Important Takeaways:
- Not even 24 hours after President-elect Donald Trump won more votes in Illinois this general election than in the previous two, and after winning the US election in a massive red wave sweep, far-left protesters gathered outside the Trump Hotel in Obama’s Chicago.
- The protests appear to have been highly organized and well-planned before the election, given the coordination among activists, the hundreds—if not thousands—of protesters—many holding signs—and the likely pre-approved protest routes from City Hall.
- Organizers shouted into megaphones, “Trump is a fascist” and “racist,” echoing hate speech spewed by the defunct Harris-Walz campaign in the months leading up to November 5.
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- Dozens of people were arrested after clashing with police at an un-permitted protest outside the Israeli Consulate Tuesday night.
- A crowd of about 200 protesters attempted to break through a police bike line. Hundreds of Chicago police officers with riot gear, face shields and batons held the line and boxed the group in.
- Protesters again tried to engage with police, but were instead funneled through the downtown area by bike blockades.
- One said she and her fellow protesters are critical of the current administration’s handling of the war in Gaza, and want Democratic leaders over at the Democratic National Convention to hear their concerns.
- “We want an end to the genocide, not a new person leading the genocide,” she said.
- Chicago Deputy Mayor Garien Gatewood called the rally a danger to the city and its residents, and said those arrested were specifically looking to cause harm and havoc.
- “Look, I know everyone wants to believe that we can deescalate every single situation, and we can walk away. And everybody is going to be fine. There are those people who are out there right now. It’s a non starter for them. They don’t want to talk; they don’t want to negotiate. They don’t want to cooperate. They want what they want, and that’s it,” Snelling said.
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- Tensions over immigration have roiled local politics as funding to care for new arrivals strained public finances
- In Democrat-run Chicago, where the party is gathered to nominate Kamala Harris for president, a fight over migration has roiled local politics — pointing to a key vulnerability for her campaign.
- In Chicago, a different kind of tension is brewing in Black communities over migration. It’s focused not on job markets but on strained public finances — as neighborhoods unable to win enough funds for their own projects balk at the checks written to shelter new arrivals.
- Chicago is estimating funding plans of more than $400 million on the migrant crisis. That’s piling pressure on the city’s budget. The shortfall is projected to widen to almost $1 billion next year, exacerbating a decades-old fight over resources.
- Local leaders — beset with demands for cash to address other issues like homelessness, crime and economic development — are having to make tough choices.
- Alderperson Desmon Yancy, who represents the city’s fifth ward, described voting for a $70 million measure to care for migrants as a necessary but painful decision.
- Research by Kyle Moore, an economist with the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, shows that Illinois has one of the highest Black unemployment levels in the nation. He says those issues, however, are linked to longstanding problems, not a consequence of recent migration.
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- Free abortions are being offered to women who attend the Democratic National Convention this week in Chicago. Planned Parenthood is deploying an abortion bus to the Democratic presidential campaign event.
- A local branch of the abortion giant is offering drug-induced abortions aboard its bus. It’s also handing out so-called emergency contraception which consists of the morning-after pill that some pro-lifers consider to be an abortifacient drug.
- The outcry against the free abortion news has been severe across social media. SBA Pro-Life America responded to the news with a press release labeling the DNC as an “Abortion Convention.”
- “The Democratic National Abortion Convention puts the extremism of the Democrats on full display. The days when the Democrats insisted abortion should be ‘safe, legal and rare’ are history,” said SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser. “Today’s Democrats under the Harris-Walz ticket are officially the Shout Your Abortion Party.”
- Marjorie Taylor-Green (R-GA) also criticized the move, writing on X, “I thought this was fake but it’s not… It’s hard to even comprehend and it’s truly heartbreaking. Being a mother is the most precious gift, choose life.”
- In a first for a sitting president or vice president, Vice President Kamala Harris toured a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Minnesota back in March.
- “What we want is to put back in place the protections the Supreme Court took away, which is to codify, put into law, the protections of Roe v Wade, that’s what we want,” Harris told reporters at the scene.
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Important Takeaways:
- Protest organizers in Chicago expect between 30,000 and 40,000 people to join Monday’s march on the Democratic National Convention, and are asking the city for a permit that would get them closer to the event itself.
- “We’re going to march regardless, but we’re fighting for the best route possible,” said Faayani Aboma Mijana, a spokesperson for the March on the DNC coalition.
- The coalition, composed of more than 150 pro-Palestinian, anti-war, and left-wing organizations, has been planning its direct actions for months.
- Protesters’ focus had always been on Chicago, pressuring the Biden administration for a ceasefire and end to military aid to Israel.
- The Behind Enemy Lines coalition’s promotional material has told participants to prepare for clashes with law enforcement: “Make bruises from Chicago police batons the 2024 back to school Fall fashion!”
- Next week’s protests could fall a mile short of the baton-swinging nightmare Democrats are worried about, or that Behind Enemy Lines describe in their literature. It doesn’t need to be that bad to create problems, though: A few protesters finding a delegate hang-out could do it.
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Important Takeaways:
- A major group estimates tens of thousands of demonstrators will show up next week, including those bused in from nearby battleground states.
- Protest groups readying for the event say tens of thousands of people will descend on Chicago for the event to coronate Vice President Kamala Harris as the nominee after President Joe Biden abandoned his re-election bid.
- Pro-Palestinian groups say they’re expecting the same level of engagement from their members as if Biden were the nominee next week. They have already added “Killer Kamala” to “Genocide Joe” in protests
- Law enforcement officials in Chicago say that after a year and a half of planning, both the convention and the city will be safe regardless of what unfolds.
- “At this time, the FBI is not aware of any specific and articulable threats related to the DNC,” the FBI statement said. “We will continue to evaluate and share intelligence received from domestic and international partners related to the DNC just as we would for any large-scale event within the Chicago area.”
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- Hundreds of people in a southern Illinois town were ordered to evacuate Tuesday as water rolled over the top of a dam, just one perilous result of severe weather that raged through Midwest overnight with relentless rain and tornadoes and hit the Chicago area especially hard.
- Hundreds of thousands of people lost power, and even weather forecasters had to briefly scramble for safety.
- A woman in Indiana died after a tree fell on a home Monday night.
- Water overtopped a dam near Nashville, Illinois, sending first responders out to ensure everyone got out safely. There were no reports of injuries in the community of 3,000, southeast of St. Louis, but a woman reported water up to her waist in her home, said Alex Haglund, a spokesperson for the Washington County Emergency Management Agency.
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Important Takeaways:
- At Least 32 Shot During Easter Weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Chicago
- ABC 7 reported that the weekend’s first fatal shooting occurred Friday, when a 29-year-old man was shot in a drive-by incident in a parking lot “in the 800-block of 87th Street.”
- At 12:20 p.m. Saturday, a 41-year-old man was shot and fatally wounded while sitting inside a home “in the 8200 block of South Elizabeth Street.” He was transported to a hospital, where he died.
- Five females were shot on Easter Sunday at 1:00 a.m. The Associated Press noted that this shooting occurred when “an unknown assailant fired multiple shots toward them and fled the scene.”
- The Chicago Sun-Times pointed out that 103 people were killed in Chicago January 1, 2024, through March 31, 2024.
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Important Takeaways:
- Gang Members Outnumber Police 22 To 1 In The City Of Chicago, And The Ratio Just Keeps Getting Worse
- Criminal gangs are thriving in most of our major urban areas, and Joe Biden’s open border policies are greatly fueling their growth.
- Today, the CPD has identified more than 280,000 gang members in the city of Chicago…
- The Chicago Police Department maintains two massive gang databases, collectively labeling more than 280,000 people as “gang members.” 95% of those people listed are people of color, most being young men in their late teens and 20s, but also thousands being Black and Latinx youth and elders.
- And it is important to note that these are just the individuals that the CPD has been able to identify and put into their databases.
- Meanwhile, the size of the CPD has been hovering just above 12,000…
- However, the size of the Chicago Police Department was essentially unchanged on Johnson’s 100th day in office as compared with his first day in office. CPD had 12,360 employees on Johnson’s first full day in office and 12,363 employees on Monday, according to a city database. The number of sworn officers has also remained steady, with 11,720 officers on duty as of May 1, and 11,722 on the force as of Aug. 1, according to a database maintained by the Chicago Police Department.
- Once I had the numbers, I did the math, and I discovered that gang members now outnumber police in the city of Chicago by a ratio of 22 to 1.
- Memphis is another city that has an absolutely massive gang problem.
- It is being reported that the mayor recently met with gang leaders and “asked them to agree to a seven-day ceasefire”…
- The Atlanta metropolitan area is also caught in a downward spiral. Crime is completely out of control, and over the weekend a massive riot that involved hundreds of young people made headlines all over the nation…
- One person was shot when suspects opened fire on police during a riot involving hundreds of ‘youths’ at a Six Flags amusement park in Georgia over the weekend, according to reports.
- The shocking string of events unfolded on Saturday evening in Austell, a city in the Atlanta metro region.
- Thousands of people turned out for opening day at Six Flags Over Georgia before the event devolved into extreme mob violence.
- Hundreds of mostly-younger guests began fighting and sowing chaos throughout the park, forcing evacuations as security lost control of the crowd.
- Right now, the state of California is experiencing an absolutely relentless crime wave, and authorities are telling us that approximately 300,000 gang members currently reside there…
- This week, we learned that the Biden administration has actually been flying hundreds of thousands of “asylum seekers” directly into the United States…
- A Freedom of Information Act lawsuit has revealed that the Biden administration has flown at least 320,000 migrants into the United States in an effort to reduce the number of crossings at the southern border, according to Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies.
- Overall, it is being estimated that there will be over 8 million “asylum seekers” living in the U.S. “by the end of September”…
- More than 8 million asylum seekers and other migrants will be living inside the U.S in legal limbo by the end of September — a roughly 167% increase in five years, according to internal government projections obtained by Axios.
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Important Takeaways:
- Chicago is so unpleasant migrants are fleeing BACK to Venezuela after being dumped in shelters and refused jobs, with 20,700 border crossers so-far bussed to Dem-run ‘sanctuary city’
- Since August last year, 20,700 migrants have arrived in Chicago from Texas. The Lone Star State’s Governor Greg Abbott sent migrants to Chicago and other Democrat-run cities because of their proud status as ‘sanctuary cities.’ They offer enhanced protection against detention or deportation for undocumented migrants.
- Now, Illinois’ harsh winters, lack of migrant infrastructure, and ambivalent support from locals has made many people, who undertook the harsh US-Mexico border journey, actually turn around and go back home.
- Michael Castejon, 39, told the Chicago Tribune: ‘The American Dream doesn’t exist anymore. There’s nothing here for us.’
- ‘We didn’t know things would be this hard. I thought the process was faster,’ he said about the job permit situation in Chicago.
- The city is also notorious for violent crime, with migrants forced to sleep in public more vulnerable to attack than most.
- At least 40 people in the last month have left Chicago’s 1st District station to either move back home or elsewhere in the States, with the help of Catholic Charities of Chicago.
- While most hail from Venezuela, they come from all over the world, including Africa, Europe and the Middle East.
- The city has allocated $4 million to help migrants find temporary housing, and the state has contributed another $38 million.
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