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Lawmaker chastised for wearing hoodie in House
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Bobby Rush has donned a hoodie during a speech on the House floor deploring the killing of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, receiving a reprimand for violating rules on wearing hats in the House chamber. The Illinois Democrat...
Tags: Gregg Harper, Washington, DC
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What to get for the political dad who has everything
What do political dads really want on Father's Day? I'm not a political dad. So all I'd like is a pair of leopard-print spandex bike shorts and a Big Wheel Sidewalk Screamer, that I may go on bike rides with the mayor of Chicago. But what do political...
Tags: Father's Day, Netflix Inc., The Washington Post, Bill Daley, Elections
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Kirk should tour worst neighborhoods -- with Brother Jim
Street violence in Chicago. When it flares and the death tally soars, it's irresistible chum for politicians and preachers and anyone who can slip behind a microphone. Last month, Sen. Mark Kirk announced a plan to "crush" the city's violent gangs by...
Tags: Gang Activity
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Editorial: Can the Gangster Disciples be crushed?
Would Chicago be better off without a single member of the Gangster Disciples roaming free to intimidate and endanger their fellow citizens? Undoubtedly. Believed to be the city's biggest gang, the GDs have a long history of vicious criminality. They...
Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Mayor, Employment Opportunities, Mark Kirk, University of Chicago
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Fight gangs, not each other
It was a knee-jerk reaction to a knee-jerk reaction. That's my assessment of Rep. Bobby Rush's incendiary assault on Sen. Mark Kirk's gang-fighting proposal. Rush, a Chicago Democrat, slammed suburban Republican Kirk's proposal to round up all of the...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Danny K. Davis, Prisons, Organized Crime, Rahm Emanuel
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Kirk, Rush to meet about senator's controversial gang proposal
Sen. Mark Kirk's proposal for mass arrests to dismantle Chicago's Gangster Disciples triggered a small protest outside his Chicago office Monday just as Rep. Bobby Rush — who dismissed the plan as an "upper-middle-class, white-boy solution" —...
Tags: FBI, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Danny K. Davis, Organized Crime, Dwayne Johnson
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Kirk, Rush to meet about controversial gang proposal
Tribune reportersSen. Mark Kirk's proposal for mass arrests of Chicago's Gangster Disciples triggered a small protest outside his Chicago office on Monday just as Rep. Bobby Rush — who dismissed the plan as an "upper-middle-class, elitist white-boy solution" —...Tags: FBI, Prisons, Chicago Tonight (tv program), Organized Crime, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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There's a core of substance in Mark Kirk's `empty, simplistic' crime-fighting proposal
Change of SubjectFriday's print column It's an arresting idea, so to speak. Round up 18,000 members of the Gangster Disciples street gang and put them behind bars awaiting trial. On what charges? "Drug dealing," said U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., when he...... -
At least Sen. Kirk offered an idea
I am very disappointed in Eric Zorn’s column in Friday’s Tribune, “There’s a core of substance in Mark Kirk’s ‘empty, simplistic’ crime-fighting proposal” (Change of Subject, May 31). Perhaps Sen. Kirk...Tags: Chicago Tribune Columnists, Gang Activity, Eric Zorn
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Bobby Rush's racial slur
Today we start with a quiz. Two politicians, one black and one white, have a disagreement on an issue. One airs an opinion, and the other responds with a racial insult. What will happen next? A) The politician who used the racial insult will be...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Mark Kirk, Tea Party Movement, Racism, Cultural Development
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There's a core of substance in Kirk's `empty, simplistic' crime-fighting proposal
It's an arresting idea, so to speak. Round up 18,000 members of the Gangster Disciples street gang and put them behind bars awaiting trial. On what charges? "Drug dealing," said U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., when he first publicly advanced the notion...
Tags: Thomson Correctional Center, Police Arrests, Environmental Issues, Organized Crime, Hadiya Pendleton
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Obama in Chicago for Democratic congressional fundraisers
Clout StreetPresident Barack Obama is back in Chicago tonight for a pair of fundraisers as Democrats try to capture the House and defend the Senate next year. During his 15-minute remarks at the Hilton, Obama said he's willing to work with Republicans, but said he...Tags: U.S. Congress, Personal Weapon Control, Jan Schakowsky, Social Issues, O'Hare International Airport
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Bobby Rush Photos
Congressman Bobby Rush, third from right, speaks with s...
(April 4, 2013)
Congressman Bobby Rush looks at an abandoned building a...
(April 4, 2013)
Rev. Jesse Jackson, left, Chicago Teachers Union Presid...
(March 27, 2013)