By Steve Rhodes
Breaking: Redmoon Theater to set #Cubs on fire to re-enact playoff collapse.
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) October 22, 2015
Posted on October 22, 2015
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
C’mon, #Cubs fans, was it over when Iraq bombed Pearl Harbor?
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) October 21, 2015
Posted on October 21, 2015
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
“O’Hare International Airport’s voluntary ‘fly quiet’ program is routinely ignored in the early morning, the city said Monday, conceding what sleep-deprived residents near the airport have been complaining about for years,” the Tribune reports.
You know what else was routinely ignored, then? The complaints of residents for years!
Posted on October 20, 2015
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
“Chicago police ‘physically and psychologically abused’ three wrongfully imprisoned black men at Homan Square, according to a new lawsuit, which details an officer holding a knife to one man’s throat as two others underwent strip searches and all were short-shackled without access to food, water, bathrooms, families or legal counsel,” Zach Stafford reports for the Guardian.
“The federal civil rights lawsuit, filed on Monday against six officers and the city of Chicago, alleges the use of ‘unconstitutionally coercive and torturous tactics’ and connects the practices at Homan Square to a pattern of racially motivated policing.”
The Chicago media denies the charges.
Posted on October 19, 2015
The Weekend Desk Report
By Steve Rhodes
We here at Beachwood Nation have a nice little history of Cubs ditties – just go here and check out the left rail – but in recent years we just couldn’t muster the will to sing anymore. Well, just when we thought we were out of it, they’ve pulled us back in again. Our musical director Tom Latourette has come up with another gem. “It’s been a long time since the muse has hit me,” Tom says. “Playoff baseball will do that!”
Indeed. Enjoy. Share. And another way to visit our musical/video archive is to visit our YouTube page.
F The Goat
Posted on October 17, 2015
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
“The FBI has seized the cellphone of Cook County Circuit Clerk Dorothy Brown as part of an ongoing investigation into a 2011 land deal involving a longtime campaign contributor that netted Brown and her husband tens of thousands of dollars,” the Tribune reports.
Sources told the Tribune that federal authorities have joined an investigation initially launched by the Cook County state’s attorney’s office into the sale of a North Lawndale building owned by Narendra Patel, a longtime campaign donor to Brown and a west suburban businessman.
Patel, who is now deceased, gave the 2,275-square-foot, triangle-shaped property on South Pulaski Road to Brown’s husband, Benton Cook III, at no cost in June 2011, records show. Within months, Cook put the property in the couple’s name. Later, they transferred it to the Sankofa Group, a for-profit company Brown had set up years earlier.
The couple then sold the run-down building for $100,000 to developer Musa Tadros, county documents show.
The Sun-Times though, in conjunction with the Better Government Association and Fox Chicago News, reports that the focus of the investigation is “whether Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown accepted loans from employees in exchange for jobs or promotions as part of a wide-ranging probe into possible corruption, according to sources.”
Posted on October 16, 2015
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
Here we go again.
Dorothy Brown in the Feds on-deck circle? http://t.co/JG0Y1NXMzE @wlsam890
— Bill Cameron (@billjcameron) October 15, 2015
Posted on October 15, 2015
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
On top of everything else that happened at Wrigley Field last night, Fernando Rodney fired the arrow:
I don’t know why MLB video lately leaves a big block of white space beneath it, but I spent more time than I wanted to this morning trying to solve it, so we’ll just have to live with the ugly.
Posted on October 14, 2015
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
Just as I did for four hours one day last week, I had to fight, battle, cajole, negotiate, cope – pick a word (or two) – with the machinery of the State of Illinois bureaucracy this morning. Because they got it wrong at least two different ways last week. I’m skeptical the situation, which I will not get into here quite yet, is resolved. In fact, I’m fairly certain that I will go to my grave with this being an open case.
I can make some observations about my morning that may amuse you, though:
Posted on October 13, 2015
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
“Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office was more involved in a $20.5 million school contract with a now-indicted consultant than previously disclosed, public records indicate, but his administration has refused to release hundreds of e-mails that could provide a deeper understanding of how the deal came to be,” the Tribune reports.
I think when all is said and done with this administration, we’re going to find out that Rahm Emanuel’s office was more involved with Rahm Emanuel’s office than we’ve been led to believe.
Posted on October 12, 2015