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Johnson's plan to spend public money subsidizing an entire community based on race alone smacks of political pandering.

Job loss, restaurant closures are the hallmarks of the end of tipped wages, and it's going to become worse.

How duty of obedience and care collapsed in Chicago’s nonprofits — letting DEI dogma eclipse mission, law, and accountability.

Let's face it: Mayor Brandon Johnson is a bigot.

The mayor continues to fib on affordable housing.

Illinois General Assembly fails to come through with a deal for the Bears to move to Arlington Heights.

Poor Chicago Public School children are systematically and deliberately denied their Constitutional Right to a quality education. It’s time for a Federal Consent Decree to restore this right.

Chicago State University has failed at everything.

The inside story of how America's premier prep schools abandoned merit for ideology and excellence for equity

The progressives take a field trip to ICE office in Chicago's 3rd Ward.

A modern civil war has broken out between the sanctuary city of Chicago and the federal government over immigration.

The SAFE-T Act and Consent Decree have made conditions less safe for police officers, witnesses and victims. It’s time to do something about it.

To save the CTA, the transit system should shrink the size of its workforce.

Something must be done to stop these ridiculous settlements.

Superintendent of Police Larry Snelling and State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke have made the difference.

Funding to violence interruption groups is subsidizing gang activity on Chicago's streets.

One of Chicago's worst legislators sets his sights on Capitol Hill.

Playing the race card to pander to his disgruntled base blows up in Brandon Johnson's face.

While Jews and Israel remain a primary target of political violence, the left has a much broader destruction in mind.

Why is Chicago lengthening the shadow of slavery over affordable housing?

Chicago’s population bump masks a Sanctuary City fiscal sinkhole.

The longer Preckwinkle remains in office, the harder she squeezes taxpayers.

Another progressive performative idiot launches a bid for Congress.

Arresting and citing teens for violations of public order is more effective than letters home to mom and dad.

Mayor Brandon Johnson says it’s the people who want him out.

Chicago can build a world-class fire department and increase minorities in its ranks without lowering standards.

On May 16, CTU members should avoid the polls.

A verdict has been rendered: Studies show a police presence is a deterrent to crime.

Alderman Brendan Reilly weighs a challenge to Boss Toni.

With migrants offsetting the population loss and Trump available to blame, what do Johnson and Pritzker have to worry about?

The Residential Investment Corporation is just another call from the mayor to hop aboard a glass elevator on a journey to a world of pure imagination

Even fellow Democrats have turned on the mayor.

A nuisance ordinance is a good place to start in the effort to restore public order in Chicago.

If you want to judge Cook County States Attorney’s Eileen O’Neill Burke’s impact in office, look at drops in violent crime, not the jail population.

Traffic stops are legal and a proven crime prevention strategy.

Why Susana Mendoza may be Chicago’s best bet to beat Brandon Johnson.

Chicago can catch up with falling crime rates nationwide if it takes action.

Mayor Johnson replaces blowhard Ramirez-Rosa with bombastic Quezada to represent 35th Ward on City Council.

The Trump Administration takes Brandon Johnson to court.

Toni Preckwinkle’s tenure as Cook County Board President and Democratic Party Chairman has made Chicago less safe, undermined school quality, and helped make residents of Chicago and Cook County among the highest taxed in the nation. It’s time for a change.

Hopefully, the new boss of Choose Chicago is up to the job.

CTU’s opposition to school choice combined with its assault on public school standards and accountability has created an apartheid school system in which poor families, overwhelmingly black and Latino, are trapped in failing schools.

How does Johnson plan to end the insanity downtown if he refuses to admit what it is?

The CTU got a raise, the taxpayers paid the bill, and students lost again.

Rep. Will Guzzardi gets clever titling a bill legalizing prostitution.

Lawlessness downtown and Mayor Brandon Johnson’s dangerous delusions.

CPS should balance its budget to ensures bulk of $30K spent per student reaches schools while weaning itself from city subsidies

With the right candidate, a Republican from Illinois in the Senate is within reach.

Brandon Johnson may be heading back to the Beltway for aiding and abetting a terrorist organization and presiding over an anti-Semitic environment.

Between profiting from his elected office and serving as a political hit man for Toni Preckwinkle, Robert Martwick is a busy man.

Alderman Walter Burnett approves of "the way it has been done over the years."

In an unprecedented proposal, a Chicago lawmaker seeks to legalize some assaults on police officers.

Mayor Johnson’s hand-picked Chief Procurement Officer asking for a 3% across-the-board supplier price reduction is more than a fiscal embarrassment — it’s procurement malpractice.

The Chicago City Council puts a bounty on cops.

To protect women who live in fear of domestic abuse, Cook County courts and Sheriff must fulfill their obligations.

The sue-the-cops racket is weaking police, a drain on Chicago’s finances, and making martyrs of violent criminals.

Johnson's novel approach may win him a place in the Democrat Grifter Hall of Fame.

On any given day, over 90 percent of those who have committed violent crimes are walking the streets.

Northwest Side state senator lives a good life doubling as a tax appeals attorney.

His approval ratings are at ebb, but Mayor Johnson does maintain support.

You can’t always get what you want.

What Chicago can learn from Utah.

Pritzker joins Mayor Johnson regarding economically illiterate and strategically unsound budgets.

With Kersten’s resignation, it’s time to disband COPA and consolidate and professionalize police oversight.

There is money for the taking in Chicago's "51st Ward."

A city nearing financial collapse, Chicago needs to examine the city bureaucracy.

Chicago is a sick city.

If you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always got.

Affordable housing can be built without raising taxes.

The City Council fiddles with foreign policy while Chicago burns.

Rather than championing high standards, accountability and expanded quality school choices, Mayor Brandon Johnson and Governor J.B. Pritzker are strengthening teacher unions.

It will fall on the Trump White House to stabilize the Windy City.

ICE is here and the press is playing it as if everyone in Chicago has something to fear.

Removal of criminal illegals, not mass deportations, is the aim of federal agents in Chicago.

Lessons from the parental trenches in admissions questions and school tours.

Alderman William Hall talks too much.

A student transformation from behind grade level to scholar-athlete.

The Trump administration decides to adopt the motto that it can change the world here in our hometown of Chicago.

What Englewood residents need most is officers on the street.

Incompetence and inexperience are never obstacles when you have the right connections.

CPS and city finances have Mayor Brandon Johnson submerged in debt crises. A third financial crisis at the CTA is imminent and could sink the mayor.

Crime has overwhelmed the 12th Ward and its alderman.

Toni Preckwinkle's picks and policies are leading Chicago to ruin.

Violent crime and theft continued virtually unabated in 2024.

Reed was not killed over a traffic violation.

How well do voters know Melissa Conyears-Ervin?‍

As long as the CTU commands the levers of power over CPS, minority students will suffer most.

Mayor Johnson sacks school’s chief for his teachers' union funders.

Under Foxx, criminals enjoyed an eight-year holiday from prosecution.

Candidates for Chicago's next mayoral race must have discernible qualifications for the job.

Meet the useless alderman of Chicago's 46th Ward.

Honoring the life and death of ShotSpotter.

With the right steps taken and a sufficient budget, Chicago can have a fire department residents deserve.

Scandals continue at another affiliated National Association of Independent Schools institution in the Philadelphia area.

Moving custody of the Cook County EM program to the court system invites disaster.

The public has a right to accurate crime statistics.

The single, greatest obstacle to more affordable housing is Democratic Socialist aldermen.

Are there any smart people at the intersection of Mayor Johnson and Chicago media?

Failing schools, extortionate taxes, marauding criminals.

The Sun-Times became the propaganda wing of Chicago's progressive movement.

Are there any smart people at the intersection of Mayor Johnson and Chicago media?

Without accurate and complete information, civilization fails.

Jack Lucey visited the epicenter of the DNC protests. This is what he learned.

Sun-Times editorial board member and columnist reveals newspaper's dirty little secret.

The DNC will be a letdown for Chicago in more than one way.

Chicago's navigation system is faulty.

Black History Month to take a back seat to Chi-town's contribution to the Final Solution.

Journalism crashed and burned this year.

Mayor Brandon Johnson's 21st century Hooverville.

By depriving cops of union rights, is Chicago’s radical Democratic Party clearing the way for chaos at the Democratic Convention?

Part II.

Part I of II.

Will legally dubious torture commission finally go on trial?

Alone in the big City of Chicago.

Taking Chicago's pulse on illegals in the Windy City.

Hamas' carnage against Israel allows Mayor Johnson, DSAs to retail anti-Semitism.

City attorneys hang detectives out to dry, again‍.

Some are afraid to lie, others are afraid to admit the truth.

Concern over infectious disease abandoned as migrants stuffed in police districts.

In another controversy, Kim Foxx is scrutinized for refusing to comply with FOIAs

A labor victory limiting the power of a kangaroo court investigating Chicago police has unionized reporters scrambling.

"The Soul of Chicago is in all of us. That's why I made it my life's purpose to serve the greatest city in the world"

Opportunity to hold Chicago media accountable for manufactured narrative slips away.

For Chicago’s warped media, some sex crimes are just sexier than others.

Will Chicago aldermen rubber stamp settlements from exonerations cases under Gov. Pat Quinn?

There are perils to empowering the state to pick economic winners and losers.

Pushing the media’s anti-police mythology, Heather Cherone ignores staggering evidence of corruption in Cook County prosecutor’s office.

Chicago media is losing its grip on their audience.

Mayor Johnson’s conversation with 60s radical, new deputy of community safety reveal much about Chicago’s future.

Generative AI to encourage the mostly peaceful use of city parks and streets and insure riots and looting are never covered by the Chicago Tribune.

Nomination of former Foxx aide for U.S. Attorney's office should raise a few eyebrows.

“I think Eric Zorn didn't have any understanding of the facts of that case and did not have a basis to be writing the things that he wrote.”

Some odd twists and turns lead to the release of a convicted child killer.

Chicago’s anti-police movement looks to notch another victory over police.

It was not a good year for the press in the Windy City.

South Side officer Michelle Murphy gets last word after 10-year betrayal by every institution in Chicago.

Chicago City Council embraces bizarre claims of radical journalism group.

With an obedient media protecting the most corrupt elected official in the country, Chicago and Illinois are now doomed.

Shocking about face on behalf of two men accused of double murder could be the worst corruption under Foxx.

A rare bright spot in Chicago journalism emerged.

After shameless coverage, CBS, Dave Savini, every institution in the city failed officer who almost gave her life in service to Chicago.

Activist media gets a cash infusion, Eric Zorn targets CWB Chicago.

WGN’s Andrew Schroedter jumps on the Kim Foxx bandwagon.

As rioters get a pass from Kim Foxx, Chicago hands down ludicrous penalties for officers who were victims of 2020 ambushes

For top prosecutor and a club of reporters at the Chicago Tribune, one hand seems to wash the other.

Once again, allegations raise the question: Who does Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx work for?

Chicago media bringing the war back home after California prosecutor's recall.

Fate of CPD Officers Coughlin and Torres reveal why the Tyshon Brownlees of Chicago run free.

Attorney launches broadsides against Illinois Attorney General and Cook County prosecutor over exoneration of convicted police killer Jackie Wilson.

The Cook County prosecutor and the bomb throwers.

A modest proposal to finance vote buying.

Did the demise of American media start in Chicago’s pretentious alternative press?

By all means, Governor Pritzker, let’s look at everything that “has occurred” in the exoneration industry's takeover of the governor's office.

The size of Mayor Lightfoot’s “Command Post” comes under scrutiny.

A marriage made in progressive heaven, former Chicago Tribune reporter Dan Hinkel joins the Better Government Association.

With Jackie Wilson’s path to freedom through Torture Commission under fire in federal court, should Kim Foxx be prosecuting him on charges of beating woman?

Though Chicago’s biased media reliably reported on Jackie Wilson’s journey to freedom, it ignored his recent arrest.

Who do Tribune journalists Megan Crepeau and Jason Meisner really work for?

Progressive laws, policies certain to create a hellish summer for Chicago’s black communities.

Chicago an example of how crucial stories alleging misconduct against young women can be buried?

As Chicago explodes in violence, Chicago’s media continues to spoon feed residents pure fantasy.

Hyper local social media site Nextdoor censors Chicago users on education, crime, and political commentary.

How a broken door transformed into a seismic event and a seven-figure settlement.

Let's hold off on popping open the bubbly and swinging from the chandeliers.

Does delayed ruling in fatal police shooting indicate another scandal is brewing at COPA?

It's time for the 43rd Ward Alderwoman to take a moment for introspection.

The death of the political interview.

The worst has yet to come.

Progressive madness engulfs Jefferson Park.

A disgraced media tries to keep its doomed narratives alive.

The Chicago Sun-Times advances Progressive disarmament.

WGN’s Ben Bradley serves as press secretary and reporter during webinar on crime in Cook County.

Walter Jones lived up to highest standards under immense pressure in key murder case.

Courts defying city's, state's politically motivated police reform entities greeted with media silence.

Attorney challenges legitimacy of state commission that paved way for release of Jackie Wilson for his role in 1982 murder of two Chicago police officers.

Chaos reigns in Cook County prosecutor’s office.

Despite problems, Matt Rosenberg's book asserts there is a glimmer of hope for the Windy City.

To overcome a final legal hurdle, Jackie Wilson's lawsuit requires support from activist journalists like Megan Crepeau ‍ ‍

Silence on destructive behavior and the bullying of city employees into compliance.

Chicago Tribune’s Jason Meisner heads up activist media seemingly aimed at poisoning the jury pool.

Rulings by Judge James Obbish becoming more and more suspicious.

Matthew Hendrickson's article on Cook County prosecutors facing off with police in Serenity Broughton murder case leaves many unanswered questions.

Well-known opinion columnist virtue signals his disgust.

Area 5 commander sets record straight on murder investigation, rebukes Kim Foxx, Sun-Times coverage of case.

Will new leadership at the Tribune plot a new tack or stick with a failing strategy?

Cuomo’s release of Weather Underground member David Gilbert reveals radicalized Democratic Party.

Despite outpouring of grief for slain officer, some wounds persist and may be beyond healing.

Despite slaughter of the innocent, Chicago’s unified progressives hold the party line.

Chicago police officers are all alone.

That's an excess of misconceptions Kim.

Conflicts between federal court cases and stories peddled by Tribune reporter Greg Pratt explain why so few trust media.

“The choice for Chicago lies between freedom and happiness and for Northsiders, happiness is better.”

The first of many?

Brownie: You're doing a heck of a job.

Can Rogers Park Survive Maria Hadden?

Women, children fodder for the militant anti-police movement?

SCC cleans out the memory backlog.

Mismanaging the Chicago Police Department.

How duty of obedience and care collapsed in Chicago’s nonprofits — letting DEI dogma eclipse mission, law, and accountability.

Poor Chicago Public School children are systematically and deliberately denied their Constitutional Right to a quality education. It’s time for a Federal Consent Decree to restore this right.

Chicago State University has failed at everything.

The inside story of how America's premier prep schools abandoned merit for ideology and excellence for equity

On May 16, CTU members should avoid the polls.

CTU’s opposition to school choice combined with its assault on public school standards and accountability has created an apartheid school system in which poor families, overwhelmingly black and Latino, are trapped in failing schools.

The CTU got a raise, the taxpayers paid the bill, and students lost again.

CPS should balance its budget to ensures bulk of $30K spent per student reaches schools while weaning itself from city subsidies

If you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always got.

Rather than championing high standards, accountability and expanded quality school choices, Mayor Brandon Johnson and Governor J.B. Pritzker are strengthening teacher unions.

Breach of non-profit board duties puts board members at personal financial risk.

Lessons from the parental trenches in admissions questions and school tours.

A student transformation from behind grade level to scholar-athlete.

As long as the CTU commands the levers of power over CPS, minority students will suffer most.

Mayor Johnson sacks school’s chief for his teachers' union funders.

Saving CPS is not an easy task by any means, but our schools can be returned to centers of learning.

How progressive lawfare created a moral vacuum in our schools that destroyed the character of our most vulnerable.

Illinois is first in tax burden and last in equity and has residents of all demographics leaving in record numbers.

Scandals continue at another affiliated National Association of Independent Schools institution in the Philadelphia area.

The commission’s recommendations for the highest funded university system in the nation deliberately discriminates against white and Asian students while doing nothing to address inequity for low income families

Preventing the CORE caucus from exercising complete control over CPS hovers over Board of Education elections far more than anything else.

The DEI self-destruct sequence that’s been triggered at formerly elite prep schools may provide a hint

CTU leaders are responsible for school closings and the enrollment decline that will force many more schools to close

Issuing outrageous demands and devouring a larger portion of tax revenue, CTU has become an existential threat to education, organized labor.

The pathway to Chicago and CPS overcoming unprecedented budget deficits requires the political will to confront a CTU determined to bankrupt the city and schools.

In either intent or outcome, racism is the defining feature of Stacy Davis Gates and Mayor Brandon Johnson's education policies and minorities are hurt most.

The K-12 DEI hangover is just setting in, but the boards at elite Chicago schools still lack the spine to fire progressive activist school heads.

Chicago requires more than a marketing strategy.

The letter of the day is B: Bureaucracy, benefits, and billions.

Black History Month to take a back seat to Chi-town's contribution to the Final Solution.

For school choice to be realized, parents must create a mass movement.

The Innovations shooting should raise questions about where charter schools are located.

What the CTU seeks is complete and unchallenged domination over education.

Misplaced priorities are a feature of Johnson's term.

Illegals take positions of prominence in the Windy City.

Who will have the final say on Chicago's budget?

School withheld diplomas and transcripts from two seniors tossing them into college limbo, ruining their graduation.

Sixth grade Jewish day school curriculum “drives a wedge between parents and children” around gender identity.

Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson's reckless plan to asphyxiate Chicago.

As corporate executives are named in expanded suit, violations of state law and school policy appear “clear cut” in case against school.

NAISS and NAMBLA to partner with “progressive” school in Chicago.

Francis Parker updates a classic, the preppy handbook, for the modern private school era.

What $40K per year gets your children in the Windy City.

Depravity, “rules for thee and not for me” and bullying culture appear systemic at Chicago’s most elite private school.

CPS preaches pronouns and the 72 genders, as Chicago kids make non-binary ninja jokes.

CPS shared a welcome letter with parents but neglected to share that all kids will have an opportunity to learn radical gender ideology and Critical Race Theory.

After embracing progressive ideology, Chicago private school suffers 23 percent drop in enrollment.

Academic excellence, greater diversity and value exists across the border in Indiana.

Teacher and former DEI head at Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School Johanna Thompson continues abusive taunts as religion takes a back seat to progressive ideology and bullying of students.

Returning CORE to power at the Chicago Teachers Union will deepen CTU's descent into radicalism.

Identity politics, selective bullying enforcement and DEI-based anti-Semitism may be to blame for the lack of response to a child’s pleas for help.

New CPS proposal will further peck away at Select Enrollment admissions standards in the 2023-2024 school year to further “equity.”

CORE’s shadowy past should cast doubt its next slating will be a democratic exercise.

Much is at stake for Sharkey, Davis Gates in May CTU elections.

Chicago Contrarian analysis links rising violent crime with the Chicago Teachers Union.

Progressive litmus test rattles elite Chicago school admissions

Making it impossible to fail in Chicago Public Schools.

Are you now or have you ever been against Critical Race Theory?

Racism in schools: From the Virginia governor’s election to Latin and Francis Parker.

Can Chicago's Catholic schools be saved from extinction?

Despite problems, Matt Rosenberg's book asserts there is a glimmer of hope for the Windy City.

Progressive politics is the new religion at a “Chicagoland Jewish institution.”

A recall election is the emergency break Chicago requires.

Chicago must stop the bleed, stabilize itself and implement a growth strategy.

The CTU is living its dream.

As critical race theory makes inroads, Chicago schools condone bigotry by progressive educators.

The face of failure.

The CTU has hijacked education and CPS has allowed it to happen.

Parents’ experience showcases lessons on addressing harassment which are relevant nationwide.

It's not white flight. It's more complex than the last time and it's just beginning.

Does the CPS verify residency?

A win for the CTU is always a loss for Chicago public school students.

Non-partisanship is DOA (dead on arrival) at Chicago schools.

University of Illinois at Chicago research fails to analyze and interpret basic statistical data.

Up for reappointment, Cook County Public Defender embraces corrosive immigration policies.

The free exchange of ideas in schools is a relic of a bygone era.

The CTU plays the race, sexism cards and loses.

Pure coincidence, right? Hardly.

Pupils need to lift themselves from their own predicaments.

The Chicago Teachers Union focuses on everything but teaching and learning.

The line between CTU member and political activist has become shadowy.

Journalism as history exposes the goal of education in the CPS is Left-wing indoctrination.

Perhaps a return to pen and paper should be considered.

Chicago should sing on news of the expansion of vocational training to the CPS.

But it was done for the kids!

What should sound alarms and force a resignation is just another ordinary day in the organized chaos of the CPS.

How duty of obedience and care collapsed in Chicago’s nonprofits — letting DEI dogma eclipse mission, law, and accountability.

The mayor continues to fib on affordable housing.

To save the CTA, the transit system should shrink the size of its workforce.

Superintendent of Police Larry Snelling and State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke have made the difference.

Funding to violence interruption groups is subsidizing gang activity on Chicago's streets.

Arresting and citing teens for violations of public order is more effective than letters home to mom and dad.

A verdict has been rendered: Studies show a police presence is a deterrent to crime.

A nuisance ordinance is a good place to start in the effort to restore public order in Chicago.

Hopefully, the new boss of Choose Chicago is up to the job.

How does Johnson plan to end the insanity downtown if he refuses to admit what it is?

Rep. Will Guzzardi gets clever titling a bill legalizing prostitution.

Lawlessness downtown and Mayor Brandon Johnson’s dangerous delusions.

Chicago is a sick city.

If you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always got.

Affordable housing can be built without raising taxes.

It will fall on the Trump White House to stabilize the Windy City.

ICE is here and the press is playing it as if everyone in Chicago has something to fear.

Removal of criminal illegals, not mass deportations, is the aim of federal agents in Chicago.

Breach of non-profit board duties puts board members at personal financial risk.

Lessons from the parental trenches in admissions questions and school tours.

Alderman William Hall talks too much.

A student transformation from behind grade level to scholar-athlete.

The Trump administration decides to adopt the motto that it can change the world here in our hometown of Chicago.

What Englewood residents need most is officers on the street.

CPS and city finances have Mayor Brandon Johnson submerged in debt crises. A third financial crisis at the CTA is imminent and could sink the mayor.

Crime has overwhelmed the 12th Ward and its alderman.

Meet the useless alderman of Chicago's 46th Ward.

How progressive lawfare created a moral vacuum in our schools that destroyed the character of our most vulnerable.

Illinois is first in tax burden and last in equity and has residents of all demographics leaving in record numbers.

Honoring the life and death of ShotSpotter.

Five reasons why Chicago condo and coop values are dropping off a cliff.

With the right steps taken and a sufficient budget, Chicago can have a fire department residents deserve.

Moving custody of the Cook County EM program to the court system invites disaster.

The single, greatest obstacle to more affordable housing is Democratic Socialist aldermen.

Perhaps Alderman Maria Hadden should move to Wisconsin.

Yes, the speed limit ordinance is about imposing new taxes, higher fines, and penalties.

“Sanctuary City” blank check spending largely to blame for the tax increase as condo market spirals further down.

Preventing the CORE caucus from exercising complete control over CPS hovers over Board of Education elections far more than anything else.

What is happening in Humboldt Park under fringe progressive Jessie Fuentes?

There is a reason Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez is the patron saint of Chicago's gangs.

What's really going on with mail-in voting in Chicago?

Jack Lucey visited the epicenter of the DNC protests. This is what he learned.

When will Chicago residents receive the same consideration as Democratic elite?

If common sense is so common, why does Alderman Andre Vasquez have none?

The congestion tax is a ploy to indulge the CTU.

Espousing conservative ideals, speaking at GOP convention triggers powerful backlash against South Side pastor.

In an interview with Brandon Pope discussing gunshot technology, Johnson told whopper after whopper.

The time for Chicagoans to grumble is long overdue.

Instead of growing government, Brandon Johnson should revive volunteerism.

Is Mayor Johnson's ideological fixation with the false promise of progressivism hindering a South Side group's fight against poverty?

The first step to solving part of homelessness begins with treatment.

The cost of a Chicago-owned grocery store will be borne by taxpayers.

White Sox ownership should pay for new stadium or leave.

Award winning Jewish musician reports that despite “no threats of violence,” an “opaque decision” outside of his control was made to call off event in a city marked by increasing anti-Semitism.

Chicago is not a safe city.

Chicago requires more than a marketing strategy.

Bucktown, Wicker Park, Logan Square and Ukrainian Village crime numbers spiral out of control, causing residents to flee and boutiques to close as high-end property values start to decline.

The letter of the day is B: Bureaucracy, benefits, and billions.

Chicago's most prosperous have made the most special and meaningful contributions to the city.

Black History Month to take a back seat to Chi-town's contribution to the Final Solution.

Taking Chicago's pulse on crime in the Windy City.

How new laws will affect children and parenting.

The Innovations shooting should raise questions about where charter schools are located.

Condominiums and houses are down 25 percent or more since previous transactions.

Lawlessness will continue under Clayton Harris.

Mayor Brandon Johnson's 21st century Hooverville.

Does that gun have to go off and kill me, you, my daughter or wife?

Guns are not the problem, Mr. Mayor.

Alone in the big City of Chicago.

With rising anti-Semitism in the Windy City, does the urban equation still add up for the 85,000 Jews in Chicago?

With CPD relieved of a vital mechanism to fight crime, gangs will march across Chicago.

Mayor Brandon Johnson aims to turn fiction into reality.

43rd Ward alderman's proposal is driven by the immature impulses of a utopian fantasist.

"The Soul of Chicago is in all of us. That's why I made it my life's purpose to serve the greatest city in the world"

Housing development in Chicago will suffer under Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa.

School withheld diplomas and transcripts from two seniors tossing them into college limbo, ruining their graduation.

Pastor Corey Brooks has triumphed over enormous odds to lift the fortunes of South Side residents.

Three separate shooting incidents in three days might be the last straw for a rising number of Boystown, East Lakeview, and Wrigleyville residents.

Riding a giant wheel isn't what it's cracked up to be.

Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson's reckless plan to asphyxiate Chicago.

As corporate executives are named in expanded suit, violations of state law and school policy appear “clear cut” in case against school.

A business guy does “win/loss” analysis for why he left Chicago starting with a decline of the lakefront.

Chicago property owners do play by the rules.

Chicago faces a stark choice between candidates who can promote safety and radical activists who will foster mayhem.

A look at our common humanity.

Beverly, Mount Greenwood, and Morgan Park deserve an alderman better attuned to the needs of residents.

Chicago’s anti-police movement looks to notch another victory over police.

A vision for Chicago.

Alderman Ramirez-Rosa's ideological vision conflicts with the American way.

Neighborhood security details pick up as family infighting rises for those without immediate plans to leave.

The Windy City has enough problems.

Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa is entrenched in the anti-police society.

Alderman is depriving the 35th Ward of its vitality.

Looting a special TIF district to pay for equity.

A step toward the state taking over private property, HB 2775 will only hurt those in the greatest need of affordable housing.

Assert yourself, Alderman O'Shea.

After embracing progressive ideology, Chicago private school suffers 23 percent drop in enrollment.

Beverly, Mount Greenwood neighborhoods fight for Danny Golden.

It’s time to end the Lindsey LaPointe comedy act.

Teacher and former DEI head at Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School Johanna Thompson continues abusive taunts as religion takes a back seat to progressive ideology and bullying of students.

Job loss, restaurant closures are the hallmarks of the end of tipped wages, and it's going to become worse.

What Chicago can learn from Utah.

Pritzker joins Mayor Johnson regarding economically illiterate and strategically unsound budgets.

Illinois is first in tax burden and last in equity and has residents of all demographics leaving in record numbers.

Five reasons why Chicago condo and coop values are dropping off a cliff.

The single, greatest obstacle to more affordable housing is Democratic Socialist aldermen.

White Sox ownership should pay for new stadium or leave.

Chicago should brace itself for a raft of onerous new taxes.

Mayor Johnson, progressive allies are always looking for revenue.

Chicago requires more than a marketing strategy.

Bucktown, Wicker Park, Logan Square and Ukrainian Village crime numbers spiral out of control, causing residents to flee and boutiques to close as high-end property values start to decline.

Condominiums and houses are down 25 percent or more since previous transactions.

Mayor Brandon Johnson's 21st century Hooverville.

Mayor, City Council hand another victory to organized labor.

Mayor Brandon Johnson aims to turn fiction into reality.

The Cloud Tax is doubly averse for Chicago businesses.

Who will have the final say on Chicago's budget?

There are perils to empowering the state to pick economic winners and losers.

Three separate shooting incidents in three days might be the last straw for a rising number of Boystown, East Lakeview, and Wrigleyville residents.

Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson's reckless plan to asphyxiate Chicago.

A business guy does “win/loss” analysis for why he left Chicago starting with a decline of the lakefront.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot holds a clearance sale.

Alderman is depriving the 35th Ward of its vitality.

Looting a special TIF district to pay for equity.

Chicago area executives shun downtown as violent crime climbs 37 percent year-over-year.

It's not just large corporations leaving the Windy City.

A critique of Mayor Lightfoot’s “We Will Chicago.”

Mayor Lightfoot ignored hedge fund manager's pleas for reconciliation.

Chicago's 6th Ward alderman abhors capitalism, unless it’s crony capitalism.

Lori Lightfoot’s appearance at Management Conference triggers cognitive dissonance.

It’s time to put the brakes on shakedown settlements in Chicago.

With vote of support for scandal-ridden head of police oversight agency, Aldermen Osterman and Smith ensure decline of their wards and Chicago.

Northside business executives plot their strategies for escape and evasion in 2022.

Few aldermen are as disconnected from constituents or reality than Democratic Socialist Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez.

Though noble, UBI is part of a problem rather than a solution.

Families and retirees are leaving Chicago with empty, unlisted homes behind.

Silence on destructive behavior and the bullying of city employees into compliance.

A recall election is the emergency break Chicago requires.

Chicago must stop the bleed, stabilize itself and implement a growth strategy.

“Being the mayor of the third largest city in the country, that's humbling, but it also gives me incredible hope.”

What will fill McCormick Place's space?

Changing office routines and crime are two of the major headwinds for the commercial real estate market in Chicago, even with fully lifted state and city restrictions.

Evolving civility: an opportunity to contribute to the global challenge of building better cities, right here in Chicago.

It's not white flight. It's more complex than the last time and it's just beginning.

Executives are worried about the legality and business impacts of “woke” discrimination in hiring and promotion.