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BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter fspielman@suntimes.com July 19, 2011 2:28PM Former Mayor Richard M. Daley’s director of special events resigned her City Hall job while facing the prospect of being fired for refusing to cooperate in the city inspector general’s investigation into the Chicago Police Department’s handling of a …

By Dave Matthews, June 20, 2011 The trials for an Elmhurst family charged after a March fight and Tasing at Spring Inn have been pushed to Aug. 1 as their attorney continues to compile witnesses. “Ultimately, we’ll get justice,” attorney Vince Solano said. Solano represents Bryan, Brian and Steven Connell …

BY FRANK MAIN Staff Reporter/fmain@suntimes.com Updated: July 15, 2011 Battle lines between protesters and the police are already being drawn for the NATO and G-8 summits that Chicago will host next spring. On Thursday, an anti-war organizer said he was scouting potential staging areas for crowds of protesters expected outside …

By Andrew Thomason Illinois Statehouse News SPRINGFIELD — If you are riding in a vehicle in Illinois — no matter where you are seated — you better be wearing a seat belt. Gov. Pat Quinn on Monday signed legislation making it mandatory for everyone in a vehicle to wear a …

Campaign seeks to pressure public servants into following will of the people Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, June 27, 2011 Texans to Launch Citizen Filibuster Over TSA Groping tsa patdown Texans outraged by repeated attempts on behalf of state representatives working in consort with the federal government to kill …

A shocking report prepared by Russia’s Federal Atomic Energy Agency (FAAE) on information provided to them by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) states that the Obama regime has ordered a “total and complete” news blackout relating to any information regarding the near catastrophic meltdown of the Fort Calhoun Nuclear …

Responding to a spree of brazen crimes that has spooked the public, Chicago authorities announced today that there will soon be many more eyes — police officers and surveillance cameras — focused across the CTA system. Technology will play a leading role in the accelerated pace of security measures on …

Marty Zamora will be the first to tell you he’s a gun guy—he owns seven handguns and four rifles. He likes to shoot at a suburban range for sport, but he says that’s not the main reason he has them. “Everybody on my block has been robbed but me,” says …

Chicago’s Big Brother network of over 10,000 public and private surveillance cameras is already the most extensive and integrated in the nation. But, it’s about to get even bigger. Mayor Rahm Emanuel chaired his first Public Building Commission meeting on Tuesday and joined his fellow members in adding three potential …

Ten months later, Chicago PD is still investigating the incident. Moore, on the other hand, was arrested the very same afternoon. Her crime? At some point in her conversations with internal affairs investigators, Moore grew frustrated with their attempts to intimidate her. So she began to surreptitiously record the interactions …

The Amazon tax, which became law in January, is bad for businesses, workers, and families. Last week, Performance Marketing Associates brought a lawsuit against the Illinois Department of Revenue challenging the constitutionality of the law. As far back as last year, executive vice president, Kristina Rasmussen warned that if the …

THIS WEEK BY TIM NOVAK & CHRIS FUSCO Jun 6, 2011 6:53AM For years, City Hall maintained that Mayor Richard M. Daley’s son, Patrick Daley, had no financial stake in the deal that brought wireless Internet service to city-owned O’Hare Airport and Midway Airport. But it turns out that the …

The quick answer is “No.” The answer really is not at all complex. The latest legislative session for the general assembly ended last week. The session started in November with an increase in personal and corporate income taxes. The rationale coming from the Democrats (I can be partisan because it …

MIA PEARSON – The Globe and Mail Word travels quickly when you’ve got a crisis on your hands. Clothing retailer Urban Outfitters learned that social media is more than just a conversation around engaging its brand champions. Stevie Koerner, an independent jewellery maker from Chicago, wrote a blog post last …

Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and BAUER and POSNER, Circuit Judges. EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge. The Supreme Court held in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), that a federal enclave’s ban on operable handguns in the home violates the Constitution’s second amendment. In 2008 the City of Chicago and …