When you once thought of Chicago, Al Capone and Michael Jordan immediately came to mind — along with the Lakefront, vibrant neighborhoods, world class universities, multinational and entrepreneurial business, inspiring architecture, fine boutiques and great restaurants. But times have changed:…
Despite some welcome pushback from Elon Musk at Twitter, cancel culture continues to be all the rage. There are many ways of canceling someone apart from banning them on Twitter and all of them and some have been tried on…
Earlier this year, the Chicago Board of Education’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released its annual report, which notes, “In Fiscal Year 2022, the OIG received 1,825 complaints alleging misconduct, waste, fraud and financial mismanagement at Chicago Public Schools…
A 70-year-old woman was walking her dog in one of Chicago’s most affluent neighborhoods Wednesday when she was confronted by a masked stranger who pointed a pistol in her face and shouted, “Give me your f***ing purse or I’ll kill you…
Last month at the Sixth Annual Kentucky Chapters Conference of the Federalist Society, Judge James C. Ho of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit (disclosure: my former boss) issued a call to arms. Ho, who earlier this…
In the early 2000s, when I was a bi-vocational pastor for an Evanston church on Chicago’s North Shore, my wife and I had something of a Sunday afternoon ritual — a three-mile walk down Sheridan Road to Carmen’s Pizza in…
For purposes of the following hypothetical, imagine yourself as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit. Not a bad gig. Then again, the 7th Circuit is based in Chicago, a city which, despite the…
In a match worthy of the old World Wrestling Federation, Windy City Mayor Lori Lightfoot pinned herself to the mat while engaging in self-contradiction over softer language in civic affairs. “Toxicity in our public discourse is a thing that I think we should…
Robert Crimo III, the kind of guy Freddie Blassie warned us about, slipped under the red-flag-law radar to allegedly murder seven and wound dozens at a Highland Park, Illinois, Fourth of July parade. That Mr. Crimo, who raises more red flags…
