PITCHES: @blockclubchi.bsky.social is looking for Pride Month stories based in Chicago! Think: 🌈 Feature on a Chicago LGBTQ+-owned business. 🌈 Looking back on a piece of lesser-known local LGBTQ history. 🌈 Highlighting how locals are fighting for LGBTQ+ rights & protections etc.

Exciting: @blockclubchi.bsky.social is looking for our summer 2026 interns! Block Club’s interns gain valuable experience — and clips — with a team that is dedicated to helping them grow and succeed during and after their internship. More info and application here: blockclubchicago.org/interns-2/.

Warlord chef Trevor Fleming has shared sexual photos of women without consent and berated staffers for years, witnesses said. It was an open secret in the industry — and it’s time for accountability, they said. From the amazing @arielparrella.bsky.social. blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/19/w...

BREAKING: Fugitive Ex-Loretto Leader At Center Of $300 Million COVID Scandal Arrested In Serbia The U.S. government has requested his extradition. blockclubchicago.org/2026/01/28/f...

We've been quietly at work, taking a look back at how Operation Midway Blitz changed Chicago and what happened after hundreds of federal agents detained immigrants. Unlike what the feds claimed, over 60% of those arrested did not have criminal charges. READ: blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/30/c...

Block Club reporters were there every day as immigration agents teargassed, shot, violently arrested & separated Chicagoans from their families. Bolstered by hours of video analysis & hundreds of documents, "Chicago Under Siege" is the record of what happened. blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/30/c...

For the definitive account of the federal government's invasion of Chicago this year, you have got to read @blockclubchi.bsky.social 's year-end project that went up today. The accounts, the photos, the reporting — I am so proud of this team, I have no words. blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/30/c...

This impressive report by Block Club Chicago details Homeland Security's violent campaign to round up brown people and attack protesters and journalists in Chicago. The report is straight journalism, not opinion. This is what it looks like when a criminal government terrorizes its citizens.

NEW: Our project, “Chicago Under Siege,” documents the fear people lived in, the ways they sought to organize and resist and the heartbreak they experienced under Operation Midway Blitz. blockclubchi.co/3Ye4GGa

How the feds used propaganda to frame their "war" on Chicago: "They’re lying constantly." blockclubchi.co/4iFGlm7

NEW: The flashy fugitives: The ex-Loretto Hospital leader and his pal accused of stealing millions are living large in Dubai. @bauerjournalism.bsky.social reports: blockclubchi.co/4lFyENc

The flashy fugitives: Anosh Ahmed are Sameer Suhail are accused of stealing millions from Loretto Hospital. But they're living abroad in Dubai. Ahmed is starting a podcast & appealing to Trump, and Suhail started a luxe plastic surgery clinic. blockclubchicago.org/2025/07/22/t...

These new charges come after former Loretto COO Anosh Ahmed had previously been charged w/ stealing millions from the safety-net hospital after @blockclubchi.bsky.social's reporting led to his resignation + subsequent FBI investigations. S/O @bauerjournalism.bsky.social

BREAKING: Ex-Loretto Hospital exec Anosh Ahmed stole $300 million from the gov't through COVID-19 testing schemes, prosecutors say. Ahmed took information about Loretto's patients and used that to submit fake COVID-19 testing claims, feds say. blockclubchicago.org/2025/06/17/e...