Behind The Hate-Bigger Than The Mayor

Daley has said the deficit this year is in the hundreds of millions of dollars, but has not offered a specific figure, only warning that drastic measures will have to be instituted to make ends meet. Here's a suggestion sell that ugly ass bean sitting in the middle of grant park for the 23 million its NOT worth. other desperate measures mayor richie rich has instituted-

Chicago Property tax: 86.5 million
Buckingham Fountain Repairs: 25 million
RedLight Camera Tickets: $100
Cook County Sales Tax: 10.25% (technically High Chair Stroger)
Chicago 2016 Olympic bid: 82 million+(the city won't know until April '09)

On The Corner-Jazzmine Sullivan @ Plush

trendy city's rules for taking pictures in the club

1. brothers leave the po pimpin alone, don't scare the talent.


2. sisters don't look like a drunk or a slut put the beer down and close your damn legs.


3. sisters don't wear kool aid color wigs, invest in a perm kit.


4. again sisters put the wigs down and get a titty hugger that fits!

Nation Business-Amor De Rey

Jesse Guajardo had grown up in the Latin Kings street gang, peddling drugs when he was only 8 and becoming a soldier when he was a young teenager. After an uncle recommended him for membership in 1988, he suffered a beating or "violation" by three Latin Kings to join the gang's ranks. By 2006, at age 29, he was a chapter leader in the southwest suburbs, commanding two dozen soldiers and making his betrayal of the Latin Kings that much more stunning. He was facing life in prison in a drug case when he decided to cooperate with the government.

"If the Latin Kings knew I was cooperating, they would kill me," Guajardo said. "I had no choice," Guajardo told a defense lawyer who called him a traitor at the drug conspiracy trial of his onetime gang boss, Fernando King. "I had to choose to continue to be a Latin King or continue being a father. I didn't ask for this."

Fernando King, 38—the national "Supreme Inca" or No. 2 leader—was convicted in a drug conspiracy by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, with the cooperation of Jesse Guajardo who secretly recorded high-level gang meetings, once catching King reprimanding members of the gang's "Crown Town" region, near Midway Airport, for disrespecting gang rules. In addition to Little Village and "Crown Town," the Latin Kings had six other regional organizations stretching from Waukegan to East Chicago, Ind., with hundreds of members in neighborhood chapters.

After King's arrest, federal authorities searched his home and confiscated the Latin King's constitution and manifesto that lay out gang rules, bylaws, symbols and its quasi-spiritual, quasi-revolutionary philosophy. The constitution lists the gang's official annual holiday as Jan. 6—Kings Holy Day—when gang members fast to honor "the memory of our departed Brothers and Sisters." Gang membership is open to anyone who adopts "Kingism" except for rapists, heroin addicts or anyone who has killed a Latin King or his or her relative. Also, any member "found guilty of being a traitor or police collaborator shall . . . be expelled from the Nation."

The gang was directed for years by Gustavo "Gino" Colon a North Sider who exerted control over the nation after he was in prison for a quarter-century on a murder conviction. Colon's incarceration, like that of legendary Chicago street gang leaders Jeff Fort and Larry Hoover, has left Chicago's gangs, including the Latin Kings, dispersed but still powerful and deadly.

The gangs have been disrupted further by aggressive federal prosecutions such as the "Operation Broken Crown" probe that resulted in the convictions of King and 31 other Latin Kings. The Latin Kings have chapters in New York, Florida and other states and even have a presence overseas, including in Spain and the Dominican Republic.
source-chicago tribune

Behind The Hate-Ryan Harris 10 Years Later

After the Chicago Police failed to do their job in 1998 accusing two englewood boys age David 7 and Romarr 8 of the rape and murder of 11 yr old Ryan Harris which led to the 2006 conviction of Floyd Durr and a 2005 civil suit filed against the Ciy of Chicago by who settled out of court with for an estimated $11 million.

Video of the Week-Everybody

Obama Watch-Ludacris Gets Buck for Barack

You can't stop what's bout to happen, we bout to make history
The first black president is destined and it's meant to be
The threats ain't fazing us, the nooses or the jokes
So get off your ass, black people, it's time to get out and vote!
LUDA 4 VICE PRESIDENT! what you think?

Block Music-Jennifer Hudson and the Kindergarten Cop

effie hudson face says it all.

Behind The Hate-Training Day

Behind The Hate-Caught On Tape

Esperanza Medina, 48, a social worker was attacked in Logan Square Tuesday morning by three assailants who used sulfuric acid to rob Medina. Esperanza Medina remains in stable condition at Stroger Hospital with burns on 23 percent of her body and will need skin grafts to repair damage Wendy McEvoy, Medina's daughter, said injuries from the attack have made it impossible for her mother to open her eyes and talk and requires a breathing tube. Her family said they don't know if the incident was a random attack or if it had anything to do with a string of threatening phone messages Medina received.

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Behind The Hate-The Miseducation of Chicago Public Schools

50+ years ago negroes were fighting to get an equal education by desegregating schools now were fighting for equal educational funding by boycotting the first day of school? damn black people how can we be on time for anything if we can't keep up with time? what else can we expect when dealing with the RAINBOW PUSH Coalition and its executive vp senator james meeks.

100 Days And Counting-Vote!

Hater Of The Week-Old Man McCain Hates Minority Journalist

This year, McCain declined an invitation to appear at Unity, citing scheduling conflicts McCain's absence stung many of the more than 4,000 journalists, recruiters and executives who had turned out for the five-day convention.

"I think it is a mistake on his part personally," said attendee Russell LaCour, a copy editor for Tulsa World newspaper in Oklahoma. "It's the best of both worlds - everyone in multicultural media is here. You could throw a big stone and hit a lot of spots. I think he's making an error in judgment."

Obama Watch-McCormick Place Unity 08

Behind The Hate-They Fighting In Da Club

Behind The Hate-Forest Preserve Peace Fest

Behind The Hate-$100 A Pop

Obama Watch-Family Matters

obama's rules for raising kids:
-No whining, arguing or annoying teasing,'' their mother, Michelle Obama, told People magazine.

-Make the bed. ''Doesn't have to look good, just throw the sheet over it,'' said the mother of 10-year-old Malia and 7-year-old Sasha.

-Set your own alarm clock. ''They get themselves up, get their own clothes,'' said their grandmother, Marian Robinson.

-And the allowance from Dad for doing chores is $1 a week. Barack Obama conceded, ''I'm out of town for weeks at a time, so Malia will say, 'Hey you owe me for 10 weeks.'"

after reading this excerpt and looking at the cover I'm reminded of Steve Urkel and that Family Matters sappy heart to heart life lesson problem solved in 30 minute music.

Nation Business-Operation Summer Heat

Behind The Hate-When It All Falls Down

On The Corner-Rock The Bells 08

Midway Monsters-Bourbonnais Bears

Return specialist Devin Hester is upset with his $445,000 4 year contract and wants the final two years of his contract torn up. The Bears have offered Hester the chance to become the highest-paid return man in NFL history, but he wants money equal to a No. 1 wide receiver.

Behind The Hate-Chicago Hoods

Walk score an online survey recently made a list of the nations top ten most walkable cities Chicago ranked no.4 overall with our own list of top ten most walkable neighborhoods as follows:

the loop
near north side?
lincoln park
lakeview
uptown
edgewater
near south side?
rogers park
west town
hyde park

the real list they should have compiled is the top ten hoods you shouldn't walk in:

south shore
gage park
west pullman
englewood
roseland
little village
back of the yards
humboldt park
sherman park
lawndale

So Sexy-Candace Parker

From ESPY award winning to Detroit fist swinging.

Trendsetters-Jennifer Hudson on GMA

Behind The Hate-City of Violence

Mayor Richie Rich and Lil Jody want to give gift cards for guns on friday july 25 at participating businesses and churches. meanwhile chicagoans are getting shot or shot at day in and day out here's the body count for the week.

july 21 08
The first shooting occurred about 10:30 p.m. Dalon Russell, 32, of the 5300 block of West Gladys Avenue was shot as he sat in a car near Garfield Park in the 0-100 block of South Hamlin Boulevard, he was taken to Mt Sinai hospital where he was prounonced dead 20 minutes later, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. Carlos Swearengen, 28, of the 5600 block of South Sangamon Street was shot in the 6600 block of South Michigan Avenue. in Little Village, two men were shot in alleged gang-related violence in the 2500 block of South Harding Avenue, killing Emilio Tamayo, 26, and wounding a 20-year-old man in the chest. in Ukrainian Village a 38-year-old woman and a 26-year-old man on a Roseland street were shot. an 18-year-old was shot in a drive-by shooting on the South Side and another 18-year-old was shot in south suburban Chicago Heights and 31-year-old man died of head trauma after an assault on a Southwest Side street.

july 22 08
last year someone fired a gunshot through the front door of Elonda Jackson's house in West Pullman she made sure the kids in her home would stay only on the back porch. Monday night, Percy Rounds, 15 and his cousin Adam Spaulding were sitting on the back porch when someone fired a gun from the alley, striking Percy in the head and killing him. Rounds, who had no criminal history or known gang affiliations, was not believed to be the intended target, police spokeswoman Monique Bond said. But, she added, "there have been retaliatory shootings in the area." Malon Edwards, a Chicago Public Schools spokesman, said Rounds, an 8th-grader at Stagg Elementary School on the city's South Side, was enrolled in a summer program at Hyde Park Career Academy. Had he completed the summer program, he would have started his freshman year at Hyde Park in the fall.

july 24 08
the South Austin neighborhood on West Side, Michael Guyton, 27, father of four with his wife of three years, was fatally shot about 11 p.m. in the 4900 block of west Hubbard. gunfire broke out in the 800 block of North Lorel Avenue, leaving three men in a vehicle wounded. Gregory Jones, 23, was taken to Stroger, where he was pronounced dead. the other two men, both 19, were hit in their backs. a Bellwood man was found slain in a car in the 700 block of North Central Avenue.
SOURCE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Behin The Hate-Reverend Leon Lonnie Lust

Trendsetters-Kanye Swag

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Obama Watch-No Campaign For Old Men