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CPS to Big 10 basketball pipeline slows to a trickle

By LGIS News Service | Mar 14, 2023

The Midwest's largest college athletic conference is attracting fewer men's basketball players from the Midwest's largest public school district. That's according to an analysis of four decades of team rosters by Chicago City Wire.

Former IL Senate President Cullerton daughter is "so, deeply ashamed" of Chicago for rejecting Lightfoot re-election bid; "You are now just as racist and hateful and bigoted as Donald Trump."

By LGIS News Service | Feb 28, 2023

The daughter of former Illinois State Senate President John Cullerton (D-Chicago) says she is "deeply ashamed" of her fellow Chicagoans for rejecting Mayor Lori Lightfoot's re-election bid.

For mayoral hopeful Garcia, plans to reduce Chicago gun violence would start with his own home

By LGIS News Service | Feb 18, 2023

Chicago police confiscated 8,854 guns in 2021-- about 24 per day. And they arrested 7,134 perpetrators for illegally possessing those guns-- including Samuel R. Garcia, the adult son of Chicago mayoral candidate Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, who at the time lived and was registered to vote at the congressman's home on 25th Street in the Little Village neighborhood.

FEC Records: After brokering favor with Madigan, Chicago mayoral hopeful Garcia got Comed cash

By LGIS News Service | Feb 13, 2023

Chicago mayoral candidate Jesus "Chuy" Garcia spent more than three decades in Illinois politics before Commonwealth Edison took a passing interest in one of his campaigns.

Analysis: UIC salaries spike, up 62 percent over past decade, twice as many 100K+ earners

By LGIS News Service | Jan 18, 2023

University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) has hiked employee salaries by 62 percent over the past decade, during a period when enrollment at the school grew 24 percent.

"Breakdances with Wolves;" In commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Latin School students to learn about breakdancing and 'hip hop culture'

By LGIS News Service | Jan 17, 2023

Latin School of Chicago students will learn about breakdancing and rapping Wednesday.

“I’m ready to f*** right now ... I’m not gonna be gentle either;" OIG report details CPS teachers' sexual grooming, assaults of their students

By LGIS News Service | Jan 5, 2023

Hundreds of Chicago Public Schools teachers sexually groomed, assaulted and raped CPS students last school year. That's according to the a report released this week by the CPS Office of the Inspector General (OIG), which said it received more than 600 "adult on student" misconduct allegations for the 2021-22 school year, substantiating more than half of them and initiating criminal charges in 16 cases.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

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.

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.

"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

"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.

"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.

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.

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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CPS to Big 10 basketball pipeline slows to a trickle

Former IL Senate President Cullerton daughter is "so, deeply ashamed" of Chicago for rejecting Lightfoot re-election bid; "You are now just as racist and hateful and bigoted as Donald Trump."

For mayoral hopeful Garcia, plans to reduce Chicago gun violence would start with his own home

FEC Records: After brokering favor with Madigan, Chicago mayoral hopeful Garcia got Comed cash

Analysis: UIC salaries spike, up 62 percent over past decade, twice as many 100K+ earners

"Breakdances with Wolves;" In commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Latin School students to learn about breakdancing and 'hip hop culture'

“I’m ready to f*** right now ... I’m not gonna be gentle either;" OIG report details CPS teachers' sexual grooming, assaults of their students

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Northwestern University upholds provocative reputation with acceptance of convicted killer to Pritzker School of Law, press delights

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