Always worth pulling over the bike for this scene

Trump and the federal government continue to brutally violate protestors' rights. But don't take it from me -- hear it straight from Jennifer, an Evanston resident violently detained for hours on Halloween. Watch the full interview on youtube.com/@bissforcongress

Important first-hand account from a woman in Evanston who was detained for hours by agents on Friday, for just approaching a scene. Incredible story starts at 2:20. Agents purposefully caused crashes and refused badly needed medical help for the young man whose head youtu.be/R115THs3Nug?...

DuSable Lake Shore Drive should not exist as an “expressway”, and it should certainly not be wide enough to serve as an occasional airplane runway #northDLSD chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-hist...

Up for some Chicago GeoGuessr? Jesse Welles played at Thalia Hall two nights so maybe this was somewhere in Pilsen? youtu.be/zRkIa0G1wqc?...

Postcard from Lincoln Park today, thank you to all the unnamed #bikeCHI folks who always ride by at just the right time to make the scene even prettier 😍

It’s been a good six months Chicago, but tomorrow winter begins

Correction: Federal agents illegally apply fascist tactics on Chicago-area residents on Halloween www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/u...

Governor Pritzker is now handing out candy to families on 26th Street.

Here's a short video of an Edison Park man confronting border patrol. You can hear others in the background. #chicago

Moving in convoy + permitting a media tail and I couldn't discern a cause for this stop other than people were out front working. I didn't see anyone obviously from ICE but will check video again in a bit. 7400 N Oconto. After a couple minutes whistles (in Edison Park.)

Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.

This is so funny because Chicagoans are the friendliest of all Americans and when they're being aggressive dicks to you in large numbers? You've probably fucked up.

There’s a @briancassella.bsky.social shot for this from just today!!

"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"

Border Patrol Chief Bovino exited the federal courthouse in Chicago today, facing questions over his use of tear gas in communities despite a federal ban without justification. Before leaving, he stood in the truck doorway, fist-pumped, and then placed a CS grenade on the dashboard.

Bovino has left the courthouse. At least this time they managed to depart without leaving tear gas in their wake.

Ellis: "These kids, you can imagine, their sense of safety was shattered on Saturday. And it's gonna take a long time for that to come back, if ever." She said it "should have been a really happy day."

Ellis on the use of tear gas Saturday: "That was the instance, as well, where children were present and they were dressed up in their Halloween costumes. … Those kids were tear gassed on their way to celebrate Halloween in their local school parking lot."

The hearings will happen at the Dirksen building every weekday at 6:00 PM for the foreseeable future hmmm

Blowing whistles, yelling and recording videos is truly making a difference, keep it up, Chicago

In the Sun Times: An attorney (who used to defend Chicago police officers!) “was barefoot and wearing Blackhawks pajama pants as he stepped from his front door to yell ‘Nazi’ and ‘Gestapo’ at the agents who dragged [a construction worker] to a vehicle.” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

River North would be so much more pleasant without five-lane car sewers cutting through it, I guess it won’t change in my lifetime, what a wasted opportunity

That time of year when Halloween and Christmas overlap, at least on State Street

like so many days since the blitz, today was terrifying. but the terror is outpaced by the burning hot solidarity of parents blocking school streets, hundreds of neighbors walking patrol, bicyclists chasing SUVs broadcasting whereabouts, and whistling winemoms bringing the fire of one thousand suns.

Here’s where you can get plugged in: • Get connected to the resistance: fiftyfifty.one • Get trained on noncooperation: nokings.org/rise • Get bold for rapid response: nokings.org/next • Get engaged in politics: pol-rev.com • Get started: Choosedemocracy.us

This is a U.S. citizen being brutally abducted by ICE while his mom pleads for them to stop and the videographer cries for help. The Chicago police do nothing to stop it. They will come for everyone, and they’re not even hiding that anymore. If you are not organizing and resisting yet, get started.

NEW — Videos obtained by The TRiiBE show federal agents detaining a Laugh Factory worker on Chicago’s North Side this morning. He and another person were detained around 9:20 a.m., according to rapid response teams. Story TK shortly on thetriibe.com.

Even on a chilly afternoon, this Colectivo patio is popular and charming, so much better than the parking lot it used to be! #ClarkStCorridor

Jeff Tweedy the other night on Colbert: “Well, is it morning? Could this be dawn? On the horizon, where light and dark meet, it’s where beauty lives, it’s all the colors you want to be part of.”

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

Vibrant colors on State Street today

Would love to know how these are “AI cameras” as opposed to just regular cameras Unfortunately, the phrase AI has quickly become synonymous with “fake”, so it may give fodder to people disputing citations by claiming the video footage is “just AI” and not accurate

Seven cars currently blocking the “bus only” lane on Dearborn, even if a camera-equipped bus comes along, it’ll never capture the license plate numbers

This is 6:15 PM, fine but in two weeks we have the brutal awakening of clocks falling back an hour WHYYYYYY

At the Berlin protest yesterday, one speaker said that in the future, people will say with pride "ich bin ein Chicagoer."

Hands Off Chicago sign spotted in the background in No Kings London protest, photo by Jaimi Joy/Reuters

Graffiti interrupted, I presume. I wanna know what it was going to say about the larva

I’ve never looked at the Calder from this angle, less like a flamingo, more like a dog squatting, from the view of an insect

David Byrne at #NoKings on his bike. (via @wutangforchildren.bsky.social)

My mom and a few dozen friends from her independent living facility protested today in East Lakeview #NoKings Chicago

An astonishing crowd! By u/sandrakaufmann in r/chicago

Chicago #NoKings was amazing, so proud of this city

#NoKings Chicago in Grant Park, this had to be 100,000 people

Ronald Reagan said it. #NoKings tomorrow 10/18

#NoKings day has begun!

The current occupant of the White House is proposing a “triumphal arch” for the nation’s 250th, and he wants it built in this traffic circle outside Arlington National Cemetery, so much to ridicule here

When 3.5% of the population takes to the streets in peaceful protest, the result is always real change. We need 12 million people out there tomorrow nationwide at #NoKings www.bbc.com/future/artic...

The program using cameras on CTA buses to ticket drivers who block bike and bus lanes went live this week! #bikeCHI www.chicago.gov/city/en/dept...