Results for Chicago 2024

  1. Wild Visa Scam Had People Paying to Be 'Robbed' — Until Someone Actually Got Shot https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/10/27/wild-visa-fraud-scheme-had-foreign-nationals-paying-to-be-robbed-n2208668
    Here's an immigration fraud story with a unique twist: people were apparently paying a Chicago man thousands of dollars to stage armed … organizer of the scheme that staged armed robberies at coffee shops, restaurants, liquor stores, and gas stations from 2022 through 2024 … Tips can remain anonymous. https://t.co/mKF47jJ8qi— FBI Chicago (@FBIChicago) October 26, 2026The scheme was pretty straightforward…
  2. Obama Gets His $1 Billion Monument. Contractors Are Still Waiting to Get Paid. https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/10/17/obamas-billion-dol…ple-debt-piles-up-and-contractors-are-still-waiting-n2208253
    Barack Obama's presidential monument in Chicago has officially crossed the billion-dollar mark. … $909 million by the end of 2025, when the center was roughly 80 percent complete.Its total liabilities climbed from $35 million in 2024 … The foundation argues its agreement with Chicago required establishing the fund, rather than fully funding it before opening.To be…
  3. Jerry Seinfeld Absolutely Roasts Pro-Palestinian Hecklers Who Crash His Live Comedy Show https://redstate.com/kyle-becker/2026/10/16/jerry-seinfeld-roasts-pro-palestinian-heckler-at-live-comedy-show-n2208207
     When protesters interrupted his performance at the Chicago Theatre, the legendary comedian decided to give them a performance … Petlin (@Joelmpetlin) October 12, 2026Now that's how you handle hecklers.The Anti-War Committee Chicago and the Chicago branch of the … protesters at other performances, including demonstrations surrounding his appearance at Duke University's commencement ceremony in 2024…
  4. A Disturbing Kind of Immigration Fraud Is Sweeping the Nation: Fake 'Robberies' https://redstate.com/kyle-becker/2026/10/27/a-revolting-kind…gration-fraud-is-sweeping-the-nation-fake-robberies-n2208685
    According to a disturbing new CWB Chicago investigation, three masked gunmen entered Bucktown Food & Liquor on North Milwaukee … commit visa fraud.According to the Justice Department, Nayi helped organize hundreds of staged armed robberies between 2022 and 2024 … , involving businesses in Chicago, its suburbs and other states.The operation involved recruiting fake victims, compensating store…
  5. Pritzker’s Sanctuary Illinois Let 500 Go and Now Congress Has the Receipts https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/10/02/pritzkers-sanctuar…linois-let-500-go-and-now-congress-has-the-receipts-n2207650
    Chicago police and Illinois jailers kept turning people loose when ICE wanted to pick them up. … arrived between July 2024 and June 2026. … Chicago later arrested him for shoplifting and let him go. He never showed for court.…
  6. Talarico Hopes a 'New' Paxton Scandal Will Make the Buzz Around His 13-Day Vanishing Act Disappear https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/10/13/talarico-hopes-a…the-buzz-around-his-13-day-disappearance-disappear-n2208070
    Senate Ken Paxton and his extramarital girlfriend Tracy Duhon taking a trip to Dubai for New Year's Eve 2024.This can’t be good: Murdoch … According to a 2025 Chicago Sun-Times exclusive, the physicians were hiding out in Dubai to escape the long arm of the law.Dr. … A new scene that could join the list: a previously unreported New Year’s Eve 2024 celebration where Paxton partied in Dubai with two…
  7. If Seditionists Don't Face Accountability, Everyday Americans Will Pay the Price https://redstate.com/ben-sellers/2026/10/22/if-seditionists…ccountability-everyday-americans-will-pay-the-price-n2208447
    Slotkin told University of Chicago she wants "signature cases" against people who "enabled" Trump, so young grads think working for … 2026TWO-TIERED ACCOUNTABILITYWhile it is true that immigration and affordability were major motivating factors for MAGA voters in 2024…
  8. Seriously, Can Democrats Dig Up Anyone Decent to Succeed Trump? https://redstate.com/andrewmalcolm/2026/09/27/seriously-can-democrats-find-anyone-good-to-succeed-trump-n2207423
    independent public persona without appearing to criticize Trump, the same political predicament Kamala Harris failed to handle in 2024 … The queen of speech salads, who lost every single swing state in 2024 and has never earned a single primary vote, maintains that she … Both men have forever festering urban sores in their states – Los Angeles and Chicago – that they’ve done nothing to address.Pritzker…
  9. The Marxist Long March in America Must Be Stopped https://redstate.com/heartlandinstitute/2026/09/23/the-marxist-long-march-in-america-must-be-stopped-n2207217
     I am not exaggerating when I say that my two-year program at a prominent educator college in Chicago did little to prepare me …  During my student teaching period at a high school in a Chicago suburb, my mentor teacher reinforced this narrative. … Ron DeSantis saw this problem coming years ago.In 2024, DeSantis signed SB 1264 into law, which “requires instruction in public…
  10. Blue States With Strong Teachers' Unions Tend to Have Something in Common, and It's Not Good https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2026/09/17/blue-states-with…rs-unions-have-something-in-common-and-its-not-good-n2207046
    One of the things President Trump ran on in 2024 was dismantling the Department of Education. … In May of 2024, the Chicago Teachers' Union, in its collective bargaining proposal, included these demands: 9 percent yearly wage … What they should be concerned with is that only around 40 percent of Chicago Public School students read at grade level, and 25 percent…
  11. Conventional Wisdom? Atlanta's Dem Mayor Says DNC Is 'Abandoning Black Voters' https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/08/21/the-dnc-has-a-blac…er-problem-and-atlantas-mayor-just-said-it-out-loud-n2205911
    Atlanta and Chicago are out. The Aug. 7-10 convention will go to Boston, Denver, or Philadelphia. … The city also made a serious run at the 2024 convention, only to watch the DNC give that event to Chicago. …  Trump carried Georgia in 2024, four years after Biden won it. Both of its U.S. senators are Democrats.…
  12. Luigi Mangione Case Takes a Shocking Turn https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/08/13/luigi-expected-plea-expected-friday-n2205581
    federal court — is charged in the federal case with two counts of stalking resulting in death stemming from his alleged December 2024 … charges.🚨 Luigi Mangione, who is facing prosecution for allegedly fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024 … Donna Rotunno, a Chicago criminal defense attorney and Fox News contributor, commented, "Rarely somebody with no background, who’s…
  13. WNBA Player Ejected for Smacking Sophie Cunningham Across the Face, but Her Reaction Is Even Worse https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/08/08/wnba-player-ejected…gham-across-the-face-but-her-reaction-is-even-worse-n2205369
    playing in their leagues.The entire thing has become a three-ring circus, and on Saturday, the controversy erupted even further as Chicago … in the face.Carrington has previously garnered controversy for poking Cunningham's teammate Caitlin Clark in the eye during the 2024 … Think again:The Chicago Sky featured a fan in a “trans rights” shirt on the video board during the review of DiJonai Carrington’s flagrant…
  14. Did the WNBA (Inadvertently) Pull Off One of the Greatest Marketing Moves of All Time? https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/08/12/did-the-wnba-inadver…off-one-of-the-greatest-marketing-moves-of-all-time-n2205503
    male NBA stars trying to join its ranks, to the vicious clothesline takedown of Indiana Fever forward Sophie Cunningham by the Chicago … was that someone named Brittney Griner apparently hated the country that gave her so much opportunity, was arrested in Russia in 2024…
  15. Women Can Be Their Own Worst Enemies Sometimes https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2026/08/10/women-can-be-their-own-worst-enemies-sometimes-n2205425
    Sports Might Be Even Worse Than You'd ExpectThe issue seemingly reached a boiling point when Cunningham was brutally fouled by Chicago … of its coaches and players seem hellbent on causing the new fans who have been tuning in to watch games since Clark's arrival in 2024…
  16. $195M in Federal Awards, a $4M CEO, and Layoffs: White Sox Partner Exposed https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/07/25/195m-in-federal-awards-a-4m-ceo-and-layoffs-white-sox-partner-exposed-n2204750
    Rush University System for Health, the Chicago White Sox's official healthcare partner, is under fire for its DEI agenda, past gender-transition … Gender-Affirming Care' for KidsTax filings show Rush reported nearly $3.7 million in reportable compensation for Lateef during fiscal year 2024 … The hospital system eliminated an undisclosed number of administrative and leadership positions in early 2024, blaming “financial headwinds…
  17. Former NFL Player Was Just Deported — ICE Is Done Playing Games https://redstate.com/kyle-becker/2026/07/25/former-nfl-player-removed-by-ice-n2204764
    “This dangerous individual was clearly a threat to the community, which is now safer since he’s been removed,” ICE Chicago Assistant …  A House report in 2024 laid out the financial burden:The lifetime fiscal drain (taxes paid minus costs) for each illegal immigrant…
  18. Rubio or Vance in 2028: The GOP's Pleasant Predicament https://redstate.com/andrewmalcolm/2026/07/26/rubio-or-vance-in-2028-the-gops-pleasant-predicament-n2204771
    written that’s just to keep her interim speaking fees inflated.I can’t believe Democrats would repeat with Harris, Nancy Pelosi’s 2024 … Clinton, the last centrist Democrat president; three terms in the House; Obama’s White House chief of staff; two terms as mayor of Chicago…
  19. RedState Sports Report: LeBron James, Pick a New Team Already https://redstate.com/jerrywilson/2026/07/18/redstate-sports-report-lebron-james-pick-a-new-team-already-n2204458
    This would create immediate intrigue via reuniting with Steph Curry, with whom James meshed very well in the 2024 Summer Olympics en … also facilitate the return of the famous triangle offense favored by Phil Jackson during his championship-winning tenure with the Chicago…
  20. The $225 Million School Fraud Scandal: Fake Students, Bribes, and Designer Bags https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/07/15/the-225-million-sc…raud-scandal-fake-students-bribes-and-designer-bags-n2204357
    The schools closed in 2019, and four people weren't charged until 2024.Read More: Teachers Paid the Dues - Now Congress Wants to Know … Chicago Public Schools was forced to return $1 million in federal grants earmarked for Native American students after investigators…
  21. Illegal Alien Allegedly Murders Co-Worker, As Collateral Damage From Biden's Border Policies Continues https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/07/08/illegal-alien-mur…damage-from-bidens-toxic-border-policies-continues-n2204138
    became a border town because they deliberately spread the poison nationwide.On June 29th, in Coldwater, Michigan — a suburb between Chicago … a Michigan meat plant is a Haitian illegal alien who was caught and released at the Texas border by the Biden administration in 2024 … a Michigan meat plant is a Haitian illegal alien who was caught and released at the Texas border by the Biden administration in 2024…
  22. Good News, Bad News for Ruben Gallego — Senate Clears Him in Ethics Probe, but DOJ Investigating https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/06/29/good-news-bad-news-f…te-clears-him-in-ethics-probe-but-doj-investigating-n2203846
    California, according to a source familiar with the probe.Gallego used a political committee's PAC to fund excursions to Miami, Chicago … In 2024, his wife took a campaign car for personal use.Justice Dept is opening a probe.W/@baylisswagnerhttps://t.co/U4Vpr3po3M— Kellen…
  23. Forget Obama and Biden - What Dems Want Now Is Much Worse https://redstate.com/andrewmalcolm/2026/06/28/democrats-turn-to-socialism-as-their-answer-n2203791
    I remember a CNN street reporter in Chicago mocking them.Mock away, sweetheart. … inflation, illegal immigration, military decline, and serial screw-ups like the lethal Afghan withdrawal.What happened to Democrats in 2024…
  24. How Did She Get Released? DHS Says Teacher Helped Tren de Aragua Gunmen https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/06/23/how-did-she-get-re…eased-dhs-says-teacher-helped-tren-de-aragua-gunmen-n2203615
    The report then described the federal response after Chicago released her." … Chicago police arrested Moreno Occhipinti on Dec. 5, 2024, on weapons-related charges. … Chicago officials can keep defending limits on cooperation with federal immigration authorities.…
  25. Los Angeles Is Burning Again. Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom Are Once Again Slow Rolling Their Response https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/06/21/los-angeles-is-bu…karen-bass-and-gavin-newsom-are-nowhere-to-be-found-n2203578
    the Los Angeles Fire Department.The LAPD issued a city-wide tactical alert, increasing the number of available officers.In August 2024 … , if not worse, than during the Eaton fire that burned in Altadena in January 2025.Apparently Newsom was too busy hobnobbing in Chicago … Mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt alleges that she was not.Karen was sipping cocktails in Chicago when the Boyle Heights Fire erupted…