Pritzker is right. Bears Stadium saga is not the taxpayers problem. It's the Bears problem. They're locked into a lease that they negotiated.

 

Bears lease at Soldier Field runs through 2033. However, the team can break the agreement early by paying an early-termination fee, which is currently tabbed at $90 million. After 2033, who cares?

Coming for your money....sooner than you think....the wealth tax

  

The DSA’s War on Wealth

Communism is on the rise in the United States and has now entered otherwise mainstream Democratic Party politics.

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is on track to increase the number of its members in Congress from two to at least six in January, possibly more. That’s not including Sen. Bernie Sanders, who calls himself a democratic socialist.

A DSA member named Francesca Hong just came within striking distance of becoming the Democratic nominee for governor of Wisconsin, one of our largest and most important states. Hong was narrowly defeated in the Aug. 11 primary by

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.

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WBEZ and Grist, a nonprofit