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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Early voting started in Chicago on Thursday morning for the 2024 presidential election. Voters can cast their ballot at the Downtown Supersite or at the Chicago Board of Elections Offices. Chicago officials said they expect 50% of city voters to cast their ballots early. Early voting in all 50 Wards of Chicago begins Monday, October 21 at 9:00am. Several suburbs began early voting last week. Sites opened in DuPage, Kane, Will, and McHenry counties, along with Lake County, Illinois.

The Gateway Pundit has reported extensively on allegations and investigations against Dolton, Illinois, Mayor Tiffany Henyard dubbed ‘the worst mayor in America.’ According to documents obtained by FOX 32, Henyard and her boyfriend, Kamal Woods, are facing eviction from their home. Per Fox 32: FOX 32 has obtained copies of an eviction notice filed in Cook County Court against Henyard and her boyfriend, Kamal Woods. Henyard has rented a home in the 14600 block of South Harvard for the past three years, but the property owner said she and Woods are behind on rent and owe more than $3,300. The...

The vicious Venezuelan migrant gang Tren de Aragua is luring desperate women deep into the heart of the US, forcing them to sell their bodies on the streets of American cities to pay off exorbitant smuggling fees, a newly leaked law enforcement document obtained by The Post reveals. At least eight states have seen an explosion in migrant prostitution since the gang laid down roots in the US, with authorities in Texas, Nevada, Illinois, California, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey and New York now fighting to curtail the sex trade, the memo shows. And the victims may be operating out in...

After listening all week to Chicago White Sox general manager Chris Getz, manager Grady Sizemore and players discussing their feelings about the inevitable modern-era record for losses the team finally broke Friday night in Detroit, one word seemed to be missing.Frustrating? Difficult? Disappointing? Painful? No, we heard those descriptions a few dozen times. The word I never heard uttered was “unacceptable,” as in “this loss was unacceptable.”Time and again we heard about the bad breaks, as if the Sox had a monopoly on bad luck. We get it. They were millimeters short of a win on Aug. 28 when Texas...

Chicago's gang tensions are rising as newly arrived Venezuelan migrants, including the Tren de Aragua gang, clash with local black gangs. Former gangster Tyrone Muhammad warns that these turf wars, fueled by economic frustration, could cause the city to erupt in violence.

SOUTH HOLLAND, Ill. (CBS) -- In a new storm of controversy from the south suburbs Tuesday night, Dolton Mayor and Thornton Township Supervisor Tiffany Henyard faced off with trustees and neighbors. Once again, it's all about the money. The Thornton Township Board is currently operating without a fiscal budget. Its trustees are demanding that Henyard, the supervisor, also become more transparent with her spending—which encompasses 17 south suburban communities. "Lori Lightfoot did such a great job in Dolton," said Thornton Township Trustee Carmen Carlisle. "I would welcome her to come and do the same thing here at Thornton Township." Thornton...

Fellow Citizens of Springfield Illinois and Sangamon County Illinois. Just an update on your City Council and County Board elected Officials. Months ago both bodies of city and County government received and ordinance written by a Illinois States attorney and Immigration Lawyers out of Washington D. C. They were kindly asked publicly to consider the Ordinance to protect our city and county Tax Payer dollars from being drained, (Just like Chicago) We asked them to consider it in one form or another. CRICKETS! Below you can read the simple, Logical request to protect Tax Payers. Sounds like they need to...

Illinois government workers’ union dues fund Democratic Party campaign committees, which are now seeking to tip the presidential election outcome in swing states. That fails to align with at least 40% of members’ politics. The Illinois Democratic Party wants to decide the outcome of the presidential election by making a strategic investment in swing states, according to state party chair Lisa Henandez. That strategy was echoed by U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, who said, “We should adopt [Wisconsin] – and we have in many respects – to be part of their organization to elect Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.” The problem:...

A reformed Chicago gangster sounds the alarm on what’s brewing in the Windy City: a metropolis “up in flames” and a bloody turf war of “blacks” versus “migrants.” Tyrone Muhammad was once a Chiraq gangbanger whose life changed after he spent twenty years in a state prison for a murder conviction. Since his release, he’s devoted his energy to street patrols and violence prevention, starting a group known as Ex-Cons for Community and Social Change, and he’s warning the public about what he sees as a very real possibility if the Biden-Harris illegal aliens continue to be given the free...

No wonder that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson continues to suffer those crippling panic attacks of his. Chicago is falling apart. He’s completely out of his depth. He was unequipped for the job and his campaign was all about slogans, Marxist rhetoric from his allies in the Chicago Teachers Union, and race. Now those who can are in a rush to leave. He’s falling apart. His administration is falling apart. And the city is falling apart rapidly. Forget the fake news “joy” of the Democratic National Convention that oozed out to promote Kamala Harris. She won’t help the city. And forget...

Federal District Judge Joe Billy McDade has refused to dismiss a lawsuit against individual police officers for willful actions to deprive an Illinois man of his Second Amendment rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. This civil rights case was filed on February 6, 2024. The plaintiff in the case is ROBERT K. KUHLMAN; the Attorney representing Mr. Kuhlman is David Sigale. David Sigale has had considerable success in representing clients in Second Amendment cases. According to court documents, on July 17, 2023, Mr. Kuhlman’s mother called him and the police about an alleged trespasser who would not leave her home....

Congratulations to the Chicago White Sox. They have just tied the 1962 New York Mets for the modern baseball record (since World Series play started) for most losses in a single season at 120.

After serving 20 years in state prison for murder, former gangbanger Tyrone Muhammad never expected to return to the city’s tough South Side and find Venezuelan migrants and the criminal Tren de Aragua gang moving in. But Muhammad, 53, who’s gone straight and runs a street patrol and violence prevention program called Ex-Cons for Community and Social Change says Venezuelan criminal gangs flooding shelters and taking over apartment buildings are the last straw for the struggling African-American community. He says they are furious at seeing government money going to what they call “non-citizens.” “It is impossible to release gang members...

More than five years after Jussie Smollett staged a phony hate crime against himself, and nearly three years since his conviction by a Chicago jury, lawyers for the former Empire actor are asking the Illinois supreme court to overturn the guilty verdict. Defense attorney Nenye Uche argued on Tuesday that Smollett’s case should never have gone to trial because the actor had already entered into a binding agreement with the Cook County state’s attorney’s office not to prosecute him in exchange for him voluntarily agreeing to forfeit his $10,000 bond and perform community service, according to a report in the...

Self-professed “progressive” Chicago Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson got an earful over his failed migrant policies from an elderly black resident at a recent town hall. The woman, who said she was 80 years old and grew up in the Jim Crow South, said that Johnson’s pro-migrant policies are literally destroying the Windy City’s black communities. “All I can say to you is that you are a disgrace,” the distraught woman said at the outset of her comments. “I’m an 80-year-old woman, and I’ve never seen anything like this. I grew up in the Jim Crow South, and the policies that...

The Gateway Pundit has reported extensively on allegations and investigations against Dolton, Illinois, Mayor Tiffany Henyard dubbed ‘the worst mayor in America.’ While investigations are still ongoing, Henyard decided spending on a lavish party that was sparsely attended seemed like a great idea. Henyard reportedly spent $85,000 on a party that featured R&B singer Keke Wyatt and rapper J. Holiday in August that, according to media reports, only 70 people attended.

(WTVO) — Soon Illinoisans will no longer be able to buy fluorescent light as a result of the Clean Lighting Act. The main goal of the act is to stop pollution that comes from fluorescent lights. Fluorescent lighting is known to be incorrectly disposed of which leads to mercury and other toxins being released into the air. The act changes the wording of the Illinois Environmental Protection Act. The law will take partial effect in 2026 by banning screw-based or bayonet-based compact fluorescent lamps from being produced or sold. By 2027, the law will take full effect and will also...

An Illinois woman was arrested after she reportedly attacked a staff member of an elementary school Wednesday — and baggies of cocaine spilled upon the floor sparked the alleged assault, according to authorities. Officers with the Rockford Police Department arrested Shakeda Barfield, 33, on Wednesday after accusations that she battered an elementary school employee. According to WREX, the Winnebago County State’s Attorney’s Office filed the following charges against Barfield: possession of a controlled substance, possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, aggravated battery/strangulation, aggravated battery to a school employee, and disorderly conduct.

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Next week marks one year since Illinois outlawed cash bail, and advocates and critics of the change have been waiting patiently to see it if has been successful — or as some predicted, a disaster. A panel of stakeholders, including Cook County Chief Public Defender Sharone R. Mitchell Jr., spoke Wednesday about the largely positive outcomes of ending cash bail. "There were a lot of predictions about things that did not happen," said Mitchell.

Former Congressman Adam Kinzinger predicted that late Republican President Ronald Reagan would be backing Vice President Kamala Harris over former President Donald Trump during the 2024 presidential election. Kinzinger, among Trump's most outspoken GOP critics and a member of the House January 6 committee while serving in Congress, endorsed Harris during the Democratic National Convention last month despite remaining a Republican. On Tuesday, hours before Trump and Harris were set to face off in their first and possibly only presidential debate, Kinzinger speculated that Republican icon Reagan would have taken a similar stance by supporting Harris over Trump. "Reagan would...