So what was this dude doing on the Dan Ryan, on a bicycle, at 9:15 p.m.? We’ll never know, because he’s dead. From the Chicago Tribune: A male victim on a bicycle died after he was struck by a vehicle on the Dan Ryan Expressway tonight, officials said. The accident happened at about 9:15 p.m. [...]
Runners begin the Park Forest Scenic 5 and More. (Photo: Wendy Heise) This Labor Day, plan on joining the fun in Park Forest during the 2nd Annual running of the Park Forest Scenic 5 and More. The race has been reconstituted onto a 5 mile course and augmented with a 5 mile family bike ride [...]
The mouth that won’t stop gabbing is starting another media blitz as the Summer of Blagojevich continues. From the Chicago Tribune: Beginning a weekend media blitz, Rod Blagojevich said this morning he will not take any plea deal from prosecutors, accused them of trying to criminalize political horse-trading and emphasized repeatedly that he had not [...]
From the Chicago Tribune: Chicago-based ShoreBank, which for more than three decades made loans to South and West siders who might not have gotten financing elsewhere to buy homes, apartment buildings and start businesses, failed Friday. It had struggled for months to raise sufficient funds to stay afloat. Its deposits and most of its assets [...]
Phoenix Peraza, age 5. (Photos: National Center for Missing & Exploited Children) According to ENEWSPF, Phoenix Peraza is safely in the custody of Park Forest Police. From ENEWSPF: Park Forest Police confirm that they have arrested Daaiyah Manning, sought in connection with the abduction of a 5-year-old child from Arizona, Phoenix Peraza. Mr. Emiliano Peraza, [...]
Governor Rod Blagojevich did not testify in his own defense when the Illinois Senate put him on trial and eventually threw him out of office. The man who never passed up a camera or microphone while in office decided to refrain from testifying before the Illinois Senate, and then showed up to speak before that [...]
From the Chicago Tribune: Jeremiah Sterling ran away from the gunman pursuing him through a yard near his home in the Far South Side’s West Pullman neighborhood, but the teen didn’t make it. As he laying dying, shot at least seven times, he gave a friend one last request: "I want you to tell my [...]
Patti On Tape: "Tell Them To Hold Up That F***ing Cubs S***. F*** them." I don’t have a picture of Patti Blagojevich. Never met her. Met the former Gov. several times. This picture comes from one of those meetings, taken in Matteson’s Lincoln Mall so many lifetimes ago, it seems now. Actually believed in him [...]
I haven’t written much about the trial of Rod Blagojevich. Court proceedings bore me, and we always learn far too much about the alleged offender than we ever wanted to know. Now this, from the Sun-Times: A $5,000 Oxxford suit, $1,400 spent on Geneva Custom Shirts, $63 in Hanro underwear and $214 in ties — [...]
Illinois politics takes us down the rabbit hole once again. From Greg Hinz at Crain’s Chicago Business: The Democratic and Republican nominees for the U.S. Senate, Alexi Giannoulias and Mark Kirk, gave their views on planning and environmental issues at a Metropolitan Planning Council lunch on Monday. But the news was what happened afterward: Mr. [...]
