Category Archives: Chicago

Brandon Johnson Confirms Chicago Fire Department Recruitment Based on Race

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Be careful with fires if you live in Chicago. Given the effect DEI has on everything it touches, the competency of the fire department can be expected to decline. Black Lives Matter Mayor Brandon Johnson confirms that recruitment is based on race:

Begging the obvious question,

The answer is that voters rejected merit by electing Johnson mayor.

On a tip from abcanc.

Woman Facing Robbery Charge Sues Target for Not Hiring Her

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In the olden days, trouble with the law counted against jobseekers. Now, it could be a point in their favor. Who would dare fail to hire a criminal if a lawsuit by Courtney McElrath-Bey of Chicago succeeds?

Via CWB Chicago:

Her lawsuit, filed in February and first reported by Legal Newsline, seeks damages and could expand to cover other applicants who were denied jobs under similar circumstances.

Brace yourself, Target. Here comes another looting spree.

According to the complaint, Target extended McElrath-Bey a conditional offer in October for a job described as an “order picker or warehouse associate” contingent on the results of a background check.

It came to light that she faces charges for robbery and aggravated battery.

Her lawsuit claims Target’s decision violates the state’s 2021 Employee Background Fairness Act, which amended the Illinois Human Rights Act to make the use of criminal history in hiring decisions a civil rights violation in many cases.

Background checks are discriminatory. In liberal utopia, they will be abolished.

In addition to the pending robbery case, Chicago Police Department and court documents show that McElrath-Bey was arrested on December 26, 2025, at a Walmart on the Far South Side.

Walmart accused her of retail theft and criminal trespassing but failed to follow through by sending a representative to court. Now she is Target’s problem. But what goes around will come around.

On a tip from R F.

Pritzker’s Plan to Ghettoize Chicago Suburbs

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To achieve liberal utopia, formerly livable suburbs must be reduced to extensions of inner city ghettos. From the state that gave us the infamous Cabrini–Green housing projects, DuPage Policy Journal reports on Illinois Governor JB Pritzker’s suburban Section 8 housing plan:

Taking aim at single family homeowners in the Chicago suburbs, Pritkzer said their “shameful” opposition to taxpayer-subsidized Section 8 apartments are responsible for driving up the cost of Illinois housing.

It’s all about affordability. Housing is more affordable when other people are forced to pay for it.

Community zoning laws “have made it too difficult and costly to build new (Section 8) housing,” Pritzker said, chiding suburban Illinoisans who oppose high-density, subsidized apartments as old-fashioned and behind the “times.”

Unscrupulous developers who rely on coercive financing via Big Government love Pritzker’s plan.

Pritzker was also lauded by non-profits paid by the state to move the mentally-ill out of institutions and into subsidized rental apartments. …

Pritzker’s plan would also require communities to accept government-subsidized housing for people with “serious mental illness” through non-profits funded by taxpayers.

Those with substance abuse problems will also be granted subsidized homes in formerly nice neighborhoods.

As with the Black Lives Matter riots, Minneapolis provides a model for others to emulate:

Minneapolis was the first community in the U.S. to try barring single-family home zoning, in 2018. New housing development, as measured by housing permits issued, has fallen by 88 percent there since 2020, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

That must do wonders for affordability.

White picket fences are racist. They will be replaced by chain link topped with barbed wire after middle class American culture has been eradicated. Social engineering = cultural genocide.

On a tip from abcanc.

Why It Is Unsafe to Set Foot in Chicago

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Activist judges have reduced Chicago to a war zone. The latest outrage, via Breitbart:

A Democrat judge has released a Chicago man with 57 prior arrests after he pleaded guilty to using a metal bar to smash a man’s jaw in a sneak attack.

The suspect, Pierre Thorne, 32, was charged after a December 8, 2022, attack on a 53-year-old man in Chicago’s downtown Loop area.

Thorne did not know his victim, whom he attacked from behind.

In addition to the shattered jaw, the victim lost several teeth, suffered multiple facial fractures, had damage to his nose, lacerations to his face and scalp, and an abrasion to his left eye. The victim also required several constructive surgeries, but his face is permanently disfigured.

No matter. Maybe it was racial justice.

Cook County Circuit Judge Joanne Rosado sentenced him to four years in prison, but because he was handed a 752-day credit for time served and given a 50 percent sentence reduction, he will be set free…

Where Democrats have consolidated control, the authorities represent criminals, not their victims. That’s why Lawrence Reed was free to set a woman on fire on a Chicago train despite 71 prior arrests.

In a sane world, Joanne Rosado would be held responsible for the future acts of random violence by Pierre Thorne that she has made inevitable. But if this were a sane world, we would not allow moonbats to control our courts and cities.

On a tip from DCGere.

Brandon Johnson Lays Out Ideological Basis of Chicago Crime

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Crime in the Democrat stronghold Chicago is out of control. Residents cannot even hold a Christmas tree lighting ceremony without people getting killed:

A 14-year-old boy shot and killed Friday night in the Loop, just hours after the city’s annual Christmas tree lighting downtown, is being remembered as a funny, basketball-loving teen with a bright future.

The deadly shooting, which also wounded an 18-year-old man, was the second of two shooting incidents in the Loop less than an hour apart late Friday night. Hundreds of young people had gathered downtown to participate in a so-called “teen takeover” that was advertised on social media, adding to the thousands already downtown for the Christmas tree lighting.

In total, nine young people were shot in the separate incidents.

The source of the crime is cultural; the welfare state has been used breed a population of sociopathic savages. The reason the crime is allow to flourish is ideological. Black Lives Matter Mayor Brandon Johnson lays it out:

To quote:

“We cannot incarcerate our way out of violence.”

Why not? Because:

“It is racist.”

That is liberals’ BLM ideology in a nutshell. Enforcing the law is racist, so criminals must be allowed to run amok terrorizing the law-abiding. If you don’t like it, you are a racist and will be dealt with appropriately as soon as Democrats have the political leverage. That’s when they will have a use for the police.

On a tip from abcanc.

Chicago Maniac Who Set Woman on Fire Had 71 Prior Arrests

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Bleeding heart liberals are right about one thing. Career criminals do not deserve all of the blame for the mayhem they inflict. Others are arguably more responsible. Consider the case of Lawrence Reed:

Federal prosecutors allege Reed intentionally used gasoline and a lighter to set a woman on fire aboard a [Chicago Transit Authority] Blue Line train at about 9:30 p.m. Monday.

U.S. District Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois Andrew Boutros said the woman was “minding her own business and reading her phone” while seated in the middle of the train car, when Reed approached her from the back of the car, doused her head and body with gasoline, and attempted to ignite the liquid.

Maybe he was inspired by his colleague Decarlos Brown, who slit Iryna Zarutska’s throat as she sat minding her own business on the Charlotte light rail. Moonbats might start a GoFundMe for Reed like they did for Brown.

The woman ran to the back of the car, as he ignited the rest of the liquid in the bottle and then used it to light her on fire, according to the complaint.

Footage allegedly showed Reed watching the woman, engulfed in flames, as she tried to put out the fire by rolling on the floor.

In Charlotte, the victim was the only Caucasian in that part of the car and the other passengers acted as if nothing were happening. What you don’t fix, stays broken:

Boutros said as the woman was rolling on the ground, desperately trying to put out the fire, no one came to her aid.

She is in critical condition with severe burns including to her face.

As in all of these cases, Reed has a long résumé. He had already been arrested 71 times in Cook County.

If someone lets a rattlesnake loose in a nursery, who is to blame when a baby gets bitten? Of course you take care that the snake will never bite again, but the moral responsibility belongs to the liberals who time and again unleash people like Reed at the public’s throat for warped ideological reasons. The judges and Soros-appointed DAs who let them loose need to be tried as accomplices to the crimes that inevitably follow.

But then, where do you draw the line? Surely everyone who votes for pro-criminal Democrats bears some of the guilt.

They are angling to get Reed off for setting the woman on fire with the insane insanity defense. This defense might also apply to liberal judges — and for that matter to Democrat voters.

On tips from seaoh and abcanc.

Brandon Johnson Asks United Nations to Take Action Against USA

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The moonbats running Chicago and by extension Illinois are hostile to the rest of the country, as they emphasize by siding with criminal foreign invaders against federal law enforcement. Brandon Johnson makes their allegiances more obvious than ever as he pleas with America’s globalist adversaries in the United Nations to take action against us.

Yelped Brandon Johnson before the UN Human Rights Council:

“I call on this council to hold the federal government of the United States to the same standards of accountability you apply elsewhere in the world. No country should be above international law. Human rights are universal–or they are meaningless. Chicago has long been part of this struggle. I invite the U.N.’s independent experts to visit Chicago to witness both our challenges and our progress firsthand. And I urge the Human Rights Council to consider additional measures of accountability, including a special session to examine the worsening human rights crisis in the United States.”

Democrats can count on the UN’s support in their efforts to displace the American population with vast hordes of unlawful moochers from the Third World:

Beyond the operations of liberal NGOs, the UN has been one of the most prominent forces behind propaganda and funding for migrant caravans seeking to invade the US. UN agencies like the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) provide humanitarian aid, including cash assistance, debit cards, shelter, food, and transportation assistance, to migrants in countries from South America to the U.S. border.

Watch along with MSNBC viewers as Chicago’s Black Lives Matter mayor proclaims that he is “defending humanity” from the President of the United States:

On a tip from RoCar.