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University of Chicago Facing Demands for Reparations Over Ties to Slavery

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 20, 2022 18 Comments

"The university says it was a prior iteration of the school that benefited from slavery, not its current incarnation"...

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Police Respond To Domestic Incident At Chicago State Attorney Kim Foxx’s Home

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on June 11, 2022 24 Comments

"officers responded to Foxx's home when her husband, Kelley Foxx, called 911 to report a domestic incident"...

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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Wants a Second Term

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 07, 2022 48 Comments

Not a good record for her....

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Chicago Area College Launches Degree Program Exclusively for Black Men

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 10, 2022 14 Comments

"The program’s exclusion of non-Black male candidates does not run afoul of federal guidelines, according to the college."...

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Birth of Abortion Tourism: Chicago To Pay for Pregnant Women to Travel to City for Abortions

Posted by Mary Chastain on May 09, 2022 53 Comments

"We are soldiers. We are soldiers prepared to fight."...

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Conservative and Libertarian Student Journalists at U. Chicago Called Out the Media’s Bias

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 16, 2022 4 Comments

"All that the Chicago Thinker staff did at the conference was respectfully ask the media regime questions they just couldn’t answer."...

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Private School in Chicago Injected Critical Race Theory Into Physics Starting in 2016 and Tracked Student Reactions

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 07, 2022 7 Comments

"address power dynamics, systematic racism, white privilege and the shortage of people of color and women in the field of science, especially physics"...

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Student Columnist at U. Chicago Fired After Challenging Fellow Columnist to Debate Over Mask Mandates

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 24, 2022 7 Comments

"terminated for launching a social media campaign pointing out how another Maroon columnist publicly promoted masks yet privately partied maskless"...

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David Axelrod Leaving Position as Director of Politics Institute at U. Chicago

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 16, 2022 0 Comments

"The former Obama strategist in 2013 helped launch the institute"...

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Student Activists at U. Chicago Demand School Give $1 Billion to City’s South Side for Reparations

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 14, 2022 10 Comments

"The University exists as a legacy of chattel slavery."...

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Chicago Mayor Lightfoot Blames Carjackings on Remote Learning

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 09, 2022 44 Comments

But it's not just carjackings. Cities across the nation have seen an increase in juvenile crime since March 2020....

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Chicago PD Searching for Man Who Yelled ‘All of You Should be Killed’ at Jewish Students

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 07, 2022 45 Comments

Chicago has seen many anti-Semitic crimes these past two months....

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Pro-Palestinian Group at U. Chicago Urges Students to Avoid ‘Sh**ty Zionist Classes’

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 05, 2022 5 Comments

"and asking students to boycott classes discussing Israel or who are taught by Israeli fellows"...

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Chicago Parents Moving Kids to Catholic Schools After Three Years of Union Nonsense

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 14, 2022 13 Comments

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Even Traffic Lights in Chicago Are Racist Now

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 14, 2022 54 Comments

As we've learned over the years, there is nothing that the left can't turn into an argument about race and racism. In Chicago, even traffic lights are apparently symbols of racism. You might want to try this argument the next time you're pulled over for running a red light.

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Chicago Schools Resume Classes on Wednesday After Standoff Over COVID Safety Demands

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 11, 2022 7 Comments

CPS parents are tired of being sidelined when disputes happen. I don't blame them. The CTU and CPS never brought them or students to the table....

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The Left Turns Against Chicago Teachers Union as Classes Canceled Again Over COVID

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 06, 2022 21 Comments

When you lose Nikole Hannah-Jones: "We have to be able to talk abtthe [sic] harms of remote learning in a society where vaccines are available for all teachers...

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Chicago Public Schools Close After Union Votes to Stop In-Person Learning Over COVID

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 05, 2022 27 Comments

What a shock. CTU doesn't want to work....

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