It’s been such a chaotic week in Washington D.C. and Springfield, IL, it’s only fitting that we take a look back at the common sense of Chicago’s first Mayor Daley.
In this week’s round table discussion, Bill Cameron is joined by Ray Long of the Chicago Tribune, Greg Hinz of Crain’s, and Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun Times. Two big issues in Washington and Cook County raise the question if a change in leadership might be coming… Just when you thought he can’t get worse for President Donald Trump… it does. Are voters who might have been waiting to see what Trump as President would turn out to be (giving him the benefit of the doubt) ready to make a change in the White House? Is Trump’s responses to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia laying enough reason for the GOP to start planning for a Mike Pence administration? Can a good economy and job growth be enough to keep the Trump train rolling?
Locally, the approval rate for Cook County President, Tony Preckwinkle has just received significantly high disapproval rating in a poll released on Thursday. The poll of registered county voters gives Preckwinkle a 68% disapproval rating with only 21% in the positive. 11 percent of those polled were undecided.
WLS News Director, John Dempsey has his eyes to the skies and gets the details on the solar eclipse on August, 21st. He talks to at the Adler Planetarium astronomer, Dr. Grace Wolf-Chase about what we can expect.