Cook County

Nick Kangadis | December 1, 2021
Folks, I’ve been writing about the violence in Chicago for years now. For the last two years, I’ve come out with a roundup of weekend shooting…
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Nick Kangadis | November 2, 2021
The tense stand-off between Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago Police Department (CPD) labor unions looks like it’s going to continue into next…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | September 2, 2021
  The COVID and jab madness has reached a new level, as an Illinois judge recently told a divorced mom she couldn’t see her child, unless she…
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Nick Kangadis | February 25, 2021
(Headline Image: Screenshot/YouTube) A little over a year ago, I reported on a story in which large portions of Oregon and California were talking…
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Nick Kangadis | April 23, 2020
The Jussie Smollett saga plays a lot like the typical leftist playbook: Claim victimhood, get caught in an alleged scheme after claiming said…
Nick Kangadis | January 20, 2020
Last weekend, two teenagers were killed during weekend shootings in Chicago. This past weekend, yet another teenager has been killed. What do those…
Brittany M. Hughes | January 13, 2020
Cook County, Illinois, an area already rife with crime including some of the highest rates of gun violence in the country, released more than 1,000…
Nick Kangadis | November 25, 2019
Here’s hoping that the upcoming, extended Thanksgiving weekend is actually used as time to give thanks than for shooting others both intentionally…
Nick Kangadis | November 11, 2019
My hope in reporting on the weekend shootings in Chicago every Monday is to help people recognize that the numbers being reported on are people.…
Nick Kangadis | July 15, 2019
It’s crazy. Whether it’s Mayor Lori Lightfoot or the people in charge of the Chicago Police Department (CPD), they do a good job of talking about…
Nick Kangadis | June 3, 2019
Typically, the number of shootings decrease in cities the weekend following a three-day holiday weekend. Unfortunately for the city of Chicago, that…
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Brittany M. Hughes | April 8, 2019
If you think “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett was let off the hook for faking a hate crime that sucked up some $130,000 in taxpayer funding and police…