My heart is broken, deeply broken. Is there no one in Illinois who has the moral compunction to stand up to the corruption known as Chicago? Will any Illinois person of honor come forward to put a stop to what is going on? When I received an anonymous E-mail about the Land of Lincoln–where our governors make our license plates–I couldn’t laugh anymore. You see, there always has been a perverse sort of gallows humor, perhaps even misplaced sense of pride associated with Chicago. When I tell people here in Florida that I’m from near Chicago, I sense that I have assumed a different status in their eyes. One guy even stepped back, suddenly refusing to interrupt me anymore!
As the current all-Democrat Illinois legislature tried every way possible to pass a series of unconstitutional gun bans last week, three sitting lawmakers were facing criminal charges. All Democrats from Chicago, they include taking a gun on a plane, bribery, and bank fraud.
Incredibly, during the last six months, 292 people were killed (a charge of manslaughter) or murdered in Chicago while only 221 were killed in Iraq! How ironic that the American city with the nation’s most oppressive gun laws boasts more killings than a hot war zone in which ALL combatants carry guns.
Illinois is noted for having the greatest number of imprisoned governors-FOUR-past or present! Gov. Otto Kerner, Democrat, was sent up on 17 felony charges; Gov. Dan Walker,(D) went up for bank fraud; George Ryan (Rep) gets out this year after doing time for felony fraud and racketeering; and Rod Blagojevich, who President Barack Obama said he only met with “infrequently” continues his stretch for 18 counts of political misconduct!
Operation Cookie Jar, a public schools sting, netted numerous arrests of school officials. “Chicago school system rated one of the worst in the country,” says my anonymous E mail. Jesse Jackson, Jr. just resigned from Congress because of continuing allegations about improper expenditures of campaign funds! A 2012 University of Illinois, Chicago campus report states: “The Chicago area already has the most public corruption convictions of any federal jurisdiction nationwide with more than 1,500 convictions in the Illinois Northern District.” And our state pension fund is financially the most precarious in the country with an unfunded liability of over $96 BILLION; yet the in-session legislature does nothing.
I remember walking with my grandmother through her beautiful flower gardens. I can still taste the delicious homegrown tomatoes my uncle gave us. I remember my father traveling once a month to Chicago to meet with other judges to do something about the election shenanigans after Mayor Daley Sr’s involvement in the “questionable” ascendancy of John F. Kennedy to the Presidency. I’ll never forget seeing the walls of flames shoot up every night during the 1960s riots’ “Days of Rage.”
Illinois is a beautiful state with kind, lovely people, both rich and poor. They do not deserve what is going on. My daughter and her husband will have four sons in Illinois colleges and universities next year. They should not have to face the embarrassment I now do when I tell people I’m from Illinois!
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Until the Governors and Mayors take back the metro areas from the gang bangers, you will have murders, 2012 alone 570 murders in chicago….and all they do is want more gun laws..THEY need to fix the problem by inforcing civil laws and go in and take the weapons from the gangbangers, throw their butts in jail, and they do know who they are….but alas, being cowards, they will blame the legal owners of weapons for their short comming…….and 2013 will be a more productive of a year for murders in chicago and detroit etal……
I was born and raised in Texas and I live in Chicago….can you imagine that???? They HATE texans here….I also have a Jewish last name they also HATE jews….I have stood up numerous times to corrupt things here. They illegally took my truck…they said I had abandoned it yet it was on the street with the other vehicles. This was just a couple of days after I sent numerous emails to Republicans and conservatives all over the country telling them HOW corrupt things really are here! This was punishment for telling! There is not enough space on this page to list out the things they have done to me here for telling on their stupid little corrupt, anti-semitic asses. And every single time there is some kind of SICK, TWISTED punishment for standing up to them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And they want the WHOLE ENTIRE country to be just like this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bless your heart I feel that way about chicago because of all the bad things that come out of there(obama) and I am from TEXAS and proud of it . I know there are good people in chicago but the reason its so bad is that things are that way when good people wont’ stand together and take back the stat e that is theirs
You don’t have to be ashamed to be from Illinois, only ashamed of Chicago and the corruption it represents. Especially ashamed of the biggest loser of them all – Barrack Obama!
Chicago just elected yet another dishonest mayor….. Rahm Emanuel… They got rid of Mayor Daley who was equally as corrupt…. Corruptions seems to follow more corruption. This is who Valerie Jarett worked for as well as Milchelle Obama…. so it’s more corruption..
Left the Southside of Chicago over 70 years ago…during the 1930′s our home was robbed once and I was gang robbed and mugged twice, Al Capone made illegal booze next door to our house at 61st & Racine in a vacant commercial building…still remember when the cops came out to test the huge vat of booze to confirm if it was legal?..DUH!..So corruption is not something new in the city of big shoulders…in the past 70 years have never met a single person who would admit to having been born, schooled, or raised in Chicago…much less the Southside ..(Parker, Beale, CVS)…. pile the bodies high on the Southside I ain’t never coming back! Let obama remain the poster child of this sordid tradition! TEX
[[[“The Chicago area already has the most public corruption convictions of any federal jurisdiction nationwide with more than 1,500 convictions in the Illinois Northern District.” ]]]
‘You become the company you keep.’ If this city wants to get out of the ugliness it has …. they should have elected another mayor…. but I suppose no one honest would have been elected, would they?