The Chicago Police Department recorded eight shootings, four of which were fatal, and one armed robbery on Monday, the first day of the Democratic National Convention in the Windy City. That compares to a total of 26 shooting incidents involving 30 total victims, five of whom died, over the weekend leading up to the DNC...
CHICAGO – President Biden on Monday evening during his DNC speech spotlighted a debunked claim that former President Donald Trump spoke favorably of neo-Nazis in 2017 following the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally. “We’re in a battle for the very soul of America. I ran for president in 2020 because of what I saw in...
Delegates for the Democratic National Convention voted to approve their 2024 platform without editing the language to reflect that President Biden is not running for re-election. The 2024 party platform, approved by the delegates on Monday night, explicitly refers to “President Biden and Vice President Harris” and their “progressive agenda” to be implemented over the...
CHICAGO — Attendees at the Democratic National Convention dismissed the criticism from Republicans that the perimeter fencing and tight security around the convention protecting Democrat officials should also be erected at the southern border. “It’s a false equivalence, right? Let’s just be 100,” Louidajean Payton from Naperville, Illinois, told Fox News Digital at the DNC’s...
CHICAGO – Organizers behind protests against Democrats’ support for the Israeli military are coordinating bus drop-offs for agitators from around the country in Chicago this week as they hope for tens of thousands of attendees. Permits for rallies on the Democratic National Convention’s opening and closing evenings, Monday and Thursday, sought space for tens of...
Pro-life groups countered Planned Parenthood’s mobile abortion clinic Tuesday morning by staging a protest against its services and presenting an alternative van equipped with an ultrasound machine and abortion pill reversal medication. John Mize, CEO of Americans United for Life, was one of the pro-life individuals outside the clinic just a few blocks away from...
CHICAGO – Anti-Israel demonstrations continued through the second night of the Democratic National Convention, with protesters burning an American flag and chanting “Free Palestine” outside a building in Chicago that houses the Israeli consulate. Officers handcuffed at least four people from the demonstration and led them away after protesters charged a line of police officers,...
Chicago deep-dish pizza, or just “deep dish,” as it’s commonly known, has befuddled pizza purists for decades. Is it a pizza? Is it, as comedian Jon Stewart once quipped, “an [expletive] casserole?” Maybe it is more of a pie than a pizza pie? Or is it something else entirely? Regardless of what it is, deep...
CHICAGO – Vice President Kamala Harris celebrated the “ceremonial” roll call vote nominating her as the Democratic Party’s nominee on Tuesday evening during a rally in Milwaukee, which is located about a 90-minute drive from the DNC’s host city of Chicago. “The delegates at the Democratic National Convention, well they just completed their roll call....
CHICAGO – Security at the Democratic National Convention has been tight as high-ranking elected officials pour into the United Center amid anti-Israel protests, requiring attendees and the mediato show a photo ID, press badge, or other credentials to law enforcement and volunteers in order to enter. Fox News Digital spoke to Democrats at the Chicago...
