There are a few good aldermen on Chicago's generally useless City Council and Ray Lopez (15th) is one of them.
Here he denounces the policies that led to a college student being shot to death on the city's lakefront, allegedly by an illegal alien from Venezuela who skipped a Chicago court date after being arrested for shoplifting in 2023.
A great buildup to a great song, after that buildup comes the Kinks-type riff.
Here are the Motors from the late 1970s with "Dancing the Night Away."
If the song sounds familiar, it's because Cheap Trick covered it a few years later.
If you live in a blue state and you wonder why services are getting worse and infrastructure is crumbling?
Here's part of the answer.
This Chicago thief is likely just the tip of the iceberg that is sinking blue states.
The great Rita Panahi scorches Hollywood phonies.
Great work for a Chicago Irish band, the Tossers.
The video has lots of Chicago scenes, including "dibs" parking chairs.
Last spring I visited Ballyshannon, Ireland, the birthplace of Rory Gallagher, a great blues rock guitarist who is little remembered in the United States, but he was quite popular here in the Chicago area.
Gallagher's most productive years were in the 1970s and 1980s, he died in 1995.
Cork was where Gallagher began his professional career, so it's fitting that I present a blazing hot performance of Tattoo'd Lady from Cork in 1987.
Before there was Thin Lizzy, before U2, there was Gallagher.
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Chuck Schumer is a lifetime government employee and elected official.
Retire.
