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Connected to Chicago (07-15-2018) Special Guest-Colleen Connell, Executive Director of The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois

Joining the show this week is Collen Connell, Executive Director of The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois. Bill and Colleen discuss President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Bill Kavanaugh, Roe V Wade,and Colleen shares her thoughts on Governor Rauner.

In this week’s round table segment, Bill Cameron is joined by Ray Long of the Chicago Tribune, Greg Hinz of Crains, Lynn Sweet and Fran Spielman of the Chicago Sun-Times. The group kicks off the discussion about the drunken man at a forest preserve who harassed a woman wearing a Puerto Rican flag shirt, The discussion moves over to the Supreme Court nominee Bill Kavanaugh, and what we can expect from his nomination. Did Pritzker’s campaign ad cross the line? Lynn gives an update on Vice President Mike Pence traveling to speak about the Trump tax cuts.

This week’s community spotlight segment is with John Dempsey.

John discusses the WINGS organization in the Northwest Suburbs.

WINGS stands for “Women in Need Growing Stronger.”It has been helping domestic violence victims in the Northwest Suburbs since 1985. This past week Governor Bruce Rauner toured the WINGS facility in Rolling Meadows.