Opinion: Portland’s Retail Exodus a Frightening Warning for Other U.S. Cities
By John F. Di Leo, Opinion Contributor In recent weeks, Wal-Mart and Cracker Barrel have made national news by announcing...
John F. Di Leo is a Chicagoland-based trade compliance trainer and transportation manager, writer, and actor. Once a County Chairman of the Milwaukee County Republican Party in the 1990s, after serving as president of the Ethnic American Council in the 1980s, he has been writing regularly for Illinois Review since 2009. Professionally, he is a licensed Customs broker, and has worked in freight forwarding and manufacturing for over forty years. John is available for very non-political training seminars ranging from the Incoterms to the workings of free trade agreements, as well as fiery speeches concerning the political issues covered in his columns. His book on vote fraud, “The Tales of Little Pavel,” his three-volume political satires of the Biden-Harris regime, “Evening Soup with Basement Joe,” and his new non-fiction work covering the 2024 campaign, "Current Events and the Issues of Our Age," are available in eBook or paperback, only on Amazon.
By John F. Di Leo, Opinion Contributor In recent weeks, Wal-Mart and Cracker Barrel have made national news by announcing...
By John F. Di Leo, Opinion Contributor Some politicians address challenges head-on. Others attempt distractions, changing the subject in the...
By John F. Di Leo, Opinion ContributorIt’s a reasonably short sentence.In direct contrast to the powerful, accusatory language of the...
By John F. Di Leo, Opinion Contributor Who threatens our friend Taiwan, every single day? And not only Taiwan, but...
By John F. Di Leo, Opinion Contributor A Chinese spy balloon flew over Alaska, and we didn’t shoot it down....
By John F. Di Leo, Opinion Contributor The Constitution requires that a president deliver a State of the Union address...
By John F. Di Leo, Opinion Contributor It was a cold Wednesday evening in late January, and Curtis Lyons of...
By John F. Di Leo, Opinion Contributor The world’s central planners meet, speak, plan and party together. Whether they do...
By John F. Di Leo, Opinion ContributorThe Question of the Day – the question on everyone’s mind is, "why classified...
By John F. Di Leo, Opinion ContributorThe Chicago mayoral primary election is underway. They’ve winnowed the field a bit –...