My style of governance, which would be to be strong and compassionate. The battle between a democrat known as mayor 1 , rahm emanuel and a host of challengers has reached a fever pitch in chicago ahead of tuesdays mayoral election. We will speak with Rick Perlstein chicagobased reporter, author of how to sell off a city. Then this weekend memorials are the 50th anniversary of the assassination of malcolm x. We will speak with his daughter, Ilyasah Shabazz. The history of unpunished violence against our people indicates we must be prepared to defend ourselves or we will continue to be a defenseless people at the mercy of a ruthless and violent racist mob. And now with so many injustices happening, with people saying, yes black lives matter too, we get to revisit oh, here was this man who actually reacted to the violence that was perpetrated against his people. And he wasnt a man of violence. By far, he was a man of integrity, a man of courage impeccable integrity. Malcolm xs daughter Il
Reached a fever pitch in chicago ahead of tuesdays mayoral election. We will speak with Rick Perlstein chicagobased reporter, author of how to sell off a city. Then this weekend memorials are the 50th anniversary of the assassination of malcolm x. We will speak with his daughter, Ilyasah Shabazz. The history of unpunished violence against our people indicates we must be prepared to defend ourselves or we will continue to be a defenseless people at the mercy of a ruthless and violent racist mob. And now with so many injustices happening, with people saying, yes black lives matter too, we get to revisit oh, here was this man who actually reacted to the violence that was perpetrated against his people. And he wasnt a man of violence. By far, he was a man of integrity, a man of courage impeccable integrity. Malcolm xs daughter Ilyasah Shabazz will join us in studio. Her oped in the New York Times headlined, what would malcolm x think . All that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now
Trotter, an illinois lawmaker since 1998 charged with a class for4 felony. Ironically he has also been a vocal advocate of gun control laws. Does it concern you . Yes. It will make a lot of people think twice about him. Today at 7 00 a. M. He tried to board a d. C. Bound flights from ohare with a handgun in his back, the bullets were in a separate pocket, or is it may be linked to work that he does at his south side Security Company he said he was working late the night before into simply forgot that the gun into six bullets were there. He does have a valid owner id on his card and a permit to work as a security guard. A man Just Announced his bid to replace Jesse Jackson jr. In the second congressional district. Some voters say its the kind of situation that no matter what would make the questions to politicians judgment others say, stuff happens especially in the always interesting realm of illinois politics. He moves in the morning from the police lock up on milwaukee avenue to 26th
We have some time. Today here are the weather headlines. A sun drenched private High Temperature is above average. A breeze off the lake. If you have been near the lake you know it is a cool breeze. When you get out there in may need a sweater or a sweatshirt. It does get much cooler when the wind blows off the lake water. Satellite and radar composite shows of dry conditions. High pressure for the next few days meaning no rain coming our way. This is day two. This stretch of dry weather brings us into sunday. 70 degrees by 5 00 p. M. Cooler along the lake. Here is the 3 day forecast. 80 degrees for the high today. Miles High Temperature is 83. 87 sunday with scattered showers and thunderstorms. Accident we are watching on the right and memorial. Looks like its in naperville blocking the lane. Usually they are cleared up quickly. Not expecting any huge delays. A lot of work on 90 this morning. An earlier accident caused some delays in the construction zone. It looks like that action ha
Survive if nothing is done. The Police Crime Scene tape blows in the wind. Along with the blood and to shattered windows. Otherwise it is business as usual. This is an everyday occurrence around here. Happen after 8 00 last night. A man fired into the crowd. He injured six people, a seventh victim injured foot wall running away. Theyre back laundromat this morning wondering where else to go and what they could do. What do we do about this. He said it is time for the community to stand up and take back the neighborhood and let them know this will not be tolerated. There is something inside of them and it will go to retaliate. We try to show them a different way. They have lived in the community for 40 years. We have more shootings here than anywhere else. We have more section 8 over here than anywhere else. With less people working over here. Look at those young guys that is all they know right now. I guarantee if this happens somewhere else there would be a different reaction. He plans