Eight months before Jimmie Smith raped a young woman, her two sisters and their teenage friend in a harrowing 36-hour ordeal last May, he sexually assaulted one of the victims but was never charged, Cook County prosecutors said today.
This afternoon, prosecutors [...]
With unemployment hovering just under the 11 percent mark in Cook County alone and local government tightening its belt, Sheriff Tom Dart is offering some light on the horizon: a veritable hiring bonanza.
Today Dart’s office announced that as many 500 correctional officers will [...]
Wednesday, Chicago's Red Eye featured an unusually even-handed analysis of the life issue by featuring Millennial pro-abortion and pro-life activists, including Corrina Gura, who works for Forest Glen's Pro Life Action League.
The 26-year-old is one Millennial who opposes abortion in all instances at a time when the hot-button topic has [...]
by Bill Pascoe
Did you feel that disturbance in The Force? The one that took place about 3:35 this afternoon?
At 3:20 p.m., Independent Bernard Sanders of Vermont -- acting as the presiding officer of the Senate -- called a vote on a point of order against the health care overhaul [...]
by Mark Silva
President Barack Obama, who says he is "never completely satisfied,'' professes himself to be "very satisfied'' with the health-care legislation that the Senate is near passing over the objections of Republicans.
"Look, when I made that speech in the joint session of Congress," [...]
President Obama matches Street Cred with Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson - The Originah G!Then [...]
In reaction to IL GOP gubernatorial candidate Jim Ryan's response to the AP's primary questionnaire, the Illinois State Rifle Assocation sent out the following notice blasting the former Attorney General:
In an Associated Press wire story released yesterday, Republican gubernatorial candidate Jim Ryan pledged to sign a ban on “Assault Weapons” and promised to [...]
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An Associated Press questionnaire revealed Illinois' seven GOP gubernatorial candidates' responses on an assault weapons ban -- a question that gun rights advocates use to interpret candidates' views on the Second Amendment. Four opposed, one said without more information, the question was "difficult to answer", two said they'd sign such legislation if certain criteria [...]
The vaccine recall is the second this month [...]
It wasn’t Obama’s fault, it wasn’t the rich, western countries fault, but China was the culprit who killed a meaningful treaty or agreement on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, says an insider who was in the room when China did the deed. It’s all in The Guardian.
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All news from Democrats and the White House is positive. It looks like reform of our for-profit health insurance system is about to happen. Is the reform on the table perfect? No. None of the sides are perfectly content with the changes, including Democrats, Blue Dog Democrats, [...]
Radley Balko bids farewell to Kern County California D.A. Ed Jagels:
You'd be hard pressed to find a law enforcement official anywhere in the country who better embodies the worst excesses of America's sharp turn toward law-and-order crime policy over last 30 years. From expanding the death penalty to eroding' [...]
“What Are They Celebrating?”
