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Chicago Tag

President Donald Trump slammed Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson during his speech at the Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Chicago. From The New York Post:
“There is one person that’s not here today. I said, ‘Where is he, I want to talk to him. In fact, more than anyone else, this person should be here because maybe he could learn something. And that’s the superintendent of Chicago Police chief Eddie Johnson,” the president said in the Windy City.

On Fox and Friends this morning, Chicago Fraternal Order of Police President Kevin Graham tore into Chicago Superintendent Eddie Johnson over his decision to skip a speech scheduled next week from President Donald Trump:
Graham told [Steve] Doocy: "He has said that he has problems with President Trump. And, my feeling is, there are plenty of people that I have problems with but, the reality is when police officers are out on the street, we do not engage in political activity.

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) decided to strike, which began today after the union's House of Delegates turned down the latest offer from the Board of Education. Over 300,000 students did not have school on Thursday. They may not have school on Friday.

Cook County's State' Attorney Kim Foxx's woes continue as retired appellate judge Sheila O'Brien filed a petition for a special prosecutor to investigate Foxx's office over the Jussie Smollett case. Foxx received a subpoena to appear in court along with her top deputy Joseph Magats. This news comes after one Cook County judge slammed Foxx for her double standards after her office prosecuted one woman for filing a false report. Those are the same charges Foxx's office dropped against Smollett.

Welcome to my home state of Illinois where you don't have a real governor unless he (or she) has some kind of investigation under their belt. Looks like the current governor could face his own federal trouble. Democrat Gov. J.B. Pritzker, his wife, and his brother-in-law have fallen into a federal investigation over the removal of toilets in a mansion in order to receive a property tax break.

The ABC-I team in Chicago continues its great work investigating Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx after her office dropped 16 felony charges against actor Jussie Smollett. Foxx recused herself from the case after she talked with Smollett's family before the charges, but new texts show that she still communicated with her team, found the charges excessive, and called Smollett a "washed up actor."