
After more than a week of protesters flooding the streets of Chicago over the death of an African-American teen shot by a city police officer over a year ago, the Department of Justice is poised to finally launch a probe into the actions surrounding the shooting.
by Warner Todd Huston6 Dec 2015, 7:00 PM PST0

A Chicago woman, who already had a record of child abuse, was arrested and charged with beating her 2-year-old daughter so badly that the girl later died. Police say the mother was upset that the child would not eat her noodles.
by Warner Todd Huston2 Dec 2015, 6:17 PM PST0

Democrats will do anything – anything – to stay in power. That’s the lesson from the last 24 hours of revelations from the Obama administration, the Hillary Clinton campaign, and the Rahm Emanuel mayoralty in Chicago.
by Ben Shapiro2 Dec 2015, 1:30 PM PST0

President Obama appears reluctant to weigh in on the police violence in his hometown of Chicago, even as his former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel struggles to maintain control of the situation as the re-elected mayor of the city.
by Charlie Spiering2 Dec 2015, 12:52 PM PST0

Even the New York Times is supporting the growing calls for the resignation of Chicago’s mayor and county prosecutor, following the year-long cover-up of the videotape which shows the unjustified shooting of a wounded black youth in October 2014.
by Warner Todd Huston1 Dec 2015, 7:20 PM PST0

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel fired his top cop, Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, on Tuesday morning as the controversy over the 2014 shooting of Chicago teenager Laquan McDonald continues to reverberate in the Windy City.
by Warner Todd Huston1 Dec 2015, 10:09 AM PST0

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS—A planned NAACP press conference at Chicago’s City Hall was briefly scuttled by an angry black protester who slammed establishment Democrat activists and members of President Barack Obama’s fractious progressive and multicultural coalition.
by Lee Stranahan30 Nov 2015, 9:54 PM PST0

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS–At a prayer vigil held Monday night after the indictment of a Chicago police officer for the shooting death of Laquan McDonald, an activist leader stood on a podium, gave thanks to God for protest “predecessors” and was supported by the crowd.
by Lee Stranahan30 Nov 2015, 9:36 PM PST0

An electrical engineering student named Jabari R. Dean has been arrested for allegedly posting the online threats of violence that led to the cancellation of classes at the University of Chicago on Monday.
by Warner Todd Huston30 Nov 2015, 5:31 PM PST0

As the sixth day of protests over the police-involved shooting of a 17-year-old Chicago teen rages on, members of local NAACP chapters paraded a full-sized coffin outside Chicago’s City Hall, chanting phrases and joining in calls for both Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy and State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez to resign their offices.
by Warner Todd Huston30 Nov 2015, 2:40 PM PST0

A University of Illinois at Chicago student has been arrested and will face charges for an online threat to kill at least 16 “white devils” in revenge for the death of Laquan McDonald who was shot 16 times by police.
by John Sexton30 Nov 2015, 12:20 PM PST0

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS–The Hyde Park campus of the University of Chicago was a ghost town Monday, as classes were canceled by the school after receiving a warning from the FBI over what they said was an online threat of gun violence.
by Lee Stranahan30 Nov 2015, 12:09 PM PST0

The University of Chicago has canceled classes and activities for Monday at its Hyde Park campus due to an FBI warning of an “online threat of gun violence.”
by Warner Todd Huston29 Nov 2015, 9:19 PM PST0

The death of Michael Brown brought the birth of “Hands up, don’t shoot,” the media-fuelled fallacy and force behind a Black Lives Matter movement that flat-out ignores the main driver of Black America’s morass.
by Jerome Hudson29 Nov 2015, 4:28 PM PST0

A Chicago police investigation is revealing the last chilling minutes of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee’s life as a trio of gang members planned his murder.
by Warner Todd Huston28 Nov 2015, 8:55 PM PST0

Here’s a collection of photos that I shot yesterday at the protests that shut down Chicago’s Michigan Avenue for over five hours,
by Lee Stranahan28 Nov 2015, 8:47 PM PST0

“When I walk outside my door, there’s nothing a Democrat has done—African American or white or Hispanic—has done for me and my community.”
by Lee Stranahan28 Nov 2015, 8:30 PM PST0

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (D) criticized Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Chicago protests as “exploitation of situation” on Friday’s “Varney & Co” on the Fox Business Network. Clarke stated that the rally in Chicago headed by Jackson “highlights, I believe, the
by Ian Hanchett27 Nov 2015, 9:26 PM PST0

CNN Commentator and Morehouse College Professor Marc Lamont Hill said the Black Friday protests in Chicago were “saying that we’re not going to continue to fund our own genocide” on Friday’s “Legal View with Ashleigh Banfield” on CNN. Hill responded
by Ian Hanchett27 Nov 2015, 9:26 PM PST0

A third day of protests descended upon Chicago’s busy downtown Michigan Avenue shopping district, shutting down some stores as protesters barricaded doors arm-in-arm to prevent shoppers from entering or leaving stores on Chicago’s famed “Magnificent Mile.”
by Warner Todd Huston27 Nov 2015, 5:38 PM PST0

Chicago police have announced the arrest of one man and said that a warrant has been issued for another in the shooting death of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee, a murder that saddened the city earlier this month.
by Warner Todd Huston27 Nov 2015, 12:14 PM PST0

As of November 23, there had been 2703 shootings which resulted in 440 deaths year-to date in heavily gun-controlled Chicago.
by AWR Hawkins27 Nov 2015, 8:47 AM PST0

On Thursday thousands of Chicago residents had their Thanksgiving interrupted by a robocall featuring the voice of Jesse Jackson, Sr. and sponsored by the Chicago Teachers Union urging Chicagoans to join them in disrupting the Windy City’s Black Friday shopping day downtown.
by Warner Todd Huston27 Nov 2015, 6:18 AM PST0

Chicago was subjected to a second night of protests after the release of police dashcam video depicting the 2014 shooting of an African American teen, with protesters fanning out beyond the planned protests and even destroying Christmas tree decorations while yelling “black lives matter” and “F*ck your Christmas tree!” Protesters are also threatening to shut down Black Friday shopping downtown.
by Warner Todd Huston26 Nov 2015, 3:33 PM PST0

The front page of leading liberal new media site The Huffington Post greeted their early morning Thanksgiving viewers with a stew of anti-police headlines, all under the banner headline “Monsters With Badges.” Later in the morning HuffPo had the same theme but switched the headline to the more festive “Rotten to the Core.”
by Lee Stranahan26 Nov 2015, 11:25 AM PST0