HAPPY FATHER’S DAY, CHICAGO STYLE: 10 Murdered, 62 Wounded

With summer weather finally here, Chicago celebrated Father’s Day weekend with an impressive orgy of violence and mayhem. The final tally, per HeyJackass.com: 10 killed, and a whopping 62 more maimed by gunfire. Here’s the low-down by address, neighborhood, victim sex and age.  Bold indicates fatality: Friday 6/14 2:55p 2200 E 87th, Calumet Heights, M/40 … Read more

Chicago Sues Glock for Felony Misuse of Its Pistols

Glock has been selling reliable, accurate, basically bomb-proof polymer-framed, striker-fired pistols in the United States for over 30 years. In fact, they’ve sold so many of them that you’d be hard pressed to go to a pistol range in a free state and not see at least a handful in use. That fact, however, hasn’t … Read more

Even More Than the Old Boss: Chicago Has Worst Memorial Day Weekend Violence in Over a Decade

Chicago’s latest feckless Mayor “Let’s Go” Brandon Johnson formulated a new strategy to tamp down the city’s historically horrific violent crime that spikes over the Memorial Day weekend and carries through the summer each year. His plan: dispatch thirty unarmed, yellow-vested “peacekeepers” to high crime neighborhoods to try to, well, keep the peace. Mayor Johnson … Read more

Celebrating Independence Day Chicago-Style: 92 Shot, 15 Murdered Over a Very Long Weekend

Most normal Americans traditionally celebrate Independence Day with friends, family, food and fireworks. Not in Chicago. Well, maybe the “fireworks” part. The holiday weekend in Murder City, USA means traditionally an orgy of violence with little likelihood of arrest or conviction for the perpetrators. This past weekend upheld that tradition only too well. With 92 … Read more

This Summer in Chicago Won’t Be the ‘Summer of Joy’ Lori Lightfoot is Predicting

Shades of Jenny Durkin’s Summer of Love. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has looked into her Windy City crystal ball and divined that “This summer will be the summer of joy.” But from the looks of the first unofficial summer holiday, the upcoming summer in Murder City, USA is going to be anything but joyful. You … Read more

Armed Security Guard With Multiple Outstanding Warrants Kills Bystander While Shooting At a Suspect Over a Block Away

Chicago’s cesspool of violence worsens by the day. Sadly, even the innocent serve as backstops for bad guys’ errant shots on a regular basis in America’s largest open-air shooting gallery. Among the latest victims; Bobbye Johnson, a 55-year-old grandmother who was hit by an armed security guard’s errant round fired from four blocks away. The … Read more

Security Detail Shoots Armed Carjacker Trying to Steal a Police SUV Outside Cook County Board President’s Residence

How bad is the crime in Chicago? Well, a couple of weeks ago, a carjacking happened right outside Governor J.B. Pritzker’s mansion in a very exclusive residential neighborhood. And news has just come to light of an attempted carjacking of a police SUV parked outside Cook County Board Chairman Toni Preckwinkle’s home (which just happens … Read more

Citadel Hedge Fund Founder: ‘Chicago Is Like Afghanistan On a Good Day, and That’s a Problem’

In recent days, Chicago has taken a series of bad news gut punches in the national media.  Alongside the revelation that Cook County Prosecutor Kim Foxx refused to charge five gang members caught on video in a massive, deadly gun battle, news came of the Chicago Bears taking steps to leave the city for safer … Read more

Chicago Has All the Gun Control Laws. Result: 4 Dead, 46 Wounded Last Weekend

While anti-gun hysteria continues after the El Paso and Dayton shootings, Chicago’s traditionally bloody summer continues apace. Despite strict Illinois gun control laws, Murder City USA racked up another five dead and 46 maimed in mostly gang-related violence this past weekend. That includes a six-victim “mass shooting” on early Sunday morning in the 3500 block … Read more