The woman pleaded with police. Could they bring her the jacket of the man lying dead on the street so she could see if it was her brother? A white sheet covered the body along Garfield Boulevard in Washington Park, and Chicago police cars blocked whatever view might have given her some clues. Soon her […]
Chicago Rings in Easter with 34 People Shot…
Chicago saw 34 people wounded from gun injuries in a spate a violence over Easter weekend. Twenty-three were shot during just a seven hour period between Saturday night and early Sunday morning, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. The lone death over the weekend happened early Sunday morning. One man shot at two other men, one of […]
Chicago To Keep ‘Sanctuary’ Status Despite Sessions’ Promise To Pull Funding…
Former Obama Campaign Manager Fined $90,000 for Unethical Lobbying for Uber…
David Plouffe, Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign manager, was fined $90,000 by the Chicago Board of Ethics in a 5-0 vote for improperly lobbying Mayor Rahm Emanuel on behalf of Uber Technologies. The San Francisco resident was fined $1,000 a day for the 90 days he used personal email accounts without being a registered lobbyist to […]
$2.3B Reasons Why Sanctuary Cities Are Pushing Back on Cut Federal Funds…
$140,000 Raised For Mentally-Ill Victim Of ‘Facebook-Four’ Hate Crime…
A GoFundMe campaign to raise money for the developmentally challenged victim of the brutal attack broadcast on Facebook Live, on January 5, has raised almost $140,000 in three days…
Second Video Surfaces In Chicago Torture Case — Suspects Force Victim To Drink From Toilet (VIDEO)…
These 4 Thugs Charged with Hate Crime, Kidnapping Charges in Chicago Attack Streamed on Facebook…
Hate crime charges have been filed against four people shown in a Facebook video attacking a mentally disabled man, cutting his scalp with a knife and punching him while yelling obscenities about Donald Trump and “white people”…
“Code of Silence” Revisited: An Update on the Watts Investigation
On October 6, The Intercept published “Code of Silence,” a four-part investigation of a far-reaching criminal enterprise within the Chicago Police Department. For more than a decade, a team of gang tactical officers led by Sgt. Ronald Watts were major players in the drug trade radiating out from public housing developments on Chicago’s South Side…
The Godfather Admits Using Personal Email for Public Business…Thousands Released…
Under pressure from a pair of open records lawsuits, Mayor Rahm Emanuel acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that he has used personal email accounts to conduct public business, a practice that allowed him to hide some of his government correspondence from the public since he took office…