Andrea and I are about the same age, and at both the Sun-Times and the Tribune I was perpetually impressed with her smarts and innovative ideas. Her leaving the world is a huge loss.

I'm sorry to see this. Mo was a lovely person.

///BREAKING/// Controversial Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and a surge of agents appear to be leaving Chicago within days as "Operation Midway Blitz" winds down after two months, sources tell the Tribune. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/f...

A Tribune legend. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/v...

So many but I have watched Gimli countless times brandishing two battle axes on the tomb of Balin. “Let them come. There’s one Dwarf yet in Moria who still draws breath!”

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered government officials to provide immigration detainees enough food, water and bed space, among other remedies, finding that the conditions at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding facility in Broadview do not “pass constitutional muster.”

This is a heck of a story by @markguarino.bsky.social. chicago.suntimes.com/music/2025/1...

Hospitals have pulled back on gender-affirming care for kids under Trump, leaving families with shrinking options. A really interesting read from Lisa Schencker @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/h...

🧵 Gregory Royal Pratt and Laura Rodríguez Presa of the Chicago Tribune are doing great work on the immigration crackdown. Homeland Security has called out both of them on social media in futile attempts to intimidate them. @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social

Border Patrol grabbed workers from the front yard of a home in Edison Park this afternoon then took them behind an office building in Niles and passed them off to a prisoner van. Woman came out to MF them and said "you're in the most conservative neighborhood in the city and nobody wants you here."

No Kings rally/march Chicago pictures: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/18/p...

Well this is some good news for once

🚨 The Texas National Guard has arrived in the Chicago area. Tribune journalists saw several military members, dressed in camouflage and carrying long guns, on federal property in the far southwest suburbs this morning. Soldiers could be seen walking in and out of mobile sleeping units on the site.

There was a time I thought I wanted to do this kind of field work for a living. RIP to Jane Goodall. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/s...

A mother and her two children who were detained in Millennium Park on Sunday by immigration agents were released from custody Wednesday, bringing a moment of relief and renewed hope for the Chicago-area family caught in the crosshairs of aggressive federal immigration enforcement.

Dasha, 8, and her little brother were playing w/ the water at the Crown Fountain in Chicago’s Millennium Park when fed agents approached their parents on Sunday afternoon.  The family is now detained at O’Hare w/ other mothers/children awaiting deportation. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/29/i...

Our latest story about prominent Chicago activist turned politician Andrew Holmes, who is facing new scrutiny as lawsuit alleges sexual assault of teenage girl. Also details how some families felt exploited. With @alisonflowers.bsky.social @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/28/a...

News photographers have to be ready to meet the moment and the Chicago Tribune's Stacey Wescott did that superbly. She tells the story here: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/22/t...

Several disillusioned families pulled children out of The Language and Music School in Oak Park in recent years. They have since come to question whether the state is doing enough to keep watch over how this kind of school is run. Story w Bullington www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/17/l...

Nice story about bike messengers, who vanished so quietly I didn't notice. Used to be everywhere in the early '90s. chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/07...

Excellent, sad story about the brutal 1995 heat wave and how it got downplayed and discounted: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/10/t...

Dispatches from the age of idiocy: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/w...

Thirteen years after she was first charged with killing her toddler, a former Midlothian woman was found guilty of murder this week in a case that highlights just how long the Cook County courts can take to resolve cases.

A monument honoring the life of Wadee Alfayoumi, the 6-year-old Palestinian boy who was killed in a hate crime nearly two years ago, was unveiled at the Van Horn Woods playground in Plainfield Township on Saturday morning.

The sounds of one of Chicago’s largest protests in recent memory reverberated throughout downtown Saturday, as tens of thousands gathered in a united admonishment of President Donald Trump, marching through the center of the city, pausing in front of the tower bearing his name to direct their ire.

Today in my city: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/14/c...

Coyote pups at Graceland Cemetery!

BREAKING: Former House Speaker Michael J. Madigan was sentenced Friday to 7 1/2 years in prison in his corruption case, capping a stunning fall for the once powerful politician.

Chicago operates 150 schools that are half-empty and another 47 at less than 33% capacity. It's extraordinarily expensive. The most extreme example: Douglass high school has 27 employees for 28 students this year and a per-student cost of $93,000. Story w/ with @chalkbeat.org's Mila Koumpilova.

A veteran Chicago police officer will no longer carry a badge as part of a plea agreement in which he admitted that he struck an eighth grade boy while making an off-duty visit to a South Side elementary school two years ago.

At Sox Mexican heritage night game, pride and community despite immigration crackdowns in Chicago and across the country. An unspoken night of resilience for many. Read my latest column. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/07/p...

The Chicago Tribune is embarking on a road trip to revisit Route 66 ahead of the 100-year anniversary of the iconic roadway, which spanned eight states and three time zones, stretching from downtown Chicago to the Pacific Ocean.

IMPACT! This would not have happened without the reporting of @jsmithrichards.bsky.social and @jodiscohen.bsky.social of the Tribune and ProPublica. Kids across the state will benefit if this is signed into law.

This is some big-time impact from the Chicago Tribune's investigation with @propublica.org into schools that use police to ticket and fine students for minor infractions that could be handled in other ways. If signed, a new law will ban the practice. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/28/i...

More than 72,000 American military members remain unaccounted for from World War II. This is the story of one who was recently found, and laid to rest. On the Chicago-area homecoming of Pvt. James Loyd, an American soldier: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/25/c...

Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

Purple Heart is returned to family of Lansing WWII veteran, one of four brothers who fought in the war www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/21/p...

The Department of Education has been monitoring Garrison School because it often called police on students. Now that oversight is in question.

The Tribune found with ProPublica in 2022 that this school called police to arrest children alarmingly often. Now federal monitoring of its practices is in question thanks to cuts by the Trump administration. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/20/g...

BREAKING: Robert Prevost, the first American pope in history, has been elected

My colleagues are on here bsky.app/profile/chic...

Congratulations to Injustice Watch!

Just a very sad story; I didn't know this man but now I feel his loss: chicago.suntimes.com/chicago/2025...

Gotta love a March Madness investigation! In An Era of Big Money, the University of Illinois Shrugs Off Rules on Athletes’ NIL Deals @stacystclair.bsky.social @chicagotribune.com and @jodiscohen.bsky.social @propublica.org

New from us and ProPublica: Illinois has a law requiring college athletes to disclose NIL deals to their schools. At U. of I., that is not happening very often, especially in the marquee football and men's basketball programs. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/04/i...

Some potential impact from our Medical Misconduct investigation advances in Springfield. Series at chicagotribune.com/medicalmisconduct

Nothing but respect for our colleagues and competitors at the Sun-Times. Their struggle is our struggle. And any losses there are losses for the whole city.

Impact

I'm so unbelievably excited to announce that today is my first day at the @chicagotribune.com! I will continue to cover the Chicago Bears (and occasionally other things) and I'm thrilled to be joining the team over at the Tribune.