September 12, 2025
Charlie Kirk, son of the Northwest Suburbs
By Jim Davis
As I write this, the earthly remains of our friend Charlie Kirk are still warm. Charlie was gunned down with a high-powered sniper rifle from a distant rooftop, just as the left attempted to do to our president in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Charlie was not quite 32 years old. He left behind a beautiful young wife and two beautiful toddlers. And if you listen to him argue with the campus liberals in his YouTube videos, you realize he doesn’t have a mean-spirited bone in his body.
Didn’t.
I’ve previously written about my redneck friends in our distant northwest Chicago suburb. The nearest decent-sized town north of here is Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. We’re that far out from the Big City.
The Northwest Suburbs have a lot of conservatives.
Illinois generally gets a bad rap, because the Chicago machine controls the entire state. In town, you see sidewalks painted in rainbow colors, and all the mental health counselors’ offices have Pride flags flying year round. But when you get away from our suburb’s downtown area, there are Trump banners on farmers’ fences and Trump flags flying on flagpoles everywhere.
Northwest Suburbs conservatives loved Charlie Kirk. He grew up in Arlington Heights and Prospect Heights, two towns that are just down U.S. Route 14, the aptly named Northwest Highway, from my house.
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