Above Photo: Chicago Public School teachers, parents and students protest in the neighborhood of Mayor Lori Lightfoot on September 13, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. AFP photo. Talks between Chicago school leaders and the teachers’ union resume Sunday. Amid a standoff over remote learning and other COVID-19 safety measures that canceled three days of classes and loomed over the start of another week in the nation’s third-largest district. Disputed issues included testing and metrics to close schools. The Chicago Teachers Union wants the option to revert to districtwide remote instruction, and most members have refused to teach in-person until there’s an agreement, […]
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A Chicago man known as the “Census Cowboy” faces a felony charge after riding his horse more than 7 miles down a freeway without the proper footwear, severely injuring the animal, which prosecutors say may have to be euthanized. Adam Hollingsworth, 33, was arrested earlier this week on charges linked to animal cruelty, reckless conduct, trespassing and other traffic offenses after staging a stunt on the Dan Ryan Expressway on horseback, shutting down the freeway as he rode the animal at galloping speed on rough pavement, critically wounding it. Speaking publicly for the first time after bailing out of Cook County […]
You won’t see this reported by the national mainstream media. An 85-year-old woman on Tuesday morning was violently slammed to the ground in a robbery outside of her Magnificent Mile condo. Surveillance footage obtained by CWBChicago shows the elderly woman walking with a cane into the entrance of her building through a parking garage. A man is seen approaching the woman from behind and violently pulls her to the ground with her purse strap. TRENDING: BREAKING: Shots Fired in Kenosha – One Person Shot in the Head While Looting a Car Shop – SECOND Person’s Upper Arm Partially Blown Off (GRAPHIC […]
More than 100 people were arrested Monday, and at least two were shot, following a night of chaos in Chicago’s upscale Magnificent Mile shopping district and other parts of downtown after crowds smashed windows and looted storefronts in a move that city authorities are calling “pure criminality.” Mayor Lori Lightfoot called the looting an “assault on the city,” and officials have stressed it was not connected to any organized protest, but seemingly spurred after a police-involved shooting in the city’s Englewood section on Sunday afternoon. Hours after the shooting, police responded to reports of widespread vandalism just after midnight on North […]
Chicago’s Neighborhoods Will Remain “Occupied” Until The City Defunds CPD By Bobby Vanecko, Southside Weekly. June 26, 2020 Chicago’s Neighborhoods Will Remain “Occupied” Until The City Defunds CPD2020-06-262020-06-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/chi-1228scenecopsem-e1593182101988.jpg200px200px Above photo: Chicago police patrol the streets in 2013. Abel Uribe /Chicago Tribune. Simon Balto’s history of police in Black Chicago shows why CPD can’t be reformed. This piece is part of a series that explores the various perspectives around defunding the police. The book Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power, published last year, details the history of the Chicago Police Department’s quasi-military occupation of the city’s Black communities from the […]
Three-year-old Mekhi James had just gotten his first barbershop haircut when he became one of 104 people shot in Chicago on Father’s Day weekend. “It hurts! It hurts!” Mekhi cried out after a bullet struck him in the back. The gunfire had come from another car as the boy’s stepfather was driving him home on Saturday. The stepfather sped instead to Western Suburban Medical Center. Mekhi proved to be beyond saving and became one of 14 gunshot victims in the city who died, four of them juveniles. Source link
The “mostly peaceful” leftist rioters in Chicago dragged police officers through the street and kicked them in the head last week. The far left rioters and looters made Chicago’s Magnificent Mile look like Chicago’s Boarded Up Mile. By last weekend the left was calling to defund the police in several US cities. This past weekend Chicago suffered its most violent weekend of the year.84 TRENDING: Wow! Minneapolis City Council President Says Calling the Police on Burglars “Comes from a Place of Privilege” (VIDEO) The Sun-Times reported: Twenty-four people were killed and at least 61 others were wounded by gun violence in […]