NEW — Whether you want to sit down for a meal with your bestie or lover, grab an insightful read or have a new spot to root for Da Bears as the NFL playoffs get underway, here are some Black-owned spots that opened this year that you can put on your list for 2026. thetriibe.com/2025/12/here...

The 1985 Chicago Bears, and their 1986 Super Bowl win, are a distant memory, one that most in the millennial generation wasn’t born in time to experience. Many younger Chicagoans came of age only knowing the Green Bay Packers’ dominance. thetriibe.com/2025/12/i-do...

Thanks for the kind words! And uplifting this work!

The Bears are 11-4 🥹🧡💙

That Birth of a Nation was THE FIRST film to be screened at the White House really illustrates how raggedy America truly was/is

The new proposal replaces the corporate head tax with ramped-up efforts to collect years of unpaid debts owed by Chicagoans for utility bills, ambulance payments and more. The proposal also opens the door for the city to sell those unpaid debts to private collectors. thetriibe.com/2025/12/alte...

i still can’t get into @thetriibe.com’s Bluesky account because… glitchy Bluesky is glitchy Bluesky. so in the meantime, sharing our new stories here on my page. here’s today’s budget recap from @corli.thetriibe.com thetriibe.com/2025/12/alte...

Although 26 alders signed the letter expressing opposition to Mayor Brandon Johnson’s corporate head tax, some say they don’t support everything proposed in the alternate budget. Ald. Ronnie Mosley signed the letter, but said he agrees with the head tax. thetriibe.com/2025/12/alte...

NEW — Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration announced a $600,000 investment in a new microgrant program that will support Chicago organizations who are working to expand mental health care and other wraparound supports for formerly incarcerated people. thetriibe.com/2025/12/john...

With Johnson and a fraction of the City Council seemingly at an impasse, one question surrounding the budget debate is why some alders would choose implementing regressive fees on working people over taxing corporations, while the Trump administration continues to cut vital services.

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‘Twas the night before the Bear Bowl 💙🧡

Turns out police superintendents CAN order their officers to intervene in unlawful immigration detentions.

Failed mayoral candidate Ja'mal Green is once again claiming on social media that @thetriibe.com's story on how Paul Vallas’s campaign paid him is untrue. I edited that story; @tonia.thetriibe.com reported it. So once again: here are the receipts. bit.ly/JaymalPaid

In response to a court-ordered evacuation, members of the 7500 South Shore Tenants Union are demanding more time and assistance for residents to leave the apartment complex and relocate. Union members said they were “shocked and blindsided” by the notice.

Link: thetriibe.com/2022/04/essa...

Yesterday, my great-grandpa passed away. He was 93 years old. Three years ago, I wrote an article about how his home garden in Auburn Gresham has fed my family over the years. With this piece, I hoped to cement my family's history in Chicago so that he and my great-granny live on forever. 💕

9-3 🐻⬇️

8-3 💙🧡

Vasquez has an issue with borrowing money. Scott’s issue is with the head tax and TIFs. Other alders question transparency and impact with the latest budget proposal. thetriibe.com/2025/11/why-...

NEW — Today, Cook County became the first county in the U.S. to establish permanent funding for guaranteed income at the county level. The Cook County Board of Commissioners approved $7.5 million for the program through its FY 2026 budget, which totals $10.12 billion. thetriibe.com/2025/11/cook...

Breanna Champion, an organizer with the Chicago Black Voter Project, called the finance committee’s vote against the head tax “disheartening and dangerous.”

Victory Mondays are so sweet. 7-3 baby! 🧡💙

“I just want people to understand that they’re giving the people the run around, and these are older people, and they should have gotten the help already that they needed." Great work @corli.thetriibe.com thetriibe.com/2025/11/west...

Funds to the West Side Long-Term Recovery Group come as many residents and organizers seek answers on how the city has already spent flood assistance funds, as many say they’ve been denied or have not yet heard back after a 2024 announcement of $5 million in flood assistance.

NEW — Starting next week, the Cook County Public Defender’s Freedom Defense Center of Roseland, in partnership with the Village Legal and Community Project, will offer free attorney office hours for community members. thetriibe.com/2025/11/cook...

Tonight was a very bad night.

Happy Sunday! 🐻⬇️🧡💙

NEW — Are you a member of our RESHAPE newsletter? TRiiBE Publisher Morgan Elise Johnson connects the dots between the election of Zohran Mamdani in NYC and the 2023 election of Brandon Johnson in Chicago. thetriibe.com/reshape/the-...

This is a must read by @corli.thetriibe.com thetriibe.com/2025/11/eman...

Your Saturday morning read. “Brandon Johnson and the grassroots coalition of organizers who elected him say it’s time for the wealthy to pay their fair share, a sentiment echoing throughout America and emphasized by the Nov. 4 mayoral election of Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani.”

Phenomenal reporting here by @tonia.thetriibe.com. Fabio Valentin, who was tapped to oppose an upcoming certificate of innocence for a wrongfully convicted Englewood man, is the same 90s-era assistant state’s attorney named in one of Chicago’s most expensive wrongful conviction settlements.

Two federal judges ruled that the Trump administration could not suspend the federal SNAP program during the government shutdown. The contingency funds would only be enough to partially fund the program this month.

Feel like I worked the most stressful shift in my life 😩 life of a Bears fan 😭🧡💙

Thank God for Colston Loveland

OMGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!

But we still are the goddamn Bears 😪🫩

We playing real football 🥹 #DaBears

NEW — After hours of deliberations, a jury found Sean Grayson guilty of fatally shooting Sonya Massey in her home. “While we believe Grayson’s actions deserved a first-degree conviction, today’s verdict is still a measure of justice for Sonya Massey.” thetriibe.com/2025/10/ex-c...

The USDA has since deleted its prior shutdown contingency plan that stated that SNAP’s operations should continue since the program has been provided with multi-year contingency funds that could be used during a Gov. shutdown.

Most of the conversation surrounding SNAP is centered around the impact of pauses due to the government shutdown, but changes to program requirements are happening soon. Read my latest.

NEW — Video footage obtained by The TRiiBE shows federal agents pulling Laugh Factory Night Manager Nate Griffin as he holds on to a scaffold. Bystanders screamed at the agents, saying "Show your face," as they detained Griffin. thetriibe.com/2025/10/laug...

New: District Judge Sara Ellis in Chicago has issued an order this afternoon, commanding Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino to appear in federal court on Tuesday at 10 a.m. Bovino was videotaped throwing tear gas into a crowd in Chicago's Little Village community this past Thursday.

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At Daley College, where the Food Depository is hosting information sessions across City Colleges to give people information on the impact of not only the gov shut down on SNAP benefits but how the BBB changes work requirements + will shift costs for the food program to states by Oct 2027.

Federal agents detain a laborer working on gated apartment building in West Ridge from @corli.thetriibe.com thetriibe.com/2025/10/fede...

"Federal agents entered a gated residential courtyard complex Tuesday morning and detained a laborer." "The person recording the video tells the agents that the area is 'private property,' to which an agent responds, 'No, it's not.'" #Illinois #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

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