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  • CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION PRESIDENT OWES CITY $5,579 FOR UTILITIES

    12/12/2023 8:34:53 AM PST · by DUMBGRUNT · 9 replies
    Illinois Policy ^ | 7 Dec 2023 | Mailee Smith
    Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates has let $5,579 in Chicago water, sewer and trash bills pile up. She makes over $289,000 and demands the “wealthy” pay a greater share. So why doesn’t she pay her fair share to a city in financial turmoil? Davis Gates’ tenure as CTU president has been filled with controversy, from taking a homestead exemption on an Indiana home she doesn’t live in to killing school choice for low-income kids while putting her own son in private school. CTU has also come under fire from its own members for potentially misappropriating members’ dues for...
  • Precog Hiring

    11/12/2023 8:54:52 AM PST · by DUMBGRUNT · 12 replies
    Second City Cop ^ | 12 Nov 2023 | SCC
    After the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and the rise of groups like the Proud Boys, there's a new push to tighten who can and cannot be a Chicago police officer. A new policy is up for a vote on Monday. [...] ...But you can bet that the list of "unapproved" organizations is going to be straight out of the liberal playbook. Remember, the feebs were investigating Christian churches, people who attended the Latin Masses, assorted school board members and another government bureaucray targeted foreigners who home-schooled their kids. No doubt they'll put the Boy Scouts of...
  • Only 0.07% of Illinois gun owners have registered banned ‘assault-style’ weapons so far

    10/20/2023 10:47:04 AM PDT · by PROCON · 45 replies
    mystateline.com ^ | Oct. 19, 2023 | John Clark
    SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WTVO) — Legal gun owners who are in possession of firearms since banned by the State of Illinois have been slow to register the weapons under a new law.The Protect Illinois Communities Act banned 170 “assault-style” firearms.The guns are no longer available to purchase in Illinois, and current owners must register with the Illinois State Police by January 1st, 2024.However, in the first two weeks since the registrations opened, the Illinois State Police say only 0.07% of 2.4 million Firearm Owner’s Identification card holders have taken that step.According to police statistics, a total of 1,618 gun owners have...
  • Chicago shootings: At least 34 shot, 7 killed in weekend gun violence across city, police say

    11/05/2023 6:22:54 PM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 48 replies
    ABC News Local ^ | November 5, 2023 | By Sun-Times Media Wire
    UPDATED: Sunday, November 5, 2023 8:15PM CHICAGO -- At least 34 people have been shot, seven fatally, in weekend gun violence across Chicago, police said. A child was shot and critically injured inside a South Side home on Sunday afternoon, Chicago police said. Earlier Sunday, a man was killed and another was wounded in another Englewood shooting, police said. The two were shot while standing on a sidewalk around 1:10 a.m. in the 7400 block of South Stewart Avenue, according to police. One man, whose age has not been reported, was fatally shot in the head and the other, a...
  • OH, RATS! CHICAGO TOPS ORKIN’S RATTIEST CITIES LIST FOR NINTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR

    11/06/2023 2:13:36 PM PST · by dynachrome · 6 replies
    Orkin ^ | 10-23-23 | Orkin
    – Chicago continues its first-place run in the rat race, topping Orkin’s Top 50 Rattiest Cities List for the ninth year in a row. Los Angeles moved up to the #2 ranking while New York rounds out the top three spots. Jumping up 10 spots this year is Houston to #20, and Greensboro, N.C., moves up 17 spots to take #50. New this year, Orkin is celebrating Chicago’s top spot placement by releasing a limited-edition t-shirt made available for free while supplies last. The shirt will feature a Top Rattiest City design made specifically for Chicago, commemorating the dedication of...
  • Chicago shootings: At least 26 shot, 5 killed in weekend gun violence across city, police say

    10/23/2023 2:39:18 AM PDT · by CFW · 24 replies
    ABC7Chicago ^ | 10/23/23 | staff
    CHICAGO -- At least 26 people have been shot, five fatally, in weekend gun violence across Chicago, police said. A woman fatally shot a knife-wielding man early Sunday in Morgan Park inside a home on the Far South Side. The shooting happened around 12:45 a.m. when a 41-year-old man who the woman knew approached her with a knife inside her home in the 11500 block of South Vincennes Avenue, Chicago police said. The woman then pulled out a gun and shot the man four times in his torso, police said. He was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn,...
  • Pritzker: Biden Needs to Tell Migrants Coming to Illinois ‘Can Be Dangerous’

    10/19/2023 6:44:15 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 24 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 10/19/2023 | IAN HANCHETT
    On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Biden-Harris National Advisory Board member Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) stated that the migrants coming to Illinois “are here legally, these asylum seekers, they’re here to get a hearing and to have a decision made about whether or not they can stay in the United States.” But the Biden administration must “make it clear to the people who are at the border that getting on a bus to Chicago or New York in mid-October, heading into winter, where it’s going to be 20 degrees or 10 degrees, and where we just do not...
  • 4 more DePaul students were mugged overnight, one was battered, another pistol-whipped

    09/24/2023 3:52:46 PM PDT · by CFW · 59 replies
    CWBChicago ^ | 9/24/23 | staff
    CHICAGO — At least four more DePaul University students were robbed on the school’s Lincoln Park campus last night. It’s the latest in a string of violent crimes on the campus. In the first incident, an 18-year-old woman, an 18-year-old man, and a 16-year-old girl were robbed while seated in the school’s quad on the 2300 block of North Seminary, according to Chicago police. Two men approached them around 10:10 p.m. Saturday and one robber demanded property from the older victims. Another robber battered and robbed the 16-year-old, CPD said.Both robbers fled in a silver sedan, a Chicago police spokesperson...
  • Let’s Talk About Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Ultra-Thin Black Skin

    09/13/2023 1:43:36 PM PDT · by DUMBGRUNT · 10 replies
    John Kass News ^ | 13 Sept 2023 | John Kass
    There is no creature as malleable as a liberal white journo petrified that he’ll be accused of racism. But they’re all trained now. They’re all obedient now. Politicians can even pet them, at least in Chicago without fear of being bitten. Put simply, Chicago’s downtown commercial real estate market cratered during the Black Lives Matter riots. The BLM riots were encouraged by Democrats as political leverage against Donald Trump. To make matters worse for business, the blue state governors like Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker’s shutdown of businesses helped kill the commercial districts in the downtowns. The shutdown of the Chicago...
  • Lightfoot to teach health policy and leadership course at Harvard

    06/10/2023 5:48:32 PM PDT · by simpson96 · 14 replies
    TheGrio ^ | 6/5/2023 | Staff
    Lori Lightfoot is bringing her skills and knowledge to Harvard University to teach a health policy and leadership course. According to The Harvard Gazette, the former mayor of Chicago has been named a Richard L. and Ronay A. Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow for the fall semester at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The fellowship program provides a once-in-a-lifetime chance for people who recently held prominent positions in journalism, nonprofit organizations, multilateral institutions, government and other fields to spend time mentoring and instructing students who want to fill those positions. Lightfoot, who served as the first openly gay and...
  • Frightening footage captures Chicago group with ‘machine guns’ open fire, killing 14-year-old and wounding 3

    06/04/2023 11:17:28 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 56 replies
    Nypost ^ | 06/04/2023 | Jorge Fitz Simmon
    Chilling video captures the moment a group of criminals armed with makeshift machine guns opens fire on a crowd in Chicago, killing a 14-year-old boy and wounding three other people. The four armed suspects — including at least one possibly 16 — are seen sneaking across an empty lot Wednesday night before jumping out from behind a building and firing off multiple rounds down the street, then running off, according to the surveillance footage obtained by CWB Chicago.
  • Chicago braces for Memorial Day chaos: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker will deploy 'peacekeepers' to keep Windy City safe during its most violent holiday of the year where nine people were killed and 49 were shot in 2022

    05/27/2023 3:37:32 AM PDT · by Libloather · 61 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 5/26/23 | Noa Halff
    Chicago is bracing for Memorial Day chaos by deploying 'peacekeepers' across the city - after 52 people were shot and nine killed over the holiday last year. Historically, Memorial Day weekend has been marked by an increase in violent incidents in Chicago, making it one of the most challenging periods for public safety in the city. Governor JB Pritzker announced on Thursday the establishment of the Citywide Crisis Prevention & Response unit, which will collaborate with community-based organizations to deploy over 30 trained neighborhood 'peacekeepers.' It was described as a highly mobile team that is specifically designed to prevent violence...
  • Memorial Day weekend marks test for Mayor Brandon Johnson's safety plan

    05/26/2023 4:09:08 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 22 replies
    ABC News Local ^ | May 26, 2023 | By Diane Pathieu
    CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Memorial Day weekend marks the first major test for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. Memorial Day weekend last year was filled with violence with nearly 50 people shot. This year with a new leader in place, Mayor Brandon Johnson has a new plan in place, vowing it will be different this year. Johnson said a $2.5 million investment from the Partnership for Safe and Peaceful Communities' eighth annual Chicago Fund is part of the plan. The public-private partnership will support violence prevention and youth outreach efforts across the city by funding the work of 253 grassroots organizations...
  • Chicago Citizens Have 1 in 15 Chance of Being Shot by the Time They’re 40; 26 More Victims Over Weekend

    05/15/2023 2:30:54 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 31 replies
    Cybercast News Service ^ | May 15, 2023 | Craig Bannister
    People growing up in the city of Chicago have about a one in fifteen chance of being shot by the time they turn 40, results of a new survey suggest. Last weekend, at least 26 people in Chicago were shot, eight fatally, including three who were wounded while standing on a sidewalk and caught in the crossfire between two vehicles. That’s up from the 20 citizens who were shot, and the four killed by gunfire, the previous weekend. A new study finds that 6.46% (1 in 15) of Chicagoans had been shot by their 40th birthday. What’s more, half (50.0%)...
  • Does the WSJ really believe that residential real estate in Illinois is a great opportunity to get a high return on the investment?

    05/13/2023 9:39:10 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 11 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 05/13/2023 | Jack Hellner
    As a seventy-year resident of Springfield, Ill, I was amazed and amused that there was an article in the Wall Street Journal, a supposedly reputable, savvy business newspaper touting Springfield as a great place to buy a house. It is as if the reporter doesn’t know how to read, think, analyze, and ask questions before regurgitating something. WCIA TV writes:Springfield was featured in a national publication as one of the best housing markets.An article in the Wall Street Journal published earlier this month listed Springfield, Illinois as number 17 out of 300 for towns on the WSJ/Realtor.com Emerging Housing Markets...
  • The Money behind the Transgender Movement

    04/05/2023 7:17:35 AM PDT · by euram · 10 replies
    National Review ^ | June 28, 2022 | Jack Butler
    But while the state’s coffers suffer, Pritzker will be doing just fine. He is a scion of a billionaire family, whose members include former secretary of commerce Penny Pritzker, who was an Obama campaign donor. Another Pritzker sibling, meanwhile, exemplifies how the family has used its vast wealth to promote liberal causes: specifically, the cultural normalization of transgenderism. Earlier this month, Jennifer Bilek explained this in great detail for Tablet. (Bilek prefers to use the term “synthetic sex identities,” or SSI, because she thinks the word “transgenderism” lacks “clear boundaries” and is thus “useless for communication.”): A sample: Ever since,...
  • Chicago-area sees three armored truck heists on same day

    04/12/2023 6:12:08 PM PDT · by Red in Blue PA · 33 replies
    Chicago police are investigating three armored truck robberies that occurred just hours apart Wednesday
  • Caught on video: Chicago police officer beats man in holding cell as another cop holds him down

    02/01/2023 9:19:42 AM PST · by Red Badger · 36 replies
    https://abc7chicago.com ^ | BySarah Schulte WLS logo Tuesday, January 31, 2023 6:19PM
    CPD said both officers have served their time and are back on the street. CHICAGO (WLS) -- Damien Stewart admits he has made mistakes in the past, which includes breaking the law, but the 31-year-old man said he never did anything to deserve a beating from two Chicago police officers while in a holding cell at the 4th District almost four years ago. "They struck me. I don't know why they struck me. I didn't say anything, or make any aggressive movements," Stewart said. Stewart said it all started with a traffic stop at the corner of 75th and Stoney...
  • America on edge: Protests are planned nationwide over Tyre Nichols bodycam video - as Georgia Gov. Kemp activates 1,000 National Guard troops, district cancels all after-school activities and security is ramped up at Capitol Hill

    01/27/2023 1:41:15 PM PST · by Libloather · 150 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 1/27/23 | Alyssa Guzman
    Government officials are calling for calm ahead of the planned nationwide protests over the Tyre Nichols bodycam footage, which will be released tonight, as the Georgia governor activated 1,000 National Guard troops and Capitol Hill amped up security. Many cities, including Memphis and New York City, are gearing up to protest after the gruesome footage, which has been described as worse than Rodney King, on the Memphis Police Department's YouTube page at 7pm. Police are releasing the footage later a night to allow people to get home beforehand. Nichols, 29, was brutally beaten like a 'human piñata' by five Memphis,...
  • Lori Lightfoot Suggests Street Vendors Stop Using Cash In Order To Quell Chicago Crime Epidemic

    01/21/2023 6:45:23 AM PST · by Bon of Babble · 55 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | Jan. 20, 2023 | NICOLE SILVERIO
    Democratic Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot suggested Thursday that street vendors stop using cash in order to quell Chicago’s crime spike.