The World Cup match between the United States and Germany created pizza shortages around the country, with one restaurant in Kentucky saying that the game, which started at noon eastern, was responsible for an extra month of sales. In Washington,
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan to allow gun stores to exist “in only about half of a percent of Chicago’s geographic area” got the go ahead on June 25. City Alderman voted 48-0 in favor of the plan. According to
NEW YORK (AP) — A Chicago lawyer and accountant labeled by the government as history’s most prolific and unrepentant tax cheat has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Wilmette, Illinois, resident Paul M. Daugerdas (DAW’-gehr-dahs) was sentenced Wednesday in
LeBron James opted out of his contract with the Miami Heat on Tuesday in a move that, despite the media attention it will get, should surprise no one. Whether LeBronintended to stay in Miami, or intended to legitimately test the
CHICAGO, Illinois– A crowd of over 500 didn’t let the rain stop them from peacefully gathering Monday afternoon in the plaza of the James R. Thompson Center for a vigil of support for three Israeli teenagers who were kidnapped nearly two weeks
University of Chicago economist Casey Mulligan has won the prestigious 2014 F.A. Hayek Prize for his 2012 book, The Redistribution Recession: How Labor Market Distortions Contracted the Economy. “Mulligan’s work shows how government policies designed to improve Americans’ economic fortunes
In a controversy reminiscent of American baseball’s Black Sox Scandal, an investigation raises accusations that the Ghana Football Association has engaged in an international conspiracy to fix games in cooperation with a ring of corrupted game officials. A six-month-long undercover
Since the brutal Winter finally came to a close another sort of brutality has engulfed the Windy City. The brutality of its gangs have bled the city every weekend since the cold waned and this weekend has been no different
London, June 20 (QNA) – In a skeleton more than 6,200 years old, scientists have found the earliest known evidence of infection with a parasitic worm that now afflicts more than 200 million people worldwide. Archaeologists discovered a parasite egg
Jumping on the bandwagon Hillary Clinton revved up with her comment saying she and her husband were broke when they left the White House, Barack Obama said Tuesday that his wife is “kind of a bad example” for the need
Sure, I could write that headline about any number of cities, and you could say Detroit is doing a lot more than just “teetering on the edge of oblivion.” But it’s going to be a huge deal when Chicago goes
Democratic State Sen. Wendy Davis wants to be Governor of Texas, but she has been spending a substantial amount of time fundraising in other states. It has now been revealed that Davis raised $3.6 million outside of the state. According to the Associated Press
After a month-long operation across six Midwestern states, the Department of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that a crackdown on criminal aliens and other immigration violators netted 297 criminals. Fifty-nine were arrested in Chicago alone. “Operation Cross Check,”
Donald Trump was given permission to put his name in giant, one-story-tall letters on his downtown Chicago building, but as soon as the sign went up he began to get complaints from Mayor Rahm Emanuel and others. When real estate
The fact pattern and references to anti-Islamic “hate speech” sound depressingly similar to so many other cases abroad. Yet this incident occurred courtesy of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) Chicago chapter, showing how precious and precarious American free speech
Liberals were so excited when news broke of a husband-and-wife team of psychopaths killing two police officers and a heroic armed civilian who confronted them in Las Vegas… and threw a “Don’t Tread On Me” Gadsden flag over one of
It was another bloody weekend in Obama’s hometown of Chicago as the city celebrated Fathers day. By the time the weekend drew to a close, two were dead and 25 wounded in violence across the city. As the weekend began
Which Major League Baseball team boasts the best fans? The most fair-weather fans? Which tickets run the cheapest? A wide-ranging new survey of the fans in cities that host a major-league baseball teams seeks to answer these questions and the
A Chicago man who was cleared of murder by DNA testing after spending 32 years in jail for the crime has been charged with a new murder, Chicago police reported Last week. A little over a year ago Andres Davis
Last November, a series of tornadoes ripped through Illinois. The situation was so serious that the Chicago Bears game against the Baltimore Ravens at Soldier Field had to be delayed. In the end, Chicago was largely spared but surrounding communities
Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington seek to host the 2024 Summer Olympics. But the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) hasn’t yet decided whether it will even advance a bid from an American city. The information comes from the
While announcing that they would not longer give killers the opportunity at glory that comes from having their names mentioned and their photographs aired on television, Sun News also address the extremely low rate of “mass shootings” in America compared
Chicago Bears vs. Green Bay Packers. Boston Red Sox vs. New York Yankees. Pittsburgh Penguins vs. Philadelphia Flyers. These American rivalries have nothing on Argentina and Brazil. Argentinian Hernan Crespo said the Argentina team should be whisked out of Brazil
Chicago usually erupts in violence every weekend, but this weekend extended into Monday when a man killed two before turning his gun on himself. The grand total between Friday evening and Monday came in at 7 dead and a whopping
All of the latest Obama scandals – Bergdahl, Benghazi, and the IRS attacks on conservatives – are not surprises to Judicial Watch. You know why? It’s because we wrote the book on Obama corruption – literally. And now that book,
