Memorial Day 2025
you should wash a fish before cooking it
Block Club Chicago’s recent headline “Tourism In Chicago Bounced Back In 2024 With 55 Million Visitors, $20 Billion In Spending” paints a triumphant picture of Chicago’s economic recovery. But behind the feel-good framing lies a more complicated reality that the…
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The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a formal investigation into the hiring practices of the administration of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, after a public speech in which he boasted that top city positions are filled entirely with Black individuals,…
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Johnson’s political caucus just won another three year term at the Chicago Teachers Union. That means at least 25,000 foot soldiers and a $30 million off the books war chest. Not to mention people in every school building across the…
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The Great Depression, spanning the late 1920s to the late 1930s, compounded by the Dust Bowl, was a decade of economic collapse, environmental disaster, and mass social upheaval. A stock market crash triggered soaring unemployment and bank failures, while droughts…
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CHICAGO, May 16, 2025 — Chicago’s unrelenting wave of violence showed no signs of slowing on Friday, May 16, as the city grappled with a fatal traffic crash and a series of shootings that left one dead and thirteen others…
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CHICAGO – A carload of children was shot up in a drive-by shooting at a busy South Side intersection on May 14, 2025, leaving a 4-year-old boy critically injured, as part of a violent 24-hour period in Chicago that left…
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when people that work hard with rusty cars get booted while there are school shootings, drug zombies and crime running loose in downtown except for certain gated communities and privileged areas of the city … HiHo Boots and Broken Dreams: A…
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Pilsen, Chicago 18th Street West of Ashland to Damen Is A Wasteland gentrifiers wiped out all the businesses that used to be here at 7pm May 13th 2025 18th Street once hummed with life, a vibrant artery of Pilsen pulsing…
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Step back to 1895 — this Lake Front from Illinois Central Station Chicago photo reveals a lakefront of rail yards, early Grant Park, and Lake Michigan hiding a dirty secret. But what about Streeterville, Grant Park, and downtown? They’re built…
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