Public Education
Chicago Public Schools may ‘effectively shut down’ this month without short-term financing, superintendent warnsIn the latest financial fiasco to beset Chicago Public Schools, the district’s CEO warned parents in an email that its school year may not start Aug. 24 as scheduled. Read More
Government
Analysis: Seven city subsidized grocery stores close in Chicago in warning to NYCAnother big-city subsidized grocery chain has called it quits as New York City socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani pushes to make government-backed grocery stores a central feature of his… Read More
Government
Analysis: Chicago’s violence interruption industry faces questions after homicides tick upAt least 21 people were shot, three fatally, and three others were stabbed in Chicago over the long Fourth of July weekend, shining a spotlight on Chicago’s violence interruption… Read More
Government
Analysis: Blue state property tax ‘doom’ hits commercial real estate, then homeownersIn high-tax blue states, the property tax burden is becoming so large that it acts as a reverse tax capitalization, pushing prices down, according to newly released real estate… Read More
Government
WATCH: ‘This is why we need choice’: Rep. Owens blasts Chicago superintendent over failing scores, gender material in schoolsRep. Burgess Owens, R-Utah, excoriated Chicago Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Macquline King at a recent congressional hearing for prioritizing gender material in schools while the majority of… Read More
Culture, Uncategorized
College newspaper grovels after calling illegal who murdered its own student an ‘illegal immigrant’(Daily Caller News Foundation) – A Loyola University Chicago student newspaper apologized for referring to the illegal immigrant who murdered its student Sheridan Gorman, 18, as an illegal immigrant. Read More
Politics
Prominent Illinois Democrat breaks with progressives on crime, illegal aliensA noted Illinois Democrat is breaking ranks with progressives in Chicago over the Sheridan Gorman murder, calling for deportation of the alleged perpetrator to the Terrorism Confinement Center in… Read More
Culture
Chicago official says murder victim may have ‘startled’ alleged illegal immigrant shooter(Daily Caller News Foundation) – A Chicago alderwoman appeared to blame an 18-year-old woman for her own fatal shooting last week, allegedly at the hands of an illegal alien. Read More
Politics
JB Pritzker boasted Chicago was safe just months before college student shot by illegal immigrant(Daily Caller News Foundation) – Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker made multiple apparent attempts to portray Chicago as safe, just months before an illegal immigrant allegedly murdered a college… Read More
Politics
Strong majority of Illinois voters support federal school choice program in Tuesday primaryResidents across Illinois gave a resounding “yes” to school choice Tuesday, with 63% of primary voters indicating they want the state to join the new federal school choice tax… Read More
Illinois
Analysis: Windy City residents face debt storm, rank No. 1 in financial distressChicago has long marketed itself as a world-class city with global ambition.It was the City That Works.But Chicago no longer works, according to a… Read More
Government
Breaking: Chicago Bears closer to moving to NW Indiana after lawmakers approve new stadium bill; Pritzker ‘surprised’The Chicago Bears are one step closer to building a domed stadium in nearby northwest Indiana, which would move the historic franchise out of Chicago and the state of Illinois. Read More
Illinois
Chicago’s $41 billion financial hole exposes city’s pension crisis(The Center Square) – Chicago finished fiscal year 2024 with a $41.1 billion gap between the money it has available to pay bills and the obligations it owes, according to… Read More
Public Education
Watchdog slams CPS employees for bad behavior, ‘blurred’ boundaries enabling sexual misconduct, $1+ million in fraudA recent report chastised Chicago Public Schools (CPS) for allowing a campus culture enabling sexual misconduct in the wake of a former dean’s conviction of committing sex abuse and assault… Read More
Government
Congressional leader questions Chicago over alleged discrimination against Christian student teachersA senior Republican lawmaker is demanding answers from Chicago Public Schools after a Christian college accused the district of excluding its students from classroom placements because of their religious beliefs. Read More
Public Education
Chicago Public Schools’ $17.5M settlement in sex abuse case helps ‘pursue justice’ for survivors, lawyers sayA $17.5 million settlement has been reached involving a former Chicago Public Schools (CPS) high school dean convicted of committing sex abuse and assault against a student. Read More
Government
House committee probes Chicago Teachers Union after years of missing financial auditsCongressional lawmakers are demanding that the Chicago Teachers Union release years of missing financial audits, intensifying scrutiny about why the union is refusing to provide them in the first… Read More
Culture
Serial criminal sets innocent woman on fire months after releaseA 26-year-old woman was covered in gasoline and set on fire in a vicious, unprovoked attack on the Chicago subway Nov 17. Bethany MaGee was riding the inbound… Read More
Politics
Watch: Illinois Gov. denies Chicago has the highest murder rateIllinois Gov. JB Pritzker tried to claim Chicago was “not in the top 30 in terms of our murder rate,” Thursday but was quickly confronted with a map suggesting… Read More
National, Uncategorized
Trump urges SCOTUS to allow national guard to deploy in Chicago(Daily Caller News Foundation) – President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to allow the deployment of the National Guard in Chicago. The Seventh Circuit Court… Read More