January 20, 2025 Full Episode — Chicago Tonight

Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States Monday.

With his opening rounds of memoranda and executive orders, Trump repealed dozens of former President Joe Biden’s actions, began his immigration crackdown, withdrew the U.S. from the Paris climate accords and sought to keep TikTok open in the U.S., among other actions. He pardoned hundreds of people for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Trump reversed several immigration orders from Biden’s presidency, including one that narrowed deportation priorities to people who commit serious crimes, are deemed national security threats or were stopped at the border. It returns the government to Trump’s first-term policy that everyone in the country illegally is a priority for deportation.

Illinois Congress members and political analysts on what it all means.

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s time in Chicago was significant.

In early 1966, he moved his family into an apartment in the 1500 block of South Hamlin Avenue to draw attention to the poor living conditions on the South and West sides of the city. Almost six decades later, urban historian Shermann “Dilla” Thomas is making sure new generations know the details of King’s time in Chicago through his educational tours of the city’s neighborhoods.

On a recent bus tour, Dilla explained King’s work with the Chicago Freedom Movement.