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Kim Foxx's handling of the Jussie Smollett case includes a long list of miscalculations. Add to it her decision to stand with U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., as he called the Police "the sworn enemy of black people." Questions about Foxx are grounded in decisions she made to insert herself into the Smollett case, to drop all charges against him and to let court records stay sealed without protest. Her explanations regarding the case have been condescending and inconsistent. Foxx is the lead prosecutor of the nation's second-largest county. She is law enforcement. It might have been Foxx's most egregious...

An Assistant State’s Attorney in Foxx’s office sent the following essay to express a view from inside the office. We publish the piece in its entirety. The author asked to remain anonymous. The State’s Attorney’s Office is an international laughingstock, as politicians, comedians, scholars, legal pundits and citizens blast its handling of the Jussie Smollett case. The criticism pointed squarely at Kim Foxx, the first African American female elected to fill the prestigious role of Cook County State’s Attorney. In the wake of criticism, Ms. Foxx spoke at a Rainbow PUSH meeting and stated she cannot run an office “driven...

Video emerged today of an armed man pulling his weapon to ward off two apparent attackers near the Magnificent Mile, just two days after widespread mob action prompted police to arrest 21 people in the area. The video, filmed from inside McDonald's at 10 East Chicago, shows two males attacking a middle-aged man who appears to be a security guard. The man is slammed against the restaurant’s outside wall by the pair who punch and grapple the older man as he works to free himself.

Lori Lightfoot, Chicago's newly elected mayor, is probably wondering right about now what she was thinking when she wanted to be mayor of one of the nation's most dangerous cities. Temperatures rose into the mid-60s this weekend and city residents, tired of the long, long winter, poured into the streets and parks to take advantage of the warm weather. More targets for the gang bangers. At a baby shower in the Englewood neighborhood, six people were shot, including an 8-year-old boy who was shot in the back and chest, and a 10-year-old girl who was hit in the shin. Four...

Sen. Cory Booker on Monday introduced a bill that would study the possibility of reparations for descendants of slaves, embracing a push that recently has caught the interest of fellow 2020 Democratic presidential candidates. The senator from New Jersey said Monday that “this bill is a way of addressing head-on the persistence of racism, white supremacy, and implicit racial bias in our country. It will bring together the best minds to study the issue and propose solutions that will finally begin to right the economic scales of past harms and make sure we are a country where all dignity and...

A Reddit page dedicated to black issues has declared that white people are no longer allowed to post there anymore. The forum, r/BlackPeopleTwitter, posted an “important announcement,” which stated, “Due to the overwhelming number of white people and white opinions present on BTP, we are now restricting access to this sub for black folks only.” Non-black people then responded to the post by humiliating themselves, embracing their white guilt, and begging to be allowed to post again. “Super white dude here. I’d like to apply for the token white guy position,” responded one white user. “I won’t post or comment...

CHICAGO --More than two dozen people were shot in Chicago during the warmest weekend so far this year. Four children under the age of 16 are among those injured. According to police records, at least 33 people have been shot since Friday afternoon. Among those 33 shot, at least four have died this weekend. The latest shooting happened shortly after midnight Monday at 72nd and Stony Island. A man was walking to his vehicle when someone opened fired. He was shot in the chest and transported to University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition. Two children and four adults...

Jussie Smollett cried "racism" when he staged his fake attack in Chicago. He was holding a hot potato when Chicago cops found out he made the whole thing up, paying the Nigerians with a check he signed. But Smollett had prosecutor Kim Foxx (and a whole lot of political connections she might find useful) in his tree and then got off scot-free for filing a false police report. Then Foxx found herself holding the hot potato. How's she reacting? Well, like Smollett, who cried fake racism to get more money and influence, she's trying to toss the hot potato to...

Question: How can the law enforcement apparatus in a major American city function properly when the police and the top prosecutor are at war with each other? Chicago's incoming Mayor has her work cut out for her. By now, you already know the Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx has been blasted by national and state-level organizations of district attorneys and prosecutors for her unethical and dishonest handling of the Jussie Smollett case -- and that Chicago cops have demanded a federal investigation into her office's conduct related to the matter. The Chicago Fraternal Order of Police has formally called...

Illinois Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush blasted the Chicago police union over the weekend as “the sworn enemy of black people,” pushing back at the controversy surrounding prosecutor Kim Foxx and her office's handling of the Jussie Smollett case. During a press conference on Saturday, Rush, D-Ill., tore into Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police after members of the union participated in protests demanding Cook County State's Attorney Foxx resign from her post. “The FOP is the sworn enemy of black people, the sworn enemy of black people,” Rush said Saturday. “The FOP has always taken the position that black people can...

Lori Lightfoot did something during her victory party last week that once would have been considered obscene. As Chicago's beaming mayor-elect stood at a podium, she turned toward her wife, Amy Eshleman, and kissed her in full view of a roomful of jubilant supporters while photographers snapped away. The images of that moment looked like a sneak preview of a New America breaking through -- a black, gay woman kissing her white wife before a mini-rainbow coalition of onlookers. And nobody raised an eyebrow. But focus on just the black supporters in that room and another image emerges. The black...

[Catholic Caucus] Chicago’s Homomafia Chicago in the 1920s — think Al Capone, gangsters in dapper suits, illegal gambling, bootleg liquor and Tommy guns. It turns out that in nearly 100 years, not much has changed in the Windy City except the new gangsters wear priests' collars and homosexuality and sex abuse are the currency and trade of this homomafia with Cdl. Blase Cupich as their don. He's becoming a central figure in the American Church despite the warnings of Abp. Carlo Maria Viganò, who maintains his appointment as archbishop of Chicago was personally orchestrated by homosexual-abuser Theodore McCarrick. He rightly earned scorn for...

After a week of heated protests and calls for her resignation, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx and African-American leaders condemned Chicago’s police union and defended how the prosecutor’s office addressed an actor’s alleged hate crime hoax. Foxx vowed to remain at her post during a Saturday news conference, despite intense controversy sparked in March when her office dropped a 16-count indictment that accused television actor Jussie Smollett of orchestrating a racist and homophobic attack on himself to advance his career. Foxx declined to address “the substance of the case” with reporters gathered at the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition...

Sheila O'Brien, a former Illinois Appellate Court judge, and Saani Mohammed, a prosecutor who until recently worked for Foxx, have separately filed petitions asking for a special prosecutor to look into how Foxx handled the case. The Chicago chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police joined with a large group of suburban police chiefs Thursday to express "no confidence" in Foxx, taking advantage of her inept handling of the Smollett case to air a far larger set of grievances over what they say is Foxx's tendency "to decriminalize or ignore (nonviolent crime), regardless of any collateral cost which is (borne)...

CHICAGO — The Chicago prosecutor whose office dismissed charged against Jussie Smollett defended the decision on Saturday, saying the “Empire” actor was treated no differently than thousands of other defendants whose charges were similarly dropped since she took office. Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx made the comments during a defiant and emotional address at the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.’s Rainbow Push Coalition. Foxx openly wondered if her race had something to do with the harsh criticism she’s faced since her office announced that charges against Smollett had been dropped. The actor was accused of staging what he claimed to...

After a week of heated protests and calls for her resignation, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx and African-American leaders condemned Chicago’s police union and defended how the prosecutor’s office addressed an actor’s alleged hate crime hoax. Foxx vowed to remain at her post during a Saturday news conference, despite intense controversy sparked in March when her office dropped a 16-count indictment that accused television actor Jussie Smollett of orchestrating a racist and homophobic attack on himself to advance his career. Foxx declined to address “the substance of the case” with reporters gathered at the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition...

Reacting to Chicago’s threat to force Jussie Smollett to pay a fine of up to $390,000 for investigating his dismissed hate-crime case, the well-known lawyer for the “Empire” actor, Mark Geragos, threatened a countersuit Friday. “Your letter constitutes part of a course of conduct intended to harass and irreparably injure Mr. Smollett,” Geragos wrote in a letter to Edward Siskel, head of the city’s law department. A copy was released to media Friday, USA Today reported. Geragos said that unless the city backs off, he will make things uncomfortable for city officials. If Chicago sues, he said, he would demand...

With Lori Lightfoot’s election as mayor, black women will hold the top political offices in Chicago and Cook County for the first time ever.

As Ed discussed yesterday, the city of Chicago was on pins and needles yesterday, waiting to see how (or if) the Jussie Smollett saga would end. Thursday was the deadline the Chicago PD had set for the Empire actor to repay the more than $130K they wasted investigating the supposed hate crime Smollett reported. Well, the day came and went with no sign of Jussie or his attorneys showing up with a checkbook. So now what?As already threatened, the next step is the lawsuit. Possibly two of them. The city is moving to sue Smollett to recover the money, so...

Even with the 33rd Ward race still too close to call, five socialists is the most in Chicago since the 1910s, a decade in which the city was a hub of the radical left in America.