Editors Note: So our Republicans we elected to defund Obamacare and Amnesty want to do a 2 year budget funding everything Obama wants at an increase to debt our children and grandchildren will pay to the tune of 85...
Proponents of property-tax hikes in Chicago say the city's property taxes are low and residents can afford to pay more.
What they fail to mention is that, compared to other major cities across the U.S., Chicago’s property taxes are 10th highest...
British Peer Warns Shariah Courts Allow Muslim Men to Marry Multiple Wives and Have ‘Up to 20 Children Each’
Oct. 25, 2015 10:29am Sharona Schwartz
Baroness Cox, a member of Britain’s House of Lords, warned...
October 16, 2015 Austin Berg Writer
Flawed property valuations and the process required to fix them are a cash cow for law firms, including those of House Speaker Mike Madigan, Chicago Alderman Ed Burke and Illinois Senate President John Cullerton.
The...
For the first time Kristen McQueary speaks publicly about the repercussions from her Hurricane Katrina column. And, as someone who has covered Chicago and Illinois politics for the past 15 years, she offers candid assessments of Mayor Rahm Emanuel,...
Another Day, Another Indictment
By Pat Hughes
Last week we watched in dismay, but not surprise, as another Illinois bureaucrat found herself unable to outrun corruption charges. Barbara Byrd-Bennett took over as chief of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) three years ago. She...
Hillary Clinton Comes Out In Favor of Mandatory Gun Confiscation
October 16, 2015
H/t to the Washington Free Beacon. Hillary Clinton today came out in favor of a gun confiscation program. She said a gun buy back program “would be worth...
Chicago has a $27 billion underfunded pension (remember Illinois has an even larger one) Chicago’s underfunded pension works out to $100,000 per citizen (population 2.7 million)
Rahm has proposed the largest tax increase in Chicago history, a $588 million dollar...
