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DePaul U. Investigating Alleged Harassment of Jewish Students at Coffee Shop

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 21, 2026 2 Comments

“As the Jewish students started to arrive, other students wearing keffiyehs and sweatshirts with invectives like ‘globalize the intifada’ began streaming in”...

Chicago Could Replace Canceled Columbus Statue With One Of Scalia

Posted by Matt Lamb on February 03, 2026 18 Comments

Justice Scalia is in the running as a replacement statue for the one Chicago canceled after protests by left-wing activists in 2020....

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Asks Police to Surveil ICE, Report Them For Prosecution

Posted by Matt Lamb on February 02, 2026 27 Comments

Johnson wants Chicago's police officers to focus their attention on documenting alleged crimes by ICE agents....

Northwestern Received Taxpayer Dollars to Fund ‘Safe Space Ambassadors’

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 28, 2026 6 Comments

“The extravagant spending highlighted by Senator Paul comes at the expense of more funding for essential, truth-seeking science”...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Appoints First ‘LGBTQ+ Affairs’ Director

Posted by Matt Lamb on January 27, 2026 32 Comments

"Trans siblings" and "LGBTQ+ youth" will be some of the main focuses of the new Chicago position created by Mayor Brandon Johnson....

Chicago Teachers Union Forced to Delete Tweet With Embarrassing Typo

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 15, 2026 9 Comments

"represents teachers in the public school system of the third-largest city in the United States"...

Purdue U. Northwest Claims it Can’t Find Any Americans to Teach Marketing Classes for $127,000

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 08, 2026 3 Comments

“Does anyone seriously believe no American in the Chicago area can teach marketing for $127,500 a year”...

Chicago Teachers Union Focused on Protesting ‘War on Venezuela’ for Some Reason

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 06, 2026 18 Comments

"The Chicago Teachers Union on Saturday promoted a protest of the Trump administration's action in Venezuela hosted by a who's who of far-left organizations, including a group that openly supports socialism."...

Northwestern U. Releases Pro-DEI Instructions for Educators

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 24, 2025 1 Comment

“Leading Change with Inclusion, Courage, and Global Perspective”...

Washington Post Editorial Board Slams Mayor Johnson’s Budget Plan: ‘Chicago Has Lost its Mind’

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 16, 2025 46 Comments

"By making it more expensive to do business or hire workers in the city, these measures threaten Chicago’s future economic growth and tax collections."...

https://x.com/GovPritzker/status/1964115898278531343

Report: Chicago’s ‘Peacekeeper’ Program Plagued by Member Arrests for Violent Crimes

Posted by Stacey Matthews on December 06, 2025 19 Comments

"CPD also says he was actually one of the robbers and, in a notably unpeaceful twist, twice used phone calls from the police station to try to arrange for people to intimidate the victim and a witness into staying quiet."...

Chicago Mayor: Incarcerating Violent Criminals Is ‘Racist, Immoral, and Unholy’

Posted by Elizabeth Stauffer on November 26, 2025 63 Comments

“We cannot incarcerate our way out of violence. ...

Chicago Man With 72 Arrests Accused of Setting Woman on Fire

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 24, 2025 30 Comments

This man should have never been on the street....

Chicago Public Schools Spent Millions on Travel as Students Fall Under Expectations

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 24, 2025 10 Comments

"FY 2023 and FY 2024 alone produced, conservatively, more than $14.5 million in travel expenditures...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XQmLyv86No

Faculty Unions at U. Chicago Demand School End ‘Inaction’ Against ICE Raids

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 14, 2025 6 Comments

"It’s sad that one of the leading institutions in the United States chooses to sit on their hands instead of taking the fight to this president and this fascist regime"...