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Analysis: Chicago Public Schools superintendent makes $345,499 annual salary
Chicago Public Schools is under scrutiny as its superintendent, Pedro Martinez receives a significant salary increase despite low student performance metrics.
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Chicago criminals out on probation/parole/pretrial release continue violence in 2024
One thing Chicagoans can’t help but notice when scrolling through news feeds: the number of violent crimes committed by defendants while they were out either on parole, probation or awaiting trial.
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Gov. Pritzker’s dishonest spin on Chicago crime, Illinois jobs
There’s no denying Gov. J.B. Pritzker should be one of the state’s biggest cheerleaders, consistently accentuating Illinois’ positives. It’s what any good governor should do.
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Dabrowski on taxpayer monies going to illegal immigrants: ‘It is a slap in the face of a lot of people in Illinois who struggle’
Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski is criticizing the allocation of taxpayer funds for migrants, describing it as a "slap in the face" for many struggling residents in Illinois.
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2023 Chicago crime to hit post-covid record, up nearly 60 percent over 2019
There’s not enough data yet to make any claims about the impact of Illinois’ elimination of cash bail, part of the SAFE-T Act implemented just two months ago. But we do know two facts that spell trouble for the city in 2024:
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Chicago: Where violence and dismal education intersect
There’s a good reason why Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis-Gates sends her son to a private school instead of the public one in her community.
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Chicago weekly crime tracker
Wirepoints has written in detail about the city’s crime problem on our Criminal Justice page. Now we’re going a step further by giving readers direct access to the same data we gather and analyze.
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Glennon: ‘This is really a crazy situation we’ve gotten into’
Wirepoints founder Mark Glennon is questioning the overly generous taxpayer subsidies planned for the proposed Gotion plant in Manteno.
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‘We live in a time with extremist political rhetoric’: Davis Gates lashes out at blog for posting photo of son’s online profile
The controversial Chicago Teacher’s Union President Stacy Davis Gates refuses to send her son to the city’s public schools instead opting to enroll him to the exclusive De La Salle Institute.
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Spree of robberies, car thefts drive Chicago crime to new highs
Spree of robberies, car thefts drive Chicago crime to new highs
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204 Chicago homicides in Mayor Johnson’s first 100 days – including four teenagers killed last weekend
It would be naïve to think that a progressive Chicago mayor could actually reduce the city’s crime numbers during his first 100 days in office, but Brandon Johnson did have a real opportunity to flip the trajectory.
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As crime surges, a flawed cashless bail system will put 'dangerous and repeat offenders on the streets'
The cashless bail era begins in Illinois on September 18, and has so many flaws, former mayoral candidate Paul Vallas writes in a recent commentary, that it will put “dangerous and repeat offenders back on the street.”
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Op-ed: Step one for fixing Illinois schools must be full recognition of a problem
Most of America now seems to have recognized that something has gone badly wrong in our schools.
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Gays Against Groomers: ‘Pornographic filth being pushed on children using our community as a shield and scapegoat to do so’
Gays Against Groomers is pushing back against allegations that those opposed to providing vividly animated pornographic books in children’s libraries is anti-LGBTQ.
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Proft on Georgia legislator's party switch: 'No place in the Democrat Socialist Party for Mesha Maynor, even though she's a Black woman'
Radio host Dan Proft is showing support for Georgia District 56 state Rep. Mesha Mainor, a former Democrat who announced her decision to switch parties and become a Republican after feeling abandoned by her Democratic colleagues.
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Dabrowski: ‘Blue officials have run nearly all the homicide hotspots for decades’
A new Wirepoints report has challenged the prevailing notion that "red" state-level leadership and policies are to blame for the surge in homicides and violent crime across the United States.
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Halbrook: ‘Thanks to Joe Biden, even the dollar stores have raised their prices.’
State Rep. Brad Halbrook (R-Shelbyville) stands opposed to President Joe Biden’s recent visit to Chicago.
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Wirepoints: ‘Increasing taxes again on Chicagoans puts the city at risk of losing more residents and businesses’
A bi-partisan coalition of groups are vocally opposed to the 5% property tax increase imposed by the Chicago Public Schools board.
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Dabrowski on Wirepoints' CPS report: Chicago's future 'depends in part on the education Hispanic students are getting today'
Wirepoints is continuing to promote its report finding that Hispanic students are lagging in Chicago Public Schools.
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Crime and funding for soft-on-crime policies keeps rising
Crime has jumped 38 percent in Brandon Johnson’s first month as mayor, and while Wirepoints, which reported the increase, was hesitant to tie Johnson’ policy or rhetoric to the increase, soft-on-crime policies funded by the left keep rising as well.