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He's the guy who talks crap behind your back. In Pritzker's case, it's on an FBI wiretap.The billionaire candidate for governor, like too many white so-called progressives, is a fake friend to the black community. The feds had tape rolling in November 2008 when Pritzker gave then-governor Rod Blagojevich his advice on whom to appoint to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama after his ascent to the White House. "Of all the African-Americans I can think that are sort of like, qualified, and vetted,” Pritzker says, White was “the one that's least offensive.” When the news first broke...

CBS This Morning never opens without a cheap shot at Donald Trump. Charlie Rose noted the Donald Trump was praising the relief efforts "others" were saying it was taking too long. Never mind that this is an island 1,000 miles from Miami. This isn't Texas or Florida. Never mind the 8,000 personnel that are currently there. Never mind that. Let's talk about who made the relief efforts much more difficult than they might have been otherwise. Hillary Clinton.Clinton has been bashing Trump non-stop since the hurricane struck the island. Trump is "not interested" in talking about Puerto Rico says she....

The Supreme Court of Illinois has ruled that a state ban on carrying guns within a 1,000 feet of a park is obviously unconstitutional. It is unconstitutional because it “directly implicates the core right of self-defense”. From reason.com: Yesterday the Illinois Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a state ban on carrying guns within 1,000 feet of a public park violates the constitutional right to bear arms. The decision in People v. Chairez extends the logic of prior rulings by the same court and by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit holding that Second Amendment rights exist...

A longtime neo-Nazi poised to be a Republican nominee for Congress in Illinois says nothing would get him to give up the chance to promote “America-first” policies in Washington. Arthur Jones, who has a long association with the American Nazi Party and related groups, was the only person to submit 603 signatures for the Republican ballot in the Chicago-area 3rd Congressional District, a Democratic stronghold. Horror spread quickly after the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times reported this week that Republicans appear unable to force Jones off the ballot.

John Mahoney, a veteran character actor best known for playing the curmudgeonly dog-loving father of the title character in TV's "Frasier," has died, his publicist said Monday. He was 77 years old. Mahoney, who played Martin Crane, father of Frasier Crane and Niles Crane, on the long-running sitcom, died Sunday in Chicago after a short illness, according to Wendy Morris. Peri Gilpin, who played the character Roz Doyle in "Frasier," recalled that Mahoney sang at her wedding, and she recalled some of his best-known performances: "Watch Moonstruck, Say Anything and/or Frasier or anything you can with him in it and...

Holocaust denier and neo-Nazi Art Jones is running for Congress in Illinois — and he is going to be the Republican nominee for the liberal third congressional district, over the objections of the Illinois Republican Party. The district, which encompasses the southwest side of Chicago and neighboring suburbs, is represented by 7th-term veteran Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-IL). Lipinski is a moderate Democrat who voted against Obamacare in 2010. Jones is an admitted former leader of the American Nazi Party, a Vietnam veteran, and a retired insurance agent. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, he has tried to run for Congress many...

One of three teenage boys charged with trying to steal a retired police officer’s running vehicle Friday evening in the Gold Coast was arrested again Sunday night in connection to another carjacking. One of the teenage boys was arrested again Sunday night — less than 48 hours after being released — with a gun in another stolen car, Guglielmi said. The arrest happened in the South Side Englewood neighborhood.

FULL TITLE: 'Thank you for letting me use the girls' bathroom': Illinois republican primary challenger under fire for 'disgusting' ad mocking transgender people and feminists A Republican primary challenger in Illinois' gubernatorial race is under fire for her campaign advert mocking transgender people, feminists and immigration activists. State Rep. Jeanne Ives, who is running against Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner in the Republican primary, released the ad on Saturday. Titled 'Thank you Bruce Rauner', it features actors dressed up as different stereotypes to to mock the governor who has faced criticism from some in his own party for being too moderate...

A Chicago resident on Wednesday filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to create a new political action committee whose name threatens to assassinate President Donald Trump.The PAC is titled, "I AM GOING TO ASSASSINATE PRESIDENT DONALD J TRUMP." (The name is registered in all capital letters.)An individual named Freddy Black filed the paperwork and wrote, "Send donations to reward my assassination of Donald J Trump to: Freddy Black, 3001 S King Drive Apt 1118, Chicago IL 60616. Or to my IDOC Parole Agent Mr. Done Let"s get him assassinated in the next 24 hours!! Then I"ll kill all the KKK...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago has been ranked the number one city in the world by Time Out magazine's City Life Index. It is the second year in a row that Chicago tops the list. The index measures 32 cities based on a survey of 15,000 people. Cities were scored by food, drink, culture, friendliness, affordability, happiness and livability. Time Out gave Chicago top marks for food and drink and also scored well for happiness, culture, affordability and city and neighborhood pride. Top 10: 1. Chicago 2. Porto 3. New York 4. Melbourne 5. London 6. Madrid 7. Manchester 8. Lisbon...

The typical explanation for Chicago’s gang violence is as follows. Young gang members in small, disorganized cliques shoot each other over petty personal feuds that they play out on social media with the hope of gaining street notoriety and possibly fame as a rapper. This type of killing came into vogue in 2012 when a rapper and Gangster Disciples gang-member Lil Jo Jo was killed after making a music video threatening to kill members of rapper Chief Keef’s Black Disciples clique. Lil Jo Jo’s video was a response to Keef’s “3hunna” music video in which he disses the Gangster Disciples....

Four people have been killed and at least eight other people, including boys ages 11 and 16, have been wounded in Chicago shootings since midmorning Wednesday, according to police. The shootings also include four people who were shot, 3 fatally, within 10 minutes late Wednesday. (snip) In the city’s first homicide of the day, a man was shot and killed during an argument that also left another man wounded about 1:35 p.m. in a home in the 11100 block of South Emerald Avenue in the Roseland neighborhood(snip) The two were in a dispute inside the home when they each took...

Roeper's name came up in the New York Times investigation into prominent people padding their social media accounts with fake followers. Film critic Richard Roeper's reviews and columns will not be published by the Chicago Sun-Times as an investigation is conducted into his Twitter following, the paper announced Monday. Roeper was one several prominent journalists, sports stars, politicians and celebrities who had paid to increase their Twitter followers with fake accounts, according to a New York Times report published over the weekend. Roeper's Twitter following currently numbers over 225,000, but it was not specified by the Times report how many...

CHICAGO--Two men were killed and at least 17 other people, including a 12-year-old boy and a 13-year-old boy, were wounded this weekend in gun violence across Chicago. The first fatal shooting happened early Saturday when a man was killed and another was wounded in the West Side Humboldt Park neighborhood, police said. The men were arguing with someone about 12:20 a.m. when the other person opened fire in the 2500-block of West Division. Antonio Reyes, 38, was shot multiple times in the body and pronounced dead at the scene(snip) Just over an hour earlier, a 23-year-old woman was shot in...

The Center for Immigration Studies has listed areas in jeopardy of losing their Byrne Justice Assistance Grants, which it called “the largest source of federal criminal justice funds for state and local authorities.” Some cities have sued to stop the administration. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been eager for the funding crackdown because some 300 sanctuary jurisdictions block their agents from entering jails to arrest criminal illegals. Instead, they have to wait until the illegal immigrants are arrested and ICE officials say that makes it a far more dangerous situation than in a jail.

At least 31 people were shot, six fatally, between Friday afternoon and Monday morning, making it the most violent yet in 2018, according to data kept by the Tribune. That includes an 11-hour period from Saturday afternoon to Sunday morning when 18 people were shot, three fatally. Compared with this time last year, 2018 has had both fewer shootings and homicides, according to Tribune data. There have been 141 people shot and 25 people killed in 2018, while 211 people were shot and 41 people were killed at this point in 2017. During the violent weekend there was an officer-involved...

CHICAGO -- Moments after a woman ran up to a Northwest Side birthday party asking for help, witnesses say, someone in a passing vehicle fired shots at the group, sending four people to area hospitals and leaving one woman in critical condition. Legacy Dance Association in Humboldt Park was hosting a birthday party Saturday night, according to co-owner Reynaldo Sanchez, who said all was quiet until a woman ran up to the party around 1 a.m. and asked for help. “It’s just by chance that she picked this place,” Sanchez said. Sanchez said according to people at the party, the...

Chanting "This is what America looks like," several hundred people marched in Chicago from Daley Plaza toward the Trump Tower Wednesday night to call on Congress to protect thousands of young immigrants brought to the United States as children. The demonstrators marched up Dearborn Street and then east on Wacker Drive until they were across the river from Trump Tower, where they gathered for prayer before disbanding.

What comes around, goes around for the community organizer who became POTUS. Most embarrassingly, the dispute that caused Alinsky-esque assault on black politicians was over the division of spoils among the black community itself. John Byrne reports in the Chicago Tribune: An attempt by some African-American Chicago aldermen to publicly praise ObamaPresidential Center designers for hiring minority contractors ran into shouts of “Shame on you!” by a group that wants a community benefits agreement to protect residents living near Jackson Park. The dueling news conferences Wednesday by the City Council Black Caucus and activists came after the Obama foundation announced this month that...

The locally oriented website CWBChicago provides a valuable instructional video for its readers in fashionable, upscale Chicago neighborhoods who (quite realistically) fear the ongoing predation by gangs running rampant elsewhere in the city, making it the murder capital of America. A compelling security camera video released by the Chicago Police Department depicts a gang driving into Wicker Park – an expensive area with great shopping attracting many pedestrians (and a Hollywood film named after it) – and carrying out an armed robbery on a pedestrian.