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Pritzker’s assault weapons ban not enough to make law abiding citizens safe

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Pritzker’s assault weapons ban not enough to make law abiding citizens safe

Pritzker’s assault weapons ban not enough to make law abiding citizens safe Pritzker’s assault weapons ban is not about making law abiding citizens safer, but rather appealing to his voter constituency and the far left which seeks to decriminalize accountability for criminals while holding police to a higher standard. The assault weapons ban basically takes…

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Vallas urges probe in Lightfoot’s CPD scandal and accuses of Congressman Garcia of being AWOL from Chicagoland needs

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Vallas urges probe in Lightfoot’s CPD scandal and accuses of Congressman Garcia of being AWOL from Chicagoland needs

Vallas urges probe in Lightfoot’s CPD scandal and accuses of Congressman Garcia of being AWOL from Chicagoland needs Chicago Mayoral candidate Paul Vallas calls for broader investigation into Mayor Lightfoot’s misuse of City Resources after new revelation on CPD Deployment.  CPD Exempt Officers were ordered to go Door to Door instead of Doing Police Work. And…

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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot must go

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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot must go

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot must go Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has failed to achieve any of her campaign promises from four years. In fact, under her leadership, she has made Chicago worse, failing to crackdown on rampaging crime or speaking out against those who enable the criminals like Cook County States Attorney Kim Foxx or…

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Kam Buckner slams Mayor Lightfoot for ethical violations and pushing CPS to support her candidacy

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Kam Buckner slams Mayor Lightfoot for ethical violations and pushing CPS to support her candidacy

Kam Buckner slams Mayor Lightfoot for ethical violations and pushing CPS to support her candidacy Lori Lightfoot Plays Political Patronage Game, Asks CPS Teachers, Students to Support Re-Election Campaign in a Massive Ethical Violation and Abuse of Power Lori Lightfoot’s political campaign sent an email to CPS teachers’ government email addresses asking them to recruit…

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Paul Vallas demands Lightfoot explain email scandal, and use of government resources for political campaign

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Paul Vallas demands Lightfoot explain email scandal, and use of government resources for political campaign

Paul Vallas demands Lightfoot explain email scandal, and use of government resources for political campaign Mayoral candidate Paul Vallas on Thursday called on Mayor lightfoot to explain two growing public scandals in her administration. The first is to explain the recent ethics breach involving her emails, and the other is to account for the use…

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Chicago’s Police Officers Endorse Paul Vallas for Mayor

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Chicago’s Police Officers Endorse Paul Vallas for Mayor

Chicago’s Police Officers Endorse Paul Vallas for Mayor Vallas is the only Mayoral Candidate committed to providing the tools and resources needed to protect Chicago families Paul Vallas has earned the endorsement of the brave men and women of Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police for his tireless dedication to improving the safety of the city’s…

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Black and Latinx Elected Officials Unite Against the Chaos Caused by Mayor Lightfoot

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Black and Latinx Elected Officials Unite Against the Chaos Caused by Mayor Lightfoot

Black and Latinx Elected Officials Unite Against the Chaos Caused by Mayor Lightfoot A coalition of elected officials from different levels of government representing predominantly Black and Latinx communities in Chicago united today to hold Mayor Lori Lightfoot accountable for the chaos and division she’s causing through her lack of leadership. Lightfoot unilaterally decided to…

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Paul Vallas launches major television adverting campaign

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Paul Vallas launches major television adverting campaign

Paul Vallas launches major television adverting campaign Six figure broadcast and cable television advertising buy marks the most substantial media campaign launched by a challenger to incumbent Mayor Lori Lightfoot  Mayoral candidate Paul Vallas is launching two advertisements on both broadcast and cable television stations throughout the Chicago media market. This six figure advertising buy…

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Right from the Middle: Nicaragua and the leadership of Reagan and Tip O’Neill

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Right from the Middle: Nicaragua and the leadership of Reagan and Tip O’Neill

Right from the Middle: Nicaragua and the leadership of Reagan and Tip O’Neill Former Congressman Bill Lipinski looks back at President Ronald Reagan’s efforts to undermine the communist rise in Nicaragua and how Communism continues ot upward growth threatening the West and America today By William O. Lipinski Back in the nineteen eighties when I…

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to readers, and the tragedy of O’Hare Airport

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to readers, and the tragedy of O’Hare Airport

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to readers, and the tragedy of O’Hare Airport Ray Hanania writes to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and describes the horror of having to travel through O’Hare Airport’s filthy, disgusting condition while Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot promotes her candidacy for re-election in nauseating ads that repetitively broadcast over O’Hare…

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Demands continue for Lightfoot and Garcia to detail ties to FTX scandal

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Demands continue for Lightfoot and Garcia to detail ties to FTX scandal

Demands continue for Lightfoot and Garcia to detail ties to FTX scandal Paul Vallas calls on Chuy Garcia to return tainted funds and come clean about his relationship with indicted Crypto billionaire Chicago Mayoral Candidate Paul Vallas on Wednesday called for Chuy Garcia to come clean about his relationship with indicted crypto-king Sam Bankman-Fried, whose…

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Chicago Mayoral candidate Kam Buckner demands accountability from Jesus Garcia and Mayor Lori Lightfoot on FTX controversy ties

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Chicago Mayoral candidate Kam Buckner demands accountability from Jesus Garcia and Mayor Lori Lightfoot on FTX controversy ties

Chicago Mayoral candidate Kam Buckner demands accountability from Jesus Garcia and Mayor Lori Lightfoot on FTX controversy ties Lightfoot Owes Chicago An Explanation About Her Connection to Corrupt Crypto King.Lori Lightfoot welcomed crypto fraud Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX to Chicago this past spring and allowed him to collaborate on the city’s “guaranteed basic income” U.S. Rep….

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Vallas releases comprehensive Public Safety Strategy for Chicago

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Vallas releases comprehensive Public Safety Strategy for Chicago

Vallas releases comprehensive Public Safety Strategy for Chicago Calls for the Return of Public Safety as a ‘Basic Human Right’ for Chicagoans Paul Vallas will return the Chicago Police Department to its core mission to serve and protect the people of Chicago by prioritizing public safety as a human right by making crime in Chicago…

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State probes dark money in re-election of controversy-plagued County Commissioner Sean Morrison

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State probes dark money in re-election of controversy-plagued County Commissioner Sean Morrison

State probes dark money in re-election of controversy-plagued County Commissioner Sean Morrison Some $300,000 in money from a dark PAC set up to fight Illinois tax hikes made its way into the campaign coffers of beleaguered Cook County Commissioner and Failed Cook County Republican Party boss Sean Morrison. The Illinois Election Board is investigating complaints…

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Now that elections are over, voters get hit by a costly truth

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Now that elections are over, voters get hit by a costly truth

Now that elections are over, voters get hit by a costly truth By Ray Hanania If you listened to Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s campaign rhetoric, you would think that Illinois was well on its way to economic recovery. Pritzker threw a few hundred dollars at us in state tax money, spent hundreds of millions on himself…

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American traditions like Thanksgiving should not be broken because of latter day spin

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American traditions like Thanksgiving should not be broken because of latter day spin

American traditions like Thanksgiving should not be broken because of latter day spin No one is innocent in the ongoing debate about who killed who, who discovered what and who stole what here in America. The traditions of Thanksgiving should not be dragged into the narrow-focused historical spin as were the civil war and Christopher…

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Alderman Raymond Lopez announces he will not run for mayor

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Alderman Raymond Lopez announces he will not run for mayor

Alderman Raymond Lopez announces he will not run for mayor Alderman Raymond Lopez, one of Chicago’s most progressive and dedicated city leaders said Monday that he will not run for mayor of Chicago in order to avoid weakening the challenges to incumbent Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Lopez is one of only two Hispanics who was considering…

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Larry Suffredin: Final Report and Thank You for 20 Years on the Cook County Board & Forest Preserve Board

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Larry Suffredin: Final Report and Thank You for 20 Years on the Cook County Board & Forest Preserve Board

Larry Suffredin: Final Report and Thank You for 20 Years on the Cook County Board & Forest Preserve Board The following is a letter of gratitude from Cook County Commissioner Larry Suffredin to the voters of his 13th Cook County District as he retires from the Cook County Board. Today, November 18,2022, is my last…

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