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Amid winds of change as America confronts its race issue, a reparations resolution dismissed by many as the stuff of dreams was unanimously passed by a Chicago City Council committee Friday and is scheduled to go before the full council June 17. The resolution would establish a “Chicago Citizens of African Descent Reparations Commission” to investigate how one of the most segregated cities in the nation could best make amends for the impact of slavery. Up for discussion by the Committee on Human Relations Thursday, black and Latino aldermen called the resolution timely and necessary, in the aftermath of the...

The “mostly peaceful” leftist rioters in Chicago dragged police officers through the street and kicked them in the head last week.The far left rioters and looters made Chicago’s Magnificent Mile look like Chicago’s Boarded Up Mile. CLICK ARTICLE LINK FOR THE VIDEO By last weekend the left was calling to defund the police in several US cities.This past weekend Chicago suffered its most violent weekend of the year. 84TRENDING: Wow! Minneapolis City Council President Says Calling the Police on Burglars "Comes from a Place of Privilege" (VIDEO) The Sun-Times reported: Twenty-four people were killed and at least 61 others...

In a remarkable soliloquy, Shelby Steele dominated his interview with Mark Levin with an excoriation of the riots and looting that have taken place over the past couple of weeks. Steele, an African-American veteran of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and a best-selling author, appeared on the June 7 episode of Life, Liberty, and Levin to say the protesters have nothing new to say, and that blacks have never been less oppressed in American society. Steele fully rejects the concept of systemic racism. Steele held court for the first eight minutes and fifty seconds of the program, and...

85 people were shot and 24 killed last weekend, the most in modern history in Chicago A hardworking father killed just before 1 a.m. A West Side high school student murdered two hours later. A man killed amid South Side looting at a cellphone store at 12:30 p.m. A college freshman who hoped to become a correctional officer, gunned down at 4:25 p.m. after getting into an argument in Englewood. While Chicago was roiled by another day of protests and looting in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, 18 people were killed Sunday, May 31, making it the single most...

“We’ve never seen anything like it, at all,” said Max Kapustin, the senior research director at the University of Chicago Crime Lab. A hardworking father killed just before 1 a.m. A West Side high school student murdered two hours later. A man killed amid South Side looting at a cellphone store at 12:30 p.m. A college freshman who hoped to become a correctional officer, gunned down at 4:25 p.m. after getting into an argument in Englewood. While Chicago was roiled by another day of protests and looting in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, 18 people were killed Sunday, May...

After peaceful protests of the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd were marred by widespread vandalism and looting, city officials announced they would pay up to $1.2 million to three private security firms to avoid a repeat of last weekend’s mayhem. Over 100 private security guards from Monterrey Security, AGB Investigative Services and Illinois Security Professionals will be dispatched to retail corridors across the city - with a particular focus on the South and West sides, city officials said. The private guards will not be armed and will not have police powers, but are meant to be “another set of...

Andrew Alexander, the CEO and co-owner of famed The Second City improv theater, said he is stepping down after a former performer leveled accusations of racism against the comedy institution. In a lengthy letter posted on the company’s website, Alexander said he “failed to create an anti-racist environment wherein artists of color might thrive. I am so deeply and inexpressibly sorry,” He vowed Friday that he will be replaced by a person of color.

CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the city will not tolerate vigilantism after groups of mostly white men patrolled the streets of the Bridgeport neighborhood on Wednesday night in response to a nearby city protest. Multiple streets were blocked in the Bridgeport neighborhood Wednesday night as nearby protests dispersed. Near West Pershing Road, water gushed from an open fire hydrant as small groups gathered on corners. Some of the men held bats. One wore a shirt that said “All Lives Matter,” one sipped a beer and another waved at an officer as he drove by. Additional groups of people,...

Overall crime in Chicago fell 20% in May 2020 compared to the same month last year, but murders increased by about 60% and shooting victims rose by 71%, according to police statistics. Shootings across the city increased by 71% last month, with 409 people shot in May 2020 compared to 332 shooting victims in May 2019, according to police statistics. Murders were also up by about 60%, with 85 reported in May 2020 compared to 53 last year. From January through May, 1,127 shooting victims have been recorded in Chicago, up nearly 30% from 868 in the same period in...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the city will not tolerate vigilantism after groups of mostly white men patrolled the streets of the Bridgeport neighborhood on Wednesday night in response to a nearby city protest. Multiple streets were blocked in the Bridgeport neighborhood Wednesday night as nearby protests dispersed. Near West Pershing Road, water gushed from an open fire hydrant as small groups gathered on corners. Some of the men held bats. One wore a shirt that said “All Lives Matter,” one sipped a beer and another waved at an officer as he drove by. Additional groups of people, some armed...

At the Impeach Trump March in Chicago 7/2/17. A group of protesters applaud a speech comprised almost entirely of Adolf Hitler quotes

Mayor Lightfoot said she’s hopeful major retailers will reopen the Chicago stores that were looted or otherwise damaged during protests surrounding George Floyd’s killing by police in Minnesota. But, she’s unsure of one of the biggest. Mayor Lightfoot said she was on a conference call with Walmart and other major retailers that had stores looted or heavily damaged during the unrest in Chicago. She said she pleaded with them to not abandon Chicago. "I think in the case of Walmart, what they were focused on was assessing the damage. They are doing an effort to donate fresh produce, to the...

Mayor Lightfoot said she’s hopeful major retailers will reopen the Chicago stores that were looted or otherwise damaged during protests surrounding George Floyd’s killing by police in Minnesota. But, she’s unsure of one of the biggest. Mayor Lightfoot said she was on a conference call with Walmart and other major retailers that had stores looted or heavily damaged during the unrest in Chicago. She said she pleaded with them to not abandon Chicago.

Looters stealing large screen tv's from a moving train in Chicago

After a family member who lives above her jewelry store heard a commotion, Yolanda Zuno rushed to downtown Aurora to try and protect her shop during unrest in the city’s center Sunday. By the time she arrived around 7:30 p.m., she was shocked to see the windows of Aurora Jewelry, 29 N. Broadway, were smashed. Zuno is now estimating the store lost between $800,000 and $900,000 during the looting, including items taken and damage to the shop during the unrest that is part of the fallout from the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25. After breaking into...

Opioid-related deaths in Cook County have doubled since this time last year, and similar increases are happening across the country. “If you’re alone, there’s nobody to give you the Narcan,” said one coroner.

The Chicago man filmed himself handing out bombs to “peaceful” Minnesota protesters who then hurled the bombs at police. Matthew Lee Rupert was charged Monday in Chicago with civil disorder, carrying on a riot and possession of unregistered destructive devices.

Chicago authorities have arrested a man suspected of distributing explosive and incendiary devices both in Chicago and in Minneapolis, Minnesota during the recent demonstrations. On Sunday, the Chicago Police Department apprehended 28-year-old Matthew Lee Rupert of Galesburg, Ill., and charged him with civil disorder, rioting, and possession of unregistered destructive devices, CBS News Chicago reported. Rupert was arrested Sunday in Chicago after returning from Minneapolis where he handed out explosive and flammable devices to protesters and encouraging them to use them against the police, according to a video Rupert posted on Facebook.

82 shot, 22 fatally, over Chicago’s most violent weekend of 2020Twenty-two people were killed and at least 60 others were wounded by gun violence in Chicago’s most violent weekend of the year so far, which also saw widespread protests, riots and looting throughout the city in the wake of the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd. More than half of the weekend’s victims were shot on Sunday as the city reeled from violent protests Saturday night that led to hundreds of arrests and the implementation of a curfew. Chicago Police Supt. David Brown said Monday that of the total fatal...

Chicago needs 3,000 National Guardsmen. Aldermen arguing that the deployment of 375 National Guard troops to seal off the downtown had left South and West Side unprotected. During Sunday calls between the mayor and aldermen, Lopez asked Lightfoot directly what her plan was to protect the neighborhoods after sealing off a downtown devastated by looting, vandalism and arson on Saturday. According to Lopez, the mayor responded that she had a plan for every neighborhood. By Sunday night, neighborhoods were in chaos, warnings about a “coordinated attempt to destabilize our city” turned out to be right. On a second conference call...