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By Kiljoong Kim
In today’s discussion of increasing economic inequality, the rich are usually represented in the media by celebrities, athletes and entrepreneurs with extraordinary incomes and consumption habits. But scores of the super-rich live amongst us without getting their names in the newspapers or their faces on TV.
Just who are these people? Let’s take a look.
Posted on July 29, 2011
By The Beachwood Bobblehead Affairs Desk
“The White Sox already have Mullet Night and Dog Day. Now add ‘Mayor Daley Night’ to the list,” the Sun-Times reports.
“The South Side club announced Tuesday that it will honor one of the team’s most prominent fans at the Aug. 3rd game against the New York Yankees.”
The Beachwood has learned the following events are planned:
Posted on July 27, 2011
By Steve Rhodes
It was interesting that the Sun-Times saw fit to publish U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley’s remarks on Tuesday on the floor of the House about the debt ceiling, in which he cited Ronald Reagan’s admonishment to Congress in 1983 to raise the ceiling or face drastic consequences.
In fact, Quigley says, Reagan asked Congress to raise the debt ceiling 18 times during his presidency.
Interesting, because our current president once faced the same question as a United States Senator and his response was quite different than that of Reagan, Quigley or his present day self.
Posted on July 21, 2011
By Russia Today
With alleged whistleblower Thomas Drake on trial for leaking classified info to the media, why is the Obama administration cracking down on disclosing the truth when the Commander-in-Chief has long lauded running a transparent presidency?
Posted on July 18, 2011
A Reality Check
“In the heart of Lakeview, the soul of Boystown is roiled,” Laura Washington wrote this week for the Sun-Times amid a flurry of commentary about the neighborhood.
“Over the July 4 weekend, a midnight street brawl among a dozen or so young people hospitalized a 25-year-old man and fed fear and outrage among community residents and business owners. It was the third violent attack in the area in recent weeks, according to news reports.
“It’s been a long time coming. For years, the neighborhood has been plagued by security concerns, racial antipathies, transgender intolerance, economic divides, business consequences, political gamesmanship and dysfunctional behaviors.”
Posted on July 15, 2011
By Gerry Mander
“Surrounded by fields that grow corn, soybeans, melons and potatoes, this tiny rural village is 65 miles from Chicago but light years away from the big city. Still, St. Anne and a lot of the farm country around it has now been dragged into the metropolis as part of an ambitious political strategy focused on the 2012 national elections,” AP reports.
“A new census-based political map drawn by the state’s Democratic-controlled Legislature, and signed into law by Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn, has taken swaths of suburban and rural Illinois and added them to the districts of veteran Chicago Democrats such as U.S. Rep. Jackson Jr., who could be St. Anne’s next representative.
“The move was one of the boldest by the national political parties this year as they sought to benefit by changing political boundaries.”
Let’s let C.G.P. Grey explain.
Posted on July 14, 2011
Judge Sitting On His Ass
“Little Village Residents Pine For Park On Vacant Land: Community has grand plans, but city efforts to buy site drag on for 7 years.”
– Tribune, December 6, 2010
And still they wait.
Posted on July 13, 2011
By Ed Hammer
During my 25 years of employment with the State of Illinois, I became aware of how much public corruption is connected to political fundraising. I was less than a year on the job as a Secretary of State Police Officer when my sergeant attempted to hit me up for a couple hundred of dollars for an Alan Dixon fundraiser. That same sergeant eventually went to prison for shaking down licensed auto rebuilders. It turns out one of the shops was an FBI sting operation intending to crack down on organized auto theft rings in Chicago. The sergeant was a by-product.
Annually, employees of the Secretary of State were expected to purchase fundraiser tickets from their supervisors. This became a personal concern when I was assigned to the Department of Inspector General in 1987 as the special agent-in-charge for northern Illinois. Frequently, driving schools, taxi drivers, and automobile dealers complained to the IG about being shaken down for fundraiser tickets.
Posted on July 9, 2011
