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Did Mayor Johnson stiff community group in sweetheart mortgage deal?

By W.J. Kennedy | Jan 20, 2025

Mayor Brandon Johnson took advantage of a special mortgage deal for employees of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) in 2009 that granted first-time home buyers a $3,000 no-interest loan, records with the Cook County Clerk’s office show.

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Big win for CPD in controversial exoneration case of convicted murderers

By W.J. Kennedy | Jan 16, 2025

A federal judge has granted police officer defendant Mark Olszewski his motion for summary judgement (judgement before trial) in the wrongful conviction cases of Robert Almodovar and William Negron, convicted of the 1994 murders of two teenagers.

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Limited cooperation with federal immigration authorities proposed under city council amendment

By W.J. Kennedy | Jan 14, 2025

Sanctuary laws in Chicago and Illinois prohibit local authorities from notifying federal authorities

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No approval needed from State’s Attorney for some firearms-related felonies, report says

By W.J. Kennedy | Jan 13, 2025

Chicago police are charging for some firearms-related felonies in Englewood without approval from the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office (CCSAO), according to a CWB Chicago report.

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Brand New Cook County State’s Attorney already targeted by trial lawyers and media pals

By W.J. Kennedy | Jan 10, 2025

Plaintiffs’ lawyers and their allies in the mainstream media are already putting new State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke on notice not to upset the slick arrangements they had with Burke predecessor Kim Foxx when it comes to exonerations of convicted murderers.

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Report: Scrapping of gang database could be behind drop in reports of gang violence

By W.J. Kennedy | Jan 7, 2025

The loss of a gang database administered by the Chicago Police Department could at least partially explain lower gang violence figures.

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Mayor and chief say murders are down; others are skeptical

By W.J. Kennedy | Jan 6, 2025

Mayor Brandon Johnson and Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling recently presented a hopeful message that murders in 2024 were down from a year ago, with Johnson saying that a “whole of government approach” contributed to the reduction.

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Over half a million illegals in Illinois: Center for Immigration Studies

By W.J. Kennedy | Dec 27, 2024

With a whopping 530,000, Illinois - a sanctuary state - comes in fifth of all illegals in the country.

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Federal judge presses convicted murderer Nevest Coleman for facts in his wrongful conviction suit

By W.J. Kennedy | Dec 20, 2024

A federal judge struck a status hearing in the wrongful conviction case of Nevest Colman and Derrell Fulton,

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City of Chicago at odds with Cook Co. over $3.1 million Bouto wrongful conviction settlement

By W.J. Kennedy | Dec 20, 2024

In September Robert Bouto struck a $3.1 million “good faith” settlement with Cook County in his wrongful conviction lawsuit stemming from the 1993 murder of Salvador Ruvalcaba.

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Targeted assassinations next for gang of illegals in Chicago, says expert on international crime

By W.J. Kennedy | Dec 19, 2024

An expert on the Venezuelan crime group Tren de Aragua (TdA) told Fox News Digital that assassinations by members of the group will be on the rise, particularly in states and cities that protect illegal immigrants with sanctuary policies.

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Are hoped for reforms under Burke as Cook County State’s Attorney fading?

By W.J. Kennedy | Dec 19, 2024

Hope may be fading among some former prosecutors and law enforcement that the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office under Eileen O'Neill Burke would return to a strict adherence to the law, and not continue advancing the progressive agenda that Kim Foxx championed for eight years.

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Chicago prime for Trump’s plans to deport illegals with criminal records, gang members among them

By W.J. Kennedy | Dec 19, 2024

Chicago alone could keep incoming border Czar Tom Homan busy rounding up illegal immigrants with criminal histories.

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Nevest Coleman’s wrongful conviction lawsuit challenged, defense calls affidavit a 'sham'

By W.J. Kennedy | Dec 18, 2024

Defense attorneys for former Chicago detectives are challenging an affidavit filed by convicted murderer Nevest Coleman in his wrongful conviction lawsuit, calling it a “sham.”

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Chicago area lawyer, Maria McCarthy, being talked about for U.S. Attorney for the Northern District

By W.J. Kennedy | Dec 18, 2024

Prominent members of the legal and law enforcement communities in the Chicago area are getting behind

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City’s decline in murder rate is little reason to celebrate: Wirepoints

By W.J. Kennedy | Dec 17, 2024

Chicago’s progressive leaders and the media are celebrating a drop in the city’s murder rate over the past year.

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Is Burke’s move to expand detentions to violators of assault weapons ban act a PR stunt?

By W.J. Kennedy | Dec 17, 2024

In her first move as Cook County State’s Attorney, Eileen O’Neill Burke said she would seek detention for violations of the Illinois PICA Act, the two-year-old law that banned so-called assault weapons and other firearms and magazines—a law that a federal judge in downstate Illinois judge recently ruled unconstitutional.

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Bring federal power to bear on 'criminals-over-victims perversion' in Chicago, says 'Crooked City' author

By W.J. Kennedy | Dec 16, 2024

Trump’s announcement that he will pick former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi as U.S. Attorney General could be just what Chicago needs to reverse some of the wreckage done by the anti-police radicalism among the city’s top officials, wrote former Chicago FOP spokesman, Martin Preib, in his column “Crooked City.”

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Federal judge refuses to set trial date in notorious wrongful conviction cases of Solache and DeLeon-Reyes

By W.J. Kennedy | Dec 16, 2024

A federal judge has rejected a motion by plaintiffs Gabriel Solache and Arturo DeLeon-Reyes to set a trial date in their controversial wrongful conviction lawsuits.

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Exonerated by Kim Foxx, convicted murderer gets twelve years for a home invasion

By W.J. Kennedy | Dec 15, 2024

One of the hundreds of convicted murderers exonerated by former Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx o