Friday started Chicago’s weekend off on a bloody note with four citizens shot, including a 7-year-old girl, authorities report. By Saturday the tally increased to 16 shot and two killed, one in a police-involved shooting.
The violence in Chicago rose to fever-pitch level again over the weekend, with 32 wounded and four killed. While most of these shootings are gang-on-gang warfare, on Friday, the Chicago Police were involved in a shooting that wounded a 16-year-old.
Chicago politicians and advocates of mass immigration are pushing “sanctuary city” policies that allow criminal aliens to run rampant and resulted in the high-profile death of one city resident in 2011, according to Progress Illinois.
On July 9, Breitbart News reported that gun crime was surging in the Democrat-run cities of Baltimore, Chicago, Milwaukee, New Orleans, and St. Louis. We can now expand that list to include Democrat-run Houston, Philadelphia, and New York City too. According
As the Chicago Public School District’s budget continues to crash, officials have announced the next round of layoffs, with over 450 employees getting the axe in schools across the city.
Earlier this year, the Chicago Police Department was criticized for purportedly having stopped and checked a disproportionate number of blacks and even made more stops than departments in other cities. Now the department has agreed to outside monitoring of its “stop and frisk” practices.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the city council are now set to approve the addition of sex change surgery to city employees’ health care coverage, sources report.
The Chicago city council is set to pass a new requirement that the city’s two major airports, O’Hare and Midway, must provide free breastfeeding rooms for the public.
The movement comes after four undercover videos — two this week — showing top executives at Planned Parenthood describing gruesome abortion procedures that occur in their clinics nationwide in order to sell the organs and tissue of unborn babies.
When gun scholar John Lott met Barack Obama for the first time in 1996, he said Obama told him, “I don’t believe that people should be able to own guns.”
An activist Chicago Catholic priest is trying a new tactic in his quest to stamp out the Second Amendment in Illinois. Now he is suing several nearby suburbs surrounding Chicago claiming that they are aiding and abetting the sale of illegal guns in Chicago.
Cereal maker General Mills, Inc. has announced that it is closing two more plants over the next four years, causing a loss of over 600 jobs.
By 5 PM on Sunday this weekend, 28 had been shot and 6 killed in Chicago’s gang violence. Victims included a 12-year-old boy and a baby.
Authorities report that several officers in River Forest, a suburb of Chicago, were “ambushed” by an armed assailant while assisting with a fire call for paramedics responding to a woman in distress.
After twenty years on the air, Ira Glass has negotiated full ownership of his long-running PBS radio show, “This American Life” and it’s podcast spinoff “Serial.”
On July 7, Father Michael Pfleger, the Coalition for Safe Communities in Chicago, and other gun control plaintiffs filed a lawsuit suggesting gun control is a “civil right” that is violated by a lack of gun laws and regulations in the Chicago-area villages of Riverdale, Lyons and Lincolnwood.
Police departments across the country that have spent years boasting about plummeting crime numbers are now scrambling to confront something many agencies have not seen in decades: more bloodshed.
Seven-year-old Amari Brown of Humbolt Park was was murdered on Saturday, July Fourth when his gangster father was hunted down by enemies.
As Thursday and Friday kicked off the long Independence Day weekend, it was clear that Chicago was going to have a very violent Fourth. By Sunday night, the toll came in: up to 47 shot and 10 killed, including an 8-year-old boy.
Below is a sad reminder of the failure of gun control policies.
The city of Chicago is gearing up for a violent Independence Day holiday, and already on Friday, 12 were shot and five killed before evening even fell.
Members of the Chicago teachers union and some Chicago parents are protesting this week’s decision made by union officials to fire 1,400 union employees and make $200 million in budget cuts all in order to meet its pending pension obligation.
But by far the biggest disruption was from a large group of “black lives matter” protesters. The group was joined by members of the black queer community of Chicago who announced the disruption on their website.
During Chicago’s annual gay pride parade this Sunday, the Chicago Blackhawks sent the Stanley Cup to adorn the WGN radio float for a second year.
On Wednesday, federal and local law enforcement officials crushed a huge heroin operation in Chicago, arresting or naming 42 defendants in the roundup. The apparent ringleader of the operation, James Triplett, 33, also known as “Trell,” had the entire city block of 3700 W. Grenshaw under the sway of his dealings, supplying heroin wholesale. He even had “shift workers” working 24/7.
