Not all South Siders are happy!

Frustration

New Air Force One Arrives at Joint Base Andrews

By Bob Unruh, WND • Jun. 19, 2026

A Boeing 747-8 has arrived to serve as Air Force One for the resident of the White House.

The $400 million luxury jet is a gift from the Qatari government last year, and underwent renovations to provide the services a president might need.

President Donald Trump was on hand at Joint Base Andrews, the military base that has served as a president’s airport, and said, “There will never be one like this. This is very unique. This is considered the world’s most luxurious plane. When it was built, it was built at a level that will probably never be seen again.”

He won't go away

 Hunter Biden challenges Don Jr. to a cage fight in post slamming 'offensive' UFC 250 event

Hunter Biden wrote an open letter to Joe Rogan, whch he shared on X, and at the end of the letter he included a "P.S." inviting Rogan to suggest a venue where he and Don Jr. can fight it out.
12:23 ET, 18 Jun 2026

Hunter Biden has delivered a scathing assessment of the UFC White House event after being left incensed by Joe Rogan's blunt "shut the f--- up" message directed at critics.

Biden, 56, took to social media with an extensive letter laying out precisely why he and others were outraged by the event, primarily due to its location rather than the participants or content involved. He also suggested that he and Don Jr. fight it out, just not on the South Lawn of the White House, asking Rogan to pick the venue.

In a post script, he wrote: "P.S. Cage match between me and Don Jr.? Your call on the venue. Anywhere but the South Lawn."

Dollar Replacement?

 

 

Problem is not going away

This is weird....Nothing for the Bears?

Mayor Johnson proposes $425M TIF gift for The 78

Chicago Fire owner Joe Mansueto has been widely praised for bankrolling his own $750 million soccer stadium on the South Loop parcel known as The 78. But taxpayers would be subsidizing that development to the tune of $425 million, thanks to a plan proposed Wednesday.
By Fran Spielman
Jun 17, 2026, 12:39pm CDT




An artist’s rendering of the proposed Chicago Fire soccer stadium at The 78 in the South Loop.

Billionaire Chicago Fire owner Joe Mansueto is an outlier among Chicago sports moguls for his willingness to bankroll his own 22,000-seat, $750 million stadium on the long-dormant South Loop

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.