THE STARK REALITY OF LIFE IN CHI-RAQ

-- "Almost one-third of Chicago’s well-paid public-school teachers keep their kids out of the Chicago Public School System, a study finds. Even the current leader of the Chicago Teachers Union, Stacy Davis Gates, sends her son to a private school, according to the Chicago-based Illinois Policy Institute." --

Looking forward to that Kamala Koronation...

-- "Chicago is in a political death spiral, common to one-party systems throughout the Third World. One failed left-wing politician is followed by another; the idea of electing a Republican, or even a moderate Democrat, is unthinkable." --

The DNC promises to be interesting...

-- "Chicago businesses are already boarding up their storefronts downtown ahead of Monday’s opening of the Democratic National Convention in anticipation of mass rioting and violence." --

BCF has some more specifics.

Never a "Community Organiser" around...

...when you really need one...

"In 2012, 532 people were murdered in the city of Chicago, according to statistics compiled by the Crime in Chicago website. The number of people murdered the year before was 441, meaning in the city of Chicago, murders have increased by 91 from 2011 to 2012."

"The website also claims that, through December 25, 2012, there 2,670 people were shot in Chicago last year. That's also an increase from the year before, when 2,217 people were shot in Chicago that year."

"In all, it means that on average almost 1.5 people were murdered in Chicago each day last year, while on average 7.3 people were shot each day."

Happy Hopey Changey New Year.

Whip me, organise me...

...make me write hot cheques...Let's face it... unless somebody sits you down and teaches you not to beat bejesus outta your dearly beloved... shit's just gonna happen.

CHICAGO (CBS) – The head of a publicly funded anti-violence group is now facing charges after allegedly attacking his wife inside their suburban home.

Seems there's never a "community organiser" around when you really need one. Hopefully, this poor fellow will get all the taxpayer funded assistance that he requires.

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RELATED: Well, you've gotta understand...

...this is Chicago...

The level of gun violence in Chicago, which has caused shock waves nationally, is continuing with eight people having been shot in the nation’s third largest city in a 24-hour period that ended Friday morning, including one that ended with the death of a 15-year-old boy.

Chicago’s murder rate is widely considered to be fueled by the drug wars that are fought between the city’s network of gangs.

The homicide rate has been largely confined to the city’s south and west areas, African-American bastions of Chicago.

Five years of the Celebrity-in-Chief and this still goes on in his hometown?

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LAST WORD: While Obama fiddles...

"It's a city with no laws," admits Detroit veteran firefighter Ted Roney. "Nobody cares about anything."

Don't get me started on N'awlins.

Spoken like a True Democrat

Who is this crazy woman?

On Tuesday evening, Chicago Mayor Lightfoot publicly lambasted the president’s move to assist her city, which has experienced a surge of violence in recent days.

UPDATE: Chicago cops knew... didn't do shit...

"Sources told CBS Chicago's Brad Edwards the police were warned there might be a retaliatory attack on the funeral service."

"At least 60 shell casings were recovered from the scene."

My favorite bit in all this, is when the mourners drop their Bibles and light up the War Wagon doing the driveby. Cops weren't ready, but the homeboys sure were.

UPDATE2: The carnage continues...

"Just hours after at least 14 people were wounded in a drive-by shooting outside of a funeral home on Chicago’s South Side Tuesday evening, two men were killed in the city in separate shootings, the Chicago Sun-Times reported."

And don't get me started on the bloodsoaked Big Apple...

"NYC Homicides Soar 21 Percent in First 6 Months of 2020, Shootings Up 46 Percent."

RELATED: You get the government you deserve

The stuff CBC invariably leaves out

A community organiser's house in Chicago... that sounds so familiar...

-- CHICAGO -- If you've got the money, you could be President Barack Obama's neighbour in Chicago. The 17-room home next door to his house in a ritzy neighbourhood on the city's south side is on the market.

It doesn't have a price tag yet, but the listing agent said the "Obama factor" will play a role. Homes in the area usually go for between $1 million and $2.5 million.

Hmmm... is this the same house President McDreamy bought from Tony Rezko's wife? I don't think the Prez paid anywhere near that kind of coin.

Obama's ties to Rezko have become a political albatross for the presidential nominee, who has been forced to defend the convicted felon's fundraising activities for him and revelations Obama bought his South Side mansion on the same day in 2005 that Rezko purchased a vacant lot next door.

Geez... that's not the house that had it's appraisal value fudged to cover up what a great deal ol' Barry got from his friends, the Rezkos?

A former Illinois bank official, now claiming whistleblower status, says bank officials replaced a loan reappraisal that he prepared for a Chicago property that was purchased by the wife of now-convicted felon Tony Rezko, part of which was later sold to next-door neighbor Barack Obama.

In a complaint filed Thursday in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Kenneth J. Connor said that his reappraisal of Rita Rezko's property was replaced with a higher one and that he was fired when he questioned the document.

Ah, Chicago... land of endless opportunity.

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Rahmbo... I don't think that word means...

...what you think it means...

“To all those who are, after Tuesday’s election, very nervous, filled with anxiety: you are SAFE in Chicago; you are SECURE in Chicago; and you are SUPPORTED in Chicago.”

Well... not exactly.

Gun-controlled Chicago is fast-approaching 4,000 shooting victims year-to-date for 2016.

Here's a clue... even people who live there, call it Chi-Raq...

“If you’re thinking of the best place in America right now to be a criminal and carry a gun, it’s Chicago.”

Safe, secure, supported, my ass. Just more Democratic Party argle-bargle.

DEFUND THE LAWNDALE CRIPS

THE HITS JUST KEEP ON COMING:

 - CHICAGO - "Three people, including a seven-year-old girl, have been shot dead in Chicago so far this weekend. At least 13 others have been shot and wounded. Last weekend, four people were shot dead and 24 others wounded."

OH, IT GETS BETTER:

"In another case, a man and a woman who had just ordered food at Popeyes at Chicago and Kedzie in Humboldt Park were shot."

Black Lives Matter Chicago was apparently unavailable for comment.

HOME IS WHERE YOUR COMMIE PINKO HEART IS

-- "Since Mayor Brandon Johnson and the cowards and leftists on the City Council called for a ceasefire in Gaza, 126 people have been killed in Chicago. In total, 539 people have been shot and wounded so far this year. Johnson’s approval rating dropped from 28% in November to 21% in February. At this rate, he’s gonna make Lori Lightfoot look like a rock star." --

And it's just gonna get better...

-- "Nearly 40,000 migrants have arrived in Chicago since August 2022, according to the city’s 'New Arrivals Situational Awareness Dashboard.'" --

CHICAGO... NO GUN... NO PROBLEM...

-- "A Chicago woman, 51-year-old Clarisa Figueroa pleaded guilty to murder on Tuesday and was sentenced to 50 years behind bars for strangling 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, who was nine months pregnant and cutting the baby from her womb. Investigators subsequently found Ochoa-Lopez’s body outside of the Figueroa home in a garbage bin." --

And there's this guy.

Corruption deja vu... all over again

Maybe there's a reason 3 of the last 7 Illinois governors have ended up in the "Crowbar Motel"...

-- CHICAGO (AP) -- At a City Club of Chicago luncheon Wednesday, a fiery Burris asked guests to stop the rush to judgment.

"If I had done the things I been accused of, I would be too embarrassed to stand up here in front of you because you all are my friends," Burris said, adding that during his decades of public service there was "never a hint of a scandal."

Burris then said he would no longer speak with the media.

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UPDATE: Legislators investigate Burris "perjury"

-- CHICAGO -- State and local records show that at least 10 names are missing from a list of lobbying clients U.S. Sen. Roland Burris has given to Illinois legislators.

But a review by The (Springfield) State Journal-Register found that Burris' list doesn't match records kept by the Illinois secretary of state, the Cook County clerk or the Chicago Board of Ethics.

Under oath last month, Burris, through Wright, said he'd give a complete list of his lobbying firm's clients.

Yeah... nominated by the guy you just impeached.

Who could have seen that coming, huh?

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This is Rahm's handpicked candidate?

It's true... you really do get the kind of government you deserve...

-- CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago's new top cop says the accessibility to firearms in America is an extension of "government-sponsored racism" that goes back to the days of slavery and Jim Crow.

McCarthy illustrated his point by recalling a crime scene investigation while he was a police official in Newark, New Jersey where five children were shot, two of whom were killed. McCarthy said when he got home, he turned on his television to unwind and found an episode of "Sarah Palin's Alaska" showing.

"She was caribou hunting and talking about the right to bear arms. Why wasn't she at the crime scene with me?"

Oh my gawd, you moron... let me count the the ways...

a) Sarah Palin lives thousands of miles away from Newark, NJ.
b) She's not a police officer.
c) Hunting caribou has nothing to do with child homicide.

I could go on... but what would be the point? This guy sounds like one of the dumbasses who danced in the street when O.J. got set free.

No wonder Chicago is a war zone.

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RELATED: In other "urban firefight" news...

Police have one man in custody after a shooting early Saturday morning in the area of Trinity-Bellwoods Park.

Officers say two men in their 20s were shot in the lower body near Dundas Street West and Shaw Street, just east of Ossington Avenue, around 3:30 a.m.

Friends of the victims drove them to Toronto Western Hospital, where they were treated for non-life-threatening wounds.

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LAST WORD: I blame Thomas Jefferson...

-- CHICAGO (CBS) -- The teenage robbery mobs are at it again on North Michigan Avenue.

The Mag Mile earlier this year was hit by similar mobs of young thieves. Attacks on commuters and bicyclists have become violent, and police have stepped up patrols.

THAT WAS THEN, THIS IS NOW

You've gotta love the lunatic left...

-- "President Biden's "strike force," meant to help curb crime in Chicago and four other cities seeing a surge in violence, is expected to come to the Windy City 'relatively soon,' Mayor Lori Lightfoot said earlier this week." --

But, but, but...

-- “Under no circumstances will I allow Donald Trump’s troops to come to Chicago and terrorize our residents,” Lightfoot wrote. --

LORI LIGHTFOOT'S CHICAGO:

-- "As public schools in Chicago reopen, they will be required to make free condoms available to any student aged 10 years or older." --

MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH:

-- "A shooting in Scarborough Friday afternoon at Markham Road and McNicoll Avenue left one man injured, Toronto police say." --

A syndicated TV show?

Man... I'm so old, I can remember when dolling up a 6 year old boy in dresses and bondage gear would have got you arrested.

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RELATED: If you can't get a TV deal...

...just send it out over the intertubes...

In the Facebook live video which was partially broadcast on CNN and other media outlets, a man who appeared to be white was seen sitting on the ground in the corner of a room as his attackers, at least some of whom appeared to be African-American, laughed and made comments about "white people."

A Chicago police spokesman declined to give the race of the victim or the people detained.

Of course they did.

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UPDATE: How it's done in Obama country

CHICAGO -- Four black people were charged with hate crimes Thursday in connection with a video broadcast live on Facebook that showed a mentally disabled white man being beaten and taunted, threatened with a knife and forced to drink from a toilet.

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UPDATE2: Ask the mainstream media

"CNN host Don Lemon said Wednesday evening the broadcasted torture of a bound and gagged victim in Chicago was not “evil,” adding that the suspects had 'bad home training'.”

During the same discussion, Democrat strategist and former press secretary for Bernie Sanders Symone Sanders said the attack was “not a hate crime” if the suspects were motivated by “hate of Donald Trump.”

Sigh.

THEY'D RATHER GO DOWN IN FLAMES THAN ACCEPT TRUMP'S HELP...

-- "Chicago Police are on the hunt for a man who stabbed a 27-year-old woman in the chest on a train platform near the University of Illinois Chicago Saturday night. The suspect remained at large as of Tuesday morning." --

Seems self-evident to me...

-- "Trump has said Guard troops are needed for crime prevention in Chicago, which he has described as a 'war zone.'" --

The Sausage Factory of Chicago politics...

...once again raises its ugly head...

"For the last several years, Nayak had been the aching thorn in Jackson’s side after Blagojevich was heard on tape saying that Jackson’s emissary — Nayak — offered what Blagojevich believed was a $1.5 million offer in exchange for the Senate seat."

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RELATED: Remember how Obama's BFF...

...was gonna fix up Chicago? Maybe hugs & wishes just aren't gonna be enough...

"Mr. Emanuel listed safer streets among his top three priorities when he became mayor a year ago, but Chicago, the nation’s third-largest city, is now testing that promise. Homicides are up by 38 percent from a year ago, and shootings have increased as well, even as killings have held steady or dropped in New York, Los Angeles and some other cities."

JUSTICE FOR JUICY

-- "Actor Jussie Smollett loudly declared himself 'innocent' in a Chicago courtroom Thursday after he was sentenced to 150 days in jail for lying to police in a staged hate crime." --

I'M WITH DAVE CHAPPELLE

-- "Such a fucking outrageous story. He said they put a rope around his neck. Has anyone here ever been to Chicago? Yes! All right. All right, so you’ve been there. Now, tell me, how much rope do you remember seeing? Who the fuck is carrying rope? Like, when did you get mugged, nigga, in 1850? - Who’s got rope? – Who’s got rope? Man, that shit was awful." --

CRAZIER THAN A SHITHOUSE MOUSE

-- "Actor Jussie Smollett will undergo a mental health assessment before serving his stint in jail after yelling eight times that he is 'not suicidal' during his sentencing hearing Thursday in Chicago." --

Tell me again how racist white people...

...and cops are the problem...

"While Chicago was roiled by another day of protests and looting in the wake of George Floyd’s murder,
18 people were killed Sunday, May 31, making it the single most violent day in Chicago in six decades."

And nobody even blinks... because Chicago.

RELATED: Chi-raq earns it's nickname...

The recording begins with Alder[person?] Michelle Harris (8th Ward) wondering how she could convince businesses like Walmart and CVS to rebuild on the South Side after the destruction.

“It’s like, what are we going to have left in our community?” Harris asks her colleagues before answering herself.

“Nothing.”

JOHN TORY'S TORONTO HEADING FOR BIG LEAGUES

-- "Ariel Kaplan, 32, of Toronto, whose remains were found floating in an Uxbridge, Ont. pond last spring was abducted from Yonge Street and Sheppard Avenue in Toronto before he was murdered and his body was put in a hockey bag, police say." --

IT AIN'T JUST MOBSTERS WHO VANISH

-- "The Province of Ontario is offering a $50,000 reward to the person who provides information that leads to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the disappearance of 33-year-old Amber Ellis of Hagersville." --

SPEAKING OF THE BIG LEAGUE...

-- "In a shooting Chicago Police olice said was sparked by road rage, 3-year-old Mateo Zastro was killed Friday night on the Southwest Side as he sat in the back seat of his mother’s sport-utility vehicle. At least 284 minors have been shot in Chicago this year." --

To be clear, that's Democrat led, gun-controlled Chicago.

FROM THE COMMENTS:

The Ferguson Effect...

I see Chicago is still holding up their end.

“We’re #1!!!”

Chicago, Chicago... that sounds so familiar.

From Gay Tupac to Nigerian Princess...

..."hoist by his own phone records"...

"CHICAGO (CBS) — Two brothers being questioned in the Jussie Smollett case are now under arrest, police said.

The men – Obabinjo Osundairo and Abimbola Osundairo – were arrested Friday in connection with an alleged attack on Empire actor Jussie Smollett. Two sources with intimate knowledge of the investigation tells CBS 2 Investigator Brad Edwards the attack on Smollett was potentially orchestrated by the actor himself, and involved two other men."

Chicago police said the two men were arrested Friday and that they have a "relationship" with the "Empire" actor.

UPDATE: Let's make a deal...

“Due to new evidence as a result of today’s interrogations, the individuals questioned by police in the Empire case have now been released without charging and detectives have additional investigative work to complete.”

UPDATE2: This is ANTIFA COUNTRY!!!

Smollett had insisted on GMA that the then-unidentified, shadowy figures on the video were the masked, racist “strangers” who attacked him.

But Chicago police realized the two men on the video are Abel and Ola — Smollett’s close friends.

LAST WORD: The whole sad story

A STERN MESSAGE FROM THE COPPERS WHO HAVE GIVEN UP ON PREVENTING MURDERS...

-- "'We’re not going to allow you to riot,'  Police Supt. Larry Snelling assured the crowd gathered for a City Club of Chicago event at Maggiano’s Banquets downtown. But Snelling couldn’t say how exactly protesters will be treated if they diverge from an approved route, noting that such issues will be handled on a 'case-by-case' basis." --

Also Chicago...

-- "Chicago's homicide rate is an outlier among major U.S. cities. At a rate of 29 firearm homicides per 100,000 residents, it is six times higher than New York City's and three times higher than in Los Angeles." --

Time to 'March on the DNC.' 

I'm sure it will be 'mostly peaceful.'