Chicago Tag

19 shootings overnight in Obama’s home town of Chicago

Posted by Anne Segal on August 24, 2012 36 Comments

19 people were shot in Chicago between Thursday evening and Friday morning, with 13 of the 19 shot in a span of just 30 minutes. Chicago's murder rate has gone up 31 percent since 2011when Mayor Rahm Emanuel was elected. The Chicago Sun Times reports that...

Whistleblower asserts state employees coerced to attend Pelosi, Jesse Jackson political event

Posted by Anne Segal on August 14, 2012 27 Comments

A whistleblower former employee of the Illinois Student Assistance Commission (ISACorps) has revealed that she was coerced to attend Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH partisan forum with Nancy Pelosi, pose for photo ops, given instructions on loading students up with student debt, and then reimbursed travel...

Rahm Emanuel, Moreno out-of-touch with #Chicago Values

Posted by Anne Segal on July 27, 2012 48 Comments

Chicagoans are used to politicians running roughshod over our city. It's a war zone today, but not just from the drug cartel and gang shootings that are ravaging our neighborhoods. The politicians from the local up to the federal think they're little kings, who use...