Meg Bennett

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The Chicago Teachers Union went on strike Monday, refusing to accept a $400 million plan that includes a 16 percent pay raise over four years. The teachers want 30 percent and the promise of not having to dole out pay based on merit. Oh, and they’re complaining about some schools without air conditioning. What’s...
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Alderman Joe Moreno was once very happy taking political donations from local bars and restaurants, and their staff, and keeping his hipster ward happy by supporting things like food trucks. Up twinkles! Then, he got it into his head to take a bold stand against the U.S. Constitution when he attempted to block a...
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Southern Poverty Law Center, the organization that named the Christian nonprofit “Family Research Council” on its list of “hate groups,” may soon be the subject of a $100-million defamation lawsuit. Live Prayer host Bill Keller has threatened the SPLC with the lawsuit if they don’t remove his group from the list within 72 hours....
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This morning we learned from Mayor Rahm Emanuel that the ends justify the means if it means that a park might come out at the other end. Nine years ago, Mayor Daley trucked in a line of bulldozers in the dead of the night to carve giant Xs into Meigs Field, a small Chicago...
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The Chicago Values Trio, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Governor Pat Quinn, and Alderman Moreno, have been having a bad day–but it’s a banner day for Chicago Values. First, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is being sued by the police officers he fired and replaced with his personal campaign staffers (add in an element of potential racism, which...
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The Daily Caller reports that state employees of the Illinois Student Assistance Commission may have been coerced to attend a political event with Nancy Pelosi and Jesse Jackson. A whistleblower signed an affidavit attesting to the details of the excursion, for which she was reimbursed her travel and hotel expenses but told she must...
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At Wednesday’s repeat performance Chick-fil-A protest by Chicago gay activists, picketers emulated last Friday’s taunting of an elderly black man reading the bible by screaming and pointing at a priest praying the rosary in their midst. The priest, who appears to have been off to the side with a few other pro-Chick-fil-A protesters, walked quietly...
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Marathon Pundit reports that Jesse Jackson, Jr., has been located at a treatment facility in Arizona. The Congressman (D-IL) is apparently being treated for mood disorder. Marathon Pundit writes: Junior will have quite a bit of explaining to do when he gets out. Not only in regards to the timing of these revelations, but...
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While many of the traditional Taste of Chicago vendors have been lost this year as the Godfather, Rahm Emanuel, cut Chicago’s annual festival down to 5 days from 10-there’s one new item on the menu. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources will be providing free Asian Carp sliders, made from ground up patties of...
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