Nice try Stacy but criticism of your joining the mayor on his trip to Rome was not related to race. It had everything to do with your open hostility toward poor families receiving public support to attend parochial schools.
Under your leadership, CTU pressured “Captain Courageous”—Governor Pritzker and the Illinois General Assembly—to end the Invest in Kids scholarship program, which benefited more than 15,000 low-income families.
During COVID, you and CTU leadership unsuccessfully pressured the General Assembly to prevent Catholic schools from resuming in-person learning while city public schools remained shuttered for 78 weeks.
You are leading the effort to lobby Gov. Pritzker to opt out of the federal scholarship program, which would provide hundreds of millions of dollars in educational assistance and tuition support to lower-income families whose children attend private schools.
Did the Pope know that Mayor Johnson’s entourage included individuals—including the mayor himself—who have been hostile to supporting poor Black families seeking to send their children to parochial schools?
For example, your efforts stripped 175 scholarships from Hope Academy’s 300 high school students on Chicago’s West Side. You and the mayor should have asked the Pope for absolution!
BREAKING: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy reveals that the bus driver who caused a crash on I-95 in Virginia that killed five people, including a little boy, is a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in China, doesn’t speak English, and was given a CDL by New York in 2024.
The suspected bank robber killed in a shootout with the FBI yesterday was:
1) on felony pretrial release
2) previously convicted of robbing a bank in the suburbs
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“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
May we always live worthy of their sacrifice, honor their memory, and never forget the brave Americans who paid the ultimate price.
Welcome to the kickoff weekend of another #SummerOfJoy in #Chicago
Out of the gate we have kids making #SillyDecisions and being out on the street in groups at 3AM. And groups of yutes are where #MassShootings like to occur, like this one in the 2500 block of South Washtenaw
The Chicago Police Department stands with the Chicago Fire Department in honor of Engineer Steven Decker, who was laid to rest today.
Our thoughts are with his family, friends and fellow CFD members, especially those of Engine Co. 71.
You have to love JB Pritzker moaning about the incompetent Mayor Brandon Johnson as they both play the “who lost the Bears” game. Johnson will eventually try to blame it on race, while Pritzker will no doubt find a way to blame it on Trump.
Just a reminder…
Pritzker is largely responsible for Johnson becoming mayor and for providing Johnson’s former employer and current puppet master, Stacy Davis Gates, the power to hold the city and its elected officials hostage by authorizing the CTU to strike for virtually any reason.
#CFD Engineer Steven M. Decker of E71 suffered a medical emergency during an annual equipment test Thurs in the West Ridge neighborhood. Engineer Decker later died at St. Francis Hospital. We are asking for prayers for the entire Decker & CFD families during this difficult time.
UPDATE: We have confirmed there was an altercation between two individuals outside the Kosher Jewel in Evanston. A firearm was present, but police determined it was being carried legally.
Law enforcement quickly de-escalated the situation, and the individual was released. We are thankful for the swift and professional response from officers on the scene.
You just can't hate Chicago media enough.
Yesterday, @CWBChicago reported Kim Foxx admitted under oath she believed two men convicted for a grisly murder were guilty of the crime, yet her office helped clear them.
This should have been front-page news.
Not one word.