the Windy City

Echoing law and order rhetoric he used to defend similar actions in D.C., the president cited a spate of shootings in Chicago over Labor Day weekend as justification for a troop surge in the Windy City.

The insiders shared that the idea of sending several thousand active-duty members of the military to the Windy City had been broached, but seemed unlikely.

Nineteen people were killed in Chicago last month, which is the fewest murders the Windy City has experienced during any April since 1962.

Things don’t go much better in the Windy City.

Jenks was in Crestfield, Ill., managing the Windy City Thunderbolts independent professional baseball team when the Palisades fire hit.