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The Chicago Way

Chicago Way w/John Kass: Street takeovers, tariffs, and judges on the loose

The Chicago Way

WGN Plus

News & Politics, News, Columnist, Politics, Carlin, Plus, Wgn, Jeff, Tribune, John, Chicago, The, Kass, Radio, Way

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Chicago Way w/John Kass (04/07/25): This week, John Kass & Jeff Carlin tackle the often violent ‘street takeovers’ plaguing Chicago’s business district, President Donald Trump’s policy of raising tariffs to put an end to ‘globalization,’ and various district court judges blocking executive actions by President Trump. Plus, Kasso wonders why Chicago’s city leaders are afraid […]

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0:00.0

There are three subjects for today's podcast, John Cass, Jeff Carlin, the Chicago Street

0:07.5

takeovers.

0:09.3

The mayor and the council, city council, are impotent and unable to address the violence

0:16.4

that's happening on a regular basis in the city.

0:20.4

Large crowds of teens, mostly black males, teenagers, and they can't, they have no way to

0:29.0

deal with it.

0:30.2

Why?

0:31.2

Because mothers on welfare are protecting their kids.

0:35.5

And those mothers on welfare boat.

0:38.9

And that's why Democrats don't want to do anything about it.

0:43.2

The second thing we'll talk about today, federal judges,

0:48.7

are they insolent power grabbers or are they preservers of the Constitution?

0:54.6

Hmm. And the third? What about President Trump's imposition of tariffs and the whining from the

1:04.1

wealthy and Wall Street as they start losing their money in the stock market?

1:09.6

Where was the screaming for the people in the Kelly Met region when big steel went out

1:16.7

and was destroyed?

1:20.3

When we hollowed out the manufacturing of this country so that we can get crap from China cheaply?

1:32.5

Where was the screaming for those people?

1:35.2

They didn't scream for them because they weren't part of the money train.

1:40.4

Jeff Carlin is here.

1:42.9

Executive producer of WGN Radio, my friend, and longtime and always host of this podcast.

1:51.7

And me, I'm John Cass, editor-in-chief of John Cass News.

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