Mayor Johnson wants to spend it all!

City treasurer proposes abolishing $57M Catalyst Fund to avert midyear layoffs
The fund was included in then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s 2017 budget as a way to bridge the funding gap between Downtown and the rest of the city. But the fund never generated a penny of outside investments. 




City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin wants to get rid of the Chicago Catalyst Fund as a way to help avert police and fire department layoffs.

City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin wants to disband a fund created a decade ago to jump-start development in South and West Side neighborhoods, and use the remaining $57 million to prevent the city’s midyear budget shortfall from triggering police and fire department layoffs.

Bud Billiken Parade Disaster

  

Sort of like the South Side Irish Parade a few years ago, only worse

Finest video of Chicago that you will ever see

 Enjoy

100 bodies just laying around......in this heat

Owners of Far South Side funeral home have history of mishandling human remains
Last year, state officials shut down a Chicago Heights crematory, also operated by Clark and Johanna Morgan, amid allegations they had mishandled around 100 bodies at the facility.
By Sophie Sherry and Amy Yee
Aug 7, 2026, 5:15pm CDT




Workers load bodies into an SUV outside South Chicago Chapel in South Deering on the Far South Side, Friday, Aug. 7, 2026, after 57 decomposing bodies were found in South Chicago Chapel, a funeral home, the night before.

The discovery of over 50 decomposing bodies in a South Deering funeral home was not the first time its business’ operators were found to have mishandled remains.

Last year, state officials shut down a Chicago Heights crematory, also operated by Clark and Johanna

This is how BP treats it's workers!

Inside the nearly five-month labor lockout at BP's Whiting refinery
The oil company has locked out about 800 refinery workers in Whiting without pay for 140 days.
By Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco
Aug 6, 2026, 5:30am CDT




United Steelworkers Local 7-1 members picket outside the British Petroleum oil refinery in Whiting, Indiana in July 2026.

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TWA Flight 800

 Fuel Tank Fiction?

Willie Wilson is running for Mayor of Chicago

 

Not looking for a handout.....not this guy

Johnson turns up the heat on Springfield to deliver $150M in funding built into Chicago Public School budget
“I’m gonna do anything and everything that’s necessary. But, at some point .. you cannot expect me to solve everybody’s problems and the fact of the matter is I can’t,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said Tuesday. “We need our state partners to continue to rise to the occasion. That’s what working people demand.”
By Fran Spielman
Aug 4, 2026, 5:08pm CDT




Mayor Brandon Johnson holds a press briefing at City Hall on Tuesday. The need for Springfield to address Chicago Public Schools was among the topics.

Mayor Brandon Johnson vowed Tuesday to do “anything and everything necessary” to keep the