http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/chicago/ en-us Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:05:02 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050802/posts CHICAGO (WBBM) -- Chicago’s gun laws have been challenged in federal court since the Supreme Court’s decision on the D.C. ban. But, City Corporation Counsel Mara Georges has told two City Council committees she’s confident Chicago’s law will stand. Georges tells Aldermen the Supreme Court’s decision on Washington, D.C.’s handgun ban shouldn’t apply to Chicago, because previous Supreme Court rulings have said Second Amendment "right to bear arms" doesn’t apply to local governments, like Cities. She says D.C. is a federal jurisdiction. And Georges is confident that, and other arguments, will prevail, at least in the lower courts. But, she... WBBM Radio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050802/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:05:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049402/posts “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state: the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed”—United States Constitution, second amendment of the Bill of Rights Subject only to the police power, the right of the individual citizen to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.—- Constitution of the State of Illinois, Article 1, Section 22 Illinois’ 1970 Constitution provides gun grabbing counties and city councils with an invaluable mechanism so as to create two strata of gun rights in Illinois. One strata that would pass muster south of I.... Chicago Daily Observer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049402/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:53:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049340/posts For the Pritzker family of Chicago, the 2001 collapse of subprime-mortgage lender Superior Bank was an embarrassing failure in a corner of their giant business empire. Billionaire Penny Pritzker helped run Hinsdale, Ill.-based Superior, overseeing her family's 50% ownership stake. She now serves as Barack Obama's national campaign-finance chairwoman, which means her banking past could prove to be an embarrassment to her -- and perhaps to the campaign. Superior was seized in 2001 and later closed by federal regulators. Government investigators and consumer advocates have contended that Superior engaged in unsound financial activities and predatory lending practices. Ms. Pritzker, a... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049340/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:48:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048922/posts <p>The New Yorker's Washington correspondent has been denied a press place on Barack Obama's tour of the Middle East and Europe after the magazine depicted the presidential candidate as a terrorist on its cover.</p> <p>The Obama camp said there was not enough room on the aircraft but the move is being seen as a snub to the magazine.</p> guardian.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048922/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:13:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048339/posts By now you've seen the cover of the New Yorker depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as depicted in wingnut Internet lore. It's a cover the Obama campaign was quick to condemn. "The New Yorker may think, as one of their staff explained to us, that their cover is a satirical lampoon of the caricature Sen. Obama's right-wing critics have tried to create. But most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree," said Bill Burton, an Obama spokesman. Methinks Burton doth protest too much. After all, this latest campaign kerfuffle was the perfect distraction to mask what's... Philly.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048339/posts#comment Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:01:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047479/posts --snip-- Violent crime in the city of Chicago is out of control," Blagojevich said at the bill signing ceremony. "I'm offering resources of the state to the city to work in a constructive way with Mayor Daley to do everything we can possibly do to help stop this violence," said the governor. The summer of 2008 will be remembered as especially violent. Blagojevich said there's been a child shot nearly every day since June 26, with 29 Chicago Public School students shot since last fall WMAQ TV Chicago http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047479/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:58:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047386/posts William Greene would like to register his guns with the city of Chicago. So would Charles Wilson, Ronald Wallace, Alberto Ortega, J. Anthony Clark, Nashaat Mhanna, Thomas Scileppi and Darrell Powell. And for the life of me, I don't really understand why we shouldn't let them. Each of the eight men appeared before a city hearing officer Tuesday to argue that the Chicago Police Department erred in rejecting their efforts to register -- or in many cases re-register -- their firearms. I was in attendance mostly by accident, thinking I'd be seeing cases brought under the city's handgun ban ordinance.... The Chicago Sun-Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047386/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:17:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047031/posts NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN? | Gov offers to send state troopers and National Guard copters to fight gang violence Calling violence in Chicago "out of control," Gov. Blagojevich on Wednesday offered to lend state troopers and National Guard helicopters to the city to augment the Chicago Police. The governor is considering forming an "elite tactical team" to help the Chicago Police fight gang problems, a source said, adding that the unit could later be sent across the state to deal with gang problems at any city's request. It's fair to say that violent crime in Chicago is out of control.... Chicago Sun-Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047031/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:12:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2047024/posts U-Chi’s Dishonorable Faculty by: Deborah Lambert, July 17, 2008 When news surfaced that a research institute was to be established at the University of Chicago in honor of the late Nobel-prize winning economist Milton Friedman, nearly 100 faculty members signed a petition, “objecting to any such enterprise that might place a stamp of approval on Professor Friedman’s economic theories,” according to James Piereson, reporting on the newcriterion.com. One of the major gripes was that this choice “would signal to the outside world that Chicago’s faculty ‘lacks intellectual and ideological diversity’” when in fact it implies “that the left leaning faculty... Campus Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2047024/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:07:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046640/posts Gov: Chicago may get troopers, National Guard By DON BABWIN | Associated Press Writer 5:14 PM CDT, July 16, 2008 CHICAGO - Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Wednesday raised the possibility of bringing in state troopers or even the Illinois National Guard to help Chicago combat a recent increase in violent crime -- an offer that Mayor Richard Daley didn't know was coming. Appearing at signing ceremony for a bill that toughens the penalty for adults who provide guns to minors, Blagojevich said "violent crime in the city of Chicago is out of control." "I'm offering resources of the state to... Chicago Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046640/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:21:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045718/posts The Chicago Police Board made the correct decision in suspending — and not firing — an officer who was videotaped beating a 60-year-old man handcuffed and shackled to a wheelchair, a Cook County judge has ruled. Chicago Sun Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045718/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:02:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045031/posts Ryan Lizza writes a New Yorker article entitled "Making it: How Chicago shaped Obama." If you ask me, Barack Obama does not come off well here. Calculating politicians, ready to find scapegoats and godfather to pull levers for him and shower money unto him. But more importantly, 15 pages later, I find no evidence that Obama accomplished anything other than helping out on Project Vote. My guess is that he allied himself with ACORN on that one, but we don't see any information on that. Lizza ignores his work on what he calls the two "liberal foundations" -- which is... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045031/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:50:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044858/posts Chicago, IL. -- A 13-year-old boy is dead after being shot Saturday night in the South Side’s Little Village neighborhood. The boy was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition after a shooting near West 30th Street and South Avers Avenue, Fire Media Affairs Cmdr. Will Knight said. The Cook County Medical Examiner's office has been notified of a fatality, but the boy's identity and pronouncement information were not immediately available. Police responded a fight about 7:45 p.m. in the 3000 block of South Avers Avenue and found a boy was shot, police News Affairs Officer JoAnn Taylor said,... WFLD-TV Chicago http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044858/posts#comment Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:30:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044788/posts Chris Grissom and his wife were sitting up in bed at the Hotel Blake the evening of July 3 watching "The Late Show With David Letterman" as their two children, ages one and four, slept in the next bed. That's when they heard what Grissom said sounded like a firecracker in the next room. » Click to enlarge image Tennessee native Chris Grissom posted a video to YouTube that shows how a bullet hit the Hotel Blake and traveled through his family's hotel room and ended up in the room adjacent to theirs. (YouTube.com) RELATED STORIES Weis meets with aldermen... Chicago Sun-Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044788/posts#comment Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:46:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044565/posts As a state senator, Barack Obama gave $100,000 in state money to a campaign volunteer who failed to deliver on a plan to create a botanic garden in one of Chicago's most blighted neighborhoods. Obama -- who was running for Congress when he announced the project in 2000 -- said the green space in Englewood would build ''a sense of neighborhood pride." Instead, what was supposed to be a six-block stretch of trees and paths is now a field of unfulfilled dreams, strewn with weeds, garbage and broken pavement. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044565/posts#comment Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:07:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044293/posts I was particularly pleased with this post, assessing the pattern of Obama's career. Stemming the tide of urban decay in Chicago’s worst neighborhoods in the late 1980s was beyond even the most tireless efforts of one man. “Sisyphean” is the term that keeps coming to mind, but I would note that what Obama actually accomplished – “a successful effort to convince the city of Chicago to locate a jobs placement office on the far South Side and his part in a drive to push the city to clean asbestos out of a housing project in the same area [Altgeld Gardens]”... The Campaign Spot on National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044293/posts#comment Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:57:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044394/posts CHICAGO (WLS) -- Proponents of gun rights gathered in the Loop Friday to push legislation legalizing concealed weapons in Illinois. Among the speakers at the rally was a Texas state representative whose parents were among 23 people gunned down at Luby's cafeteria in 1991. Recent rallies at the Thompson Center have been demands for gun control laws following fatal shootings of Chicago children. Thursday, the plaza was full again, but the message was from those demanding the right to bear arms. In a show of support for responsible gun ownership, about 200 chose the plaza of the Thompson Center for... abc7chicago http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044394/posts#comment Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:26:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044308/posts By Leah HopeCHICAGO (WLS) -- Proponents of gun rights gathered in the Loop Friday to push legislation legalizing concealed weapons in Illinois. Among the speakers at the rally was a Texas state representative whose parents were among 23 people gunned down at Luby's cafeteria in 1991. Recent rallies at the Thompson Center have been demands for gun control laws following fatal shootings of Chicago children. Thursday, the plaza was full again, but the message was from those demanding the right to bear arms. Chicago ABC News 7 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044308/posts#comment Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:16:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044124/posts We just got back from the Heller rally in downtown Chicago and let me say these are some happy people. I’d estimate the crowd at between 200-300 (and I suck at estimating crowds!) Folks of every size, shape, color and religion were jubilant with the recent Heller decision and looking forward to being able to carry a handgun as a law abiding citizen of Chicago. Here are some photos… The crowd! The NRA folks were disappointed at the turn out, all I can say is for Chicago, on a Friday afternoon a crowd of this size was damn near miraculous!... Freedom Folks http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044124/posts#comment Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:52:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043249/posts The Second Amendment Freedom Rally The first rally of its kind in the history of Chicago! Join the grassroots movement that is sweeping the state of Illinois. A movement to restore the Second Amendment right of law abiding citizens to keep and bear arms! James R. Thompson Center 100 W. Randolph St. Chicago, IL 60601 Date: July 11th, 2008 Time: 11:00am—1:00pm Please join us in celebrating at the James R. Thompson Center with featured speaker Dr. Suzanna Hupp This event sponsored by: Illinois State Rifle Association and IllinoisCarry.com A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free... Illinois State Rifle Association & Illinois Carry.Com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043249/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:36:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043091/posts (UPDATE: Jackson is holding a news conference at 5 p.m. from Operation Push HQ). Drudge Report / Chicago2Chicago http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043091/posts#comment Wed, 9 Jul 2008 21:47:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043118/posts . The LifeLock 400 Saturday 8:00 pm ET on TNT from Chicagoland Speedway SPEED Pre-race show at 4:30 ETTNT Pre-race show at 6:30 ET Green Flag 8:15 (?) Please visit the FR Canteen - Dedicated to our troops, veterans, and their families: The FR Canteen God Bless Our Troops Please pray on this day, and every day, for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm's way around the world in defense of our liberty, and for the families awaiting their safe return. Jayski http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043118/posts#comment Wed, 9 Jul 2008 22:36:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043095/posts When they weren't breaking the law or going in and out of jail, the Jersey Boys who went on to become the Four Seasons were hanging out on street corners singing with cigarettes dangling from their mouths. Not in Chicago. Here, lead singer Frankie Valli, song-writing sensation Bob Gaudio and the boys have gone cold turkey Following an apparent complaint from an irate theatergoer, the Chicago theatrical production of "Jersey Boys" has snuffed out cigarettes... The Chicago Sun-Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043095/posts#comment Wed, 9 Jul 2008 21:54:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042890/posts ...the Examiner editorial board came up with a terrific editorial ... on a subject that EVERY conservative ought to be mentioning every day between now and November. Summary: Obama left a big mess behind in his state Senate district, where the only people who benefited -- indeed, made out like bandits -- were the rich developers who paid his campaign bills... American Spectator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042890/posts#comment Wed, 9 Jul 2008 14:17:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042623/posts Mayor Daley acknowledged today that there was a gang presence at this year's Taste of Chicago, but he insisted that Chicago Police officers were powerless to stop it. "You come out of the L. You're a gang-banger. But, what is a gang-banger? Is [it] a kid that has pants, a hat and a shirt? He thinks he's a gang member. ... Can you see the police stopping every person coming down who looks like a gang-banger [based on] how people dress?" Daley said. Chicago Sun-Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042623/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jul 2008 22:39:01 GMT