The city of Chicago’s pension funds only generated $90 million in investment income but paid retirees $999 million in 2015, according to Chicago City Wire. Chicago is just one of several cities or states facing a crisis in which pension ...
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An American City Banned Gun Ranges. Guess Which One?
WASHINTON — Second Amendment advocates won a major victory in a major American city last month when the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a Chicago ordinance that restricted shooting ranges to industrial areas. The city earlier had passed an ...
Read More »3 Easy Ways To Cook Plantain, The Spinach-Like ‘Survival Weed’
I grew up in Chicago and remember seeing plantain growing in yards and parkways along city streets. What always caught my eye were the slender seed stalks emerging from a nest of green leaves. I had no idea they were ...
Read More »Major U.S. City ‘Disappears’ 7,000 Citizens In Secret Facility
More than 7,000 people may have been “disappeared,” held and interrogated in a secret and unconstitutional detention facility in the heart of America’s third-largest city. The Guardian newspaper is alleging that Chicago police operated a secret holding facility for more ...
Read More »Mom Cited With ‘Inadequate Supervision’ While She WAS WATCHING Her Kids
Natasha Felix cannot volunteer at her children’s school and has trouble finding work as a home health aide because she let her children play outside as she watched them from her window — something millions of parents have done. In ...
Read More »Another Hospital Has Seized A Child Simply Because Mom Disagreed With Doctors
A Missouri mother has permanently lost custody of her son to authorities in another state simply because she disagreed with doctors at a Chicago hospital. Isaiah Rider, 17, is now a ward of the state of Illinois even though he ...
Read More »An Off-The-Books Police Interrogation Compound … Right Here In America?
Police in Chicago circumvented the Constitution by setting up a so-called “black site,” a secret jail where US citizens were held without charges or access to lawyers — and even possibly abused, The Guardian newspaper is alleging. The police are ...
Read More »Gun Grabbers Are In Denial Over The Latest Concealed Carry-Crime Data
The Chicago crime rate has finally shown some signs of decreasing – and a debate has broken out over the reasons behind the drop. City officials credit better police work with the drop in violent crime and theft in the ...
Read More »Smile: New Law Requires You Be Videotaped When You Buy A Gun
Chicago lawmakers have approved a new gun control law that restricts handgun purchases to one per month, requires a waiting period before a gun is obtained, and mandates that all gun sales be videotaped. The new ordinance comes on the ...
Read More »Mom Forced To Join Union Just To Care For Ill Son
A Chicago mom is being forced to join a union in order to continue caring for her chronically ill son, although she is not giving up and is fighting it in court. Pam Harris has opted to stay at home ...
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