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Far from the worst thing we found while reporting on Lt. Daniel Miller, this complaint from a white man stood out as a particularly insidious way for Miller to push his apparent ideology: sorry man I have to give you this ticket because DEI. This stop also was not in his jurisdiction.

I didn’t know muskmelon had this body count.

yeah wow excellent point about recognizable chicago

This is a truly preposterous assertion. SpaceX is perhaps one of the worst examples of ‘free market’ enterprise in modern times, as are all of Musk’s ventures. It only exists because of gargantuan subsidies from the US government, even despite continually missed deadlines and rampant fraud.

They’re turning the entire federal internet apparatus into a galaxy of phishing sites that are controlled by the president and do not adhere to any federal privacy or disclosure rules.

From Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution: “No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another: nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another.” 1/

TFW you literally do not understand how anything works, so you amputate your leg so that you will be more streamlined.

a VRA map that recognizes discrete and compact communities and creates districts accordingly? illegal race discrimination. packing every black person they can find i to a single district crossing the whole state? colorblindness and equal protection thank you sam alito

Attempted Murder is a state charge and should be brought.

The circumstances of this are grim and ugly, but at least she had the satisfaction of dropping a perfect line on the way out.

Three months after Ottawa removed its automatic safety cameras, the share of drivers following the speed limit plunged from 87% to 41%(!). "High-end speeding" is up 10x. Automatic enforcement saves lives. If you remove it, people will die.

I cannot overemphasize the importance of the BUILD package and other reforms being proposed by the Illinois General Assembly this session. There’s a lot to work to do, but overall the outcomes are exciting. This is a symptom decades preferential policy towards single-family homes exclusively.

This person apparently thinks that housing architectural rendering is what happens at rendering plants. Dense multi family housing is not a noxious use in the middle of a city.

No one will be surprised to hear that the person smoking & listening to music full volume on the platform is the same asshat that jumped the turnstile.

Reporter: Ken Paxton has taken to calling you ‘Talafreako’ @JamesTalarico: If Ken Paxton is worried about freaks, he should stop giving Epstein-style sweetheart deals to pedophiles. This is the guy who just released Adam Hoffman from jail, an admitted child rapist.

Home Depot is understaffing their stores (the same as CVS) and that's why they do this. Starbucks closed unionized stores in Santa Monica and Brentwood and blamed crime. Big corps send pressers to newspapers who copy and paste them into the CMS and do zero original reporting. Ask me how I know

your regular reminder that the national shoplifting crisis was a manufactured moral panic largely engineered by corporations in order to cover up their own mismanagement — and that wage theft is the largest category of theft in the U.S.

Fashion designer Jeremy Scott delivers commencement speech to Kansas City Art Institute graduates. Wait for it…

BREAKING 35 former federal judges move to reopen Trump v. IRS in an effort to kill the $1.776B slush fund. Doc buff.ly/1065CA7

The fact that Team Trump is cooking its own Iran war intel and data to make it seem nicer for President Trump before it gets briefed to him — and the fact that they’re doing so primarily b/c that’s basically what Trump *wants* them to do — is a massive scandal that…. In this era of corruption and…

Yeah, affectations of machismo like "don't mess with Texas" ring a bit hollow when the majority of Texas voters and the bulk of their political leaders have repeatedly shown they are obedient lapdogs for a soft nepobaby covered in bronzer who spends most of his time golfing and whining.

*whispers* The idea that God is GENDERED is actually the really creepy position to take.

“It’s a really hard test, one minute the object is there, the next it’s not, very sad, who knows where it goes, many people are saying it no longer exists, you’ll be surprised to find out it still exists, & I found it extremely fast, no president has ever found the object faster”

It's worth remembering that this is the Facebook post that got Suzanne Swierc fired. I have undying disdain for the many institutions that engaged in a moral panic over Charlie Kirk.

Fascinating analysis suggesting that cops were able to respond faster to real emergencies when they weren’t constantly being sent on wild goose chases by ShotSpotter.

It's wild seeing some people getting angry at this post from James Talarico (he posted it to Twitter). This is such a normal thing for a candidate to say. It's fine.

As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!

Point: Talarico

Tony Fitzpatrick was never the most famous or the trendiest Chicago artist, but he'll soon be the focus of an auction including nearly 70 original pieces: “There are so many stories that you can mine from Tony’s work.”

Here's how the corruption works: Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it Friday: FDA changes the policy

A “Shazam” app for plants? Users of a new global app can now identify weeds, check pollen maps, or even discover new plants, all while providing important data for researchers. Find out more with The Conversation: https://ow.ly/v9jk50Z38vM

Congress is laying the track for Amtrak to pay for its cosmetic upgrades to Penn Station by seizing city property tax revenues to allow a Trump-connected local developer to build at a discount around the president’s proposed marble and gold filigreed train hall.

NEW REPORT: After Chicago shut down ShotSpotter in Sept. 2024, CPD response times to priority 1 calls improved by an average of 4.2 minutes. Read more here: uchicago-justice-project.github.io/chicago_crim...

Guns don’t protect your family.

today I went on a little walk in the part of Chicago that's seen the biggest change in neighborhood character, where in 2013 the dominant land use was multifamily housing to 2023 when single-family housing was the dominant land use

When 3/4-flats aren’t allowed by right, neighbors don’t not gentrify - just the opposite! Moreover, if 3-4 flats *were* allowed by right, neighborhoods like this would absorb more demand and reduce the displacement pressure on the “gentrification frontier” in Logan, Humboldt, and Avondale.

Listen, we're not perfect but if you want a walkable city with a unique culture and a train to take you to the stadium at a sane ticket price, come on down to beautiful Philadelphia baybee

Reading this on one of the only public transit systems that serves every stadium in the city, but isn’t hosting a World Cup game because its largest stadium has a lower capacity than the host stadiums in the middle of nowhere that will be 1/2 empty for some group stage games.

Based on this development, the former Gordon Tech campus should have a minimum of 300 units. Bare minimum. Anyone advocating for less is being unrealistic about housing needs along the North Branch.

Important to remember that for all the mud Sean Duffy threw at the MTA for wanting to spend $7.5 billion on fixing old Penn, he's now committing Amtrak to spending $8 billion, a huge chunk of which is going to building a second huge entrance on 8th Avenue (Moynihan is the first).

A Trump-appointed US Attorney with no experience told grand jurors they'd hear about “bad guys” and “murderers” who “did what you are going to hear about.” He handed them business cards. The cases got tossed—and three days later, he got confirmed. Extraordinary via NYT/Alan Feuer buff.ly/xpnVcJ7

“These are billionaire wars,” Army veteran Alejandro Villatoro said while marching in front of the Riverwalk Vietnam War memorial wall. “It’s heartbreaking, it’s stressful. It fills me with anxiety. … One day this violence will reach home.”

I think these are all good ideas but also no longer impressing upon men that women are only for sex is important because having women friends as well is game changing for mental health.

As lawmakers race toward the end of session, a new report estimates the Bears could receive $1.5B+ in property tax breaks to keep the team in Illinois instead of moving to Indiana. Meanwhile, Chicago still faces $567M in Soldier Field debt.

if your opening gambit is an obviously false assertion — that there was an entire literature challenging the conventional view of birthright citizenship — and then you work your way backwards into an argument, you are a hack and a liar no matter how certain you are that you are right

Reviewers in two groups were given identical resumes for Emily Clarke and James Clarke and told they had used AI. Emily's was 2x as likely to raise doubts about competence. "She can't even write a CV herself." But James "just needed a bit of help." fortune.com/2026/05/10/i...

🧵 We're off, but had to point out a few things that sprang to mind about the Trib's generally balanced, well-reported deep dive into the Archer/Grand issue by Jake Sheridan. We'll share screenshots, but please click the link to give them pageviews. 1/X www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/25/c...