In honor of Mayor Lori Lightfoot's clampdown on Halloween, I'm rolling out a new entry. Plenty of data at the old blog entry Philly Chitown DC . Philly's 2020 murder rate is not far behind number 1 Chicago. Maybe nixing Halloween will be Philly's answer, too. Take a guess at what ex-Mayor Richard Daley is screaming from his grave.
oct 4
DoJ sides with Capitol Hill Baptist Church in its lawsuit against DC and Mayor Bowser in which it accuses the city of favoring “certain
expressive gatherings over others,” and urges the judge to allow it to
have a large Sunday service. It argues there is no constitutional or statutory basis for allowing protests to occur but not large religious services.
Oct 21
#Obama is heading to Philly to campaign for Biden. Didn't he do the same thing in late October 2016 for for Hillary? Is the DNC using the same playbook?
Oct 24
Pennsylvania Covid restrictions limits attendance at Lincoln
Financial Field in Philadelphia to less than 10,000 people, which
wouldn't allow the entire Corps of Cadets
and Brigade of Midshipmen to attend.The Dec 12, 2020 Army-Navy game
will be played at Michie Stadium in Westpoint. The last time they played
there was in 1943.
dEC 17, 2020
I guess we should be immune to these headlines :Chicago shootings, 15 shot, 3, fatally, in weekend gun violence . Obviously Chicago's Mayor "Leadfoot" is.
Jan 4, 2021
Attempted carjackings in Chicago reached a 20-year high in 2020. Thanks, Mayor Leadfoot!
jan 29, 2021
Carjacking "fun" in Philly: 2019 : 225 carjackings, 2020 there were 410, and in 2021, 28 so far.
Feb 23, 2021
#tawanamoody , a civilian and a local religious minister, will be running the Jersey City PD . Here's Mayor Fulop's main reason for the appointment: “Not having a uniformed officer, with biases and relationships of being that uniformed officer for the last 20 or 30 years, is going to ultimately help this city move forward.” .
Yes , there are some negatives that come with long-term job experience, but the Mayor seems to be wary of having a man or woman as Chief who knows what to do, based on experience in uniform.
Next step , watch the Philly or DC mayor try a similar move.
April 15, 2021
Mayor #LoriLightfoot wants to set aside about half of the $1.9 billion the city of Chicago expects to get from the American Rescue Plan signed by President Biden to pay off the high-interest debt the city incurred to balance its 2020 and 2021 budgets. As many of us expected, the "Covid" bill was about rewarding bad spending habits.
May 9, 2021
Can Mayor Leadfoot derail the Bears' hopes of breaking its lease with Solider Field that runs through 2033, and moving to Arlington Heights, a suburb of Chicago?
July 6, 2021
Checking in with Leadfoot: 16 killed, over 100+ shot , during the July 4th weekend in Chicago
Oct 21, 2021
While the Chicago Police Union is battling Leadfoot's vaccine mandate in court, a Seargent with the Indiana State Patrol tweeted this: "Hey Chicago Police Officers, we're hiring! No vaccine mandate."
Nov 23, 2021
Chicago Tribune article that caught my eyes: Black population continues to drop in Chicago and Illinois. They chose to move to nearby states Indiana, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa, and few regret their move: ‘I have peace’
Jan 9, 2022
Yes, I'm stunned that Mayor Leadfoot is bucking the CTU, and wants Chicago schools re-opened.
Then I kept reading more news about Illinois and hope all those anti-cop screamers who want social workers doing police work notice this sad story: Deidre Silas, 36, an investigator with the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, was stabbed to death while checking on a report of a child in danger Tuesday at a home in Thayer IL.
Jan 15, 2022
Just a reminder to all those who think unarmed folks can deter armed criminals. A 60-year-old man was shot after yelling at two men as they robbed a woman of her purse at gunpoint on the 5900 block of North Glenwood Avenue in the North Side of Chi-town. The lady is ok and the crooks who took her purse are free.
Jan 31, 2022
Here we go again: Jonathan Jackson, son of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, entered the race for Bobby Rush’s Illinois congressional seat. He's a leader in his father's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. Jonathan's brother, Jesse Jr, resigned from Congress in 2012 and later served time in prison for wire and mail fraud.
Feb 26, 2022
It's got my head spinning and I'm not a cop. Some ideas on police foot chases under consideration in Chicago that always follow with a note THAT we are not trying to hinder law enforcement:
1) should only be initiated, per the draft policy, if the need to detain the person outweighs the risk to the public and the officer.
2) LEOS should not be chasing someone unless they are absolutely sure they are going to arrest someone.
3) running away alone is not a reason to chase a person.
4) LEOS can chase someone if they were believed to have committed certain misdemeanors such as aggravated assault and battery but cannot chase someone believed to have committed lower-level misdemeanors such as simple assault or criminal trespassing to land.
March 23, 2022
Mayor Leadfoot announced that the list ofChicago casino bidders has been cut to three : River West, South Loop, and next to Soldier Field. If the finalist is the casino near Soldier Field, I wonder if NFL commentators will say on the air "and over there is the casino."
March 24, 2022
Leadfooot is dragging her feet naming a replacement for Patrick Daley Thompson, a member of the Daley political clan and a former 11th Ward alderman who was convicted of felony tax fraud last month and ordered to vacate his position. Part of the problem is the 11th Ward is nearly a majority Asian ward, and there is pressure to name an Asian American to fill the slot.
March 29, 2022
Nicole Lee, an Asian-American woman, is the new 11th Ward alderman. Her bankruptcy plea in 2017 was rejected, and she was forced to pay her debts
Her father is Gene Lee, who was a top mayoral aide for Richard M. Daley and was also convicted in 2014 of stealing from charities. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
April 21, 2o22
Pot is legal in Illinois, but its cannabis market is restricted by law to 21 licensed growers. And now there's a federal lawsuit alleging cannabis companies of running a “Chicago cartel” that colludes to keep prices high in Illinois.
July 9, 2022
Leadfoot is on her way to Europe to promote Chicago after losing two major corporations: Boeing is taking its headquarters elsewhere, and hedge fund Citadel is moving to Miami.
July 19, 2022
Leadfoot is up for re-election but must've skipped math class in her youth. She claims she'll “make sure there isn’t a significant burden” on Chicago property owners as the city prepares a budget that will include property taxes tied to inflation. Then whines “nobody could’ve anticipated what the consequences of inflation that we’re seeing here this year, but we’ve started a discussion internally with our finance team."
Reality bites again!!!!!!!
Aug 2, 2022
I thought Baltimore City had a bad prosecutor, but Cook County(IL) State’s Attorney Kim Foxx appears to be worse and is having a hard time keeping up with prosecutors leaving her office. Maybe she should resign and become a defense attorney since she more concerned with protecting criminals.
Aug 10,2022
Last week a Cook County judge issued a temporary restraining order against FOP President John Catanzara, prohibiting him from making public statements that encourage members not to report their COVID-19 vaccine status to the city of Chicago. Can you imagine the outrage if they did this to the head of any other public sector union?
Sept 23, 2022
Chicago: 3,561 shooting incidents in 2021, which is just over 300 more than were recorded in 2020 and a s 1,415 more than in 2019. However, Leadfoot has no problem telling McDonalds CEO that he needs to educate himself when he warns of rising crime in Chicago.
Dec 18, 2022
Checking in on Naperville, Illinois, a town not far from Chicago where my nephew resides. North Central College, a Naperville-based team, recovered an onside kick against Mount Union in the fourth quarter of Friday night’s Division III championship game on its way to winning the title.
Dec 29, 2022
Judge Cunnington of Kankakee County agreed with the prosecutors’ argument that the state legislature violated the separation of powers component of the Illinois Constitution when it passed a measure eliminating cash bail which interferes with the duties of the judiciary. His ruling affects only the pretrial release provisions of the law, leaving all other measures of what is known as the SAFE-T Act intact.
Jan 11, 2023
Norfolk Southern touts benefits its expansion will bring to Englewood, ILL, but residents and contractors reject the railroad's promises. Former Mayor Rahm Emauel and current Mayor Lightfoot support the expansion, Here's one issue:
“I was there the day they literally brought a moving truck, a bulldozer, and cops to move that family out,” Alderman Taylor .
Norfolk Southern: Over a four year period, the owner, Ms. Edwards refused to access moving benefits, refused to engage in dialogue with us on trying to reach a resolution, and refused to vacate the property despite the court order.
Jan 23, 2023
Circuit Court Judge Joshua Morrison ruled plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits of their claim that legislative rules were circumvented, and temporarily blocked an Illinois ban on semiautomatic gun sales. Insurance codes were abruptly stripped of their contents and used as a shell for the gun measure bill, without hearings on it.
March 1, 2023
Leadfoot, the new Jane Byrne, loses in Chicago. I'm unsure if either Vallas or Johnson will be much better. Lightfoot became the first full-term incumbent Chicago Mayor to fail to win reelection since Jane Byrne lost to Harold Washington in 1983.
March 14, 2023
School-related threats are referred to as swatting threats — prank calls that attempt to draw a swarm of police officers to a location. Not sure why it's called swatting, but the FBI claims this type of threat is rising in the Chicago area.
March 25, 2023
The Chicago Mayoral candidates, Johnson and Vallas, agree on decrying Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s deal to bring a NASCAR race to Chicago this summer. The power of sports.
May 16, 2023
Duffy(CME) stated his firm is willing to join several businesses like Tyson, Caterpillar, and Boeing in relocating, if Chicago Mayor Johnson does not heed their warnings about new taxes.
June 20, 2023
New Chicago monuments will include labor leader Mother Jones, a self- promoter who claimed she had a telegram from President Harding but wouldn't show it to UMW leader Frank Keeney.
Aug 15, 2023
Lefty implosion: Mother Jones statue inside Jane Byrne Park. Kathy, Jane's daughter, says it's not right to honor a woman who opposed giving women the right to vote.
Sept 15,2023
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, the goofball, wants the city to own a grocery store. Control crime first!
Dec 19, 2023
Chicago City Council voted 31-16 to block a referendum on no longer being a sanctuary city. Screw the citizens lives.
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