The Department of Odds and Ends
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How Chicago snuffs out enterprise and creativity: Smother them in red tape.
Humboldt Park 'basement' comedy club shut down after Instagram video goes viral
For five years, the Humboldt Jungle was the cool kids club, an underground comedy and music venue inside a residential basement that provided a space for local performers and audience members in the know.
It could possibly be the end of an outlet that was used as a springboard by performers and a cool place to see a show.
Weil faces between $2,000 and $5,000 in fines and has an Oct. 28 court date. The department cites him selling tickets without an amusement license; failing to display an amusement license; offering, selling, serving, providing and/or storing liquor without the required license; and selling or offering food without a required retail food establishment license.
Read more in the Chicago Sun-Times
Maybe you didn’t know: The media are biased against Democrats.
This should come as a surprise. The reality is quite the opposite. But that doesn’t stop an ideologue from living on another planet.
Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan doesn't want the word 'corruption' used in upcoming corruption trial
So what can be said instead of corruption? That Madigan misbehaved?
(The Center Square) – Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan doesn't want the word "corruption" mentioned at his upcoming corruption trial.
Madigan laid out a litany of things he wants excluded from his upcoming racketeering trial in October. The words Madigan's defense team doesn't want the jury to hear are "patronage," "political machine," "Shakman Litigation," "corrupt politicians," "corruption," and "Public Corruption Task Force," and their derivatives, according to a motion pending before Judge Manish Shah.
Florida sues over violent foreign nationals being released from prison into US
(The Center Square) – The state of Florida is suing the Biden-Harris administration to obtain information on how many illegal foreign nationals convicted of violent crimes who served time in prison were released into the U.S. instead of being deported.