As Expected

That Bally's stock "offering" limited to "women and people of color" has provoked the expected lawsuit, further clouding the entire casino issue:

• A conservative activist group is suing Bally’s, the city and state gambling regulators over a minority investment program in the Chicago casino that allows only women and people of color to get a piece of the action.

  The American Alliance for Equal Rights filed the federal lawsuit Wednesday, along with two white Texas men who are “excluded from the table solely based on immutable characteristics,” the suit states.

"Reverse racism" is still racism, and this remnant of Groot's years of mis-governance with Bally's the City of Chicago and the Illinois Gaming Board being named as defendants, will end up costing taxpayers untold millions long before this doomed-to-fail enterprise even opens.

But don't worry - those in-the-know are already getting paid via connected contracts and such.

Illegal Alien Crimes Stacking Up

Illegal aliens - doing the crimes that American's can't be bothered to do:

• One of the two men Chicago police are questioning in connection with the horrific murder on Sunday of 63-year-old George Levin was arrested two weeks ago after a 13-year-old girl accused him of trying to lure her into a car on the Northwest Side.

Remember, these are the scum that Conehead and Fata$$ are willing to protect over Chicagoans.

And becoming the victims that criminals know are unlikely to report:

• There are new, troubling developments to report in the triple shooting that left two women dead and another badly injured in the South Shore neighborhood on Tuesday morning.

  Two sources familiar with the investigation said all three women were targeted for execution-style slayings in an alley behind the 7700 block of South Oglesby. The sources said they were working leads that all three women were migrants who had been kidnapped. It is unclear if the women had been trafficked before they were killed.

So they illegally arrive here, are pretty much unemployable due to e-verify and businesses not wanting to face massive fines, so they turn to off-the-books type employment which unfortunately includes sex work. Sex workers are less likely to want to be involved with law enforcement, especially when illegally in country, and criminals know that these types are pretty much a free score - for sex, for robbery, for exploitation, and eventually, homicide.

But don't worry - Conehead and Fata$$ will just import more!

Typical Illinois Government

Remember that "crackdown" that was supposed to start happening on that expressway approach ramp to O'Hare where all those driver's park, waiting for flights to arrive?

• A crackdown was supposed to start this year, fining drivers who park on the shoulder to wait before pickups at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.

  Cameras were supposed to be installed under a new Illinois state law that just went into effect. But it turns out the law is not being enforced — and email exchanges with state agencies uncovered that the cameras were never even installed in the first place.

What's the point of passing a law that no one has any intention of enforcing?

Interesting Murder

So this one caught our eye because it happened in an area that averages a murder every 2.1 years:

• Police have launched a murder investigation after a shocking discovery was made in one of the city’s safest neighborhoods: a deceased 63-year-old man tied up in a Norwood Park basement.

  Officers responded to the home in the 7600 block of West Talcott after a woman reported finding her brother unresponsive and restrained in the basement bedroom around 10:50 p.m. Sunday, officials said. According to preliminary information from the scene, the victim had been tied up with an extension cord and duct tape.

Through some good police work, it was solved. Guess who the offenders were?

• Chicago police are preparing to arrest two [illegal aliens] to face charges of home invasion and murder in connection with the brutal slaying of a man in his Norwood Park home, an alderman said this afternoon.

One Venezuelan, one Ecuadorian, both illegal. The victim appears to have met his killers via a dating app, which makes us wonder what (if anything) Fata$$ and Conehead are going to say, seeing as how illegals and the alternative lifestyle community both lean heavily to that side of the political spectrum. If they aren't in custody already, they're probably hiding in Fata$$'s mansion asking where all the toilets are.

You can bet for sure JB/BJ are hoping no one notices.

Drop a Slip, Get Paid

From the comment section, a "stupidvisor" who doesn't understand this is still the United States, even if it's in the Socialist Communist Paradise of Illinois:

• OT. I was walking in to work before my tour. In the parking lot I was wearing my ICE hat. A supervisor stopped me and told me to take it off and that I could not wear it on department property. I was told next time it will be a number. So now the department is telling me what I can wear while off duty to work.

There was a lawsuit filed in a largish police department a few years ago where the members sued over the fifteen or thirty minutes they were required to arrive at work, get dressed, gather equipment and then report to roll call prior to their shift. 

Long story short, they won. So unless the City is willing to pay starting at the arrival time on the property, the "supervisor" should either be laughed at, ignored or told off in no uncertain terms that the clock doesn't start until XXXX hours and anything worn off duty shouldn't concern him/her/it.

This is exactly why the City, Department and the strokes over at COPA dropped any disciplinary actions and investigations against Officers who happened to be members of groups that the current socialists find distasteful. 

Once you're off the clock, you regain a lot of your Constitutional Rights. You gain even more in retirement. And yes, we're aware of the Rules and Regulations, which were written how many decades ago? And survived how many direct challenges in court?

Madigan Trial to Jury

We'll see if Ed Burke gets a new roommate shortly:

• Following 11 weeks of testimony and several days of closing arguments, a jury has begun deliberations in the landmark corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.

  Madigan, 82, and his co-defendant and longtime confidante Michael McClain, face a 23-count indictment in federal court in Chicago, charging them with racketeering conspiracy, bribery, wire fraud, and attempted extortion.

  Federal prosecutors have accused Madigan of running a yearslong criminal enterprise to enrich himself and benefit political allies through no-show jobs for his associates and legal work for his private law firm.

After seeing so many of his contemporaries go to prison for varying amounts of time, we can't see him getting off completely, though juries selected in Illinois have surprised us on a number of occasions. Hopefully, he gets tagged on a few counts at the minimum.

Rules for Thee, Not for Conehead

Gee, a Chicago democrat not following the rules?

• Mayor Brandon Johnson accepted scores of valuable gifts “on behalf of the city” — including jewelry, alcohol, AirPods, designer handbags and size 14 men’s shoes — and failed to report those gifts while denying internal investigators access to the room where the items are purportedly stored.

  That’s the bottom line of Inspector General Deborah Witzburg’s latest advisory, which raises troubling questions about apparent attempts to curry favor with Johnson and his predecessor Lori Lightfoot, and the failure by both Johnson and Lightfoot to be transparent about that gift-giving.

  Perhaps most troubling to the inspector general was how difficult it was to secure the information, which is supposed to be promptly reported to the Chicago Board of Ethics and the city comptroller so the items can be added to “an inventory of the city’s property .”

Remember this next time you're required to fill out that annual "Ethics Statement" along with the other one you have to sign upon retirement.

Anyone seen Mrs. Mayor Stacy running around with a new Kate Spade handbag? We're just wondering.

Time Running Out

If you haven't voted to save yourself some money, head over to the Illinois Flag voting site and cast your ballot to keep the current flag.

• Flag Voting Here
  

Voting closes on Valentine's Day and you can vote once every single day.

We're also told, in the finest of Chicago, Illinois traditions, you can vote once on every device you own. Furthermore, if you open a "private browsing" window, you can even add to your totals.

How Very Very....

Ghetto:

• Embattled Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard showed up at a meeting of the Thornton Township board, where she also serves as supervisor — only for it to devolve into a brawl with reports of minor injuries, a lost shoe and finger-pointing over who was to blame for it all.

  Henyard’s lawyer said Wednesday says she was “verbally assaulted and her personal safety threatened” at the Tuesday night meeting.

  Thornton Township trustees issued their own statement bemoaning what they described as “chaos and violence.” “We are deeply disturbed by the events that transpired during last night’s board meeting,” the trustees said Wednesday morning.

The video is something else. We've only seen political brawls like this is second-and-third-world kleptocracies, for Dolton certainly qualifies.

Henyard is seen in the middle of the brawl, attempting to aid her "boyfriend," who happens to be (allegedly) married to someone else, losing a nail, a shoe, and perhaps some hair extensions in the ensuing battle. The punches and weaves were flying.

This, mere days after former mayor Groot released her investigation into financial mismanagement, excessive spending and pretty much outright fraud, though Groot didn't bother to call it that.

Media Lies Again

Cry us a (fake) river:

• Business and industry leaders on Monday braced for a backlash against immigrant workers in the Chicago area, one day after federal agents, top Trump administration officials and right-wing media personality Dr. Phil McGraw arrived in the city for targeted arrests.

  Sam Toia, president of the Illinois Restaurant Association, said Monday that its members are “very anxious” about possible arrests of Chicago-area workers by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Well boo-hoo. Is anyone surprised that the restaurant people are staffed by illegal aliens and it's going to cost them money?

Oh wait....they aren't:

• But as of Monday morning, there had been no reports of restaurant employees being arrested; nor had Toia heard anything about workers failing to show up for work because of fears of an ICE raid.

Thanks to e-Verify and businesses being fined tens-of-thousands of dollars for each hiring violation, most reputable eateries don't hire illegals. So what's with all the headlines and quotes about businesses being worried? It's almost like the media is a controlled op for leftists and democrats (but we repeat ourselves). 

Everyone saw when the media got their marching orders this weekend about egg prices being the highest in history "under Trump"? Never mind that the numbers released were the December egg prices when Biden was "in charge." The lie made it around the world two or three times before the truth even got it's boots on.

Watch for that to be the next two years. Make up a story of misinterpreted facts, "report" it, do it again....and again....and again. Egg prices, then illegal sweeps, the Medicare money (which was specifically exempted from the spending freezes).

More "Brandon's Bodies"

More people turning up with gunshot wounds in areas previously served by ShotSpotter:

• For more than ten minutes, a woman bleeding from gunshot wounds pounded on doors in the South Shore neighborhood, trying to get help on Tuesday morning. When Chicago police arrived, they found two more women with gunshot wounds in a nearby alley. They were both dead.

  Nobody called 911 about gunfire in the neighborhood, which used to be monitored by the city’s ShotSpotter network. After the fact, though, a neighbor told police they heard some shots fired.

  Mayor Brandon Johnson ignored the pleas of city residents and most of the City Council when he allowed ShotSpotter’s contract to expire in September. Ald. Gregory Mitchell (7th) was one of the aldermen who urged Johnson to keep the technology. He represents the area where this morning’s victims were found.

No one called 9-1-1.

Times like these we can't help but wish there were ten or twelve inches of snow on the ground to see how long these dead bodies wouldn't be discovered.

Gutless Coward

Conehead loves the rhetoric, but backing it up?

• Mayor Brandon Johnson said Tuesday he isn’t sure if he will show up to testify before Congress, as he and three other big-city mayors have been asked to do.

  All four mayors preside over so-called “sanctuary cities,” and the demand to appear stems froman investigation into how local policies are affecting enforcement of President Donald Trump’s promise of “mass deportations.”

  At a news conference Tuesday, Johnson referred the question to his Corporation Counsel Mary Richardson-Lowry, who said the “invitation” from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is “under legal review.”

Imagine if a republican, any republican, refused to appear before Congress, either voluntarily or under duress.....oh wait, we don't have to imagine it, because it happened time and time again over the past four years.

But as we said in the title, Conehead is a gutless coward.

Nice Pinch

Thirty-one pounds of cocaine:

• Federal authorities have charged a New York woman with smuggling 31 pounds of cocaine into the United States in the seat of her electric wheelchair. Elaine Perez was arrested at O’Hare International Airport on Saturday as she entered the country on a flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday.

And not her first rodeo it seems:

• Incredibly, Perez was previously convicted of federal cocaine smuggling charges for bringing more than 6 pounds of cocaine on a flight to New York City from Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, in 2021.

She's obviously bad at this. And exactly how much time did she get for the first six pounds? Time served after arrest - nine months total.

Too bad the drooling vegetable left without making her one of those "non-violent drug offenders."

Conehead Goes to Washington

The countdown to Conehead's next nervous breakdown just got even shorter:

This is an "invitation" which probably means Conehead won't go.

But this one is a lawsuit and Conehead might get deposed under oath:

• Judicial Watch announced today it sued Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson for records regarding his vow to resist the Trump administration’s mass deportation and other immigration law enforcement activities (Judicial Watch Inc. v. Office of the Mayor (No. 2025-CH-00347)).

  On November 11, 2024, the mayor held a press conference at which he stated that Chicago would remain a so-called “sanctuary city” and that city officials “will continue to shield all immigrants in Chicago from federal agents, regardless of whether they are citizens, permanent residents or asylum seekers, despite the election of President-elect Donald Trump.”

  According to a WTTW News report, Mayor Johnson said he “was prepared to fight any effort to stop federal funds from flowing to Chicago because it will not cooperate with mass deportation efforts, and would work to stop the arrival of immigration agents. We will not bend or break,” Johnson said. “Our values will remain strong and firm. We will face likely hurdles in our work over the next four years but we will not be stopped and we will not go back.”

That's not how it works dumbass. The one with the money (the federal government) calls the tune in. For reference, the feds enforced compliance with a national 55 mph speed limit and a drinking age of 21 by withholding highway funds from the states. Imagine if Trump puts a hold on school money and then refuses to take Conehead's calls.

Another "Conspiracy" Comes True

That "wet market" origin story of COVID? Turns out to be bull$hit:

• The CIA has changed its assessment on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, now favoring the lab leak theory. Under its new director, John Ratcliffe, the agency released an assessment on the origins of COVID-19.

  The review was ordered by former President Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan toward the end of Biden's time in office.

And the CIA was ordered - BY LAW - to release the finding, but Biden and the CIA violated the Covid-19 Origin Act of 2023, which mandated the the release of all info related to Chinese labs and COVID.

But don't worry, we're sure everyone involved got preemptive pardons.

This Pothead?

Illinois is doomed forever:

• With Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., having not announced yet whether he will run again — and Gov. JB Pritzker still not confirming whether he will seek another term — Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton on Monday is launching her Level Up federal political action committee to build up her political operation and bolster a potential Senate run.

Pretty much the only reason Fata$$ chose her was so no one took a run at him.

Oh, and then there's this:

• Despite the cold, snow and long lines, hundreds of Illinois residents – including the state’s lieutenant governor – waited outside to be among the first to buy weed following its legalization.

  Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton was among hundreds of early morning customers at Sunnyside Dispensary, a Chicago marijuana dispensary, on the first day of legal recreational sales in the state, according to a release from Cresco Labs, which owns the dispensary.

This isn't what you want running government....although "running" and "government" aren't what we have here in the dying state of Illinois.

GoFundMe Fraud

It seems the swindlers were quick to exploit the death of the sheriff's deputy in the Caribbean:

• GoFundMe has removed an online fundraiser for Cook County sheriff’s deputy Shamone Duncan, who was killed earlier this month while visiting Turks and Caicos.

  The online fundraising platform removed the page after a Sun-Times inquiry. Family told the Sun-Times that Duncan’s family was not involved with the fundraiser for funeral expenses and was not receiving the money. The campaign had raised $500 by Monday morning.

If there's a legit fundraiser in existence, post it in the comments.

RIP Sgt

A retired sergeant from 019 committed suicide yesterday. The stresses of the job don't always leave when you do. Some do, but without an appropriate support network, sometimes the demons catch up.

Many Districts have monthly retiree breakfasts. Showing up at a couple Cake-and-Coffee events or promotion parties or welcoming another retiree to the other side of employment are a way to keep in touch with those who were a part of your life for many decades.

Watch out for yourselves, watch out for your co-workers, watch out for those who have left the day-to-day BS behind but still might struggle with things.

Fata$$ Backtracks (Senators, too)

Guess who must have gotten word that the Border Czar himself was in town and ready, willing and able to arrest Porky?

• Pritzker said, “Well, let me start by being clear that when we’re talking about violent criminals who have been convicted and who are undocumented, we don’t want them in our state. We want them out of the country. We hope they do get deported. And if that’s who they’re picking up, we’re all for it. They show up with a warrant, and we’re going to hand over people who are in our prisons or in our jails who fit that description."

That's a big change from just a few days ago when he was protecting every illegal and saying the feds would have to "go through" him....and we said bring a lunch because that looked like an all-day job. Someone must have told him what the polling numbers were nationally and how it impacted his presidential ambitions.

He still had to appeal to his libtarded followers though:

• "Now, what they’re also doing, though, and it’s quite disturbing, is they’re going after people who are law-abiding, who are holding down jobs, who have families here who may have been here for a decade or two decades, and they’re often our neighbors and our friends. And why are we going after them? These are not people who are causing problems in our country. What we need is a path to citizenship for them. We need to secure our border. We need to get rid of the violent criminals, but we also need to protect people, at least the residents of Illinois and all across the nation, who are just doing what we hope that immigrants will do."

Um, dumbass? They're all criminals - they broke immigration law to get here. AND he wants a secure border? That's a new one for a democrat billionaire who wanted cheap labor just a few days ago.

And we already have a "path to citizenship." It's called "immigrate legally" and there's a process in place to identify them, background check them, set conditions for citizenship and swear them in after a test. Been there for years. We've known hundreds who have done it - legally and by the book. You don't reward those who skip the process because they've dodged the authorities for years.

And look who else is waking up to the new reality (with the usual caveats):

• Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth, Illinois’ Democratic senators, issued a joint statement on the raids Sunday night, saying those “who pose a danger to our country” should be the focus of deportation efforts while others are given a chance to earn legal status by registering with the government, submitting to background checks and “paying their dues.”

They can "pay their dues" at the end of the line, the way millions of their countrymen and women did it. It's amazing how adamant legal immigrants are against the border-jumpers.

Casino on the Road to Fail

And some questionable accounting practices even before it's open (click for larger versions):

 

We're told this is part of a Crain's article? Someone want to explain how this is legal? Counting $250 as $25,000 and excluding investors based on skin color and gender?

For $250, we'd like to see the FOP, PBPA and Pension Fund as investors since it's supposed to be bailing out the pensions anyway.

Chicago School Board Priorities

Hint - it ain't the kids:

• The chairman of the Chicago Board of Education has requested an SUV with driver worth $ 154,000 a year, even though the school system has to contend with a budget deficit of $ 500 million.

  President Sean Harden has requested Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to purchase a Ford Expedition of $ 76,000 for him, as well as a full -time driver, who would receive an annual salary of $ 78,000, said sources.

  If he is awarded, he would be the first chairman of the board in at least ten years to get this privilege, CPS sources told the local newspaper.

This Conehead appointee shows up at maybe two or three meetings a month, so a new SUV and a driver are a bit out of line. And don't forget, CPS current budget is $500 million short and the ongoing contract negotiations with the CTU are expected to cost taxpayers another $2.4 BILLION over the next four years.

Sheriff Deputy Fundraiser

A tragedy while on vacation:

• The family of a Cook County sheriff’s deputy who was hit and killed by a stray bullet while on vacation in Turks and Caicos this month has launched a fundraiser to help cover funeral costs.

  Deputy Shamone Duncan, 50, was celebrating her sister’s 40th birthday on the rooftop of the Aziza Restaurant & Lounge in Grace Bay when she was hit by a stray bullet about 10 p.m. Jan. 18. A man was killed, and a 29-year old man was wounded in the shooting.

  “She was a beacon of strength, compassion and leadership, touching countless lives in her community and beyond,” the GoFundMe stated. “Above all, Shamone was a devoted mother, grandmother, sister and friend.”

  Duncan was a 20-year veteran of the county’s Department of Corrections — “a testament to her unwavering dedication to justice and her passion for protecting others,” her family wrote in the fundraiser.

Sympathies to family, friends and co-workers.

Oops

That worked out really well, hey Fata$$?

• Christopher Paredes caught a nice break after Chicago cops found a loaded firearm in his car during a traffic stop last summer. Judge Charles Burns agreed to give him “first-time weapon offender probation” with 120 hours of community service. If Parades completes probation successfully, his case will be dismissed without a conviction.

  He has violated that probation twice since getting it on September 17, officials say. Exactly what happened the first time is unclear. But the second alleged violation is straightforward: He’s accused of killing a man last week.

If the dems can't run Newscum following his spectacular successes during the California wildfires, Fata$$ will be trying to buy his way into the nomination in 2028. Every single repeat felon and murder victim should be in TV ads to remind everyone how he is destroying this state, too.

This is Going to be Fun

First, Pedro defends the CPS lies as a "learning experience:"

• Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez answered questions Saturday about the false report that ICE agents were at a school Friday.

  Martinez defended the district's response to Friday's false ICE report at a school with over 90% Latino students, while an alderperson blamed CPS for spreading unnecessary panic.

  [...] "It was an unfortunate misunderstanding, but actually a really good lesson for us," Martinez said. Martinez defended the incident Saturday by saying the school followed all the protocols as if the agents were ICE. The principal did not let them in, but it was Secret Service agents that came to Hamline unannounced. The agency claims the agents identified themselves and left business cards. They were looking for a student who made a threat to a government official.

  "Regardless, we are not going to allow a federal agent to come in, whether it's immigration or another agency, without the legal jurisdiction without making sure they have a warrant," Martinez said.

Then the aldercreature demonstrates a complete ignorance of Federal supremacy and thinks CPS is going to mobilize a defense:

• "We saw loads of people that we didn't know. We saw a few protesters at this school," 20th Ward Ald. Jeanette Taylor said. "And so where was the protection? What did CPS safety and security do? My opinion, nothing." Hamline sits in Ald. Taylor's ward. She said Martinez must take accountability for the situation.

  "So you were quick to put out something without doing a real investigation, causes more harm to the community than help," Taylor said. Taylor said Martinez should have called Mayor Brandon Johnson's office before responding to the school. Moving forward, Taylor is calling on the Johnson administration and CPS to have a coordinated plan when ICE does show up.

Well aldercreature, should the feds actually show up, you will be ordered to stand aside. Failing that, you will be arrested. And immediately thereafter, the feds ought to revoke any and all Federal funding for CPS until a policy of cooperation and acknowledgement of Federal Immigration Law is obtained.

Then outlaw the CTU as teachers are always claiming to be "essential." Essential employees don't get to strike.

Lopez Running for Mayor?

Aldercreature Lopez has been making all sorts of middle-of-the-road pronouncements this year and last, pretty much positioning himself to the mainstream political center. His latest pronouncement takes on illegal aliens:

• Anyone recall @CardinalBCupich speaking out about gun violence across the city, generational gang violence in neighborhoods, normalization of drug use & prostitution, or the general feeling of despair invading our collective conscience?
  
  
  Yeah, neither can I

This is almost definitely an appeal to Conehead's disillusioned voter base, namely black voters, who have been threatening for the past year or so to vote Republican and may have actually contributed to Trump's winning a record number of African-American votes. It's their neighborhoods with the blood running in the streets and Conehead cutting police and fire services.

Lopez has been fighting the ShotSpotter shutdown, offered to work with Trump on illegal immigration, now he's appealing to the communities hardest hit by street violence and pointing out the Catholic church is more concerned about illegal aliens than actual citizen parishioners.

He sure looks like he's running for mayor.

This Will Work Out Great

CPS and City Hall had press releases earlier yesterday about ICE agents coming to the Hamline Elementary School and how brave school personnel repelled them at the door and wouldn't let them in the building. How noble!

Unfortunately, along with C.P.S. kids not knowing their A.B.C.'s, C.T.U. members don't know how to read a business card that the U.S.S.S. isn't I.C.E.:

• Chicago Public Schools officials admitted a “misunderstanding” on Friday caused parents at Hamline Elementary School in Back of the Yards to fear their school was being targeted by immigration agents, when in fact it was agents from the U.S. Secret Service investigating a threat.

  The district initially told the public that agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, had attempted to enter the school but were turned away. In a statement Friday evening, CPS officials blamed the error on the Secret Service agents identifying themselves as part of Homeland Security, a department that includes both the Secret Service and ICE.

  A spokesman for the Secret Service said the agents identified themselves to the school principal, provided business cards with their contact information and left the school without incident.

So parents ought to feel especially relieved that when a law enforcement agency shows up due to a specific threat of school violence, CPS/CTU employees feel completely justified in denying them the access that could....you know....save kids lives.

There certainly are some dumb, ignorant and illiterate motherf#$%ers in the schools, aren't there?

Interesting Observation

So Fata$$ is worried that Trump is targeting Illinois for political payback:

• Concerns about immigration raids are already impacting school attendance in some areas of Illinois, and the state superintendent of schools said he's concerned. This comes as Governor JB Pritzker is suggesting planned raids in Illinois could be political payback. The fear of mass deportations has had a chilling impact on many communities with large Latino populations. Now, it's hitting home in schools.

This goes along with our rumor the other day about Juarez school attendance being down double digits this week. It's truly sad that Illinois school children and their parents have to pay massive tax hikes to support illegal offspring that should be educated in their home countries.

But this statement from The State Superintendent of Schools is really eye-opening:

• State Superintendent of Schools Tony Sanders met Friday with district leaders from Aurora and Elgin. "So, I've been in many schools this last week and I've talked to many superintendents that have seen a decline in attendance this week, especially among our Latino population who are fearful of sending their child to school," Sanders said. "They're hunkering back at home. They're not separating as a family."

  [...]

  "Kids that are not in school will not learn," Sanders said. "And you know, post the pandemic, we've seen already a decline in attendance. We don't need to see a further decline in student attendance based on based on threats and fears."

Um.....COVID shutdowns? For over a year-and-a-half? Kids missed school, friends, teachers, face-to-face learning, social interaction and the damage done is only now being accurately accounted for. 

Unfortunately, children aren't meant to be educated by schools. Kids exist solely as hostages for the teachers' unions and administrators to force more money from state taxpayers and to extort money on the national level.

CPD Catches up to CWB

We've been mentioning these waves of robberies on and off for a while....CWB has been reporting it for months now:

• Detectives from three of the Chicago Police Department’s five areas have issued a joint community alert to warn the public about the ongoing robbery surge we’ve been telling you about for the past two months.

  On Thursday, investigators from Areas Three, Four, and Five issued a bulletin about a robbery crew that they believe committed at least 11 robberies on January 17 and 18, mostly in Humboldt Park and West Town, but also in Old Town.

We're not blaming the Detectives, some of whom have almost certainly been tipping off CWB as to the wave of robberies while bosses sit and twiddle their thumbs. This notification is nearly five days old - wasn't CAPS supposed to make timely notifications years ago? Guess that fell by the wayside?

Next up, someone is going to issue a bulletin about the enormous burglary waves where a crew or crews are hitting ten or even twenty businesses overnight when there are only three or four cars up in certain Districts. We've gotten e-mails that say almost a dozen businesses in 016 were hit Wednesday night/Thursday morning and that there's tons of security video on social media.

Attack of the DEI Hair-Gels (UPDATE)

A few commentators - not many, but a few - have been demanding we condemn Trump's pardons of the J6 protestors because some of them attacked police officers. Those claiming that anything J6-related had to do with police deaths have obviously been taken in by democrat propaganda. As to the injuries suffered by various police, well.....

Here's the thing - the Capitol Police are without a doubt, the most corrupt "police force" currently in existence. They are nothing more than a want-to-be Praetorian Guard, accountable to no one except whomever is currently at the wheels of power. They are hired, fired, promoted and protected based solely on political affiliation, not actual qualifications. If any other police officer had shot an unarmed woman climbing through a window to escape a dead end hallway she was being crushed in, guess where they'd be? And if any other police beat an unconscious woman to death in the Capitol tunnels, guess where they'd be? There's video of both of these incidents and more....easily findable with a basic search.

We've also seen the footage of Capitol Police opening the doors to the Capitol and welcoming protestors walking through. Some exchanged waves and handshakes, and even gave directions. You cannot welcome people into a building you're supposed to be protecting, treat them politely as guests, then lock the doors and claim trespassing. Combine all of that with the still unrevealed fbi undercover operatives, the assorted panty-fa pretenders dressed as Trump supporters, the other plants on radios directing people to which doors were about to be opened.....cops are supposed to be bullshit detectors and all our alarm bells were ringing off the hook.

For all the screaming about "insurrection" and "treason," there still hasn't been a single charge of either levied against any from that day. However, there have been many hundreds charged with "trespassing," a tiny misdemeanor in just about every circumstances as long as a gun wasn't present, and sentences ranging up to (and beyond) four years. And that doesn't even count those held for three years and more without trial.

And the "trials," hoo-boy. The feds would put together a twenty minute video of all of the pushing, shoving, sticks and thrown objects....then they'd insert a six-second clip of the defendant walking through an open door and the judge would allow it over defense objections and ::bam:: guilty of the top charges. The conviction rate was almost 100% across the board. It was show trials reminiscent of shit that went on behind the Iron Curtain and still goes on in places like China and North Korea. The entire process was tainted beyond anything resembling justice. And unfortunately, cops got hurt due to the actions of the House leadership and the people she put in charge. 

If you could run a fair trial with actual evidence....and the defendants were allowed to view video (which they weren't) to mount a real defense, we'd support that. But we've said before and for many years while defending things that many leftists and media-types claimed were indefensible:

• Cops aren't above the Law, but neither should they be under it.

Unfortunately for all involved, the Capitol "police" acted outside of the Law, acted above the Law, acted as if the Rule of Law didn't even apply to them. Turns out....it didn't. And based on the last minute pardons for all the involved witnesses and those who destroyed evidence, they doomed this entire scenario to the garbage heap of fucked-up incidents for which there will probably never be accountability. 

Oh, and Trump pardoned two DC Officers the same day who were tried and convicted for daring to chase a moped rider who was driving on the sidewalk, endangering countless civilians, evading police and who ended up getting hit by a car coming out of an alley. Stupidity lead to his demise and Crimesha's political twin charged and convicted them in a show trial.

Figure that one out.

UPDATE: Rule #9 is in full effect (see right hand sidebar). Anyone claiming we ignored violence against the police is getting deleted. Anyone claiming we supported violence against the police is getting deleted. Be able to see all sides is something neither side is doing.

CTA, CPS Out of their Lane

Anyone know what the CTA has to do with illegal immigration enforcement?

• President Donald Trump has yet to follow through on his threat to make Chicago “ground zero” for mass deportations, beginning with immigrants without legal status who have criminal records.

  But Mayor Brandon Johnson is not leaving anything to chance, turning to CTA buses and trains to make certain that immigrants without legal status know their rights.

  City Hall and the CTA launched a public awareness and ad campaign Thursday to spread the word on CTA buses, trains and at mass transit stations.

The CTA isn't the only ones either. CPS is sending letters home or emailing all parents about possible enforcement actions over illegal aliens. 

Kids can't read or do math, but the CPS/CTU money pit needs those illegal children to boost attendance numbers for more tax payer dollars!

We also received word (unverified) that attendance at Juarez High School was down to about 58% this past week. Some of that may have been weather related, but some might also have been illegal alien parents keeping kids away from one of the reported targets of ICE Officers.

As almost every targeted raid so far has been jails and/or prisons looking for criminal aliens, we're going to go out on a limb here and say "school raids" are part of the rhetorical debate to encourage self-deportations.

Shooting, SWAT Response

Earlier this evening:

• A person was shot and a Chicago police officer injured during a police SWAT response Thursday afternoon in Mount Greenwood.

  Paramedics responded about 3:45 p.m. to the 11000 block of South Millard Avenue, where there was an ongoing SWAT incident, and transported the individual with a gunshot wound to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, a Chicago Fire Department spokesperson said. Their condition was unknown.

  The police officer was taken to Little Company of Mary Hospital for a “very minor issue,” the spokesperson said. It wasn’t immediately known how the officer was injured.

Initial reports were that the offender had "killed his family" or shot someone in the house. Hopefully, his wound(s) were self-inflicted so as to spare the Officer the railroading investigation of twenty-one oversight agencies currently in operation.

Behind the Curtain

As the full extent of the drooling vegetable's pardon's come to light, it's obvious he (or his handlers) weren't righting wrongs. They were just demonstrating how much they hate Americans.

Here's a Chicago-specific pardon:

• In one of his last official acts, former President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of [g]angster [d]isciples co-chairman Gregory Shell, one of almost 2,500 “non-violent” drug offenders to whom he granted clemency.

  The Biden administration didn’t provide details about when any of the people he granted clemency to would be freed from prison. The order said the president would “commute the total sentence of imprisonment” of everyone on the list.

  On Tuesday afternoon, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons website said Shell remained at the federal maximum security prison in Florence, Colorado, where he and [g]angster [d]isciples kingpin Larry Hoover are serving life sentences.

Anyone want to guess how many dead bodies can be laid at the feet of Hoover, Shell and the g.d. organization? How many millions, probably billions of wasted taxpayer dollars that could have been better spent elsewhere?

And in case anyone doubted that democrats love criminals and hate the law abiding:

You think Bush and Trump just couldn't find enough criminals to pardon? Or maybe they understood that criminals needed to serve out the sentences issued and the system isn't nearly as "unjust" as democrats would want you to believe? 

 

Democrats want to undermine the system and inexplicable pardons such as the recent eight-thousand do just that.

Day 110....and Counting

So most states in the US (and quite a few foreign countries) count tens of millions of votes in a single day.

Illinois, New York and California, being run by morons, take days, even weeks as they fraudulently manufacture votes to steal elections.

What is CPD's excuse?

• ....it’s been 110 days since the Evidence Technician exam was administered. October 4th 2024. The reason it’s odd is because it was an 80 question multiple choice scantron test. I remember back in grade school they would give you results from a scantron immediately or maybe after lunch. Yet a large organization can’t get it done in a reasonable amount of time. This is yet another area in which the department needs massive improvement, test result timeframe.

Larritorious - who never passed a single promotional exam high enough to make it legit - has his people tweaking the exam....like if they remove Question #14, does the "underrepresented" demographic rise or fall? If it falls, better not touch Question #14 and move on to Question #23 and see what happens. But of course, since all the test graders are similar in ability to the multiple "merit" supernintendo, this could take a year or more. 

Plus, Conehead doesn't want to have to pay people to properly collect and document crime scene evidence. Good golly, no. That might mean that ET's have to go to court and testify at their slightly higher salaries, and Chicago is beyond broke at this point.

Inability and incompetence breed more inability and incompetence.

IDOC Letter

We're hearing that the Illinois Department of Corrections sent out a letter to all employees on Tuesday ordering them not to contact ICE when paroling illegals murderers, rapists, burglars, robbers and other ne'er-do-wells.

We've also heard that some connected people got copies of the letter and forwarded it along to ICE and Tom Homan.

The chain-of-command for IDOC ends at Fata$$'s office, so we'll see where this goes.

In the meantime:

ICE apprehended three-hundred plus in various jails this week and have them all slated for deportation. These are CONVICTED CRIMINALS, that contribute NOTHING to the country except an increase in crime rates and a larger tax bill for supporting them in prisons.

Someone Evaded Gun Laws?

When we last bought a gun, we remember filling out the Form 4473, that piece of paper that Hunter Biden lied on. And there was this question:

• Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance? Warning: The use or possession of marijuana remains unlawful under Federal law regardless of whether it has been legalized or decriminalized for medicinal or recreational purposes in the state where you reside.

So what's up with this?

• A concealed carry holder shot an armed man during a dispute Monday night in South Shore on the South Side, according to Chicago police.

  A 30-year-old man was standing outside in the 7200 block of South South Shore Drive around 9 p.m. when he began arguing with someone inside a vehicle, police said.

  The two began fighting and the concealed carry holder noticed the other man had a gun, police said. The 30-year-old then opened fire, striking the man once in the chest.

Oh wait, that's the Slum Times article. 

Here's the better story from CWB blog:

• A concealed carry holder shot a man during an altercation on the South Side last night and told police it all started when his weed dealer pulled a gun on him. The alleged dealer remains hospitalized in police custody.

  [...] According to information from the scene, the concealed carry holder told police he was trying to buy some pot from the guy in the car when the dealer pulled a gun on him.

The Slum Times, which never misses an opportunity to bash gun owners, completely hides the fact that someone must have lied on a Federal Form (felony!) to buy a firearm.

Remember

Fata$$ is already whining about the new administration.

Always remember this is when Fata$$ was caught on tape while bargaining with Blago over how to fill the Sparklefarts senate vacancy:

• wire tap audio

If any of us were caught talking that way on body cam....

Mixed Bag on Day One

It's been almost twenty-four hours and we haven't seen:

• a single deportation (but tons are leaving on their own)
  
• any hint of stripping women and minorities of the Right to Vote
  
• even one single tranny concentration camp

We have seen declarations of "Men are men and Women are women" and revocations of all sorts of last minute Executive Orders via countermanding Executive Orders, thanks to Sparklefarts claim that all he needs is a pen and a phone call. 

We did note that Trump managed to fix global warming on his first full day with snow stretching from Texas, through Lousiana and covering parts of Florida, so we'll count that as a win.

Perfect Storm

A comment a day or so ago pointed out another hiring wave that we knew of, but hadn't really put together with other info we had. Bear with us.

We think we can identify three major hiring waves preceding and occurring within our careers:

• 1991-1994....upwards of 3,500 officers
  
• 1995-1998....between 4,500 and 5,500 officers (the Clinton money)
  
• 2004-2006....+/- 2,500 officers

There are other smaller ones, but these are approximately the big ones.

Now work through the career milestones: 

• 1991 + 20 years = 2011 (not many were doing 20-and-out)
• 1991 + 29 years = 2020 (COVID times)
• 1995 + 20 years = 2015
• 1995 + 29 years = 2024 (today's max)
• 2004 + 20 years = 2024 (today's max)

Those 1991 people might have stuck around past 29, but as the job stands now as to what it was when they came on, they're leaving fast.

The 1995 people are maxing out as we speak.

The 2004 crew has hit their 20 years. They aren't wedded to the job like many were. They believe they're old enough to leave with 50% pensions and start a second career somewhere else....and they're probably right.

That's THREE classes amounting to thousands, all hitting an inflection point that makes the exit door look even better with nothing currently keeping them interested in a job that actively hates them and that they've grown to dislike.

Anyone else seeing this? We might be off a bit on the years, but we're pretty close on the numbers. We heard a friend describe these as "bubbles moving along a timeline" a long time ago and it certainly looks like the bubble is about ready to explode.

County to Screw Blue States

Who needs to follow Court orders? Not Cook County it seems:

• Cook County, Illinois, home of the nation’s largest open-air shooting gallery, otherwise known as Chicago, has a long and storied history of crime, corruption, and Second Amendment infringement. And today, between the gang members and the politicians who support them in an unholy alliance, that disregard for the rule of law and enumerated civil rights continues.

  The latest involves Cook County’s ordinance establishing targeted taxes on the exercise of the right to keep and bear arms – specifically guns and ammo. Guns Save Life, an aggressive gun rights organization in Illinois known for its “in your face” activism, filed a lawsuit challenging the gun and ammo tax shortly after it was enacted in 2015. That case went all the way to the Illinois Supreme Court which ruled in 2021 that the tax ordinance was unconstitutional. The Illinois Supremes ordered the trial court to enter a summary judgement in favor of Guns Save Life.

  Cook County then amended their ordinance and has been slow-walking the legal process with endless filings ever since. At long last, about a week ago, a Cook County trial court judge struck down the ordinance, again at the direction of the Illinois Supreme Court. It was a simple two-page order.

  Even after losing in the state’s highest court, Cook County has made it clear to the plaintiffs of the case, Guns Save Life, that they have no intention of ending its illegal collection of taxes on every gun sold in the county along with the ammo to feed them.
  

The lawyers over at Guns Save Life aren't morons though, and they've devised a brilliant strategy that will end up with Cook County taxpayers financing their lawsuits against dozens of other jurisdictions:

• Ultimately, if Cook County wants to continue to act like petulant children as a result of their loss, this case could end up in front of the US Supreme Court. If that happens and SCOTUS rules our way on the Second Amendment count within the suit, that could mean an end of gun and ammo surtaxes nationwide.

And court costs will then be assessed against the losing side, similar to how Shortshanks ended up cutting a check to the NRA for hundreds of thousands of dollars many years ago.

Hypocrites Still

How big of a collection of saps and cucks is the fbi?

• Just moments before leaving office, President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.

  Peltier was denied parole as recently as July and wasn’t eligible for parole again until 2026. He was serving life in prison for the killings during a standoff on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He will transition to home confinement, Biden said in a statement.

Peltier, the so-called "activist" was a violent communist "revolutionary" who was part of the murder of two fbi agents via contact shots to the head following an extensive gun battle.

And today's fbi, for the past eight years or more (dating back to the Sparklefarts administration), have been actively restructuring their agency to more closely align with the Stasi of East Germany, violating Americans' Civil Rights, conducting illegal investigations, interfering in governments processes, entrapping and (allegedly) assassinating persons who political beliefs run contrary to the democrats. And their thanks is to have a commie murderer of two of their own running around his final days, free as a bird. 

It's like the fbi was thanking Biden and Company for f#$%ing their wives, all while they were toweling off Biden's genitals. Every time you see an fbi agent, you should point and laugh.

(A side note, whomever wrote that comment about "if scc held the cpd to fbi standards, blah blah blah...." We don't and didn't. It was the fbi running around proclaiming themselves the nations preeminent law agency....or don't you remember the TV shows and Hollywood worshiping them? F#$% them, one and all.)

Hypocrites Again

Way back in 2018, Congressasshole Adam Schiff (CA) discussed to possibility of pre-emptive pardons being issued by Trump. No surprise, he thought it was a bad idea:

• What Schiff said next is even further relevant to today's current events. "The Congress ought to know whether the president is using the pardon power to obstruct justice. The American people have a right to know."

This was in regard to the Scooter Libby conviction in 2017. 

In their first joint press conference in 2020, Biden/Harris addressed the issue of preemptive pardons. They thought it was a really bad idea:

• “President Trump is reportedly considering a wave of preemptive pardons. … Does this concern you?” Tapper asked.

  “Well, it concerns me in terms of what kind of precedent it sets and how the rest of the world looks at us as a nation of laws and justice,” Biden said.

  “Now in terms of the pardons, you’re not going to see in our administration that kind of approach to pardons,” he added. “Nor are you going to see in our administration the approach to making policy by tweets. You know, it’s going to be a totally different way to which we approach the justice system.”

Trump didn't preemptively pardon anyone. Meanwhile, the drooling vegetable pardoned not only his son, but pardoned him for any crimes, known or undiscovered, dating all the way back to 2014.

That was back in December. Guess what happened yesterday morning?

• Biden’s comments from four years ago directly contradict his last-minute action on Monday morning to issue preemptive pardons for Dr. Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milley, and members of the Democrat-run January 6 Committee.

Fauci's pardon dates back to 2014 when he approved funding for some unknown biological  lab located in Wuhan, China, that was doing gain-of-function research, which was forbidden by law in the US.

Milley was communicating directly with Red China during the Trump-to-Biden transition about the country's national defense posture. He admitted as much since then and was rightfully accused of treason.

The J6 committee people have been destroying documents and reports since November in violation of Federal Law.

But it didn't end there:

• Later in the day — just before Trump was sworn in — Biden also pardoned his brother, James B. Biden; James Biden’s wife, Sara Jones Biden; his sister, Valerie Biden Owens; Valerie Owens’ husband, John T. Owens; and his brother, Francis W. Biden.

People who haven't even been investigated, but who are credibly known to have committed numerous crimes. The Biden family banking records show upwards of $20 million moving through their hands.

We'll see if any of this is read into the record over the next few years.

Hypocrites

Remember all the democrats screaming since 06 January 2020 about that makeshift hangman's platform protestors set up in DC objecting to the election? We were told it was insurrection, treason and all sorts of crimes for four years.

So what was this in DC yesterday?

It appears to be some sort of tranny-penile-amputation device. 

It couldn't possibly be a guillotine that was used extensively during the French Revolution to behead politicians and royalty, right? Because that would be insurrection, treason and all sorts of other crimes as we've been reminded for four years.

Retiree Wave Growing

One of our old contacts from the source-of-all-evil (HQ) mentioned to us at the drinking establishment church service the other day that on 15 January, almost one-hundred-twenty-five Officers left the job. 

Combine that with our recent post about no job openings listed for actual Police and the manpower issue takes on a serious note....again.

Conehead already proposed (succeeded?) in the old 9.5 Dwarf trick of eliminating vacancies in the budget, then claiming CPD is "up to strength." Rahm got rid of nearly 2,000 spots that way, and Conehead was looking at another thousand, minimum.

Now, all the people hired with Clinton anti-crime money started maxing out last year and even more will continue maxing out for another two years - probably around 3,000-to-4,000 cops total with this summer probably being the biggest retiree numbers in thirty or forty years.

Anyone hear the Conehead Plan for weathering this storm?

What Changed?

Someone pointed out that Cuck Goudie made his name chasing down mob bosses and asking them questions about their illicit businesses. A lot of these were old men, but dangerous men, who had people killed for various reasons and probably would do it again given the correct set of circumstances.

But for some reason, Cuck wouldn't do that with Chicago or Cook County or Illinois politicians....at least not in the recent decades.

Were those politicians scarier than actual Outfit guys?

Don't Get Middled

If you are called to or happen to be at the scene of an ICE enforcement action, Federal Law takes precedent over any state or local law, rules, policies or ordinances. 

Border Czar Tom Homan said that Chicago is going to be Ground Zero for enforcement starting Tuesday with two-hundred agents scheduled to be conducting raids in the Windy City alone.

We are well aware that a lot of this is just hype and bluster to make illegals self-deport, and reports from Texas say more people are headed south this weekend than are headed north, so it's working. Sub freezing temps might also encourage the illegal warm weather visitors to leave.

Anyone with Park District buildings looking empty? How about that giant "shelter" over on Cermak?

The last ditch effort by the City Council to allow CPD to work with ICE and support American Law fell flat:

• A proposal to modify Chicago’s sanctuary city ordinance to allow coordination between Chicago police and federal immigration officials was struck down by City Council Wednesday.

  The amendment, filed by Alds. Raymond Lopez (15th) and Silvana Tabares (23rd), would have allowed police and officials to work with federal agents when they’ve arrested or convicted undocumented immigrants of certain crimes including “gang-related activities,” selling and buying drugs, prostitution, human trafficking and “sexual crimes involving minors.” 

  The measure was blocked from moving forward Wednesday through a parliamentary process that passed 39-11 before any discussion took place — but not without passionate public comment from Chicago residents.

Heaven forbid human traffickers and pedo-rapists be deported to deny democrats their victims, and corporations and government exploit illegals to the detriment of actual Americans.

Weekly Reminder - Vote Again

Keep voting Chicago-style on the flags:

• Vote here once a day, every day! (link corrected)

The tax money you save might be your own.

Win Some, Lose Some

Should have been "Win Two," but it wasn't:

• As the Illinois Appellate Court weighs arguments over the future of police discipline in Chicago, two rulings by the Chicago Police Board have been bolstered by Cook County judges.

  In one case, decided last month, Cook County Judge Michael Mullen denied an effort by Chicago police Superintendent Larry Snelling to impose discipline on an officer, [...], whom the board cleared of wrongdoing in 2023. [The officer] had faced administrative charges for his role in a chaotic arrest during the riots and unrest of summer 2020 in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer.

  It was the first time since 2015 that the city’s top cop filed a complaint for administrative review against the police board. Snelling said the board’s findings “are not supported by the record, are clearly erroneous, and/or are against the manifest weight of the evidence.”

  In the other case, ruled on in late October, Cook County Judge David Atkins upheld the police board’s decision to fire a sergeant who was involved in the February 2019 raid at the home of social worker Anjanette Young. Court records show the sergeant, [...], is now appealing the Circuit Court decision.

So in Case #1, Larritorious went against the recommendation of the Police Board, who called the effort "not supported ...erroneous ....unsupported by evidence." Who the f#$% would ever trust an asshole who was not just wrong, but wholly wrong? No wonder he was at the front of the line stripping officers for refusing the poison jab - Larritorious is a f#$%ing tool.

In Case #2, remember who the informant was who fed the team the info that was presented to AND approved by a Cook County judge? He was in a car owned by Yolanda Talley, driven by her niece, transporting heroin on the west side....and the sergeant is to blame? Aren't there supposed to be lieutenants, captains, commanders, deputy chiefs and a representative from the Chaplains Ministry on the scene of search warrants to make sure everything is properly punctuated, grammatically correct and righteous in the eyes of God?

Many ask why any cop would do a street stop in this atmosphere.

Add to that, why would anyone do a search warrant under these circumstances either?

See Ya Cuck!

After not being on the air for weeks, Cuck Goudie and Channel 7 have parted ways:

• Chuck Goudie, Chicago media's dean of investigations, is no longer on the air at ABC7.

  Why it matters: Goudie has been a larger-than-life media personality for over 40 years in Chicago.

  The latest: The award-winning broadcast journalist hasn't been seen on the station's newscasts this year, and the station has confirmed they have parted ways.

  What they're saying: "Chuck Goudie was a valued member of our ABC7 team for many years and we thank him for his groundbreaking contributions," spokesperson Jayme Nicholas tells Axios.

Good thing he sold his Hinsdale house for $4 million - he might be needing that cash. Word is he wanted $500K and ABC offered $200K. 

The Chicago media at large has given up on actual investigative reporting. We've pointed out dozens of stories that were worthy of at least a sound bite or three, but if it reflected badly on Machine democrats, it never got past step one. 

But that's the media everywhere nowadays, and why the legacy media in general might be dead within a few years:

• ABC is paying Trump's future presidential library $15 million for George Snuffleupagus' defamatory statements during the run-up to the 2024 election;
• CNN just lost a defamation suit - a near impossibility for broadcast and print media. A jury awarded the plaintiff $4 million in real damages, $1 million in pain/suffering, before CNN waved the while flag and negotiated a private punitive damage settlement. The plaintiff was asking for $1 BILLION dollars;
• CBS is discussing the possibility of settling the $10 BILLION lawsuit Trump filed against the netword for election interference. The fact that they're even entertaining a settlement is unheard of.

No one likes the legacy media and when presented with an opportunity to stick it to them in courtrooms, the public is embracing the chance.

All sorts of big name TV anchors are taking massive pay cuts, newspapers are laying of 20% and upwards of newsrooms, websites are shutting down. John Kass is looking like one of the the smarter guys in the room by embracing his departure from the dying Tribune and starting his own website. He'll have captured a larger part of the disillusioned public as an early bird as opposed to latecomers who will fight over crumbs. 

Learn to code bitches.

UPDATE: from the comments - ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7 isn't just Chicago's top-rated television station. With employees related to three prominent Democrats, it also may have the most politically connected newsroom in town. Morning news anchor Tanja Babich is the daughter-in-law of U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, recently hired per-diem reporter Meghan Kluth is the daughter of Congressman Mike Quigley, and per-diem reporter Alexis McAdams is the niece of Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart. It's strictly a coincidence, according to John Idler, president and general manager of ABC 7. "These are all talented people who were hired on their own merit," Idler said.  

People are sick and tired of the media be just being a post-political job for the connected.

No Shame, No Accountability

Regular readers are aware of the disgrace that is the 006 District commander. He skipped the wake and funeral of an Officer who died under his command. He offered no support to Officers at Roll Calls, not even gracing them with his presence. After Officers dared to complain, that's when he bothered to show up and threaten everyone with frequent Inspector visits. And to top it off, he had his staff and cowed supervisors start keeping track of who was and wasn't buying tickets to the Christmas Party.

But don't believe us - believe the letters they wrote to Larritorious  and others:

You can tell how much Larritorious (and his puppet masters) didn't care as Tate is still in 006, inflicting untold damage to the personnel unlucky enough to have to work there.

Judge Reassigned and other Quick Hits

That judge who kept releasing domestic offenders on no bail finally got taken out of Domestic Court:

• The Cook County judge who refused to detain a man charged with a violent domestic attack in October, about a month before the man went on to kill his wife, has been permanently removed from domestic violence cases. That’s one of the announcements made Thursday night by Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans. Evans’ press release came just hours after Chicago’s police oversight investigators released video and other evidence related to the November 19 stabbing in Portage Park, which was witnessed by an off-duty Chicago police officer.

He's now in Traffic Court, which as we remember, is where they put new judges, judges under various punishments, and morons.

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In addition to the questions everyone was posting about the FOP spending 80K for a new truck, we're now getting a couple emails about a Field Rep who got her own PPP loan for $2,000 for a sole proprietorship of a "performing art company." By the way, there is no record of this company ever existing. The "loan" was forgiven, meaning the $2,000 was essentially a gift from taxpayers.

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John Kass, among others, have opined that the California wildfires and subsequent revelations of the utter incompetency of democrat governance there for the past forty years, might actually swing the state toward the Red side of things.

While it might be an interesting theoretical exercise and in the short term could result in a right-leaning law maker or two sent to DC, the fact of the matter is that the mental illness that pervades California politics and voters is probably too far gone to produce any real change.

Anyone doubting it, just take a look at Minnesota and how red they voted after St. George of Fentanyl and the following months of riots and looting and burning.

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The Contrarian has a deeper look at the 007 Pilot Program allowing felony gun charges to be approved by the Watch Operations Lieutenant, bypassing Felony Review. This is going to have to be studied over the long term to see if any impact can be made on what is wisely recognized as the second crappiest neighborhood in Chicago after the Austin/North Lawdale area.

More Springfield BS

Washington Gun Law covers another crooked Illinois effort to further restrict gun rights and it follows the same pattern as a few other f@#$ed up legislative actions:

This is another one of those instances (like the "Protect Illinois Communities Act) where a bill about something else (for PICA, it was insurance regulations....for this it's fire hydrants) goes through committee, and in the dead of night, all language is stripped from the bill leaving a shell in name only, which is then filled with anti-gun legislation and passed out of committee without public input or debate. 

Lawmakers then pass the "insurance" or "hydrant" bill overnight or over the weekend in the lame-duck session and ::poof!:: your Constitutional Rights disappear. The gerrymandered dem super-majority then doesn't have to answer to anyone, ever.

Washington Gun Law explains it far better than we do, so go watch the nine-minute video.