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Turns out police superintendents CAN order their officers to intervene in unlawful immigration detentions.

I guess Kelly must be in the “pocket of billionaires” since she has critiques about this budget. #40thWardRep

Video footage going around of what appear to be Border Patrol agents chasing folks in someone’s backyard here in Chicagoland

Meanwhile Mayor Johnson’s budget - you know, the “progressive one” that “taxes the rich” to give to CPD inflates that budget to over HALF of our total corporate fund. And continues to borrow to pay off misconduct settlements.

Failed mayoral candidate Ja'mal Green is once again claiming on social media that @thetriibe.com's story on how Paul Vallas’s campaign paid him is untrue. I edited that story; @tonia.thetriibe.com reported it. So once again: here are the receipts. bit.ly/JaymalPaid

NEW: The CPD officer who shot a 16-year-old in 2017 in what investigators ruled was an unjustified use of deadly force will not be fired, according to documents obtained by @wttw.bsky.social. Instead, the officer was promoted, even after taxpayers paid $591K to resolve 4 lawsuits naming him.

Chicagoans are paying about $40 apiece just for lawsuits tied to disgraced former cop Reynaldo Guevara Jr. So far this year, the city is on the hook for some $285M in police misconduct settlements—roughly $100 per resident

SAY IT LOUDER FOR FOLKS IN THE BACK

Jamming a budget through that doesn’t address any of the CPD’s excessive and egregious spending and INCREASES its budget whilst slashing things like the Chicago Public Library is UNACCEPTABLE. #auditcpd

And to be clear, the mayor's 2026 proposal is not just a "no police cuts" budget -- it's a budget in which CPD (already the city's most expensive dept. by far) received a larger year-over-year net increase of non-grant funds than any other dept. Larger than most other departments' entire budgets!

Why are we paying for police misconduct settlements via bonds and not via CPD budget and calling it a good time?

From my anecdotal experience, this is absolutely true

Most people running for Cook County judge seats in March are currently attorneys. Do you have experience working with them? Inform our next judicial election guide by sending your tips!

FOIA Wednesday, tasting the food as we bake the chicago police department sends a response to my FOIA request, admitting its intertwined power structure i asked for the email metadata of the chicago police department's coordination with the department of homeland security at the fusion center

The Chicago Park District's budget proposal for next year includes a new fieldhouse, turning a toxic waste site into a lakefront park and plans to address homelessness. Superintendent Carlos Ramirez-Rosa joined “Chicago Tonight” discusses the proposal. https://to.wttw.com/43RkhyB

At a time when we are drowning in police misconduct settlements that are costing the city millions and forcing the city to take out massive loans with HIGH interest rates… this seems like such a slap in the face. This is not accountability and this is not responsible governance.

Parente is so badass.

It’s been a hard week hearing from so many residents, especially seniors, who cannot afford their new tax bills. What are we doing to help those??

A Chicago police officer is facing dismissal after he tested positive for methamphetamine and marijuana just months after he was arrested for allegedly driving drunk and groping a woman at a bar on the Near North Side. Charges were later dropped.

NEW: As immigration enforcement continues across North Carolina, communities are mobilizing--inside and outside formal organizing networks--to protect their neighbors:

The increase in the number of times Chicago police officers have used force against Chicagoans since 2022 threatens the effort to reform the Chicago Police Department, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s office told a federal judge on Tuesday. https://to.wttw.com/4poSZrL

I’m very proud of this collaboration—it’s yet another way Chicagoans came together and organized to defend our city.

Little Village’s 26th Street is slowly coming back to life after months of immigration raids. blockclubchi.co/4rnuRrk

Cat Sharp (@catsharpforcook.bsky.social) has posted one of the better introductions to how Chicago/Cook County’s property tax system works that I’ve seen. Apologies for the Instagram link but the video is longer than the 3 minute BlueSky limit. www.instagram.com/reel/DRHwYun...

Unbelievable

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8 years ago, a billionaire laid us off + shuttered our newsroom. We had no funding + no idea what nonprofit news was. But we had a dream to build @blockclubchi.bsky.social. Today, we were named Editor & Publisher's Best News Site. Never give up on your dream.✨ blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/17/b...

Borrowing to pay for police misconduct has a long history in Chicago and will lead to significantly increased costs to taxpayers. I wrote this back in 2016 — nothing has changed: www.chicagoreporter.com/how-emanuels...

MTG is an experiment in how little it will take for white voters to ignore red flags they’ve already clocked

As a public safety body, we have a responsibility to hold CPD accountable for their interactions with feds. It’s alarming to see vids from Little Village to Lakeview showing CPD acting as a buffer between fed officers and residents who are simply trying to protect their neighbors from being taken.

A CPD deputy chief asked feds not to use tear gas, told feds his officers didn't have gas masks, offered a path out, switched positions with agents so they could leave unobstructed and as a group. Feds gassed the East Side neighborhood anyway. @schuba.bsky.social #chicago With video ->

NEW: DHS secretly obtained Chicago police data on 900 residents accused of gang ties. It was quietly deleted after intelligence officers violated rules against domestic spying. The handoff came well after city inspectors formally announced CPD's gang data was deeply flawed and infected w/ bias.

Cat Sharp (pictured here, left, in the olive pants and jacket), who besides her Chicago 40th Ward position is also running to be a Cook County commissioner, has her own dedicated group of supporters present. "Show up for Sharp," they chant.

So incredibly proud of my friend and colleague. I hate that her and her family have to go through this. We will continue to fight alongside her and we know justice will prevail.

I was recently indicted by US DOJ for exercising my First Amendment rights protesting at the Broadview ICE Facility & pleaded not guilty at today’s court arraignment. Please support our rights by donating to my legal defense fund thru this GoFundMe page & sharing the link widely. #BroadviewSix

Now in the courtroom in Chicago's Dirksen Federal Courthouse, waiting for the Broadview Six's arraignment hearing to begin. The courtroom is packed with press and observers.

Mecklenburg had also argued that the passport requirement has been extremely common throughout her career. Parente: "I highly doubt that she's charged a case like this before."

Tonight's launch event at Women & Children First was delightful. I am so grateful to my fellow contributors and besties @mayaschenwar.bsky.social and @tanuja.bsky.social for joining me in conversation. It was a packed house. Btw, I signed all copies of Read This and LTRY at this bookstore. ❤️

Other speakers also demand Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and CPD Superintendent Larry Snelling take a firmer stand against CPD cooperation with immigration agents. Police District Councilor Leonardo Quintero also calls for an investigation into alleged collaboration going back to this January.

District Councilors like @dionmcgill.bsky.social are using their oversight authority as their power as elected public safety officials to draw attention to the ways that the civilian experience of what's happening right now is very different from the official line from institutions.

Happening now: a small demonstration is getting underway in front of Chicago Police Department HQ, protesting cooperation between CPD and federal immigration agents. One demonstrator is holding up a photo of Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino shaking hands with a CPD officer.

Astonishing: Bovino and his agents showed up at the Bean this morning to pose for pictures. While Border Patrol snapped photos, one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’” The neighborhood where they are least welcome and most acutely felt. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...

ICE agent in Chicago draws and trains a firearm on protestors armed with iPhones. Trump's America in 2025.

Happening now in Broadview—outside Chicago: A procession of Illinois Handmaid’s, with the Illinois Democratic Women of Cook County, walks in procession to the ICE detention facility. “Even though we are silent, we are powerful,” an organizer told the group before starting.

We took a moment to highlight in the Tribune that something deeper is happening than just people lining up and gathering whistles. We are outpacing them. We are breaking their image of authoritarian invincibility. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/o...

Truly incredible to see this kind of support!

Here’s a photo my friend Dominic Guanzon took of me just after I had been tear-gassed at Broadview on September 26. There was a 15 to 20 second period that day where I truly thought that I was going to suffocate and die.

"I find the defendants' (the DOJ) evidence simply not credible."

Ellis: Federal agents described a number of protestors as "professional agitators" based on their use of whistles, in part. "Describing neighborhood moms and rapid response groups as professional agitators shows just how out of touch these agents are and how incredible their statements are."