Here is an update of what happened in the Northern District of Illinois yesterday. It was jaw dropping. Listen on the app of your choice. pod.link/1684738593/e...

In this episode of @ohmalortpod.bsky.social we talk about daytime talk show host Jenny Jones. Listen on the app of your choice. pod.link/1684738593/e...

In this episode of @ohmalortpod.bsky.social I update my friend @pwesty.bsky.social about the current state of affairs regarding Soldier Field. Listen on or the app of your choice. pod.link/1684738593/e...

In light of all the conversation about the "Miracle Mile" take a listen about a time when they had a really bad solution to a failing State Street. pod.link/1684738593/e...

In very Chicago online discourse I have fun of Bovino for fact checking SubX and then this happened.

Feeling the effects of DST. Listen to this episode about Chicago's approach through time. pod.link/1684738593/e...

In this episode of @ohmalortpod.bsky.social we talk about the "State Street Mall" which was a disaster. My cohost was befuddled by Chicago's approach to development. Listen on the app of your choice. pod.link/1684738593/e...

Ellis: "Kids love Halloween. It's a day where all the rules go out the window. You can eat as much candy as you want."

Ellis is describing the Halloween parade that federal agents disrupted in Old Irving Park. "Their sense of safety was shattered," Ellis said. "It is going to take a long time to come back, if ever."

In this episode of @ohmalortpod.bsky.social I tell @carriagereturn.bsky.social about Mies van der Rohe AKA the father of modern architecture. Listen on the app of your choice. pod.link/1684738593/e...

After I commented that the RNC will not put any money in Chicago elections I got this response. I imagine Monica also thought her president adored he.

the palpable hatred for ICE in every corner of the city is visible with very rudimentary graffiti and tags on every other block in chicago - it’s quite a thing of beauty to be this unified.

From blue line hipsters to Villita day laborers to Wrigleyville business-types to Bubgalow-belt white ethnics, ICE is really bringing this city together with big clouds of choking gas.

I'm bringing back this old design to help support the @icirr.bsky.social during this bullshit timeline. Preorder "I Hate IL Nazis" and $8 per shirt will go towards the ICIRR. #Chicago

It's hard to overstate how fully engaged Chicago and the surrounding suburbs are in this ICE madness. There are neighborhood watch alerts, spontaneous crowds gathering outside schools at pick up & drop off plus madly blowing whistles and honking car horns, this city is fighting back and hard.

DC.

Historically, the Chicago impulse to say “you’re not FROM here, you don’t BELONG here, and if you know what’s good for you you’ll get OUT of here” has, um, not usually been a tool used on behalf of anti-racist solidarity, but we’re more flexible people than we’re given credit for

People are fucking pissed. You can intellectually know what’s happening, see the videos, and still be traumatized and shocked when it comes to your block, no matter what community you live in.

“People were coming out of their homes to record, to yell, to tell ICE to leave our neighborhood — it was a whole bunch of people with their freaking goldendoodles. What am I going to do, go back to my Zoom call when people across the street are being denied their constitutional rights?”

This is in the city of Chicago proper, not the suburbs:

Chicagoans telling Trump’s agents to get the hell out of their city.

Border patrol agents deployed tear gas on the 3700 block of North Kildare where residents say a landscape worker, a resident, and a woman on a bike were detained. Video from a resident.

Maybe Operation Greylord 2.0 means bribing the courts?

Federal agents tear gassed the Irving Park neighborhood at Kildare and Waveland, sources including the local alder tell the @chicagotribune.com This is at least the sixth neighborhood tear-gassed by agents as Judge Ellis schedules Border Patrol Chief Bovino to come testify next week

I continue to be surprised by what is happening on Nextdoor, which has become more and more about ice warnings/alerts

(from the inbox) Less than an hour later this morning, just before 10:30 at Roscoe and Harding, feds again released gas as they were driving away, unobstructed, from a relatively small number of neighbors.

The hubris of these Nazis will be their downfall. apple.news/AQtCL3ZsaSp-...

Since public bathrooms are in the local news here is some background on paid bathroom as well as current trends in other cities. Listen on the app of your choice. pod.link/1684738593/e...

Whom among us hasn't uttered that phrase?

This one is loose but fun. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over the years btw.

In this episode of @ohmalortpod.bsky.social I tell @vanderpumprobs.com about Chicago's No-Nothing Mayor Levi Boone. History sure does rhyme. Listen on the app of your choice. pod.link/1684738593/e...

An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago

The only counter protester I saw was anti Durbin and Preckwinkle.

they are so bad at this

Since the Obama Presidential Center is in the news again I thought I would share this episode covering the history. Listen on @ApplePodcasts, @Spotify, or the app of your choice. pod.link/1684738593/e...

Since today is the anniversary of The Great Chicago Fire I thought I would share this article about it written by acclaimed parchitect Fredrick Law Olmstead. greatchicagofire.org/media-event-...

Here is a quick update about what is happening at the Dirksen Federal Court in Chicago. pod.link/1684738593/e...

Cities with a higher violent crime rate than Chicago: Houston Dallas Lubbock Amarillo San Antonio Corpus Christi

Pastor David Black, First Presbyterian Church, being pepper-sprayed outside ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois.

Operation Greylord???

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. trib.al/9Sxu9IN

It’s not even 10 a.m., and so much has unfolded in Chicago: – Illinois sues Trump over the National Guard deployment – Mayor Brandon Johnson bans city property use for immigration enforcement – Journalists and protesters sue the feds over Broadview violence

Today is a big day for weirdos like myself who obsess over the Northern District of Illinois.

Please note: protesters, clergy and a neighbor are also on this suit/also making claims here (it's a lot of reporters, but not only reporters!)

all of my heroes are people I know <3

We love you Chicago.

The Chicago Headline Club, Chicago Newspaper Guild Local 34071, Block Club Chicago and other media organizations and journalists filed the suit alongside protesters in federal court Monday alleging their First Amendment rights have been violated. https://to.wttw.com/48W1Pbc

Broadview, Illinois, is not in Chicago Broadview is whole separate municipality