Chicagoans made a record-breaking amount of calls to 311 about downed trees, flooded streets and traffic lights last week, more than any other storm we've had so far. At one point, OEMC was fielding 37 requests in a single minute. New from me! chicago.suntimes.com/weather/2026...

Investigators found that leaders of a prison gang in Puerto Rico were selling inmates drugs in exchange for voting for Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón, a longtime Republican. After Trump’s election, prosecutors were told not to pursue charges. (Published May)

"Federal immigration agents detained a man after crashing into his car during a high-speed chase in Dunning Tuesday morning, according to a neighbor who witnessed the incident."

ComEd announced in May that its customers should expect monthly bills to increase by $2 to $3 beginning June 1. Data centers and summer weather play a part in that increase, CEO Gil Quiniones said. https://to.wttw.com/3S7jeaB

Absolutely devastating and enraging reporting out of Texas from the @nytimes.com local investigations fellowship. Warning: If you care about children, this one is a hard read. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

David Rush, a former senior CIA officer, is accused of theft and making false statements. The trove of gold and cash went missing from his CIA storage space — but it was found in his Virginia home. n.pr/4fOzl6J

🚨🚨🚨The White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr. by @robert-faturechi.bsky.social

ICE agents pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.

A new report used census data to estimate that more than 100,00 U.S. citizen kids had an immigrant parent detained since Trump took office in January. Brookings’ analysis cites reporting from ProPublica on detentions, which can lead to family separation www.propublica.org/article/trum...

BREAKING: Attorneys for the city of Chicago have agreed to settle a lawsuit from a second man who alleged disgraced former Chicago Police Department Detective Reynaldo Guevara coerced him into confessing he committed a gruesome double murder and kidnapping in 1998, records show. @wttw.bsky.social

Important reporting:

I’ll be on @wbez’s In the Loop with @sashaannsimons.bsky.social to talk about a new documentary I helped to produce with filmmaker Bill Morrison and Jamie Kalven. Tune in 91.5 FM

The mother's story is a stark example of how immigration policy can change drastically with each administration — and transform the lives of immigrants.

In 2011, a Chicago officer pulled a woman over just to get her phone number, then called or texted her nearly 30 times. Between 2017 and 2019, he was reported for sexual misconduct three more times before he was finally arrested. (Published May 2025 w/ @invisible.institute)

#JournalismIsNotACrime And federal law-enforcement is not a weapon for those in power to intimidate their perceived critics www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

"Flooding has been a worsening problem in Chicago for years. In the summer of 2023, more than 1,000 basements were flooded after 9 inches of rain fell in just 24 hours. Most of the flooded homes were located on the Northwest and West Sides.."

Lebanon’s medics and hospitals are coming under fire as Israel accelerates its war against Iran-backed Hezbollah militants. Doctors say the attacks on Lebanon's health system remind them of similar tactics used in Gaza.

“Ms. Lopez-Jimenez, 41, a native of Guatemala, and her daughter, Wendy Godinez-Lopez, were flagged by T.S.A. officials on Friday when they showed up on a passenger list for a Sunday flight from San Francisco to Miami. The agency then tipped off Immigration and Customs Enforcement…”

ICE detentions are up. So are deaths. www.vox.com/the-logoff-n...

United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta went public with her own account of being raped by Cesar Chavez, following a NYT investigation. Huerta said she kept the secret because, “I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for.”

Great reporting from @readfrontier.bsky.social about the state law blocking access to basic police employment history data in Oklahoma. It's one of just a handful of states where @invisible.institute hasn't been able to access data for the National Police Index.

For more than a year, ProPublica’s journalists have been gathering the financial disclosures of federal officials appointed by Trump. You can now explore those records using our new online tool.

Sundas “Sunny” Naqvi, a U.S. citizen from Skokie, spent nearly 30 hours in custody by federal immigration officials after she was detained at O’Hare Airport last week. She was later released out of a facility in Wisconsin. Naqvi's sister called the experience "terrifying."

I wrote about the House hearing today, how Congress is trying to strip anonymity from the Internet, and the devastating effects that has for journalists, whistleblowers, LGBTQ ppl, immigrants, civil rights activists, abortion providers and anyone challenging power for @theintercept.com

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

It’s been more than a year since the Chicago Sun-Times started tracking the monthly price of 35 common grocery items at Jewel-Osco, Mariano’s, Target and Walmart. The verdict? What went up mostly didn’t come down.

Happy Birthday Frederick Douglass! #AquariusSeason ✨✨

EXCLUSIVE: Since the FBI seized 2020 election materials from GA, questions have abounded as to what evidence justified the raid. @ProPublica has obtained audio of conservative activists discussing providing files and exhibits to the Department of Justice… www.propublica.org/article/kevi...

I'm going to do a thread of all the references and context behind Bad Bunny's performance and what it means for Puerto Ricans to see this on the biggest stage. The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts. Follow along!

Chicago taxpayers should pay $16.6 million to a man who spent 13 years in prison after he was framed by disgraced former Chicago police detective Reynaldo Guevara for a 1991 murder, city lawyers recommended. (via @heathercherone.bsky.social)

Amores, happy #BenitoBowl! I’m so ready to shake my ass and release bad energy.

Took a data deep dive on Chicago area suburbs, where social services infrastructure sometimes don't keep up with how quickly the population is diversifying racially but also economically and culturally. www.wbez.org/immigration/...

The rapid erasure of race coverage & beats focused on inequities at a time where this coverage is needed more than ever, reflects not just a deep retrenchment & reversal of promises made by newsrooms. It also reflects a deep disconnect between journalism and communities long excluded from coverage.

BREAKING: The Trump administration repeatedly said the aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover. New docs show the real motivation was to get alleged squatters. And the landlord and manager helped them. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Incredible interview by @wbez.org’s @adrianacardmag.bsky.social with Marimar Martinez — who was shot, charged, vindicated in Trump’s deportation blitz in Chicago chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Albeiro Ropero Remolina, who has epilepsy, was detained alongside his wife while he was warming up the car to take her to work on Dec. 29. A team of federal immigration officers swarmed their vehicle and took them into custody. On Monday night, his wife drove to Indiana to reunite with him.

FULL STORY: The order directs members of the Chicago Police Department to document actions by agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection and attempt to identify those responsible for suspected misconduct or criminal violations. @wttw.bsky.social

Reporting is not a crime!

Reporting is not a crime.

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

Gov. Tim Walz posted to social media that he spoke to the White House after the shooting, and that “Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"Liam, age 5, was the fourth child in the district to be detained by immigration agents in the past two weeks, school officials said. "Two of them are high-schoolers. "One is a 10-year-old girl who was apprehended on her way to school..." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

Our reporting has found that ICE sent 600 immigrant kids to detention in federal shelters in 2025. A 17-year-old was detained at a traffic stop because officers couldn’t make contact with his dad, who is deaf. Another kid ended up in a shelter after making a wrong turn:

ICE detained a 5-year-old Minnesota boy coming home from school + took him and his dad to Texas, school officials say. The family has an active asylum case + entered the US at a port of entry. "They’re taking children. They're not violent criminals. They're little kids," the superintendent told me.

Minneapolis residents have joined a church-run effort to donate groceries to immigrant families who fear being caught in public by federal agents. What started with a couple of hundred deliveries a week has quickly swelled into a vast operation involving thousands of volunteers. trib.al/1qT1xMw

Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.

Who are the Venezuelan immigrants Trump sent to CECOT? Last July, we published a first-of-its-kind, case-by-case accounting of 238 Venezuelan men who were held in El Salvador. These are their stories.

As you listen to DHS and ICE offer their excuses and justifications for murdering an American mother in cold blood, a quickly-forgotten reminder from Chicago: www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

#ICYMI: She was deported to Mexico. He’s in detention. Now this Chicago couple has to figure out what’s next. Alexa Ramírez came to Chicago with big plans for the future. As she readjusts to life in Mexico, she + husband are working out how to rebuild their life together www.wbez.org/immigration/...