Connected to Chicago (09-30-2018) Special Guest-Paul Vallas

Bill Cameron sits down with Paul Vallas. Paul is the former CEO of Chicago Public Schools. Bill and Paul discuss the current issues affecting the City of Chicago, The upcoming Mayoral election, and how he’s running his election campaign. Bill and Paul also discuss the proposed hyperloop train from O’Hare airport to downtown Chicago.

In this week’s round table segment, Bill Cameron is joined by Greg Hinz of Crain’s, Ray Long of The Chicago Tribune, Lynn Sweet and Fran Spielman of the Chicago Sun-Times, and Heather Cherone, editor of The Daily Line. The discussion opens up with everyone giving an update on the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearing. The mayoral campaign is discussed and how the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing affects local politics back here.

This week’s Community Spotlight is with John Dempsey. This week John discusses a new A.T.&T program called “Believe Chicago”, in which the company expands it’s efforts to solve crime and poverty problems on the South and West sides of Chicago.