Collecting My Thoughts

Yesterday May 8 was a BIG day. UK and US celebrated the 80th anniversary of VE day (Victory in Europe) with a trade deal and the world has a...

The federal FACE Act prohibits “violent, threatening, damaging, and obstructive conduct intended to injure, intimidate, or interfere with th...

I was reading an account of the teen "wilding" in Chicago where mobs of teens were being "rowdy" last night. I noticed t...

 When I was a child and the family or school group or church group would travel to Chicago, I was always amazed by the vast neighborhoods of...

After being released from prison in Wisconsin after 20 years, Charlotte was accepted in a Chicago transitional program, North Lawndale Emplo...

Dave Graf recalls: "When I was a kid (starting as early as age 5), I loved to take Route 64 to Chicago to visit my grandparents. They ...

So Supt. Eddie Johnson thinks President Trump is a racist and he won't attend the meeting of the Chiefs of Police in Chicago because Tru...

I'm sure there is more to this story--cartoons and memes never tell the whole story. Perhaps someone from Illinois knows?  Is Illinois d...

I was listening to a Chicago talk show host in the car during the church mail run (didn't catch his name), and he'd done some resea...

Project 21, a conservative black think-tank opined: " Washington, DC - After prosecutors dropped charges against actor Jussie Smolle...

Whatever happened to global warming?  They had to fix the wording: climate change because then it covers everything. https://www.washingt...

From May 16 to May 19, 1993, I was in Chicago attending the Medical Library Association then headed to Mt. Morris to work on my publication...

"Chicago was a perfectly symbolic setting for Obama to give his last official speech; the city is a petri dish of the failed radical po...

Seven years ago, on Sept. 24, 2009, Derrion Albert, a 16-year-old black student, was walking home from Fenger High School in Chicago and was...

If President Obama wants to politicize a gun tragedy in Florida, let him go instead to a Democrat city for 50 years, Chicago, his home town...

They can shut down the GOP convention, but they can't stop the killing in Chicago? 19 homicides and 116 shot just in March. A 98.6% incr...