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>>> AND REMEMBERING THE QUEEN OF ROCK 'N ROLL, TINA TURNER.

AND NOW TO BRANDIS FOR THE TOP STORY.

>>> BRANDON JOHNSON LEAPT FROM THE FRYING PAN INTO THE FIRE WHEN HE PRESIDED OVER HIS FIRST MEETING OF THE CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL.

WTTW NEWS REPORTER HEATHER JOINS US NOW.

HEATHER, ONE OF THESE DISSENTING VOTES CAME FROM THE ALDERMAN WHO WAS OUSTED AS THE FINANCIAL CHAIR.

>> I WILL CONTINUE TO SERVE AS A VOICE FOR INTEGRITY AND REFORM FOR THIS COUNCIL .

I LOOK FORWARD TO FORGING A PRODUCTIVE RELATIONSHIP.

>> HEATHER, DIDN'T THE CITY COUNCIL DECLARE ITS INDEPENDENCE MONTHS AGO?

>> IT DID BUT IT WAS BACK TO BUSINESS AS USUAL.

AGAIN, THE CITY COUNCIL VOTED TO ALLOW A CHICAGO MARE TO TAKE CONTROL OF THE COMMITTEE.

THIS ELEVATES SEVERAL KEY ALLIES OF BRANDON JOHNSON AND ALDERMAN CARLOS RAMIREZ-ROSA WHO WILL SERVE AS COMMITTEE CHAIR AND HIS FLOOR LEADER.

IT ALSO REACHES AN OLIVE BRANCH OUT TO PEOPLE WHO DID NOT SUPPORT JOHNSON, INCLUDING WALTER BURNETT, WHO WILL SERVE AS ALDERMAN OF THE 27th WARD AND VICE MAYOR.

TRADITIONALLY THAT POSITION IS JUST CEREMONIAL, BUT HE WILL GET HIS OWN BUDGET IF A BUDGET CHANGES APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL.

YOU CAN SEE BRANDON JOHNSON AND BURNETT, THEY MIGHT HAVE BEEN ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE MAYORAL RACE, BUT THEY ARE VERY MUCH ON THE SAME SIDE NOW.

>> HE MAY HAVE WON THE VOTE, BUT THE PROPOSAL WAS BLOCKED TO EARMARK $51 TO CARE FOR THE BYRON'S TRANSPORTATION FROM TEXAS TO CHICAGO AMID A POLITICAL FIRESTORM.

HERE IS WHAT BRANDON JOHNSON SAID ABOUT HOW HE PLANS TO ADDRESS THE CRISIS THAT HAS EXACERBATED TENSIONS BETWEEN CHICAGOANS.

>> THE TENSION THAT WE ARE ALL FEELING HAS MORE TO DO WITH THE FACT THAT WE HAVE HAD, FOR TOO LONG, BLACK RESIDENTS WHO HAVE HAD TO BEAR THE BRUNT OF PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIONS AND THEIR AUSTERITY BUDGET.

IN FACT, IF YOU LISTEN CLOSELY TO THE TESTIMONY, BLACK RESIDENTS ARE NOT LOOKING TO SEEK ASYLUM IN THE CITY OF CHICAGO.

YOU KNOW WHAT THEY ARE UPSET ABOUT?

>> DOES THE MAYOR HAVE A VOTE?

>> THERE IS NO OTHER PLAN, BECAUSE THIS $51 MILLION WILL HELP THE 800 PEOPLE LIVING ON THE FLOORS OF POLICE STATIONS ACROSS THE CITY AS PART OF A HUMANITARIAN CRISIS.

THERE IS NOTHING ELSE THE CITY CAN DO BETWEEN NOW AND THE END OF JUNE.

WE ARE GOING TO SEE INCREASING PRESSURE ON MAYOR JOHNSON TO COME UP WITH A LONG-TERM SOLUTION TO HOUSE, CLOTHE AND FEED THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE COMING, AND THE CRISIS HAS ONLY GOTTEN WORSE IN THE PAST FEW WEEKS.

THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE LIVING IN POLICE STATIONS HAS GROWN BY NEARLY 50%.