Tom Donovan R.I.P.

Helped lots of people over the years. Wake is at Sheehy's this Friday

  

You can't keep a good man down

Road builder run by members of Palumbo family back at work on state projects after lengthy 'pause'

A settlement agreement reached in March marked the end of a legal battle between the contractor, Builders Companies, and the Illinois Department of Transportation. The agency had put new contracts on hold for Builders while investigating whether the family patriarch, felon Sebastian “Sam” Palumbo, was secretly involved in the business.

Some adverse weather coming to Chicago this afternoon!

 

 Be Aware

We are shutting down our institutions, one by one, as we begin to embrace heathenism.

Queen Of Martyrs Elementary School Closing Due To Declining Enrollment, Archdiocese Says

Citing a significant enrollment decline made worse by a substitute teacher scandal, Queen of Martyrs will not open next school year, the Archdiocese of Chicago announced Monday.

Somebody's former GF just got sprung

Chicago's top federal prosecutor 'weighing' options after appeals court formally undoes ComEd convictions

The question of whether to take former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore and lobbyist Michael McClain to trial again comes at a particularly fraught time for U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros. His office has spent the last three weeks trying to contain fallout after allegations of prosecutorial misconduct led to the collapse of the “Broadview Six” case.

Jun 15, 2026, 6:40pm CDT




Former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore and longtime ComEd lobbyist Michael McClain had their convictions wiped away but could be retried for corruption.

The question of whether to retry two former ComEd officials caught up in a massive corruption investigation officially landed in the lap of U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros on Monday, when Chicago’s federal appeals court released a 16-page opinion formally wiping out their convictions.

Going to be torn down!

 

Just a matter of time


The constant repairs are cost prohibitive. 

Opens this week, I can't wait

No tower of glower: Obama Center and its maligned signature building are worthy of consideration
The center, with its companion buildings, plaza and redesigned park space, is among the best urban spaces in the city, maybe second only to Millennium Park.
Jun 2, 2026, 12:02am CDT

Ever since the Obama Presidential Center began rising out the historic grounds of Jackson Park, its Museum Tower — the campus’ most visible structure — became a riddlesome, what-the-heck-is-this kind of a building.

And there was a reason for this.

In a city of tall, glassy skyscrapers, the Museum Tower is shrouded in granite and virtually windowless.

While the best of Chicago’s parks buildings attempt to blend in with their landscapes, the stocky, square-jawed 225-foot building at 6101 S. Stony Island Ave. can be seen from almost a mile away. It sticks out like an elephant in the tall grass.

The $850 million presidential center — the most expensive built so far — opens on June 19.

Designed by New York City’s Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, the center is a five-building complex. Two of the structures — the Forum and a new Chicago Public Library branch — sit just footsteps south of the tower, beneath rolling parkland designed by New York landscape architects Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates.

A 437-car parking garage hides under the park. The freestanding building Home Court, an athletic facility designed by architecture firm Moody Nolan, is located on the south end of the campus near 62nd Street. There is also a garden pavilion, named for former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, south of the library branch.




The Jackson Park lagoon can be seen from the Nelson Mandela Sky Room at the Obama Presidential Center.


But it’s the presidential center’s Museum Tower that has drawn the most attention — and derision. After plans for the campus were made public almost a dozen years ago, the structure was compared to

I'm back

The heat in Florida is too oppressive this time of year. Besides, I want to be at the Obama Center when it opens. 

Please consider this

 

• Please consider that despite what is reported by the media, Russia and Ukraine is the red herring that is going to consume all of your attention. Ultimately, the fight for our American way of life will be with China. It will be an incredible war and will occur much sooner than anyone thinks. 
  
  
• After 15 years and just as many post with comments, this is the last post. I now live year-round in Hollywood, Florida. It's been fun but I run a similar blog in Hollywood (my friends know where to find it) and I just don't have the time.  I'm going to keep this blog up but will most likely not post here again. The blog is not for sale. I tried that before. Good bye. Murph

Everyone in Moscow Should Be AFRAID... After What US Is Giving Ukraine

Col Doug Macgregor: Trump's Threats Aren't Stopping Russia's Bombs

Plainfield - The Unwarned F5 Tornado

Trump asked if he trusts Putin. Hear his response

The NEW B-52 ENGINES Will CHANGE The Entire Aviation Industry!

Spain has gone to f---