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Mayor Rahm Emanuel formally announced Wednesday the city's support of the Paris climate agreement as Chicago welcomed mayors and leaders from around the world for a three-day conference about the global role of cities. The Chicago Council on Global Affairs' gathering seeks to get civic leaders and policy makers to brainstorm on the future influence of cities on the world around us. This year's focus was economics, and the discussion including growing concern about the impact of environmental policy on cities. "The decisions we make in the next two to three years will determine what our cities look like in...

NEW YORK – His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America announces with a heavy heart and deep sorrow the passing of Metropolitan Iakovos of Chicago, 89, who fell asleep in the Lord this evening, June 2, 2017, at Chicago’s Weiss Memorial Hospital following a short illness. In accordance with article 12 of the Charter of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Archbishop Demetrios in consultation with the Eparchial Synod named His Eminence Metropolitan Nicholas of Detroit as locum tenens, until a successor is elected

30 Chicago Alderman Sign Letter to Impeach Trump – While City Records 236th Homicide and Suffers Near Junk Bond Rating Jim Hoft Jun 1st, 2017 1:38 pm 30 Comments You just can’t make this stuff up. On Wednesday, 30 Chicago alderman signed a resolution to have Trump impeached. This is both amusing and concerning. These aldermen were elected in order to work on issues that are impacting the city. They need to worry about about what is going on in our back yard instead of the Fake News media conspiracy theories.. Here are the most recent Chicago stats: 1. 236...

Six people have been killed, including a 15-year-old boy, and at least 44 other people have been wounded in Chicago shootings throughout the Memorial Day weekend. The shootings happened between 6 p.m. Friday and 3 a.m. Tuesday, with a late surge of violence leaving 13 people shot in less than four hours Monday night. The most recent fatal shooting happened around 2:45 a.m. Tuesday. A 21-year-old man was inside a vehicle when someone fire shots at the car, striking the man multiple times, once in the back and through his heart, police said. The man was taken to John H....

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said immigrants who come here illegally and their children were “part of the Chicago family.”

So in this video ( https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetruthaboutguns.com%2F2017%2F05%2Frobert-farago%2Fdennis-reece-springfield-armory-video-didnt-know-gun-dealer-licensing-bill&h=ATPqPySZ0xWeuWrfLNgjdpMLqCwJQNvSE8W-NnKpY8W9y2BJBdSBTD33-f97tMgQJI1ANPVczzqC5vHZoeTFkr4pFBiHZUbz4D3efNCxsqKcwW_uZh0stGPc6-5kU3ycNynRAXBILuCItm7kaQ&enc=AZPSzNWxFmjvgEzvR4XyAOHINE7gcPVw1se85IFAqvF8Ibgmrcm0UWLNEyCDQ22UcV7jlmpgFe8roRVMhu3f9Ce1j0gd09q5XI9UwV5FtYAmFweB1JmkuHbhVgfNanUiz6S7S72t1HZlNUfAvtFAF2xyt4Q7hHGuZLjINXOO1Oj-v-yC2iy3oT2MiXjxumWyMXS-D_3o2_eDE6j64zzdHom9&s=1 ) making the rounds in the gun community (Military Arms Channel) , Springfield Armory is obviously lying about getting their 50 pieces of silver from corrupt Democrats in Illinois to shut down small FFL. SA is only 30 miles from another progun state, they could move out like Beretta did, but talk is cheaper. I will not buy RAA and SA products. Fulton Armory and Beretta or Glock are good alternatives.Note that SA in the past has participated in handing weapons to bad characters in South America. They give a bad name to guns,...

Gourmet Italian pizzas can be delivered to your cell, if you get locked up in Chicago's Cook County Jail.How can you get a gourmet Italian pizza delivered right to your door for no more than $7? Get locked up at Cook County Jail in Chicago. Inmates in the jail's medium-security Division 11 can now order pizzas made with the finest ingredients in the kind of ovens found in pizzerias. It's all part of Sheriff Tom Dart's ongoing effort to make jail a bit more humane while providing inmates skills that might help keep them from returning once they're set free....

The Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund (CTPF) paid out $1.5 billion last fiscal year, mostly on benefits to retirees. But it only earned $7.8 million on its investments, according to a filing it made with the Illinois Department of Insurance. The Chicago Teachers' Pension fund operates like a Ponzi Scheme, but it is allowed to do so because the fund is taxpayer-backed. Bernie Madoff's private Ponzi scheme cost investors $18 billion; he received 150 years in prison. The Chicago Teachers' Pension fund operates like a Ponzi Scheme, but it is allowed to do so because the fund is taxpayer-backed. Bernie Madoff's...

A collaboration of minority student groups at the University of Chicago, calling their alliance “UChicago United,” presented a list of nearly 50 demands to the university Friday which included the formation of distinct, racially-themed academic departments. The academic departments are to be university-funded and -run “cultural houses,” specifically a Black House, Latinx House and Asian House, which will stand independent of Multicultural Student Affairs and serve each specific racial community.

Four people were killed and at least 34 others, including a 9-year-old boy, were wounded in shootings across Chicago between Friday night and Monday morning. The weekend’s latest fatal shooting happened about 2:40 p.m. Sunday, when an 18-year-old man was killed and a 15-year-old boy was wounded in the 100 block of North Parkside in the West Side Austin neighborhood. The man was shot in the back and pronounced dead at the scene(snip) Earlier Sunday, a 46-year-old man was shot to death in the Gage Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side. He was walking on the sidewalk about 3:45 a.m....

Demand for legal firearms in Chicago continues to grow even as the appetite nationally and in Illinois has fallen significantly in recent months — something gun vendors attribute to the election of President Donald Trump. While gun sales nationwide appear to have dropped from the levels they reached during the Obama years — apparently driven in part by lessened concerns under Trump that access will be restricted — changes in state laws and Chicago's crime wave have unleashed a pent-up demand for legal gun ownership in the area. Gun suppliers have called former President Barack Obama their best salesman, because...

Ald. Arena's Section 8 development means more crime, lower property values in Jefferson Park, says expert Crime Glenn Minnis James Bovard warns residents of Jefferson Park that they need look no further than the opposite side of the city to see what a proposed low-income, subsidized housing complex could mean for their neighborhood. The plan, backed by 45th Ward Alderman John Arena, would nearly double the amount of subsidized housing in the neighborhood. “It could be the Chatham aftermath all over again,” Bovard, a noted libertarian author and lecturer, told the Chicago City Wire. Chatham is a South Side neighborhood...

An unnamed motorist at a gas station in Elmwood Park, Illinois, shot and killed a would-be carjacker in early April, the whole event being caught on the station’s security cameras. However, police say the motorist acted in self defence and will not be charged for the incident.

It's going to take much more money to keep Chicago's schools open through June than previously revealed, top Emanuel budget aide Carole Brown says. The Chicago Public Schools actually need $596 million to keep schools open the rest of the school year, and not just the $129 million officials have publicly discussed, a top aide to Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Tuesday. ... Brown said all options are on the table to find the cash needed to stave off an early closing of schools that CPS CEO Forrest Claypool has warned might be needed but that Emanuel has ruled out to...

- Chicago police issued a bulletin Monday warning its officers about gangs armed with high-powered weapons, after three people were shot to death over the weekend - including two attending a memorial for the earlier victim. Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the three people who were killed in the shootings Sunday were all members of the same street gang. A shooting early in the day left one man dead, and the two others were killed and eight people were injured in a spray of more than two dozen shots from two guns while attending a makeshift memorial for him. Police...

House to consider protecting immigration law evaders where IL's most vulnerable gather SPRINGFIELD - Illinois House members will be asked this week to make state-funded places where Illinois' most vulnerable citizens gather as the very same locations criminals will be able to find sanctuary from immigration authorities. SB 31, dubbed by supporters as the "Illinois Trust Act," passed the Illinois Senate last week along party lines, with all Democrats voting "Yes," and all Republicans voting "No," except Senate GOP Leader Christine Radogno, who voted "Present." Six Democrats did not vote. If the bill becomes law, tax-funded pre-schools, hospitals, nursing homes...

Chicago police are used to facing the possibility of death every time they put on their badges. But it's safe to assume they paid special attention to the alert on police radio channels Monday advising them to "expect a heightened presence of Satan Disciples" in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the city's Southwest Side. The real news: "This gang is in possession of numerous military-style rifles that are capable of piercing police protection." Shootings in Chicago, as in most places, are usually done with handguns, which have the advantage of being relatively inexpensive and easy to conceal. But in recent...

Two people were killed and eight were left wounded in a Sunday shooting that police believe to be the result of a gang-retaliation hit that targeted the memorial for another man that had been killed earlier in the day. According to USA Today, the victims were at an outdoor memorial service on Sunday evening at around 5:15 p.m. for 26-year-old Daniel Cardova, who was fatally gunned down in the city’s Brighton Park neighborhood a mere 13 hours earlier. It was then that more gunfire broke out. “During this memorial, two subjects came out of an alley east of the location…and...

Former President Obama and his wife Michelle returned Wednesday to Chicago to unveil plans for the new Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park dedicated to the 44th President. Barack and Michelle also announced that they will be donating $2 million to support efforts to create jobs in Chicago. The recording studio will be a space “where I can invite Chance [the Rapper] or Bruce Springsteen, depending on your taste, to come here and talk about how you can record music that has social commentary and meaning”, Obama said. The renderings depict three buildings – a forum, library, and museum –...

A parade of giant gold pigs could be flying by Trump Tower in Chicago some time this summer, obscuring the 20-foot-high "TRUMP" letters on the side of the building facing the Chicago River. Chicago-based architecture design group New World Projects came up with the idea for "Flying Pigs on Parade" as a response to Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election. The floating art installation would send four giant gold pig ballons attached to a barge down the Chicago River for a day this summer, on a Saturday or Sunday in August, CBS Chicago reports. New World Projects still has...