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Mercados de EEUU cierran a la baja tras jornada de fuertes oscilaciones
Por STAN CHOE
NUEVA YORK (AP) — Los mercados financieros de Estados Unidos perdieron las ganancias que habían registrado al inicio de la sesión y cerraron a la baja el jueves, ya que el mercado sigue inquieto tras semanas de dudas y movimientos erráticos.
Después de dispararse por la mañana hacia lo que parecía ser su mejor día desde mayo, con un aumento del 1,9%, el S&P 500 cayó 1,6%. El promedio industrial Dow Jones bajó 386 puntos, o 0,8%, y el compuesto Nasdaq se hundió 2,2%.
Las pérdidas más pronunciadas volvieron a verse en lo que solían ser los mayores ganadores del mercado. Nvidia, las criptomonedas y otras áreas que habían subido con un impulso casi implacable forzaron al mercado a la baja. Bitcoin cayó por debajo de los 87.000 dólares, cuando apenas el mes pasado se cotizaba en casi 125.000.
El mercado había estado inestable al llegar al jueves, en gran parte debido a dos preocupaciones: Nvidia y otras acciones atrapadas en la fiebre por la tecnología de inteligencia artificial pueden haber subido demasiado, y la Reserva Federal puede haber terminado de ofrecer los recortes a las tasas de interés que Wall Street adora.
Nvidia inicialmente pareció calmar las preocupaciones sobre una burbuja para las acciones de IA después de reportar una gran ganancia durante el verano, junto con un pronóstico de ingresos futuros que superó fácilmente las expectativas de los analistas. Al entregar fuertes ganancias e indicar que vendrán más, Nvidia puede justificar los aumentos de precio en sus acciones y hacer que parezcan menos costosas.
Dados los pronósticos de Nvidia, “es muy difícil ver cómo esta acción no siga subiendo desde aquí”, dijeron analistas de UBS liderados por Timothy Arcuri. También señalaron que “la marea de infraestructura de IA sigue subiendo tan rápido que todos los barcos serán elevados”.
Nvidia tuvo una ganancia temprana del 5%, pero luego cayó 3%. Debido a que es la empresa más grande en el mercado de Estados Unidos por valor, las acciones de Nvidia tienen más influencia en el S&P 500 que las de cualquier otra empresa.
A pesar de las grandes cifras de Nvidia, las preocupaciones sobre una posible burbuja de IA no han desaparecido. La inquietud entre los inversores es que todos los dólares que se están vertiendo en chips de IA y centros de datos podrían no producir finalmente las grandes ganancias y productividad para la economía que sus promotores han estado prometiendo.
Sí, Nvidia espera vender otros 65.000 millones de dólares en chips en los próximos tres meses, lo cual es más de lo que los analistas esperaban. Pero, ¿todos esos chips realmente crearán ganancias mucho mayores para Amazon y otras empresas que los usan? Esa pregunta —si toda la inversión en IA resultará valer la pena al final— aún no tiene respuesta.
La encuesta más reciente de administradores de fondos globales realizada por Bank of America mostró que un porcentaje récord de inversores creen que las empresas están “sobreinvirtiendo”.
Amazon pasó de una ganancia temprana del 2,1% el jueves a una pérdida del 2,5%. Palantir Technologies pasó de ganar 5,5% a perder 5,8%.
La última vez que el mercado de valores en general tuvo oscilaciones tan fuertes como las del jueves fue en abril, cuando el presidente estadounidense Donald Trump sorprendió al mundo con sus aranceles del “Día de la Liberación”.
En el lado ganador de Wall Street estaba Walmart, que subió 6,5% después de que el minorista entregara otro trimestre destacado. Reportó fuertes ventas y ganancias que superaron las expectativas de Wall Street, pero no fue suficiente para compensar las pérdidas de Nvidia y la tecnología.
Las empresas involucradas en la industria de las criptomonedas también cayeron, ya que bitcoin cayó a su precio más bajo desde abril. Robinhood Markets cayó 10,1%, y Coinbase Global se hundió 7,4%.
A fin de cuentas, el S&P 500 cayó 103,40 puntos y cerró en 6.538,76. El Dow bajó 386,51 unidades para quedar en 45.752,26, y el compuesto Nasdaq perdió 486,18 puntos y se estableció en 22.078,05.
El rendimiento del bono del Tesoro a 10 años bajó de 4,13% a 4,09%.
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Los periodistas de The Associated Press Teresa Cerojano y Matt Ott contribuyeron a este despacho.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
Carpentersville’s budget includes increases for water, sewer and garbage pickup rates, but no property tax hike
Carpentersville residents will be paying higher water, sewer, and garbage pickup rates next year, which helped the village avoid increasing the general property tax levy, officials said.
Water and sewer rates are increasing by 5% in 2026. Carpentersville residents pay a combined fee that appears on their water bills, which will increase about $38 per year.
An average household currently pays about $762 a year in water and sewer fees, Village Manager Brad Stewart said. The cost will go up to $800 a year, he said.
“We just want to right the ship in terms of making sure our water and sewer rates are paying for our inflationary costs,” Stewart said. The fees will help pay for capital improvement projects and infrastructure.
Those fees will go up by 5% annually until 2030, Stewart said. The last time Carpentersville increased fees was in 2023, he said.
“Our rates are about as low as you are going to find anywhere in this region,” Stewart said. “Even with this rate increase going into 2026 and the future years, we are still going to have much lower water and sewer fees for our residents” compared to other communities.
The village did a comparison of fees in neighboring cities and villages and found that even with the modest increase, Carpentersville residents pay less in the region. Elgin’s rates are $1,800 annually. Algonquin is $1,200. East Dundee is over $1,000. West Dundee is $921 a year, according to data the village provided.
“No one wants rate increases,” Stewart said. “We’re trying to be mindful of not doing anything that would create a sudden shock in terms of the financial impact to our residents. But we are talking about $38 a year.”
Garbage fees are also increasing. Currently, the fee is $23.44 a month. The village picks up $16.94 while residents pay $6.50. The amount residents pay is going up to $9.
“This has been an amazing benefit for the residents. All these years, the village had picked up the vast majority of garbage service fees for the entire community,” Stewart said. “In most towns, residents are paying 100% of the costs. We’ve always been a little bit of an exception.”
There is no long-term plan to have residents pay the full amount, Stewart said.
The fee increases are all being done to help keep property taxes flat and avoid using the general fund to subsidize those services, Stewart said.
The village board unanimously approved the budget at Tuesday’s meeting. All the increases take effect Jan. 1.
Earlier this fall, the board voted to increase the cannabis sales tax by 1%.
Stewart said Carpentersville has had the same tax rate, 2%, for years. The maximum amount is 3%, he said. The increase is due to the village trying to find alternative revenue sources to, again, avoid increasing the property tax. It expects to generate an additional $100,000, he said.
Another potential way to increase revenues is a food and beverage tax. The tax wasn’t included in the 2026 budget, but “it’s absolutely something we’ve been looking to do,” Stewart said.
A food and beverage tax would target restaurants and bars.
If the board does move ahead and approve it, it would help defray costs to the community, Stewart said. Such a tax could generate about $450,000 a year.
Earlier this year, Carpentersville voted to continue charging a 1% grocery tax that’s set to expire in January. Illinois had been passing the revenues from the tax onto municipalities. Now, municipalities must decide to continue charging the tax and collecting it. Most communities, including Elgin, chose to keep taxing groceries.
Gloria Casas is a freelance reporter for the Elgin Courier-News.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/20/carpentersvilles-budget-increases-water-sewer-rates/
The Embarrassments Of Ideology
The Embarrassments Of Ideology
Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness,
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is a euphemism for a rigid racialist theology.
It deductively postulates that a large percentage of the population is oppressed by racism and sexism, mostly by white males.
DEI makes no allowance for the class or wealth of the alleged victims or their supposed victimizers.
So once that rigid party line is set, it cannot account for tens of millions of affluent and privileged non-white Americans or like numbers of poor and non-privileged whites.
Absurdities and ridicule must then follow.
One example is the spectacle of former First Lady Michelle Obama on her current book tour.
Mrs. Obama cannot finish an interview without whining about the racism she allegedly encountered as the once most influential and powerful woman in the United States.
According to Michelle, she was not given the exemptions that other white first ladies received.
She did not get enough free stuff for the First Family.
She had to hire three stylists daily to straighten her hair to meet “white” expectations—as if also Asians and Hispanics do not have straight hair, or many whites do not have hard-to-comb curly hair.
Indeed, she now claims blacks cannot even swim because of white-induced pressures to maintain dry and straight hair.
Because her DEI creed ignores class and wealth, Michelle has no idea how absurd she sounds.
She and husband Barack Obama own three estates in addition to their former Chicago home, together valued somewhere around $40 million.
Their net worth is estimated at between $70 and $100 million. They fly private, surrounded by a throng of Secret Service guardians.
The more Michelle clings to the fossilized dogma of unchanging racial victimization, the more she becomes ridiculous or offensive.
Trump Derangement Syndrome is another rigid ideology that deductively mandates that Trump is evil and thus must be exposed as such by any means necessary.
Sometimes, such Pavlovian hatred so blinds the left to evidence that it becomes oblivious to its own suicidal choices.
Take the “Epstein files.”
For four years, the Biden administration had no desire to release any names that appeared in the thousands of the infamous Jeffrey Epstein’s emails and text messages under its control.
To the extent that Trump’s name leaked out of the files, most had agreed on the mostly innocuous circumstances of the references.
There was not just a lack of evidence that Trump was ever entrapped by the spider-like Epstein’s blackmail webs.
In fact, eventually, Trump ostracized Epstein well before he was convicted and jailed.
Had he been compromised, the Democrats—who raided the Trump home, tried to de-ballot him, and used lawfare to drag him into five different local, state, and federal courtrooms—would have released the files in a nanosecond.
So when Trump continued the prior Biden policy of keeping the files private, the left mindlessly shouted that the hated Trump must be hiding his own culpability.
They shrilly demanded that he release all the files—without a second thought about the reasons why their fellow Democrats had previously kept them private.
So a compliant but cagey Trump has begun releasing the trove of documents.
The evidence does not reveal any new Trump bombshells. Instead, there are lots of new references to the Democrats, like the former Harvard President Larry Summers.
A Democratic member of Congress, Delegate Stacey Plaskett of the U.S. Virgin Islands, is exposed in the files as a partisan, compliant tool of the predator Epstein.
In her hatred of Trump, the files show Plaskett texting for live prompts from the odious Epstein as he tutors her on how best to coax a congressional witness to demonize none other than Donald Trump.
Was there not a single cool Democratic head who could have seen where the party’s obsessions with Trump were headed?
Similarly, Democrats embrace climate-change orthodoxy—regardless of the obvious contradictions and paradoxes that follow.
Climate change religion exposes Democratic grandees like the shore-residing Obamas, the jet-setting Al Gore and John Kerry, and the multi-estate-owning Nancy Pelosi.
All fly on private jets. They heat and cool with fossil fuels their various energy-guzzling huge homes—while demanding hoi polloi turn down their air conditioners or give up their diesel pickups.
But even green guru billionaire Bill Gates has become conflicted and a climate apostate. Why?
Wind and solar “renewables” will never supply left-wing techies like Gates the additional 100 gigawatts of electrical generation per year that they need to fulfill their lucrative artificial intelligence dreams.
Nor does climate orthodoxy make allowances for vastly more U.S. oil and gas production to supply a left-wing, but energy-short Europe, or to flood the world with cheap energy to bankrupt Putin’s oil and gas exporting Russia.
The problem with a party line is that it is deductive, not inductive.
Ideology makes facts fit dogmas, rather than evidence leading empirically to conclusions.
So inflexible cults like climate-change orthodoxy, DEI, and Trump Derangement Syndrome make their adherents look utterly ridiculous.
Tyler Durden
Thu, 11/20/2025 – 16:20
Read the ruling: Injunction provides new look at ‘Operation Midway Blitz’
U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis issued a 233-page ruling on the use of force by immigration agents during “Operation Midway Blitz,” revealing new information gleaned from body-worn cameras and other evidence.
Read the written ruling, in full, below.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/20/operation-midway-blitz-ruling/
Injunction ruling provides new look at ‘Blitz,’ from tear gas to agent using ChatGPT to help write report
A federal judge on Thursday issued a scathing opinion that takes a deep dive into the use of force by immigration agents during “Operation Midway Blitz,” revealing new information gleaned from body-worn cameras and other evidence showing how agents used tear gas and flash bang grenades on fleeing protesters, shot praying ministers in the face with pepper balls, and even used ChatGPT to help write a report.
The 233-page written ruling by U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis memorializes her findings in issuing a preliminary injunction earlier this month.
Elllis’ injunction was stayed by the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Wednesday, which called it “overbroad” and said it improperly targets virtually the entire executive branch, including President Donald Trump.
In agreeing to issue a stay, however, the 7th Circuit warned to “not overread” the order, saying Ellis’ findings “may support entry of a more tailored and appropriate preliminary injunction” down the line.
Ellis was scheduled to hold a hearing on Thursday afternoon on next steps in the case, including how and when to make much of the evidence she used to make her decision — including hours of body camera footage, use-of-force reports, and depositions of some of the top leaders of Midway Blitz — publicly available.
In her ruling Thursday, Ellis said that Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino, the tough-talking field general who was the face of the Trump administration’s operation, was “evasive” during his three days of sworn testimony with plaintiffs’ attorneys, “either providing ‘cute’ responses” or “outright lying.”
In one high-profile incident in Little Village where Bovino initially claimed he’d been hit in the head with a rock, Ellis wrote the only object that came near him was a tear gas canister that protesters threw back in the vicinity of agents.
Footage showed Bovino “rolled a second canister” of tear gas at people as they fled, Ellis said, as another agent near Bovino fired a flashbang grenade at the crowd.
Ellis also questioned Bovino’s testimony about seeing suspected Latin Kings gang members taking weapons out of the back of their car in Little Village and others on rooftops and in the crowd. Bovino testified the fact they were wearing “maroon hoodies … would signify a potential assailant or street gang member that was making their way to the location that I was present.”
But maroon is not the color of the Latin Kings, Ellis noted. What’s more, the footage from that day only showed a few people wearing maroon clothing — and one of them was Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez.
The testimony about “individuals in maroon hoodies being associated with the Latin Kings and threats strains credulity,” the judge said.
Meanwhile, Ellis’ ruling goes methodically through many of the more high-profile melees between immigration agents and protesters during the two-month operation, including incidents in Albany Park, Old Irving Park, Evanston and the Far East Side.
In Brighton Park on Oct. 4, where a crowd gathered after the shooting of Marimar Martinez, Ellis describes footage of agents shooting flash bang grenades at protesters, and one agent appearing to kick a protester who was on the ground as he walked away.
Ellis said that, over and over, body-worn camera footage from the agents undermined what the agents put in their use-of-force reports, rendering the reports unreliable.
In fact, Ellis said, one body-worn camera video captured an immigration agent using the AI tool ChatGPT to “compile a narrative for a report based off of a brief sentence about an encounter and several images.”
“To the extent that agents use ChatGPT to create their use of force reports, this further undermines their credibility and may explain the inaccuracy of these reports when viewed in light of the BWC footage,” Ellis wrote.
Ellis’ preliminary injunction, issued two weeks ago, prohibits immigration agents from deploying tear gas or other munitions before issuing two explicit warnings, requires agents in the field to have body cameras and wear clear identification on their uniforms and forbids law enforcement from targeting journalists or interrupting their news gathering in most circumstances.
Unlike a temporary restraining order Ellis issued on Oct. 9, the preliminary injunction was to remain in effect until a final decision on the merits of the case is made, either at trial or through a settlement.
Last week, Ellis set a trial on a permanent injunction for early March.
In asking the 7th Circuit for an emergency stay, lawyers for the U.S. Department of Justice wrote that the case was a “perfect example” of a growing trend in the nation’s courts to issue sweeping injunctions that violate the separation of powers and “superintend law-enforcement activities under threat of contempt.”
“The predictable result is to broadly obstruct the enforcement of the nation’s laws, chill the exercise of executive power, and subvert the constitutional structure,” the 22-page filing stated.
The filing also alleged the injunction is “unworkable in practice” and illegally transforms her into a “supervisory tribunal” for deciding whether federal officers were acting lawfully in their day-to-day operations.
In its order granting a stay, the 7th Circuit said the government was likely to succeed on those arguments.
“The preliminary injunction entered by the district court is overbroad,” the order said. “In no uncertain terms, the district court’s order enjoins an expansive range of defendants, including the President of the United States, the entire Departments of Homeland Security and Justice, and anyone acting in concert with them. … The practical effect is to enjoin all law enforcement officers within the Executive Branch.”
Ellis’ injunction also requires to submit all future guidelines for use of force to the court for review, “a mandate impermissibly infringing on principles of separation of powers on this record,” the appeals court said.
The injunction was also too “prescriptive” in barring the “use of scores of riot control weapons and other devices in a way that resembles a federal regulation,” the appellate court order said.
All three judges on the panel that issued the stay are Republican nominees. Judge Frank Easterbook was nominated by President Ronald Reagan, while Judge Michael Scudder and Judge Michael Brennan were each nominated by Trump in his first term.
Later Wednesday, the 7th Circuit issued an expedited appeal schedule, asking for the government’s brief no later than Nov. 26, and any reply by Dec. 3. Oral arguments could be set soon after.
jmeisner@chicagotribune.com
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/20/injunction-scathing-ruling-midway-blitz/
Actress Taraji P. Henson sells Streeterville condo for $1.2M
Academy Award-nominated actress Taraji P. Henson on Oct. 22 sold a three-bedroom, 2,159-square-foot condominium on the 36th floor of a Streeterville high-rise for $1.225 million.
Henson, 55, has had a long career in show business, both on film and on TV. She started spending time regularly in the Chicago area starting in 2015, when she began starring in the Fox drama “Empire,” which was filmed in Chicago until its run ended in 2020.
In Streeterville, Henson most recently has owned two side-by-side units on the 36th floor of the building at 600 N. Lake Shore Drive. Through an opaque land trust that masks her name, she paid $1.925 million in 2017 for the larger of the two units, a three-bedroom, 2,540-square-foot unit with lake views. Then, in 2019, Henson paid $1.554 million for the smaller, 2,159-square-foot unit next door.
In August 2024, Henson listed both units combined for $3.379 million. She concurrently listed the two condos individually, asking $1.479 million for the smaller one. She cut her asking price to $1.429 million in March and then to $1.25 million in September before finding a buyer.
The unit that Henson sold was recently repainted and has 2-1/2 bathrooms, an open floor plan, walls of windows, a foyer with two oversized closets, spacious living and dining areas, newly refinished hardwood floors, an east-facing balcony, organized closets and blackout shades in each bedroom, and a primary bedroom suite with an organized walk-in closet and a bathroom with a steam shower, a dual vanity and a spa. The unit’s kitchen has a breakfast bar, granite countertops, a custom tile backsplash, under-cabinet lighting, a double oven and a newer Samsung refrigerator and dishwasher.
Listing agent Sharon O’Hara of @properties Christie’s International Real Estate declined to comment on the sale.
Meanwhile, the larger unit next door that Henson still owns remains available for $1.7 million.
The unit that Henson just sold had a $21,996 property tax bill in the 2024 tax year. It also comes with $1,591 in monthly homeowners association fees.
Henson continues to own a 3,188-square-foot house in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills area, which she purchased in 2016 for $6.45 million.
Meanwhile, the six-bedroom, 17,597-square-foot mansion on 8.3 acres in Barrington Hills that was the backdrop for “Empire” finally sold in April for $6.5 million. Seller Salvatore “Sam” Cecola had had the mansion on and off the market since 2014, when he first listed it for $13.5 million. On “Empire,” the mansion was the home of the show’s record mogul and lead character, portrayed by Terrence Howard. Public records do not yet identify that Barrington Hills mansion’s buyer.
Although “Empire” mostly filmed in Chicago, the show occasionally filmed scenes at the Barrington Hills mansion, said listing agent Michael LaFido of LPT Realty.
“Although it was built in 2008, it was so timeless — it was very meticulously built and special,” LaFido said. “The setting was so unique, it was almost like you were on a peninsula. You were on two lakes and on what felt almost like a private island.”
Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/20/actress-taraji-henson-streeterville/
Elgin City Council gives Downtown Neighborhood Association an extension for city-owned space on S. Grove Avenue
The Downtown Neighborhood Association of Elgin (DNA) won’t be evicted during the holidays after its lease with the city of Elgin was extended 60 days to give the nonprofit time to move into a new location.
Elgin decided not to renew DNA’s lease and gave the organization notice on Oct. 30 to leave the city-owned property at 31 S. Grove Avenue by the end of December.
“I recognize it’s a very difficult time to transition while DNA is continuing to add value to our city,” said City Councilman Corey Dixon at Wednesday’s council meeting. “I hate that we are here. I don’t think we should be here. But we are where we are for a number of reasons.”
The focus, however, is “to give DNA the space to vacate the property in a way that’s not disruptive to their business,” Dixon said.
“Certainly (we) don’t want to be the Grinch at Christmastime,” Mayor Dave Kaptain said. “I fully understand this is a busy time for them, and it’s not practical for them to move at this time.”
DNA and the city had a Purchase of Service Agreement (PSA) for years. This year, PSA negotiations became contentious, with the city adding requirements to what had been a standard agreement.
Elgin officials wanted DNA to hire a consultant by the end of the year to explore the possibility of creating a Special Service Area (SSA) to fund the organization. An SSA is a tax imposed on a certain area, usually for infrastructure improvements or economic development. The city also wanted DNA to do an audit and offered a two-year contract instead of the typical three-year one.
DNA agreed to the terms but disagreed with another stipulation that it change the composition of its board of directors by adding two seats to be filled by representatives from the Elgin Area Convention & Visitors Bureau and the Elgin Area Chamber of Commerce.
Both sides ended up ironing out a three-year PSA with the city’s situations included, except for the two additional board members.
However, Councilman Steve Thoren later backtracked on his support for that contract, stating he was confused about the terms.
The contract was changed during a live city council meeting, where DNA wasn’t given an opportunity to respond. What the council ended up passing, by a vote of 5-3 with one abstention, wasn’t what DNA agreed to in the first place.
When it came time for DNA to sign the revised PSA last month, DNA’s board felt the organization could not sign the new contract.
Elgin abruptly told DNA that its lease was ending and the organization needed to get out of its office space.
City Attorney Christopher Beck said DNA’s initial one-year lease was from January 1 to December 1, 2020. The lease automatically renewed unless the city or DNA provided 60 days’ notice of intent not to continue, he said.
Since DNA didn’t agree with the city’s terms in the PSA, the city wouldn’t be renewing the lease, Beck said.
“There was no guarantee of successive terms,” Beck said. “It’s been called an eviction or termination. It’s not. It’s not renewing the lease for another year.”
Kaptain said previously that nonprofits without a PSA can’t get free space. Beck didn’t indicate it was a condition in the lease.
“We are forcing them out of a space. I think it is for petty reasons that have nothing to do with their performance,” said Councilman John Steffen. He co-founded DNA.
Steffen said the Elgin Symphony Orchestra (ESO) gets rent-free space in a city-owned building but doesn’t have a PSA agreement.
Kaptain said the ESO rents the Hemmens Cultural Center for concerts. The city couldn’t provide the ESO box office space, so it offered free space in a downtown building.
The other organizations getting free space are the Elgin Area Convention & Visitors Bureau and the Elgin Area Chamber of Commerce. Both have a PSA, Kaptain said.
During public comment, 16-year resident John LaFleur said he feels like collateral damage as a result of the city’s decision to evict DNA. He organizes a Krampus-themed event for adults that’s being held the weekend of Dec. 5 and 6 downtown. It was recently expanded to a two-day event, he said.
He was going to turn over planning the Krampusnacht Celebration to DNA this year.
“Come to find out they are evicted from their space,” LaFleur said. The city’s action is very illogical at this time of year. This just comes at a really inconsiderate and thoughtless time in my opinion.”
DNA shouldn’t have signed off on the agreement, “you backed them into,” said LaFleur, who works with a global philanthropic advisory firm.
While the agreement provided $180,000 to DNA, the city’s requirements to hire a consultant to explore the idea of an SSA, do an audit, and have staff work on those projects basically “clawed back $90,000 of that (funding),” he said.
“It was never discussed publicly,” LaFleur said. “I’m here to discuss this publicly so the public understands what you are forcing them to do.”
He said he’s heard the situation surrounding DNA’s agreement was personal and political. “I think it’s shameful,” LaFleur said.
“I do believe the Downtown Neighborhood Association provides a value not only to our downtown but to our community,” Councilwoman Tish Powell said.
The city must discuss how the work DNA is doing will get done in the future, Powell said. But “I’m more concerned with an orderly transition out of the space. While I don’t agree with evicting them out of the space, this is where we are now,” she said.
Powell made the motion to extend the lease by 60 days. The council voted 7-1, with Councilwoman Rose Martinez voting no.
Gloria Casas is a freelance reporter for the Elgin Courier-News.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/20/downtown-neighborhood-association-gets-extension/
Musk Calls Out Soros’ Radical Son: “Can You Stop Trying To Destroy Civilization?”
Musk Calls Out Soros’ Radical Son: “Can You Stop Trying To Destroy Civilization?”
2025 is shaping up to be the year when more Americans than ever recognize that riots (remember anti-ICE L.A. riots in the summer) and or protests, echoing the BLM chaos, aren’t organic at all, but bankrolled by far-left billionaires using a sprawling constellation of nonprofit entities running a sinister color-revolution-style operations targeting President Trump, with the mission to derail the America First movement.
🚨#BREAKING: Multiple self-driving Waymo cars, collectively worth upwards of $600,000 each have been destroyed and light on fire by rioters
At this time, Los Angeles police are urgently requesting Waymo to shut down its self-driving car app as… pic.twitter.com/eU4ANqPfyt
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) June 9, 2025
Whatever the cause – pro-Marxist, pro-gender confusion, anti-Trump, anti-police, anti-capitalist, anti-American, or any combination of these nation-killing agendas – it all comes packaged as “strengthening democracy.” In reality, the objective is to destabilize and hollow out America and the West from within.
The Trump administration recently received a report from the Capital Research Center that explained George Soros’ Open Society Foundations (OSF) empire quietly funneled “$80 million to pro-terror groups.” The administration has voiced concern about OSF, with even President Trump calling for RICO against the rogue nonprofit that “strengthens democracy”…
OSF has denied CRC’s money mapping report, while Seamus Bruner, Director of Research at the Government Accountability Institute, dropped a bombshell in front of Trump on live television at the recently held Antifa roundtable, explaining to the president and his top officials, the NGO crisis doesn’t stop with OSF, the network of chaos is massive:
George Soros, the Open Society Network
Arabella Funding Network (now Sunflower Services)
The Tides Network
Neville Roy Singham and his network
Johann Georg “Hansjörg” Wyss a billionaire donor in Switzerland
Additional Foreign Cash
“We have identified dozens of radical organizations, not just the decentralized Antifa organizations, but dozens of radical organizations that have received more than $100 million from the Riot Inc investors,” Bruner told Trump.
Way more than $100M of US taxpayer money
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 8, 2025
NGO scrunity from the Trump administration has been turned up this year as the administration begins to understand radical leftist nonprofits are working in unison – and even possibly with foreign influence operations (read here) – on advancing anti-American agendas …
Panic unfolds…
“Panic Unfolds”: Nonprofit Sector Battered By 419% Surge In Job Losses And Grantmaking Freeze
On Thursday night, Elon Musk responded to Alex Soros, George’s radical leftist son left in charge of OSF, saying, “Can you stop trying to destroy civilization for like 5 mins? That would be great.”
Can you stop trying to destroy civilization for like 5 mins? That would be great 👍
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 19, 2025
OSF claimed on X that it “improves lives in the United States and across the world,” yet which lives?
OSF also stated it “stands firm in the face of any challenges”, referring to the pressure the Trump administration has put on the leftist org.
The masks have already come off this year. Americans are waking up to globalist scams, from the climate grift to, more importantly, the “strengthening democracy” evil scheme. It’s nothing more than a cover to undermine the country, collapse it from within, and install a socialist one-party state with woke gone wild, much like the failing models playing out in California, Illinois, Maryland, and beyond.
We’ll leave you with Jennica Pounds, known as Data Republican on X, and her question to Alex Soros.
Hello Alex,
You say your work is dedicated to strengthening democracy. I have one simple question for you.
In your 30th anniversary publication, you had an article from your longtime head of Open Society Fund-Serbia, Sonja Licht. She also happens to be one of the most… pic.twitter.com/psCGXNvn6e
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) November 19, 2025
Pounds: “Are you prepared for when your mask gets ripped off and everyone sees your version of ‘democracy’ for the façade it is?”
Tyler Durden
Thu, 11/20/2025 – 15:45
Driver cited for DUI in Harvey two-car crash that sent vehicle into a house
An alleged drunken driver rear-ended another car Saturday evening in Harvey, causing the second vehicle to run off the road and crash into a house, according to the Harvey Police Department.
Both drivers were traveling north on Halsted Street, near the intersection with 159th Street. Wendall Williams, who was driving a black Chevrolet, rear-ended a silver Toyota, according to the report, which police did not release without the Daily Southtown filing a request under the Freedom of Information Act.
The Toyota went crossed the southbound lanes of traffic and crashed into a house. The report said the damage was more than $1,500, the highest category on the form.
When police arrived, they observed Williams was off balance and slurring his words, according to the report. Williams was taken to UChicago Ingalls Memorial Hospital for treatment and was arrested once discharged.
Williams was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and driving an uninsured vehicle. A court date has been set for Dec. 8.
elewis@chicagotribune.com
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/20/driver-dui-in-harvey-crash-house-crash/
NFL flexes Chicago Bears’ Dec. 7 road game vs. Green Bay Packers into late-afternoon window
The NFL is excited about the Chicago Bears.
The league on Thursday flexed the Dec. 7 matchup between the Bears and Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field from a noon kickoff to 3:25 p.m. In a corresponding move, the league moved the Cincinnati Bengals-Buffalo Bills game from 3:25 to noon.
The Week 14 game, which will be broadcast on Fox-32, will be the first of two Bears-Packers meetings in a three-week span. The teams also will play Saturday, Dec. 20, at Soldier Field at either 4 or 7:20 p.m.
The Bears lead the NFC North at 7-3, with the Packers (6-3-1) and Detroit Lions (6-4) on their heels.
More Bears news
Bears Q&A: How is this season different from Matt Nagy’s ‘fluky’ NFC North title in 2018?
What we learned from the Bears, including why Ben Johnson isn’t talking about the playoffs
How has Aaron Rodgers’ game changed since the Chicago Bears last saw him? Here’s what the numbers say.
Most Chicagoans want the Bears to stay, poll finds, but don’t want to spend tax dollars for a new stadium
What to know about the Bears’ possible move from Soldier Field to suburban Arlington Heights
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/20/chicago-bears-green-bay-packers-flex/
