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BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter fspielman@suntimes.com July 26, 2012 10:14AM Inspector General Joe Ferguson has already gone toe-to-toe with former Mayor Richard M. Daley and Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Now, he’s taking on the City Council’s most powerful alderman. Ferguson went public Thursday with a jurisdictional dispute that’s been simmering …

Bernanke opposes ‘nightmare’ By Stephen Dinan The Washington Times In a move that serves as a capstone to Rep. Ron Paul’s colorful career, the House on Wednesday voted to have Congress‘ chief investigators conduct a full audit of the Federal Reserve’s shrouded decision-making process. The overwhelming 327-98 vote sends the …

By Jasmin Melvin | Reuters – Mon, 23 Jul, 2012 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House wants a “Do Not Track” option put on websites to give consumers greater control of their personal information online but Internet companies and privacy groups are at odds on how tight the controls should …

Ice-T: Well, I’ll give up my gun when everybody does. Doesn’t that make sense? If there were guns here, would you want to be the only person without one? Krishnan Guru-Murthy, anchor, Channel 4 News: So do you carry guns routinely at home? Ice-T: Yeah, it’s legal in the United …

Second amendment, ‘conspiracy theorists’ to be blamed for incident Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Friday, July 20, 2012 Within hours of the tragic shooting in Aurora, Colorado at a screening of the new Batman movie, the political machine is already gearing up to exploit the incident as a tool to demonize …

By Annie Sweeney Tribune reporter 12:30 a.m. CDT, July 18, 2012 A campaign treasurer for a former state senator, two Cook County corrections officers and four others were snared in an undercover FBI sting in which they paid kickbacks in the hope of securing thousands of dollars in federal grants, …

Deadly attack of West Rogers Park man, 62, recorded on video, posted to website By Jim Jaworski and Bridget Doyle, Chicago Tribune reporters July 16, 2012 A Facebook video posting of a deadly attack on a 62-year-old man collecting cans in a Chicago alley last week led to murder charges …

Naperville forum aims to bring parents, law enforcement and treatment officials together By Melissa Jenco, Chicago Tribune reporter July 15, 2012 The cost of heroin and the danger of using a needle to shoot it once kept many suburban teenagers away from the drug, experts say. But those barriers have …

July 12, 2012 (NewYorkInjuryNews.com – Injury News) New Source: JusticeNewsFlash.com 07/09/2012 // West Palm Beach , Florida, US // JusticeNewsFlash // Justice News Flash // (press release) Chicago – Cab passengers in Chicago may now be charged a vomit fee in the event that they regurgitate in a taxi. As …

By Kathy Bergen Tribune staff reporter 6:03 p.m. CDT, July 11, 2012 Chicago’s extensive efforts to reinvigorate its convention and tourism industries could be damaged unless the city quickly defuses the violent crime wave that has exploded in its neighborhoods and nicked the downtown, the city’s top convention and tourism …

BY MARK BROWN markbrown@suntimes.com July 10, 2012 8:06PM Rahm Emanuel, who defeated two Latino candidates in his run for mayor while fending off accusations that he had been less than supportive of immigrant issues during his days in Washington, seems determined never to be put in that position again. Declaring …

By DON BABWIN | Associated Press – 11 hrs ago CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s mayor and police superintendent publicly defended their new gang-fighting strategy Monday amid growing criticism that the changes are failing and a big reason why the city’s homicide rate has soared this year. After weeks of media …

CHICAGO (STMW) – The death of eight more people in Chicago over the weekend have been attributed at least in part to heat-related causes, bringing the total of heat-related deaths in Cook County to 18, surpassing the total from last year. Autopsies conducted on Sunday by the Cook County Medical …