Supporters Of Skokie Woman Fall Silent After Officials Deny She Was Held By Feds blockclubchicago.org/2026/03/13/s...

Sheesh, even the #WSJ sees Trump as feckless: www.wsj.com/opinion/in-a...

Earlier, before it was really raining in Chicago, production crews for "The Bear" turned on sprinklers to produce a downpour for crowd shots outside the Armitage Brown Line station. No sightings of Jeremy Allen White.

City News Bureau was my trial by fire introduction to Chicago. Back then, it paid $3.50/hour, barely above minimum wage

DePaul Art Museum closing in June amid campus layoffs, financial troubles. The future of more than 4,000 objects in the museum’s collection, including 1,000-plus photographs by Andy Warhyol and Chicagoans Dawoud Bey and Paul D’Amato, is unclear. www.wbez.org/museums/2026...

You have to read the alt text

you think you've seen the whole movie, and then the alt text reveals you haven't even finished act two

When you see this clinic on an upcoming episode of "Chicago Fire," you're really seeing a long-shuttered Baby Gap on the fringe of Lincoln Park that soon will be razed

Last year the U.S. experienced something that hasn’t definitively occurred since the Great Depression: More people moved out than moved in. And it's not just those getting deported. www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...

Let America Be America Again, by Langston Hughes, 1935 Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed— Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above. (It never was America to me.) www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147907...

nice exploration of how right wing propaganda and "pink slime" newspapers (fake local papers built by right wing propagandists to lie to locals) propped up the whole AOC "um" non news cycle

Chicago's own WGN TV lays off at least 8 camera-facing employees in a major shakeup chicago.suntimes.com/sports-media...

Beautiful.

Chicago Bears stadium plan could mean new taxes for Indiana residents, including sales tax on food www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/bea... via @crainschicago

Bates Machine Co., Andersonville #manholecovermonday @robertloerzel.bsky.social @rogersparkman.bsky.social

Quite apart from politics, which is how so many blinkered people see this issue, no reporter at your local school committee board or town council meeting means no one is watching when someone’s brother-in-law gets a no-bid contract. The increase in penny ante corruption must be breathtaking.

Just found it: Charlie was found and has been returned to his home. A happy ending!

If you see this dog, please take a photo and call 574-286-3105. He was dognapped!

still unclear to me how the species made it this far

Nobel Economist Joel Mokyr of Northwestern University on our future: Climate change is real. The population is inexorably aging. We can fix this through tech innovation, including AI. But we need the brightest minds and right now they're not welcome in the US. He spoke at #ChicagoInnovation event

Finally.... President Trump’s global tariffs are illegal, the Supreme Court ruled Friday, in a stinging repudiation of a signature White House initiative. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/... via @WSJ

Good question, @jamellebouie.net

@artinstitutechi.bsky.social, instead

A yellow what now

She dances with her eyes!

Who wants to be a Cook County judge? Not many. For the second straight Cook County judicial primary election, less than half of the seats up for grabs March 17 drew more than one candidate, continuing a decadeslong slide in competition. chicago.suntimes.com/elections/20...

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

Federal Agents Left Behind “Death Cards” After Capturing Immigrants theintercept.com/2026/02/03/i...

Trump wants to seize our elections and take away your right to vote so he can stay in power. It’s un-American, authoritarian and dangerous. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Republican megadonor Ken Griffin says CEOs find Trump’s interference ‘distasteful’ www.wsj.com/business/ken... via @WSJ

"Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency," the judge wrote. "And the rule of law be damned."

He Witnessed an Earlier Shooting. Feds Arrested Him at the Scene of Alex Pretti’s Killing. theintercept.com/2026/01/31/m...

Job market loses momentum in Illinois and nearby Midwest states amid year-end slide. But metro Chicago remains healthy. www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/ill... via @crainschicago

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?... via @YouTube

If forced to place a bet on who’ll win the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, I’d wager no more than a nickel on Rahm Emanuel. OK, maybe a dime. But Emanuel has offered something of a master class in drawing notice, claiming a lane and establishing his voice. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...

An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune

In a speech to the World Economic Forum, Mark Carney says middle powers such as Canada must accept that the rules-based international order is effectively dead, and great power rivalry with is here to stay. Key excerpt:

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson may repurchase Chicago's parking meters, sold to private investors by then-Mayor Richard J. Daley in one of the stupidest moves ever. www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/chi... via @crainschicago

Homeland Security's Role Questioned as Immigration Officers Flood Cities “I see it as a personal militarized police force for the president to do his bidding against people who don’t see the world through the lens of the ultra rich” — Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...

This incident has really really messed me up. bsky.app/profile/mari...

Greg Bovino was seen earlier today at the Minneapolis ICE facility dressed in a very nazi-inspired outfit. They don’t even hide anymore.

Yes, the ending

Trump is clearly not well. At a meeting with oil industry CEO’s Trump suddenly interrupts his introductory remarks, gets up and looks out the window and starts talking about his ballroom. Trump then realizes his mistake and says “unusual time to look”, and sits back down to continue.

This is the ICE game plan: Thousands of internal ICE messages reviewed by The Washington Post show how its teams have worked closely with the White House, which has urged them to produce videos for social media of immigrant arrests and confrontations. wapo.st/3NlYae6

The violence against our communities must stop. Two more shot last night. That’s why I will be joining in filing articles of impeachment against Secretary of DHS Noem.

U.S. has lost manufacturing jobs every month since Trump imposed tariffs last spring. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

This man converted to a faith that makes it its mission to remind him at every turn and at the highest possible levels that it fucking hates his guts, so at least there’s that.

Murderer.

masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.