And this is the perspective of Evans, the former Marine in the shot. bsky.app/profile/nsla...

"Frustrated by not being able to see through the gas, I swung my camera forward and saw a man who was carrying an American flag walk into the huge cloud of gas. He didn’t have a mask on and didn’t react to the gas. I shot 44 frames of him in two seconds." -- @staceywescott.bsky.social

Illinois declined to give sensitive voter data to the DOJ. Some GOP states are doing the same

I mean, this was in fact how Tolkien and his wife conducted their romance.

the origin for this part of beren and luthien absolutely floors me. Him returning to england on medical leave essentially and super traumatized and they went out on a picnic where she sang and danced for him

It's worth pointing out that 5700 N Harlem is a senior living community (that used to be a monastery).

This morning's front page @chicagotribune.com. Photo by @staceywescott.bsky.social

Damn @carolleonnig.bsky.social with a barn burner of a scoop www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Washington political/legal/academic/media bullshit always trickles out into the rest of the country so we can assume this practice or attempt is coming to a police department, city council, or school board near you

@ckubzansky.bsky.social and I covered the conflict between federal agents and protesters at the Broadview ICE facility yesterday for @chicagotribune.com @mandophotos.bsky.social took some compelling images on the night shift too.

What a photo. ( @staceywescott.bsky.social )

News: CPD's First Deputy Supt. Yolanda Talley is retiring after about six months as the dept.'s second-in-command. A major reorg effectively stripped her of virtually all her responsibilities related to the department’s daily operations about two months ago. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/19/c...

At Broadview ICE facility, federal agents hurl tear gas and pepper spray at protesters blocking vans www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/19/t...

Sept. 19 dispatch from outside the Broadview ICE holding building. With Rebecca Johnson. Photos by Stacey Wescott and Dominic DiPalermo www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/19/t...

Broadview, 8:40 a.m.

Nearly 50 college instructors across #Illinois landed on #CharlieKirk's “Professor Watchlist.” @wbez.org reached out to all of them and found the list triggered hateful messages, threats of rape or death, and intensification since Kirk's killing. #twill www.wbez.org/politics/202...

Federal agents drag protesters, spray chemicals outside ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois

Broadview, IL, 7:15 a.m.

This won’t end with talk show hosts.

But good things do still happen in this world

This Week's Onion Magazine:

Never in my life did I expect to see this headline in the United States of America: “Trump Says Broadcasters Should Lose Licenses for Criticizing Him” #journalism #democracy #FirstAmendment

Headlines on the Bloomberg Terminal from Air Force One: *TRUMP: TV LICENSES SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY IF BAD PUBLICITY FOR ME *TRUMP: IF TV SHOWS 'HIT TRUMP' SHOULD BE DISCUSSED ON LICENSES *TRUMP ON TV SHOWS CRITICIZING HIM: THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO

Seven current and formerly incarcerated women filed federal lawsuits over the last week alleging sexual assault, harassment and institutional retaliation at Illinois’ primary women’s prison, Logan Correctional Center. news.wttw.com/2025/09/17/i...

In this first-person column, Inupiaq writer Laureli Ivanoff describes how cutting salmon with her family on the Unalakleet River, Alaska, reminder her that she belongs, and that working together is the cornerstone of everything that gives meaning in life. buff.ly/zBJS84x

Nexstar owns WGN-TV and Radio.

Before they shut down Bluesky cause it’s antifa, I want you all to know, from the bottom of my heart: Don’t find me on other platforms, this was just a “while we were here” thing, like a summer fling. Be cool, just let it be a thing we had once and is now over

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Yep and that's why I wrote this a while back: www.nytimes.com/2024/07/15/o...

@sskedreporter.bsky.social reports: CPS special ed staff cuts, shuffling leave students lost, behind and unserved www.wbez.org/education/20...

When ChatGPT first took off this was the use case that confused me the most. People said they “only” used it to write “first drafts.” That’s the most important draft! That’s the thinking part!

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Students protesting in front of Trump tower in Chicago.

🚨 JOURNALISM JOB ALERT🚨 @propublica.org is hiring a reporter for our amazing Midwest team! Read some of the key details below and apply here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

ICE agents didn’t have body cams during deadly shooting of Silverio Villegas Gonzalez outside of Chicago. The Trump administration scrapped the agency’s body cam program soon after the president took office this year, according to a former ICE chief of staff. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

A DOJ study showing most domestic terrorism in the US comes from the far right is suddenly missing and replaced with a note saying DOJ is complying with Trump's executive order www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

Tonight, DOJ dropped still another assault case. This time it's a woman who allegedly spit on a deputy U.S. marshal, and, when asked whether she had done that, replied “I sure the [expletive] did. And I’d spit again, you [expletive].” DOJ has charged her with a misdemeanor in local court instead.

Desperate Kash Patel Asks Shooter’s Family If They Can Solve Any Other Cases

Man fatally shot by ICE in Franklin Park had just dropped off his child at school, Rep. Delia Ramirez says chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/09...

If a working journalist cannot say that something true happened solely because it reflects badly on the subject, their publication has no interest in truth.

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

Former two-term Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar, who led the state through much of the 1990s, dies at 79 www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/14/f...

Laugh at Trump’s ridiculous innumeracy, sure. But the commander of the world’s most powerful military is responding to relevant questions about the laws of armed conflict by claiming that the existence of drug deaths in general permits him to kill anyone he feels like, which is very serious.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar dies at age 79