Bridgeview

And Mr. Mitchell, your thoughts on House Bill 5757?

If you are a person who's accused of an offense and then you're released pending trial and then you are accused of another offense, there are hearings that happen every single day at 26th and California, at Markham, at Skokie, at Bridgeview, at Rolling Meadows for revocation hearings.

I think sometimes we act as if that nobody goes to jail or nobody goes to prison.

And the reality is lots of people go to jail and lots of people go to prison and lots of people, unfortunately, are accused of offenses.

I don't know if it's five times a day, but...

In Bridgeview, Illinois, at the Mass Foundation, I was there once for Salat al-Fajr, and they played it on the loudspeaker outside the masjid.

I felt like I was in a different country when I was there.

It was really incredible.

Yeah.

Yes, sir.

Bridgeview is like that.

Really large Palestinian community.

And at Addison Army Trail and Mill Road, crews are working on a vehicle that's stuck there.

And in Bridgeview, a new project's set to begin today.

Westbound 95th, the ramp to southbound Harlem will close at 6:00 this morning, and that'll go until mid-November.

Big major project there.

So s- the scheduled bridge lifts from Ashland to Lake Street start after 8:00 AM today, because it is obviously Wednesday.

And there's a new project that's also set to begin this morning, in fact, about 20 minutes from now.

So westbound 95th, the ramp to southbound Harlem out in Bridgeview, that's gonna close at 6:00, and that closure will last until mid-November, so that's pretty significant.

Let's go out to our tollways if we can and take a look around I-88, right around the tri-state, and you see that we've got traffic flowing just fine.

You'll know who it is immediately.

But, uh, they came to Bridgeview, Illinois, AKA Little Palestine, 'cause of its extremely large, uh, uh, Po- uh, Palestinian population and Arab population.

And, uh, it was-

I have a friend who lives over there.

[laughs]

Mm-hmm.

He was a local Bridgeview cop by the way, and, and but he had a CPD riot helmet, and it's like, gotta bust them out again for the good old days, you know? [laughs]

Did you ever figure out, uh, other themes [laughs] that they did?

Steve Landek.

I'm the mayor of Bridgeview.

And we're proud to welcome all of you to the fourth annual Palestinian fest.

I have a Muslim here.

I mean, you got...

How long have

you been in Bridgeview here?

I've been...

They're a lot different than those fucking ...

Okay, so the other day when I went to, I went to Bridgeville, uh, Bridgeview, Illinois, and there was a pro-Palestinian festival.

There was actual people, uh, describing themselves as fucking Nazis that were like, "Hail and Hitler." There was fucking-

Oh

Uh, my lady friend was in Europe in '07.

She held up, uh, a, uh, copy of the London Times that said, uh, "The end of Europe as we knew it." There's a headline in the Chicago newspaper, "Republicans are fanning baseless fears about American Muslims." Last weekend in Bridgeview, on the southwest side of Chicago, there was a celebration of Palestine.

The village has actually named a part of the town Little Palestine.

Now, that's also where, uh, if you might remember, a businessman local to that area was indicted for aiding and abetting Al-Qaeda a number of years ago.