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03/16/2026

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11/22/2025

Chicago’s West Side has reached a breaking point. In this video, I react to the shocking news story out of North Lawndale where Black homeowners gathered for...

11/18/2025

Washington Post: "Progressive" Democrats Fall for Wall Street’s “Abundance” Scam — Evanston Should Take Note!

The Washington Post just revealed the woke left’s newest housing plan—and it reads like a love letter to the fraudulent Abundance movement, the same developer-driven ideology our own Mayor has been pushing for years.

And just like the Beltway's 'Abundance' agenda, Evanston has already taken federal dollars to push this agenda—Biden's $7 million PRO Housing grant that rewards cities for dismantling local zoning and turbocharging developer-driven density.

Let’s be clear:

“Abundance” is just deregulation dressed up as compassion — and it hands even MORE power to private-equity landlords.

Sound familiar?

It should. Because here in Evanston, Daniel Biss, Krissie Harris, Shawn Iles, Jonathan Nieuwsma, Bobby Burns, and Juan Geracaris have been marching in lockstep with this agenda:
Gut zoning in the name of “supply.”

Empower developers to build whatever they want.
Treat homes as investment products, not places where families build stability and wealth.

Make it easier for Wall Street to sn**ch up properties while residents lose ownership opportunities.

The national Democratic plan is exactly the same playbook: push more units, weaken local control, call it “affordable housing,” and pretend it won’t turbo-charge housing commodification.
Evanstonians know better.

We’ve watched this majority try to rewrite our zoning code to favor investors over neighborhoods, towers over homes, and hedge-fund landlords over everyday residents.

Housing justice isn’t letting Wall Street run wild. Housing justice is protecting communities, preserving ownership, and keeping our city livable.

Don’t let the national Trump firestorm and spin distract from what’s happening right here. Evanston has become a testing ground for radical experiments—and it’s time for residents to fight back!

The Center for American Progress, a leading liberal think tank, wants the next Democratic president to boost new home construction and punish localities that don’t reform zoning codes.

10/17/2025

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Northwestern Facilities Management is implementing non-personnel cost containment measures amid the University’s $790 million funding freeze by the Trump administration.  The changes — including standardized building hours, reviews of general maintenance projects and the removal of winter tree ...

10/17/2025

The resonant message of ’s budget address is: If you live in Chicago, progressives are giving you more reasons to leave. If you don’t live in Chicago, don’t come here.

For businesses, Johnson’s message is even more menacing: We intend to tax you out of the city or out of existence.

In sum, the mayor is proposing to close a $1.16 billion budget deficit almost entirely by raising taxes and fees $586 million, and declaring dividing up nearly $1 billion in one-time TIF surplus, 0ver $500 million will be turned over to the schools.

When not using progressive vernacular to trumpet this disastrous budget as a victory for the working class, the mayor railed against corporations and the wealthy and employed timeworn soak-the-rich verbiage.

In other ill-advised proposals certain to fetter the city’s economy, Johnson revives the corporate “head tax,” and submitted tax increases on “cloud-based” services, social media and a crushing congestion tax.

A lazy budget, Johnson’s proposed “cuts” consist of $200 million in a budget that has grown 66% since 2019 and forces CPD to shear $98 million. So much for a “public safety” plan.

Johnson’s budget does nothing to address the city’s financial crisis. It just kicks the can down the road to what will likely be a comparable budget deficit next year.

10/15/2025

10/15/2025

Devon Horton didn’t just fail Evanston, he exploited us!

This Free Press exposé is more relevant than ever!

Hired in 2020 as District 65’s self-anointed “antiracist” savior, Horton turned our schools into a political stage, much like Daniel Biss and his campaign for congress!

He funneled tens of thousands to DEI consultants and “restorative justice” vendors while academic outcomes collapsed — Black student reading scores fell, enrollment plummeted, and the “Equity Progress Indicator” exposed that the racial gap actually widened under his watch.

When scrutiny mounted, Horton claimed “death threats” to justify $50,000 a month in private security — yet Evanston Police Department confirmed no such reports ever existed!

And when a racially charged “hate crime” hoax rocked Haven Middle School, he and his board doubled down — smearing children and families instead of protecting them.

This wasn’t leadership. It was grift. A blatant race hustle!

A taxpayer-funded charade where consultants got rich, students got left behind, and accountability was nowhere to be found.

After three nooses were found in a bush in Evanston, Illinois, two children were vilified as racist. A family was driven out of their home. Now, over two years later, the parents reveal the truth.

10/15/2025

WALKABLE CITIES WON’T SAVE YOU — AND EVANSTON IS PROOF.

"Urbanist influencers" love to sell the fantasy that “density solves everything.” They’ll tell you that if we just loosen zoning, build more apartments, and let developers do whatever they want, we’ll magically achieve “affordable, walkable cities.”

But look around. New York. San Francisco. Thousands of empty luxury units sitting dark while real people can’t afford to live near where they work. Housing as an investment strategy—not a home.

Now Evanston is being sold the same bill of goods through Envision Evanston 2045 — a plan that would invite high-density luxury development across the city under the banner of “equity” and “walkability.”

Here’s the reality:

🏠 We’re already 20% affordable housing — far higher than the state mandate.
🚫 But that affordability isn’t being reserved for Evanston residents, workers, or families — it’s being handed over to outside developers, countywide programs, and speculative investors.
💸 Meanwhile, Evanston homeowners and small businesses who built this city are being taxed out, zoned out, and priced out.

If we want a truly just and livable Evanston, we need more ownership, not just more units. We need policies that help residents buy in, build wealth, and stay — not feed developers’ portfolios and call it progress.

Walkable cities are great.

But if the people who made the city walkable in the first place can’t afford to stay, then who exactly are we building it for?

Check out this video out of Oakland for the TRUTH!

WALKABLE CITIES WON'T SAVE YOU!Online urbanists love to talk about how great walkable cities are, that if we just built more housing and infrastructure that ...

10/15/2025

The same story, different ZIP code.
Des Moines. DeKalb. Evanston.

Each time, it’s the same cast of racist “equity” hustlers, the same school board enablers, and the same result: failing schools, lost trust, and kids left behind.

Devon Horton didn’t just stumble into scandal—he was promoted through it. And the boards that hired him did so under the banner of “equity,” even as real equity—educational excellence, accountability, and opportunity for all—was left to rot.

Watch this. The pattern is national.

We see the damage you have done Biz Lindsay-Ryan, Sergio Hernandez, Omar Salem, Soo La Kim, and Mya Wilkins!

A Georgia superintendent has been indicted on 17 federal charges for allegedly running a $300,000 kickback scheme right under the taxpayers’ noses. Prosecuto...

10/14/2025

He did not miss an opportunity to participate in a hoax to further the grift. Now it’s ending with handcuffs!

The Free Press exposes how former Evanston District 65 Superintendent Devon Horton built his career on a false hate-crime story and a performative brand of “equity” that left students behind and divided parents.

Now the same playbook that failed Evanston has blown up in Georgia—where Horton had a new six-figure position. He now faces a federal indictment for kickbacks and corruption for his conduct here.

This is what happens when school boards mistake progressive platitudes for leadership.

The former Evanston, Illinois, school superintendent who unleashed the unfounded vilification of two white students by calling a schoolyard incident a “hate crime” was indicted for allegedly steering contracts to friends and pocketing kickbacks, reports Frannie Block.

10/14/2025

He sold Evanston "racial equity." Now he’s facing 17 federal counts for kickbacks!

Dr. Devon Horton’s indictment exposes a painful truth: too many so-called “equity leaders” are using justice rhetoric to line their own pockets and climb political ladders.

True equity isn’t about dividing parents or shutting down schools—it’s about giving every child a fair shot through honest leadership and quality education.

Let’s stop the grift and rebuild trust.

The indictment states Devon Horton and three others “knowingly devised, intended to devise and participated in a scheme to defraud" his former district. http...