Three Democratic candidates are benefiting from dark-money super PACs, and they share hundreds of donors who have previously given to AIPAC and its subsidiaries.
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Posted inPolitics
Chicago Story: Corruption and a Family Legacy Are on the Ballot
Jesse Jackson Jr.—convicted, unpardoned, and unrepentant—is running for Congress again.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Chicagoans Grill AT&T for Facilitating ICE Terror
Organizers in Chicago are demanding the telecom giant cut ties with the Department of Homeland Security. It’s part of a larger strategy targeting corporate complicity in the federal immigration crackdown.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Two Months of ICE Terror in Chicago
Chicago is a notoriously segregated city, which means that some neighborhoods have been completely transformed by ICE’s presence, while in non-Latino neighborhoods, it’s mostly been business as usual. But the response to the federal incursion knows no boundaries.
Posted inHousing
The Lost Dream of Obam-a-Lago
Long before the September 30 ICE raid, Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood had been ravaged by a series of sprawling apartment building pump-and-dump schemes, aided and abetted by industrial-scale mortgage fraud, old-fashioned government inaction, and a smattering of Venezuelan gangsters.
Posted inLaw and Justice
How ICE Hides Detainees From Their Lawyers
CHICAGO – On September 12, attorney Kevin Herrera walked up to Chicagoland’s main Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Broadview, Illinois, passed a crowd of protesters who didn’t know what to make of him, and knocked on the building’s boarded-up front door. No reply. Another knock; nothing. Then Herrera walked to the side […]
Posted inWorking in America
How ICE Terror Campaigns Are Used to Discipline Labor
While Chicago sees a surge of ICE detentions, workers are facing retaliation as immigrants when they advocate for their rights.
Posted inPolitics
A Call-Up From the Anti-Monopoly Bench
Former antitrust enforcer Reed Showalter is running for Congress to leverage his expertise in fighting corporate power.
Posted inLaw and Justice
In Chicago, ICE Creates a Regime of Terror
On Friday, ICE agents killed a man in a suburb and fired pepper balls at peaceful protesters.
Posted inPolitics
JB Pritzker Shows How to Handle Trump
Cower before a bully, and he’ll only hit you harder. Stand up to him, however…
