What the heck is wrong with Chicago’s Mayor Lori Lightfoot? October 9, 2022Thomas Lifson
Mayor Lightfoot has proven herself incapable of her job, and at best seeks to distract the electorate and populace from her failures. At worst, there is something deeply wrong with her mind. And the evidence is piling up for the latter hypothesis
Chicago teachers' strike enters seventh day October 25, 2019Thomas Lifson
With President Trump scheduled to visit Chicago Monday, teachers and students both may have a lot of free time on their hands to protest in front of the landmark Trump Tower along the Chicago River.
Back on the streets of Chicago September 24, 2017Thomas Lifson
“Yeah, I think we have to put him down,” said one mugger to other, but he's back on the street. Don't worry, he's got an ankle bracelet.
Corruption: It’s the Chicago way January 16, 2017Derrick Wilburn
Apparently too insignificant for the mainstream media: a Chicago politician facing a potential 280 years in prison for an indictment handed down last week.
Holy Terror in Chicago? November 20, 2016Matt C. Abbott
In blood-soaked Chicago a radical priest pledges to fight Trump immigration policy: "Many of us, we will die to keep the city as it is."
The Impossible Cause of Fr. Francis Lawlor February 8, 2014Robert Klein Engler
In the late 1960s, Fr. Francis X. Lawlor tried to defend his parishioners against politically-motivated racial blockbusting. His failure contains valuable lessons for opponents of Democratic corruption.
ObamaCare's Chicago Moment November 18, 2013Abraham H. Miller
Too bad Obama was living in Hawaii, not in Chicago in 1979, or he might have remembered former Mayor Michael Bilandic
Tax Dogfight over O'Hare January 19, 2013Thomas Lifson
Desperately hungry for money, Chicago, the big dog of Illinois cities, is circling lesser municipalities currently feeding off big corporations by collecting sales taxes that Chicago wants for itself
A Mile South & Four Years Later.... October 28, 2012Rosslyn Smith
Obama's staff was caught way off guard when the official campaign kickoff was unable to fill the arena at Ohio State. They won't be guilty of overestimating their space needs for election night.
Trouble in Obama's back yard? October 5, 2012Rosslyn Smith
A news report suggests the Obama campaign may be getting a bit desperate in its moves to ensure a high turnout among Blacks in Chicago and its south suburbs.
Look who's headed to Chicago for the NATO summit May 17, 2012Thomas Lifson
It must have seemed like a good idea at the time: President Obama would hold the NATO summit in Chicago as a consolation prize for his humiliating loss of the Olympics after flying to Copenhagen with Michelle to lobby the IOC.
