Plowing Problems

Someone mentioned this in the comments:

• How are the speed bumps, bike lanes, curb bump-outs and those plastic lane markers affecting plowing operations?

And how many hundreds of thousands of dollars are going to be spent on....:

• concrete repair
• new plastic lane markers
• straightening out plow blades

....after everything that was already spent on f#$%ing up traffic? 

We warned years ago that the bike lanes were only usable seven months a year and eliminated how much street parking? Dealing another blow to businesses who relied on customers being able to....you know....actually park near their storefronts.

Here Come the Vigilantes

New York City, leading the way:

• In a clear display of frustration with New York’s soft-on-crime policies, Anthony Caines, the 45-year-old Brooklyn man infamous for his alleged spitting spree targeting white women, was left bloodied and battered on a Williamsburg sidewalk after two unidentified men delivered what looks like vigilante justice.

  The incident, captured on video and shared widely on social media, shows Caines curled up in a fetal position as the duo kicks and punches him, issuing a stern warning to “Stop violating these females out here, you heard?”

  The beatdown went down outside a hair salon on Sixth Street, though the exact date of the footage remains unclear.

  Caines, who sports a large gash above his left eye and a knot over his right, can be heard wailing in pain as blood streams down his face. The attackers, whose faces aren’t visible in the clip, laugh as they stomp on his legs and deliver blows to his head.

Video embedded in the linked story. 

An added bonus, there isn't any racial component to it, which makes it all but certain to fly under the radar of the left wing media. Hopefully, NYPD isn't wasting any resources tracking anyone down. 

And more hopefully, if that serial puncher gets out, some Chicagoans take a cue from these guys. 

Pritzkers LUV Epstein!

This is from two weeks ago.

Not only is Fata$$'s cousin prominently mentioned in the Epstein files (Thomas Pritzker referred to Epstein as "like family" in emails spanning nine years), Porky's people solicited campaign donations from Epstein even after the conviction for soliciting sex from a minor:

• Many of the long-awaited Epstein files are finally out – and Democrats who spent years demanding their release are suddenly silent now that their own party leaders keep appearing in the documents.
  
  Among them: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and, here in Illinois, Gov. JB Pritzker and his billionaire family.
  
  The newly released 20,000-plus pages from the House Oversight Committee do not place JB Pritzker on Epstein’s island, his jet, or inside the man’s criminal enterprise. But they do expose something Democrats hoped voters would never see: a 2018 solicitation sent to Jeffrey Epstein on behalf of JB Pritzker’s gubernatorial campaign – a full decade after Epstein was convicted in 2008 for soliciting sex from a minor.
  
  The email, sent by Democrat-aligned operatives linked to ActBlue, pitched Pritzker as a “rising star” and invited Epstein to a Chicago donor event.

This would explain the near-constant media distractions currently underway to divert attention from the files. Like the Hegseth "war crimes" story that the New York Times (the actual New York Times!) admitted was false. Or the demand for Trump to release his MRI....which he did.

The same people who are still silent about Sparklefarts killing over 800 innocent civilians overseas in missile strikes on un-convicted American citizens or Biden being sharp as a tack while wandering around unattended, shaking hands with ghosts and talking to dead leaders and congress-weasels.

Time for Some Research

Someone sent us this, and it's amazing if true:

• 52% of all murders in the United States come from only 2 counties
• 1) Cook County, Illinois (Chicago and surrounding area)
• 2) Los Angeles County, California

If those numbers pan out, and you add in New York, you see exactly why everyone thinks (knows) blue city/state shitholes could use some assistance from the National Guard.

And this....:

• Repeat offenders in Chicago, the same 1400 people commit over 86% of the crimes. The same repeat offenders according to the superintendent of Chicago police

....screams "failure" at every level of democrat governance. 

 

More Promotions

Deck chairs. Titanic.

• Michael Tate from Cmdr of 006 to Street Deputy 
• Patrick Darling from Area 1 Lieutenant to Cmdr 022
• Andre Poston from Lieutenant of Public Transit to Cmdr 006

That is all. 

 

We Missed Snow Tow Night

Our favorite winter event in years past:

• Brian Johnson went outside to start his girlfriend’s car in West Garfield Park early Monday when he saw his car getting towed because it was in violation of the winter parking ban. “My heart dropped. It sucked,” Johnson, 30, said. “I parked, literally, in front of my apartment, so to get that tow from my apartment is crazy.”

  Johnson, who had to find a way to 103rd Street and Doty Avenue to retrieve the car, was one of 227 drivers who had their morning upended by the start of the parking ban. The ban is enforced on 107 miles of main streets from 3 a.m. to 7 a.m. daily from Dec. 1 to April 1, according to the city’s Department of Streets and Sanitation.

  The 227 tows on the first night of the ban were the lowest in four years and the second-lowest this decade. Last year, 244 cars were towed, while 263 cars were hauled away in 2023, according to the department.

  Those who violate the parking ban will be towed and face a minimum $150 towing fee, a $60 ticket, and a storage fee of $25 per day. Vehicles are towed to auto pounds at 10301 S. Doty Ave. or 701 N. Sacramento Ave.

So a quick $53,345 ripped from taxpayer wallets, helped along by the seven-to-ten inches of snow over the weekend....which may have activated further snow route parking restrictions? We can't remember exactly.

It was also noted in the article (and a couple comment sections) that the city continued it's long standing tradition of NOT plowing the neighborhoods (and many main streets) until the snow tapered off and even then, taking their time getting there. So all those people who might have wanted to find alternate parking, couldn't, leading to more tows and more fines.

Christmas Tax Money Returns

Someone must have gotten hold of Conehead during his latest stay at the sanitarium and mentioned he was missing out on hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax revenue:

• City officials raised the capacity limit at Daley Plaza’s Christkindlmarket by 1,000 people after organizers, vendors and patrons complained about a last-minute crowd restriction on the beloved holiday market.

  The new capacity limit of 2,553 at the market, which opened Nov. 21, is still less than the 3,494 people allowed under the COVID-19 capacity rules set in 2021, when social distancing was in effect.

  Mark Tomkins, president and chief executive of the German American Chamber of Commerce of the Midwest, said the city informed his organization, which runs Christkindlmarket, of the decision Monday morning.

  “It’s progress. It will help, but it’s still rough for our vendors,” Tomkins said Monday, adding that the change “doesn’t move the needle a lot.”

This after the Civic Federation pointed out the TIF "surplus" was about to be drained to the benefit of the CTU and pretty much no one else (see post below this one).

T.I.F. "Surplus" Disappearing

A secret piggy bank, it's about to be drained:

• The Civic Federation is shining a bright and unflattering light on Mayor Brandon Johnson’s plan to declare a record $1 billion tax increment-financing surplus to rescue the city and Chicago Public Schools, stave off classroom cuts and help bankroll a new teachers contract.

  In a report issued Monday, Chicago’s preeminent taxpayer watchdog group said the “complex and highly politicized” surplus process revised by the Johnson administration last year has allowed the creation of TIF districts to “act as a sort of stealth property tax” that bankrolls operating costs at the expense of economically challenged areas TIF districts were created to revitalize.

  Although “increasingly large TIF sweeps” have bailed out the city and CPS budgets in recent years, the special taxing districts were “not designed to serve as a source of operating revenue” nor will “surpluses of this size continue” in future years.

  In fact, the expiration of many TIF districts beginning in 2030 means those surpluses will “begin to decline,” depriving the city, CPS and other cash-strapped local agencies of a way to generate cash windfalls without risking the political fallout from raising property taxes.

Remember, this looting of the TIF fund is on top of the massive property tax increases we all just got in the mail - increases caused AGAIN by the Chicago Public Schools raising their portion of the property tax the maximum allowable by law, despite:

• declining enrollment
• under-utilized buildings (some at less than 10% of capacity)
• test scores and graduation rates plummeting

If Chicago had real reform....and result based initiatives....taxpayers would be getting massive refunds. 

New Chief Judge

The non-Prickwrinkle endorsed States Attorney won, and instilled some semblance of order over investigations and charging that may (MAY) reverse some of Crimesha's disastrous efforts.

This guy wasn't the Prickwrinkle Machine's first choice, but anyone coming from within the system is starting behind the eight ball:

• For the first time in nearly a quarter century, Cook County sees a new chief judge take office today. It’s a job that’s rarely in the spotlight, with outgoing chief Timothy Evans emerging from near seclusion only for occasional social club luncheons and press events promoting the court’s latest feel-good initiative.

  But his successor, Charles Beach, who ousted Evans in an upset vote by the county’s judges in September, will find himself under bright lights on day one.

  That’s because the county’s electronic monitoring program, most of which came under the control of the chief judge’s office earlier this year, is sagging under withering criticism after CWBChicago revealed that the man accused of setting a woman on fire aboard a Blue Line train in the Loop last month was wearing an ankle monitor issued by Evans’ office at the time of the horrific crime.
  
  Our further investigation revealed that Evans’ staff was aware that the accused man, Lawrence Reed, had repeatedly left home without permission, yet they took no action to bring him back. And, over the weekend, we reported that a man recently charged with shooting another man on the Red Line was also on the chief judge’s monitoring program.

  Now it will be up to Beach, a judge since 2017, to manage the fallout of those headline-making cases and figure out how to fix a program that, by Evans’ own admission last week, has no law enforcement mechanism to address AWOL defendants.

Someone had speculated in the comments section that the main reason the electronic "monitoring" program was put under the Chief Judge was that judges cannot be sued and found liable over the continued criminal behaviors committed by the released criminals.

We'll see what Beach ends up doing about any of it - and CWB will likely be leading the charge. Click the link up top for an entire series of links to their reporting.

Manufactured Scandal

If you are or were a police officer, and you believe word one from the "media" quoting anonymous sources that the Secretary of War ordered the bombing of survivors on narcotic speed boats, you're an idiot.

If you post about it on social media, you're a moron. People have been sending us all sort of screen shots.

The media has been lying for decades and if you grew up, lived or worked in Chicago, you really should be smarter than the average voter.

Ramirez-Rosa - Scumbag

The Contrarian's X/Twitter feed reports what an absolutely horrible piece of shit and all around scumbag former aldercreature, current Park District superintendent Carlos Ramirez-Rosa is:

• For those who are unconvinced of Chicago Park District Superintendent Carlos Ramirez Rosa's contempt for Chicago Police, let this account erase any doubt.

  Carlos Ramirez Rosa is scum.
  
  
  Nearly 7 years ago, Chicago Police Officers Eduardo Marmolejo and Conrad Gary were killed when they were struck by a South Shore train while pursuing a suspect at 103rd and Dauphin.
  
  
  A K9 statue dedicated to Ofc. Marmolejo was to be unveiled today at King-Lockhart Park at 106th and Western (19th Ward). King-Lockhart Park was specifically chosen as the site by Marmolejo's family.
  
  
  Though the planning for the statue dates back months — CPD worked in close collaboration with the family and Park District and promoted the event — at the 11th hour, the cop-hating Rosa denied space at King-Lockhart for the Marmolejo K9 statue.
  
  
  No apparent reason from Rosa was given to the family for the reversal.
  
  
  A reliable hunch is Rosa's progressive ideology forbids him from honoring Police.
  
  
  Instead, the K9 statue was displayed today at the CPD Academy on West Jackson Blvd.
  
  
  This decision to pull the rug out from underneath the Marmolejo family is no trivial slight, but a kick in the teeth at a family who lives in perpetual grief.
  
  
  This denial of space to permanently place a monument honoring a man who gave his life while serving Chicago represents Rosa's unparalleled hatred for CPD.

No wonder Conehead appointed a fellow "progressive" piece of shit to be in charge of the parks - he's a little bitch who take orders from a bigger bitch who also hates the police, but has to rely on them for protection.

UPDATE: The statue was supposed to be an ADDITION to the park - not a re-naming. How many parks are there in Chicago that ALSO have a memorial statue to a completely different individual....or multiple memorial statues? We can think of ten or more right off the tops of our heads.

Another Felonious "Peacekeeper"

We're pretty sure that "peacekeepers" are driving entire categories of crime all on their own:

• Chicago police say Michael Nash admitted he was at the scene of a violent robbery in Woodlawn a couple of weeks ago, but only, he claimed, in his role as a neighborhood “peacekeeper.”
  
  But CPD also says he was actually one of the robbers and, in a notably unpeaceful twist, twice used phone calls from the police station to try to arrange for people to intimidate the victim and a witness into staying quiet.

After being caught attempting to arrange intimidation of witnesses, he threatened police.

He also has quite the background:

• Court records show Nash’s felony history includes two years for aggravated unlawful use of a weapon last year, eight years for being a felon in possession of a firearm in 2019, three years for the same offense in 2014, one year for possession of a controlled substance in 2012, three years for attempted robbery in 2008 and three years for possessing a stolen motor vehicle in 2007.

"Progressive" morons will start spouting about how "only someone who has been in the system can understand and work within the system" which is horseshit. Because they were in - and know how broken it is - they know how to exploit the system to their advantage and throw more sand in the gears.

Who hires these assholes anyway? Is it Conehead, Prickwrinkle or the CTU? 

Bankruptcy?

In the face of Chicago being unable to sell bonds to cover debt or operating costs:

• Former Illinois Representative Jeanne Ives said that Chicago is effectively bankrupt and that investors are expressing concern about the city's debt. This statement was made in a social media post on X dated November 25.

  "Few understand what this means - Chicago is bankrupt and the market knows it," said Jeanne M Ives, Former Representative.

  According to the Chicago Tribune editorial board, on November 24, 2025, "bond vigilantes" are opposing Mayor Brandon Johnson's borrowing plans. This follows a recent Sales Tax Securitization Corporation (STSC) deal that saw limited demand and wider spreads. The board indicated that market resistance, including increased underwriter support needed to place bonds, suggests higher costs in the future. They urged the City Council to limit new debt and pay attention to fiscal warnings.

  Bond Buyer reported that Chicago's $454.37 million STSC refunding was priced amid contentious budget discussions with significantly wider spreads compared to a previous sale. Lead underwriter Goldman Sachs reportedly "took down" approximately $75 million in bonds that could not be placed with investors, according to Bloomberg. Such underwriter take-downs and widening spreads suggest that investors are demanding higher yields for holding Chicago's bonds.

There's no help coming from Washington as far as we can tell. And Conehead is determined to drive Chicago to the brink hoping for some sort of bailout from Springfield....which is also broke with something over $100 BILLION of debt.

Good thing the police department is so undermanned - if we have to resort to a life of crime to feed ourselves, we know there won't be any meaningful response from the authorities, and even if there is, the justice system is so broken, we'll get probation a few dozen times. 

Slum Times Makes Excuses

The media tries to gaslight Chicagoans...again:

• As hundreds of young people congregated in the Loop last week, a 14-year-old was killed and eight other teens were wounded by gunfire, reigniting debate about how to handle such gatherings of teenagers in Chicago.

  The meetups, known as “teen trends,” or when they go awry, “teen takeovers,” have sometimes led to violence and prompted questions about curfews, how to provide alternatives for teenagers and the role of parents.

  The shooting was the latest of these kinds of gatherings to turn chaotic. In March, a 15-year-old was grazed by gunfire in Streeterville. The get-togethers aren’t unique to Chicago — they’ve also happened in San Antonio and Denver.

  Most gatherings are peaceful, but race is often cited as a factor in the negative perception of the events, even before they turn violent. The groups often include Black and Brown kids who say they don’t have safe spaces to gather in their communities, raising other questions about investment and the needs of teens.

"...race is often cited as a factor..." Um....someone want to call Eric Holder? Seems the Slum Times wants to finally have that discussion that Holder insisted no one was willing to have.

What is making these kids feel they don't have safe spaces in their communities? Is it roving bands of Irish, Italian, Chinese and German teens? 

No?

Hmmm. Let's just call them "miscreants" then. These "miscreants." Do they come from stable two-parent households with steady jobs, good roll models, an emphasis on succeeding in school and life? 

They don't? 

We certainly hope they wouldn't come from households living on generational welfare, subsidized housing, taxpayer supported food assistance, and a  philosophy that emphasizes victimhood rather that succeeding at life, right? Nothing about immediate gratification, about taking things that don't belong to you, banging hoes and shooting perceived enemies over imagined disrespect? 

We mean, getting a job, earning something you can be proud of, building a family or a community, gaining respect via kind acts, charitable works, working toward mutual solutions so everyone benefits....that exists, right?

Hmmm. 

Probation Fail

One-year-old shot via a negligent discharge:

• A 21-year-old man accidentally shot a 1-year-old boy while changing his diaper in a South Shore apartment earlier this month, police say, after a gun he kept inside the child’s diaper bag became tangled and discharged, prosecutors say.

  Chicago police initially responded to a report of a child shot in the 7700 block of South Yates shortly after 2 p.m. on November 8. Officers found the toddler with gunshot wounds to his left and right legs, and EMS took him to Comer Children’s Hospital in critical condition, a CPD report said.

Guess the twenty-one-year old is on probation for???

• [...] According to police, 21-year-old Torion Stokes first told officers that an unknown man tried to force his way into the apartment and opened fire, striking the child. After hearing conflicting accounts, investigators took Stokes in for questioning, recovering a 9mm handgun from his front left pocket as they took him into custody, according to charging documents.

  A search of the apartment turned up more weapons and accessories, according to police. Officers reported finding another handgun in Stokes’ bedroom along with a drum magazine in a hallway closet. In a separate bedroom, they allegedly found a second drum magazine, a second handgun, and a box of ammunition.

  Court records show Stokes is currently in a “first-time weapon offender probation” program tied to a 2023 unlawful use of a weapon case. If he completes that probation successfully, the 2023 matter would be dismissed without a conviction.

We're going to go out on a limb here and say his "probation" effort is going to fall a bit short of the "successful" metric.

And the one-year-old, if he survives, will probably never walk normally.

Attempted Whitewashing

Former Dalton "mayor" Henyard is trying to refurbish her tainted legacy:

• Before we get started, the answer is and always will be “NO.”

  We have received these from others in the past and have never removed an article based on any of these “compliance notices” or take-down demands – whether they were sent to us by attorneys or “image” companies like this one is.

  Our publications speak for themselves and have never been successfully challenged in any court of law.

  Tiffany Henyard, the former Mayor of Dolton, Illinois, is apparently attempting to clean up her “image” or what is left of it after her disastrous term as mayor ended.

  Today, we received an email from the “Compliance Dept” with the subject line of “Removal Request (First Request) Respectfully.”

  My mind immediately said “NO” prior to even opening the email to read it.

  Below is the entire text of this “request” from the “Cyber Investigation Unit” of a company called “Business Image Lift.”

The letter was sent to a smaller media site - Illinois Leaks - in a rather blatant attempt to bully them into removing articles telling the truth about Henyard's disastrous reign. If the publicity firm could get them to remove things, then they can use that as a larger stick against other sites. 

Illinois Leaks told them to pound sand.

We got something similar years ago - from actual lawyers - following the Midway crash of Southwest Flight 1248. We told them something similar and never heard back.

CFD Threatened at Firehouse

We're sure this is just another "isolated incident:"

• A crew of auto thieves pulled guns on three Chicago firefighters who confronted them as they broke into a fire department member’s car outside an Avondale firehouse on Thanksgiving morning, according to Chicago police.

  The attempted theft unfolded shortly after 7:15 a.m. outside Engine 91’s station house in the 2800 block of North Pulaski Road. A police report said four men were breaking into a firefighter’s Dodge Charger when three members of the firehouse walked outside and approached the crew.

  The burglars responded by flashing handguns, prompting the firefighters to back off. The crew then climbed into a waiting SUV and sped north on Pulaski Road.

  They did not succeed in stealing the firefighter’s vehicle. No injuries were reported.

Even the aldercreature had something to say about this one (click to enlarge):

 

We're kind of surprised one or more of the firefighters didn't have a gun handy. We knew dozens who carried to-and-from work. Maybe there's a side-job opportunity for off-duty cops?

Killing Christmas

After allowing the unchecked feral non-demonized yutes to wreak havoc across downtown after the Christmas Tree lighting fiasco, Conehead's administration has decided to take more active steps in killing the holiday tax revenue streams that support Chicago:

• City officials surprised vendors at Chicago’s most popular holiday market by imposing new crowd restrictions just hours before it opened Nov. 21.

  Organizers say the Christkindlmarket at Daley Plaza will now be limited to 1,553 visitors at a time — less than half the 3,494 people allowed under the COVID-19 capacity rules set in 2021, when social distancing was still in place.

  Organizers say the move has already led to a significant drop in vendor revenue.

  “Every day this goes on is a day too long for all of our vendors, and quite frankly, for all the people standing out in the lines,” said Mark Tompkins, president and CEO of the German American Chamber of Commerce of the Midwest.

  The mayor’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Seriously, less than half of what was allowed during COVID? Remember, that pretty much accelerated the decline of downtown.

Why would you want tourists coming into town, spending cash during the holidays when you can just raise property taxes....again.

Snow??? In November???

Who would have thunk it....snow during the holiday season:

• The worst of a brewing winter storm is expected to hit northern Illinois on Saturday.

  A winter storm warning has been issued from 3 a.m. Saturday to 6 a.m. Sunday by the National Weather Service.

  The Chicago area is expected to see 5 to 9 inches of snow, according to the NWS’ forecast Friday afternoon.

As far as "sizable" snowfalls go, this is middling at best. And it's happening during a holiday weekend, so you can bet the plow drivers are excited for the first really big OT payday in a couple of years.

Chicago has dealt with far worse far better and with far less drama from the panic-driven media machine. 

Keep Voting for Democrats

If you had an extra $7.5 million lying around, what would you do with it?

Probably not this:

• Cook County, Illinois, is making its guaranteed basic income program permanent after launching it as a pilot program in 2022 with the help of federal COVID-19 relief funds.

  The Cook County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved $7.5 million to make the program permanent last week, Fox News reported. Cook County is the second-largest county in the U.S. and includes the city of Chicago.

  “Guaranteed basic income programs have become a trend across the U.S. in recent years with more than 100 pilots launched since 2018. Mayors for Guaranteed Income grew into a coalition of 150 mayors pushing pilot programs, offering low-income participants up to $1,000 a month with no strings attached,” according to the report. “The group has pushed pilot programs that have been adopted by municipalities across the country.” 

  The Cook County program, at one point, was the largest publicly funded program in the U.S., receiving $42 million from the American Rescue Plan Act. The Cook County Promise Guaranteed Income Pilot gave monthly payments of $500 to 3,250 households for two years “with no strings attached,” according to the report.

How about refunding it to the taxpayers who just saw another massive tax increase at the City level and will undoubtedly see another at the county level. It's crap like this that keeps the tax burden climbing and driving earners out because the leeches have gotten too used to not actually working and being responsible for their spending habits.

Feds Demand CTU Accounting

From a few days ago:

• The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is under investigation by the House Education and Workforce Committee for allegedly failing to show how it has spent union members’ money over the past five years, according to a letter obtained by Fox News Digital.

  The committee sent a letter to CTU President Stacy Davis Gates stating that evidence suggests the union failed to provide members with complete financial audits since 2020.

  "When unions flout these obligations, they betray the trust of the very people they are meant to serve … Every dollar paid by workers should serve their interests, not those of a select few operating in the shadows," the letter said.

Certain members have been demanding that the annual accounting the CTU is REQUIRED to provide (but haven't for five years now) be provided so that oversight can be conducted.

Chicago Teacher Union president Stacy-Davis Gates - who lived in Indiana, took advantage of Indiana homeowner tax laws for years, likely sent her kids to Indiana schools and probably voted in Indiana, won't provide Chicago teachers (many of whom live in the suburbs) with any sort of accountability. Which has resulted in a trickle of odd expenditures being exposed....like the union owning a house/recording studio somewhere in the southwestern US.

What is it with Chicago unions swindling their members out of money that's supposed to be used for the members? 

Maybe the feds will get answers where the members can't?

Officer Injured

Car accident:

• Chicago police said an officer was hurt after crashing into a car and striking the gate of a South Side home on Thanksgiving.

  The crash happened on Thursday near 76th and Wabash Avenue in the Greater Grand Crossing, Chicago police said.

  A marked CPD squad car, which had its emergency lights activated, was heading southbound on Wabash when it crashed into an SUV heading westbound on 76th, officials said.

  The CPD car ended up crashing into the front gate of a house.

Hopefully, if the District had a turkey dinner delivered, the Officer got some before the wreck. If not, hopefully, the hospital had some available. 

Get well soon Officer. 

For Your Entertainment

A busy photoshopper emailed us:

 

Gobble Gobble

 Happy Thanksgiving to all.

As usual, we'll be in and out all day, cooking, eating, turkey-coma, cleaning up, more turkey-coma. Posting and comment moderation will be sporadic.

If you're off, enjoy your day. 

If you're working, stay safe, especially in the face of potential turkey-leg domestics and the usual domestics that always seem to surface during these family reunions.

"Reply All"

Someone explain what happened yesterday with the Department email thread?

Did the initial email have all the names in the "CC" section instead of making it a "BCC" letter so that "Reply All" wouldn't clog up everyone's boxes?

Something like that should have ground the Department Intranet to a slow crawl at the very least. 

And a hearty laugh to all who figured it out and hit "Reply All" anyway. 

Outfit Job?

This goof served Federal time after being fired from the job....and then got probation for another crime?

• Joseph Pecora, a former Chicago police officer who served federal time in 2006 for taking 50 pounds of pot from a drug supplier, has been sentenced to probation after DNA evidence allegedly tied him to a $350,000 burglary on the city’s Northwest Side.

  Shortly before 8 a.m. on May 6, 2023, someone entered a 79-year-old woman’s home in the 5700 block of West School by breaking a basement window while she was away. The burglar stole about $350,000 in cash from a safe and slipped out, according to Chicago police records. But investigators also found blood on a basement curtain and sent it for DNA testing.

  Prosecutors said the sample matched Pecora.

And after getting out of prison, guess who hired him? 

• Pecora, who resigned from the police department shortly before heading to prison, has apparently continued his service to the city post-conviction. Municipal payroll records list him as a $51.41-per-hour “asphalt laborer” for the Chicago Department of Transportation. 

We might be mistaken, but we think we remember John Kass referring to CDoT as the "Department of Tony (how you doin'?)" as a clever reference to the Outfit connections that ran through City Hall for years. 

So how connected do you have to be to be fired from the Police Department, then re-hired by CDoT? The article doesn't say anything about the $350K being recovered....so are we seeing the curtain drawn back from the continuing mob presence and influence in Chicago?

Congrats CWB

(This editorial is behind a paywall, but there are ways around it)

Get a load of how the Tribune Editorial Staff is pretty much admitting that the media has completely failed at its primary function....and CWB is picking up the slack:

• Before he allegedly attacked the 26-year-old woman, Reed, with more than 70 past arrests and a history of mental illness, had been accused of another violent crime — aggravated battery — and had been released in August over the objections of a Cook County prosecutor by Cook County Judge Teresa Molina-Gonzalez. At the time, the judge said, “I can’t keep everybody in jail because the state’s attorney wants me to.”

  Those are likely to be words Molina-Gonzalez very much regrets when she next faces voters.

  But what happened after Molina-Gonzalez made her fateful decision is what’s most on our minds right now. Thanks to strong and thorough reporting by crime news site CWB, we have a comprehensive look at just how badly our system failed the woman who reportedly remains in critical condition as we write.

The system has failed, is failing, and continues to fail, based mainly on the one-party rule that has infected Chicago for over a hundred years now. It's gotten worse with the DEI judges who are placed in those positions to enable the continuing failure by misinterpreting the law, misapplying the law or just out-and-out ignoring the law.

But that's not the only failure.

The culpability of the media in ignoring stories like these or actively assisting in the covering up of incompetence on the part of judges, politicians, slating committees, etc., contributed mightily to the rot prevalent wrecking the system, destroying the tax base, driving out productive citizens and businesses.

As we have stated on numerous occasions, you do not hate the media enough. Their demise will not be mourned by anyone with a functioning brain.

And the Tribune is actually admitting it. 

Tis the Season

Rolling out the holiday spirit!

And after the body snatchers take away the corpse, you can leave the tape up as streamers to brighten up an otherwise dreary homicide scene, perhaps cheering up the mourners coming by to light candles.

Fata$$ Facing Reality?

This amusing article caught our attention:

• Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Friday he is willing to consider changes to Illinois’ SAFE-T Act after a man with a lengthy criminal record was charged with setting a passenger on fire aboard a Chicago Transit Authority Blue Line train.

  The attack occurred on November 17th, when authorities say 50-year-old Lawrence Reed doused a 26-year-old woman with gasoline and ignited her. The victim remains hospitalized in critical condition.

Anyone know why he might have had a change of heart?

It could be this article that got published about an hour before he had his sudden enlightenment:

• In New York City in 2022, just 327 people accounted for a third of all shoplifting, with more than 6,000 arrests between them. In Oakland, 0.1% of the population — that's 400 people — committed a majority of the city's homicides in recent years. "In 2014, data showed that three-quarters of state prisoners...had at least five prior arrests," Fortgang wrote. "Nearly 5 percent had 31 or more, a larger share than those imprisoned after just a single arrest. "

  Fortgang concluded that "The case for an incapacitation-first approach to crime control follows directly from these indisputable facts."

"....an incapacitation-first approach" means if you jail the offenders - especially repeat offenders, crime goes down. Significantly. 

Golly. Those law-and-order types might really be onto something! 

Amusing Tales of Crime

Crime and amusingly ironic.

First:

• A south suburban teenager who raps under the name “4 Block Lil Mari” has been jailed after prosecutors accused him of shooting a woman during a botched South Shore carjacking that ended with the victim, a concealed carry holder, shooting him as well.

  Kamari Bonslater, 17, of Steger, was already on pretrial release for allegedly possessing a machine gun and a stolen vehicle at the time of the shooting, prosecutors said.

Gee, a rapper, on SAFE-T Act release for having a "machine gun," gets another gun, commits another crime, and finally gets shot for his troubles.

But this one is even better....and funnier:

• An 18-year-old in a robbery crew was killed after being shot by a member of the crew in the parking lot of the Wal-Mart in Evergreen Park, according to police. Officers responded to the parking lot, located in the 2500 block of West 95th Street, at around 7:50 p.m. Saturday night on the report of shots fired.

  Police believe a silver Audi, occupied by three males, approached a man in the middle of the parking lot. Two males armed with handguns exited the Audi and attempted to take the man’s belongings.

  A struggle ensued and one suspect fired his gun multiple times, striking the other male — later identified as Justin Bell, 18, of Lynwood. Bell was dropped off by the silver Audi to a Chicago hospital where he later died.

Got to love when a criminal gets shot by his accomplices during the commission of a crime. Anyone want to bet whet his rap sheet looked like over his eighteen worthless years on Earth?

Hiya Ed!

Released in July after serving ten months (of a two year sentence), guess who's wandering around downtown? (click for larger view):

Picking up all the envelopes being held at an unknown PO Box no doubt. 

CWB Fest

You really have to dig around to find each of these stories anywhere else, but the CWB blog has them all on their front page, further solidifying their reputation as better reporters than most other outlets:

• Chicago sees 100% spike in weekend violence, driven by Christmas tree lighting chaos

No one else is mentioning the 100% increase. The constant refrain is "Crime is down" or "Isolated incident." Anything to keep the President from deploying the National Guard here.

And speaking of lighting up the Christmas tree: 

• 3 men charged with having guns during large crowd takeover in the Loop

One person mentioned to us that at least six guns were recovered, but only three could be attached to any of these three charged. That happens, but almost no one is letting the public know that guns being downtown isn't out-of-the-ordinary any more, mostly because police (A) aren't allowed to stop anyone any more or (B) there just aren't enough police around. 

• Police question 6 people, including 4 children, in murder of homeless man in the Loop: source

After the video of the twelve and thirteen year olds jumping a mother and her kids walking home from school last week, Conehead and the school officials were more interested in anything EXCEPT the offenders, the parental influence on the offenders and promised counseling....for the victims. But not accountability.

And look who wants to "reform" the police:

• Once on death row, CPD reform activist is charged with sexually assaulting child in Milwaukee

We can appreciate the triple killing of a bunch of useless gangbangers, but giving him a voice in "police reform" efforts would be a bridge too far in our humble opinions. And then he turns out to be a child molester? The irony is thick.

Slenderman Stabber in Chicago

Nice to see Wisconsin "justice" is about as good as Cook County "justice:"

• CHICAGO (WGN) — Morgan Geyser, the woman convicted in the Wisconsin Slender Man stabbing a decade ago, appeared in a Chicago courtroom Monday after escaping her group home Saturday.

  Police in Madison, Wisconsin issued an alert Sunday for Geyser, now 23, saying she was last seen around 8 p.m. Saturday with an adult acquaintance. The department issued an update late Sunday that Geyser was taken into custody in Illinois.

  Geyser was in custody in Markham, Illinois before she was transferred to Cook County Criminal Court building in Chicago.

After arriving via Greyhound here in town, she and her friend walked to Posen before being apprehended. Despite a forty year sentence to a mental health facility, she was paroled to a group home with a monitoring bracelet....which she was able to cut off.

Remember when "forty years" meant forty actual years? 

Stress-Con Meter

We might be using a version of this whenever Conehead does something stupid....so maybe on a weekly basis?

 We can change things up if readers have better content.

Fata$$ Scandal?

Porky dared the President's Department of Justice to come at him.

Wish granted:

• 'Come and get me,' Illinois Governor JB Pritzker taunted Donald Trump last month.
  And it now appears Trump's Justice Department is doing just as he asked – launching a new criminal investigation that threatens to embroil the billionaire governor, the Daily Mail can exclusively reveal.
  Pritzker is a potential 2028 presidential contender. He is worth an estimated $3.9 billion, according to Forbes, with much of his wealth coming from his inherited stake in the Hyatt Hotels fortune. 
  The case revolves around Pritzker's alleged links to his wife's friend, Jenny Thornley, who volunteered on his first gubernatorial campaign in 2018 and was convicted of forgery in 2023.
  'We are investigating this,' a top official at the DOJ told the Daily Mail.

Outside of the Statute of Limitations? Perhaps, but that didn't stop New York from prosecuting Trump on misdemeanor charges years outside of the Statute and amending a law ex post facto to upgrade it. Goose. Gander. 

Convict-able? We wouldn't bet money on it either way at this point.

Damaging to national ambitions and a presidential run waddle? Hell yeah.

Careful what you wish for. 

Retirees, Beware!

Democrat politicians in Springfield are at it again:

• Illinois voters soundly rejected a progressive state income tax because it was a path to tax retirees. That isn’t stopping state lawmakers from trying again.

  Lawmakers introduced a new bill to end Illinois’ long-standing flat income tax and replace it with a progressive structure – a move that could impose taxes on retirees and others.

  The move comes as Illinois tax revenues have reached record highs. Illinoisans face some of the nation’s biggest tax burdens.

  This isn’t even the legislature’s first progressive tax attempt this year. And for a second time, former Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is pushing the idea.

Read that third paragraph again:

• The move comes as Illinois tax revenues have reached record highs. Illinoisans face some of the nation’s biggest tax burdens.

Record high tax collections, but they still want more....because they have a spending problem. 

You never see anything about cutting costs and expenditures, just plans to steal more money.

Stop voting for democrats. 

Nice Weekend Conehead

And Porkulous, too:

• 9:00p Demonized Tally: 5 killed, 23 wounded 
• 2024 weekend tally: 4 killed, 10 wounded
• 2023 weekend tally: 2 killed, 12 wounded

Best weekend in three years according to HeyJackass.com.

 

Fata$$ Out of Town

Porky has been pretty quiet the past week or so. 

No doubt, part of it was his relative being prominently mentioned in the Epstein files.

The other part of it, he was in Rome meeting with the pope to discuss....immigration? 

What the actual f#$%? Was he picking up these pointers?

 

 

So Pope Sox Fan wants the US to let in millions of ILLEGAL ALIENS, but the Vatican administration (which is run by the pope) is cracking down on ILLEGAL ALIENS?

Anyone know what Jesus said about hypocrites? Or something about removing a dust mote from your brother's eye before noticing the splinter in your own?