Any Truth to This One?

We get emails regularly alleging all sorts of things. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

Look! (again)

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

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

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

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

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

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

And the Slum Times is "analyzing" the data:

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

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

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

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

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

Sparklefarts the Swindler?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Firefighters Injured

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

No thanks:

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

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

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

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

Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

It's NOT a Toy, Dumbasses

You're supposed to be professionals:

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's a Mystery

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

Like it never existed?

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

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

Shades of Juicy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

Task Force Shooting

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Good job all around though. 

Nice Workaround Porkulous

A billionaire avoiding taxes?

But still raising taxes on the working people. 

Good Question

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

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

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

Zero Enforcement Means.....

Anyone know when this became legal?

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

Wait...what? This isn't legal? 

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

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

Carry on. 

Again?

How incompetent are Cook county officials? This incompetent:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's the democrats.

This Took a While

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

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

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

Got that so far?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Firework Suicide?

Deliberate?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Darwinism in action.

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

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

Crime WAS Down

But the trend appears to be reversing:

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

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

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

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

Can We Demonize This One?

What do you think Conehead?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Still, very much "demon-like" behavior.

Channel 7 Still Stealing from SCC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By the way, nice Saturday night Conehead:

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

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

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

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

CTA Crime Still an Issue

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

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

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

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

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

That Red Line certainly is a shit-magnet.

This one got Federal charges:

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

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

New Category at HeyJackass.com

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

 

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

Vigilante Story Falls Apart

Sounds like a bunch of drunk idiots:

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

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

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

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

And the "eye-stabbing"?

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

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

Light Posting

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

Open post for now.

Comments may be delayed. 

Silence....

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

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

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

More Vigilantes Please

We're enjoying this more than you can imagine:

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

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

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

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

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

 

Darn You Legal Gun Owners!

A mess on the south side:

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

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

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

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

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

Oh No!!!

It's the Indiana Bears....

Or is it?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Now They WANT ShotSpotter?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Premature Detonation?

A lot of questions in the burbs:

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

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

But look who showed up to investigate:

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

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

Bomb? Portable meth lab? BBQ gas cylinder?

Fun times - stay aware. 

Teen Takeover Discussion?

Why are politicians "discussing" lawbreaking? 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nice Double Standard Larry

So this is a top story in the Slum Times:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Political Season Underway

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

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

  In her announcement, she said Chicago deserves more competence.

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

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

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

Calls for Feds to Investigate Crimesha

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

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

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

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

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

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