Billionaire Subsidy Passed, BTW it's just TIF Money

Finance Committee approves $425M subsidy for site that includes Fire stadium

Political pushback preceded a pair of lopsided votes for bankrolling infrastructure for a South Loop project led by billionaire team owner Joe Mansueto. Some questioned using TIF dollars to build a parking garage.




The 78 development site, a stretch land south of Roosevelt Road and west of Clark Street in the South Loop, got the green light from a City Council committee for $425 million to subsidize public infrastructure.

Despite myriad concerns, a City Council committee Monday overwhelmingly approved a $425 million tax increment financing subsidy to bankroll the public improvements needed to support a South Loop development anchored by a new soccer stadium privately financed by the Chicago Fire.

Story is starting to come out

 

 Who Knows?

Suspicious death, hours after returning from Ukraine. Time-released poison?

Midget Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, a man that would gladly have your children march on Iran and Russia, Dead at 71

Mr. Graham died of a “brief and sudden” illness on Saturday evening, his office said. Over more than two decades in the Senate, he consistently pushed for the use of U.S. military power overseas.

Never saw a war he didn't like.

UPDATE: Circumstances strongly suggest that he was murdered. Russians did it?

 

Progressive Honesty

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NSVsolaKJ2U

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. - The suspect who shot an Indiana State Police trooper during a car chase Friday morning has been found dead, authorities said.

What we know:

The shooting happened near a Speedway gas station at 2884 U.S. 421 in Michigan City.

Indiana State Police said the chase began around 5:30 a.m. when officers in Berrien County, Michigan, tried to stop a stolen silver Ford F-150. The suspect crossed into Indiana and got away.

A short time later, an Indiana State Police trooper found the truck on Interstate 94 and began chasing it before the two vehicles collided on U.S. 421.

Police said the suspect then opened fire on the trooper, and the trooper returned fire as the suspect drove away.

WNBA

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Eli5Y5SBK1s

Time to Sell *These* Stocks

BY MATT BADIALI
POSTED
JULY 7, 2026 

On June 25, 2026, the technology giant Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) increased prices for its computer products by $100 to $500. So, a new MacBook Neo went up 17%. And a new iPad Pro jumped 25%.

That, my friends, is inflation. The company cited the rising cost of memory for the need to bump up prices. Effectively passing along the cost increase to consumers.

Chief Keef to launch 19-date tour with September hometown performance at Northerly Island !!!!!!!!!

Tickets go on sale Friday for the tour, which comes on the heels of an electrifying performance at Summer Smash.





Chief Keef performs last month at the Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash Festival at SeatGeek Stadium in Bridgeview and at the Obama Presidential Library.

Chicago rapper Chief Keef will launch his “Chief Keef Live” tour from Chicago in September with a homecoming show at Northerly Island.

The announcement comes on the heels of an electrifying red-light-washed performance at Summer Smash weeks ago in Bridgeview.

Tickets go on sale Friday for the tour, which lists 19 stops, including New York and San Francisco, before ending in Las Vegas. This will be Chief Keef’s first major tour since 2024.



A fan holds up an album as Chief Keef performs on Day 1 of the Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash Festival in 2026.

This is nothing new

Problems Continue

Why? Is it because he think's he can't win?

One of Mayor Brandon Johnson's most ardent City Council adversaries won't seek reelection in 2027

The decision by Ald. Marty Quinn (13th) not to seek reelection in 2027 will deny the renegade group of City Council members who seized control over the budget process one of its most reliable votes and best political tacticians.



Ald. Marty Quinn speaks to reporters after the Chicago City Council meeting was recessed at City Hall, Friday, Dec. 13, 2024.


Ald. Marty Quinn (13th), who learned the game of Chicago politics at the feet of now-convicted former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago), is calling it a career after 15 years in the City