Showing posts with label Chicagoland. Show all posts
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Paging Mr. Holder!!

Paging Mr. Holder!!

August 26, 2014 Chicago , Chicagoland 0 Comments
Chicagoland Weekend: Four Killed, 24 Wounded

Aug. 25, 2014


Four people were killed overnight in Chicago shootings.

Police say the most recent victim was a 17-year-old boy shot in the 2200 block of South Marshall at around 6 a.m. Sunday.

The victim was speaking with friends when two men approached the group shouting gang slogans and fired a gun. The teen was struck twice in the chest and taken to a local hospital in critical condition where he was later pronounced dead.

A 30-year-old man was shot in the chest and later pronounced dead at a local hospital. A 39-year-old was shot in the buttocks and was listed in stable condition, a 32-year-old was shot in the chest and taken in serious condition to Stroger Hospital, and a 41-year-old was shot in the left ankle.

No arrests have been made in the case.

A man was killed in front of a home in the 800 block of West 50th Place at about 2:45 a.m.

Police say the 40-year-old male was sitting on a porch when a light-colored vehicle pulled up. The victim walked up to the car and someone fired a gun, striking him in the left part of his chest. No arrests have been made in the case.

Shortly before 2 a.m. Sunday, three people were shot and one was killed at a party in the backyard of a home in the 5000 block of West Potomac.

Police say a person appeared from an alley and began firing. A 33-year-old man was shot in the torso. He was unresponsive when emergency crews arrived. Two other men were also shot but did not suffer life-threatening injuries.

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Sunday, August 24, 2014

Jesse, Al, Holder, Obama?

August 24, 2014 Antonio Smith , Chicagoland 0 Comments
Chicagoland: 9-yr-old Is Executed: Where's The Outrage?

Antonio Smith
Source:  www.chicagotribune.com
By John Kass, Aug. 22, 2014, Chicagotribune.com

Antonio Smith, 9 years old, was assassinated the other day.

He was Chicago's youngest fatal shooting victim this year. He was shot at least four times and fell in a backyard on the South Side.

And when I went out there on 71st and Woodlawn less than 24 hours after he was murdered, here's what I didn't see:

I didn't see protesters waving their hands in the air for network TV cameras. I didn't see the Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson playing their usual roles in the political race card game.

I didn't see white college anarchists hiding behind their white plastic Guy Fawkes masks talking about being oppressed by the state. I didn't see politicians equivocating. But the worst thing I didn't see was this:
That's not a drive-by, that's not an accident. That sounds like an execution.- Rev. Michael Pfleger

I didn't see the theatrical outrage that you see in Ferguson, Mo. A white cop in Ferguson — a place most people never heard of just two weeks ago — shoots a black teenager and the nation knows what to do. The actors scream out their roles on cue.

But in Chicago, a black child is assassinated, and Attorney General Eric Holder isn't on his way here. There are no hashtag campaigns saying #saveourboys. And instead of loud anger, there is numb silence.

"It's only the second day. I don't know what will happen," said Helen Cross, 82, a neighbor who lives down the street from the shooting. She's lived in the neighborhood for 49 years.

"Everybody says it's a shame," she said. "It was terrible. But nobody's … nobody is …"

Her voice trailed off.

Angry?

She nodded.

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Friday, July 4, 2014

Chicagoland: 13 Shot Holiday Weekend --'It's like an everyday normal thing'

July 04, 2014 Chicagoland , Chicagotribune.com 0 Comments
By Peter Nickeas, Jul. 4, 2014, Chicagotribune.com

At least 13 people have been shot in Chicago at the start of the long holiday weekend, including a woman killed as she sat on a porch near Garfield Park and a man slain in front of a hair salon on the South Side, police said.

Shambreyh R. Barfield, 21, was sitting with a friend at a two-flat in the 3800 block of West Monroe Street Thursday afternoon when four or five masked men drove past in a blue sedan and fired, apparently aiming for someone else, police said.

Barfield was hit in the head and the friend, a 21-year-old woman, was shot in the left arm. Barfield, of the 6000 block of South Winchester Avenue, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Her friend was taken to Stroger Hospital, where her condition was stabilized.

A teen at the scene, whose mother did not want him identified, said he saw a woman slumped over on the porch after he heard what sounded like fireworks. "I think it was like 10 or 8 shots," he said. "They told me, 'Run!' So we ran."

The mother of the boy, Andrea Byes, said she is planning to move out of the two-flat where she lives with her children because of the violence, drug sales and loitering on the block.

"I'm not surprised something like this happened," said Byes, 40. "It was a matter of time. They're all over everywhere. . .These people are used to it. It's like an everyday normal thing, and it's sad that these children have to grow up thinking it's an everyday normal thing."

Another shooting overnight left one dead and one wounded in West Englewood. The two were hit when someone fired from inside or near a black car about 2:40 a.m. Friday in a stripmall at 63rd Street and Damen Avenue.

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Saturday, May 31, 2014

Chicagoland: Special Ed Teacher Killed By Stray Bullet: 'It's Unreal' --welfare state=fatherless communities=crime

May 31, 2014 Adam Sege , Betty Howard 0 Comments
By Jeremy Gorner, Adam Sege and Carlos Sadovi, May 30, 2014

Betty Howard was just going to be a minute. She left the hazard lights of her car flashing as she dashed into a real estate office along a busy stretch of East 79th Street in Chatham to drop off some paperwork at her second job.

As she talked and laughed with co-workers inside late Thursday afternoon, a gang dispute erupted on the street. Bullets tore through a wall, one grazing Louis Hardy, 58, who dived to the floor before noticing Howard lying nearby with a gunshot to the head.

“My mind is racing, I’m trying to decide how best I could help her,” Hardy recalled today.

Howard's eyes were wide open, as if she were pleading for help. Hardy said he bent down and told her, “Hold on. Help is on the way.”

Howard died minutes later.

Hardy was grazed in the stomach and treated on the scene. A third person, a 23-year-old woman, was shot in the hand as she walked her Shih Tzu dog outside. She took cover at the corner and then realized she had been wounded.

Howard, 58, was among 14 people shot on the south and west sides Thursday, including a man seriously wounded near an elementary school on the West Side as children were being let out.

She was a respected special education teacher at one of Chicago’s highest-achieving public schools and the mother of two adult children. Her loss was mourned at Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy and by neighbors, relatives and colleagues.

Howard’s brother is a veteran Chicago cop who said the pain he sees every day on the streets was now "hitting home."

“I deal with it all day, every day, because I do work the streets and I'm aware of what's going on in the Chicagoland area. But it just has to stop,” Officer Orlando Long said outside Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where Howard was pronounced dead.

“I feel the pain, I know how other people feel now when we just go to the scenes and do what we have to do as a police officer," he said. "But now it’s hitting home and it’s a terrible situation.”

Howard regularly dropped by the real estate office in the 700 block of East 79th to catch up on paperwork or use the copier or fax machine, Hardy said. He had worked in the office since February and knew Howard as someone who was “down to earth” and had a good sense of humor. He could tell she was very committed to children.

Thursday afternoon, Howard was “kind of relaxing and going with the flow. . .She probably wasn’t there more than 10 minutes. She was telling us about her students at the school where she taught at, Gwendolyn Brooks."

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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Chicagoland: Where Did Mayor Rahm Emanuel Go To High School? By Larry Elder

April 16, 2014 Academia , Articles by Larry Elder 0 Comments
By Larry Elder, Apr. 15, 2014

The fascinating CNN reality show, “Chicagoland,” follows the high and lows of a hardworking, charismatic principal, Liz Dozier of Fenger High, an inner-city public school.

We watch her struggle for funding while operating under constant fear of gang-related violence. Chicago has had 76 murders so far this year, putting them on track for 260 murders in 2014, after 509 murders in 2012 and 421 in 2013. The murders are mostly black urban victims and black urban perps, What high school principal goes out on the street, with a bullhorn, to ensure that kids can walk safely to and from school -- without getting shot? Repeat, without getting shot. Welcome to Chicago.

In one scene, the principal literally maps out “safe passage zones” where, she hopes, kids walk to school without being shot by gang members who are unhappy that “outsiders” have crossed into their neighborhood.

In a city of one-third whites, only 8 percent of the public school student body is white. Nationwide, 10 percent of all families send their own kids to private school, and for black families the rate is 5 percent. Among public school teachers in Chicago, however, 39 percent send their own kids to a private school!

What parent with options would send a child to a school like Fenger? Yet lefties like Rahm Emanuel oppose vouchers -- where the money follows the child -- which would give parents at least a fighting chance in choosing a better school.

This is not Baghdad. This is not Beirut. This is Chicago. It has been called the murder capital of the country, and in some years has the nation’s highest number of murders annually. And a recent investigation has just revealed that the Chicago police has under-reported aggravated assault and aggravated battery crimes by 25 percent -- and has done so for years!

The city is about one-third black, one-third white and one-third Hispanic. But blacks commit 70 percent of the city’s murders, and the victim is almost always black. Large numbers of inner-city kids come from homes without fathers, a phenomenon that is a direct result of 50 years of welfare-state policies that undermine the integrity of families.

“Chicagoland” also follows around its dynamic mayor, Rahm Emanuel, the wealthy former chief of staff of President Barack Obama and senior advisor to then-President Bill Clinton. One of his primary objectives is to improve the performance of Chicago public schools. To this end, we see the cheerleading mayor visiting urban schools and high-fiving students.

But what we really see is yet another rich elitist encouraging excellence at a school his parents would not allow him to set foot in, let alone attend. Violence? Low academic standards? Constant scrambling for funds? The school’s beleaguered principal mapping out “safe passage zones,” where “peace monitors” would accompany students as they walk across “gang lines”?

Emanuel likes to say that he believes in public education because he is a product of public schools. Really? But where did Rahm I-believe-in-public-schools Emanuel go to high school?

He attended New Trier High School, a public school perhaps like no other. It was founded in 1901, by wealthy Northsiders, as the Wikipedia put it, “to enable parents to educate their children without sending them to college preparatory schools on the Eastern seaboard.”

New Trier High is considered by many to be among the finest public high schools in America, and has been featured on the cover of many national magazines stories about New Trier’s academic rigor and its many distinguished graduates.

From Wikipedia:

 “In 1928, New Trier began its advisory system, the first such in American public secondary education, in which each student meets with one faculty adviser and the same fellow advisory students every morning throughout his or her career. …

“New Trier spends more than $15,000 yearly per student, well above the state average of $8,786. It has been included in the ‘Top Hundred’ and ‘Most Successful’ lists of the National Association of Secondary School Principals, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Parade magazine. The school was also identified as ‘quite possibly the best public school in America’ by Town & Country, in a six-page article on New Trier that cited the ‘rich’ and ‘demanding’ curriculum, extensive arts and activities, strong participation in athletics, and faculty of the caliber typically found teaching at good colleges. Life magazine also recognized New Trier as one of the best high schools in America with cover stories in 1950 and 1998.

“Approximately 98 percent of the class of 2013 went on to college. Of these students, 37 were National Merit Semifinalists, 31 were National Merit Finalists, and 67 received letters of commendation. For the class of 2006, the mean SAT verbal score was 620 and the mean SAT math score was 650. For the class of 2013, the mean ACT composite score was 27.5, the highest in Illinois for an open enrollment public school and among the top school scores in the United States. According to an article by the University of Michigan Department of Psychology, ‘New Trier students outperform their Illinois classmates on every conceivable measure.’ The article also points out that 92 percent of the school's funding comes from the high property taxes of its affluent surroundings.”

Emanuel’s condescending embrace of a public school system his own high-striving parents would have rejected says a great deal about America’s left elite. It demonstrates yet again the liberal’s soft bigotry of low expectations.

You see, for Rahm Emanuel, it’s New Trier. For you, it’s Fenger High.


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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Chicagoland: Weekend Leaves 4 Dead, 37 Wounded --Murder capital of USA, city crime stats UNDERSTATED by 25%

April 15, 2014 Chicago , Chicago Police Department 0 Comments
By Josh McGhee, Apr. 14, 2014

CHICAGO — A 24-year-old man shot in West Pullman Sunday night was at least the 37th person shot in a violent three-day stretch in Chicago.  

Four people were killed on the first weekend of the year to feature a stretch of warm weather, and the violence began as the school day ended on the warm Friday afternoon when a teenage girl, Gakira Barnes, was fatally shot in Woodlawn.  

The most recent shooting occurred around 10:15 p.m. Sunday evening. A 24-year-old man was walking in the 12200 block of South Emerald Avenue when he heard shots and felt pain, said Officer Hector Alfaro, a Chicago Police Department spokesman.  

The man was shot in his right foot and taken to Roseland Hospital in stable condition, Alfaro said.

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