Is This True?

The Department made the Gold Star families park blocks away?

• On Friday, December 5, 2025, the Superintendent decided to hold the Gold Star Tree Lighting Ceremony at Headquarters, even though construction is ongoing and the Case of Stars display remains incomplete. Fine, the gesture itself was meaningful.
  
  Yet not one of you could be bothered—for a single day—to surrender your privileged, reserved parking spots for the Gold Star families you claim to honor. Instead, you directed these grieving mothers, fathers, spouses, and children to park in the far west lot near State Street.
  
  Of course you don’t care. Your egos are far too large for basic human decency.
  
  There is a special place in hell for people who treat Gold Star families as an inconvenience.

The Department probably should have had everyone else who "works" at HQ park over at Comiskey and then use vans or buses to transport them to work for the day.

We'd say this just proves the decision to not build an actual parking garage at HQ was a mistake of epic proportions. Many of the new stations have those six-story monstrosities that are never half full....unless there's a Cubs game up north, then everyone and their brother tries to park there. 

Pipe Bomber is What Now?

The fbi finally got around to arresting the terrorist who planted pipe bombs at the DNC and RNC headquarters the night before the J6 "fed-surrection." 

Leaving aside the facts that they had hours of video, plate reader pictures, cell phone data showing who  and where he was, along with credit card data for the purchases of pipes, tools and timers (partly bought during the #blm riot time frame....for what?), the drooling vegetable and the crooked fbi declined to arrest him for four years.

Turns out he's an anarchist, comes from a family of democrat donors that run a bail bond business for ILLEGAL ALIENS and used Trayvon Martin's lawyer to sue the first Trump administration along with DHS and ICE.

And then this:

Seriously. That's what CNN reported. Then they cited "anonymous" sources claiming he was an election denier....kind of like they tried to imply the queer furry-lover who murdered Charlie Kirk was actually a right winger.

You still don't hate the media enough. Or the fbi.

Tax the Rich!

That's what billionaire Fata$$ keeps tell us.

We had no idea that these people were loaded!

• Illinois tipped workers hoping for a break under the new federal tax law are in for a surprise: the state will continue taxing tips.

  Illinois has rejected adopting a new federal “no tax on tips” provision and chosen to keep state taxes on tipped income.

  The law, enacted in July as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, made workers in service industries, such as restaurant servers, bartenders, and salon employees, eligible for an exemption to deduct $25,000 on tip income from their federal taxes for years 2025 through 2028.

  However, Illinois — along with Maine and the District of Columbia — has chosen not to adopt the tip exemption, citing a potential significant loss in revenue.

One of their favorite "arguments" is about people voting against their own self interests.

Well? 

Guess who all those tip-reliant workers voted for last year? 

And guess who they'll be voting for next year?

Speaking of Predators....

Someone tossed this comment up yesterday in the post about CPS being a mess of sexual assault allegations:

• Here's the latest report on CPS sexual misconduct allegations.
  https://cpsoig.org/uploads/3/5/5/6/35562484/oig_board_presentation_december_2025.pdf

If you copy/paste the link, it automatically downloads the Office of the Inspector General Report. We ran it through a virus scan and all, and it appears to be safe.

What you get is a fifteen page report with all sorts of interesting slides and stats. Like these (click for larger versions):

 

Simple math shows there are still a few hundred cases unresolved and there are the usual increases and decreases you see over the years.

Interestingly, we did a simple document search for some common terms and guess what words don't appear even once in this fifteen page report?

• the word "police" doesn't appear a single time
• nor does the word "referral" 
• nor the words "law enforcement" in any form whatsoever

By their own accounting, TWO THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED THIRTY ONE events since 2018....and not a single referral to police, law enforcement or Cook County investigators.

That would appear to be the REAL scandal. 

Promoting Predators

Over our nearly thirty years, we saw boatloads of persons promoted, many of whom shouldn't have ever been near a promotional opportunity. Many were assholes. A few were criminals. Others were just scumbags.

• Chicago’s system of promotions remains out of step with other big cities. Police departments in New York City and Los Angeles consider disciplinary records before promoting officers, seeing their past actions as a critical factor in determining whether they’re fit to supervise others. A survey conducted for the Chicago Police Department of more than a dozen major departments found that only one did not consider discipline in promotions.

  In New Orleans, the police department created a promotions policy that considers an officer’s disciplinary history after it fell under a federal consent decree stemming from decades of corruption and misconduct. The department took nearly four years to create and launch its new policy.

  Chicago is nearly seven years into a state consent decree intended in part to address issues with the police department’s promotions system. Between November 2023 and this April, the city has paid a consulting firm at least $430,000 to study personnel policies, including making recommendations on how to incorporate disciplinary histories into the process.

  But the problems remain unaddressed by the department.

The article relies way too much on the Invisible Institute for solutions, an overly lib-tarded anti-police organization with a giant axe to grind. We wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire.

But we had a lot of discussions over the years with other cops who thought there ought to be some way that the Department could "tap the brakes" on promotions as it were - until an investigations was concluded. What we came up with years ago hasn't changed:

• if you're up for promotion by score, you can go to class with everyone else, but you don't get to walk the stage, shake the hands, or get the star/salary until the complaint is resolved. If it is resolved favorably, you get the same seniority date as your fellow promotees. If it's unfavorable, you serve your suspension time at the appropriate rank, then move forward. This would also encourage the Department to resolve these cases in a timely manner instead of dragging them out for years and years and years.
• if you're up for "meri-clout-orious" promotion, you're shit out of luck, and you wait for the next opportunity. If it's resolved in your favor, you're automatically in the next class. If it's an unfavorable finding, you're out of the process for a five or ten year period AND whoever recommended you isn't allowed to ever submit a "merit" nomination again, because they're obviously bad at it.

You want to have some fun? Get a list over the past three decades of all the promoted people who got fired or (even more fun) went to jail. Then compare how many of those promotions were by score and how many by "merit." 

You'll be amazed. We used to have a list and it was a constant source of amazement. 

More SAFE-T Act Failures

Let's check in with CWB and see how Fata$$'s SAFE-T Act is doing lately!

• A man who twice robbed the same South Side market while he was on electronic monitoring for a pending burglary case has been sentenced to seven years in prison.

  Prosecutors said Timothy Bowden, 29, committed both robberies while he was out on “essential movement” privileges granted to people on electronic monitoring under the SAFE-T Act. The program allows two days a week outside the home for approved purposes such as job applications, grocery shopping, and medical appointments. Robbing a store is not considered an essential activity.

Not essential to regular human beings we imagine. Nice to see CWB adding in some well-deserved sarcasm.

Surely this was the only incident though? 

• A seven-time convicted felon who has been non-compliant with court orders in a pending misdemeanor case tried to kill a man with an intellectual disability by pushing him onto the CTA tracks as a Blue Line train was approaching the station, prosecutors said Wednesday.

  Tommie O. Carter, 39, has been ignoring a judge’s orders to check in with court officers since being charged in October with trespassing at a Loop building and spitting toward a Chicago police officer who took him into custody, according to court records.

Golly - it's almost a daily occurrence, which would lead intelligent people to conclude the SAFE-T Act is a failure on many levels.

Thank goodness the Parole Board serves as a backstop though!

• A convicted felon who was paroled in mid-August on a machine gun possession case is now charged with aggravated kidnapping and four armed robberies that occurred just three months after his release, Chicago police said.

  Marquis Terry, 21, was released from Illinois Department of Corrections custody on August 14, the same day he arrived, thanks to credits he accrued in the Cook County Jail. On November 19, according to CPD, he was part of a group that carried out four violent robberies in less than 30 minutes across Humboldt Park and Little Village.

Gee whiz. Maybe we need to return to the days of no bail and add in some truth-in-sentencing laws to regain control of the system.

Tax Hike Showdown Coming

Conehead is going to kill the city, one way or the other:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration on Thursday delivered a pointed rebuttal to sharply higher taxes and fees for garbage collection, off-premise liquor sales and rides on Uber and Lyft proposed by a City Council majority determined to avoid the mayor’s proposed corporate head tax.

  The 17-page response was delivered to only 23 of the 26 alderpersons who signed a letter to the mayor this week outlining their alternate budget ideas. It was not clear why three other names were not included. But senior mayoral adviser Jason Lee hinted at the reason when he claimed that the slim majority has already seen a few members peel off.

  The response was signed by Chief Financial Officer Jill Jaworski, Budget Director Annette Guzman and Comptroller Michael Belsky.

  If there is room for compromise, it was tough to tell by the Johnson administration’s response.

From what we can tell, this was the compromise effort. Consider that:

• a garbage fee increase - everyone still needs their garbage picked up, so pretty much everyone is going to pay it. The rate freeze only applies to senior citizens; 
• the liquor tax increase is a 50-50 proposition. If you're the planning sort, you'll just stop at any of the nearby suburban shops for your booze. But if it's a short-notice beer-run type situation, you're going to spend the extra money for the time you're saving.

The head-tax that Conehead is insisting on is a long term job killer. Companies are going to leave rather than pay the tax....and they won't be back, meaning a permanent hole in the budget, unlike the always collectable garbage fee and the convenience factor of a liquor tax.

And applying the "amusement tax" to Uber and Lyft rides? We have no idea how they explain that, so we assume they just won't explain it at all....and then wonder why no one is going to shows or shopping or museums.

Park Forest Officer Dies

Ten years after being shot in the line of duty:

• Timothy Jones, a Park Forest detective, has died nearly 10 years after he was shot in the line of duty, the suburban police department announced Thursday morning.

  “Yesterday, Tim’s long and difficult battle came to an end. And while our hearts are broken, we remain incredibly proud of the fight he gave,” the police department said in a social media post announcing his death. “Tim will always be an inspiration and a reminder of the power of strength, faith, and the unwavering support of family and loved ones.”

  Jones was 24, and a south suburban officer for less than a year in March 2016 when he responded to reports of a break-in at a vacant home and was shot multiple times, requiring emergency surgery.

  “We were told he wouldn’t survive, but Tim had other plans,” the department said. “Day after day, year after year, he pushed through challenges most of us can’t imagine. For nearly 10 years, Tim showed us what courage, resilience, and heart truly look like.”

  In 2021, Jones was made an honorary detective.

That is a long time considering the injuries he had suffered and the trials he had to go through. The sheer determination to get ten years out of life after almost dying is impressive.

RIP Sir. Deepest condolences to the Park Forest PD and Detective Jones's family and friends. 

More Millions Pissed Away

So is the media going to keep a running tally of what CPS/CTU is costing taxpayers like they do for the Police Department?

Or is that just going to be CWB's job?

• The Chicago Board of Education will vote Wednesday on a proposal to pay $17.5 million to a former CPS student who endured years of grooming and sexual assaults by her high school dean.

  If approved by the board, the agreement would resolve a lawsuit filed last year by a former student of Greater Lawndale High School for Social Justice at 3120 South Kostner Avenue in Little Village. The suit accused CPS of ignoring warnings and enabling a culture in which employees repeatedly engaged in sexual misconduct with students.

Remember, at last count, we were told there are over four hundred CPS employees (including teachers, coaches, assistants, janitorial staff, security personnel) who are on some form of suspension for sexual offenses against students. Many are still being paid until the "investigations" are finished....or paid off.

This one just happened to make it out of the holding pattern.

And speaking of holding patterns:

• A former Chicago Public Schools STEM teacher who admitted taking part in a multimillion-dollar Southwest Airlines voucher scam received a sentence of a year and a day in federal prison on Monday, bringing an official end to a sprawling scheme that prosecutors say drained the airline of nearly $2 million.

  Ned Brooks, who taught at Fiske Elementary in West Woodlawn and spent more than two decades working in CPS classrooms, received his sentence after pleading guilty last year to one count of wire fraud.

Who would have thought that schools could be such hotbeds of sexual and financial corruption?

Letters Needed

Only twenty-eight years into a sixty year sentence. 

That would leave thirty-two left to serve:

• Here’s the information regarding the clemency petition.  on January 6 a petition for clemency is to be heard in Springfield. It’s for Jonathan Toliver. He was a gang member that murdered Chicago police officer, Michael Ceriale in August 1998. Toliver was Security for the gangster disciples selling drugs out of the Robert Taylor homes. He shot officer Ceriale who died approximately six days later. Ofc Ceriale was only 26 years of age at the time.

  He was sentenced to 60 years the maximum and is only served 28 years so far. They are claiming actual innocence. The evidence was overwhelming. Typical gang case with a lot of flippers , but everybody knew that.

  Anyways, the state attorneys office is requesting submission of letters objecting to clemency for Jonathan Toliver. If anyone can do so they request that they emailed to Assistant states Attorney at  jill.thornton@cookcountysao.org

  They respectfully requested that all objections to the clemency petition be submitted [on or] before December 21.

We remember this one like it was yesterday.

Get those emails in. If anyone hears about the FOP sending buses to Springfield for the actual hearing (or wherever they hold it) let us know. 

Electronic Monitoring under Scrutiny

Interesting developments?

• Cook County Chief Judge Charles S. Beach II yesterday issued his first public announcement since taking office Monday, unveiling a new committee that he said will urgently review how his office’s electronic monitoring program handles reported violations by people wearing ankle monitors.

  The move comes as scrutiny intensifies over the system’s failure to respond to multiple alerts it received in the days before 50-year-old Lawrence Reed set a woman on fire aboard a Blue Line train in the Loop last month.

  Beach’s statement offered a cautious but pointed acknowledgment that the court’s monitoring program needs clearer coordination and faster information sharing. Without referring to the Reed case specifically, Beach’s statement said recent events highlighted the need for well-defined roles among the agencies involved in pretrial supervision. Beach promised a transparent, evidence-based review that would result in concrete, actionable recommendations by late January.

We say "interesting" because this story also dropped yesterday:

• A year after Lacramioara Beldie was killed by her estranged husband, who’d been ordered to stay away, her family has sued Cook County and the company that operated his tracking device.

  In the months leading up to her death, Beldie received more than 20 calls and over 90 messages, alerting her that Constantin Beldie had violated his GPS monitoring, according to the lawsuit filed last month.

  But the court allegedly did nothing about these violations and, according to the suit, “intentionally disregarded the impending danger of Constantin Beldie and failed to act to prevent the attack and death of Lacramioara Beldie.”

  On Nov. 19, 2024, the tracking company did not issue any alert when Lacramioara Beldie’s husband showed up outside a Portage Park home and proceeded to stab her to death, according to the lawsuit. Constantin Beldie, 57, killed himself after the attack and was found inside a car a block away hours later.

This could be a real test of an effort to hold the failed EM policy to account seeing as how there were tens of dozens of provable violations of the monitoring....and exactly zero penalties against the future murderer.

We'll see. 

He's Baaaaack

And he's going to get back pay?

• An illegal immigrant cop who was arrested by federal authorities in October and later released has since been brought back onto the force.

  The Hanover Police Department announced Tuesday that it has brought Radule Bojovic, an illegal immigrant from Montenegro, back on as an officer following his release from Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention in October. Bojovic overstayed a B2 tourist visa that required him to leave the United States on March 31, 2015, the Department of Homeland Security said at the time of his arrest.

Still not a citizen, but enforcing the Law on citizens.

Still here illegally on a tourist visa.

Still not able to legally own a gun. 

Illinois is broken beyond belief. 

Further Info on Scumbag

The Contrarian doing some good follow-up:

• We've learned the reason behind Chicago Park superintendent Carlos Ramirez Rosa denying the K9 statue honoring Ofc. Eduardo Marmolejo at King-Lockhart Park.

  On the K9 statue, there is a microscopic image of the Christ Hospital logo to represent the decade Marmolejo worked at the hospital prior to his joining CPD.

  Sounds awfully petty to us.

  Ask yourself: If a memorial honoring an armed gang member — say Adam Toledo — was proposed for a Chicago park, and the shrine had images of a Glock with an extended magazine or gang symbols affixed to it, you think Rosa would object?

  Neither do we.

Object? He'd probably propose it, approve it and cut the ribbon at the dedication.

Plowing Problems

Someone mentioned this in the comments:

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

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

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

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

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

Here Come the Vigilantes

New York City, leading the way:

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

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

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

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

Video embedded in the linked story. 

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

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

Pritzkers LUV Epstein!

This is from two weeks ago.

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

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

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

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

Time for Some Research

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

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

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

And this....:

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

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

 

More Promotions

Deck chairs. Titanic.

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

That is all. 

 

We Missed Snow Tow Night

Our favorite winter event in years past:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Christmas Tax Money Returns

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

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

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

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

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

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

T.I.F. "Surplus" Disappearing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

New Chief Judge

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Manufactured Scandal

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

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

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

Ramirez-Rosa - Scumbag

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

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

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

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

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

Another Felonious "Peacekeeper"

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

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

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

He also has quite the background:

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

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

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

Bankruptcy?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Slum Times Makes Excuses

The media tries to gaslight Chicagoans...again:

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

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

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

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

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

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

No?

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

They don't? 

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

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

Hmmm. 

Probation Fail

One-year-old shot via a negligent discharge:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Attempted Whitewashing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Illinois Leaks told them to pound sand.

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

CFD Threatened at Firehouse

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

Killing Christmas

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Snow??? In November???

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

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

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

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

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

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

Keep Voting for Democrats

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

Probably not this:

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

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

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

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

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

Feds Demand CTU Accounting

From a few days ago:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Officer Injured

Car accident:

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

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

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

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

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

Get well soon Officer. 

For Your Entertainment

A busy photoshopper emailed us:

 

Gobble Gobble

 Happy Thanksgiving to all.

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

If you're off, enjoy your day. 

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

"Reply All"

Someone explain what happened yesterday with the Department email thread?

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

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

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

Outfit Job?

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

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

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

  Prosecutors said the sample matched Pecora.

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

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

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

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

Congrats CWB

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

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

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

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

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

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

But that's not the only failure.

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

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

And the Tribune is actually admitting it.