2027 Election

A couple of social media posts allege that Conehead is currently at a 6.6% approval rating. Seems kind of high, but it could go lower after next weeks disastrous Congressional appearance. We say "disastrous" because we all know that's what it will be.

A Chicago reporter is already looking ahead to the next mayoral election:

Vallas is on record saying he wasn't running. 

Giannoulias is famous for two things - bankrupting his parent's financial institution (costing taxpayers millions in payout money) and playing basketball with Sparklefarts.

If one or both endorsed Mendoza (who's one of the louder voices against Conehead's $830 million boondoggle) she'd be running away with the election.

No Response

Mere weeks after we wrote about the Sacramento County sheriff ordering his Officers not to respond to non-criminal mental health calls, a small-town Illinois Department is doing the same thing:

• The Salem Police Department is no longer dispatching officers to non-violent mental calls.

  Deputy Police Chief Tyler Rose says the department is participating in a pilot program ahead of a new law that prohibits initial response to mental calls that takes effect in July.

  “If it is non-violent, there are no weapons, there no threat to another individual, it’s someone simply having a mental health crisis, the legislation forbids us from dispatching officers right away,” Rose said. “That will have to be referred to these mobile crisis units. For Salem, it’s going to be members of the Community Resource Center that come out and make contact with that that individual.”

  Rose says if the Community Resource Center is not able to respond within 60 minutes the call will revert to Salem Police to handle.

This is going to be State Law starting in July? Outstanding.

They ought to be cutting TV and radio commercials and airing them every hour telling people that the cops aren't coming and they better have some contingency plan in place....like a taxi and a large neighbor on call with a straitjacket.

88%

The Dolton basket case comes to an abrupt end:

• Trustee Jason House handily won the race for mayor of south suburban Dolton Tuesday, defeating former ally and embattled incumbent Tiffany Henyard and bringing her sole, troubled term to a close in a stunning landslide.

  With 100% of precincts reporting, House had nearly 88% of the vote, compared to Henyard’s 12%. It was a convincing defeat for Henyard, who had won 82% of the vote when she won the race for mayor in 2021.

At least, the end of this portion - there still might be a federal investigation and indictments inbound.

Firefighter Humor

We got an email:

• It appears that IAD for the CFD has been appearing at firehouses to conduct searches of the firehouses, lockers, and any personal belongings brought into the firehouse by Firefighters and Paramedics. Supposedly alcohol has been the worst item found. 
  
  
  However it seems that the city is playing dirty during contract negotiations, and firefighters are having fun at their own expense. 
  
  
  Here are a few examples of firefighters making light of the situation.
  
  

  On a serious  note, CFD needs to concentrate more on having safe equipment for the men and women of the CFD instead of random “spot checks” to find contraband.

The examples of "making light:"

 At least they didn't find the strippers.

"Panic" at the fbi

Good news from a couple of social media accounts someone has been sending us:

• Pure panic at the FBI.
  
  
  As I exclusively reported yesterday, FBI director Kash Patel has fired several employees.
  
  
  Hundreds of agents are being forced to transfer or resign.
  
  
  FBI employees are arguing over whether their actions these last four years were legal, according to a source. 
  
  
  One employee arguing their actions were legal because they had court orders, while another employee reminding him they lied to the judges to obtain those court orders.
  
  
  Accountability underway.

And that has led to the creation of humorous memes:

 Cleaning house.

Sad New Normal

These used to be reasonably rare, the subject of jokes at the desk when they ran the rap sheets. Now we hear about them every week or so:

• A six-time convicted felon has been arrested for at least the 66th time in his adult life, charged with stealing packages from a Lincoln Park apartment building. He’s also on pretrial release for allegedly stealing packages from the same building last fall while he was on parole for stealing packages in Lakeview.

Last we heard, County intake wanted a full printout of the criminal arrest record - two or three copies. This guy's would have to run thirty-five to forty-five pages (twenty-three double sided pages) for the arrest package which was already twenty pages.

Don't you wish you had the copy paper contract for the CPD? And the copier/printer maintenance and ink contracts? We wouldn't have needed to work all that OT for all those years.

"He's Got My Weapon"

Not a good look:

• A man disarmed a security officer and then fired the weapon inside Fosco Park on Saturday morning and later confronted a Chicago police SWAT team while holding the firearm to his own head, according to a law enforcement source. Ultimately, the 23-year-old Uptown resident was taken into custody, and no injuries were reported. 

  It all started around 9 a.m. when a retired Chicago police sergeant working as park security asked the man, who is homeless, to leave the park at 1312 South Racine. The guard, 57, tried to escort the man from the premises, but the situation turned physical, and the 23-year-old struck the guard in the face, according to a CPD media statement.

  Police said the man gained control of the guard’s firearm and the security officer ran out of the building to call 911. Meanwhile, the man began firing the guard’s weapon, sending park patrons running for cover. No injuries were reported.

There's audio from the scanner channels.

 No one got seriously injured, and we suppose that's what the electorate wants. But we remember a time....but that's all in the past.

Really Dumb Idea

This covers like what....eight people? 

But that's only if you include the groups that progressives don't like:

• City employees and Chicago police officers participating in extremist groups could face discipline and firing under an ordinance proposed Wednesday that aims to root out extremism in city government.

  The Chicago Police Department and Mayor Brandon Johnson have faced growing calls to fire police officers with ties to hate and extremist groups. With those concerns in mind, 47th Ward Ald. Matt Martin, chair of the City Council’s Committee on Ethics and Government Oversight, said the city needs to quickly investigate allegations and end employment for those actively participating in extremist groups.

If they really wanted to root out extremism, they'd have to list a bunch of other groups that might be politically inconvenient to name....like #blm that destroyed tens of millions of dollars in city property or certain gangs that have lengthy histories of bloodshed, violence and narcotics dealing, or the IAD confidential section devoted to covering up exempt crimes.

And unless you can conclusively prove that membership in a certain group affected the way an Officer or other city employee did their job, then you're going end up with a massive civil judgement that Chicago taxpayers can ill afford, especially if you hired them in the first place.

Time for a Change?

This always seems to happen when those in office get too comfortable spending members' dues money in the service of themselves more so than in the service of members. It happens in government as well as labor organizations:

• I am reaching out this time to bring attention to a serious and egregious situation unfolding within our union. The disparity between the compensation of our union’s field representatives and the treatment of the members they are meant to serve has reached an unacceptable level.

  Field representatives are currently compensated at the salary level of a Police Captain—upwards of $170,016 annually—while the average union member earns a Police Officer's salary, ranging from $94,680 to $141,318, depending on years of service. This vast salary gap exists despite the fact that these field reps—who claim to be "on call" 24/7to assist members, including providing representation during internal affairs statements—are offloading more of their core responsibilities onto unpaid, volunteer unit reps.

  These unit reps, who act merely as liaisons between the union board and their fellow officers, are now being required to step in for the highly paid field reps during critical investigative statements. Most concerning is that the latest offloading of responsibilities includes requiring unit reps to serve as union representation during statements given for CR # investigations. This practice is unconscionable. Field reps continue to draw lavish salaries, paid for with member's dues, while refusing to fulfill the essential duty of legal representation—the primary reason our members pay union dues.

  Moreover, the situation is exacerbated by the fact that field reps' lavish compensation packages are fully funded by members' dues. In addition to receiving a Captain's salary, members—not the field reps themselves—are footing the bill for:

  •100% of field reps' health insurance

  •9% pension contributions

  •Vehicle maintenance, insurance, and gas

  •Meal stipends and travel expenses

• It is particularly disheartening and offensive that, despite these generous perks, members are now being informed that legal representation will only be provided for their first Internal Affairs statement—a direct contradiction to the primary purpose of union dues, which is to ensure robust legal defense. While members risk their lives every day in the line of duty, union leadership seems more concerned with sustaining lavish lifestyles funded by those very dues. Reports of extravagant spending on steak dinners, luxurious vacations, and other high-end lifestyle events further highlight this troubling disparity.

  Such expenditures starkly contrast with the sacrifices made by those they represent. It is outrageous that union dues are being used to sustain these indulgences while field reps continue to shirk their essential responsibilities. Members deserve transparency, accountability, and, most importantly, the representation they are paying for.

  Given these troubling disparities, I respectfully request your platform shed light on this situation. Our members, who demonstrate courage and dedication daily, deserve leadership that truly prioritizes their well-being, rather than indulging in extravagance at their expense.

When a group gets too comfortable, refusing to answer basic questions of accountability, changing rules regarding oversight, treating the members' money as their own personal piggy bank, and concentrating more on keeping their jobs instead of doing their jobs, there needs to be change. 

Kind of like what's happening in DC right now. 

This Crap Again?

And WGN is giving them a platform:

• A new report outlining policy recommendations for reparations and what that means to Chicagoans will be released on Saturday.

  Katelyn Johnson, the Executive Director of the BlackRoots Alliance, joined WGN News on Saturday morning to discuss the report.

So after Trump won over 20% of the black vote and is currently polling above 40% among black male voters, the democrats roll out the "free money!" train to attempt to drag black folks back to the left side, even though this argument has been made for decades and produced exactly zero results.

A few points:

• reparations are paid to the survivors of a wrong-doing, usually by the perpetrators of the wrong-doing. In this case, there aren't any and haven't been for over a hundred years;
• Illinois was on the side that fought against slavery. They won and slavery was abolished - by Republicans in you're a CPS student and never got taught history;
• our ancestors, along with most other American ancestors, weren't even here during slavery, nor during the immediate aftermath. That would seem to exclude us from any sort of liability. And spare us the "you benefited from the system." If we're going to start tracking generational "crimes," you better get a spreadsheet and some historical references;
• Chicago and Illinois (and the United States) are currently broke. Conehead is trying to float a horseshit bond issue that will add another $830 million to Chicago's unsustainable debt. There is no money to give away;
• and finally, if this ever came to fruition, the lawyers are going to have a field day tying it up in court for the next two or three generations. Guess who's going to make piles of money on the entire thing? That's right - the lawyers.

Thankfully, this tired old saw has been losing steam for the past five or ten years and the only people holding onto the premise are the morons currently out of power. And the community is waking up to the lies they've been told for sixty or seventy years.

SPARs Up, CR's Down

(yeah we know they're called CL's now, but we were raised on CR's)

When society made the police the enemy, cops backed off. They backed off a lot. We can debate the pros and cons of having a dedicated (or aggressive) police force for years and never come to a consensus. But when the multiple oversight agencies don't have CLs/CRs to investigate and justify their existence, the Department has to resort to nitpicking minor infractions so they can say, "Look! We're holding Officers to account!"

• While proceedings in high-profile police misconduct cases slowed to a trickle in 2024, the number of internal disciplinary actions initiated by Chicago Police Department supervisors nearly doubled from 2023, according to a Tribune analysis.

  Records obtained via the Freedom of Information Act show CPD supervisors, mostly sergeants, filed more than 5,300 Summary Punishment Action Requests — “SPARs” — in 2024, a sharp increase from the 2,700 SPARs initiated in 2023.

  The rise in internal CPD discipline comes as the external disciplinary process — where fewer, but more serious cases, such as those involving deadly force incidents, are handled — remains greatly curtailed as a legal fight carries on between the city and Fraternal Order of Police in the Illinois Appellate Court. No decision is expected anytime soon.

The SPARs are for minor violations, mostly administrative:

• tardiness, court deviations, uniform violations, grooming standards, failure to clear a job or lunch promptly, congregating, reading or smoking in public, radio procedure violations, minor fender benders.....minor crap

The BIG ones (CLs/CRs) are things that may end up as suspension time or criminal charges:

• Use of Force violations, money beefs, thefts, deliberate violations of orders, etc.

Remember when everyone complained that 95% or more of these violations ended up "unfounded"? That's because they were made up by criminals in an effort to intimidate Officers into not doing their job. The Department was never that corrupt, but the lib-turds and media amplified everything, bought into the grievance-mongering, and hamstrung the Department.

And cops (eventually) got the message, backing off from having anything to do with the public that had been conditioned to hate them. The job became solely a paycheck instead of a calling to serve and nowadays, Chicagoans reap the whirlwind. Good people as well as bad ones, everyone who bought into the hype or stayed silent in the face of the hype.

Get a load of this paragraph:

• “The new policy — combined with new efforts for progressive discipline — should better ensure that interactions with police are appropriately recorded,” the independent monitoring team wrote in its ninth report on CPD compliance, published in May 2024. “This will greatly improve any subsequent reviews or investigations by detectives, supervisors, TRED (CPD’s Tactical Review and Evaluation Division), the Bureau of Internal Affairs, the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, the Inspector General, the IMT, and the public.”

That's what....five oversight agencies (and doesn't include that one that Crimesha started solely to look over old cases.) No wonder almost no one is doing police work, unless they're selling their souls to get off of midnights.

When there aren't pretend investigations going on over lying criminal accusations, they only thing left to do is nitpick. And while some of the nitpicking is necessary, much of it isn't and just serves to drive morale further into the ground.

Crash Video

Cicero and North Avenues - two different angles:

• Twitter / X link here

The turning vehicle makes a bad decision, but the unmarked vehicle is moving rather quickly compared to the rest of traffic. Headed to a call? Trying to catch up to a suspect vehicle? With no emergency equipment activated until after impact?

The Traffic Review Board is going to hand out some spankings.

A Year?

And he'll never spend a second in actual prison:

• A Cook County judge on Thursday handed a one-year sentence to the man charged with possessing the firearm of slain Chicago Police Officer Luis Huesca.

  Caschaus Tate, 20, pleaded guilty to two counts of unlawful possession of a weapon in exchange for the sentence from Judge Brian Novy, according to court records. Tate, who was not involved in the officer’s murder, is not expected to spend any time in prison.

  Huesca was shot and killed during a carjacking attempt as he returned home from work early on April 21, 2024, officials said. A 6-year veteran who would have turned 31 within days, he was wearing his Chicago police uniform under an outer garment when he was killed, CPD Supt. Larry Snelling said shortly after the murder. Huesca’s firearm was missing when on-duty officers found his body just steps from his home.

And ::surprise:: this asshole's relative is the one who is standing trial for Huesca's murder, so the claims he "wasn't involved" fall flat. As an accomplice after the fact (being given the weapon after the homicide), he participated.

But his sentence is cut 50% for "good behavior" and the rest is served on an ankle monitor. Remember when we used to hold criminals accountable for their behavior and participation, even at the periphery of what should be capital crimes?

Police Matter?

Sounds like a perfect opportunity to roll out those Mental Health Responders:

• A McKinley Park woman who lost her cat in January said he's been sitting dead for weeks on top of her neighbor's roof, and she hasn't been able to get him back.

  Jadine Wambaja shared surveillance video footage showing a cat somehow landing on her neighbor's roof. She believes it's her cat, Scarface. "He was flung like he was garbage up on the roof," Jadine Wambaja said. "In the video, you see the cat tossed up, and seconds later, if you look at the man's back door, you could see someone walk inside."

The aldercreature posted video of the subject tossing the dead cat on the roof (if you find a working link, post it). The back yard looks like a disaster and the article further states the occupant isn't opening hte door and seems to have barricaded it shut.

Maybe someone from 009 can update the readers? 

UPDATE: Link here.

UPDATE: Clearer view here - content warning for the sensitive.

Another Traffic Freebie

Another effort to hamstring police proposed in Springfield:

• (via the 016/017 Police Scanner X/Twitter feed - no working link available) - State senator Rachel Ventura (IL-43), who represents many parts of Bollingbrook, Romeoville, Lockport, Joliet among others, has proposed a bill that
  
  
   "Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Removes the requirement that cannabis within any area of a motor vehicle must be in an odor-proof container. Provides that if a motor vehicle is driven or occupied by an individual 21 years of age or over, a law enforcement officer may not stop or detain the motor vehicle or its driver nor inspect or search the motor vehicle, the contents of the motor vehicle, or the operator or passenger of the motor vehicle solely based on the odor of burnt or raw cannabis."
  
  
  This is akin to allowing people to drive with open alcohol.
  

Seeing as how you can't drive more than a block without smelling weed emanating from parked cars, cars on streets, cars on the highway, trucks and bicycles, it's not difficult to say that driving while high is a very big issue. We'd estimate that nearly 10% of drivers are high as kites and a friend over at MAIU claims that personal injury / fatal accidents involve weed over 60% of the time, surpassing even alcohol the past few years.

But hey, keep the police from enforcing the law.

Expensive Living

Couldn't possibly have anything to do with Conehead's or Fata$$'s economic policies, right?

• No U.S. city is feeling inflation more than Chicago, according to new data from WalletHub.

  The financial website said the “Chicago-Naperville-Elgin Area” has seen a 4.3% jump in inflation year over year, the biggest increase in the country.

  A report from Crain’s Business said the higher prices are mostly due to a 6% increase in housing and transportation costs.

Might also be the cause of the almost 40% downtown vacancy rate?

Death spiral in full swing.

West Side Shooting

No hits, no runs, no errors?

• A Chicago police officer fired at least one shot as cops rounded up three armed robbery suspects in the Austin neighborhood overnight. At this point, officials have not released any details about what happened, but COPA, the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, said its investigators were heading to the scene of an “officer-involved shooting.”

One report on NewsRadio said the chase went on for "miles" and another report said "accidentally fired a shot." The legacy media is largely useless at this point, but we certainly are thankful no Officers were injured.

Reform is Coming?

This was the last ditch protest on front of fbi HQ prior to the Senate vote for the new Director:

That's it - five democrat senators. No crowds of screeching harpies or blue haired lib-tards. Nada.

And now Kash Patel has been confirmed as Director, so we will refrain from using this graphic for a short time while we see if reform is actually possible:

If they actually start searching for the untold hundreds, maybe thousands of terrorists currently inside the US, if they start hunting down Red Chinese spies, if they start rooting out corruption instead of spying on parents attending school board meetings, surveilling Latin mass attendees, arresting trespassers and lying in front of FISA judges, perhaps we'll grant them some actual respect.

But it's a long road back from where they went.

F#&$ Fata$$

On one hand, he's cutting a program that granted ILLEGAL ALIENS hundreds of million of dollars that ought to be used in the service of tax paying Illinoisans:

• Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday compared President Donald Trump’s “authoritarian playbook” to the rise of the Nazis as he unveiled a $55.2 billion spending plan that also saves the state more than $400 million by nixing a health care program for adults who lack legal status.

  To cap a 35-minute budget and State of the State address at the Illinois State Capitol, the Democratic governor said he’s “watching with a foreboding dread what is happening in our country right now,” framing Trump’s early weeks in the Oval Office as a playbook of blaming the “other” for the country’s problems.

  “It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic,” Pritzker said.

On the other, is anyone else getting as sick of the nazi comparisons as we are? 

Which nazis is he yapping about? The ones who locked down entire nations over a virus that has turned out to become less deadly than the flu? Oh wait, that was democrats. 

The ones stifling free speech and coercing tech companies to censor things they claim run contrary to the narrative? Um, dems again. 

Forcing businesses and local governments to administer a "vaccine" that prevented nothing and caused untold health problems for millions? Dems. 

Weaponizing the entire justice system against concerned parents, Catholics, conservatives, trespassers, manufacturing criminal charges, ignoring statutes of limitations and actual case law to pursue and persecute? Guess who?

Funneling billions to a European war with zero strategic or economic benefit to the country, more billions to the climate boondoggle, funding all sorts of left wing NGOs to enrich the so-called "elites"? Hmmmm.

And let's not even mention locking down Illinois while flying a wife, daughter and assorted horses to Florida to participate in equestrian events while back here, kids lost years worth of education, parents lost jobs and grandparents died alone because no one was allowed to visit.

But hey, Sieg Heil!

Fata$$ said he wouldn't be taking a knee to a "king," probably because he'd never get up without assistance. Fuck this jagoff.

About Time

"Mob rule" ought to be be disavowed, and should have been long ago:

• A Chicago alderman is pushing to reinstall statues and monuments that were taken down during Lori Lightfoot's tenure as mayor. "It wasn't just the monument was gone, it was a freedom of speech, it was the respect to our community was gone," Ron Onesti, president of the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans said. Onesti said it was disappointing when statues of Christopher Columbus and others were removed.

  The monuments were taken down in 2020, after protests over the murder of George Floyd and police shooting of Breonna Taylor. The statues have been in storage ever since.

  "None of this was ever about actually what Columbus meant or the messaging about Columbus, it was how it was done," Onesti said. "The fact that the community was not engaged or involved with the decision-making."

  "It was selective censorship, and that's what we're doing," 41st Ward Alderman Anthony Napolitano said. "We are selecting who we're going to censor and who we are not going to censor and that is the epitome of unjust government right there."

Yeah, because a Columbus statue in Chicago had everything to do with a dope dealer's death in Minnesota and a tragic set of circumstances in Kentucky. It cost a CPD Officer an eye and countless others injured with zero convictions by Crimesha.

How about make sure the statues are appropriately secured, properly insured and the law is enforced across the board regarding criminal damage charges along with restitution against perpetrators? There used to be an entire unit of the Law Division tasked with recovering civil judgements against criminal actions. In fact, we're pretty sure federal (state?) prosecutors bankrupted the klan by holding individuals responsible for all sorts of financial judgements connected to criminal acts.

The Return of ShotSpotter?

It might actually happen:

• A year ago, this editorial board noted that Mayor Brandon Johnson was talking from both sides of his mouth when he pulled the cord on ShotSpotter when its nearly $50 million contract ended, only to plug the gunfire-detection system back in temporarily until the Democratic National Convention wrapped up.

  “Only in Johnson’s City Hall does this make sense,” we said of the mayor’s vacillating position at the time. The system was shut down for good last September.

  Now Chicagoans are learning of the very real possibility that ShotSpotter or similar surveillance technology could return. And the 180-degree turn back toward gunshot detection — a full 360-degree circle, if ShotSpotter comes back — could have been avoided if the mayor had simply listened to the right people.

  In this case, the right people were Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling and City Council members who were proponents of the technology; University of Chicago researchers who found that ShotSpotter likely saved dozens of lives every year; and everyday people in neighborhoods plagued by gun violence, who felt the technology helped keep their communities safer.

This was an unforced error on the part of Conehead. While we weren't (and aren't) super huge fans of ShotSpotter - we regularly derided it as The World's Most Expensive Shell Casing Locator - the movement toward a more technology driven department cannot be denied. It worked as advertised and as the CWB blog has been pointing out for months now, would have assisted in locating many persons shot/killed in neighborhoods where no one even bothers to call 9-1-1 when gunfire erupts.

Plus, as CPD steals every idea NYPD has, we would note the Big Apple just renewed their contract with ShotSpotter:

 

SSTI stock climbed 13% on the news, so all the aldercreatures just missed a chance to make some decent money. This time around, you can be sure they'll be buying all the stock they can prior to approving the Contract.

City Council Revolt

Conehead hasn't just lost the voters....he's lost the City Council, historically a rubber stamp for most mayors:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson’s $830 million general obligation bond issue to upgrade Chicago’s aging infrastructure stalled in the City Council on Wednesday amid claims the back-loaded repayment schedule is “fiscal insanity.”

  Ald. Bill Conway (34th) is so concerned about the size of the borrowing — and a financing structure that saddles Chicago’s taxpayers with $2 billion in added costs —.that he tried and failed to send the matter back to the Finance Committee he co-chairs for additional discussion.

  Conway’s motion was tabled, 27 to 23. That narrow margin underscores what former Finance Committee Chair Scott Waguespack (32nd) called a “lack of trust” between the mayor and Council that has become a “hallmark” of Johnson’s administration.

Not only is the bond issue in trouble, the proposed reduction in speed limits (thereby enabling a massive influx of automated camera fines) was defeated yesterday:

• A divided City Council on Wednesday put the brakes on efforts to reduce the city’s default speed limit from 30 mph to 25 mph.

  The 28-21 vote against lowering the speed limit followed a spirited and emotional debate that pitted traffic safety advocates, many of them on the North Side, against African-American alderpersons concerned about uneven enforcement and a surge in pretextual traffic stops targeting Black drivers.

  West Side Ald. Jason Ervin (28th), Mayor Brandon Johnson’s handpicked Budget Committee chair, led the charge against the lower speed limit.

Cracking down on speeders is racist! Of course, the fact that CPD writes almost zero speeding tickets isn't brought up - nearly 99% of all speeding tickets are camera tickets, so obviously the cameras are even more racist that police officers.

Another Conehead Success

So a few years ago, the NYSE bought the Chicago Stock Exchange and renamed it NYSE Chicago.

Now, they're moving the entire operation to Texas:

• The New York Stock Exchange announced Wednesday morning it would move its Chicago branch to Dallas and call it NYSE Texas.

  "Pending the effectiveness of regulatory filings, NYSE Chicago will reincorporate in Texas and be renamed NYSE Texas, offering companies the opportunity to list their securities on NYSE Texas," said the NYSE in a statement.

So how much in corporate taxes is this going to short Conehead's budget?

Broken Promises

It's been thirty days since Trump took over and we confess to being disappointed:

• no gay concentration camps;
• no removing women's right to vote;
• no media torture chambers and reeducation camps;

Democrats said all of this would come to pass and we were kind of looking forward to it all. What happened?

What the Actual F#$%?

We've been harping on this for a while, but here's the final proof:

• Dr. Deborah Birx admits the COVID shots were pushed on the wrong people, saying the rollout on young people ignored the science.

  Now, she tells us.

  “The messenger RNA vaccine should have been rolled out for the people that were at risk for severe disease because that’s what the vaccine was developed for,” Birx said.

  She also confessed the COVID shot was never “designed” to prevent infection:

  “That is not what the COVID vaccine was designed to do. It wasn’t designed against infection.”

  People lost their jobs under the lie that no one was safe until everyone was vaccinated.

  Now, four years later, they admit young people never really needed it—and it wasn’t even designed to prevent infection.

Fauci was the face of COVID, illegally funding the gain-of-function research in Wuhan labs.

But Birx was the architect of the lockdown protocols and admits in her book how she lied to Trump's administration and undercut them at every turn, directing state and local officials to continue lockdowns even as the science showed this was a bad idea:

• She bragged in her book that she defied Trump's policies with the collusion of Mike Pence. She simply ignored any orders she disagreed with and got away with it. 
• "When people start to realize that 99% of us are going to be fine, it becomes more and more difficult [to get people to comply]."

This person would be a good example to start with regarding a full blown Federal prosecution and fortunately, she wasn't one of the ones getting a preemptive blanket pardon from the drooling vegetable. Start at the top and work your way down, all the way to Larritorious stripping Officers for rightly refusing this bullshit government overreach.

Holding Criminals Accountable?

This sounds like dangerous Republican thinking:

• A bunch of “peace circle” facilitators may soon be looking for another line of work. That’s because Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen Burke has instructed prosecutors to stop diverting felony gun cases to the court’s “restorative justice” program, according to WTTW.

  The outlet says 82.8% of the restorative justice courts’ caseload consisted of gun possession matters.

  Defendants who complete a restorative justice program, which frequently involves participating in so-called “peace circles,” become eligible to have the matter scrubbed from records.

The CWB blog then cites a number of case where the "peace circle graduates" committed additional gun crimes within weeks, even days, of completing the non-punishment process.

If you want more of some behavior, reward it. In these cases, not being punished IS the reward and O'Neill-Burke seems to be recognizing that failed Crimesha policy was and continues to result in bad outcomes.

Somebody Stop This A$$hole

Hey aldermorons, we're looking at you:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson’s “exaggeratedly back-loaded” schedule for repaying $830 million in general obligation bonds could saddle Chicago taxpayers with $2 billion in additional costs by 2055, municipal finance experts warned Tuesday.

  Municipal Market Analytics, an independent research group on municipal bonds, urged the City Council to restructure the debt repayment schedule before signing off on Johnson’s plan to add $830 million to Chicago’s mountain of debt to bankroll a year’s worth of capital projects.

  The City Council is scheduled to take a final vote on the general obligation bond issue at Wednesday’s meeting, unless any two alderpersons use a parliamentary maneuver to postpone the final vote. They don’t need to provide a reason for that delay.

  MMA Partner Matt Fabian acknowledged the city has a history of “back-loading” its debt — putting more principal at the end, thereby “ballooning” those late payments. But he argued Johnson’s plans is a “more extreme version” of that dubious structure. It calls for the city to make “capitalized interest” payments only — using borrowed money — for the first two years and make interest-only payments until 2045. "Future taxpayers will be paying for improvements that current taxpayers benefit from. … It leaves future taxpayers to address the city’s current management failure to address its budget in a sustainable manner,” Fabian said.

Literally, the EXACT DEFINITION of robbing Peter to pay Paul. And the current administration - like administrations past - will be long gone, either out of office, out of Chicago, Illinois or out of earthly existence (dead and buried) when the bill comes due.

You want to stop crap like this, make it illegal to mortgage future generations of taxpayers to pay for these insane projects the current generation can't afford.

Tow Truck Crime

Now THIS is the type of behavior we expect from tow truck operators:

• A suburban tow truck operator is charged with shooting the occupant of a rival company’s tow truck on the Kennedy Expressway. The shooting occurred in October 2022, but Miguel Gonzalez is being charged now after a lengthy investigation by the Illinois State Police.

  The female victim was sitting in the back seat of a tow truck occupied by four other people as they traveled on the outbound Kennedy near Fullerton around 4:30 a.m. on October 22, 2022.

  Prosecutors say Gonzalez, 47, pulled his tow truck alongside the rival company’s vehicle and fired 13 shots into its rear window and driver-side doors. The driver of the targeted truck exited at Belmont and drove to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center so the woman could be treated for a gunshot wound to her knee.

  Documents reviewed by CWBChicago say the driver of the rival tow truck recognized the shooter as Gonzalez, adding that the shots came from a tow truck marked with the name of Gonzalez’s company: Serious Business Towing.

  Gonzalez, who goes by the nicknames “KB” and “Killa Boy,” called the rival tow company to admit to the shooting and threatened to kill everyone at the company, according to the documents.

We dealt with more felons in the towing business than we did anywhere except the dope trade. We even met a few Outfit connected persons who swore they were trying to go legit, and maybe they were. We even had a few sergeants who memorized the entire ILCS regarding towing operations and wouldn't hesitate to lock up drivers who didn't have a broom, a bucket of sand and proper towing light attachments. Fun investigations back in the day.

Drunken Auntie

America sure dodged a bullet last November:

She's obviously hammered out of her mind. Can you imagine her with the nuclear football?

Ding Dong the Witch is Dead

FOP taking some credit for this:

• The head of the agency that investigates allegations of significant wrongdoing by Chicago police officers, including cops involved in shootings, quit last week because the city’s police oversight commission was planning to recommend she be fired.

  John Catanzara, the head of the union that represents the city’s front-line cops, made that stunning claim in a YouTube video on Friday.

  “The reality is this,” Catanzara claimed. “The Community Commission [for Public Safety and Accountability], we know, took a vote to recommend her for a termination hearing at the City Council.”

  “She knew her days were numbered, so she left before having to face that termination and absolutely was not going to have her contract renewed at the very least, or at least not approved,” the union boss continued.

There are also a couple of lawsuits against her and her "leadership" issues that seem to mostly be personality conflicts based on her not having any trace of one. We aren't sure how much the FOP had to do with the final decision, but the heat was enough to keep it at the forefront of people's minds.

Check out the CWB link up top. There are a ton of embedded links in their reporting outlining what a corrupt mess CuckFOPA turns out to be.

Free Babysitting

Didn't a commander of 025 get removed for this? Escamerit we recall:

Thanks to the Contrarian for keeping the public aware of these aldermanic tools.

CPD Crash

Remember during the winter months, car windows are almost always closed up tight and the heaters are going full blast:

• Two Chicago police officers and another person sustained minor injuries Sunday night when a vehicle collided with a patrol car at an intersection on the Near North Side.

  According to police, at about 8:15 p.m. in the 500 block of North Michigan Avenue, a black sedan was going north on Michigan Ave. when it collided with a marked patrol vehicle that was going east on Illinois Street with lights and sirens activated.

  The two officers inside the patrol vehicle sustained non-life-threatening injuries and were taken to an area hospital in good condition, police say.

Clear those intersections people, because the Traffic Review Board isn't going to accept excuses.

Get well soon Officers.

CFD Crash

Looks like CFD is going to need another pool ladder truck:

• A driver crashed into a Chicago Fire Department fire engine early Sunday morning on the Eisenhower Expressway and was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and issued citations for Move Over Law violations, according to Illinois State Police.

  ISP says that just after 4:30 a.m., troopers responded to I-290 eastbound at Morgan Street in Chicago for a crash involving a CFD fire engine. Preliminary information indicated the fire truck was blocking lanes of traffic to protect a previous crash scene, with lights activated, when it was hit by a black 2018 Nissan.

  According to ISP, the driver of the fire truck was taken to an area hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.

The truck was blocking multiple lanes from a previous crash and was thankfully only occupied by the driver as the rest of the crew was busy with the initial call.

Best wishes to the driver for a speedy recovery. 

Suburban Officer

On the commute to work:

• A Glenview police officer was killed in a car crash Sunday morning in Barrington while on his way to work, according to the Glenview Police Department. 

  The crash happened around 4:09 a.m. in the 200 block of South Northwest Highway. There, the Barrington Police Department found the victim, identified as officer Robert Fryc, 43, who had suffered fatal injuries during the crash. 

  Officer Fryc served with the Glenview Police Department since 2007 and was recently recognized at the Village's Feb. 4 Board of Trustees meeting for being one of the first responders who helped save the life of a fellow officer last summer.

Prayers and sympathies to our suburban brethren.

Beware the Sidewalks

San Francisco has "poop apps" for user to keep track of piles of shit on the streets of their lovely city.

Some enterprising Chicagoan ought to make an app for this:

• A large dog was killed in River North on Saturday afternoon when it apparently made contact with an electrified manhole cover, according to witnesses and other officials. People who work and live in the area believe other dogs have been shocked at the same location recently.

Yeah, don't walk your dog over here or you might end up dragging it home.

So aside from beggars, robbers, and all manner of illegal alien confronting you on the streets, now you have to worry about your pet headed to doggie heaven just for walking on the sidewalk.

Special Order 06-14-03

From the comments:

• Anyone see the new order on responding to incidents involving citizenship? The street deputy will respond, along with…. the wol. Interesting how they left the commander and captain off of it. Why wouldn’t they respond? Or be required to respond? Dumping it all on the WOL’s as usual as they skirt without any responsibility or liability.
  

And sure enough, hopping over to the online directive site, you find this Order, updated 20 January 2025.

Skimming through, you'll find the usual responsibilities and such listed. But there's a phrase that keeps popping up:

• "civil immigration enforcement"

As far as we know, illegal immigration isn't "civil" at all - it's criminal, 100% of the time. So all this order seems to do is further muddy the waters in an attempt for Chicago politicians to put illegal aliens in front of actual America citizens....you know, the people paying taxes to support the police (and government).

Read it carefully so you know what's what and what's expected or required. 

The part about making the WOL's leave the office though....damn.

How Much?

You know they're going to go on strike shortly, right?

• Think student success is just a matter of spending enough money? Well, Douglass Academy High School spent  $93,787 per student last school year – yet not a single 11th grade student at the school was proficient in reading or math.

  Only 35 students were enrolled at Douglass last year in a building that can fit over 900 students. There are currently 27 full-time equivalent staff members, an increase of two staff members since the previous school year.

  What sense does it make to keep a big high school open for basically a single classroom worth of students? Why squander so many resources on so few students?

  Because the Chicago Teachers Union demands it. And Chicagoans can expect more of the same – high costs and abysmal student outcomes – if CTU gets its way in current contract negotiations

They're just about the single largest line item on the property tax bill, they constantly raise their portion the limit despite decades of failure, and they're going to do it again this spring.

Far past time to break the CTU.  Declare them "essential" and deny them the ability to strike. That'll put an end to 80% of more of their nonsense. Then start making funding contingent on actually producing positive results and see them start crying.