Cloudy and cool here in beautiful DuPage County. The first day with a high temp lower than 70 degrees since who knows when? A nice day for a long walk.
Today is the funeral for Former Police Superintendent Matt Rodriguez. A Saint Jude’s Service was held at last night’s wake. It was good to see the current Chicago Command Staff there to pay their respects. And it was good to see many of my former colleagues who served also in attendance. Matt served the department and City honorably for nearly 40 years. They were tough times but we managed to keep Chicago a decent place to live for most. He was sad to see our current state of affairs. May he rest in Peace.
Remember when Lincoln Day was in February? Yesterday, the Northwest Suburban Townships Barrington, Elk Grove, Hanover, Palatine, Schaumburg and Wheeling) held their annual Lincoln dinner. The keynote address was delivered by US Senator Ernst from Iowa. Trump dominated the straw poll with 47%. DeSantis had 22% and Haley managed 11%. The remainder of the field scattered 20% as also ran candidates.
The battery plant announcement in Manteno is a big deal. Pritzker gets another REV win. Big congrats to the Kankakee-area economic development group and the state partners that made this possible.
Saw that. This is a lesson for her and others on either extreme of the political spectrum who are so darn sure of their righteousness and always quick to demonize those who disagree. Life is complicated. Not all decisions are clear cut. You might have to recalibrate at some point on a personal decision or political stance. So, maybe don’t climb so far out on a rhetorical limb because you’ll be really exposed on the scramble back.
SDG’s child is not in play at all. This is all about SDG’s inflammatory comment about parents making the decision to send their child to a private school, and then going ahead and making that decision herself. Of course her response is to attack the leaker. No acknowledgement that parents make that decision for all sorts of reasons, the vast majority of which are not racist. Her response reeks of DJT. Sad to see it.
Unless the child is paying the tuition and choosing on their own their education….
The parents are making these choices. The parents are in control, not the child.
If you are thinking it’s “bashing the kid(s)” in these instances, you can’t grasp easy concepts. That’s right parents are, or should be in control.But how about this easy concept it is none of anyone else’s business where that kid goes to High School.Mind our own business
seems like a pretty easy concept to me.
I’m frustrated that the Tribune, which does not seem to cover the Sox enough, finds time and space today to put a large 100 on the sports first page re the possibility the Sox will lose 100 games. I once asked suits there known through friends why so little Sox coverage. Answer, our subscribers want Cubs. Ok then.
===it is none of anyone else’s business where that kid goes to High School===
“I’m also a mother,” Davis Gates said on March 6, 2022. “My children go to Chicago Public Schools. These are the things that legitimize my space within the coalition.”
Shooting in Village of Riverdale about 4:30pm yesterday; at least one transported to hospital. Village often doesn’t report anything to mass media, so you heard it here first, only on Channel3 ActionNews.
One of the great ironies in SDG calling private schools “segregation academies” is her son is enrolled at Catholic school that has a student body that is roughly one-third each Black, White and Latino. In fact, Catholic high schools have been among the few successfully integrated institutions on the south side for decades.
I do think the Catholic schools have done a pretty decent job at integration. I attended Loyola U and it was also a very diverse student body.
On the other hand, I don’t want public funds going to them and I don’t want rich dudes deciding they’d rather their tax money go to them than to our state. Especially when funny tricks are done with stocks for that. You know what rich dude, pay your fair share same as everyone else and lobby your rep to get it divvied up the way you think it should like everyone else.
I don’t want public funds going to the Archdiocese, or its schools, because I remember the last ordinary of Chicago and at the end of his term I did not think highly of him. Giving public money to a organization that is headed by a person that the public has no say in who it is, is not IMO a good idea.
I will echo Chicagoan’s comments @8:39 regarding Matt Rodriguez. I didn’t know him, but many people I know did and they all thought the world of him. He also brought technology such as automated fingerprinting and crime mapping to CPD long before even other major cities were using these tools. Good to see CPD give him a proper send off. May he rest in peace.
- Friendly Bob Adams - Friday, Sep 8, 23 @ 7:54 am:
Cloudy and cool here in beautiful DuPage County. The first day with a high temp lower than 70 degrees since who knows when? A nice day for a long walk.
- Anonymous For Today - Friday, Sep 8, 23 @ 8:31 am:
The Quincy Veterans Home Administrator was “asked to resign” last week. Now what’s going on there?
https://muddyrivernews.com/top-stories/culbertson-out-as-vets-home-administrator/20230901150315/
- Chicagoan - Friday, Sep 8, 23 @ 8:39 am:
Today is the funeral for Former Police Superintendent Matt Rodriguez. A Saint Jude’s Service was held at last night’s wake. It was good to see the current Chicago Command Staff there to pay their respects. And it was good to see many of my former colleagues who served also in attendance. Matt served the department and City honorably for nearly 40 years. They were tough times but we managed to keep Chicago a decent place to live for most. He was sad to see our current state of affairs. May he rest in Peace.
- Chillimon - Friday, Sep 8, 23 @ 8:49 am:
Explosion and fire at Caterpillar Foundry in Mapleton, no injuries, fire is out, plant shut down.
- DS - Friday, Sep 8, 23 @ 8:49 am:
Stacy Davis-Gates sent a pretty weak email to CTU membership. It starts with an ad hominem attack on the leaker and gets sadder from there.
- Gravitas - Friday, Sep 8, 23 @ 8:52 am:
Remember when Lincoln Day was in February? Yesterday, the Northwest Suburban Townships Barrington, Elk Grove, Hanover, Palatine, Schaumburg and Wheeling) held their annual Lincoln dinner. The keynote address was delivered by US Senator Ernst from Iowa. Trump dominated the straw poll with 47%. DeSantis had 22% and Haley managed 11%. The remainder of the field scattered 20% as also ran candidates.
- sulla - Friday, Sep 8, 23 @ 9:09 am:
The battery plant announcement in Manteno is a big deal. Pritzker gets another REV win. Big congrats to the Kankakee-area economic development group and the state partners that made this possible.
- Tony T - Friday, Sep 8, 23 @ 9:20 am:
== Stacy Davis-Gates sent a pretty weak email ==
Saw that. This is a lesson for her and others on either extreme of the political spectrum who are so darn sure of their righteousness and always quick to demonize those who disagree. Life is complicated. Not all decisions are clear cut. You might have to recalibrate at some point on a personal decision or political stance. So, maybe don’t climb so far out on a rhetorical limb because you’ll be really exposed on the scramble back.
- Lucky Pierre - Friday, Sep 8, 23 @ 9:50 am:
Calling her fellow Catholic school parents supporters of racists and fascists probably will make for an interesting parent teacher conference.
- bob - Friday, Sep 8, 23 @ 10:20 am:
Ms gates is the president of the CTU,her son is not.Children of public figures are off limits, out of bounds and none of our business.
- Rich Miller - Friday, Sep 8, 23 @ 10:22 am:
===Children of public figures are off limits===
They’ve been in-bounds for years.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Sep 8, 23 @ 10:23 am:
===off limits===
(Sigh)
Again…
Unless the child is paying the tuition and choosing on their own their education….
The parents are making these choices. The parents are in control, not the child.
If you are thinking it’s “bashing the kid(s)” in these instances, you can’t grasp easy concepts.
- Lucky Pierre - Friday, Sep 8, 23 @ 10:24 am:
But the publicly made inflammatory remarks that the CTU President has made, that exposed her hypocrisy are completely in bounds
- Original Rambler - Friday, Sep 8, 23 @ 10:32 am:
SDG’s child is not in play at all. This is all about SDG’s inflammatory comment about parents making the decision to send their child to a private school, and then going ahead and making that decision herself. Of course her response is to attack the leaker. No acknowledgement that parents make that decision for all sorts of reasons, the vast majority of which are not racist. Her response reeks of DJT. Sad to see it.
- bob - Friday, Sep 8, 23 @ 10:36 am:
Unless the child is paying the tuition and choosing on their own their education….
The parents are making these choices. The parents are in control, not the child.
If you are thinking it’s “bashing the kid(s)” in these instances, you can’t grasp easy concepts. That’s right parents are, or should be in control.But how about this easy concept it is none of anyone else’s business where that kid goes to High School.Mind our own business
seems like a pretty easy concept to me.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Sep 8, 23 @ 10:38 am:
===But how about this===
… they’re now a public figure.
Keep up.
- Amalia - Friday, Sep 8, 23 @ 10:39 am:
I’m frustrated that the Tribune, which does not seem to cover the Sox enough, finds time and space today to put a large 100 on the sports first page re the possibility the Sox will lose 100 games. I once asked suits there known through friends why so little Sox coverage. Answer, our subscribers want Cubs. Ok then.
- Rich Miller - Friday, Sep 8, 23 @ 11:02 am:
===it is none of anyone else’s business where that kid goes to High School===
“I’m also a mother,” Davis Gates said on March 6, 2022. “My children go to Chicago Public Schools. These are the things that legitimize my space within the coalition.”
She herself made it our business.
- thisjustinagain - Friday, Sep 8, 23 @ 11:03 am:
Shooting in Village of Riverdale about 4:30pm yesterday; at least one transported to hospital. Village often doesn’t report anything to mass media, so you heard it here first, only on Channel3 ActionNews.
- Tony T - Friday, Sep 8, 23 @ 11:51 am:
One of the great ironies in SDG calling private schools “segregation academies” is her son is enrolled at Catholic school that has a student body that is roughly one-third each Black, White and Latino. In fact, Catholic high schools have been among the few successfully integrated institutions on the south side for decades.
- cermak_rd - Friday, Sep 8, 23 @ 4:32 pm:
I do think the Catholic schools have done a pretty decent job at integration. I attended Loyola U and it was also a very diverse student body.
On the other hand, I don’t want public funds going to them and I don’t want rich dudes deciding they’d rather their tax money go to them than to our state. Especially when funny tricks are done with stocks for that. You know what rich dude, pay your fair share same as everyone else and lobby your rep to get it divvied up the way you think it should like everyone else.
I don’t want public funds going to the Archdiocese, or its schools, because I remember the last ordinary of Chicago and at the end of his term I did not think highly of him. Giving public money to a organization that is headed by a person that the public has no say in who it is, is not IMO a good idea.
- Leslie K - Friday, Sep 8, 23 @ 4:33 pm:
I will echo Chicagoan’s comments @8:39 regarding Matt Rodriguez. I didn’t know him, but many people I know did and they all thought the world of him. He also brought technology such as automated fingerprinting and crime mapping to CPD long before even other major cities were using these tools. Good to see CPD give him a proper send off. May he rest in peace.