John Tillman, Chairman & CEO of the Illinois Policy Institute, a group that makes frequent editorial contributions to the Chicago Daily Observer, will be a guest on WLS-890 tomorrow Wednesday, November 1 at 9AM.
Tillman will speak about the CTA and Illinois Budget with radio host, Jerry Agar.
Read More...When you open your door for “Trick-or-Treat” tonight, be afraid – be very afraid.
The little vixens may be there to haunt you.
Seriously. Newsweek magazine reports that this year, the sale of sexually provocative costumes to girls as young as 7 or 8 has skyrocketed. Think I’m kidding? Try “Miss-Behaved” the “Scar-let Pirate” and the “Child’s Chamber maid” costume.
Need the visual? Check this out.. . .
But you’ll probably get some of these little goblins at your house tonight anyway. They’ll be looking less like they want candy than. . . money.
As Newsweek reports, Americans spend some 2 billion dollars a year on Halloween costumes – and for little girls the costumes get racier, and racier gets younger, every year.
In fact forget trying to find your 10-year-old daughter a doctor costume (unless you are looking in the “boy costume” section). But if she wants ... Read More...
Given the lousy search functions for the Tribune and SunTimes, it is hard to tell whether our major local print newspapers have neglected to cover an issue, or just have another bug.
However, after an hour searching, I can find no mention of Title 10, Chapter 8 of the Municipal Code banning distribution of free “newspapers, periodicals and directories” in any Chicago daily newspaper, which is an ordinance that passsed the City Council 50–0. Sponsored by great American Manny Flores, no less.
So, here is a short list of banned publications:
1) The Chicago Reader
2) Hoy
3) Red Eye
4) The Onion
5) The Chicago Journal
The long list includes pretty much every neighborhood and civic newsletter distributed in the City of Chicago.
Given that the Tribune owns Hoy and Red Eye, and that the Reader is owned by…well…the Reader, you might assume that the ... Read More...
