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It’s off the deep end and off to la-la land with State Sen. James Meeks. Meeks is struggling to find support for his grand plan to encourage kids to stay home from school at the start of the school year.
From the Chicago Sun-Times:
State Sen. James Meeks (D-Chicago) met privately with the City Council’s Black Caucus [...]
Certainly one of the strangest comments in recent Illinois politics escaped the mouth of Gov. Rod Blagojevich today.
According to our friend Gregory Tejeda at the Chicag Argus, Blago described himself Monday as a “homeboy” and “possibly the first African-American governor of Illinois.”
Just try and find a context for that one.
Meanwhile, Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn stood [...]
Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass reported Friday that Chicago’s airport operations boss Dave “Pool Boy” Ochal threw his political weight around last week when his neighborhood faced a power outage:
Ochal’s Far Northwest Side neighborhood was without power for two days in the summer heat. Neighbors dug into their own pockets to pay for emergency generators [...]
Will Chicago’s City Council scream for justice this week when they reflect on the sad news from Garfield Park?
From the Sun-Times:
A man and teenage boy were fatally shot in the West Side’s Garfield Park neighborhood Saturday afternoon.
The victims were found at 54 N. Lotus Ave. and 5449 W. Washington Blvd., but were part of a [...]
Here we go. Johnny M. is playing it — or accusing Barack O. of playing it.
The race card. The dreaded race card.
When all chips are down, when a black man or woman is in danger of succeeding, there you have it. The race card again. It must be the race card.
Here’s [...]
Drew Peterson claims he had an affair with Paula Stark, wife of Len Wawczak, according to a TV reporter who contacted Stark. The Bolingbrook couple said this week that for seven months they wore a wire on Peterson, their neighbor and former friend.
At first, Stark and Wawczak laughed about it, saying it wasn’t true. That [...]
Despite news that some suburbs are crumbling before the Supreme Court’s recent liberal interpretation of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is standing firm.
From the Chicago Tribune:
Mayor Richard Daley was adamant Friday about Chicago’s intention to defend its handgun ban in court, despite news that a second area suburb was [...]
Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis is scheduled to be grilled publicly in City Hall by aldermen hungry for a scapegoat over the recent surge of violence in Chicago. City Council is up in arms, pun intended, over what Ald. Isaac Carothers (29th) called “unprecedented violence” at this year’s Taste of Chicago.
From the Sun-Times:
Embattled Chicago [...]
Chicago’s Mayor Richard Daley is an impressive and formidable politician. The man has incredible support in the city and elsewhere throughout the Chicagoland area.
The secret to his success? Govern-by-Whining. And it’s never his fault.
The latest incidents that have left Daley bewildered are the gang-related shootings last week at the Taste of Chicago. [...]
I guess I don’t understand the charm of handguns.
From the Chicago Tribune:
Two people were shot, one in the head in the Loop late Thursday as thousands of people streamed out of downtown after the city’s Fourth of July fireworks display and the Taste of the Chicago.
Both shootings occurred about 10:40 p.m. roughly a block apart, [...]
