David Stockman: Trump tax reform overhaul is a pipe dream, stocks are heading for 40-70% plunge
David Stockman is warning about the Trump administration's tax overhaul plan, Federal Reserve policy, saying they could play into a severe stock market sell-off.
Stockman, the Reagan administration's director of the Office of Management and Budget, isn't
For 50 years, Lloyd Hughes has owned Laundryworld, which a judge has ordered into bankruptcy liquidation. “This has nothing to do with the color of anybody’s skin," the judge told Hughes, who'd noted he is a longtime black businessman. "The only color that matters here is green. That’s what the bank wants.” | Leslie Adkins / Sun-Times
Antifa is planning a new round of nationwide riots on November 4 as part of a plot to start a “civil war” that will lead to the overthrow of the Trump administration.
Far-left militants plan to “gather in the streets and public squares of cities and towns across this country” in the hope of building momentum for civil unrest that leads to nothing less than domestic regime change.
“Our protest must grow day after day and night after night—thousands becoming hundreds of thousands, and then millions—determined to act to put a stop to the grave danger that the Trump/Pence Regime poses to the world by demanding that this
Broken down train, gates are down for the past 45 minutes and nobody knows why. Emergency vehicles, CTA buses can't get through. Cars are taking their chance going around the gates. What / who has this neighborhood wronged to have these conditions exist on a weekly basis?
New species of giant rat discovered is so big it can crack coconuts with its teeth
The possum-like rat, Uromys vika, was believed to be mythical until it was discovered in Winfield, Illinois last month after seven years of searching Pacific islands.
BY MARK WAGHORN
An illustration shows the new species of giant rat, the Uromys vika (Image: The Field Museum / SWNS.com)
A new species of giant rat has been discovered in suburban Chicago which is so strong it can crack open coconuts with its teeth.
Measuring one-and-a-half feet long and weighing more than a kilo (2lbs), it is five times bigger than
Family of Dead Armed Robber claim “It didn’t have to happen”
September 26, 2017
Pro-tip: If ya don't wanna get shot by the police, don't rob a bank and then advance on the police with a handgun. You might think that simple advice as common sense, but apparently not among the family of Eddie Russell. See Eddie robbed the First Mid bank in Peoria, then holed up at his mama's house. With police outside, he weighed his options, refusing to surrender. A couple of hours later, he aggressively advanced on police officers while wielding a handgun. Six cops shot him a total of 18 times before the threat ended. Now his family has cried foul to the media, saying cops should have handled little Eddie with kid gloves. Because, you know, he had mental problems and all that.
In fact, his cousin, T-Boz of the 90s R&B group TLC has stamped her feet and demanded all Peoria cops wear bodycams. Frankly, it would be nice to have some HD video to share with the public of ne'er-do-well Eddie advancing on cops. Those videos make for good training footage for how to stop a threat properly. In this case, video or not, Eddie caught 18 rounds and ceased his aggressiveness. Thankfully, all the good guys went home to their families.
Of course, the Black Lives Matter cavalcade of agitators has chimed in. The head of the local NAALCP (National Association for the Advancement of Liberal Colored Persons) Rev. Marvin Hightower has chimed in with his two cents' worth to the Peoria Journal-Star: "We are after the facts first to see what, in fact, happened before I form an opinion or give an opinion."
Of course, grieving family members offered up their thoughts.
Grieving family members said it was an incident that didn’t have to happen.
“They could have tased him from 30 feet away,” father Eddie Russell, Sr., said hours after the shooting. “But they grabbed him out of the house. I don’t care what they say.”
You're right Eddie Russell, Sr. It didn't have to happen. YOU could have raised your son to be a decent and honorable man. YOU could have taught him right from wrong. If Eddie Jr. had been at work instead of robbing a bank, he'd be alive today. If Eddie had listened to police orders, he would be alive today. Look in the mirror, Eddie Sr. Your child-rearing (or lack thereof) raised Eddie Jr.
Monday evening, at a "Stand Up for Peace" rally to honor a slain armed robber, the hits kept coming. From the Peoria Journal-Star:
“The biggest thing we need to do in this city is to learn better conflict resolution,” said Terry Burnside, chairman of Peoria Community Against Violence. “We need to learn how to solve problems without guns.”
Conflict resolution? How about teaching your family and friends to listen to what the police officer says? And not to rob banks?
Unable to discern the difference between the criminal deeds of an evil man and good deeds of good men to protect the innocent from evil, Burnside continued:
"A young man is dead because of a gun."
No, he's dead because his was a bad person with evil in his heart. The only thing that stops bad men with evil in their hearts is a good guy with a gun. What an idiot. Trying to use the righteous use of deadly force against a criminal advancing aggressively as a reason to disarm everyday people. What a pathetic hack.
The family demands investigation. There's not much to investigate from the information we have.
When Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle first floated the idea of a pop tax to commissioners last October, a big part of her pitch was an appeal to their sense of self-preservation.
"We said to people, 'We're going to take one tough vote in the next three years, that's it. Then we're done,'" said Preckwinkle, making a reference to the
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Steven Graves Gets Legal Victory In 19th Ward GOP Committeeman Fight
By Howard Ludwig | September 22, 2017 11:59am | Updated on September 22, 2017 1:51pm
Cook County Judge Margarita Kulys Hoffman ruled in his favor of Steven Graves Friday morning in his case against the Cook County and Chicago Republican parties. Graves was elected 19th Ward Republican committeeman March 15, 2016. View Full Caption
On the morning of December 14, 2012, a lone gunman, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, broke into the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and shot to death 20 young children and 6 adults. When the killer heard the arrival of police, he shot himself. Earlier that morning, Lanza had killed his mother, Nancy, in the family home by shooting her four times in the face.
That’s the official story.
Since the massacre, many inconsistencies and anomalies are uncovered, thanks to the New Media of bloggers, but no thanks to the Old Media of mainstream outlets. In the interest of truth, this page contains
Sports world revolts: LeBron James fires back at Trump
Who gives a hoot about anything LeBron thinks. Fact is that LeBron does not think. He's a basketball player. Nothing more or less. He knows how to bounce a ball and toss it into a basket. Thats what he knows. His opinion about anything unrelated to basketball should be regarded as irrelevant.
FILE - In this Friday, June 9, 2017 file photo, Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James (23) drives on Golden State Warriors forward Kevin Durant (35) during the second half of Game 4 of basketball's NBA Finals in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File) Chris De Luca @ChrisDeLuca | email
President Donald Trump is on the receiving end of critical remarks from NBA superstar LeBron James and a defensive assault from NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. A large chunk of the NBA and NFL also launched a war of words at the president.
It all added up to the Golden State Warriors announcing they won’t make the champions’ traditional visit to the White House. And the controversy that played out all day Saturday even prompted a fresh response from Cubs manager Joe Maddon, whose team has visited the Trump White House.
The rhetoric heated up once James called Trump a “bum” after the president rescinded his White House invite for Steph Curry of the NBA-champion Warriors.
Trump — in a morning tweet — said Curry’s hesitation on a potential White House visit caused him
NFL's Goodell: Trump's 'divisive comments' show a 'lack of respect' BY BRANDON CARTER - 09/23/17 09:33 AM EDT Trump: fire NFL players who kneel during national anthem
Soon to be former NFL commissioner Roger Goodell fired back at President Trump on Saturday for encouraging league owners to remove players who take a knee during the national anthem, saying Trump’s “divisive comments” show “an unfortunate lack of respect for the NFL.”
“The NFL and our players are at our best when we help create a sense of unity in our country and our culture,” Goodell said in a statement. “There is no better example than the amazing response from our clubs and players to the terrible natural disasters we've experienced over the last month.”
“Divisive comments like these demonstrate an unfortunate lack of respect for the NFL, our great game and all of our players, and a failure to understand the overwhelming force for good our clubs and players represent in our communities.”
The NFL chief's comments came the morning after Trump told a crowd at a rally for Alabama Senate candidate Luther Strange (R) that NFL players will stop kneeling if fans left games.
"When people like yourselves turn on television and you see those people taking the knee when they are playing our great national anthem – the only thing you could do better is if you see it, even if it's one player, leave the stadium," Trump said. "I guarantee things will stop."
Trump also said NFL owners should fire players if they refuse to stand during the national anthem.
"Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, 'Get that son of a b---- off the field right now,'" he continued, adding, "'He is fired.'"
The comments came during a broader critique of the league's actions, during which he also accused NFL referees of "ruining the game" by penalizing players who "hit too hard."
“Today, if you hit too hard … 15 yards, throw him out of the game,” Trump said. “They are ruining the game, right?”
Multiple NFL players have fired back at Trump, with one Washington Redskins player telling him to “stay in your place” following his comments.
The head of the NFL Players Association, the union representing professional football players, also hit back at Trump, vowing the union “will never back down” from protecting players’s right to protest.
Trump has previously attacked NFL player Colin Kaepernick for kneeling during the national anthem to protests the treatment of people of color in America, suggesting Kaepernick was still a free agent because he wouldn’t stand for the anthem.
Open Outcry Brewing Co. (top left) debuted July 21 at 10934 S. Western Ave. in Morgan Park. Keith Lewis (top right) moved Bookie's July 1 to 10324 S. Western Ave. in Beverly. The mother-and-daughter team of Margo and Ayisha Strotter opened their second location of Ain't She Sweet Cafe March 6 at 9920 S. Western Ave. in Beverly. The Beverly Woods served customers for 63 years at 11532 S. Western Ave. before owner Bill McGann decided to close the Morgan Park banquet hall, restaurant and bar Sunday. View Full Caption
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BEVERLY — The stretch of Western Avenue that runs from 91st Street in Beverly to 119th Street in Morgan Park has long been synonymous with bars painted Kelly green and adorned in shamrocks.
These dimly-lit Irish pubs have served bottles upon bottles of light beer for decades. And as for food, it would be hard to find a two-mile strip with more pizza parlors anywhere. Other comfort foods abound, including late-night subs, Chicago-style hot dogs, Italian beef and more.
But many of the newcomers to this commercial stretch have bucked the trend, bringing a fresh vibe to the businesses district by adding craft beer, healthy food options, shops designed to take advantage of natural light and more.
There's also a new lunch place that specializes in made-to-order chicken wraps, a longtime new and used bookstore that swapped its overcrowded store for a larger location with giant windows and others investing in the area too.
Connors's group represents the businesses on this busy strip and added that new enterprises — including bars — have largely gone away from focusing a very small group of customers living in the immediate vicinity. The new entrants seem to be trying to attract a larger, more regional customer base, she said.
Here's a look at some of the new additions (and a few subtractions) to the business district in recent years. The new arrivals mostly shun the idea the area will forever be known merely as the home of the ready-made pub crawl known as the "Western Avenue Death March."
Pilkington actually expanded previous tenant's footprint, filling the storefront to the south with mismatched wood tables and chairs. In doing so, Bridgeport Coffee seems to have found an audience of those eager to get out of the house while also taking advantage of the free WiFi.
Not all the development on Western Avenue has worked out well for Beverly. Potbelly Sandwich Shop will soon move from the southeast corner of 95th Street and Western Avenue across the street to a new storefront in Evergreen Plaza.
The shop at 10215 S. Western Ave. opened April 25 and takes its name by combining the first names of owners Mary Ryan and Lauren Majka. The Beverly and Morgan Park residents graduated from the cosmetology school in 2011.
The new and used bookstore has been in the Beverly neighborhood since 1989 and more than doubled its footprint by moving July 1 to 10324 S. Western Ave. OwnerKeith Lewis also opted to keep his previous store around the corner at 2419 W. 103rd St.
Many neighborhood residents bemoaned the loss of Koda Bistro in July 2013, but The Quilter's Trunk has found success converting the white table cloth restaurant at 10352 S. Western Ave. to a sanctuary for sewing enthusiasts.
Owner Katie Nathwani and store manager Lisa Wilberding opened their quilt shop Sept. 11, 2015. Since then, quilters from throughout the Midwest, including some on bus tours, have found their way into the store.
Keegan's Pub had practically been an institution at 10618 S. Western Ave. before owner Bernard Callaghan decided to tear apart the bar known for serving perfect pints of Guinness. He poured $750,000 into the business he'd previously owned for 25 years.
The renovated pub nearly doubled in size and was renamed Barney Callaghan's, after the family's late dog. A vaulted ceiling that's made to look like the inside of wine barrel has been attracting customers since the bar reopened Aug. 27, 2015.
Beverly-based First In Realty Executives Inc. is handing the deal for the 26,000-square-foot structure. The building had been known for its towering columns, several of which were removed in the renovation. Others were kept and will be enclosed as part of the redesign.
With new floors, a fresh coat of paint and a few other improvements, Kelly's Tap is a throwback to the bars that have defined the strip for decades. Kelly is also hoping patrons of nearby Home Run Inn and Open Outcry Brewing Co. will stop in for a drink after dinner.
The brewery that pairs craft its beer with Neapolitan-style pizzas opened July 21 at 10934 S. Western Ave. Owner John Brand walked away from his career in the futures market March 9, 2016, to buy O'Brien's Pub.
He then converted the pub and several adjacent storefronts into the brewery that features a roll-up garage door that opens the street. This allows fresh air to fill the brewery as the weather permits.
Chef A.J. Castillo hopes to soon have the necessary permits to begin construction on Americanos, a restaurant selling tacos and tortas. Castillo's first restaurant will replace Leona's at 11060 S. Western Ave. in Morgan Park.
He said the design will be far more trendy than traditional Mexican restaurants, favoring alternative rock music over mariachi bands.
The Beverly Woods served customers for 63 years at 11532 S. Western Ave. before owner Bill McGann decided to close the banquet hall, restaurant and bar Sunday.
McGann said the building needed both cosmetic upgrades and costly infrastructure improvements. His two children wanted to pursue other interests, and McGann, 67, did not want the burden of a large loan.
Cullinan admitted that the bar scene on Western Avenue has changed since he opened 29 years ago. He said those that have invested heavily in their businesses in recent years have seen success, while many of he older spots have struggled.
The menu at Global Kitchen in Morgan Park is as eclectic as the flags that fly outside the restaurant at 11722 S. Western Ave. Owner Essy Glenn of Beverly serves American favorites like pork chops and chicken wings alongside Asian cuisine, French delicacies and more.
The restaurant's dining area reflects this same variety. Opened May 27, 2016, Global Kitchen is carved up into tiny rooms. Each room is designed to take hungry customers on a visit to different countries, including Mexico, Japan, England and beyond.
An illustration shows the new species of giant rat, the Uromys vika (Image: The Field Museum / SWNS.com)
