Chicago’s first openly gay mayor, Lori Lightfoot, mounted a raid on a black South Side church for holding services in defiance of her coronavirus lockdown orders. Lightfoot reportedly sent three marked squad cars and two unmarked cars full of officers to the Chicago Cornerstone Baptist Church… The pastor of the mostly black congregation, Courtney Lewis, reportedly shut and locked the doors and refused to allow the officers to gain entry to the building … Pastor Lewis [said] that he felt like he was confronting “the Soviet-style KGB” as the officers pounded on his doors and demanded entry to shut the … Continue reading Help Me With My Geography: Is Chicago in The US or The USSR?