In a new petition, neighbors say officials and police have done little to address their safety concerns stemming from encounters with Leon Jackson and Willie Wright, who have cycled through arrests and court hearings for assaulting residents.
Beavers have lived near the South Pond for several years, chewing trees, reshaping habitat and quietly becoming part of one of Chicago's most vibrant urban ecosystems.
As protected bike lanes face opposition in some neighborhoods, city-backed case studies found lanes in a half-dozen corridors have not contributed to a negative impact on economic activity.
WEST LOOP — A West Loop restaurant is coming under fire from neighbors and city officials who say it has been operating as an unauthorized nightclub, with loud music blaring late at night, brawls spilling into nearby streets and trash like liquor bottles from patrons littering the area — including outside a Chicago Public Library […]
The liner has been repaired and the refilling process is underway, but the Park District needs to conduct testing before the pool can open, a park supervisor said.
A kitchen fire on Friday destroyed much of Jay Young’s 7-year-old restaurant as well as neigboring businesses. A fundraiser has been launched to help Young with repairs.
After Labour’s disastrous performance in local elections in England and parliamentary elections in Wales and Scotland in May, it became highly likely that Keir Starmer’s days as prime minister were numbered. This proposition was confirmed by the result of the Makerfield byelection a few days ago in which the Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham (though he is Liverpudlian), widely tipped to launch a bid to overthrow Starmer as prime minister if he won the byelection and entered parliament, did so with a huge majority, tallying over 50% of the vote. More
The problem with most conventional reporting is that there are hundreds of billions of dollars in military spending outside the Pentagon’s annual budget appropriated by Congress. Even a generally authoritative source of global military spending data such as the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) underestimates U.S. spending by overlooking significant sums outside what Trump calls the Department of War and related budgets. One major example is nuclear weapons spending, which represented around $33.5 billion in net spending for FY 2025. Although nuclear forces are controlled and deployed by the U.S. military, a significant portion of the budget for maintaining and modernizing the nuclear arsenal is allocated through the Department of Energy rather than the Pentagon. More
“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.” – Attributed to various sources. “One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory.” – Zhou En-lai (cited by William Blum) There is no irreducible answer to this query. There are multiple factors driving US-Israeli aggression in that country, and More
For most of the modern era, capitalism justified itself through growth. Industrial societies converted vast amounts of fossil energy into production, wealth, and rising living standards. Roads, bridges, power grids, schools, and public institutions expanded alongside the economy. Inequality and exploitation remained deeply embedded in the system, but they were partly obscured by a broader More
In the first few weeks of his presidency, Donald Trump announced a massive AI infrastructure project dubbed Stargate. It was an unexpected and rather odd event for a new administration’s first major initiative. It now seems obvious that the project was a highly coordinated initiative between the federal government and the Big Tech power base that puppeteers many of its programs More
The 60-day extension of the ceasefire between the United States and Iran may lead to lasting peace or it may be over within a week, doomed by the dysfunctional alliance between the US and Israel. If it holds, it could mark the beginning of a transition away from the doctrine of “low-intensity conflict” that has More
Way back in 1995 Bob Brown, the Republican president of the Montana Senate, called me into his office. He had co-sponsored a bill with a pro-logging Missoula Democrat to establish a “sustained yield” level of logging on Montana’s state trust lands – and he was worried it wasn’t working out the way he hoped. Bob More
It has long been the dream of the U.S. foreign policy elite to bring Japan and South Korea into a tighter alliance. Notoriously dismissive of history, American leaders don’t understand why the two countries can’t just overcome their past differences. For these Americans, the imperative of strengthened security in the region is so much more More
A Cascadian Declaration of Independence The New York Times has discovered Cascadia. Specifically, it has found news of an emerging Cascadia independence movement fit to print. In the June 13th edition, it published an article, “Independent Cascadia? Greater Idaho? Disunited States Look Toward Divorce.” Times Northwest correspondent Anna Griffin reported on contrasting movements from the More
New York City’s history is rich with examples of winning people’s movements and progressive change — and we’ve shared many of those stories on Laura Flanders & Friends. With the election of Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s first democratic socialist mayor, initiatives like city-owned grocery stores and public banking will introduce even more people to More
Sarah Swift of the Menwith Hill Accountability Campaign in Britain says: “Now is the time to call for Independence From America.” What prompted this call? You can see it in this video clip about the U.S. spy base Menwith Hill in North Yorkshire. Featuring the chair of Yorkshire CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament), Quakers and More
Europe likes to see itself as a moral power. From Brussels to Strasbourg, European leaders regularly invoke human rights, international law and democratic values as the foundations of the European project. Yet when it comes to the new migration and asylum pact, the gap between rhetoric and reality has become increasingly difficult to ignore. A More
Soil testing is underway at the abandoned rail site, which starts near 40th and Dearborn streets and would be a "conduit" to the Lakefront Trail, organizers said.
The project's completion now leaves room for more construction to take place in the area, with the Comfort Station and the Blue Line canopy set to get improvements later this year.
Backers argue a standalone Department of Gun Violence Reduction would more effectively coordinate resources and initiatives to combat shootings across the city.
"For Alien Eyes Only" has over 42,000 subscribers on YouTube and has fans locally and internationally. The crowdfunding campaign will help the creators craft six episodes.
Ricardo Sepeda of Calaveras Barbershop & SMP in Logan Square organized the fundraiser for Ballet Folklorico de Chicago after neighbors attacked its students in March.
The stands were facing a breakup after decades in the Maxwell Street area, but Jim’s recently negotiated a lease extension with the University of Illinois Chicago.
For over a decade, Pat Mac’s Pack has raised millions of dollars to support brain tumor research and provide assistance for families of children diagnosed with cancer.
The nonprofit is nearing completion on three homes in Austin and has four more homes in the pipeline, part of a multi-year project to spur affordable housing on the West Side.
Award-winning chef Rahim Muhammad and Saint Della chef Lance Watson are helping owner Airan McDuffy bring her soul food and ramen concept to the South Side.
Once class recedes and the professional class sets the agenda, politics changes character. It becomes a contest over symbols rather than substance, over the words we use and the images we project rather than the distribution of power and resources. This is the most visible fault to ordinary people, who can sense when a movement is more exercised about terminology than about whether they can pay for insulin. More
What do the World Cup group stage and the Iran War ceasefire deal have in common? Not much at first glance: one is an international sports tournament based on peaceful competition among nations, and the other emerged fro [ . . . ]
In recent weeks, the misnamed US Department of Justice has indicted twenty-three activists on serious charges related to their organizing against institutional complicity in the US-Israeli genocide of Palestinians and the kidnapping of US residents by militarized federal immigration enforcers. The indictments are connected to two different cases, one in Michigan and the other in More
Journalistic coverage of the Israeli military campaign in Gaza after October 7, 2023, continues to draw sharp criticism. Syrian-Palestinian journalist Dima Khatib minces no words: “The media actively relayed Israeli propaganda.” “Silence is already complicity. But it was worse. It was active engagement with Israeli propaganda,” said the Managing Director of Digital Projects at Al More
“The US government,” artificial intelligence firm Anthropic informed the public in a June 12 statement, “citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. ” As of June More
This week was the first meeting under new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh of the Federal Reserve Board’s Open Market Committee (FOMC). Warsh has promised to restructure the Fed, but it is still not clear he means by this. Donald Trump very explicitly picked Warsh because he expected that he would lower interest rates. That goes More
When trying to figure out what’s going on in the Middle East in general and the war in Iran in particular, I have relied quite a lot upon the works of Mouin Rabbani and Trita Parsi, both of whom have done an exemplary job of explaining ongoing events to wide audiences. I’d encourage anyone who wants to More
The 2026 FIFA World Cup has begun on American soil, the first time the United States has hosted the tournament in 32 years. In exchange for the privilege of hosting the Cup, and the enormous revenue it generates, a host nation is generally expected to welcome visitors for the games. Previous World Cup host nations More
President Trump has made historically steep cuts to SNAP, Medicaid, and other programs, claiming we can’t afford them. Yet at the same time he and his Republican allies have plowed record sums into ICE, even as popular support for the agency has plunged. In June, Trump signed a $70 billion bill to fund Immigration and More
Another week, another court ruling that the Trump administration illegally withheld Congressionally appropriated funding from communities. This time, the funding in question comes from the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grant Program. In 2022, Congress enacted the Inflation Reduction Act, appropriating $2.8 billion in financial assistance to support environmental and climate More
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