 150 while the candles on cake have increased.

So too, has Chicago's size.

Nick Bloomberg has the story of how a once small but mighty city gobbled up surrounding land to become the city of big shoulders and expanded borders that we know and love today.

>> March 4th, 18.

37 Chicago was incorporated as a city of just 10 square miles.

That's right.

goes original borders were tight Lake Michigan to Wood Street 22nd Street and North Avenue.

That's why it's called to North Avenue today, Chicago with more than 230 square miles.

So how did the city of big shoulders get so well big?

Starting in the 18 50's Chicago began swallowing up surrounding not through conquest or anything, but mostly through the process of annexation where residents voted to become city dwellers.

The benefits went both ways.

The township's got more municipal services city got to expand at the borders and population.

Hello, new taxable residents.

The biggest block of annexation happened in 18.

89 head of the Colombian Exposition Park, Jefferson Lake in Lakeview, townships voting to join Chicago, bringing with them a whopping 125 square miles.

And more than 200,000 residents.

But annexation wasn't always smooth sailing.

Morgan Parks, 1911, annexation vote overwhelmingly favored by women voters who weren't get a louder voice in national elections was held up in court for 3 years.

>> And that island of Northwest suburb state autonomous thanks to stubborn residents and skeptical Chicago politicians after decades of growth, Chicago eventually slowed its rolled.

The city started running into suburbs like Evanston Oak park with well established identities of their own.

The last summer to join the party with Mount Greenwood in 1927, and the last expansion was in 1956.

When Chicago took over the land at O'Hare Airport.

So that's the story of Chicago's start and how the rest was one.

>> For more on the city's history, including where it's many nicknames came from.

Check out our website at Www Dot com Slash news.

And that's our show for this Tuesday night.

Join us tomorrow night at 5.30, and a special time 10, 30 Mayor Johnson is set to testify before congressional committee on Chicago's status as a sanctuary city will bring you those highlights.

>> Now for all of us here in Chicago Brandis Friedman, thank you for watching.

Stay healthy and safe.

Have a good night.

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