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  • Chicago Low-Income Housing Voucher: $4,000/mo.

    Chicago Low-Income Housing Voucher: $4,000/mo.0

    Whatever one’s opinion on government helping low-income or no-income individuals have roofs over their heads, it’s probably safe to say that most people would be outraged by a government program that gives some people nearly $4,000/mo. for housing while others get less than $1,000/mo. Too extreme to believe? Here’s what Chicago’s Sun Times is reporting:

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  • Chicago Demands $130,000 From Smollett, Threatens New Charge If He Doesn’t Pay Up

    Chicago Demands $130,000 From Smollett, Threatens New Charge If He Doesn’t Pay Up0

    The city of Chicago threatened Jussie Smollett on Thursday with a new charge if he doesn’t pay $130,000 to cover overtime costs incurred by police during their investigation into a hate crime the actor allegedly staged against himself in January. In a letter sent to Smollett’s attorneys, the Chicago Corporation Counsel requested that Smollett pay

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  • Chicago Cops’ New Motto? ‘Stay Fetal’

    Chicago Cops’ New Motto? ‘Stay Fetal’0

    Cop blogs can give you a fascinating insight into what’s going on behind the badge. If you want to get a glimpse of the realities and politics of police work in Chicago, check out Second City Cop, which gets about half a million pageviews each month. Some of it is rather humorous, like this request

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  • Chesterton’s Take on Oscar Wilde

    Chesterton’s Take on Oscar Wilde0

    Oscar Wilde’s literally genius can be found in many literary styles, but it was his use of paradox that truly set him apart from all others. The possible exception to this, of course, was a contemporary of Wilde’s: G.K. Chesterton. In many ways—politics, temperament, religion, and taste in art—the two men could not have been

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  • Chesterton’s Real Opinion of ‘The Man Who Was Thursday’

    Chesterton’s Real Opinion of ‘The Man Who Was Thursday’0

    G. K. Chesterton had a low opinion of his own abilities as a novelist. “[M]y real judgment of my own work,” he confessed, “is that I have spoilt a number of jolly good ideas in my time.” “I think “The Napoleon of Notting Hill” was a book very well worth writing; but I am not

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  • Chesterton: Science Is a Tool (or a Toy), Nothing More

    Chesterton: Science Is a Tool (or a Toy), Nothing More0

    While he was never a teacher, G. K. Chesterton did help instruct his readers about how to think about many things. Far from the least of those things was science. And while he was never a scientist, Chesterton certainly knew something about thinking about science. To be succinct, Chesterton regarded science as either a “tool or a

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