Images of the Enid tornado don't seem real, a disconnect made greater when you know the exact spot filmed, about 5 miles from the farm. Would have been a Joplin-level disaster or worse if a couple miles north--almost a direct hit on base housing and almost tracking into a 50,000 pop city.

17 days, lots of damage done. www.nprillinois.org/education-de...

Proud to stand in solidarity with faculty at University of Illinois Springfield who are on strike for a fair contract!

Candidate for Oklahoma House convicted of viewing a cockfight • Oklahoma Voice oklahomavoice.com/briefs/candi... #Oklahoma

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Job alert! Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is hiring a tenure-track digital archivist. I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions. Please share widely! This is a great collection, full of hidden gems, in an academic library committed to students. apply.interfolio.com/184021

BREAKING: Trump has nominated Bradford P. Wilson, of the conservative, anti-LGBTQ+ and Opus Dei-tied Witherspoon Institute and the charter school organization Great Hearts Institute (and formerly Exec Director of Princeton's James Madison Program) to be Archivist of the United States. 🧵

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People cheer while watching Bad Bunny perform during Super Bowl 60 at a Benito bowl watch party at La Bruquena in the Humboldt Park neighborhood Sunday evening in Chicago.

Artificial intelligence companies are threatening to shun Illinois and build their most advanced data centers in Wisconsin and Indiana if the state doesn’t dilute its privacy law, the toughest in the country.

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Sontae Massey, Sonya’s cousin, served on the commission and told the Sangamon County Board this week that the steps laid out in their report aren’t just recommendations. “They are a promise that this county can be different,” Massey said. “My cousin deserved that."

It's been great watching this project grow. Congrats and thanks to everyone involved.

Bovino went into popular Carniceria Aguascalientes in heart of Little Village. “They said they were just here to buy something,” said Elizabeth Gutierrez. “I told them we wouldn’t serve them and escorted them out. Bovino seemed upset, but I don’t care.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...

The Lake View High cross country team is fighting for a state title as ICE targets their community: "We’re not hiding." buff.ly/zAFCTXG

Former Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson was found guilty of one count of the lesser charge for killing Sonya Massey. The second-degree murder conviction against Grayson, who is white, carries a potential sentence of between four and 20 years. trib.al/g0PRgha

Finished my second stint on the state Nat'l Register advisory council today, this one as chair. So many great nominations over the years. Honored to wrap by forwarding along the nomination for Burr Oak Cemetery, final resting place of Emmett Till, Mamie Till-Mobely, Willie Dixon, and 33,000 others.

If you see local law enforcement assisting ICE by arresting protesters, establishing perimeters, or otherwise responding to ICE activity, FILE A COMPLAINT and send us video/photos City: www.chicagocopa.org/complaints/i... County: apps.cookcountyil.gov/oiig/ State: oeig.illinois.gov/complaints/o...

What really pisses me off about this article—other than the fact that I broke the story, more thoroughly, seven hours before @cbsnews.com published this—is that CBS calls a dedicated, career public servant heroically refusing to break the law and inappropriately losing his job as a result a "spat."

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A man here is passing around Italian beefs to people protesting Border Patrol.

Federal agents warned the Broadview Police Department there would be “a sh-- show” in Broadview in response to Mayor Katrina Thompson’s comments that ICE is “making war on my community,” village officials said.

lots of electeds and political candidates here this morning. i see congressional candidates kat abughazaleh and (evanston mayor) daniel biss, lieutenant governor juliana stratton, and chicago alder andre vasquez:

As the Chicago Housing Authority's Plan For Transformation turns 25, advocates worry it could take 40 more years to complete. blockclubchi.co/45c2t2h

As a journalist and emerging public historian, I spent much of the past week reading through transcripts of oral histories made and collected by residents of Kerr County, Texas – where flash floods killed more than 100 people this month. There’s one recording that stood out to me. 🧵

every day is another what the absolute fuck

Follow live updates here: More than 1,000 people have converged Tuesday in the Loop to protest the ongoing immigration raids by the Trump administration. chicago.suntimes.com/live/chicago...

Bill to Make the Tulsa Race Massacre Site a National Monument Faces Uncertain Future - Oklahoma Watch oklahomawatch.org/2025/06/05/b... #Oklahoma #Tulsa

Listen: The WNBA is investigating alleged racial taunts made toward the Chicago Sky’s Angel Reese at a game against the Fever in Indiana. Reset talks with journalists and fans about the allegations. www.wbez.org/reset-with-s...

The Secretary of the Interior has ordered the National Park Service to review all sites for recent content/interpretive changes since 2020 that violate Trump's recent EO to "Restore Truth and Sanity to American History." This is a public history disaster. #NationalParks www.doi.gov/document-lib...

Thrilled to announce @cwmonitor.bsky.social has asked me to write a regular column about Lincoln's life and legacy. My first one is on my many encounters with the ever-widening ocean of fake Lincoln quotes and how "AI" is making the problem much much worse 🗃️ www.civilwarmonitor.com/misquoting-h...

Some SHPOs will shut down completely unless funds are released.

🚨 LAYOFF ALERT - Ohio 🇺🇸 Ohio History Connection laid off 12 historic preservation employees(1/3 of SHPO) due to the Trump admin withholding $1.5M in appropriated federal funds. Office manages key federal programs for historic preservation.

Cannot believe I'm writing my second "mainstream media does shameless plagiarism" article of the week, but @anthonyclark.bsky.social broke news that got Trump to pull his surgeon general nominee and he *still* is not getting proper credit from mainstream media. www.splinter.com/trumps-pulle...

Best Chicago controversy of the new Pope is the Cubs trying to lay claim to him and his brother having to speak up to clear up that he's a Sox fan. blockclubchicago.org/2025/05/08/p...

Chicago Pope's here

what’s the pope’s calumet fisheries order

The new pope, as profiled by @bylaurenfitz.bsky.social for the @chicago.suntimes.com:

Chicago bsky, scrambling to get all their cultural and historical insider quips out there:

Today Secretary Kristi Noem decided to show up to Springfield today and invoke the name of Emma Shafer (I hate that this caption spells her name wrong) Emma was a fucking force. She advocated for equality, community, equity, JUSTICE, AND she walked the walk too.

Here is Emma Shaffer’s mom’s full statement. #StopNoem #BeLikeEmma

WELL PLAYED GOVERNOR! Kristi Noem wanted to do a press conference today at the Illinois Governor’s mansion. So Governor JB Pritzker hung this banner. Noem ended up choosing a different location.

Emma Shafer's family says Noem used her name to advance 'heartless political agenda'

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) mocked Kristi Noem ahead of her Wednesday visit to his state, telling “all pet owners” to watch out for the Homeland Security secretary, who famously detailed shooting a hunting dog and a goat in a memoir www.yahoo.com/news/pritzke...

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