Just a day after seeing it for the first time, aldermen on Wednesday signed off on the Emanuel administration’s ordinance scrapping the city’s ban on gun ranges. Such swiftness is nothing new—last year the council passed the Daley administration’s new gun ownership law just a day after it was introduced and well before most aldermen […]
Tag: Vol. 40 No. 41
Issue of Jun. 30 – Jul. 6, 2011
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Wiretaps are increasing
Law enforcement agencies are using wiretaps more than ever, mostly for drug investigations.
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The greatest rap video ever (not really, but it’s still good)
Detroit MC Danny Brown is coming to town.
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Portuguese jazz at the Hideout
Portuguese guitarist Luis Lopes brings his Humanization 4tet, featuring saxophonist Rodrigo Amado, to the Hideout tonight.
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Illinois cuts writing test requirement; civilization doomed?
Illinois high school students will no longer be tested on their writing skills. The move to eliminate writing from state standardized tests will save $2.4 million. (Tribune) RELATED: If you’re one of the 75 percent of Americans who know from which country we achieved independence, congratulations. (NY Daily News) This is what a tour of […]
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Hot Dogs Poll American Tweeters About Freedom
When packaged meat products ask questions, people answer.
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Special Soup and Bread to benefit Garfield Park Conservatory
A special Soup and Bread fund-raiser to benefit the Garfield Park Conservatory, which suffered extensive damage in the recent hailstorm, is at the Hideout tomorrow from 5:30 to 8 PM.
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Joravsky, Miner named finalists for AAN awards
Reader politics reporter Ben Joravsky and media columnist Michael Miner have been named finalists in the 2011 AltWeekly Awards, presented by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies.
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Video shows Boys Town stabbing attack
Police are investigating a weekend stabbing in Boys Town. Witnesses videotaped a group of more than ten people beating a man, who was stabbed twice in the melee. (Tribune) Cicero’s town president Larry Dominick is accused of slurring Latinos, according to a new federal lawsuit. Cicero’s population is more than 70 percent Latino. (Sun-Times) The […]
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Can Chicago’s small messes help the city clean up its big one?
Vinnie Lauria Dog-poop abandonment has always been an easy offense for dog-walkers to get away with. Once the preliminary step has been executed, the only thing necessary is quickly fleeing the scent of the crime. But as the New York Times reported Saturday, poop perps may no longer get away clean, thanks to the latest […]
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Hollywood Fail
The eminently creepy Dutch abduction thriller “The Vanishing” kicks off “Hollywood Fail,” the Logan Square International Film Series’s monthlong program of “amazing foreign films remade into American films.”
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Pot bust of the week: rolling deep
A routine traffic stop for speeding lands a Miami Lakes man in jail after deputies found 30 marijuana plants in the trunk of his car. Noel Fernandez, 39, was arrested Wednesday by Collier deputies at mile-marker 97 on Interstate 75. Deputies said they observed a black Ford excursion driven by Fernandez traveling 81 mph in […]