Greg Marcia Peter Jan Bobby Cindy

If you go to the Obama Presidential Library, you can find this 2019 collection of essays about Chicago, edited by @marthabayne.bsky.social 📖

Map of Chicago Reader boxes and distribution sites. Find a print copy of the Chicago Reader. The Reader is published in print weekly. https://bit.ly/3yPgmFW

Annual Chicagoland Bookstore Crawl is today. This story comes with an interactive map so you can easily find the closest of the 84 participating bookstores to you www.wbez.org/books/2026/0...

Announcing my latest project! Support Women's Sports Chicago, a newsletter to learn how to attend, watch, and get in to the game of supporting women's sports, especially in Chicago. But I do hope non-Chicagoans find this valuable. Please subscribe at supportwomenssports.beehiiv.com

Do you know a journalist who fits the bill? The Rosa Luxemburg Journalism Fellowship will award one $30,000 fellowship to an early to mid-career journalist w/a history of progressive writing who lacks institutional support to do their journalistic work. Deadline to apply is April 20 at 11:59 pm ET.

@ali-alkhatib.com someone in Chicago started a petition against the little delivery robots. Does that count?

Look at the sign behind & above them. 🤭

Cherry blossoms this morning in Jackson Park

How many Chicagoans — especially writers — grew up watching the dream team of Carol Marin and Ron Magers?

Street sweeping begins today, which means temporary parking restrictions are back. blockclubchi.co/4ck0Odt

Election Day is tomorrow! Use our Cook County judicial election guide before you head to the polls. Don’t forget: You can bring your printed selections — or your phone — with you when you vote.

Hey here's a map of places around Cook County where you can pick up one of the 170,000 print copies of our #CheckYourJudges guide! Also see it in this month's @chicagoreader.com and a variety of other local community newspapers! www.injusticewatch.org/judges/judic...

The magic isn’t over. In two weeks will be the 2026 Winter Paralympics in Milano-Cortina, in which you’ll be able to witness exceptional athletes with disabilities do things you’d never be able to do. ✨

🦸‍♂️

if you live in Chicago and you haven't been outside today this is an ORDER go out into the sunlight RIGHT NOW

Check out our update on IL primary ballot questions about the federal voucher program, dozens of advocacy groups calling on Gov. Pritzker to refuse vouchers for Illinois & the latest on federal funding with public schools under siege due to federal immigration agents... www.ilfps.org/are_vouchers...

Wow. What a treasure trove! archive.org/details/ajc0...

Help this doggo get back home!

We at the @postguild.bsky.social are raising money for the hundreds of journalists the Post just laid off. This goes to the people who are hurting, not the Post. Or if you'd rather, go subscribe to an independent journalist. Support is hugely appreciated. www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...

The Wieners Circle is now looking for Chicago’s top Caleb Williams look-alike. blockclubchi.co/4sHC99N

Hey! @wired.com is doing a bunch of hiring. Here we go with a thread of five great jobs, with a few more coming shortly: 1) We are hiring a senior editor for our science desk, which means you get to work with geniuses like @timmarchman.bsky.social @mollytaft.com and @emilymullin.bsky.social

So many good shows!

ok, y’all. I’M LOOKING FOR WRITERS: who understand 1) global politics, 2) colonialism and 3) liberation struggles across the African/Black Diaspora tag yourselves or others, or DM me

You will be visited by three spirits.

Wise advice.

Bowling! Drinks! Magic! 🤹‍♂️

We’re hiring! The TRiiBE is currently experiencing an exciting period of audience growth, which requires a leader to capture new readers and pipeline them into our membership program. Come work with our independent and Black-owned newsroom ✊🏾✨ thetriibe.com/jobs

Need a laugh? Here 🤣🤣🤣

Quite possibly the best costume ever. Definitely the best this year. 🎃🎃🎃

microsoft wants to use your linkedin data to train LLMs turn it off here: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

Cool! 🎷🎷🎷

In case anyone needs a quick hit of feel-good hormones. 🥰

Writers everywhere rn

11 seconds of glee 🐥

🎃🎃🎃

Mark your calendars, Chicagoans!

You have just 12 hours to get your Best of Chicago nominations in! We can’t make the ballot for our biggest issue of the year without your help. Make your voice heard by visiting chicagoreader.com/best before it’s too late!

💀💀💀

Note the hat. 🤣

This art installation memorializes the places we’ve lost forever, in Chicago and beyond: blockclubchi.co/4o30ILv

Periplus, a mentorship collective serving US-based early-career writers of color, is now accepting applications for our 2026 class of fellows! Apply by 9/20: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... You can learn more about Periplus (including fellowship eligibility requirements) here: bit.ly/periplusfaq

We’re looking for a developer-journalist to join @propublica.org’s News Applications team. You would write code, analyze data, build interactives — all in the service of public interest journalism. Check it out: job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

Our TRiiBE team is small but mighty. We only have 3 full-time reporters. As we work to deliver you important journalism on the state of our democracy, we hope you’ll support our on-the-ground Chicago coverage by giving a contribution. Click the link to give: buy.stripe.com/00w14n5ZRbhk...

No. 1 🏆

Hey y’all! We’re doing some strategic planning and thinking through how to build the next era of The TRiiBE. Can you share your feedback? We need 20 more responses to reach our goal. www.surveymonkey.com/r/32CMJGL

We need your help. We’re about 50 responses away from completing our 2025 TRiiBE Audience Survey. If you’d like to see us grow and become a more sustainable newsroom, please take a minute or two to fill out of survey ✨ Link below ⬇️ www.surveymonkey.com/r/WLH5L8D

This sounds amazing @hollohulo.bsky.social !

Seems like good(?) news. Then again, the Reader has nearly expired and then been revived multiple times in the past 30 years.