Photos from the Replacements’ final show at Taste of Chicago in Grant Park on July 4, 1991 (closeups by Bob Ingrassia)

it's crazy when you see a photo for the first time and recognize it's gonna be used as a shorthand for the era you're living in right now by historians in 100 years

the vibes of the organization are rancid from top to bottom

getting married to Taylor Swift in MSG by Adam Sandler is something a 14-year-old Make A Wish kid would want

to sum up

It's crazy Miley, Pence and Pelosi successfully pulled off a counter-coup and then... like... stopped?

HOLY SHIT WHAT A GOAL

would love to see a hostile audit of Freedom 250. hell, would love to see hostile audits of everything even tangentially related to trump. this will produce endless material. you could conceivably bring the administration to an effective halt!

are zoomers aware of the cultural power that gatorade had in the 90s and 2000s? like it was omnipresent in sport culture and now it's just one brand amongst many

argentina were not this focused on messi when he was 28 lol

When I say it's wrong to trade minority rights away for things like zoning reform, I don't mean it's morally wrong (it is), I mean it is wrong as in that's an offer that's not on and never will be on the table you fucking moron.

People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.

Tesla driver charged with manslaughter in Katy crash was Googling ‘FSD too timid’

The pope’s requirement that the excommunicated must write a letter asking for forgiveness is evidence of papal support for the continuation of the USPS. In this essay…

Tonight’s lightning, seen looking north across the Montrose Beach Dunes

Hello. Sen. John Hickenlooper’s victory margin in the Democratic primary is down to under 6 points. A former two-term governor and institution in Colorado facing an under-funded progressive candidate who isn’t well known outside Denver.

this is one of chicago’s best free outdoor concert series

I can't believe Cristiano Ronaldo would be accused of rape and then hold his team back when he's totally washed, massive disrespect of Kobe Bryant's legacy

underrated sister tweet to this one

This Tuesday, July 7th, we’re riding with All Bodies on Bikes Chicago — a group whose mission is to create and foster a size inclusive bike community. All are welcome! Roll with us at 🆕 4:15 from the AIDS Garden bike racks or at 5:30 from Queen's Landing! Details at chicagobikesox.com

the use of “performative” as an insult here is why these people are losing their primaries. yes, voters want you to perform their anger and disgust! they want representatives to represent their symbolic interests! the idea that good representation is necessarily quiet and unobtrusive is wrong!

columbus, indiana had its own little urban renewal spasm, demolishing this italianate block for a shopping center and parking lot ...but because it was columbus, they hired césar pelli to design their renewal mall, the commons

A while back, I wrote this story about one of Chicago's worst heat waves — a mostly forgotten one in 1916 that killed more than 1,000 people, by some estimates. www.robertloerzel.com/2020/07/29/a...

Getting the boys together for this Austria-Spain matchup

i can't be the only person who thinks we can solve this with a late-night sober cafe/community center + queer free library that gets in trouble on Instagram for not paying its workers and closes after eight months

today and sunday are your last two days to see the alma thomas exhibition at the smart museum if you, like me, have dawdled about getting down there

about right

Exposing Germans to Chicago in summer is as close as we can get to the hypothetical medieval peasant + single Dorito experiment

I know his term only has 6 months left, but Colorado Dems should impeach and remove Polis anyway

My big takeaway from following the Illinois Quantum project at South Works is that all sides are some combination of delusional and dishonest. Reading about it really just makes me long for the void. chicagoreader.com/news/quantum...

it's so funny that one of things the german national team is blaming their bad world cup on is that they had such a great time in chicago it made their actual basecamp in winston-salem seem deadly boring and depressing in comparison www.bild.de/sport/fussba...

The old Elgin National Watch Company Observatory was used to calculate scientifically accurate time. For decades since then it’s been a planetarium for Elgin’s impressive u-46 school district

They like Trump. They want to help him rule us like a king

Spain-Austria: Spanish Republicans who fled to France after Franco seized power were deported en masse by the Nazis to the Mauthausen camp in Austria. Among the prisoners were Catalan photographers Francisco Boix and Antonio García. They found SS archives of photo negatives of the camp and (1/3)

PHOTO: Fireworks explode near Navy Pier during the biweekly summer time fireworks show, Wednesday, July 1, 2026. | Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times

it's so funny that one of things the german national team is blaming their bad world cup on is that they had such a great time in chicago it made their actual basecamp in winston-salem seem deadly boring and depressing in comparison www.bild.de/sport/fussba...

a slow burn is still a fire that needs to be extinguished. they can try to change tactics of spreading out to inundate more cities with their snatch-and-grab techniques but we need to be out there for our communities, because we remember what they’ve already done to us and others.

gonna be interesting—and probably deeply unpleasant—to see how bosnia reacts when it’s the other team trying to shithouse their way to a 1-0 win

🚨 HUGE ongoing surge of ICE arrests, with ICE directing 80% of all officers to go out into the field and round people up, aiming to hit 2,000 arrests a day; which would be more than during the Minneapolis surge. This may be why the nun in Texas got briefly picked up. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

I meant to say this in real time but you shouldn’t get to just keep your house seat and run for mayor of a large city. These are both full-time jobs and one (Congress) should not be an insurance policy against losing the other (city hall).

Take away the cars and neighborhoods blossom

absolutely hilarious company for dansby

26+ RBI in a 10-game span, RBI official since 1920: 2026 Dansby Swanson 1939 Joe DiMaggio 1933 Jimmie Foxx 1931 Lou Gehrig 1930 Lou Gehrig 1929 Mel Ott

i have been to so many professional baseball games in my life but i gotta say a 23-3 win is a new one

one of the parts i love about being in wrigley for a game is identifying what pun the organist is making for opposing hitters tie a yellow ribbon for ty france

CONGOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

i'd never connected montgomery ward's lakefront protection fight to the fact that his building stood on michigan ave—guy also just wanted to protect his views, he would've been a member of SOAR or ERRD today chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-hist...

while i’m glad at least one illinois elected official is actually warning about increased ice activity in chicagoland, giannoulias’s scheme feels more like a political stunt en route to the mayor’s office than an actual plan to stop masked feds from kidnapping our neighbors.

How many times do journalists need to be told: There's no law that just because somebody in a fancy suit issues a press release means you have to write about it. Especially when you ask to see the report the press release is about and are told, "No."