By Tyler Durden As fast-food restaurants and small businesses struggle to find low-skilled workers to staff their kitchens and cash registers, America’s biggest fast-food franchise…
By Mike Maharrey Asset forfeiture funds help build the ever-growing national surveillance state. Civil asset forfeiture is a pernicious policy in its own right. It…
By MassPrivateI America’s ‘War On Terror’ has gone mad. Two recent Chicago Tribune stories describe how America’s ‘War on Terror’ has been taken to an…
By Tyler Durden Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot threatened to shut down public areas on Wednesday after becoming increasingly frustrated with people disobeying the COVID-19 stay-at-home…
By Emma Fiala A report published on Tuesday by the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, revealed that 13,400 of the city’s homeless population had jobs…
By B.N. Frank Activist Post has reported about the MANY issues associated with wireless utility Smart Meters including how terribly expensive they are and how…
By Simon Black, Sovereign Man Last week we started a new feature in Notes from the Field– a Friday roll-up of bizarre, often overlooked stories that my…
By Aaron Leibowitz for ProPublica Illinois, and Sarah Karp, WBEZ Chicago This is a collaboration between ProPublica Illinois and WBEZ Chicago. In January 2017, after…
By John Vibes Earlier this week, we reported on the inspirational story of an anonymous Good Samaritan who paid for 70 homeless people to stay…
By Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, and Elliott Ramos, WBEZ The city of Chicago said Thursday it has dismissed some 23,000 outstanding duplicate vehicle sticker tickets and…
By Shahid Buttar A proposed amendment to the Chicago municipal code would allow businesses to use face surveillance systems that could invade biometric and location…
By Ilya Shapiro May a city both require certain business owners to forego their Fourth Amendment rights and also enforce regulations specifically designed to advantage…
By Matt Agorist Chicago, IL — This week, the taxpayers of Chicago were told they would be footing the bill—to the tune of $2.5 million—to…