“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.
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.
At least 40 people where shot, four fatally, before noon on Sunday in gun-controlled Chicago.
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.
Nearly 40 people were shot during the first three days of this week in gun-controlled Chicago. The wounded included a 15-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl, while the deceased included a 21-year-old mother.
Paul Bauer, a 31-year veteran of the Chicago Police Department and commander of the Near North District died of multiple gunshot wounds after he was attacked outside Chicago’s iconic downtown Thompson Center Tuesday.
Sunday on MSNBC’s “PoliticsNation,” Rainbow PUSH Coalition president Jesse Jackson said the Trump administration’s plan to assist Chicago with its gun violence epidemic would not work. Jackson said, “It’s not just emergency, it’s more than that. This is an international
Friday at an off-camera briefing at the White House, deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said gun violence in Chicago was “driven more by morality than anything else.” Huckabee Sanders was asked about the Trump administration announcement of a newly
As the year ended and the bloodletting in Chicago was tallied at nearly 800 murders, President-elect Donald J. Trump took to Twitter to decry the massive loss of life and chided the Windy City’s mayor for his seeming inability to do anything about the mayhem in his city.
Chicago police say the number of homicides in the city climbed dramatically in January to 51, in the bloodiest start to a year in at least 16 years.
