By Steve Rhodes
I’ve got a few things to attend to this morning. Here’s what we have on the site so far for today:
* The Political Odds.
Updated to reflect new political realities.
Posted on February 12, 2013
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
“When Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart was thinking about running for Chicago mayor, he got one of his biggest campaign contributions from The Burnham Committee, one of Ald. Edward M. Burke’s political funds,” the Sun-Times reports.
“The $10,000 campaign gift in September 2010 came a little more than a year after Dart hired the 14th Ward alderman’s son, Edward M. Burke Jr., as an assistant chief deputy sheriff – a job that paid $65,616 a year, county records show.”
Chicago: The Most Coincidental City On Earth!
Posted on February 11, 2013
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius
Is it just us, or is this year’s snow particularly evil?
Market Update
Remember when March Madness just meant basketball and musical sell-outs and not, you know, the end of the fucking world?
Posted on February 9, 2013
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
“The chairman of the Australian company behind Chicago’s red-light program resigned this week and trading in the company’s stock was suspended amid an intensifying investigation into allegations of corruption in its Chicago contract,” the Tribune reports.
“Redflex Holdings Ltd. announced the extraordinary actions just days after board members were briefed by an outside legal team hired to examine ties between the company’s U.S. subsidiary and the city official who oversaw its contract, a relationship first disclosed in October by the Tribune.
“In a brief statement Thursday to the newspaper, the company also revealed for the first time that it is sharing information with law enforcement authorities.
Posted on February 8, 2013
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
“A 15-year-old boy with nearly 20 arrests on his record has been charged with armed robbery after he held up a man near his home, police said,” the Tribune reports.
“It was Jesus Castaneda’s 19th arrest, according to police, and his second gun-related charge. He was last arrested in August 2012 for unlawful use of a weapon, police said.”
Profile, please.
Posted on February 7, 2013
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
The imperfect victims are the most heartbreaking, because they never really had a chance.
They are also, by far, the most common. Scores of lives lost; we will never know the contributions they might have made.
Posted on February 6, 2013
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
“The Illinois House of Representatives has created a new committee to address inequalities in the state’s criminal justice system, while the chairman of the new committee faces his own legal problems,” WBEZ reports.
“State Rep. LaShawn Ford is the chairman of the new Restorative Justice Committee.”
In Illinois, the punch line writes you.
Posted on February 5, 2013
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
I’m still under the gun – can we even use those metaphors anymore around here? – on a freelance project and there’s a lot to catch up on, like all of last week. I’ll do the best I can moving forward. For today, let’s peruse the news in no particular order and see what kind of folly silly humans are up to now.
1. Police Find $10 Million Worth Of Cocaine In McKinley Park Home.
“[Defense lawyer] Joseph Lopez . . . said his client was caught in the middle of a drug deal he had nothing to do with.”
Well, he had something to do with it. Like being in the middle.
Posted on February 4, 2013
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius
No need to play the Big Game. Beyoncé already won.
Market Update
Turns out it was a pretty good week for unexpectedly shitty news.
Posted on February 2, 2013
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
The Papers will be sporadic this week as I’m on a freelance deadline that is sucking my brain apart and redistributing it to all corners of the universe, but we’ll still have plenty of good material throughout the site. Here’s today’s:
Posted on February 1, 2013