Illinois

U.S. 01/17/22, 05:39

An independent regulatory watchdog criticized a Democrat from Chicago for misinformation and wasting taxpayer money. Chicago's Office of the Inspector General has released a scathing report on Mayor Lori Lightfoot's handling of a wrongful police raid. Inspector General David Hoffman slammed the mayor and head of the police accountability office for making ...

U.S. 01/14/22, 15:13

The Satanic temple—an alleged "religion"—set up a didactic workshop for students that generated anger and concern among parents who learned about it from a flyer circulated at the school. A controversial school workshop for first through fifth graders on the Satanic temple was established at Jane Addams Elementary School in Moline, ...

U.S. 12/20/21, 16:54

The municipality building of Springfield, the capital of Illinois, authorized the Satanic Temple to place a statue of a "baby Baphomet"—the name given to Satan this Dec. 20—to remain on display during the Christmas holidays, in a clear challenge to the Christian faith. The "artwork" composed by a "horror artist" from ...

News 12/20/21, 15:48

On Friday, the governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, repealed the last state pro-life law that required abortion clinics to notify parents when a minor seeks an abortion. This generated strong statements of rejection from pro-life advocates, including a Catholic bishop who called the move a "dark and shameful" moment for ...

U.S. 12/12/21, 15:29

On Friday night, Dec. 3, a tornado collapsed an Amazon warehouse in Illinois, killing at least six people, with a number still unaccounted for.More than a dozen tornadoes swept through five states in the South and Midwest, injuring many people and trapping dozens of workers at an Amazon warehouse in ...

U.S. 11/23/21, 00:27

According to Fox News, Illinois Democrat Mary Lemanski attempted to characterize the Christmas parade disaster in Waukesha, Wisconsin, as a sort of retaliation for Kyle Rittenhouse's acquittal in Kenosha on Friday, Nov. 19, has resigned from her post. Lemanski received varied reactions after calling the tragic Wisconsin Christmas parade "karma" ...

New York 11/21/21, 15:42

A court's decision to acquit an accused shooter sparked widespread protests in New York and Portland, plus looting in Chicago on Nov. 19. Masses of activists shoplifted and demonstrated after Kenosha County Circuit Court freed Kyle Rittenhouse. Demonstrators showed strong dissatisfaction with Judge Bruce Schroeder, and a randomly selected jury. They made ...

News 11/18/21, 16:09

Repeatedly firing powerful laser beams turned water into a dark and hot solid. University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory researchers have turned iced water turns into a "strange, black" substance called superionic ice. The team made the discovery after crushing a droplet of water between two diamonds. They then repeatedly exposed ...

New York 11/10/21, 15:58

A controversial infrastructure bill would not have passed without support from GOP representatives, a previous president said on Nov. 8. Donald Trump used his speech to the annual National Republican Congressional Committee dinner to strongly criticize 13 party members who supported the $1.2 trillion package. The following Republican representatives supported the Democrat-led ...

U.S. 11/07/21, 05:27

Illinois mother Sabrina Dunigan, 34, faces criminal charges in connection with the deaths of her five small children in an apartment fire on Aug. 6, when they were home alone. According to charges filed by Illinois state fire marshal's office investigator Greg Vespa, Dunigan had left her children home alone and ...

U.S. 10/17/21, 15:18

Actor Jussie Smollett will go on trial in late November, after an Illinois court denied his bid to dismiss an alleged hate crime case. Lawyer Hail Mary failed to convince the Circuit Court of Cook County to dismiss allegations that Smollett lied to police. He also faces six counts of disorderly ...

U.S. 10/08/21, 15:29

The coal industry is experiencing an unprecedented boom given the sharp increase in global energy consumption, prompting mining companies to offer better incentives to attract more workers. Miners could be earning as much as $100,000 a year, and companies are now offering childcare for their children in an effort to take ...

Washington 10/08/21, 04:53

As the White House tries to get back on the offensive in handling the pandemic, President Biden made a case for COVID-19 (CCP virus) vaccination regulations and urged more corporations to require their employees to get vaccinated. "I'm calling more employers to act," Biden said on Thursday, Oct. 7, during a ...

U.S. 09/25/21, 02:27

Jelani Day, a 25-year-old graduate student at Illinois State University, was pursuing his master's degree in speech pathology. Day went missing on Aug. 24, and his car was discovered two days later in a forested location miles distant from where he was last seen. Day's mother, Carmen Bolden Day, stepped out in ...

U.S. 09/11/21, 05:45

Gun violence in Chicago, Illinois, has caused a high number of children aged 17 and under to be shot this year, police reported. In 2021, a total of 261 children have already been injured by gunshots, of which 41 were killed, Fox News reported Sept. 10. This number is higher than ...

New York 09/03/21, 00:59

As cities and states in the United States announce that all state or municipal employees must have the COVID vaccine in order to work, a large portion of them working in key sectors such as police, firefighters, health care professionals, and even train operators are refusing to comply with the ...