Officials in Cook Country Illinois have found the answer to gun violence. It’s not stepping up enforcement of existing laws on the books or reducing regulations to make it easier for law-abiding citizens to defend themselves from criminals. No, the
Chicago Sun Times: Lara Logan, a correspondent for CBS’ “60 Minutes,” delivered a provocative speech to about 1,100 influentials from government, politics, media, and the legal and corporate arenas. Such downtown gatherings are a regular on Chicago’s networking circuit. (I
There is no doubt the race for the Illinois 8th Congressional District seat is one of the most hotly contested races in the country. It also features one of the starkest contrasts between two candidates. Incumbent candidate Joe Walsh (R)
Barack Obama was warned that our Libyan Embassy faced an attack on 9/11 and did nothing. Zero. Zip. Four brave Americans died, including our Ambassador. The media says nothing. Before the attack, the Obama administration turned down a request from our
CHICAGO (WLS) – An anonymous member of the Chicago Plumbers Union is claiming the union is forcing its members to back President Barack Obama. The plumber told Bruce Wolf and Dan Proft on “The Don and Roma Show” on WLS
Speaking in Chicago to a gathering of media, government, and corporate personnel, Lara Logan said the Taliban remains a threat and that administration claims to the contrary are “nonsensical.” Logan has covered wars in the Middle East for years for
A gas station in the Chicago suburb of Lombard featured a little reminder of what it was like four years ago when Obama was first elected to the White House. The station held a special sale of gas at $1.88
Rep. Bob Dold (R-IL) is no Tea Party Republican. But the Democrats and their nominee are treating him like one, convinced that voters will see him as an extremist despite his moderate record. It’s a strategy that failed in 2010,
Mitt Romney could win this thing, no thanks to his campaign. And Obama could lose this thing, because he doesn’t seem to be connected to his campaign. Over the last few months, the Obama re-election machine has spent hundreds of
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) paid Chicago consultants over $200,000 in taxpayer money to put on diversity training workshops that included activities in which employees were instructed to chant “our forefathers were illegal immigrants.” The government watchdog group
The Illinois political director of President Barack Obama’s campaign allegedly threatened a Chicago NAACP official because he did not support Obama’s reelection campaign. David Lowery, the president of the South Suburban Branch of the NAACP, alleged to CBS Chicago that
Back in August, a poll showed Obama with just a 12-point lead over Romney in Cook County, Illinois. While he posted a huge lead in the city of Chicago, the poll found him actually losing to Romney in suburban Cook
By SARA BURNETTAssociated PressCHICAGOU.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.’s wife said Wednesday her husband is seeing his doctor two to three times a week and that she doesn’t know if he will return to work before the Nov. 6 election. Chicago
Businesswoman and philanthropist Susan Crown, a former Obama supporter and a member of one of Chicago’s most influential families, told an audience of over 300 women and men, “In the midst of the Obama administration, I became profoundly disappointed, disillusioned
First Lady Michelle Obama held a fundraiser on Thursday at the former home of Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Studios in Chicago. Noticeably absent: Winfrey. Ed Klein, author of The Amateur, has written that Michelle Obama’s “jealousy” and “resentment” made her relationship
In 2009, 5 months after Obama was sworn into office, the US economy officially lifted itself out of recession. The depth of the recession, surpassed only by The Great Depression, should have produced, by historical experience, a rapid and strong
Actor Lance Reddick wasn’t surprised to see union members picketing the New York City premiere of his film “Won’t Back Down” earlier this week. Reddick is a union member himself, and he understands that his peers thought they were protecting
If President Barack Obama wins re-election in November, who will return with him to the White House? Mitt Romney has a transition team already in place, searching inside and outside the Beltway for the best talent a Republican administration can
Death Wish 2 (1982) Though released eight years after the original “Death Wish” (1974), “Death Wish 2” is set only a few years later. Paul Kersey is still an architect; his daughter, who was institutionalized after being raped and brutalized
The deadline for the $100,000 reward for the “Khalidi tape” is October 23rd, two weeks before Election Day, after which the reward will no longer be available. No one has yet come forward to claim the reward–though the Los Angeles
On 9/11, as radical Islamic terrorists were attacking the U.S. consulate in Libya and their sympathizers were raising Al Qaeda banners above the U.S. embassy in Cairo–all, we were later told by the Obama administration, due to outrage at a
Teachers unions and their allies are none too happy about “Won’t Back Down.” The film, opening Friday, concerns a single mother (Maggie Gyllenhaal) and a teacher (Viola Davis) who team up to take control of a crumbling public school failing
President Obama is pro-gun control to his core, and his past is full of anti-gun legislation and anti-gun rhetoric that provides a clear indication of where the Second Amendment is headed in the next four years if we’re silly enough
Brad Schneider is the Democrat candidate for Illinois’ 10th Congressional District. He is challenging freshman Rep. Bob Dold. A central theme of Schneider’s campaign is his experience in the business world, specifically as a small business owner. It’s a shrewd
Nearly 350,000 public school students in Chicago went back to school on Wednesday after the Chicago teachers’ union ended their one-week strike Tuesday evening by tentatively coming to terms on a new contract agreement with Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The contract,
