Chicago - Feb. 24, 2020

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Army Of Darkness
ElRey
5 p.m.
A discount-store employee is time-warped to a medieval castle, where he is the foretold savior who can dispel the evil there. Unfortunately, he screws up and releases an army of skeletons. (tvguide.com)

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The [Thursday] Papers

By Steve Rhodes

BREAKING NEWS: Feds raid longest serving Alderman Ed Burke's City Hall Office early this morning #chicago #federalagents @ NBC Chicago https://t.co/2xaeZd68LG
— Mary Ann Ahern (@MaryAnnAhernNBC) November 29, 2018

Federal agents show up at Ald. Ed Burke's City Hall office, paper over windows | Chicago Sun-Times https://t.co/PAFQYCsrHf
— Tara Frazier (@Min_TaraLynne) November 29, 2018

Who got the brown paper contract? Assignment Desk, activate!

"Agents arrived at the office early Thursday morning, told employees to leave and papered over the glass windows at the office's entrance to conceal the investigation going on inside, a source confirmed. A woman who left the office and did not identify herself said FBI agents were inside," the Tribune reports.

"Burke's office did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Burke's ward office on the Southwest Side also had the same brown paper taped over its front door with three signs that read, 'office closed.' An officer sitting in a squad car parked behind Burke's ward office said a search warrant was being executed inside but offered no further details."

Hannah Meisel seeking family reax:

Ed Burke brother, outgoing Rep. Dan Burke (defeated in primary by progressive wave also threatening the powerful Alderman) talks on the phone outside the East entrance of the Capitol, smoking a cigarette. pic.twitter.com/SrLDD8FrU1
— Hannah Meisel (@hannahmeisel) November 29, 2018

Rep. Burke just missed his own retirement resolution. Retiring Majority Leader Barbara Flynn Currie (D-Chicago) just called out the 318 combined years of experience leaving the House, including "Danny Burke"
— Hannah Meisel (@hannahmeisel) November 29, 2018

JUST IN: A peek inside the offices of alderman Ed Burke- a man in a suit sits behind a desk. Brown bagging has the rest of the office covered. ⁦@ABC7Chicago⁩ pic.twitter.com/3krMtxTKbv
— Craig Wall ABC 7 (@craigrwall) November 29, 2018

Reporters have gathered outside the City Hall office of Ald. Ed Burke (14th), where federal agents showed up unannounced this morning and brown paper covers the windows. @fspielman reports: https://t.co/nq9UrA5mZz pic.twitter.com/Idml3rDS1v
— Ashlee Rezin (@Ashlee_Rezin) November 29, 2018

This ain't no party. This ain't no disco. This ain't no foolin' around.

Footnote: Willie Cochran.

New on the Beachwood today . . .

Tent City For Migrant Kids Shrouded In Secrecy
Lawyers alarmed, advocates worried, contractor under gag order.

Sinclair's Latest "Must-Run" Segment Defends Tear-Gassing Refugees
In a segment all 173 Sinclair stations were ordered to air, former Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn rejected criticism of the tear-gassing and said the actions taken by U.S. border patrol agents on Sunday were necessary for the nation's security.

Iceland Knows How To Stop Teen Substance Abuse But The Rest Of The World Isn't Listening
The main principle is that drug education doesn't work because nobody pays attention to it. The solution essentially is to simply give them better things to do.

The Month In Chicago Drill
What was new in November.

ChicagoGram

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CTA Holiday Train. First sighting! An Orange Line to Midway dressed up as the CTA's Holiday Train on the tracks above Wabash Avenue last night. I was slow with my camera and slow with the shutter this time. Still, this image captures the feel and excitement of my first sighting of the Holiday Train while I walked home from work.

A post shared by Samantha Bailey (@thoughtsinbuttermilk) on Nov 29, 2018 at 5:44am PST

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The Original Caste / Sweet Chicago, B Side 1970

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Trumponomics Tries To Praise Trump, But Instead Exposes His Corruption.

The Woman Who Cared For Hundreds Of Abandoned Gay Men Who Were Dying Of AIDS.

TweetWood
A sampling.

#APFactCheck: President Trump is spreading a false claim from supporters that people who are in the U.S. illegally receive more in federal assistance than the average American gets in Social Security benefits. By @CalWd: https://t.co/KrwA5F3zzA
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) November 29, 2018

Locals Kill One of Elon Musk's Plans for a Tunnel Under LA https://t.co/Pm3iNIoSrG via @WIRED
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) November 29, 2018