Some of you may know that I grew up in a family business run by my dad, a grocery store, but it had a butcher shop.

It was known far and wide on the southwest side, and I know that quality means something.

And that's why we drive two hours from northwest Indiana all the way to the northwest side of the city of Chicago

to Joseph's finest meats at 7101 West Addison Street. Before you go there, you've got to be prepared,

so I've got a list for you. Do you have a pen? Italian sausage hot. Italian sausage mild. Get pork chops, but order them thick.

And of course, get some beef too, like bone in ribby steaks.

Nothing like it.

And if you don't know exactly what to get or how to cook it, ask Ben or sell and tell them John Cassie.

And I'd like to tip my hat to Joseph, the patriarch, the owner,

the founder who built this store for his family with his two sons, Ben and Sal. In his mid-90s,

he had serious heart surgery and he made a triumphant return. He loves his place, and I do too, and so does

anyone who shops there. It's like family. They care about the details. They care about you.

Joseph's finest meets 7101 West Addison Street, Chicago, a family tradition since 1977,

and a proud sponsor of John Cass News and the Chicago Way podcast.

The worst sound in the world comes from the throat of a father or mother of a child who's been killed by an illegal,

an illegal migrant protected by powerful politicians

as the news media begins to edge away from them, ignoring their child and their pain.

I heard that sound myself on this podcast, The Chicago Way, when Joe Abraham, father of Katie Abraham,

who was killed by a drunk driver, a migrant, driving 75 miles an hour at a red light in Urbana,

and he was trying to get Governor Pritzker and the other Democrats to listen to him.

They wouldn't even acknowledge his pain.

And that sound, the desperate sound in the throat,

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