Not satisfied with the removal of historical figures, leftists in Illinois want to remove history classes from school. State Rep. LaShawn K. Ford of Chicago assembled with local leaders on Sunday to pressure the Illinois State Board of Education to…
After weeks of failed attempts by governors and local officials to subdue rioting across the country, unmarked federal law enforcement officers began arresting protesters in Portland. On Monday, President Trump announced that there will be plans to deploy federal troops…
Epigraph of the Series “ … the right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition their Government for redress of grievances.” U.S. Constitution, Amendment 1 Taxonomy for the Series “If you … then you are a … ” peaceably…
East Moline, Illinois We were drinking outside St. Giuseppe’s Heavenly Pizza when we heard the gunshots. Five of them, in rapid succession, about four blocks away. I was armed only with a cigarette, but Joe Schilling was packing real heat…
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: … And drunk the milk of Paradise. — “Kubla Khan” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1797) Recently, Starbucks Corporation of Seattle opened its gigantic 35,000-square-foot Starbucks Reserve Roastery in Chicago, which now…
The streets of downtown Chicago were packed last week with more than 30,000 teachers protesting for pay increases and other benefits like affordable housing, smaller class sizes and more nurses and social workers on campus. Talks continued over the weekend,…
Speakers at a recent memorial service held in a southern suburb of Chicago for the late deposed president of Egypt, Mohamed Morsi, called his removal from power in 2013 a Western and Arab conspiracy to throttle democracy and oppose the…
Are you a “far-right extremist”? There’s a simple test to find out. If you doubt that homophobic Trump supporters are prowling the streets of Chicago looking to beat up gay TV stars, you’re a “far-right extremist,” according to Alex Henderson…
A fiscal watchdog examined the state of finances in the three largest cities in the United States and the results aren’t pretty. Chicago-based Truth in Accounting (TIA) released the results of studies of its home city, as well as New…
