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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 [...]
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 [...]
Thousands of people have reportedly been put at risk by the Village of Tinley Park. According to the SouthTown Star:
The Social Security, bank account and driver’s license numbers of anyone who has given his or her personal information to the Village of Tinley Park in the last 10 to 15 years may have been on [...]
This one is just too strange to pass up.
According to a report in the Southtown Star, a man in Park Forest, IL, has kept “a disorganized heap of crusty human bones” in a box for 26 years.
According to the report, John Ray claims he bought the box of human remains in 1982:
It was the year [...]
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, [...]
Officer Richard Francis left us today. A 60-year-old Vietnam War combat veteran, the first Chicago police officer shot to death in the line of duty since 2002, Francis died today as he struggled with a mentally ill woman who grabbed his gun and shot him in the head.
From the Chicago Sun-Times:
Francis, a 27-year police [...]
