Following up on @mattheweadie.bsky.social’s post, story on the ruling here: evanstonnow.com/suit-against...

Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton celebrated the ruling, arguing the Constitution and 14th Amendment prohibit reparations programs like Evanston's, saying... "We welcome the court’s decision to allow this historic lawsuit to move forward against this woke, racist program.”

A federal judge is allowing a lawsuit against the City of Evanston over the city's reparations program to move ahead, denying the city's motions to dismiss The case was brought by conservative legal group Judicial Watch, which alleges the program violates the 14th Amendment

Two years after it was approved, developers broke ground Monday on the first of 12 "efficiency homes" (600 sq ft, two bed, one bath), which will come together into a pocket neighborhood in Evanston's 7th Ward evanstonnow.com/grant-st-eff...

Biss doubling down on telling fellow Dems to name AIPAC "day after day after day" as a campaign strategy when the group is involved in races Plus, his suggestion for Dems to not even engage with the group anymore

A new microbrewery is open in Evanston at the former site of Temperance Beer Co. From @amartinez99.bsky.social

Want to talk about the primary? I'll be at Mouse Arts and Letters in Bridgeport tonight at 7p for a News Night roundtable to talk about my primary election reporting More info: mouseartsandletters.org/events/news-...

Democratic nominee for Senate District 9, Patrick Hanley, is advocating for ranked choice voting today in a letter in @chicagotribune.com, with the crowded 9th District congressional primary as an example for why he thinks it's needed:

Kat Abughazaleh to @anamariecox.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com about what's next for her:

Daniel Biss on @thebulwark.com today said meeting with AIPAC early in the #IL09 campaign was a "dumb idea" and recommends Democrats don't do so going forward "I would recommend that candidates not meet with them because I don't think they can be trusted to operate in good faith"

Want to talk about the primary? I'll be at Mouse Arts and Letters in Bridgeport tonight at 7p for a News Night roundtable to talk about my primary election reporting More info: mouseartsandletters.org/events/news-...

Another thread from @jake-sheridan.bsky.social on this same point + a tidbit that he didn't even answer the Trib's questions about his donations before running to put an op-ed in the same paper x.com/JakeSheridan...

What Sacks leaves out here is that AIPAC’s super PACs were not disclosed the same way AI and crypto PACs already were Both Think Big and Fairshake disclosed donors in January. AIPAC’s dark money PACs did not, meaning they remained hidden until after E-day www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/24/o...

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Kinda find it funny that Yes Oak Park (a pro-density group) has this as one of the reasons for upzoning in the village

The family foundation led by the heir apparent of the White Sox is proposing a youth sports facility at the former Office Depot location in North Evanston evanstonnow.com/youth-sports...

IL9 Democratic nominee Daniel Biss on this: "AIPAC works so hard to hide its activities because it knows its extreme agenda is toxic to Democratic voters. But we beat AIPAC’s right-wing money on Election Day and showed progressives nationwide how to fight back ..."

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Here's my first report on this from Jan. 22: evanstonnow.com/outside-grou...

And now Elect Chicago Women super PAC, which funded millions of ads in #IL09 and #IL08, also funded over $4 million by AIPAC's United Democracy Project This is confirmation of months of mine and other's reporting that AIPAC was behind these super PACs docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/form...

First of the dark money super PACs, Affordable Chicago Now! which went into #IL02 has filed its monthly report, which includes contributions from some big donors, and UDP, AIPAC's super PAC to the tune of $1.32 million docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/form...

First comments from State Sen. Mike Simmons after placing fourth in #IL09 Democratic primary on Tuesday: Simmons remains a state senator and is up for reelection in 2028

Faith leaders and immigrant advocates held an anti-ICE protest at Sherman Plaza earlier today. They claim the building’s owner plans to lease an empty Colorado prison to the federal agency. evanstonnow.com/anti-ice-pro...

Here’s the $500,000 @ElectDemWomen used on a big ad buy for State Sen. Laura Fine in #IL09 Not an identifiable donor, but instead just a foundation (This is different from the Elect Chicago Women super PAC that spent several million) docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/form...

Interesting look into @aoc.bsky.social endorsement process here from @andrewsolender.bsky.social

Several Evanston faith leaders led a demonstration in front of Sherman Plaza earlier this afternoon to protest plans for Highlands REIT, the building’s owner, to lease an empty prison in Colorado to ICE. Story to come shortly.

Commenters don’t like protests either:

At Evanston’s parks board meeting tonight: A few residents insisted they support No Kings protests but don’t want it held at Dawes Park near their homes on the lakefront bc of noise, traffic and anticipated large crowds They suggest it go elsewhere in the city I think there’s an acronym for this

He’s sick of looking at precinct-level result maps

Less than a year away! But who’s counting

Evanston was largely Croke-country on Tuesday, with a nearly 20-point margin over Villa, who won Northwestern, some of the more renter-heavy areas and a precinct in the 2nd Ward (by one vote) Evanston results: Croke 46% Villa 27.8% Kim 20.1% Kifowit 5.9%

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This one precinct in Buffalo Grove was really undecided in #IL09 Abughazaleh 64 Fine 64 Biss 63

NEW from me: With Biss likely off to Washington, what does it mean for Evanston? He said he’ll stay on the job until after the general election, then an acting mayor will take his place, with a special election for the rest of his term likely next year

Juliana Stratton cleaned up in Evanston, winning over 46% of the vote and losing only two precincts Stratton 9,213 (46.6%) Krishnamoorthi 5,802 (29.3%) Kelly 2,673 (18.6%) Ryan 632 (3.2%)

Evanston Ward breakdowns (top 4): 1st Ward: Biss 43.8% Abug. 19.6% Fine 17.4% Andrew 10.3% 2nd Ward: Biss 40.1% Abug. 26.7% Fine 12.3% Simmons 8.7% 3rd Ward: Biss 42.5% Abug. 25.9% Fine 12.5% Andrew 8.3% 4th Ward: Biss: 43.6% Abug. 22.6% Fine 13.1% Andrew 7.6% (cont.)

Full #IL09 precinct map as of 5:45 p.m. Wednesday (reposting bc it was screwed up) datawrapper.dwcdn.net/eNyXK/20/

What a wild year it's been with a fascinating #IL09 race, with so many twists and turns, up until *literally* the very last moment

Bushra Amiwala on yesterday's result in #IL09: "A lot of people had a lot to say about this campaign. They don't live here. You do. And your vote means more to me than any headline or hashtag ever could."

As the two top vote-getters, Daniel Biss and Laura Fine will win their respective seats as Democratic state central committeeman and committeewoman

We have #IL09 precinct results in Lake and McHenry, but nothing from Cook yet, though all 222 precincts are reporting

Waiting for precinct results outside of Chicago, but in #IL09, all was as expected Fine cleaned up the more conservative areas in West Ridge, Abughazaleh did very well elsewhere, but Biss won a few lakefront precincts in the 48th Ward (including areas around Loyola)

My story for @ms.now went up yesterday but it’s worth reposting given we saw JB’s coattails in action last night. The Illinois primaries are the first test of the 2028 presidential race www.ms.now/news/news-an...

Rachel Ruttenberg concedes in a tight race to Patrick Hanley for Illinois State Senate District 9 Hanley will face Republican Tom Lally in November to replace State Sen. Laura Fine in Springfield

Malinowski on #IL09, which many thought may turn out the same way NJ-11 did:

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Interesting tidbit from Biss' victory speech last night: I’m told Biss' use of this "may tonight be the last time I utter their name" line was inspired by Zohran Mamdani's mayoral victory speech, when he said essentially the same thing when talking about Andrew Cuomo

PPP celebrating a its margins in #IL09 in polls commissioned by the @evanstonroundtable.bsky.social , which were spot on

With ~95% of votes in: Abughazaleh leads Chicago by 11% Biss leads suburban Cook by 9.4% Biss leads Lake County by 8.1% Abughazaleh leads McHenry County by 4.6% Interesting results here, with Kat doing a lot better in McHenry than the rest of the burbs

Patrick Hanley, a Democrat from Winnetka, will win the Democratic nomination for Illinois State Senate District 9, replacing State Sen. Laura Fine He defeated Rachel Ruttenberg of Evanston 51.6% to 48.4%, with >95% of the votes counted