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ICE Points Guns at Crowd Protesting Arrest of Student at Augsburg University in Minneapolis

The Obama Foundation, which held private events at Home Court as recently as Monday, provided the Sun-Times with architectural photos of the building. The images are the public’s first look at the completed facility’s interiors and exteriors.

In the latest Gossip Wolf, the Chicago Hip Hop Heritage Museum loses its building, The Ugly Hug and Post-Trash throw an indie-rock fest, Open Mike Eagle kicks off a residency at the National Museum of Public Housing, and more. https://bit.ly/44K70Z1

Reform UK’s attack on nature protections risks destroying the UK's already fragile ecosystem | Stuart Spray

What an interesting coincidence.

Frank O. Gehry, the architectural titan whose music pavilion and its accompanying serpentine-like bridge helped turn a sunken and forlorn section of Grant Park into the globally celebrated Millennium Park, died Friday.

The plan includes more than 250 goals, actions and “strategic projects” across the central area such as more nightlife, office-to-residential building conversion projects, transportation enhancements and flexible green spaces that can host year-round events.

For a few weeks you'll hear Chance the Rapper's voice on the CTA

Is the Trump administration's scapegoating of the Somali community driven in part by Islamophobia? www.democracynow.org/2025/12/5/mi...

@robertloerzel.bsky.social applies his prodigious researching talents to running down the story of Tom Waits' time in Chicago. www.robertloerzel.com/2025/12/03/t...

The CTA State/Lake elevated station will close next month for demolition and construction of a new station that could take at least three years to complete.

The Italian-born maestro who spent more than a decade at the CSO is the latest recipient of the prestigious Ratzinger Prize, nicknamed the “Nobel Prize of Theology.”

20 years ago, neighbors fought to keep 21 acres of green space from being turned into a Home Depot. Today, the Dunning Read Natural Area is an oasis of natural plants and important wetlands. blockclubchi.co/48A3liI

"The Beatles Anthology" has been digitally restored with an additional episode added 30 years after its original release. NPR's Fresh Air gives a review of it

Chicago has the best Owls. Screech Owl 11.26.2025 #birds #owls

Away with the dotard, to the jail with him!

Hiroshima #manholecovermonday @robertloerzel.bsky.social @rparloff.bsky.social

Then nightly sings the staring owl, “Tu-whit, to-who!”⁠— A merry note

Hundreds packed The Metro — and Lakeview streets — to honor artist Tony Fitzpatrick: "Tony was Chicago." blockclubchi.co/485rwUI

The U.S. is the biggest emitter of carbon emissions from AI, making up 45% of the world’s emissions.

Brendan Fraser's latest film "Rental Family" highlights the very real industry in Japan that offers companionship for rent, which is especially important in a country that treats loneliness like a treatable condition

"That's MISS Piggy to you!"

"That rot appears in journalists in different forms: debasing themselves at the feet of power because it’s rewarded; allowing themselves to be debased by the powerful to maintain status and access; and identifying more with their powerful subjects than regular people"

@slate.com has a long piece about the history of how the first Pizza Hut in Moscow came to be as the Soviet Union was coming apart, and eventually had Mikhail Gorbachev appear in a Pizza Hut commercial

The White Sox’s prayers for a new stadium might’ve gotten a boost Wednesday with help from the South Side’s most famous fan. The Sox's new co-owner met Pope Leo XIV outside St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, where he asked for a blessing on the Sox's future home.

A pair of snowy owls on the coast of Chicago

PHOTOS: TPM Celebrates Our 25-Year Anniversary in NYC talkingpointsmemo.com/gallery/phot...

And @chicagomag.com has a profile of Leo in their latest issue

Gov. Pritzker meets Chicago native Pope Leo.

There's a new documentary about the legacy of Sonia Manzano (Maria on Sesame Street)

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

The internet does not have to stay broken. Cory Doctorow’s #booktalk on ENSHITTIFICATION walks through how we reached this point & what steps can move us toward a healthier digital world. 📆 Fri Nov 21st 🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET 📍 Online 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839608451... @AuthorsAlliance.bsky.social

Gary K. Wolf has regained the rights to Roger Rabbit and related characters

Blue Skies over Regent’s Canal, London 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 on a #BlueSkyMonday Canon Eos 1v 50mm f1.2 Fuji Velvia 50 #filmphotography #believeinfilm #35mm #EastCoastKin

@lastweektonight.com main story about public media last night

Ken Burns' 12-hour documentary series THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION starts tonight on PBS. "None of this happens anywhere else but PBS," Burns said. "Nobody else is going to give us ten years to build a history of the Revolution. No one." www.pbs.org/show/the-ame... #PBS #KenBurns

Volumes Bookcafe is closing in January after a decade in Wicker Park. blockclubchi.co/4pcwpm6

Good afternoon from Chicago's Federal Plaza. A rally is underway now in support of the "Broadview Six," who face arraignment in about 45 minutes on federal conspiracy and impeding charges, stemming from their participation in a Sept. 26 protest in front of the Broadview, IL ICE facility.

Sad news. Tony Adler, a Chicago critic, writer and Walt Whitman devotee, dies at 71 www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/11/t...

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis recited Carl Sandburg's 1914 poem "Chicago" while ruling on immigration agents' use of force. Literary scholars say they were “astounded” and “amazed.”

On this day in 2022 - A walk down the Birmingham to Worcester canal at Edgbaston Birmingham UK - 10-11-22 #landscape #landscapephotography #canon #photography #naturephotography #uknature #nature

Bill Gates downplaying climate change is so self-contradictory - what the hell happened to the world?

Richard Roeper joins Bob Sirott to discuss a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the pairing of Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert.

U.N. Secretary-General Warns Sudan’s Civil War Is “Spiraling Out of Control”

Librarians and aldermen are pushing back against proposed library cuts. blockclubchi.co/47wlf48

Dick Cheney has died at age 84. He was "the most powerful vice president in American history" and left behind a "destructive" legacy in the United States, the Middle East and beyond, says John Nichols. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/4/dick_cheney

It’s an interesting time-capsule artifact from when our memories of Bush II were fresher, the wounds no longer raw but also not fully healed. Not contemporaneous, but also not further clouded by the passage of another 13 years and the upheavals of the Trump era. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dick-...

Democracy Now! takes a look at a crucial segment of Zohran Mamdani’s base — working class South Asians.