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Once again amid Chicago's gun culture: Officers down.

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December 19, 2018

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Once again amid Chicago's gun culture: Officers down.

Tuesday, Dec 18

The deaths Monday evening of Officers Eduardo Marmolejo, and Conrad Gary, young men who were in the early stages of their careers with the Chicago Police Department, are crushing for their families, their department, their city.

2 true public servants chase a gunman; that weasel Blagojevich chases a pardon

John Kass: Patti Blagojevich made a pathetic pitch to President Trump for a pardon for ex-governor Rod Blagojevich. Meanwhile, two cops, true public servants, lost their lives chasing a gunman.

Don't forget Ed Burke's enablers

Progressives want to strip Chicago Ald. Ed Burke of his control of a $100 million per year workers' compensation program. That might not be necessary if aldermen hadn't cast chicken-hearted votes to keep shrouding Burke's and other programs from scrutiny in February 2016.

Paging all prosecutors to Chicago's 13th Ward

We offer an invitation to Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and U.S. Attorney John Lausch Jr. Please look into the Democratic machine's challenge to 13th Ward aldermanic candidate David Krupa. Something isn't right.

Devilishly clever statue gets a rise out of the faithful

Eric Zorn: America is not "a Christian nation," as a protester outside the Capitol rotunda in Springfield told the State Journal-Register. It's a pluralistic nation, one in which people of all faiths and none at all are supposed to peacefully respect one another's views and observances. 

'It's very much a matter of dignity': Tammy Duckworth pushes through rule requiring airlines to disclose how many wheelchairs they break

Heidi Stevens: U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, of Illinois, who lost her legs in the Iraq War, helped enact a rule requiring air carriers to provide monthly reports detailing the number of checked bags, wheelchairs and motorized scooters they lost, broke or mishandled.

Remembering the 33 victims of John Wayne Gacy

As we mark 40 years since the arrest of John Wayne Gacy, we should focus not on the killer but on remembering the 33 boys he killed.

The latest from editorial cartoonist Scott Stantis

 

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