The War on Statues is not new.
In 2017, RebelPundit filmmakers Jeremy Segal and Andrew Marcus followed Chicago community organizer, Paul McKinley, on a tour of the south side neighborhood, Washington Park, where they find local residents opposed to a pastor’s calls to remove George Washington’s name and statue from...
Chicago’s Father’s Day weekend saw 104 people shot, including 14 fatalities. The weekend had more shootings than the last weekend of May, but fewer fatalities.
Five minors died, including a 3-year-old boy.
Alderman Anthony Napolitano, a former police officer, is beyond frustrated.
These students are in Chicago and they don’t think they’ll ever need police? Best of luck.
CBS News in Chicago reports:
Protesters Occupy University Of Chicago Police Headquarters Demanding Department Be Abolished
Protesters have locked themselves inside the campus police headquarters at the University of Chicago, and now they say officers won’t let anyone...
The principal, Joyce Kenner, is a black woman. This is unreal.
The Chicago Tribune reports:
Joyce Kenner leads Whitney Young, but after George Floyd’s killing she faces calls to resign: ‘If I don’t understand about black people and oppression, nobody else does.’
After Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, an 11-year-old Joyce...
In the absence of elected leadership and in the face of police standing by and watching looting in Chicago, Latin gangs are protecting their local businesses and running would be looters out of their neighborhoods. It’s hard to fault them for it, but do we really want street gangs acting as...
Earlier today I blogged about Chicago having its deadliest day in 60 years. The city saw 18 murders in 24 hours on May 31.
On that same day, Mayor Lori Lightfoot met with Chicago officials to discuss the mass riots and looting across the city in response to George Floyd’s death.
While Lightfoot...
Chicago, IL, saw 18 murders in 24 hours on May 31. It’s the deadliest day in the Windy City in 60 years.
This situation has been brewing for a couple of weeks, and now even the mainstream media has picked up the story.
NBC News reports:
University of Chicago students hold tuition strike, demand help during pandemic
A group of students at The University of Chicago are holding a tuition strike as they demand that the...
There is another alternative here. These students could just drop out or enroll somewhere else.
Campus Reform reports:
Hundreds of UChicago students threaten to withhold tuition
If the University of Chicago doesn’t cut tuition in half for the duration of the pandemic crisis, hundreds of students are threatening to withhold tuition payments for the...
U.S. District Court Judge Virginia Kendall dismissed former Empire actor Jussie Smollett’s countersuit against the Chicago police because a special Cook County grand jury re-indicted him.
I thought Democrats hated outside money, but I guess when it helps your own, who cares?
Cook County State Attorney Kim Foxx faced a lot of criticism after she fumbled the Jussie Smollett case. Liberal billionaire George Soros stepped in and poured $2 million into a PAC formed specifically to get...
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx survived her primary on Tuesday despite the mess she made of actor Jussie Smollett’s case.
It is starting to look like there is going to be a lot of legal fallout from the sudden closure of so many schools.
The College Fix reports:
University of Chicago lays off resident assistants without telling them
Some workers whose jobs are tied to physical places are still getting paid during the coronavirus...
The fact that socialism even has support at our colleges and universities is an indictment of our higher education system.
Campus Reform reports:
UChicago student, daughter of former GOP rep ‘harassed,’ ‘threatened’ for opposing socialism
The daughter of former U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy found herself amid a swarm of online harassment for speaking out...
Former Empire actor Jussie Smollett pleaded not guilty to six felony charges of disorderly conduct in Chicago, IL.
The court alleges Smollett staged a hate crime on himself in January 2019.
A special Cook County grand jury indicted actor Jussie Smollett on six new charges related to the alleged fake attack.
Smollett faces “charges of disorderly conduct, accusing him of filing false reports claiming he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack last year.”
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot fired Chicago Police Department Superintendent Eddie Johnson after an inspector general report revealed numerous lies and distortions with his story about him sleeping at the wheel of his car.
