Paul won a paltry 8% of votes cast in person (versus Romney’s 35% and Cain’s 15%) but 66.5% of online votes.
From producer/director Steve James and author-turned-producer Alex Kotlowitz, The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising story of three “violence interrupters” in Chicago who with bravado, humility and even humor try to protect their communities from the violence they once employed.
If this film doesn’t win the Oscar for Best Documentary I will be stunned, angry, and disgusted.
Chicago’s 42nd annual Pride Parade, always a wildly varied mix of social and political issues that matter to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, got off to a rocky start this morning with reports of floats being vandalized overnight.
Several floats being stored in the 4800 block of South Halsted Street had their tires slashed early this morning, according to Chicago Police News Affairs Office Daniel Sullivan. The police got the initial report at 6 a.m. Associated Attractions Enterprises, Inc., a parade float business, is located in the 4800 block of South Halsted Street.
Messages were left at the South Side business, but there was no immediate word on how many floats were damaged. According to the Windy City Times, the business owner, Chuck Huser, said that the floats were undamaged when he left at 8 p.m. Saturday, but that when he returned at 5 a.m. today, more than 30 floats had two tires each punctured.
Huser described the situation as “catastrophic,” and also said, “They didn’t want these folks to go out.”
The Obama 2012 national headquarters will be at One Prudential Plaza, I’ve learned exclusively, a skyscraper whose south front faces Grant Park, where President Obama held his 2008 election night victory rally.
The building — completed in 1955 and known to Chicagoans by its original name, the Prudential Building — at 130 E. Randolph is a very short walk from Obama’s 2008 headquarters, which was on the 11th floor of 233 N. Michigan. Obama’s team has been scouting locations in Chicago for weeks and settled on the Prudential Building in part because of the ability to make it a secure location.
A source inside the Obama operation confirmed what I learned on my own — that the headquarters will be in the Prudential Building and that a skeleton crew of Obama 2012 staffers are already in Chicago, including Obama 2012 campaign manager Jim Messina. The headquarters is not yet up and running; it will open for business at a later date.
Obama’s 2012 HQ: Will be in Chicago’s Prudential Building. Exclusive
Illinois Income Tax Plan Draws Ire
Illinois responsibly raises taxes and everyone freaks the fuck out. How do these imbeciles think their schools, roads, water treatment plants, and other necessities are paid for? — Ryking
