A theft at City Hall, imagine that

The case of the missing City Hall artwork: Where's the painting that hung in top Lightfoot aide's office?

 
When a top aide to former Mayor Lori Lightfoot left his job in 2023, a taxpayer-owned painting disappeared from his City Hall office. Mayor Brandon Johnson’s aides say they have no idea where it is and what happened to it.

By Tim Novak and Robert Herguth





A painting created by artist Bill Cass in the 1980s. Sold to the city of Chicago, it is now missing.

A painting that’s been in City Hall’s sprawling collection of public art since the 1980s and was last known to have been hanging in the office of a top aide to former Mayor Lori Lightfoot is missing.

It’s an abstract work that artist Bill Cass says represented his exploration of “storytelling,” especially

This can't hurt

Mayor Johnson embraces proposal for a stand-alone city Department of Gun Violence Reduction

Mayor Brandon Johnson endorsed the idea following a Juneteenth and Father’s Day weekend marred by an outbreak of violence that left eight people dead and dozens wounded.
By Fran Spielman
Jun 23, 2026, 2:01pm CDT




Nadine Porrata of the Community Health Response Corps closes her eyes in prayer while holding up a sign during a press conference at City Hall this week to promote the notion of a proposed Department of Gun Violence Reduction.

Community leaders have been pressuring Chicago mayors for more than a decade to create a stand-alone city department focusing exclusively on reducing and preventing gun violence, but they now have a champion in Mayor Brandon Johnson.

A Facinating History

 Chicago

Attention Chicago Police / Fire Retirees........They say Financial Condition is Deteriorating

Amateurs are running the Chicago Police and Fire Pensions into the ground for Retirees, Disabled First Responders, and Widows/Widowers and Children

Eugene Roy

Retired CPD Chief of Detectives 

June 18, 2026

Those of you who follow me on this and other social media platforms know that one of my largest concerns is the financial health of the Chicago Police (CPD) and Chicago Firefighters (CFD) Pension Funds. The CPD Fund is funded at a critically low level of 22% while the CFD Fund is in even worse shape at a disasterously low level of 18%.

Yet those of us who point out the critically low funding levels of the two funds are painted as the villains in this ongoing rush to financial disaster, rather than those who continue to wring their hands and stick their heads in the sand regarding the critically low funding levels, while claiming that Springfield is mandated to save the two pensions and will do so. We all know the fallacy of that claim.

I recently came across a recent article by @EdwardSiedle, a nationally recognized expert in the field of the mismanagement of Public Pension Funds. It's a lengthy article, but I've condensed it into a number of bullet points, found below.

More Proof that Cardinal Cupich is a Heretic

 

Keep this video in mind when Cupich has his hand out. 

He plans to use the money to buy more influence in Rome. His priority......to push the agenda of James Martin. He could give a rat's ass about anything else. Pray that Pope Leo decides to retire him. 

 

These people sit around and think. Sometimes you need to consider what they come up with.

 

 Not to ruin your weekend, but

Ford City

 

No More

 

ZZ Top

 First time on TV

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.