‘They’re not afraid of anyone’:
Bucktown residents voice concerns after
man beaten, robbed in broad daylight
Posted By: AltaD, 9/26/2023 7:07:40 PM
Chicago — Business owners and residents in Bucktown say they are concerned about an increase in crime following a brazen attack and robbery on Monday afternoon that left a man injured. The broad daylight robbery, which involved two men, was caught on surveillance video. (Snip) Data from the Chicago Police Department shows robberies have increased 96% since 2019 and 53% since last year. “People are super upset. People want to storm city hall, they want to protest in front of the mayor’s house,” Jensen said. “I’ve seen different social media posts, the anger, the disgust, this is city-wide. When’s it going to stop?”
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Chicago — Business owners and residents in Bucktown say they are concerned about an increase in crime following a brazen attack and robbery on Monday afternoon that left a man injured. The broad daylight robbery, which involved two men, was caught on surveillance video. (Snip) Data from the Chicago Police Department shows robberies have increased 96% since 2019 and 53% since last year.
“People are super upset. People want to storm city hall, they want to protest in front of the mayor’s house,” Jensen said. “I’ve seen different social media posts, the anger, the disgust, this is city-wide. When’s it going to stop?”
Johnson & Johnson is signing off on a new logo, more than 130 years after creating the old one.
The health care giant said Thursday that it will replace the well-known signature script with a modern look that reflects its sharpened focus on pharmaceuticals and medical devices.
The original script dates to the 1880s and was based on the signature of a company co-founder. (Snip) Many children no longer learn to write cursive in school, noted marketing consultant Laura Ries.People may recognize the signature, but they weren’t necessarily reading it, she said.
Mayor Brandon Johnson announced Wednesday that the city of Chicago is facing a projected $538 million budget deficit for 2024 – a financial burden his administration blamed in part on the growing cost of caring for migrants. (Snip) One invoice from the now-closed shelter at Truman College shows a facility manager made $14,000 in one week last December.
Another invoice shows a nurse earned $20,000 during a week in December.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez might want her followers to believe inflation is “propaganda” — but her constituents aren’t buying it.
The firebrand Democratic congresswoman used her Instagram stories to share a video from New Zealand’s left-wing Aotearoa Liberation League in which an activist claimed the “propaganda” surrounding inflation was designed to protect “greedy shareholders,” who are truly to blame for the rising cost of living.
But when The Post visited Ocasio-Cortez’s constituents in the 14th district, which comprises areas in both Queens and in the southeastern part of the Bronx, all of them reported economic pain and many said the Biden administration should not be left off the hook.
Chicago to move migrants from police stations
to tent camps before winter under mayor’s plan 17 replies
to tent camps before winter under mayor’s plan 17 replies
Chicago - Nearly 1,600 migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. will be relocated from Chicago police stations to winterized camps with massive tents under a plan by Mayor Brandon Johnson, according to a report released Thursday.
The relocations will occur “before the weather begins to shift and change,” Johnson said in an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times. The tents could hold up to 1,000 migrants, he said, and the camps would provide meals and recreational and educational programming.
Chicago - A Chicago man was sentenced to six years in federal prison last week for retaliating against two witnesses who cooperated with an investigation into the activities of a gang he was a member of.
Javion Bush, 23, pleaded guilty earlier this year to a charge of obstruction of justice after he posted an image to Facebook in 2021 that named two people who testified before a federal grand jury that was investigating the Goonie Gang (Snip) Bush, a member of the gang, discovered the identities of the witnesses after reading a police report that had been given to another Goonie Gang member who was being tried for murder.
Highland Park officials responded Wednesday following criticism to a recently announced "poverty simulation" event being held in the northern suburb.
The city announced Tuesday it was partnering with the Alliance for Human Services, Family Focus, Moraine Township, and the Highland Park Community Foundation to host "a poverty simulation event to increase residents' understanding and awareness of what it is like to live in poverty in Lake County."
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The Anti-Defamation League was founded in 1910 with an explicit mission "to stop the defamation of the Jewish people, and to secure justice and fair treatment for all," but in recent years they have completely gone off the rails.
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Full marks to the un-named Southampton head teacher who’s had the sense to point out what so many must be thinking: that white working-class teenagers should not be forced to learn about “white privilege”.
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Green energy and the push to electrify everything have been in the news recently but for all the wrong reasons.
Instead of the green energy nirvana politicians and green energy advocates have promised, economic and physical reality has begun to set in.
Start with the economic realities.
Wind turbine manufacturers like Siemens and General Electric have reported huge losses for the first half of this year, almost $5 billion for the former and $1 billion for the latter.
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'I don't want them there!' Hyde Park residents
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At least four buses of migrants have arrived in Chicago this week and this isn't the first time that migrants have lived in Hyde Park. (Snip) "I don't want them there! Take them someplace else or send them back to Venezuela I don't care where they go," said resident Doris Lewis. "This is wrong. You got 73 percent of the people that are homeless in the city are Black people, what have you done for them?"
Waukesha, WI - A 28-year-old Blue Island, Illinois man is accused of stealing mail and later leading police on a high-speed chase that stretched nearly nine miles. The accused is Michael White – and he faces the following criminal counts: (Snip) While tracking the Jeep, Waukesha dispatch took a call from someone "to report a suspicious vehicle that had just stolen mail, again." The complaint says the "caller indicated that he used an 'improvised pink paintball' to mark the side of the vehicle." A short time later, an officer initiated a traffic stop.
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Seven years after he last took an NFL snap, Colin Kaepernick believes he can still help a team in need of a quarterback — even if it means playing on the practice squad.
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A Reality Check for Republican Voters
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E-Buses Bought From Now-Bankrupt Manufacturer
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Will the 2024 election be fair, or marred by systematic cheating? Based on how Americans feel about recent elections and the coming presidential contest, most are confident the election will be fair. But there’s a huge political gap on the issue between Democrats on one side, and Republicans and independents on the other, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll shows.
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US soldier who crossed into North Korea
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officials say 17 replies
2 months ago is in American custody, US
officials say 17 replies
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Bucktown neighborhood used to be safe, at least in the daytime. Those days are gone.