Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago reached a tentative agreement last week that obtained significant gains in salary and benefits for the union, which had languished for about a decade. After 12 years of raises that averaged 2.2%, a revitalized leadership pushed for salaries more in line with their peers…
JTA — The Illinois Republican Party is ramping up efforts to make voters aware that a man who identifies as a neo-Nazi is running for a Chicago-area congressional seat. Arthur Jones, a former leader of the American Nazi Party, ran for the same seat in 2018. He was the Republican nominee after running unopposed in…
Arthur Jones, an avowed anti-Semite and the former leader of the American Nazi Party, is running for Congress as a Republican in an Illinois district — again. In 2018, Jones won the Republican primary for Illinois’s heavily Democratic third district, which covers southwestern suburbs of Chicago, after no other candidates ran against him. In the…
A former talk radio host-turned Democratic congressional candidate has faced criticism for his remarks about Judaism and Israel, including criticizing a guest for sounding “like you are praising the Israeli people and the Jewish civilization as if they are great people,” the Chicago Sun-Times reported. Rush Darwish, a Palestinian-American community leader and business owner who…
A Chicago synagogue discovered a 3,000-pound safe under its parking lot — and locksmiths are failing at cracking it open, CBS Chicago reported. Plumbers were digging into the lot at Anshe Emet Synagogue in Lakeview in June when they hit the huge safe. Locksmiths and “safe-crackers” were recently called on to try to open it. It’s…
Seven people were arrested early Tuesday morning after graffiti was discovered on Anish Kapoor’s “Cloud Gate” sculpture in Chicago’s Millennium Park. Police responding to a trespassing call arrived at the park shortly after midnight and found that the sculpture, known colloquially as “The Bean,” had been tagged with white spray paint CBS Chicago reported. The…
Just before sunset on July 2, 1999, a Ford Crown Vic approached 15-year-old Ephraim Wolfe in Chicago’s West Rogers Park. A bullet had just torn a dime-sized hole in Wolfe’s leg, a couple of inches below the knee. The friend with whom he’d been walking had run to a nearby house for help, and Wolfe…
The Jewish community in Chicago is one of the biggest in the country, and until recently, the mayor was Jewish, but leaders in the city’s largest Orthodox neighborhood said that a mayor hadn’t come to meet them there for decades – until June 15, that is. Lori Lightfoot, who took office last month, is the…
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