Alden Loury crunched the numbers and found Black economic mobility in Chicago is dead last among 50 major cities chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...

They love to say they are for LEGAL immigration. But this

Trade unions and the rich alike betting heavily on another change on the 5th floor chicago.suntimes.com/elections/20...

Having an unpopular ICE detention in town drains hundreds of thousands of dollars from an inner-ring suburb of Chicago chicago.suntimes.com/news/2026/04...

The heirs to the wealthy principality — I mean municipality — of Rosemont are getting along about as well as William and Harry www.dailyherald.com/20260415/new...

Biggest skewer of tacos al pastor I’ve ever seen — in a strip mall parking lot in Des Plaines, IL just now

The soft landing for longtime Ald Walter Burnett is not going to happen chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/20...

Another charter school scandal in Chicago — this one involving a fallen star of the movement for privately run/publicly funded education chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...

The correlation between being against mail voting and sympathies for Putin spans the Atlantic… apnews.com/article/slov...

The Republicans on the US Supreme Court made it harder to get a corruption conviction. How that could set free ex-Illinois Dem boss Mike Madigan www.axios.com/local/chicag...

Bilking the federal government of PPP funds while getting a CPD paycheck

Man, I miss this dude

He once was People Magazine’s Hero of the Year for his work with young Black male students in Chicago. Today, Tim King became a federal criminal defendant. My story on the latest accusations of charter school corruption chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...

The head of Chicago's biggest police union was really angry about a measure to rid the CPD of cops with extremist ties

Last year, we broke the story that the feds were investigating Chicago charter school operator Tim King. Well, they just announced they've indicted him for allegedly stealing from the once-vaunted charter. More to come soon ... www.wbez.org/education/20...

BREAKING: three *more* women have come forward to @cnn.com and accuse Rep. Eric Swalwell of sexual misconduct, including Swalwell sending them unsolicited explicit messages or nude photos: www.cnn.com/2026/04/10/u...

What good is education for people in prison? Find out by listening from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday to “Prisoncast!” on WBEZ-91.5 FM or online at wbez.org.

“The radio show made with and for people in Illinois jails and prisons and their loved ones.” On @wbez.org from 2-4 PM tomorrow chicago.suntimes.com/education/20...

Reuters: US JUDGE ORDERS PENTAGON TO COMPLY WITH RULING RESTORING PRESS ACCESS - COURT DECISION

Καλό Πάσχα! Καλή Ανάσταση! 🙏🇬🇷☦️

It’s a good day for an investigative reporter when you leave an off-the-record interview with a bankers box that has documents piled more than halfway to the lid…

A nomination for the prestigious Peabody Award today for this must-watch documentary -- which featured key input from ex-Border Patrol senior agent @jennbudd.bsky.social (who also generously granted @wbez.org an interview in December in California) www.hbomax.com/movies/criti...

The reporting on OpenAI and Sam Altman I've been working on for the past year and a half, for @newyorker.com, with Andrew Marantz: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

As #Trump threatens strikes on civilian targets in #Iran, the November video from Democratic veterans urging military members to disobey illegal orders becomes newly relevant. www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/l...

A federal court recently upheld journalists' First Amendment rights by ruling that DHS used unlawful force against reporters at LA immigration protests last year. Watch @adamrose.bsky.social explain, and if you're a journalist facing a press freedom violation, contact @pressfreedomtracker.us.

The recent federal ruling does NOT bring back federal funding for public media. Congress zeroed that out. So our efforts for you @wbez.org are now 100% community-funded. Thanks to the thousands of you who have responded — and given — to support independent journalism www.wbez.org/pressroom/20...

Congrats on their lifetime achievement awards to our Chicago Public Media colleagues Cheryl and Lynn! www.wbez.org/pressroom/20...

Fooled our magnolia bush and tulips into thinking winter is gone for good

Another L in court for POTUS - and this one is a W for NPR and PBS. But don't forget Congress defunded public media last year. You can help at wbez.org/donate - because we are now 100% funded by our community apnews.com/article/trum...

Have not been to any of these 3 places - but maybe I should try them chicago.suntimes.com/food-drink/2...

Pardoned J6er tried - unsuccessfully - to have the kiddie porn case against him thrown out, by arguing that the feds never would have found out about the kiddie porn if not for the J6 investigation...

Dern will reportedly star as Miami Herald journalist Julie K. Brown, who wrote a book on Epstein the series will be based on.

Longtime CHA board member Debra Parker drops lawsuit days after @wbez.org and @chicago.suntimes.com obtained internal report detailing accusations vs Parker chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

"...the decision indicates that Parker and her son . . . have actually been living with the commissioner’s fiancé, Charles Bell, in a luxury high-rise in River North . . . her board materials were being sent there." The sloppiness of the situation offends almost as much as the fraud itself

After her mom Debra Parker joined the Chicago Housing Authority board, Lovie Diggs formed a company in 2020. The CHA has paid Diggs’ company > $1M. And now we also know Diggs became the owner of a 2025 Range Rover and a 2021 Range Rover

Chicago Public Media went to court so you the public could have all the facts about a Chicago public agency board member accused of defrauding a public housing program. We won. Here’s what they were hiding from you chicago.suntimes.com/2026/03/25/c...

Zoom in on the T-shirt Greg Bovino wore when he posed for the Times… A tribute to the bar owned by his dad - before dad perpetrated a fatal DUI www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

One top aide after another leaving Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration these days chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/20...

Congrats to Alden Loury, Amy Qin, Esther Yoon-Ji Kang and all the others who worked on the Watchdog Award-winning stories. It’s the 2nd time @wbez.org has won this award in the last 5 years! headlineclub.org/2026/03/22/w...

Trump said the U.S. will postpone any strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure for five days, even as Israel continued hitting Tehran and Iran warned it could retaliate across the Gulf.

A passenger on an Air Canada flight says it was "chaos" after the plane collided with a fire truck while landing at New York's LaGuardia Airport, killing the flight's pilot and copilot and injuring dozens, officials said. Follow live updates https://cnn.it/4t4pAot

Congratulations to our editors Frank Main of @chicago.suntimes.com and Alexandra Salomon of @wbez.org for winning this award — for marshaling coverage of last year’s federal Operation Midway Blitz headlineclub.org/2026/03/22/w...

State grant fraud at LGBTQ center in central Illinois www.sj-r.com/story/news/l...

Almost 5 years ago, we @wbez.org broke the story of widespread sexual misconduct allegations at Chicago Park District beaches and pools. A recent $2M settlement was the 7th payout to a female ex-lifeguard chicago.suntimes.com/2026/03/20/c...

Particularly good timing given the war. So what happens to all the sycophants they gave access , who were so proud to post selfies with their new desks and lanyards ... but have no idea how to actually, ya know, report critically on things like government and war?

Onassis would be proud www.lloydslist.com/LL1156676/Gr...

A recent decision from a local appellate court in Washington, D.C., striking down a ban on large-capacity magazines could have an impact on a pending case challenging a similar ban in Illinois. news.wttw.com/2026/03/19/l...

"NPR found five other people in Illinois, Oregon and Minnesota who...said they were arrested, seemingly without provocation, while protesting ICE and then had officers take or try to take what appeared to be a sample of their DNA." www.npr.org/2026/03/18/n...

The total legal tab for the sexual misconduct scandal at the Chicago beaches and pools is now $8.7 million www.wbez.org/city-hall/20...

First time in seven years that the Chicago Board of Education has revoked a charter for a privately run — but publicly funded —school operator chicago.suntimes.com/education/20...