Crime is Down Weekend!

If you don't count that baker's dozen shot in one incident:

• At least two drive-by gunmen sprayed more than 100 bullets into a large crowd gathered outside in Roseland late Friday, leaving 13 people wounded in a mass shooting that launched a violent start to Father’s Day weekend in Chicago. By sunrise Saturday, Chicago had already recorded more shooting victims than were reported during the entire Father’s Day weekend last year.

It's been a mess:

• At least five people were killed and 22 others were injured in shootings across Chicago since Friday afternoon.

Which matches the HeyJackass.com numbers.

Happy Juneteenth Weekend! 

Not a Good Look

Charges dropped in the recent ATF/CPD Detail shooting:

• Federal authorities have now dropped charges against three robbery suspects, of which two were shot during an undercover ATF gun trafficking operation.

  Prosecutors claim they obtained new evidence contradicting the ATF and FBI agents' original version of events, according to court records....

Someone FB-Lied?

• Video of a law enforcement officer’s shooting of a Markham teenager June 9 in Country Club Hills appears to contradict the account given to a federal judge last week in a sworn affidavit from an FBI special agent.

  U.S. Magistrate Judge Keri Holleb Hotaling ordered the video’s public release Thursday after its discovery prompted federal prosecutors to drop charges related to an attempted robbery during an undercover operation in the south suburb.

Yet another reason to disband the fbi....and not to be detailed to be part of this inherently compromised organization. 

There have been genuine efforts to redirect the feebs from the dark path the previous administration directed them down, namely becoming the Temu-Stasi Secret Police, but it seems the political indoctrination is just to ingrained to overcome.

Unintentional Suicide?

Won't somebody think of the children???

• A 1-year-old boy found unresponsive in an East Garfield Park apartment this spring died from a drug overdose that the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office has now ruled a homicide. He is the second young child in Chicago to be the victim of a drug-induced homicide since July, though authorities have not filed charges in either case.

  Shortly before 10 p.m. on March 24, Chicago police and CFD paramedics responded to a 911 call in the 3100 block of West Fifth Avenue and found the boy unresponsive inside an apartment, officials said at the time. The Chicago Fire Department transported him to Mt. Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

  The death prompted an investigation by Area Four detectives, who were awaiting autopsy and toxicology results. Those findings were recently completed. The medical examiner determined the child died from a combined overdose of fentanyl, medetomidine-dexmedetomidine, and “probable heroin.” Dexmedetomidine and medetomidine are sedatives used during medical procedures, with medetomidine approved only for veterinary use in the United States.

Why aren't there "safe storage" laws for narcotics? If these drugs had been kept on a high shelf or in a locked safe or stored with a child-proof cap, this could have been prevented.

Lib-tards demand it for guns....it's about time they demanded it for dope, too. 

We're surprised the M.E. didn't classify it as an "unintentional suicide." 

The Fix is in Already

This crooked Cook County judge again:

• In a courtroom at 26th and California on Thursday, two CWB Chicago story arcs came face to face: the effectiveness of facial recognition as a law enforcement tool and the frequency with which Judge D’Anthony Thedford refuses to grant detention petitions. The coincidental combo came after sheriff’s deputies brought Merlin Lu into Courtroom 102 to face hate crime, arson, and other charges for the high-profile cross-burning incident in Grant Park last week.

  Prosecutors told Thedford that on June 9, Lu was captured on surveillance video holding two long planks of wood, walking from his Halsted Street home toward Grant Park. At about 1:52 p.m., he allegedly nailed two pieces of wood together, wrapped toilet paper around the cross, doused it with a gallon of kerosene, and tied a red hat to the top. Prosecutors said Lu propped the cross against a tree and set it on fire. Viral video recorded by a witness captured the cross and the tree burning, with flames extending into the tree’s upper limbs.

  [...] Prosecutors said that after being read his Miranda rights, Lu admitted to purchasing the materials, assembling the cross, and burning it. Prosecutors said Lu also identified himself in two still images, one showing him buying kerosene at Home Depot and another showing him walking toward Grant Park with the wood planks.

  Judge Thedford rejected the state’s request to detain Lu and did not require him to be placed on electronic monitoring, either. However, Thedford did instruct Lu to avoid purchasing items that could be used to start a fire, such as wood or kerosene, according to the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office.

Ooooo....that'll stop crime!

CWB reports that Thedford has quite the disqualifying history:

• “Between 2011 and 2018, the state and federal governments filed liens against Thedford and his wife seeking to collect about $249,000 in unpaid taxes, interest, and penalties,” Injustice Watch reported. “In 2020, the couple declared bankruptcy and reported that they owed the IRS some $220,000 and owed the Illinois Department of Revenue about $10,000.”

But that didn't stop him from landing a seat on the bench.

Bright Future for This One

Another SAFE-T Act success story!

• A 19-year-old woman on pretrial release in a felony gun case tried to kill four Chicago police officers by repeatedly firing at them during a vehicle pursuit on the Southwest Side, according to prosecutors.

  Alexia Castellanos, of Bridgeview, was detained Friday by Judge Shauna Boliker on charges that include four counts of attempted murder stemming from the April 25 incident. She is the seventh person accused of killing or trying to kill someone in Chicago this year while on felony pretrial release.

  According to prosecutors, it all started around 1:12 a.m. when four Chicago police officers working in a tactical unit spotted a Dodge Charger parked in an alley in the 4400 block of South Mozart Avenue. As the officers approached, the Charger sped away, and the officers activated their vehicle’s emergency equipment and began pursuing it.

  During the chase, Castellanos allegedly leaned out of the passenger-side window and fired shots at the officers, then fired at them again moments later. Neither the officers nor their vehicle was struck, but a nearby parked vehicle was hit by a bullet, prosecutors said. 

After being charged previously with ::gasp!:: a gun crime, she got out, procured another gun, and used it to shoot at pursuing officers, from a moving vehicle AND while fleeing on foot after the vehicle rolled over.

No doubt she'll be out again shortly. 

Obamanation Situation Gets Worse

Chicago is going to have a shitload fewer minority contractors around after 2026:

• The Obama Presidential Center was billed as a lasting legacy to former President Barack Obama, and its construction was touted as an ambitious model built with aggressive goals for minority-owned and local businesses.

  But now, some of the very subcontractors who helped build the 19.3-acre campus on Chicago’s South Side say they are facing financial ruin as they race to recover millions of dollars they claim remain unpaid ahead of the center's grand opening Friday. Overall construction costs were reported to be $830 million in 2021, and have likely climbed past the $1 billion mark.

  A Fox News Digital investigation identified multiple construction firms claiming losses ranging from hundreds of thousands of dollars to tens of millions. The allegations cut against one of the Center's defining goals: helping minority-owned businesses and local contractors grow through one of Chicago's highest-profile construction projects. Several of the complaints reviewed by Fox News Digital come from firms that were supposed to benefit from that mission. 

And that maintenance fund? 

• The allegations emerge days after a Fox News Digital investigation reported that the Obama Foundation’s reserve fund — originally promoted as a $470 million financial safeguard intended to help protect taxpayers if the project encountered financial trouble — remains funded at roughly $1 million. 

So that $469 million shortfall will likely be eaten by Chicago....which is broke.

We're told it's even worse than people realize. 

• every single contractor has been stiffed to some extent so far....100%

Did you see the list of attendees?  A whole lot of "formers" listed at that link.

Newscum made it, but current governor Hochul?  Walz? Canceled. Corey Booker? Canceled. Where's AOC?

We heard that of the over 120 invited politicians, over 80 canceled, almost like they don't want to be seen at something that's going to turn out to be a campaign issue - namely bankrupting companies full of UNION workers who usually vote in lockstep with leftist politicians.

Remember, Chicago is Broke

But they found the secret Rahm Money Tree somewhere....probably in Conehead's Gift Closet:

• The city could be running its first intercity bus terminal under public ownership by late summer following a vote by the City Council to buy the ailing South Loop Greyhound station.

  The ordinance passed Wednesday allows the city to purchase the terminal at 630 W. Harrison St. for $19 million. The deal also pumps millions into renovating the neglected terminal — and saves the nearly half-million people who use the station each year from potentially being kicked to curbside bus service.

We'll expect this to be losing money within a year.

Missed Gun....Again

This time in the 009 District lockup:

• an arrest by the Tact Team (who should have searched the arrestee on scene) 
• transported to the station by either a cage car or a wagon (who should have searched the arrestee before accepting custody) 

...was found to have a gun in his groin area by the lockup keeper.

Completely inexcusable.

Has Academy instruction gotten so bad that Officers are afraid to properly search an arrestee?

Gold Star Union?

This might not end well:

• Off topic but apparently the exempts, Commanders and Deputy Chiefs, are attempting to unionize.

One of the main points of even having the Exempt rank is to have expendable people who are beholden to their political masters. 

If they're allowed to unionize, the political side of the equation loses their hold over them. 

Not that we're in the habit of giving Conehead advice, but if you want to stop this in its tracks, propose getting rid of the Gold Brain pensions provisions and revert to the top tier to the last testable rank (lieutenant). Not only would it kill this effort, it'd be a small step to extending the life of the pensions.

Returning to Basics?

Another interesting rumor:

• Narcotics is going away. They are making 5 area narcotics teams that will fall under the patrol area deputy chiefs. That’s it. They will work out of the same offices as the PRT teams and still have access to 1505 and the Bursars office for money. Wallace is jumping ship and put in his papers for mid July. They told him he was going back to Lieutenant or he can retire. He chose to leave and not do the rest of the summer. This will all happen in September.

Is Homan Square being emptied out? Back in the day there were overd 1,000 personnel assigned there in fifteen or twenty units and sub-units. It was probably larger than HQ on occasion in terms of total bodies.

In practical terms, nothing should be manned until all of the beat cars on all watches are covered adequately. And once the beat cars are covered, then you can start with District tact teams and 06 cars.

After that, you can spend money and personnel on citywide units.

Lighter Font

A couple comments complaining about the text in comments being a lighter gray color, harder to read and annoying as all get out.

It appears to be something Google (that owns eBlogger) did and there doesn't seem to be anything we can do about it yet.

We're looking into it. 

Interesting Voting

So Aldercreature Lopez again tried to hold parents responsible for crimes committed by their kids:

• Three months ago, Southwest Side Ald. Ray Lopez (15th) tried to hold Chicago parents accountable for curfew violations, street racing, and drug, alcohol and firearms offenses committed by their children.

  His attempt to use parental responsibility to, as he put it, “create better parents” was shot down by a City Council committee — even after Lopez offered to entertain amendments that would have softened the potential legal blow to parents and legal guardians.

  The debate showcased the Council’s political divide. Conservative alderpersons, who are among the police union’s staunchest supporters, want to get tougher on crime. Democratic socialists and other progressives seem more, or at least equally, concerned about preserving individual rights.

Um, there is no "right" to commit crimes, take over streets, disobey traffic laws, etc. 

Here's a picture showing how each aldercreature voted (click for larger view):

 

 

A couple interesting votes there, especially in Wards where a large number of police, fire fighters and city workers live. Everyone knows why the commies and race-baiters voted no, but why did the others vote no? 

(we're looking at you O'Shea)

New Fire Equipment

This article is from two days ago and seems to have little coverage from the local media types:

• The Chicago Fire Department has placed one of the largest emergency apparatus orders in North America, selecting E-ONE and Wheeled Coach to supply 120 new vehicles in a deal valued at more than $100 million.

  The order, placed through Fire Service, Inc., includes 42 E-ONE pumpers, 38 E-ONE aerial ladder trucks and 40 Wheeled Coach ambulances.

  The investment is intended to support firefighter safety, fleet modernisation and reliable emergency response across the city.

We've written before about CFD equipment being so old that the feds threatened to pull accreditation for the entire Department.

And tonight, if you do a google search for "chicago fire department buys new trucks" there aren't any local media outlets covering the story. $100 million is a big deal for one-hundred-twenty pieces of equipment.

Is this because they don't want to embarrass a democrat blue city $hithole that isn't (and hasn't) providing the fire department with appropriate equipment to protect citizens?

Or is it because when you look up E-ONE and Wheeled Coach, they're both based in Florida because Porkulous has driven vehicle assembly lines out of Illinois, so we're sending tax dollars to factory friendly red states?

In any event, congrats to the CFD for finally getting some new vehicles. 

Don't scratch the paint - you might not see another one for thirty years.

They're Shooting Bicyclists Now?

Well, it was after midnight, so there's that:

• A man died after being shot while riding a bicycle near Grant Park in the Loop early Tuesday morning, according to Chicago police.

  Officers responded to a report of a person shot in the 300 block of East Jackson Boulevard around 12:15 a.m.

  Police said a 27-year-old man was riding a bicycle on the sidewalk when he heard gunfire and felt pain. He had been struck in the upper leg.

  He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in critical condition and later died, CPD reported.

Sounds like a femoral artery hit. 

As of this writing, no one knows who the dead guy is, if he was targeted or just happened to catch a bullet in Conehead's "Crime is Down" camera infested downtown. 

Vallas Roasts Rahm

The Contrarian article is quite the read:

• There he was. It was Rahm Emmanuel on national television attending a New York Knicks–San Antonio Spurs championship series game. The former Chicago mayor was sitting in floor seats of which the price ranges between $75,000–$135,000. Who knew he was a Knicks fan? It's convenient to have a super-agent brother who also happens to be securing you an interview on practically every mainstream cable show and podcast, lecturing us about how the Democratic Party has lost its way while presenting himself as its moderate voice of reason.

  I had been reluctant to write about Rahm, who in presidential preference polling is barely registering. Illinois’ other presidential hopeful — Governor JB Pritzker — is polling at just two percent. One gets the feeling the country is tiring from Illinois expatriates running the country. Not our best export. However, Emanuel took time out of his Don Quixote-like quest for the White House to stop in Chicago to meet with my biggest supporter to urge them not to support me making another run for mayor or a run for Chicago School Board president.

And after that, it's off to the races as Vallas pretty much roasts 9.5 for almost twenty paragraphs.

Fun times and a good reminder of what a tool Rahm always was.

Go read it all. 

More "Crime WAS Down"

SubX News charts a slight deviation from Conehead's message:

• Chicago’s first full weekend of June delivered another reminder that crime statistics only tell part of the story.

  Using the official HeyJackAss weekend methodology, Chicago recorded 4 killed and 23 wounded between Friday afternoon and Monday morning.

  Compared to the same weekend in 2025, homicides increased 33.3%, non-fatal shooting victims increased 130%, and total shooting victims increased 107.7%.

  Those numbers alone would make this one of the more violent weekends of 2026.

  The broader reality was even worse.

SubX News also tracks four separate "mass shootings" that wreaked havoc with Conehead's contention that he's doing a great job with the crime numbers.

Interesting Correlation

Want to bet that the CTU uses this as an excuse not to close schools?

• As Chicago officials prepared to close 50 schools in 2013, the most at one time in American history, neighbors warned that the ramifications would go beyond worse academic outcomes for students. They worried the vacant buildings left behind would hurt their communities.

  Thirteen years later, a new study from the University of Chicago and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has found that the closings, in fact, led to a 10% increase in gun violence in the areas surrounding the vacant closed schools compared to neighborhoods with similar demographics where schools didn’t close.

  The researchers found no statistically significant increase in shootings in communities where closed schools were repurposed, which city officials promised would happen.

  “We found that school closure and subsequent building vacancy were associated with significant increases in firearm violence in affected neighborhoods, and that this association appeared to be partially mitigated by subsequent school buildings re-use,” the authors wrote in the study, published in the journal Social Science & Medicine.

Interesting take - that closed schools (or schools that don't get re-purposed) lead to more gun crime?  Schools mitigate conflict? 

Color us skeptical at the very least.

Cross Burner IDed

As predicted by anyone with a brain, manufactured outrage:

• It was a startling and offensive scene.

  A burning cross in Grant Park last Tuesday - the century-old flaming symbol of racism and hatred.

  For nearly a week, Chicago police and the FBI have been trying to identify the man who was suspected of setting up the cross and torching it.

  NBC 5 Investigates has identified a 21-year-old college senior who said he is the person in the photo released by police and who described what he did and why.

Not caught by the CPD or the feebs, despite well over 100 cameras pointing at and around Grant Park and the streets downtown. Named after sending some sort of manifesto to NBC, who then interviewed the subject.

Guess what his motivation was?

• University of Illinois Chicago senior Merlin Lu said he knew the implications of a burning cross and had placed a MAGA hat atop the cross, explaining his motivation was to protest Trump administration injustice - not something racist.

A red hat? On top of a burning cross?  Anyone know why no one in the media mentioned that part? 

Or why pfather pflaggot went in front of the cameras screeching about racism and offering $10K for identification of the suspect? 

Or how presidential-hopeful Porkulous used the typical "racism and facism" dog-whistles to imply that Trump supporters were to blame instead of a delusional Naperville UIC student?

NEWSFLASH - he's one of YOU democrats, willing to disregard the entire history of burning crosses and what they symbolize in order to spread your derangement. Fuck you one and all.

If Bailey had half a brain, he'd be having his publicity people splicing footage of Fata$$ jumping (jumping? hahaha) to his stupid blame-game conclusions and asking how someone this dumb could be governor.

Any word on when the Apology Tour starts? We're betting other media outlets bury this one faster than Gacy buried his victims.

Shooting

Overnight in 020:

• A suspect in a deadly shooting in Ravenswood was shot and critically wounded by Chicago police in Uptown Monday night, CPD said. Police said officers were on patrol at about 8:20 p.m. when they responded to a report of shots fired.

  A 63-year-old man got involved in an argument with a male suspect, who took out a gun and shot the 63-year-old man, police said. The victim was transported to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

  The suspect fled from the 4800-block of North Clark Street and was later located by officers in the 1400-block of W. Argyle Street, police said.

  Police said after a brief foot chase, the suspect turned and pointed his gun in the direction of officers, who fired their weapons and struck the suspect.

So the killer got killed. Free advice to COPA - account for the fired bullets and close the case.

A job well done by the Officers. 

UPDATE: killer is still alive for some reason. The advice to COPA still stands though.

President Porkulous Probability

The good news is he's polling worse than ever:

• A new public opinion poll says Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker remains low on the list of voters’ preferred choices in the 2028 Democratic Party primary election for president.

  The Center Square Voters' Voice Poll was conducted by Noble Predictive Insights, a nonpartisan public opinion polling firm, from June 1-4, 2026 and surveyed registered voters nationally.

  Former Vice President Kamala Harris finished first with 27% of the vote among 1,013 Democrats who responded. 17% said they were not sure.

  Next was California Gov. Gavin Newsom at 14%, former U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg at 11% and New York U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at 8%.

  Pritzker and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear both came in at 2%.

The bad news is that means Illinois is stuck with his ass

Small Measure of Justice

Thirty-five years for Attempted Murder:

• A man who shot a Chicago police officer in the face in Lincoln Park and then yelled, “You will die!” pleaded guilty Monday to attempted murder and was sentenced to 35 years in prison, court records show.

  [...] At one point, prosecutors said, McPherson ripped an officer’s COVID-19 mask off and grabbed the officer in a bear hug.

  McPherson then moved into the parking lot, sat inside the woman’s car with the door open, and allegedly told an officer, “I got a gun, too.”

  “What? You want to fight?” McPherson allegedly asked the officer as body-worn camera footage recorded the encounter. “I’m not leaving. This is a good a** gun, too, b****.” After an officer alerted others that McPherson was armed, McPherson allegedly responded, “Y’all not going to get this. I’m too strong for this s***.”

  Prosecutors said McPherson then pulled a handgun from beneath his legs and pointed it at the first officer, who could see directly down the barrel of the weapon. The officer grabbed the gun and pushed it away from his face. Two shots were fired, and one bullet struck the officer in the cheek, causing a through-and-through wound.

Literally, inches away from death.

He'll serve 85% of the sentence (29.75 years) but probably gets credit for the five years spent in custody. 

Charges Dropped Why?

While we're more approving than disapproving of O'Neill-Burke's efforts to turn the States Attorney Office around from defending criminals to actually prosecuting crimes, we're going to want an explanation for this one:

• Charges have been dropped against two suspects in the death of Chicago firefighter Jermaine Pelt.

  The men were accused of starting the fire that killed Pelt in the West Pullman neighborhood in April 2023. They were about to go on trial when their cases were dismissed. Charges against a third man were dropped in 2024.

  The Cook County State's Attorney's Office said the case is still open and their commitment to seeking justice for Pelt remains unwavering.

The way you maintain public approval and trust is by being open about what you're doing, why your doing it, and how you're correcting the mistakes made by Crimesha.

Saying the case is "still open" and you're "seeking justice" is a soundbite meant to placate the short-attention-span people. Firefighters (and cops) have long memories. Tell them what's going on.

Surprised?

No, not really:

• Multiple elected officials are condemning the vandalism of a mural honoring three fallen Chicago police officers, as a reward is offered for information leading to an arrest.

  The artwork, located along South Pulaski Road near West 68th Street in the West Lawn neighborhood, pays tribute to officers Luis Huesca, Andres Vasquez Lasso and Enrique Martinez. Cook County Crime Stoppers is offering a cash reward of up to $1,000 for information in the case.

  "The act of vandalism damaged a memorial created to pay tribute to the sacrifice and service of a fallen member of law enforcement and has deeply impacted the officers, family members and community members who view the mural as a symbol of remembrance and respect," Crime Stoppers said in a poster about the vandalism.

  The incident is under investigation by detectives.

Hopefully, it gets solved.

Didn't They Outlaw Switches?

And wasn't that Tire Flattening Unit supposed to be deployed to prevent these types of incidents?

• A 21-year-old Indiana man was killed when a gunman armed with an illegally modified pistol opened fire during a stunt driving “sideshow” in the Ford City Mall parking lot early Saturday, according to Chicago police and videos posted on social media.

  Martin Isaac Cantu Murillo, of South Bend, was standing outside in the 7600 block of South Cicero Avenue around 2:50 a.m. when someone began firing and struck him in the head, police said. The gunman fled the scene in a red SUV. CPD has not revealed a motive for the shooting, and no arrests have been reported.

  An officer who responded to the scene counted 25 shell casings scattered across the parking lot, according to preliminary information.

CWB has video at the link of a masked individual pulled out a switched pistol and firing it, proving once again that Illinois will pass any law they can to feel good (without actually doing anything) about the crime they're enabling every single weekend.

Where are the Stop Stick people? 

Speaking of Crime....

Channel 7 is going all in competing with HeyJackass.com and tracking shootings all weekend:

• At least 16 people have been shot, five fatally, in gun violence across Chicago so far this weekend.

  Here's how the news is developing.

They then list all the shootings with a summary of each - something we haven't seen the media do for years, a decade or more actually. 

They still won't describe the offenders though.

But it seems like yet another indication that Conehead is being undercut by the Machine flunkies in the media. 

Traveling Day Again

Returning to town, so posting is light and comments might be delayed.

Seems like another one of those "crime is down compared to years ago" but don't look at the climbing trend.

Open post for now. 

What Now?

From the comments:

• OT: anybody investigating the former head of mayors details wife? Brand new merit LT S.L. They cut her lock at 640 and found $37,000.00 in cash. And then she demanded it back. Luckily NW was there. Lisa A trying to cover it up.

Did someone forget to pick up the"merit" payoff? A lot of connected names in this one.

Hmmmm

Why are we just hearing about this now?

• Two weeks ago, someone drove into the 020 parking garage and committed suicide. The body remained undiscovered for (depending on who you talk to) an hour or a few hours.

And no one tipped us off.

A Bomb?

Not really:

• A Chicago alderman says someone set off a bomb outside his home early Saturday, shattering a window as his three children were sleeping. But police dispatch records show CPD was not sent to any calls of an explosion at the time of the blast and an initial police investigation later on Saturday morning found the object appeared to be a firework.

  Ald. Byron Sigcho Lopez (25th Ward) says the blast happened around 12:45 a.m. near his home in the 1900 block of West 21st Street. He posted a video Saturday evening that appears to show a large firework detonating at a street corner. Glass is heard shattering, and a vehicle horn is triggered by the explosion.

It was a firework. 

A BIG firework with the potential to maim, burn or kill, but still a firework. Lopez and his press people are screeching about a bomb though and someone is pushing the nine-hour response time as something unusual - which it would be....for an actual bomb.

One of those "Police District Councilors" is calling it political violence before any investigation has even been begun, so leap to your own conclusions.

But it wasn't a "bomb." 

Any Truth to This One?

We get emails regularly alleging all sorts of things. 

Some are obviously trolls. Some sound like something that could happen:

• So the latest from the Police Department news, they are going to strip Northside Police Districts of their most important resources, Patrol Officers. Some districts are losing from 25 to 50 Officers, depending on their actual Officers assigned.

These Districts are already short from everything we've seen and heard. Sometimes someone sends us the daily worksheets and the cars are half staffed. Someone sent us pictures of a parking lot and it was full of unused squad cars. We couldn't determine if it was shift change or something else, so we filed it under "interesting" but didn't post about it.

Moving Officers though - now you're talking about Contract violations and time-and-one-half for being shipped out of bid spots. After all the talk about OT cuts, we can't see paying dozens of Officers OT just for showing up for work.

But we know where there are something like 150 Officers guarding a west side residence and driving family members around when there used to be only twenty-four in years past. 

They're all Detailed, so Contractual protections may not be as big of a hurdle.

Look! (again)

Lack of enforcement leads to....more crime!

• Maeve Priestley was overcome with anxiety when she woke up early one morning and discovered the driver’s side window of her Honda Civic had been smashed out. Priestley, 26, cried outside her Lake View condo building as she assessed the damage and realized an air bag had been ripped out of her steering wheel. She didn’t know what to do, so she called her dad.

  “It’s a very violating experience,” says Priestley, a special education teacher. “I felt very panicked.”

  She was among the more than 1,200 victims of air bag thefts in Chicago in the first four months of this year. Between 2023 and 2025, there were only 70 such thefts, according to Chicago police data.

  Amid this year’s surge, the Chicago Police Department has suspended air bag theft investigations more quickly. And virtually all of the cases have gone unsolved, a Chicago Sun-Times analysis of the data found.

Gee, a teacher in Lakeview was the victim of a crime - wonder how she voted.

And the Slum Times is "analyzing" the data:

• A police spokesperson says theft investigations “often take time and can be difficult to solve without video or forensic evidence.”

These Thefts can be accomplished in about thirty-seven seconds (ask us how we know!) using a rock and a box cutter - that's it. 

• no one is calling 9-1-1 during that time frame, 
• no one at 9-1-1 is picking up that call that quickly and typing up a ticket, 
• no one is dispatching that call in thirty-seven seconds (it's a Priority 3, tops)
• no one is responding in that amount of time

And if - completely by chance - an Officer stumbles on a Theft in Progress, they aren't allowed to chase, on foot or by vehicle, for a misdemeanor Theft. 

Any proposed "crackdown" by the City council is political posturing at best. 

Sparklefarts the Swindler?

Anyone surprised? (paywalled article over at Crain's)

• The Obama Presidential Center has been touted as a launching pad for jobs and workforce development on the South Side. But some of the local contractors hired to help build it say they are paying the price for the project’s delays and cost overruns.

  Several subcontractors on the nearly finished $850 million campus say they are quietly fighting to collect millions of dollars in unpaid bills for completed work and are being pushed to the financial brink, providing a new window into the fallout from the center’s widely reported construction issues.

  The companies, including several established minority-led firms, allege a portion of the unforeseen costs on a project that came in hundreds of millions of dollars over its original estimated budget has been pushed onto them and other small contractors least able to afford them — jeopardizing jobs and the future of some businesses the historic project was designed to elevate.

  Their claims reveal a hidden human cost of the project’s inflated price tag and threaten to spoil the legacy of one of the highest-profile developments in the city’s history.

Any updates on that $470 million maintenance fund that was only funded with a single million dollars? Chicago taxpayers are looking down the barrel of a $469 million shortfall that is 100% unaffordable.

Firefighters Injured

Imagine a warm overnight and then going to fight a fire decked out in bunker gear.

No thanks:

• An extra-alarm fire in the Back of the Yards neighborhood tore through a building, leaving four people including two firefighters hurt and more than a dozen people displaced Thursday morning.

  The fire, which started near the 4500 block of South Laflin Street and was extinguished by 6:45 a.m., erupted about 5 a.m., according to a fire department spokesperson.

  The department’s response was elevated to an extra-alarm, bringing more than 100 firefighters to the scene and at least five ambulances, according to the spokesperson.

  Two occupants of the building were taken in good and fair condition to hospitals, while two firefighters suffering minor injuries were also taken to hospitals, the spokesperson said.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

It's NOT a Toy, Dumbasses

You're supposed to be professionals:

• Newly released dashcam video shows a Pasadena police officer getting shot by a fellow officer in what the police chief described as a "horseplay" incident.

  The footage, taken inside a Pasadena police parking garage, captures a patrol car pulling up behind two officers standing near another vehicle. One of the officers standing outside is seen quickly drawing his gun and pointing it at the officer in the patrol car. After a few seconds, he re-holsters the weapon.

  The video does not show what happens next, but the police chief said the officer seated in the patrol car also drew a gun, which discharged. The bullet traveled through the windshield and struck the other officer in the shoulder.

  The shooting happened last September, but the department released the video Wednesday.

That seems to fall far outside the recognized definition of "horseplay." And the narrative indicates there are TWO morons here who shouldn't be trusted anywhere near firearms, let alone carrying them as part of their jobs.

You don't draw a loaded weapon and point it at someone or something you aren't willing to shoot in the defense of yourself or others - LEAST OF ALL at a fellow officer.

It's a Mystery

Anyone notice how the "Hantavirus" scare disappeared completely from the media? 

Like it never existed?

Like it wasn't getting the traction it needed to scare everyone into submission again?

You can see they're trying to do something with the recent Ebola outbreak, except Ebola kills the infected too quickly to have a "patient zero" running around getting everyone else sick.

Shades of Juicy

When the demand for "racism!!!" exceeds the supply, you get crap like this:

• Chicago police are investigating after a cross was burned in Grant Park.

  Police said officers and firefighters responded to the 600 block of South Columbus Drive around 2:30 p.m. Tuesday after reports of an “object” on fire. Firefighters extinguished the blaze.

  The “motives and circumstances” of the burning are under investigation, police said. No one was hurt, and no one is in custody.

We're surprised there weren't clothesline nooses and puddles of bleach amongst the Subway sandwich wrappers littering Grant Park.

That didn't stop the usual suspects from screeching that this was (A) racist, (B) Trump related and (C) related to the Texas murder trial that just wrapped up. Even pfather pflaggot is offering a ten-thousand dollar reward for apprehension of the suspect....who appears to be Asian (pix from CWB blog).

With all the cameras around Grant Park, it's only a matter of time finding and tracking this mope down and discovering he was paid by the SPLC or some other left-wing outfit to gin up fake outrage in a blue city, blue state, $hithole that voted overwhelmingly for Sparklefarts, Hillary, Biden and Kamala. 

 

Task Force Shooting

One of the Task Force members seems to be a CPD Officer detailed there:

• Two suspects were shot as part of an ATF gun trafficking operation in Country Club Hills Tuesday night, the ATF said.

  The incident occurred near 189th and Loretto Lane in Country Club Hills.

  The ATF said it was conducting the operation at about 5:30 p.m. when an ATF special agent and a task force officer fired their guns in response to an attempted armed robbery of undercover agents, hitting two suspects. Authorities said the task officer is with the Chicago Police Department.

  Both suspects were taken into custody and transported to the hospital, where they were in stable condition. Three other suspects were taken into custody at the scene, the ATF said.

COPA appeared on scene but will undoubtedly have a difficult time investigating as federal agencies aren't required to cooperate with them on any level. 

We aren't sure about the CPD member who is (technically) detailed out and therefore, employed by the feds? Would it depend on who's signing the checks or what Rules are operated under?

Good job all around though. 

Nice Workaround Porkulous

A billionaire avoiding taxes?

But still raising taxes on the working people. 

Good Question

In light of the recent "firework death" on the Eisenhower, a forward-thinking readers raises the following:

• Okay, If thats what had happened then are the firework shells considered deadly. So when there is a street take over with vehicles driving all crazy doing donuts inside a gasoline ring of fire and lighting firework shells and throwing them at the police its considered what ??? Where do artillery shells appear on the "use of force" chart ?

Any Use of Force Sexperts want to take a break from banging recruits and chime in on this one?

Zero Enforcement Means.....

Anyone know when this became legal?

Riding ATVs on the sidewalk with a child under the age of ten on your lap. It looks like a lot of fun.

Wait...what? This isn't legal? 

But it's happening all over the Hyde Park neighborhood in broad daylight.

Oh....Hyde Park. They probably voted for it. 

Carry on. 

Again?

How incompetent are Cook county officials? This incompetent:

• Property tax bills usually sent out in July will once again be delayed, according to Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle.

  Preckwinkle, who announced the two-month delay Tuesday, said she intends to reopen a no-interest loan program for government bodies that rely on the property tax revenue they now won’t get on time.

  Suburban tax districts, such as schools and libraries, that would otherwise need to take out pricey short-term loans to cover their budgets can instead borrow from the county’s $300 million Property Tax Bridge Fund Program, Preckwinkle said. That program mirrors one put in place last year when tax bills were delayed four months due to a computer issue.

Guess who isn't eligible to participate in Prickwrinkle's program?

• Chicago Public Schools, however, would not be eligible for that loan program. That could be a problem for CPS, which last year paid $220,000 in interest per day on short-term loans it took out to make payroll.

  CPS officials said last year’s tax bill delay has forced them to take out at least $1.6 billion in short-term loans for operating expenses and another $246 million loan to keep its teachers pension fund solvent — making for $33 million in interest payments down the line.

Don't worry though - Conehead will figure out some way to stick it to Chicago taxpayers at the behest of his political masters.

This could be a good thing though - getting the tax bills so close to election season might remind people exactly why Chicago, Cook County and Illinois are in such bad financial shape. 

It's the democrats.

This Took a While

This one was a long time coming, and the CWB blog does (as usual) an outstanding job reporting on how the entire system worked to keep this piece of garbage OUT of prison....until it just couldn't any more. Some highlights:

• More than two years after a judge found him guilty of participating in an armed robbery that left a man dead outside a suburban movie theater in 2017, Torrey Lewis has been sentenced to 85 years in prison.

  While CWB Chicago did not report on the original murder case, Lewis drew our attention in 2024 when he was charged with possessing firearms after being shot while on electronic monitoring in the murder case. It was the second time authorities accused him of possessing guns while wearing an ankle monitor after the killing. 

Got that so far?

• gets shot
• and caught with a gun 
• while on EM for murder
• for the SECOND time 

After being charged with 160 counts of murder (yes, one-hundred sixty) and twenty-five other charges, he got a bail of $300K....and the fun really began. We aren't going to steal all of CWB's reporting, but the story reads like a dystopian documentary of a "justice system" that failed at every turn.

It culminates in an appearance by ....  (wait for it) ....the SAFE-T Act!!!

• But barely a year later, while still on electronic monitoring in the murder case, Lewis was again accused of illegally possessing firearms. This time, authorities said they discovered the weapons after Lewis was shot while taking advantage of the unrestricted movement afforded to electronic monitoring participants under the SAFE-T Act.

  Around 10 a.m. on January 31, 2024, Lewis was using one of his weekly “free movement” days, during which people on electronic monitoring in Illinois are permitted to leave home as long as they remain within Cook County.

Yep, he used his "unrestricted movement" day to commit more crimes! Who would have thought such a thing was possible???

He must have been too politically embarrassing to remain free as an example of the SAFE-T Act failures, so a judge was told to sentence him to 50 years PLUS 31 years PLUS 4 years - all to be served CONSECUTIVELY, not concurrently, with a projected release date of 2096 at age 103.

Go read it all at CWB. Then stop voting for democrats.

Firework Suicide?

Deliberate?

• Authorities now know what happened on the Eisenhower Expressway last Thursday, leading to a bomb squad response and shutting down the interstate for hours.

  It was a firework mortar that went off inside the SUV being driven by 47-year-old Jorge Vaca from west suburban Cicero. A senior law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the case told NBC Chicago the fireworks rocket was ignited inside Vaca's vehicle and shot into his chest.

  It wasn't a bomb, and nobody did it to him, they said. The question is, still, why did it happen?

  Heavy fireworks are supposed to be blown off in open spaces - for obvious reasons - or into the sky, well away from people.

  But that is not what happened inside the SUV being driven westbound on the Eisenhower Expressway.

There were also a bunch of reports regarding shell casings scattered around the crime scene, but seeing as how it's the Ike, what neighborhoods it runs through and what happens there on a daily basis, these were probably just left over from one of the usual eight or ten weekly shootings.

UPDATE: Based on the descriptions of the wounds, it seems likely that the deceased was attempting to "fire" the mortar out of a moving vehicle, whether in celebration of some unknown event or at someone who he was trying to intimidate / wound / kill. 

Darwinism in action.

Shell casings - either as we said before (leftovers from another shooting) or maybe the target was armed also?

Pretty soon, we'll have grenade attacks like much of Scandinavia. 

Crime WAS Down

But the trend appears to be reversing:

• The number of people shot and killed over the weekend doubled compared to the same weekend last year. While the total remains significantly below long-term averages, the increase underscores the ongoing challenge of sustaining 2025’s public safety improvements that Mayor Brandon Johnson frequently touts in the media.

  Through the end of May, homicides were up 6% compared to 2025, and the number of non-fatal shooting victims had increased 7%, according to CPD. Johnson now faces the unenviable task of trying to maintain his narrative while shootings appear to be on the rise as summer heats up.

And as we've stated for decades now, tying your messaging to week-by-week numbers, let alone month-by month comparisons is foolish in the extreme because of exactly this. 

Not to mention, the Machine doesn't really want Conehead to run again, so the media is being told to twist the numbers any was possible to make the citizens think things are worse than they might otherwise perceive (though in this case, they're not that far off the mark).

Can We Demonize This One?

What do you think Conehead?

• A 13-year-old boy was ordered held on gun charges Monday, hours after Chicago police publicly accused him of carrying out a weekend shooting that wounded four children in Bronzeville.

  In a news release Monday morning, police said the teen pulled a gun around 9:40 p.m. Saturday in the 4500 block of South Prairie Avenue and opened fire on the four other boys.

  Responding officers later found the boys — an 11-year-old, two 13-year-olds and a 14-year-old — suffering from gunshot wounds, police said. They were taken to hospitals in conditions ranging from good to fair. The suspected shooter was arrested about 20 minutes later in the 4600 block of South Calumet Avenue.

Luckily, it looks like Felony Review will get the charges downgraded for now:

• Police initially said he was charged with felony counts of aggravated battery, unlawful possession of a weapon and having a gun without a license.

  But the Cook County state’s attorney’s office later said he isn’t actually charged with the counts of aggravated battery tying him to the shooting. He appeared in court Monday and was ordered held on three counts of unlawful possession of a weapon. the state’s attorney’s office said.

  In a second news release, issued after the hearing, police said “charges were amended in court pending additional investigation.”

Still, very much "demon-like" behavior.

Channel 7 Still Stealing from SCC

The content thieves over at Channel 7 seem to have discovered crime reporting is part of their jobs again, and guess what they're doing? Right there on their front page:

• At least 18 people have been shot, two fatally, in gun violence across Chicago so far this weekend, police said.

  ABC7 is tracking the shootings across Chicago from Friday at 6 p.m. to Sunday at 11:59 p.m.

Seriously? We've been doing Friday 1700 to Sunday 2359 hours for nearly two decades (extra bonus hours on holiday weekends), and Channel 7 moves an hour and pretends it's an original idea? Are they accounting for rush hour or something?

• here's a hint - those doing the shootings aren't usually coming home from jobs, so that hour doesn't mean much. We used 1700 hours because the number of potential innocent victims on the street went up.

If they use anything different from HeyJackass.com stats, then they're continuing the propaganda BS put out by the Department.

If they start betting pools based on casualty counts, we're going to be mildly irritated....and amused.

By the way, nice Saturday night Conehead:

• Nearly half of the victims shot overnight in Chicago were children and teenagers, including an 18-year-old who died from his injuries.

  Chicago Police have reported at least 15 people were shot from around 9:30 p.m. Saturday to just after 5 a.m. Sunday. Seven of the people shot were between 12 and 19 years old.

  The violence hit nearly every side of the city, including a shooting that left a woman critically wounded in the Lincoln Park neighborhood.

We'll guess Conehead didn't ask the pope for divine intervention regarding crime.

CTA Crime Still an Issue

In the first two pages of the CWB blog, there are no fewer than five separate CTA crimes in recent days along with a few others that finally reached resolution via the courts. 

Another criminal who (A) can't read signs, (B) doesn't recognize the red circle BANNED meaning and (C) happens to be a felon who can't have a gun in the first place:

• A 43-year-old Chicago man is facing gun charges after Cook County Sheriff’s Police allegedly found him rolling a joint on the Red Line and then discovered a loaded gun in his jacket.

  Around 2:35 p.m. on May 31, deputies were conducting a routine patrol on a train car at the 69th Street station when they saw Kenneth Stapleton rolling what appeared to be a cigar stuffed with a green leafy substance, the sheriff’s office said Friday.

  Stapleton was detained for violating CTA rules, and a records check turned up an active warrant connected to a forgery case, officials said. During a search, deputies recovered a loaded firearm from his jacket and learned that he did not have a Firearm Owner’s Identification card or a concealed carry license, according to the sheriff’s office. Prosecutors approved a charge of aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon later that day.

That Red Line certainly is a shit-magnet.

This one got Federal charges:

• Federal prosecutors have charged two men with kidnapping a DePaul University student and taking him on a terrifying crosstown Red Line ride during which they repeatedly threatened to kill him while making electronic bank transfers and issuing ransom demands to his friends and family.

The sheriffs can't do it alone, so a couple of successful federal prosecutions would go a long way to making the CTA ride-able again.

New Category at HeyJackass.com

It might not be totally new - their site is chock full of information all the time that it's sometimes difficult to keep up with everything, but we saw this one yesterday and it made us chuckle:

 

Yep, the two sites that we check daily are working together on crime stats....something you most likely won't see in any the so-called "main stream" sites that are nothing more than propaganda arms of the Machine. Hopefully, this collaboration runs smoothly an for many years to come.

Vigilante Story Falls Apart

Sounds like a bunch of drunk idiots:

• Friday afternoon began with reports of a sexual assault and two stabbing victims at State and Lake.

  By the end of the night, detectives were telling a different story.

  Initial police reports described a sexual assault, a fight, and a woman stabbing two men.

  Hours later, detectives revised the incident, changing the alleged sexual assault to “unwanted contact” and ultimately determining that only one person had actually suffered a laceration.

And the "eye-stabbing"?

• Questions also remain about how the 25-year-old man received his injury, why an alleged eye stabbing was later removed from the narrative, and what evidence led detectives to revise the incident from a reported sexual assault to unwanted contact.

And here we were hoping that there might be a "fighting back" trend developing, but probably not. We guess it will all have to continue getting worse before it gets better.

Light Posting

We are traveling at the moment, so posting the rest of the weekend will be light.

Open post for now.

Comments may be delayed. 

Silence....

Still no new info on the "explosion" death on the suburban Eisenhower.

No name either, so the speculation of "Abdul Muhammed Jones" recently released from prison remains that - speculation.

We certainly hope no one is trusting the fbi or ATF to come up with actual information. 

More Vigilantes Please

We're enjoying this more than you can imagine:

• Chicago police say a man sexually assaulted a woman as she walked through the Loop on Friday afternoon, but the attack took an unexpected turn when another woman allegedly stabbed the assailant in the eye before officers arrived. A second man who intervened in the confrontation was also cut during the chaos, according to police.

  Crime scene tape surrounded the entrance to theWit Hotel at 201 North State Street, where the attack unfolded shortly after 4 p.m., according to witnesses.

  Police said a 24-year-old woman was walking on the sidewalk when a 31-year-old man sexually assaulted her. The suspect then became involved in a physical altercation with a 25-year-old man who intervened, CPD said. As the two men fought, a 36-year-old woman at the scene allegedly pulled out a knife and stabbed the suspected assailant in his right eye. She also cut the other man on his left wrist, according to police.

We're going to go out on a limb here and say the guy who got cut across the wrist was probably a Good Samaritan who got in the way of the woman wielding the knife. If true, maybe he'll refuse to cooperate and everyone can just agree the shitbag who got stabbed in the eye is the only offender.

Hopefully, the first of many instances for the Summer of 2026 - the year Chicagoans just got fed up. 

 

Darn You Legal Gun Owners!

A mess on the south side:

• More than 50 evidence markers dotted a Back of the Yards street Friday morning after gunmen unleashed a hail of bullets into a group of people, killing two victims and wounding five others in one of the city’s most violent shootings of the week.

  Cook County Crime Stoppers is now offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the shooters.

  The attack occurred around 12:26 a.m. in the 5100 block of South Wood Street, according to Chicago police. Two masked gunmen approached a group standing on the block and opened fire, witnesses reporting the sound of automatic gunfire as the men fired dozens of rounds. Investigators placed more than 50 evidence markers around the area, most sitting next to individual shell casings, a sign of just how many shots were fired.

But since this occurred outside of the usual 5:00 PM Friday to 11:59 PM Sunday time frame, it doesn't count as a weekend shooting.

By the way, temps rising all of next week, so get ready for some non-demonized mayhem. 

Oh No!!!

It's the Indiana Bears....

Or is it?

• The Bears’ board of directors met Thursday and decided to move forward with their plans to build a stadium in Indiana, positioning the team to play its home games out of state for the first time in its 106-year history.

  The Bears’ Friday announcement to “advance our stadium development project in Hammond” tips the scales significantly toward Indiana — but falls well short of eliminating Illinois from contention.

  The precise stadium site in Hammond depends on which permutations of the Wolf Lake property the Bears choose. The Bears have a long list of boxes to check, too, ranging from environmental reports to traffic surveys to financial agreements.

  A league source cautioned the announcement didn’t eliminate Arlington Heights as an option, were the state to find a way to give the Bears property tax certainty on the 326-acre plot they own. In fact, the source said, there was “still a lot of ballgame left to play” for Illinois lawmakers. It’s unclear whether waiting until the Senate and House reconvene this fall would be too late for the Bears, though. The team considers Arlington Heights — not Chicago — the only viable choice in Cook County.

So this is yet another ploy in a long series of ploys over tax breaks and such. 

There's still a long way to go, but voters are getting a bit fed up with all the posturing. We are having a hard time finding anyone who actually cares as most season ticket holders already live in the suburbs and would like nothing more than to skip the downtown trip. 

Now They WANT ShotSpotter?

Or a replacement (which Conehead probably wants....as long as his team is getting the connected contracts):

• A Chicago City Council Committee is talking about public safety and St. Sabina's Father Michael Pfleger is calling out city leaders.

  He and others are upset that the city has not yet replaced the Shotspotter system, which detected gunshots and alerted police.

  Several advocates including those who have personally lost children to gun violence were clear that if there is no replacement for Shotspotter then the system needs to be brought back.

  It's been two years since the gunshot detection system was dismantled in Chicago.

And the Brandon Body / Conehead Corpse count stands at eighty-four according to CWB blog.

Were all eighty-four casualties pillars of society? Of course not. 

Will they be missed? By a small segment of their respective populations.

But what pfather pfleger forgets is the right people aren't being paid off, so the system stays inactive for now. Remember, the system was "racist" for being installed where the gunshots were most prevalent and the criminals were mostly minority and the voters were mostly stupid for buying into that narrative. 

Premature Detonation?

A lot of questions in the burbs:

• All lanes of the Eisenhower Expressway reopened on Thursday evening, after being shut down for nearly nine hours after a person was found dead in a vehicle surrounded by shell casings on the roadway.

Someone dead on the Eisenhower isn't that unusual. Someone dead amidst a collection of shell casings is slightly unusual.

But look who showed up to investigate:

• It’s unclear exactly what happened but the Cook County medical examiner’s office confirmed one person has died, and WGN9 reported that a bomb squad responded to the scene. Illinois State Police said they were assisting a federal investigation at the scene.

The "federal" part of the investigation included the ATF and fbi, drones and robots.

Bomb? Portable meth lab? BBQ gas cylinder?

Fun times - stay aware. 

Teen Takeover Discussion?

Why are politicians "discussing" lawbreaking? 

• As more so-called teen takeovers could be planned in Chicago this week, the concern over the gatherings seemed to be split in a South Side room, literally, on Tuesday night.

  "They're saying they want places to go, things to do. We have park districts and everything in our communities. Let's open it up for them," one woman said.

  Organizers with Acclivus, a community health organization, hosted a teen takeover listening session in Washington Park.

  "The kids are just dangling. They don't have nothing to do," one young person said.

  Tuesday night's meeting came as Ald. Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth said there will be intermittent closures of DuSable Lake Shore Drive ramps if necessary in response to planned large gatherings at Foster Beach on Thursday and Friday.

  Parking restrictions will be in place along the lakefront from Lawrence to Foster on June 4 and June 5 from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m., and the DuSable Lake Shore Drive off-ramps at Lawrence and Foster will be closed if necessary, Manaa-Hoppenworth said.

They have plenty to do - they just don't do it. 

They could also get....we dunno....jobs?

There are twenty-six MILES of beaches, many within walking distance of where these teens live:

• 12th Street
• 31st Street
• Rainbow Beach
• 57th Street
• 63rd Street 
• South Shore 

Just to name a few that are far closer than Foster Avenue. What's the attraction of going that far away from home, besides the abundance of victims and the lack of police manpower?

There are laws in effect - enforce them aldercreature. Stop making excuses for misbehavior.

Nice Double Standard Larry

So this is a top story in the Slum Times:

• David Ross passed the strenuous test to join the Chicago Police Department’s mounted patrol in 2023 by, among other things, climbing onto a horse, lifting five bales of hay and moving a 1,200 pound dumpster.

  The only problem: Officer Ross was on medical leave at the time and was supposed to be recovering from an “unbearable” knee injury sustained during an on-duty crash, police records show.

  Police investigators recommended he be fired for violating the department’s leave policy, according to the city’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability.

But this is what Larritorious signs off on for "merit" sergeant and now "merit" lieutenant:

• when Yau she was a PO and was on IOD limited duty she was caught running the chicago marathon and instead of her being fired she only took 10 days and subsequently since then was merit sgt and now merit LT,

We guess if you're heavy enough, you can get away with all sorts of violations of Department rules....like banging recruits on a regular basis.

Political Season Underway

The first big name announces her intent to run for Conehead's job:

• Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza officially launched her campaign to become the next mayor of Chicago on Wednesday.

  In her announcement, she said Chicago deserves more competence.

  She's the latest to join a crowded field of politicians looking to become the next leader to occupy City Hall's fifth floor.

  But she was the first to have an official launch party.

She's got a tough road ahead of her, and middle-of-the-road isn't quite going to cut it. She's going to have to go scorched earth against a few of the entrenched Machine candidates and appeal to the stay-at-home voters to come out in droves. Thirty-three percent turnout isn't her friend - that's the commies / progressives / CTU friends.

Calls for Feds to Investigate Crimesha

Once again, the Chicago Contrarian has a piece by Paul Vallas, pointing out just how corrupt and useless Crimesha Foxx was and how her actions continue to drain scarce taxpayer dollars:

• Recent revelations surrounding former Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx sent shock waves through Chicago’s legal and political circles. In a recent deposition, Foxx acknowledged that Gabriel Solache and Arturo Deleon-Reyes, who obtained Certificates of Innocence with her blessing, were both guilty of perhaps the most horrific double murders and kidnappings in recent Chicago history. That extraordinary admission reinforced longstanding concerns Foxx’s approach to conviction integrity had ignited Chicago’s now multi-billion-dollar wrongful-conviction liability crisis.

  Yet lost amid the public reaction was another remarkable aspect of Foxx’s testimony — one that had never been publicly disclosed. Foxx was deposed about the case of Marilyn Mulero, one of eight defendants whose murder convictions were vacated at Foxx’s behest in August 2022, in cases connected to former Chicago Police detective Reynaldo Guevara. At the time, Foxx announced that a “comprehensive case-by-case review” had uncovered police misconduct by Guevara that called all of the convictions into question. 

  What the public was not told, however, was that deposition testimony and emails now indicate that no meaningful independent factual review ever occurred. Instead, the vacaturs were precipitated by lawyers affiliated with civil rights firms that now represent many of those same defendants in lawsuits seeking massive damages from the City of Chicago. 

Crimesha's outright corruption has the potential to cost taxpayers a further BILLION dollars on top of the tens of millions paid out in cases where exactly ZERO evidence of innocence was ever presented in court.

As usual, go read it all for information you won't get from the bought-and-paid-for "media" types who are merely tools of the Machine. 

Naperville Did What???

They arrested their way out of a situation?

• Nine people were arrested and nearly three dozen citations were issued after large groups of mostly teens gathered in downtown Naperville on Monday evening.

  The gathering began around 5 p.m. June 1 along the Washington Street corridor between Chicago and Van Buren avenues. Anticipating large crowds, the Naperville Police Department deployed multiple teams of officers throughout the downtown area to deter criminal activity and maintain public safety.

  Five juveniles were arrested during the event. Charges included battery, assault, obstructing identification, criminal trespass to state-supported land, illegal possession of cannabis, illegal possession of tobacco by a minor, disobeying a peace officer and interfering with a peace officer.

Golly, if word of this gets out, it could completely revamp policing as we know it!

Don't Fall for This BS

The Department is looking to screw you into signing away Contractual Rights in the name of hugs and kisses. But they're asking for input:

• Thank you for visiting the Chicago Police Department’s public comment forum for the revised draft of the Community Police Mediation Pilot Program directive.
  

  As part of our ongoing mission to grow trust within the communities we serve, CPD again invites the community to review and provide feedback on the revised Community Police Mediation Pilot Program directive beginning June 2, 2026 through June 17, 2026. After the comment period concludes, CPD will review the additional feedback received to guide future revisions to the drafts. CPD will consider your comments before finalizing the directive.
  

  Below you will find a draft of the Community Police Mediation Pilot Program directive. Please provide your feedback in the space below the draft directive. Thank you again for your continued partnership in building a safer Chicago.

The title of the proposed Department Directive is: Community - Police Mediation Pilot Program.

It is essentially a "bitch-and-moan" session where you meet with a complainant on "neutral ground" and they get to bitch about how you treated them. The draft says nothing will be recorded, no recording will take place, no records will be preserved.

Don't fall for it. You have Contractual protections for a reason and you have recordings during actual CR investigations made for many reasons. Don't let COPA and IAD screw you out of protections while they further neglect their jobs to do actual thorough investigations.

Criminals Can't Read Signs

Doesn't this mean anything????

We guess not:

• An armed man fired a shot during a robbery attempt aboard a Green Line train last week, prosecutors said.

  The victim, a 26-year-old man from Ohio, was riding the train southbound near 47th Street when 19-year-old Marquise Smith approached him around 1:15 a.m. on May 28, prosecutors said.

  “Do you want to die?” Smith allegedly asked the victim, who immediately moved to the other end of the train car. But officials said Smith pulled out a handgun and pushed him from one end of the car to the other while trying to take his camera at gunpoint.

  The victim crossed between cars while the train was moving and then blocked Smith by closing the door behind him and using his body weight to hold the door shut, prosecutors said. Smith, standing between the two train cars, allegedly fired a shot into the air, and the victim quickly activated the train’s emergency signal, alerting the train operator.

We're just going to say it - if you ride the CTA without a means of self defense, you're soft. 

It's obvious no one is checking the criminals, so why would you worry about being checked?

HeyJackass.com has a section for "2026 Self Defense" 

 Three total incidents? That number is far too low:

• 2025 was 4 dead, 9 wounded
• 2024 was 8 dead, 19 wounded
• 2023 was 8 dead, 15 wounded 
• 2022 was 9 dead, 16 wounded

Make Self Defense Great Again - boost those numbers.