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Arrests have dropped by more than half in city of Chicago since 2019

By LGIS News Service | Dec 2, 2022

Arrests made by the Chicago Police Department have plummeted over the past three years, according to the city's Office of Inspector General.

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Retired Cook County Judge, State's Attorney Locallo: Pritzker's SAFE-T Act means "a judge cannot act on his own"

By LGIS News Service | Nov 2, 2022

A retired Cook County Judge says the SAFE-T Act has taken away a judge's ability to protect the public from violent criminals.

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$863 worth of whiskey and a $20K PPP loan; At Cook County jail, retail thieves are always determined.

By LGIS News Service | Nov 2, 2022

Angelique Payne might be a mother. She might be a farmer. She is certainly a thief.

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McKinley: "We believe that Gov. Pritzker should shut up," stop criticizing Kanye West

By LGIS News Service | Oct 29, 2022

Kenwood-based community activist Paul McKinley says Illinois Gov. J.B.

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“A scheme to defraud;" Why hasn’t Gov. J.B. Pritzker been prosecuted for dodging property taxes?

By LGIS News Service | Oct 20, 2022

Gov. J.B. Pritzker and his wife, M.K., paid a contractor to purposely remove five toilets from their Gold Coast mansion to make it look “uninhabitable” so they could save $330,000 on their property taxes.

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Vote from Jail: Pro SAFE-T Act group registers accused violent criminals awaiting trial to vote

By LGIS News Service | Oct 19, 2022

A pro-SAFE-T Act group is seeking votes for pro-SAFE-T Act politicians on Nov. 8 in an unlikely, if logical, place: the Cook County Jail.

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Report: Pritzker-family foundation funding "overnight camp" for cross-dressing eight year olds

By LGIS News Service | Oct 19, 2022

A Pritzker family foundation is funding Harbor Camps, "an overnight summer camp program" for children ages 8 through 18 who are cross-dressing, or claim to be considering sex change surgery.

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Analysis: Over 25 years, CPS enrollment down 16 percent. But spending up 50 percent.

By LGIS News Service | Oct 11, 2022

Chicago Public Schools has lost 65,000 students since the 1996-97 school year. But its annual budget has increased by $4.4 billion dollars-- a jump of 50 percent, adjusted for inflation.

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"We just cannot keep up;" daily inflation causes Beverly deli to remove prices from menus

By LGIS News Service | Oct 11, 2022

A deli in Chicago's Beverly neighborhood is so impacted by inflation, that it has given up on trying to adjust sandwich prices to accommodate.Swanson's Deli

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"Dethrone the colonizers!" Anti-Columbus Day activists deface Chicago statue of Abraham Lincoln

By LGIS News Service | Oct 11, 2022

Anti-white and pro "indigenous" activists painted graffiti on a statue of former President Abraham Lincoln Monday.

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"Chicago has become Gotham City, except we don't have the Batman;" Pilsen chocolatier says spiking crime means she's moving to the suburbs

By LGIS News Service | Oct 11, 2022

The owner of one of Chicago's most famous chocolate shops says soaring crime is forcing her to move her business to the suburbs.

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Accused double killer, out on bond for another attempted murder, got $20,833 PPP loan for "performing arts" company

By LGIS News Service | Oct 6, 2022

A man accused of a North Lawndale double murder while out on bond for an attempted murder and on probation for felony heroin sales received a PPP loan last March, according to a review of records from the U.S.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.