When I was a convention service manager at the Congress Hotel in Chicago, we hosted many Star Trek conventions. I met Nichols at one of them. She was born in Robbins, Illinois, just a few miles from Palos Heights, where I grew up. We talked about Chicago, the southwest suburbs, and more. Nichols couldn't have been any nicer. She was a real class act.
Rest in peace.
My friends, not only are you being lied to, but the biggest liars are fact-checkers. From my post at Da Tech Guy: Fact-checkers are gaslighting Americans over definition of a recession.
Magna Carta, Bill of Rights
The constitution, what's it worth?You know they're gonna grind us down, ahUntil it really hurts.
Is this a sovereign nationOr just a police state?You better look out peopleBefore it gets too late
The last time I rode on a CTA train, a thug acted psychotically and half the passengers on the car I was riding on meekly left. I stayed because I refuse to be bullied. Over at Wirepoints Matt Rosenberg has more: CTA crime problem begs for real deterrence: Half-measures won’t do.
Chicago's Summer of Joy was anything but that this weekend as four people were shot to death, another was fatally stabbed, and at least 57 others were wounded by gunfire.
Of the deadly shootings, a 16-year-old boy was killed Sunday evening in Woodlawn. Also on the South Side on Sunday, in West Englewood, a man was killed in a domestic dispute. A few minutes, a man was shot to death while, get this, changing a tire at Homan Square on the West Side. The weekend's first fatal shooting happened early Saturday morning when a man was slain at a party.
And a few hours ago a man was stabbed to death during an argument while riding a train on the CTA's Red Line at Englewood.
There have been at least 57 people wounded by gunfire over this past weekend in Chicago.
Yes, J.B. Pritzker isn't just a dishonest gerrymanderer. From my post at Da Tech Guy: Pritzker meddled in GOP gubernatorial primaries.
As is usually the case, it's those on the right who are calling for ending the knee-jerk reactions to blame everything on race. From Matt Rosenberg at Wirepoints: Black Illinois conservatives join national call for de-racializing political speech.
Where have all the rebels gone?Hiding behind their computer screensWhere's the spirit, where is the soul?
Hey millennials, Van the Man is talking to you!
As for Gutfeld, his show, mostly likely working with a much smaller budget, regularly beats ABC's Jimmy Kimmell Live and the Tonight Show ratings-wise each night. He's funnier too than those wokesters.
Only Stephen Colbert remains in Gutfeld's way.
Three of the alleged perpetrators have been hospitalized, all six are in police custody.Six people are in custody after a stabbing attack on board a CTA Red Line train on the North Side Friday morning, Chicago police said.Chicago police said at about 2:03 a.m., a 42-year-old man got off a train at the North/Clybourn station and switched to another train car. A group of six suspects followed him onto the train, demanded his belongings and attacked him with a knife and broken glass bottle, police said.The victim also took out a knife, police said. The victim had several stab wounds and was transported to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in serious condition, police said.
Lori Lightfoot's Summer of Joy continues.
Over this past weekend, seven people were shot to death at least 14 others were wounded.
Meanwhile, the front page of the Chicago Sun-Times on Saturday was emblazoned with this headline, "As violent crime in Chicago soared, arrests fell to historic lows."
Hmm.
I put my reviewer hat on today for my latest adventure on Netflix. From Da Tech Guy, Review: Season 2 of Capitani.
The great thing about this Matt Rosenberg piece at Wirepoints about Prairie State graft is that he looks past the marquee names: The sickening laundry list of corruption cases in Illinois continues to grow. Is this any way to govern a state?
Shoppers paid sharply higher prices for a variety of goods in June as inflation kept its hold on a slowing U.S. economy, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday.
The consumer price index, a broad measure of everyday goods and services, soared 9.1% from a year ago, above the 8.8% Dow Jones estimate. That marked another month of the fastest pace for inflation going back to December 1981.
Excluding volatile food and energy prices, so-called core CPI increased 5.9%, compared to the 5.7% estimate.
On a monthly basis, headline CPI rose 1.3% and core CPI was up 0.7%, compared to respective estimates of 1.1% and 0.5%.
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Lori Lightfoot's Summer of Joy is at the halfway point. Over this past weekend one person was shot to death and at least 29 others were wounded. The fatal shooting occurred Saturday night in Austin on the West Side. Four people were wounded in a mass shooting in River North on the Near North Side early Sunday Morning.
Overall at least people were shot in Chicago over the weekend.
We've got a real stinker heading our Justice Department. From my post at Da Tech Guy: Merrick Garland is America’s worst attorney general since Harding’s Harry M. Daugherty.
Another great piece, a timely one too, from Matt Rosenberg over at Wirepoints: Four things you need to know about mass shootings and the new gun control landscape.
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| Abandoned Gary building in 2017 |
From CBS Chicago:
Three people are dead, and seven others are wounded in a mass shooting at a block party in Gary Tuesday just after midnight.
Gary Police said officers were dispatched to the 1900 block of Missouri Street around 12:46 a.m. for several people with gunshot wounds.
Upon arrival, officers discovered three people unresponsive and seven others with gunshot wounds, police said.
Marquise Hall, 26, from Lafayette, Indiana, Ashanti Brown, 20, from Olympia Fields, Illinois, and Laurance Magnum, 25, from Merrillville, Indiana were all pronounced dead on the scene by the Lake County Coroners Office.
Over the long Independence Day weekend in Chicago, the relative midpoint of what Mayor Lori Lightfoot as a "Summer of Joy," eight people were shot to death and at least 63 others were wounded.
While the deadly mass shooting yesterday in north suburban Highland Park understandably dominated the national news, there were two mass shootings in Chicago over the weekend. Four people were wounded in mass shooting Friday night in West Garfield Park and five others were early Monday in Parkway Gardens.
Good news? Well, last year was worse in Chicago, when 19 people were killed and over 100 others wounded.
Yesterday, just 14 miles from where I live, Robert "Bobby" E. Crimo III, was arrested after committing a mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois during that city's annual July 4th parade.
Six people were killed and 31 others were wounded. Crimo, 22, is expected to be charged today.
Leave it to the loony left to take things way too far. From my post at Da Tech Guy: "F*ck the Fourth" among many pro-abortion protests planned for Independence Day.
