Showing posts with label Chicago news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chicago news. Show all posts

Friday, March 13, 2020

More Chgo News


Out of prison for 16 days, he’s now charged with stealing blind man’s guitar

Sixteen days after Maurice Williams got out of prison for three felony theft convictions, he wound up back in police custody after he allegedly stole a blind man’s guitar at the Jackson Blue Line station.


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Where is this lazy Union Puppet from the 10th State District? Jawaharial “Omar” Williams?


Look many black men would like to have one of Jay’s jobs. According to sources at the Mayor’s Office, Jay is going to be promoted quickly so they can hide him at the Jardine Plant. Jay needs to remove himself from the 10 District race and go back to working as a laborer. Jay has done nothing for all the blacks at the Department of Water Management that were refused reasonable accommodations. Jay was given a massive settlement and a permanent disability rating. Maybe Lori Lightfoot should stop being a puppet for the Unions as Chicago is in real financial distress. The Law Department is not watching out for Chicago taxpayers.


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After 30 years of Chicago Media Poisoning Jury Pools, Reporters Jason Meisner and Jon Seidel Continue to shill for exoneration industry.

What role did Chicago’s media play in a multimillion-dollar award to a man who may well have beat, raped, and nearly burned a woman to death in 1982?

Quite possibly, the most crucial. 

The reason is that the freeing of men from prison such as Stanley Wrice—convicted in 1983 of gang-raping Karen Byron and beating her over the course of several hours and then burning her almost to death with implements heated up on a gas stove—could not have taken place without the collaboration of the city’s bought-and-sold press. 

Wrice’s 2014 release from a 100-year sentence for the crimes against Byron, along with his three prior armed robbery convictions, followed a mythology created and pushed by the Chicago media for more than thirty years, none more so than its two primary print outlets, the Chicago Tribune and the Sun-Times. 

Saturday, January 12, 2019

Buh Bye Chicago*


Debt, Dope, and Casinos: Chicago Is Circling The Drain 

Neither Chicago defaults on the pension promises it’s made to city workers or it defaults on its massive debt. It’s simple arithmetic.

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The Fall of Chicago. There Will Be No Economic Recovery

The difference between the two cities is that Chicago’s debt and unfunded liabilities are more than three times higher than Detroit’s were when the city declared bankruptcy in 2013. 

...To put things in perspective: Every Chicago household is currently on the hook for at least $63,800 in local-government debt.

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Chicago is toast. I don't have much hope. I appeal to all my loved ones to find a small town or medium sized city in a different state and move there. Quit subsidizing their shitty schools, leave behind their chronic rampant crime and broken justice system. I left 8 years ago and only go back for family reasons. I come back commenting on how dark energy is everywhere. Being downtown at night is like being in a Batman movie. I'm creeped out by the feeling that runs through me. The anger is in the air.


Chicago as an entity has never been united in any way, possibly a Bulls championship riot. It prides itself on being a "city of neighborhoods", which is nice, but very provincial. I'm surprised some of those neighborhoods haven't built a wall around themselves. In many ways that has already been done with railroad tracks, viaducts, cemeteries, designed expressways and waterways marking demarcation. Within your 'hood', one may describe themselves being from St. Elephants' or Blessed Mother of God parish. Latin Kings, Gangster Disciples and whoever they decide should be dead. There are 50 ward organization, or 50 shakedown operations, which one may be a loyal member. If you are, your loyalty goes to your 'Chinaman' or sponsor. And don't ask questions.

Internally, Chicago has always been divided on long-standing affiliations, except being Republican, that is. You were from the Southside or the Northside. You were a Sox fan or a Cub fan. You were Irish or Polish. You were Mexican or Puerto Rican. You were black or white. Very seldom did they meet in togetherness. Stay in your neighborhood.

So the cancer of identity politics killed this city, as it is killing the country. Chicago is the perfect long term example of divide and conquer. Each ward, parish, sports team, ethnic persuasion has looked at each other with suspicion and dread. It's ingrained in the make up of the population. So much bossiness, so many victims in one spot. "Wheres mine?", the Mike Royko motto of the city, can't apply to everyone, especially when the takings are getting smaller. The bankers get the loot. Rahm Emmanuel sealed that deal. Now the vultures pick on the remains. Mayoral run off in 5 weeks.
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Study: Chicago’s Middle Class ‘Almost Gone,’ Majority Either Rich or Poor


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Friday, November 16, 2018

Crime is Down?


While Chicago Police Department leaders continue to insist that “crime is down” citywide, crime may not be down in the places where you live, work, or play, according to an analysis of city data by CWBChicago.


Reported crime in Near North and the Loop is up 45% since 2014, city data shows. | Wikimedia


...  crime reports are at five-year highs in Lincoln Park, the Loop, and Near North neighborhoods which includes River North, Streeterville, the Magnificent Mile, and Gold Coast...

... Overall reported crime in the Loop is up 47% over the past five years...

... crime categories that are at five-year highs in the Loop are homicide, shootings, assault, battery, and criminal sexual assault...

... Reports of violent crime in the Loop—homicide, rape, robbery, and aggravated battery—have risen 95% in five years...



... Lincoln Park crime is up 13% over five years and up 10% compared to last year...

... On paper, crime is down by about 350 incidents in the Uptown neighborhood. But the reduction is not due to a massive decline in serious crimes. Instead, police have essentially stopped enforcing drug laws on the streets. As a result, there have been about 400 fewer narcotics crimes reported in Uptown this year as five years ago.

... So, yes, crime is down by 350 cases in Uptown. But only because police have made 396 fewer drug arrests—just 44 this year compared to 440 during the same period five years ago...

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Wow, that's how the CPD defines "crime is down".

Read entire article on best On the Beat reporting team of CWB Chicago - http://www.cwbchicago.com/2018/11/crime-at-5-year-highs-in-loop-near.html?m=1

Monday, May 24, 2010

Weekend RoundUp


Long Hot Summer:

At least nine people were shot on a hot night in Chicago, and one of them was killed, authorities said. No one was in custody for any of the shootings this morning.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

It's A Wonderful Life


Clarence, Where Are You?

A man who told police he "just wanted to go for a swim" apparently jumped into the Chicago River this morning near Clark Street and Wacker Drive, police said.