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A Catholic priest in Chicago says he burned a rainbow LGBTQ flag in a private “exorcism ceremony,” calling the flag a piece of “propaganda.”

Nearly half of residents in America’s top five largest cities speak a foreign language at home, a new study by the Center for Immigration Studies reveals. 

The now outgoing Rahm Emanuel administration is touting a deal to give away about 20 acres of historic Jackson Park to the controversial “Obama Center” for the tiny payment of $10 for a 99-year lease.

A report finds that several “financially-strapped” Chicago pension funds invested $68 million in a “shaky” real estate deal brokered by a man associated with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and Barack Obama that ultimately resulted in a $54 million loss.

“Chicago is better and stronger for his leadership,” Obama wrote in a statement emailed to reporters, praising Rahm Emanuel’s service as his first White House Chief of Staff, as a congressman, and as the Mayor of Chicago. 

Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) ended his aspirations for a third term as the number of shot and wounded in Chicago continues to rise.

At least 25 individuals were shot and wounded, another six were killed, over Labor Day Weekend in Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s (D) Chicago.

The University of Illinois system — which has endured more than a decade of corruption scandals — announced Thursday that it will present former President Barack Obama with an “ethics in government” award at a Sep. 7 ceremony.

Cardinal Blase Cupich suggested that allegations that Pope Francis knowingly rehabilitated an abusive American cardinal proceed from racism in a television interview with NBC News Tuesday.

Fashion mogul and Grammy-winner Kanye West told WGCI 107.5 Radio hosts in an interview Wednesday that President Donald Trump is going to do whatever it takes to “do the work” to be a great president for black voters.

At least 28 people were shot, two of whom were killed, over the weekend in Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s (D) Chicago.

The Democrat-led city of Chicago has a new plan to try and make up the difference of a $28 billion pension deficit: borrow another $10 billion.

Fourteen people were shot, two fatally, between Friday and Saturday morning in Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s (D) Chicago.

More than 50 individuals were shot, six fatally, over the weekend in Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s (D) Chicago. NBC 5 reports that five of the six fatalities occurred on Sunday and that four of those were teenagers. 

Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) is responding to the failure of gun control in Chicago by encouraging Illinois residents to urge Gov. Bruce Rauner (R) to institute more gun control.

At least six individual’s were shot and a grandmother killed overnight in Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s (D) Chicago.

At least 33 people were shot over the most recent weekend in Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s (D) Chicago.

At least 12 people were shot between Saturday morning and Sunday morning in Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s (D) Chicago.

Twenty people were shot in gun-controlled Chicago between Friday morning and Saturday morning. This string of shootings comes one week after 70-plus were shot in the city over a three-day time period.

Criticism of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel concerning the violence that has gripped the city is growing, including from black leaders.

“They had 63 incidents last weekend and 12 deaths,” Trump said during a roundtable on prison reform on Thursday. “That’s bad stuff happening.”

Chicago police have made no arrests for the weekend’s 70-plus shooting victims as witnesses to the incidents refuse to come forward.

U.S. cities with massive foreign born populations went the strongest for Hillary Clinton against President Trump in the 2016 election.

America will always work best with the government closest to the people, and Republicans need to get on the playing field of machine politics.

Chicago has long been a gun control experiment gone wrong, and the cost has not only been in money wasted and resources mismanaged, but in lives lost.

Gun control is inhumane and Democrat-controlled cities like Chicago and Baltimore prove the point again and again. 

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the Archbishop of Chicago, told a panel last week that he wished Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had lived long enough to see Pope Francis declare the death penalty “inadmissible.”

Rudy Giuliani — former mayor of New York City, NY, and current legal counsel for President Donald Trump — connected the murder rate in Chicago, IL, to Democratic dominance in the Windy City. 

More than 70 people were shot, 11 fatally, over the weekend in gun-controlled Chicago. On August 5, 2018, Breitbart News reported that at least 40 were shot during the early hours of Sunday morning. There were four fatalities during that time period.

President Donald Trump’s increasingly tight labor market, through strict immigration enforcement, is delivering jobs for Americans with disabilities in the south suburbs of Chicago, Illinois.

A group of Good Samaritans pulled a Chicago police officer from a police cruiser on Tuesday after he crashed his vehicle into a tree, according to a video of the incident.

Protesters plan to shut down yet another busy Chicago street, this time it is to be the city’s famed Lake Shore Drive which will be brought to a standstill by protesters marching against the rising violence in the Windy City.

Chicago has earned the distinction of being the number one “rat capital” in the country, according to a recent study.

Chance The Rapper demanded Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s resignation over the shooting of citizens by police as part of an announcement of his purchase of a Chicago news website.

Chicago could be the largest city in the U.S. to pilot a universal basic income program if the city council gets its way.

Chicago Police Department released body cam footage of an officer fatally shooting an armed man Saturday on the city’s South Side.