Chicago Sun-Times,
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Frank Main
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10/7/2023 11:26:23 AM
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When COVID-19 struck in 2020, the government quickly put together massive aid programs to help struggling businesses, along with the people who lost their jobs.
But other kinds of enterprises with names like the Traveling Vice Lords and the Wild 100s — criminal street gangs in Chicago and across the country — soon figured out how to take advantage of that safety net. They defrauded those programs of millions of dollars that they used to buy guns and drugs, according to the U.S. Justice Department and court records.
Incarcerated crooks were in on the act, too.The government estimates that, across the country, at least one-quarter of a billion dollars
New York Post,
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Yaron Steinbuch
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10/5/2023 10:40:09 AM
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The captains of an elite Virginia college swim team say they feel cheated and abandoned at having to accept a transgender competitor who until recently had competed for the men’s team. In a case being compared to the Lia Thomas controversy, the swimmer joined the women’s swim team at Roanoke College after sitting out the previous season during her transition, her teammates told the Daily Mail.
The captains of the sophomore, junior and senior squads — Kate Pearson, 19, Lily Mullens, 20, and Bailey Gallagher, 20 — say it tore the team apart as they felt abandoned by the school and the NCAA.
Daily Mail (UK),
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David Wilcock
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10/3/2023 11:33:34 AM
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Suella Braverman warned that global migration is 'a hurricane' that threatens to hit Britain with 'millions' of new arrivals today as she delivered a tubthumping Tory conference speech.
In a red meat address to the party faithful the Home Secretary accused politicians of all shades of being too 'squeamish about being smeared as racist' to act on illegal immigration over the past 30 years. (Snip) vowed that sex offenders will no longer be able to change their name or gender to evade monitoring, while foreign offenders will be 'booted out' of Britain at the earliest opportunity. She also lashed out at trans rights and 'woke', attacking
Chicago Sun-Times,
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Andy Grimm
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10/3/2023 10:10:39 AM
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The last time Jeff Fort was seen outside prison walls during the late 1980s, he was the defiant leader of one of Chicago’s most violent street gangs who once offered to commit terrorist attacks for a Libyan dictator.
After nearly 40 years in virtual solitary confinement in a federal supermax prison, the 76-year-old Fort has appealed for leniency,(Snip)U.S. District Judge John Tharp tossed Fort’s request, ruling that Fort deserved the 80-year sentence handed down in 1986 after his conviction for offering to bomb buildings in the United States in exchange for $2 million from Libyan strongman Moammar Gaddafi.
As the judge noted, Fort had coordinated the Libya
Star Tribune [Minneapolis, MN],
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Kim Hyatt
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10/2/2023 11:18:57 PM
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Sherrice Barnett listened in disbelief as Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty explained that a teenager charged in her son's murder would be spared prison.
"I couldn't breathe," Barnett recalled. "I said, 'I just got to get up out of here.' I never would have imagined in a million years that it would have went that way."
She assumed the only reasonable outcome for the killing of her son Derrell Freeman, 27, was significant time behind bars — as suggested by state guidelines. (Snip) a pattern with Moriarty's administration. The families are told that instead of seeking prison, prosecutors want probation.
Kankakee Times (IL),
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Staff
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9/28/2023 12:33:01 PM
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Illinois politicians and members of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party have raised concerns about the sizeable subsidies being granted to the Chinese electric vehicle battery maker, Gotion.
Gotion is linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and aims to build a $2 billion plant in Illinois while receiving $7.5 billion in federal tax credits, (Snip) “And to give that money to a Chinese company that is already subsidized by the Chinese government is a serious mistake. China’s goal is to dominate the global battery industry, and forcing American taxpayers to unwittingly fund the CCP’s ambitions is a direct threat to U.S. economic and national security.”
Fox32-TV (Chicago),
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Staff
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9/28/2023 11:04:45 AM
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Chicago - Community organizations across Cook County and the city of Chicago have come together to take on the migrant crisis. They say they don't want spending on the migrants to cause residents' taxes to increase. (Snip) "We come not only with the challenge of Mr. Johnson and Ms. Preckwinkle's policies, but we come with solutions and here it is. Here, ladies and gentlemen is the former Illinois Government Building called the Thompson Center. It is 425,000 square feet, and it's right across from City Hall and the county building where Johnson and Preckwinkle's offices are," said Roger Romanelli, Volunteer Coordinator from Hillside Neighbors Volunteers.
WGN-TV (Chicago),
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Gabriel Castillo
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Dana Rebik
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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?”
Associated Press,
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Staff
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9/14/2023 2:53:28 PM
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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.
NBC5-TV (Chicago),
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Bennett Haeberle
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9/14/2023 2:36:54 PM
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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.
That same week – that shelter manager’s invoice billed for more than $14,000. All those employees’ figures included the employees being paid for overtime. The hourly rate for the registered nurse was $195 an hour. The facility manager earned $135 an hour.
New York Post,
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Dana Kennedy
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9/10/2023 9:57:05 AM
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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.
Associated Press,
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9/8/2023 8:32:23 AM
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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.