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Chicago and surrounding areas

Toyota Park in Bridgeview will be the staging area for the Guard starting Monday. Also, Chicago's Office of Emergency Management will practice setting up a remote command center at Soldier Field to handle a large-scale disaster.

On Tuesday, a simulated meth lab will be raided on Green and York Streets in Bensenville.

On Wednesday, Bensenville area also will be the site of numerous simulated terrorist attacks "including takedowns of suspected terrorists," simulated building collapses with trapped victims  and mass decontamination and medical care by the National Guard.

At the same time, Rush University Medical Center in Chicago will receive "suspected biological agent patients to decontaminate and medically evaluate."

On Wednesday evening, the CTA will stage a rail-car evacuation SWAT incident at 15th and Clark streets. Chicago police K-9 units will detect "simulated explosives manufactured by a terrorist group on a CTA train." A simulated explosion will occur from 10 p.m. Wednesday to 4 a.m. Thursday. There will be road closings in the area.

On Thursday there will be another takedown situation in the Bensenville area and a simulated chemical explosion at the Nalco Co. plant at 6233 W. 66th St. in Chicago.

The Illinois National Guard says more than 50 local, state, federal and private agencies will participate in the drill to learn how to respond to disasters. The five-day training exercise will
run from Sunday through Thursday, June 17.

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*Obama seems to be making this illegal immigration an all or nothing situation. Why don't we just call us Lebanon? or any other Middle Eastern state?  ALL will have to carry papers? Are you out of your mind? We change America to make illegals more comfy? Why don't you just uphold the law and deport the illegals and fine the companies that employ them?  This isn't a racial thing! This Is a matter of ILLEGALS!  I'm furious! Are you?  Listen to what Clinton says!
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*This is a week old but well worth listening to. The problem is the people who are in the 'grey' area slip through the cracks. The wording twists and turns the actual meaning of the law that Obama wants to pass regarding health care reform. What exists now is a prime example of how poorly the 'process' is. The people who are behind those desks rarely know the assistance program that exist now, so how are they going to benefit the people who aren't "seniors", who need help and can't get it due to the ignorance of the government employees? They make people crawl over and over again to get the benefits they worked for.. ah but the illegals and immigrants sit with attorneys and get handed the benefits that Americans can't get. Pathetic. That's what is seen. Tell me a good story about someone who isn't illegal, an immigrant, a pregnant gal or people (immigrants - legal or not) who come here for medical help... It's not easy to find a story is there?


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If you're wondering who Vera Baker Vera Baker -- the woman rumored to have been involved with Barack Obama during his Senate race -- is, then you must not have been paying attention to the Republicans during the 2008 presidential campaign.

John McCain's camp made a big fuss over the former political fund-raiser'srelationship with Obama during his 2004 Senate race.

Implications were that they were more than co-workers. But even back then, no one took these allegations seriously.

Which may have been because the Republican party was throwing anything they could at Obama -- that he wasn't a natural U.S. citizen, that he was a card-carrying Muslim, that he was a terrorist supporter, etc, etc.

According to Wikipedia, here's Baker's impressive background: She was born in 1974 in San Francisco, where she grew up. She graduated from Mills College in Oakland, Calif., and in 2000 founded Baker, Wambu & Associates, a political consulting firm that soon became a top fund-raiser for the Congressional Black Caucus.

She was the finance director for Obama's campaign for the U.S. Senate in Illinois in 2004. She also was the deputy political director at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

After she left politics, Baker worked at a municipal bond brokerage and later launched Cape Caribbean, LLC, a strategic marketing firm.

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*You know what I think all this rumor of Obama's supposed affair is? it's just like them saying his wife Michelle was pregnant during elections. It looks to me that sidestepping is going on again so he can do or get out of other troubles. That's my opinion.. For example, Arizona. ..

President Obama has called the law “misguided” and promised to keep an eye on it. But when racial separation finds a foothold in any of the 50 states, the president needs to do more than mildly criticize. He should act. Here’s a partial but urgent to-do list:...

TAKE BACK IMMIGRATION POLICY The Supreme Court has consistently ruled that states cannot make their own immigration laws. The Arizona debacle gives the Obama administration another chance to make it clear that the nation’s immigration policy cannot be left to a ragged patchwork of state and local laws.

As a presidential candidate, Mr. Obama praised a federal court’s decision striking down a law in Hazleton, Pa., that made it illegal to hire or rent housing to undocumented immigrants. To start forcefully asserting the central federal role in immigration, the administration should rescind a once-secret 2002 memo from President George W. Bush’s attorney general, John Ashcroft, that declared that state and local police had “inherent authority” to make immigration arrests. *What about his aunt who is here illegally? Once again there is a conflict of interest. As far as the police are concerned, just an fyi, police can take special 'courses' to train them which makes them qualified to process illegal immigrants. The police have that right to arrest them but the FEDS have to follow through. What or Who is stopping them?.

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ICE is led by an Assistant Secretary, who is appointed at the sub-Cabinet level by the President of the United States, confirmed by the Senate, and reports directly to the Secretary of Homeland Security. ^[3] The mission of ICE is to protect the United States and uphold public safety by enforcing immigration and customs laws.

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*Just keeping the people informed of the Chicago government. Playing dumb.When a person climbs out onto a fire escape should speak volumes. They know the law and slip right through with loop holes. How can Stroger not know about this? Just asking << MORE >>

*Chicago, once again we go through a reverberation of corruption
Stroger Aide Steered Money to her own company

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PRESIDENT OBAMA has been caught in a shocking cheating scandal after being caught in a Washington, DC Hotel with a former campaign aide, sources say.

And now, a hush-hush security video that shows everything could topple both Obama's presidency and marriage to Michelle!

A confidential investigation has learned that Obama first became close to gorgeous 35 year-old VERA BAKER in 2004 when she worked tirelessly to get him elected to the US Senate, raising millions in campaign contributions.

While Baker has insisted in the past that "nothing happened" between them, the ENQUIRER has learned that top anti-Obama operatives are offering more than $1 million to witnesses to reveal what they know about the alleged hush-hush affair.

Among those being offered money is a limo driver who says that he took Vera to a secret hotel rendezvous where the President was staying.

On the condition of anonymity, the limo driver said he took Baker "from a friend's home in the DC area to the Hotel George where I learned later that Obama would be spending the night."

The driver recalled that he "waited in the lobby while she went to change her outfit. 

"But to the best of my knowledge she did not have a room at the hotel and she was not staying there so I thought that it was a bit odd."

The driver said he then picked up Obama at the airport and drove both he and Baker to various locations while he was campaigning for funds.  Vera accompanied him to each meeting.

"About 10:30 PM, I drove them to the hotel and they went in together!"

"My services for the evening were done - and there was no indication she was going to leave the hotel that night."

A top DC source told The ENQUIRER exclusively that the driver's account had been independently corroborated by investigators who believe the couple spent the night together at the hotel.

The ENQUIRER has also learned that on-site hotel surveillance video camera footage could provide indisputable evidence.

"Investigators are attempting to obtain a tape from the hotel (that) shows Vera and Barack together," the DC insider confided. 

"If the tape surfaces, it will explode the scandal."

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