Illinois Supreme Court rejects challenge to his residency January 28, 2011 By Jeff Coen, Bob Secter and David Kidwell, Tribune reporters The ballot roller coaster for Rahm Emanuel finally stopped Thursday with the former White House chief of staff very much in the race for mayor and the Illinois Supreme …
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Chicago Artist Faces 15 Years In Prison for Recording Cops
Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com January 25, 2011 In Illinois, you need the permission of the state to record on the street. It is illegal make audio recordings of cops going about their duty arresting unlicensed street artists and other ne’er-do-wells. It is illegal to practice the First Amendment in Chicago. It …
Read More »Rahm Emanuel booted off ballot in 2-1 Appellate Court decision
BY ABDON M. PALLASCH Political Reporter Jan 24, 2011 12:09PM Rahm Emanuel was thrown off the ballot for mayor of Chicago today by an appellate court panel, a stunning blow to the fund-raising leader in the race. An appellate panel ruled 2-1 that Emanuel did not meet the residency standard …
Read More »Chicago home to new wave of comic-strip artists
Step aside, Gotham City. Chicago is the new center of the comic universe, a place where introspective everymen have replaced caped crusaders in tights. The Museum of Contemporary Art this month celebrated the city’s place as a hotbed of young cartoonist talent through “New Chicago Comics,” a look at the …
Read More »Another Illinois Resident Charged for Recording Police – Hit & Run
Radley Balko | January 23, 2011 The New York Times reports on the Illinois eavesdropping law, which allows for a felony charge and up to 15 years of prison for people who record police officers on the job. In addition to artist Christopher Drew—whom I’ve written about before and who …
Read More »Chicago-area foreclosures soar 20% in 2010
By Mary Ellen Podmolik Posted yesterday at 8:36 a.m. Bank repossessions of foreclosed homes in the Chicago region soared almost 20 percent, to more than 45,000 properties in 2010, despite various government and lender programs designed to keep people in their properties and a slowdown in fourth-quarter activity due to …
Read More »News and Investigations Is Treasurer Maria Pappas Wasting Your Tax Dollars?
CHICAGO — She has a driver who makes $94,000 a year and a cleaning lady making $57,000 a year. Is Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas wasting tax dollars? In a joint investigation with the Better Government Association, CBS 2 Investigator Pam Zekman has been following these employees and found that …
Read More »City Council urges swift firing of corrupt city workers
By FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter Jan 14, 2011 Chicago city employees who are convicted of corruption would no longer be able to keep collecting their paychecks while awaiting sentencing, under a crackdown proposed Thursday that calls for firing upon conviction. Three days after the Chicago Sun-Times’ “The Watchdogs” column …
Read More »Jon Burge case: Judge Joan Lefkow refuses to withdraw herself from the Burge case
Burge was convicted in June of two counts of obstruction of justice and one count of perjury for lying in a 2003 civil lawsuit when he denied he knew of or took part in torture under his command at the Calumet Area headquarters on the city’s South Side. via Jon …
Read More »State governments relish Illinois tax increase
Even before Governor Quinn signs into law the Illinois legislature’s tax bill, the debate continues: is this the best course of action to close a budget gap? Many say that instead of trying to generate more revenue from already frustrated taxpayers, the state must make a concerted effort to instill …
Read More »Illinois’s Tax Increase Has Business Fuming, Neighbors Courting
Facing one of the biggest budget shortfalls of any state, Illinois took the risky step of jacking up income and corporate taxes even as its economy struggles to shake off the recession. WITH NO CUTS IN GOVERNMENT SPENDING In a deal hammered out by the state’s Democratic leadership, the lame-duck …
Read More »Chicago’s No. 1 — in high gas prices
Here’s more bad news for your wallet: Chicago has the nation’s highest gas prices. The twice-monthly Lundberg Survey says the highest gas price in the country was recorded in Chicago at $3.35 a gallon. The low, $2.73, was in Salt Lake City, Utah. via Chicago’s No. 1 — in high …
Read More »Heads Up, NYC, SF, Chicago: Something Wi-Fi This Way Comes
For denizens of the Big Apple, San Francisco and the other windy city, Chicago, the coolest technology announcement so far this week did not come out of CES, but instead from a small Rhode Island company called Towerstream. Up until now Towerstream has focused on providing broadband to corporations via …
Read More »Homeland security generators: Dozens of emergency generators delivered around Illinois for homeland security
10 communities get 6 generators each State stocks up on generators in case of emergency From powering up street festivals to pumping sewage during electrical outages, power generators have been put to work in numerous ways in Chicago’s suburbs. Now several communities in the Chicago area and downstate are receiving …
Read More »Thousands of fish dead along Chicago lakefront
Thousands of gizzard shad are going belly up along Chicago’s lakefront in a large die-off that’s left many of the fish frozen in the ice along the city’s harbors. Lake Michigan Program biologist Dan Makauskas tells the Chicago Sun-Times that gizzard shad aren’t a very tough variety of fish. They’re …
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