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Communist funder of pro-illegal alien Los Angeles riots is former Lake View and Hyde Park resident, Roy Singham

By LGIS News Service | Jun 10, 2025

​A one-time Chicago software entrepreneur is a major donor for a communist activist group funding violent street protests in Los Angeles.

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Illinois DOGE Profile: Centro De Trabajadores Unidos gets $4 million to help illegal aliens evade ICE

By LGIS News Service | May 13, 2025

IIllinois taxpayers haven't just funded food, shelter and walking around money for tens of thousands of illegal aliens, who streamed to "sanctuary" Chicago when President Joe Biden opened the border and Governor J.B. Pritzker promised to block enforcement of federal immigration law in Illinois.

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Illinois DOGE Profile: $1.25 million to ONE Northside for political issue advocacy

By LGIS News Service | Apr 22, 2025

ONE Northside is a non-profit originally founded to support the building of more government-subsidized housing in majority white Chicago neighborhoods. Today, it also advocates for more government spending and higher taxes, broadly, backing elected officials who also support those policies and-- quite viscerally-- opposing calls for government efficiency, less spending or lower debt.

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Illinois DOGE Profile: $1.5 million to the Chicago Therapy Collective to advocate for cross-dressing

By LGIS News Service | Apr 4, 2025

Founded by lesbian social worker, "yoga teacher, and somatic meditation instructor" Ingrid Ladden, the Chicago Therapy Collective (CTC) "promotes citywide action to alleviate LGBTQIA2S health disparities and advance queer liberation through therapy, education, and the arts.”

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Illinois DOGE Profile: $700K per year to the Black Researchers Collective

By LGIS News Service | Mar 23, 2025

Author and poet Glenance Green and former Chicago Urban League President Shari Runner started the "Black Researchers Collective" in 2020 to "activate and mobilize communities to use research and data to create and sustain change across Chicago communities and beyond." By 2023, they had secured a recurring $700,000 annual appropriation from State of Illinois taxpayers to fund their group.

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Illinois DOGE Profile: Chicago's Indo-American Center

By LGIS News Service | Feb 11, 2025

Learn all about Chicago's Indo-American Center, which helps immigrants-- legal and illegal-- vote and get on public aid.

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Mayor Johnson: U.S. is "what our country would look like had the confederacy won; Trump "believes he is a supreme being"

By LGIS News Service | Jan 31, 2025

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said the U.S. now looks like it might have had slavery never been banned, and that President Donald Trump "believes he is a supreme being."

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"How do you spell racist? C-P-S;" WTTW journalist covering CTU is married to former CTU activist

By LGIS News Service | Oct 22, 2024

Heather Cherone, the lead news reporter covering Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and its teachers' union for Chicago's PBS affiliate, is married to a former CPS teacher and union activist.

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“It’s unfortunate:” leading advocate for developmentally-disabled, Proft looks for a new charity

By LGIS News Service | Oct 17, 2024

The Envision Classic charity golf tournament, scheduled for Sept. 30 at Olympia Fields, was cancelled.

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Denise Milloy, Mayor Johnson's make-up artist, lives in South Shore home with $0 property tax bill

By LGIS News Service | Oct 16, 2024

Denise Carter Milloy, the Chicago make-up artist who Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has paid $36,000 to do his make-up, lives in a South Shore home that has a $0 property tax bill.

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Chicago State Rep. Slaughter sponsored-bill bars Illinois judges from suspending driver's licenses of traffic scofflaws

By LGIS News Service | Jun 6, 2024

A bill sponsored by Illinois State Rep. Justin Slaughter (D-Chicago) that bars Illinois judges from suspending the driver's licenses of speeders who refuse to show up for court will soon be signed into law by Gov. J.B. Pritzker.

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Mike Dicta? Chicago Mayor Johnson mispronounces name of legendary, Super Bowl Champion Bears coach

By LGIS News Service | Apr 25, 2024

Chicago Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson has mispronounced the name of former Chicago Bears Coach Mike Ditka. Johnson called him "Mike Dicta."

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"A Voice of the Voiceless:" Chicago Tribune reporter Gregory Pratt, 34, chronicled in 40-page memoir

By LGIS News Service | Apr 15, 2024

The life of 34 year-old Chicago Tribune reporter Gregory Pratt has been chronicled in a new 40 page biography, published on Amazon.

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Analysis: In 20 late-reporting Chicago precincts, Harris outpaced city average, won 66 pct of vote

By LGIS News Service | Mar 24, 2024

Cook County State's Attorney candidate Clayton Harris won 66 percent of the vote in 20 late-reporting Chicago precincts, 15 points better than the 51 percent he won of the city-wide vote as of Election Day.

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Cook County Jail inmates vote Harris for State's Attorney over O'Neill Burke

By LGIS News Service | Mar 23, 2024

Cook County Jail inmates picked Kim Foxx-backed Clayton Harris over Eileen O'Neill Burke in Tuesday's Cook County State's Attorney Democrat primary.

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Ex-DOJ Prosecutor: If elected, Harris would have least experience of any state's attorney in past 30 years

By LGIS News Service | Mar 8, 2024

Clayton Harris has "rock solid" experience in politics and lobbying. But he has less courtroom experience than any Cook County prosecutor since the 1990s.

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State's Attorney hopeful Harris: "I would give Kim Foxx an 'A' with what she's done"

By LGIS News Service | Feb 22, 2024

Cook County State's Attorney candidate Clayton Harris, III said Kim Foxx deserves the highest grade possible for her tenure in the office, and that he hopes she "gets her flowers" for "how's she's done it."

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State Rep. Cassidy: Chicago Tribune editorial board is "all male and nearly all-white"

By LGIS News Service | Feb 20, 2024

North Side Illinois State Rep. Kelly Cassidy has criticized the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board as "all male and nearly all-white."

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Harris touts endorsement of Ben Crump, attorney who said criminal activity is part of "black culture"

By LGIS News Service | Feb 19, 2024

Cook County State's Attorney candidate Clayton Harris, III is touting the endorsement of Ben Crump, a Florida-based celebrity lawyer who recently accused whites of tailoring laws to "criminalize...black culture."

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State's Attorney Candidate O'Neill Burke: If you like life under Kim Foxx, you should vote for my opponent

By LGIS News Service | Feb 18, 2024

Cook County State's Attorney candidate Eileen O'Neill Burke (D-Chicago) says county residents who like the job outgoing state's attorney Kim Foxx is doing should vote for Clayton Harris, her opponent in March Democrat primary.