Anti-Israel agitators hurled smoke bombs and expletives in Harlem Wednesday night after a pro-Kamala Harris campaign party in what could be a preview of planned demonstrations in Chicago next week, where the Democrats will hold their 2024 convention. A keffiyeh-wearing mob barged into a packed restaurant, accusing people at the bar of setting “Palestine on...
Chicago police are looking for a woman who was caught on camera last month getting into an altercation with airline employees, even going as far as to throw computer equipment at them. It happened around 7:45 a.m. July 30 at Chicago O’Hare International Airport, police confirmed to Fox News Digital. The 31-year-old suspect was caught...
A top police officer and ally of controversial Dolton, Illinois, Mayor Tiffany Henyard was indicted Monday by a federal grand jury on bankruptcy fraud charges. Lewis A. Lacey, 61, the former deputy chief of police of Dolton, Illinois, is accused of concealing assets and income to avoid paying creditors and settling a lawsuit, according to...
A 22-year-old journalist at the start of her career was struck and killed by an oncoming train in Chicago. Grace Bentkowski, 22, was commuting home to Dyer, Indiana, on July 25 when the incident occurred. The recent college grad arrived at Hegewisch Station and began crossing the tracks when a train barreled toward her and...
America just got a two-week lesson on something that has been overlooked by many on the left for the past several years. We’ve just been treated to a masterclass on merit. And here’s why it matters so much to me and should to all of us, especially the kids who are growing up in my...
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators planning large protests in Chicago at next week’s Democratic National Convention are facing a legal setback. A federal judge ruled against a demand by the demonstrators for a larger protest route that would take them closer to Chicago’s United Center arena, site of the Democratic convention from Aug. 19-22. U.S. District Judge Andrea...
A federal judge in Chicago handed anti-Israel protest groups a loss this week, rejecting their request for more space to protest the Gaza counteroffensive outside the Democratic National Convention next week. Four groups seeking to organize protests – the Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, the Anti-War Committee, Students for a Democratic Society at UIC,...
The biggest names in the Democratic Party will be center stage next week as the party’s national nominating convention kicks off in Chigago. President Biden, former Presidents Obama and Clinton and former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton have been confirmed as speakers at the Democratic National Convention, a source familiar...
The president of an American Federations of Teachers‘ affiliate in Chicago was berated by a Black mom for claiming on a radio station that standardized tests are “junk science rooted in White supremacy” as well as “eugenics.” Stacy Davis Gates, president of the Chicago Teachers Union and executive vice president of the Illinois Federation of...
A pro-Israel group claims its fight for a permit to protest outside the Democratic National Convention next week has fallen flat, despite anti-Israel groups having luck with their approval. “It’s an outrage,” said Elan Carr, CEO of Israeli American Council (IAC), the group who applied for two permits with Chicago’s Department of Transportation last month....
