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by DCG You deserve what you vote for, Chiraq. You have countless shootings EVERY DAY, EVERY WEEKEND – and that includes children being shot and killed. Yet you elected a … Read more
via Zerohedge: On the heels of dismal weakness in all regional Fed outlook surveys, Chicago PMI just collapsed from 54.2 to 49.7 (drastically missing the 53.5 expectation) and back into … Read more
by WARREN MOSLER Bad: Highlights In the first sub-50 reading in 2-1/2 years, the Chicago PMI fell more than 4 points in June to miss Econoday’s low-end expectations. Deterioration in … Read more
by Dr. Eowyn Jussie Smollett, 36, a black “gay” actor best known for the Fox TV show Empire, claims to be a victim of a vicious racist-homophobic hate-crime. He told Chicago … Read more
by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Chicago real estate- is there any future before 2032 or do we hope for a Detroit situation as the only possibility for prices to rise? Thank you! … Read more
via pjmedia: Appearing on a local cable news show on May 30, Lightfoot made the astonishing allegation that the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police, the union representing rank-and-file officers, had instructed its members … Read more
CHICAGO (CBS) — More than 50 women have been killed by strangulation in Chicago going back to 2001. The CBS 2 Investigators have highlighted patterns that some say suggest a serial … Read more
CHICAGO — The Chicago Police Department has released hundreds of documents relating to the Jussie Smollett case. Police said the files include 460-plus pages of case reports, arrest files and … Read more
by oldgamewizard The thin blue line is often hidden from our view. This new series seems to be taking a look at whistleblowers role in the fight against dirty cops. How … Read more
via calculatedriskblog: From the Chicago Fed: Index Points to Slower Economic Growth in April Led by declines in production-related indicators, the Chicago Fed National Activity Index (CFNAI) fell to –0.45 in April from … Read more
Via ZeroHedge Taxpayers in America’s ten biggest cities face an average per taxpayer burden of $50,000 in debt incurred by the county, state and or “off-balance-sheet” transactions by city government … Read more
via city-journal.org: The mayor also makes his case by comparing Chicago’s crime numbers over the last two years with those of . . . Baltimore. Not New York. Not Los Angeles. … Read more
via chicagotribune: Researchers who in 2015 correctly predicted where the Zika outbreak would strike in the U.S. say they think the country’s next big measles outbreak is most likely to happen in Cook … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Cities Where Americans Suffer Hot Inflation, But There Are Cool Spots Too This is something the people in the San Francisco Bay Area have figured out … Read more
by WARREN MOSLER Personal income not doing so well, as growth keeps ratcheting down: China April factory growth unexpectedly slows as economy struggles for traction (Reuters) The official Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) … Read more
by Martin Armstrong Chicago still just got 2.5 inches of snow cancelling numerous flights. Snowing this late in the season is concerning on our models. As I have warned, the winters will … Read more