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CHICAGO TOOK BULLETS. PRITZKER DOWNED SHOTS.

CHICAGO TOOK BULLETS. PRITZKER DOWNED SHOTS.

Staff Writer
Published on: 01/09/2026

Fifteen people were shot, a father of three was killed and the handcuffs remained empty. Then came the images of Governor JB Pritzker downing Malört. Two kinds of shots revealed one devastating crisis of leadership in Illinois.

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THE SUV CAME FOR JUNETEENTH WHILE PRITZKER CAME FOR TRUMP AND CHICAGO BLED OUT AGAIN

THE SUV CAME FOR JUNETEENTH WHILE PRITZKER CAME FOR TRUMP AND CHICAGO BLED OUT AGAIN

Staff Writer
Published on: 26/06/2026

The chalk didn’t wash off 111th Street before the next SUV came. Juneteenth cookout massacre: 7 dead, 38 wounded. One week later, it’s Friday in Chicago again and JB Pritzker told Trump’s crime task force to stay out.

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