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

I'm Brandis Friedman.

Here's what we're looking at.

After a historic election.

At least 6 new members are headed to the Chicago School board will meet one of them.

And how one doctor is attempting to close the life expectancy gap between Chicago's West Side and the loop.

First off tonight in the first major test of the president's post mid-term power.

>> Impeachment articles for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

But this comes from the GOP side of the aisle.

Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie says it's not about Hegseth.

Headsets performance but that he believes Hegseth violated the Constitution.

>> The president calls it a war every day.

He's tired of semantics.

But what he's admitting to is that puts them in violation of 1973 War Powers resolution.

They didn't meet the requirements to take action without Congress.

That's the the first article of impeachment.

>> Massey read his his impeachment resolution on the House floor just hours into its lame-duck session.

It largely focuses on the war in Iran, but also includes references to Hegseth role in carrying out military actions in Yemen and Venezuela.

vote could come in the House midweek, but next steps are highly uncertain.

If the House votes to impeach the Senate would either dismiss the charges or hold a trial.

Republicans still hold the majority in both change chambers until the new Congress convenes in January with Democrats in control.

Massie is already on his way out having lost his primary earlier this year to a Trump-backed challenger.

Another Cook County contractor is being prohibited from sharing data with federal immigration authorities.

A move expected to prevent agents from targeting individuals around local courthouse.

This time.

States attorney Eileen Burke says her office is revising its contract with app or That's a company that provides legally required notifications to crime victims when an offender has been released from custody.

The new contract will explicitly prohibit the company from providing any personal data.

Federal law enforcement officials or third-party databases that may be used to support immigration enforcement.

Ice agents were repeatedly spotted at Cook County Courthouse.

Is this year where they need to rest some courthouse property or waited for individuals to leave court before taking them into custody.

This week, Chicagoans will learn the names of the 3 finalists in the running to become the next superintendent of the Chicago Police Department.

The Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability says it will formally vote on which 3 finalists out of 46 applications to present to Mayor Brandon Johnson for consideration.

The process began over the summer with the retirement of Superintendent Larry Snelling.

Fred Waller has been serving in the interim.

The commission says during multiple hearings and focus groups over the last 4 months, several priorities came up repeatedly reducing violent crime building trust between police and communities, making progress on the consent decree and improving officer wellness and more out.

The mayor will have 30 days to select one candidate from the names submitted or reject the list and provide the commission with a written explanation.

meet one of Chicago's new school board members right after this.

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>> Chicago's first fully elected school board is taking shape across 20 districts and with at least 6 new faces, the new board is sure to bring together a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives.

They'll also face new challenges right off the bat, including a potential budget shortfall.

If state funding doesn't come through and the possible expiration of a school closure moratorium.

Joining us now is member elect Brittany Campbell from District 6 be on the South Side, which includes the loop greater Grand Crossing, Englewood, Hyde Park and Woodlawn.

We were hoping to be joined by school board member elect put out from district one be on the northwest side.

But at the last minute, she needed to attend to a family matter.

Brittany, thank you for joining us.

Thank you.

so what experience what vision to you bring with you to the school board?

I have a huge vision and I say it comes from being a parent of a 13 in also.

>> My career as a criminal defense attorney, I see where what happens when things go really, really bad.

And now if they think they're family issue, our education like can help them win the family issue.

But week absolutely help on education side.

>> How do you think your experience as as a criminal defense attorney and certainly as a parent, of course.

But how about influence you your priorities when you're serving on the board.

What's important to you?

Well, I think that it would center them really because.

>> As I said, I know what happens when things go bad.

So where things people may all we can put that off to later.

I urgency that no, it has to happen now.

Yeah.

Don't go through whatever grade once want to use your district.

It goes from the loop to Englewood, one of the some of the unique challenges that are faced by your district.

I think that we some of the achieving students and some of the lowest.

So I think a unique issue for me is how to make sure that I'm centering both of them because I don't want the highest achieving to feel like they don't have a representative and absolutely the lowest achieving students.

They have to have a seat at the table advocate as well.

What about some of those schools?

What he what are some of the challenges that the schools with means would be facing well, one of the biggest things I would say is teacher turnover.

They a teacher so shortage and that's want to like you can't have stability for the students if they don't have a stable teachers.

I think that that's one of the things that is a major from my district.

Your race was the only one in the district CTU and SEIU did not make endorsements.

What do you think you'll need to do to earn the support of school staff?

>> I politics aside once we put politics aside, we focus on the children that they will get their support.

How do you do that?

>> By meeting them and if they know that I'm advocate for them as well, even though they didn't back me in the race.

I'm a board member.

I am advocate for them.

I think that they support at that point.

Like I mentioned, cloudy for out.

Unfortunately, she could not stick with and we wish her the best.

>> Hers was the most expensive district, one of the most expensive district races packs common ground collective and the Illinois network of charter schools spent about 71 dollars per vote opposing her supporting her opponents.

Money in your race.

Obviously a different matter.

But what would you say about the influence of different sort of factions and money?

>> In the school board race altogether?

>> I money.

Is a very important part when it comes to the school board races because not many people think they think of school board should be that expensive.

But trying to get award across the 60,000 people is expensive.

And so I think people in the organization's took that very seriously and decided to spend money for who they thought would be a better candidate.

I think that we all adults at this point and who has won, they won.

And I think we will all be able to come together for the students to think there's any impact, any influential impact because, you know, there are some big organizations that that through money into this and some of them are very loud about what it is they stand for and what they believe in.

>> Do you think by those large, you know, organizations throwing lots of money towards, you know, some candidates does that say anything about the candidate?

No, I honestly think that what it means is that this organization strongly about the candidate that the candidate >> would open minded and perhaps look at their views.

But personally, I would say they wanted to invest in the candidate, not necessarily at the candidate.

Want to say invest in organization.

>> Last week we ask CTU President Stacy Davis, Gates, how money and politics are shaping the race.

Here's what she said.

>> Well, I would say for me is just the redone Dun story.

The individuals who poured millions of dollars into the race for also the individuals who are staunchly opposed to legislation passing Springfield for years.

They were staunchly opposed to the legislation.

The finance requirements, voting requirements.

And so like most opponents, they take their game from one court to the next court.

So if they can stop the elected school board, then they shaped it with their millions.

>> As a as a new member, do you think political disagreements that predate your election will have any influence on your work and the board's work I would say no.

And the reason why say that is because I've had to do it.

A whole lot of different interests in its my work as an attorney in so it will really shaped me.

I would listen to everyone, but I was controlled by no one.

As far as getting elected.

And while I'm working for the students, I won't leave.

>> President-elect Jessica big.

She also joined us on the show here last week.

We asked her about school closures.

Here's what she said.

>> And, you know, this is this is something that we need to tackle in the district.

I think, you know, I I have proposed thinking about enrollment across our system as a metric of public trust.

I do think it is worth paying attention to this percentage of school age kids that enroll in Chicago, public schools and setting some goals to grow that at the same time, you know, we know that these numbers also reflect declining birth rates.

That's the reality of the moment.

And I think we need to be working indeed, partnership in coalition with communities across the city to figure out how we best address that challenge.

>> So that moratorium on school closures, it expires at the end of the school year.

What do you think the board should be considering?

I think that the board should be considering possibly extending it for the simple fact.

Cps has not come up with a plan and they knew that the moratorium will be lifted in 2027 and if they want it to close schools, they sure that they had enough time to come up with a plan.

And so because the plan has not been established, at least from what I have seen the end, they should be considering extending it until we are able to address all things and we can specifically say this will save CPS money because just because you close the school does not mean that you will absolutely safe CPS, money, your district experienced some of those closures.

What, 10, 11, 12 years ago back when that happens.

thoughts on how that impacted?

>> Those I think it impacted the communities because the buildings lie they can't.

They are eyesores.

I also think that impacts when we talk about school attendance because now the students have to travel further to get to school selling.

We live in Chicago and it's the winter time.

And so.

School.

If you make school harder to get students will go there.

The district is also facing some financial concerns.

Challenges insecurities.

However, you want to call What do you see as a path towards financial stability for the school district?

>> Spending money that we have and not a sewing that we will get more budgeting for the money that we have.

I think that that we should be able to educate our children $300,000 300,000 students within the funds that we have.

>> So it sounds like you would probably oppose the passage of the budget that included the 150 million dollars that the district is hoping the state will be getting your giving.

Yes, I would have a post it and I am for the children's sake and for everyone's sake, I do hope that the 150 million coming in because now that seems like something that will be right on my J to That will be when you all are installed.

Of course.

>> Best of luck to you.

Brittany Campbell, brand new District, District 6 Congo Board of Education member elect.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Up next, looking at Chicago's dramatic life expectancy gap.

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Chicago.

>> Who gets the chance to be healthy.

Dr.

David and Saul argues that while everyone deserves to be healthy, not all get the chance in his new book Crossing The Gap, Healing epidemics and inequalities in a divided city, author Ansel goes behind diagnosing Chicago's ten-year age expectancy gap instead, he offers solutions beyond clinical care, mainly investing in communities.

Joining us to talk about ways of increasing life expectancies in Chicago is author Dr David and Soul.

He also serves as the senior vice president for community health equity at Rush University Medical Center.

Welcome back.

Doctor, thank you for joining us.

Thank you for having on.

So let's say you are meeting with 2 families and I'm basing this question off of how you start your But one of those families has a higher life expectancy.

The other has a lower life expectancy.

What would we expect to hear from both of those families about medical or job history, their relation to the neighborhood, local investment.

What would illustrate what how about illustrate this life expectancy gap?

Yes, well, I posed that question to the Rush board.

>> Back in 2016.

This idea that something that I knew about because it worked to Cook County Hospital.

17 years Mount Sinai in the North Lawndale neighborhood for a decade before coming to rush and I pose this to the board that if you lived in the low, you could live to be 87 years old.

If it were a country, it be ranked first in the world.

Think Monaco or Spain, but you go 7 stops down the blue line, 3 stops, pass rush and in West Garfield Park, the life expectancy was at the time around.

67 about a 20 year life expectancy gap and Rush is a terrific hospital.

I was the chief medical officer for all it shrank and U.S.

news and World Report one of 20 along with Northwestern, but no amount of improve medical care would solve the problem of that life expectancy, cap or Twitter neighborhood conditions?

Well, because a lot of people would would hear something like that.

The difference in those 2 neighborhoods in immediately say, oh, it's violence.

Violence is making the life expectancy there.

Lower.

>> But that's not the only problem is so interesting.

You say that because I give talks, I say a 16 year-old teenage boy.

>> Who lives in West Garfield Park as a little bit more in a 50, 50 chance of living to the age of 65.

What's the reason people say violence?

Well, actually, heart disease is number one and cancer and chronic disease accounts for the largest part of Yes, homicides, a problem overdose or problem, but it's actually it actually the legacy of of redlining and racial segregation by that was legalize.

But it's not.

That is the segregation from opportunity.

It's things that we can actually do something about.

But it wasn't going to be health and health care.

So we set about trying to solve the problem back.

Starting back in 2016 and that's what crossing that cap is about.

That story.

>> Yes, because the last time we spoke last time you were here are your book at the time was the death gap which that identified the problem and this book crossing the Gap.

It seems to be a documentation of how you went about solving the problem.

Why should a hospital bother with solving the neighborhood problem.

That's a great question.

You health and health care in this country.

It there's a lot of friction around us.

>> spend more money in this country for health and health care than any other country on the planet by a factor of 2 to 3 and yet our outcomes in terms of life expectancy nationwide, we are 38 and the world and for premature mortality, meaning dying before the age of 65 were 60th in the world.

And United States has been deviating off curve from like the European nations over the past 20 plus years.

And so health and health care is not going to solve the problem.

Another hospital doesn't solve the problem deeper than that.

It's the conditions under which people live work and play.

And that's what we set off to solve.

Not to give up on quality health care.

That's important.

But how do you keep people from getting sick and what do we owe our neighborhoods and away as a doctor, I learned how to treat patients, but this required us to think through how do you diagnose and and actually treat neighborhoods?

>> So should have a life expectancy.

It reached 79.5 years in 2024.

While black life expectancy reach 73.3 years, the gap between black and non-black.

Chicagoans narrowed from 10.6 years in 2023 to 9.4 years in 2024.

West Garfield Park West Garfield Parks estimated life expectancy rose to about 70, which is to lower.

But it's higher than it It's roughly 3 years higher than the year before.

Yes, would you do?

how did you do that?

You know, it's it's friend of mine says you get one point in the world for pointing out the problem and 100 points for fixing up.

>> We're on the path to fixing that.

We're crossing the gap.

That's why I named the book Crossing.

We haven't crossed the cap.

But what we did was to understand what does it really take for people to be healthy?

It's not just your beliefs, your behaviors in your biology, it's the conditions.

And what do you have in your neighborhood?

So if you look at you know, the Westside of Chicago, which is about 600,000 people, little less, it's bigger than, you know, Memphis or, you know, many cities, Atlanta.

And yet, you know, there's not many grocery stores.

There are some, you know, there's they're not even a lot to doctors, offices in those neighborhoods are on the on the edges.

So we thought about what was needed and went and talked to the residents.

We actually got other hospitals.

You I health Mount Sinai, Cook County Health, Lurie, Children's Ascension, and we partner with the community to create something called Westside United.

It's a great organization and Westside United Partner with the hospitals said walk in the hospitals too, to solve the problems that the resident staff and we went and asked the residents what they needed and they didn't want more clinics.

They said we want.

We want safe places to walk.

We want you to support local businesses.

We want to do invest in our children.

Our children are feeling hopeless.

You know, we need mental health in our neighborhoods.

And yes, they did need health care and access to health care.

I don't want to minimize that, but they needed the other things that are called the social and structural determinants of health.

So when partnering with the communities, we asked the communities what they want and we presented the life expectancy gap to them.

And I'm sitting at the tables.

2017 was passed to Marshall Hatch of New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church.

He says the Bible says the last shall be first.

And I realized I had never been West Garfield Park.

So that started a partnership with Westside United Pastor Hatch, lots of community organizations on the West Side 2 in visitor a solution and the solution the community came up with was a something called the Sankofa Wellness village.

just for what does that include?

Because some of what you heard from residents was a basketball court.

Some new also.

>> He started got the hospitals to start doing their own laundry right here in Chicago, in the sending it to Wisconsin.

I think yeah, yeah.

So it's it's was first of all.

I had a tragedy in my life because my best friend died.

>> As I was I was chief medical officer Rush and said, you know, he had been working on these problems, brilliant epidemiologist, Steve Lipman.

So I sort of said it's time for me to go back to those roots.

We have started together doing this work that Pastor Hatch and he he has this window in chart.

I have brought the book here to fall.

It's called the Sankofa peace window.

It was designed by a church member and around the edges are martyrs.

4 girls who were martyred in Birmingham in 1963, and then a group of martyrs, young men and women the bottom who are victims violence in Chicago, including look on requirement on a look.

While McDonald High Day of Pendleton and in the middle of black Jesus.

Leading children a future of abundance and peace and prosperity.

This window.

Became the inspiration for the Sankofa village, which is a wellness center, which has a YMCA young man from his community.

Pastor Hatches community came to us that Russian Ted, we need a basketball court.

Yeah.

we ask the why to come to West Garfield Park we've got a clinic to go there.

West side tonight is there.

And in Russia's has mental health services.

So it's yeah.

So a lot of work, right?

And then only because we've got 30 seconds left.

Doctor.

>> You're in a unique position.

The hospital is to address this issue.

couple things that other cities could borrow and replicate other 748 cities in United States with the least a 12 year life expectancy gap within their met.

We can do these things, but it's not traditional.

And you've got a partner with the community.

Listen to the community and then walk alongside them for so long as it takes the life expectancy gap is narrowing on the West side.

We can't take credit for it, but I can say if you don't anything gonna fix it sounds like you've got a blueprint.

Dr, David, and thank you so much.

That's if believe it again.

The book is called Crossing The Gap, Healing epidemics and inequalities in a divided city.

It comes out this Wednesday, November.

11th.

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

And that's our show for this Monday night.

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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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