ICYMI: Chicago hosted its first open water swim in nearly a century. I covered the historic event for @insideclimatenews.org

My latest for @insideclimatenews.org A Really Monumental Day’ for Chicago River: Clean Enough for Hundreds to Swim In insideclimatenews.org/news/2109202...

My latest for @insideclimatenews.org A Really Monumental Day’ for Chicago River: Clean Enough for Hundreds to Swim In insideclimatenews.org/news/2109202...

ICE agents’ crackdown on protesters outside of Chicago escalated tonight with flash bangs and pepper bullets. I was on the ground this evening for @blockclubchi.bsky.social blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/19/i...

My latest for @blockclubchi.bsky.social on Chicago’s Pint Peddler got a plug in @capitolfax.bsky.social !

My latest for @chicagomag.com : A new clinic offering abortions up to 34 weeks shines a spotlight on the exceptions allowed by state law. www.chicagomag.com/chicago-maga...

My latest in @blockclubchi.bsky.social Meet The Bike-Riding 'Pint Peddler' Bringing Homebrews To The People blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/08/m...

My latest for @insideclimatenews.org In the Once Heavily Polluted Chicago River, More Fish, a Giant Snapping Turtle and an Upcoming Swim insideclimatenews.org/news/0109202...

My latest for @blockclubchi.bsky.social AI Use And Data Centers Are Causing ComEd Bills To Spike — And It Will Likely Get Worse blockclubchicago.org/2025/08/27/a...

My latest for @citycastchicago.bsky.social Should Chicagoans Bring Dogs Out to Eat? The pet etiquette you need to know, plus great quotes from Roscoe Village (Chicago’s dog and baby central) open.spotify.com/episode/6DSG...

I talked to @leighgiangreco.bsky.social a few years ago about how dangerous state roads are. "Of the 30 sites with the most crashes in Chicago, all but one included a state road..." IDOT is asleep at the wheel. CDOT, step up and build a network of safe city streets. stateline.org/2022/12/08/s...

fantastic (and tragically true) opening line: “Next to putting ketchup on a hot dog, there may be no easier way to court controversy in Chicago than trying to change a zoning law.”

My latest for @bloomberg.com Citylab: Parking reform might be the rare issue that Chicagoans can agree on www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Incredible to see this billboard up in Vancouver. So happy to have worked with the amazing people @visionzerovancouver.ca visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/08/02/d...

All that in a bag of chips www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

All that in a bag of chips www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

This is an evergreen call for pitches - and it is a great one for writers without major bylines. Please share with the bartenders, delivery drivers, cater waiters in your life

The floating, daytime club has become synonymous with debauchery and danger. @leighgiangreco.bsky.social

My latest for @blockclubchi.bsky.social The Cubs Bring Lifelong Fan With Terminal Cancer To Wrigley: 'I Want To See Them One More Time' blockclubchicago.org/2025/08/20/t...

A recent study shows that stress on fathers before and after the birth of a baby could affect their children’s development. My latest on paternal mental health in @the74.bsky.social www.the74million.org/zero2eight/h...

“There’s no rules. It’s like the Wild, Wild West out here.” @leighgiangreco.bsky.social

ICYMI my latest for @airmail.news goes inside Chicago’s Playpen

Saturday’s Sunset with dancers on the Georgetown Waterfront in #DC! @capitalweather.bsky.social @ianlivingston.bsky.social

Booze, jet packs, “Join, or Die” flags, and the occasional severed limb: welcome to Chicago’s most controversial party spot. I borrowed an inflatable kayak from a former priest to paddle inside the Playpen. My latest for @airmail.news airmail.news/issues/2025-...

Ah, the Playpen. Enjoy the latest from friend of the podcast @leighgiangreco.bsky.social. airmail.news/issues/2025-... #Chicago #DebaucheryAndDanger

Oh crap, didn't include the link: airmail.news/issues/2025-...

If you are a Chicagoan and have never visited the playpen (or want to), this piece by dear pal @leighgiangreco.bsky.social is as good as a vignette as you're likely to get - worth signing up for the free trial to AirMail anyway

Less than 3 months ago, Vox Media was celebrating Eater for having nabbed 6 nominations at the James Beard Media Awards! Ashok Selvam received the 2025 Local Voice Award for his work at Eater Chicago. He was laid off today.

SOS for a story (and I am not kidding you here) I need to get to the Playpen this weekend. Help your friendly local Chicago reporter with a boat!

My latest for @blockclubchi.bsky.social The Payoff Of Investment In Pullman: $1.5 Billion In Economic Impact, Study Finds blockclubchicago.org/2025/08/05/t...

Can the not-so-central Buffalo Central Terminal repeat the success of Detroit’s Michigan Central? A new redevelopment plan hopes to turn the art deco masterpiece two miles from downtown Buffalo into a thriving neighborhood hub, writes @leighgiangreco.bsky.social.

My latest for @bloomberg.com Citylab: After decades of neglect and painstaking restoration work, plans to transform the huge Buffalo Central Terminal into a mixed-use complex are gaining momentum. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

It’s a hot one today, Chicago! Cool off with my latest #AlleyTalk at The Sugar Hole, the only ice cream shop in the city where a puppet will take your order

My latest for @blockclubchi.bsky.social ‘Great River Parade' Brings Floating Musical Acts, Fancily Decorated Boats To Chicago River's North Branch blockclubchicago.org/2025/07/20/g...

Approved. A final vote is set for Wednesday.

ICYMI: My latest for @skift.com looks at the Bad Bunny boom for Puerto Rico skift.com/2025/07/11/p...

They performed the anthems at Wrigley last month on Juneteenth and were incredible, might've been the best I've ever heard.

Leo High School's Choir Wowed The 'America's Got Talent' Judges — And They're Just Getting Started blockclubchicago.org/2025/07/08/l...

Looking for one of those EMILY IN PARIS type jobs where I’m a creative gal based in Chicago but inevitably get shipped off to Europe

Top F.D.A. Official Overrode Scientists on Covid Shots www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/h...

The Senate is sending Trump’s tax bill back to the House.

Yeah I get it, Lakeview isn’t as hip as Logan or Ukrainian Village but I’m 20 minutes from the lake by bike and a short jog. I’m not gonna live on the other side of the highway from the lake in the summer. Couldn’t be me.

My latest for @southsideweekly.bsky.social Mayor Brandon Johnson will veto a measure approved by City Council on Wednesday that would have given Chicago’s police superintendent the power to call a “snap” curfew southsideweekly.com/council-pass...

When asked to clarify CPD Superintendent Snelling's position on the snap curfew, CPD provided this response from him today to @southsideweekly.bsky.social : "The Chicago Police Department and myself are focused on public safety. I have been clear that we will do everything in our power..

Wait for it. Ft. @drewlgoins.bsky.social & @binajv.bsky.social

I know this is a bougie ask but I’m looking for some booties for a small dog for walking on hot pavement. If you know of pet stores in Chicago that sell these, lmk!

Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

I have somehow become Chicago’s pope correspondent. My latest for @blockclubchi.bsky.social Pope Leo XIV Shares Message Of Hope With Chicago Catholics At Rate Field blockclubchicago.org/2025/06/15/p...

I have somehow become Chicago’s pope correspondent. My latest for @blockclubchi.bsky.social Pope Leo XIV Shares Message Of Hope With Chicago Catholics At Rate Field blockclubchicago.org/2025/06/15/p...

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