Attorney General Raoul Wins Civil Hate Crime Lawsuit Against Carroll County Residents Who Engaged In Race-Based Intimidation – RiverBender (Alton)

In the case prosecuted by Raoul’s office,a judge found Chad Hampton, 49, of Victoria, and his mother, Cheryl Hampton, 70, of Streator, violated the Illinois Hate Crime Act by engaging in intimidation and disorderly conduct toward their neighbor, Gregory Johnson. Raoul alleged in his lawsuit that the escalating harassment came to a head with the Hamptons using a noose to lynch a bound and chained effigy of a Black man made to resemble Johnson from a tree directly in view of Johnson’s home.

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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades

Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.

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