Author: Jimmy
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Peoria Illinois Carp Hunters
My throat hurts from laughing.
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FOID Card Requests Sink Police
Illinois has so many requests for Firearm Owner’s Identification cards that state police can’t process them in a timely manner. In addition, people calling the state police to ask why they haven’t received their FOID cards are put on hold for as long as 35 minutes, if they’re lucky enough to get through to an…
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Team Crane Unveil Turnaround Plan
Crane is not a school; it’s voluntary daytime detainment for youth. It can’t die soon enough. If only parents had a real choice of schools they would never send their children to Crane. But some refuse to let it die. A coalition of Crane teachers, students, parents and Near West Side community activists unveiled a plan Friday…
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Your Water Bill Doubles For What?
God bless Ben Joravsky. All summer long, in press conferences and at public hearings, Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s budget refrain remained the same: no more accounting gimmicks and no new taxes. “We have been doing smoke and mirrors on the budget and avoided taking control of our own future as a city,” he said at a…
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Taxpayers Pay for Political Payback
Kudos to Crains on this unbelievable story: Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan cost taxpayers nearly half-a-billion dollars by blocking repeated efforts to restructure McCormick Place bonds and finance a much-needed second hotel at the convention center, a Crain’s investigation finds. Between 2005 and 2010, Mr. Madigan stopped five refinancing bills, ignoring declining interest rates that…
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Ward Map Gerrymandered
Really? We didn’t know. Residents in this area had hoped Chicago’s new ward map would put homogeneous communities in the same ward. Those hopes were dashed on Jan. 19 when the Chicago City Council passed one of the most gerrymandered maps in its history. Second Ward resident Barbara Burchjolla summed up local frustration when she…
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1 Block Away 2 Arrested
The wife and daughter head over to the Walgreens about 3 blocks away. The daughter wants to walk; the wife insists on driving — smart move. Two men have been arrested in connection with the robbery of a man’s iPhone outside a dry cleaning business in the Wicker Park neighborhood, authorities say. … The Thursday…
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Let’s all Welcome ThyssenKrupp to Chicago
As ThyssenKrupp plans to dramatically increase its presence in Chicago it’s finding out just what life here is really like: … [T]he German-based ThyssenKrupp manufacturing company is facing allegations that company supervisors in the city created a hostile and intimidating work environment for an African-American employee. A superintendant at ThyssenKrupp used the N-word “routinely” around…
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ThyssenKrupp (w/ 100 jobs) Coming to Chicago
We actually rock (and we kinda know it.) Germany-based ThyssenKrupp, a diversified manufacturing company that makes elevators, auto components and carbon steel, will establish a regional headquarters for North America in Chicago this summer…. The company did not seek financial incentives as it considered more than 20 cities around the U.S. for the regional headquarters.…
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Illinois, the Greece of America
It all started with this story: Even though the legislature and Gov. Pat Quinn last year imposed a temporary 67 percent state income tax increase, Quinn’s office expects to have a $500 million budget deficit this year. Quinn is calling for a 9 percent cut in most areas of state government, except education and health care. But…