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Electronic Monitoring Watch: Cook County Judge Carol Howard and accused murderer Marcell Hunter

By LGIS News Service | Sep 20, 2022

Police say Marcell Hunter was wearing an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet when he left his home in June to attend a street party in Englewood.

Analysis: Chicago PPP Mania-- 1 in 3 West Garfield Park adults received a Fed PPP payout of $20K

By LGIS News Service | Sep 15, 2022

In 2021, West Garfield Park was the gun crime capital of Chicago, suffering a per capita shooting rate 20 times the city average. But it wasn't all bad news.

Analysis: 10,126 Auburn Gresham "small businesses" collected $187.7 million in "payroll protection" cash from U.S. taxpayers

By LGIS News Service | Sep 9, 2022

On Chicago's South Side, the Auburn Gresham neighborhood has one of the city's highest unemployment rates-- 16.5 percent-- and is best known for its drive by shootings.

Bipartisan PAC urges State’s Attorney Foxx to oppose SAFE-T Act

By LGIS News Service | Jul 27, 2022

Cook County State’s Attorney Kimberly M. Foxx, a Democrat, is being urged to join an effort to repeal Illinois’ controversial SAFE-T Act, which retools multiple parts of the criminal justice system, including the elimination of cash bail.

Analysis: Whole Foods exits Englewood, but grocery giants Jewel, Wal-Mart, Aldi maintain large presences on Chicago's South Side

By LGIS News Service | Jun 28, 2022

Aldi is short for “Albrecht Discounts,” to the name of the German owner of the chain, founded in 1948.

Chicago school districts largely mum on state’s new sex education policy

By LGIS News Service | Jun 24, 2022

Eight school districts in Chicago are largely mum on Illinois’ new law that aligns sex education policies for grades K-12 with national standards.

Chicago Archdiocese: We don't oppose pornographic "children's books" in public libraries

By LGIS News Service | Jun 21, 2022

The Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago is slamming a Catholic activist group for opposing the display and promotion of pornographic children's books by Chicago area public libraries.

Bailey: Lightfoot should resign “for safety of all Chicagoans;” Irvin should disavow support of Lightfoot.

By LGIS News Service | May 16, 2022

On the heels of violent Chicago weekend that included the murder of a teenager in Millennium Park, Illinois GOP candidate for governor Darren Bailey said Mayor Lori Lightfoot should resign, calling her continued tenure “a threat to the safety of all Chicagoans.” Bailey also called upon rival GOP gubernatorial candidate Richard Irvin, a friend of Lightfoot who has been pictured campaigning with her, to join him in repudiating the first-term mayor.

Analysis: In Englewood, Whole Foods served community with household income 1/5 of typical Illinois store

By LGIS News Service | May 11, 2022

Chicago taxpayers paid tens of millions to subsidize a Whole Foods store in one of Chicago's poorest neighborhoods-- one with a median household income barely one-fifth that of a typical store built in Illinois by the company.

"Call to Arms:" Lightfoot says gays should prepare to fight U.S. Supreme Court

By LGIS News Service | May 9, 2022

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot made a "call to arms" for fellow gays against the U.S.

Top Trump advisor Cortes: Only an "America First stalwart" like Bailey can beat Pritzker

By LGIS News Service | May 9, 2022

Top advisor to President Donald Trump and longtime Chicagoan Steve Cortes said GOP gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey is a "clear America First champion" and the state's best hope to unseat J.B. Pritzker in November.

Hyde Park native turned Harvard Prof. Muhammad: “Astounded by the silences within the broader white woman community” over teaching kids sex, Critical Race Theory

By LGIS News Service | Apr 8, 2022

Harvard Professor and Hyde Park native Khalil Muhammad says white women should do more to defend the right of grade school teachers to instruct their students on sexual topics and so-called Critical Race Theory.

Studies say otherwise, but Lightfoot insists COVID-19 jabs "most effective way of preventing" kids from getting COVID-19.

By LGIS News Service | Mar 6, 2022

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is still encouraging Chicago parents to make their children get COVID-19 jabs.

Cook County Medical Examiner: CPS parent who union said caught COVID-19 from student and died, actually drank herself to death

By LGIS News Service | Mar 6, 2022

A school parent the Chicago Teachers' Union claimed caught COVID-19 from a student and died in fact drank herself to death.

U Chicago students demand political science professor Mearsheimer change his views on Russia v. Ukraine

By LGIS News Service | Mar 5, 2022

A group of University of Chicago students are circulating a letter demanding the school force political science Professor John Mearsheimer to change his views on the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

"There are five and six-year old children that have never seen the face of their teacher – ever;" Catholic Vote's Burch calls on parents to pull children from forced-mask Illinois Catholic schools

By LGIS News Service | Feb 6, 2022

The leader of one of the nation's largest Catholic activist organizations said Sunday that parents should pull their children from the schools of Illinois Catholic school leaders defying state law to force them to continue wearing masks.

Chicago Archdiocese: Our schools won't follow state court ruling, letting students go maskless would "create confusion and disruption"

By LGIS News Service | Feb 5, 2022

Chicago Catholic Schools Superintendent Greg Richmond said Saturday he won't recognize a state court ruling that declared Gov. J.B. Pritzker's statewide student school mask requirement "null and void."

CPS teacher Victor Aguilar arrested with gun at O’Hare; was flying to Orlando, Florida

By LGIS News Service | Jan 7, 2022

Chicago Public Schools teacher Victor Aguilar was arrested at O’Hare International Airport Thursday night for carrying a concealed weapon.

Union League Club invites "1619 Project" founder, fabulist Nikole Hannah-Jones to speak at Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration

By LGIS News Service | Jan 5, 2022

The Union League Club of Chicago has invited Nikole Hannah-Jones, fabulist and founder of the so-called "1619 Project," to speak at its annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration.

Chicago Salvation Army officials quiet on HQ-led call for white donors to ‘lament, repent and apologize’ for racism

By LGIS News Service | Dec 17, 2021

Officials of the Chicago Metropolitan branch of the Salvation Army remain quiet on the organization's demand that white donors to "apologize" for racism, and on calls by critics to repudiate the statement.

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