Why Frozen Pizza Is the Best Pizza
The best pizza isn't made in New York, Chicago, or New Haven. It's made on assembly lines.
The best pizza isn't made in New York, Chicago, or New Haven. It's made on assembly lines.
The folly of government-run grocery stores is sadly not a historical relic like the USSR.
Mayor Brandon Johnson should remember the sorry history of state-run supermarkets.
Stacy Davis Gates, the president of the Chicago Teachers Union, previously said school choice is for "racists."
People should be free to choose how cautious to be. Mask mandates, lockdowns, and closing schools won't stop the virus.
But poor record keeping hides the real number.
By glossing over routine crime victims in favor of stories with unorthodox circumstances, the press paints a distorted picture of a very real problem.
"When the government picks and chooses among religions," the lawsuit reads, "religious liberty is threatened for all."
After a century of Democratic mismanagement, Chicago is hemorrhaging population, catastrophically underfunding massive pension promises, and taxing the bejeebus out of its crime-scarred residents.
The union "has an outsized impact on working families who have no other choice on where to send their children...that power, combined with a mayor who is essentially a wholly owned subsidiary, would make them a dangerous force," says one former Chicago Public Schools executive.
New study sees Chicago harassing and arresting people for paperwork violations, damaging their ability to live and work, without demonstrable effect on gun violence
According to a lawsuit, Amir Worship was sitting on the edge of his bed with his hands raised when an officer shot him, shattering his kneecap.
An underground network in Chicago helped women terminate thousands of pregnancies amid abortion prohibition.
"My daughter rushed to the car and she's like, 'mommy DCFS came to the school, and the lady made it sound like we weren't going to come home with you today,'" Tresa Razaaq told a local news station.
A state senator joins several local officials in federal indictments for taking bribes in exchange for contracts.
"When those charges are brought, these people are guilty," Lightfoot said.
A plaintiff in the class-action lawsuit says he had to declare bankruptcy after Chicago dumped $20,000 of ticket debts on him.
"It's a lot to try and put this stuff all together all on my own, using my own savings, and then having to start all over," says Venus Vegan Tattoo owner Selena Carrion.
The innocent and guilty alike are ground down by cynical, self-serving officials.
The city's army of 160 speed cameras issued a ticket every 11 seconds during 2021 and generated $89 million in revenue.
A sociologist spent 112 days tracking students' illicit deals for chips and other goodies.
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Civil liberties advocates say the law is just a reheated version of flawed state anti-gang law.
Other teams beg for taxpayer handouts.
Accused of orchestrating a hate crime hoax, the former actor took the stand at his trial on Monday.
The report followed media investigations into ShotSpotter's reliability and activist pressure on Chicago to cut its contract with ShotSpotter.
Taking the "public" out of public service
The latest in a long string of allegations that Chicago police terrorized families during botched raids
Some of the changes may make a difference. Others, not so much.
Prosecutors initially suggested that the boy had a gun in his hand, but the government walked that back today.
"We are failing those children by not giving them the option to return to school."
Now officials in Chicago and New York are reconsidering their rules.
Unfortunately, qualified immunity remains intact.
Aaron Sorkin takes on the famous trial of activists who organized an anti-war protest during the 1968 Democratic convention.
Chicago went to court to try and block a local news station from airing the body camera footage.
By arbitrarily foreclosing relatively safe social and recreational options, politicians encourage defiance, resentment, and riskier substitutes.
Lawmakers are bribing citizens with a tiny tax break in exchange for the power to jack up income tax rates down the line.