I'm a Chicago reporter for @axios. Before: Lead Producer @CityCastChicago and many things @WBEZ. Love this beautiful damn city. https://xitter.cf/t.co/deEcZbXYBH
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Whenever I read or hear people bash Chicago and paint it as a terrible place, I always think: “But wait, have you been here?” I still walk around wide-eyed, jaw dropped. – at Chicago, IL
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📢 NITA is developing its first regional budget and wants to hear which transit improvements are most important to you! Your feedback will help shape future investments across CTA, Metra, and Pace.
Survey now available in English and Spanish: polco.us/n/res/vote/northern…
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This is also a moment to update your mental economic map of the city: Logan Square has basically an identical median household income now as Lakeview
This history is greaaaaat. Perfect Saturday am reading.
How the Great Migration — and segregation — built the South Side’s Black-owned lounge culture.
blockclubchi.co/3NWZNPP
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We’ll see how things change in Minneapolis with Gregory Bovino gone. But he and his Border Patrol agents are the ones responsible for the biggest excesses in Chicago, Los Angeles, elsewhere. Homan isn’t the architect of the roving convoys stopping at Target and going for anyone.
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It’s illegal for noncitizens to vote in state and federal elections. And studies and audits done in several states confirm that voter fraud is exceedingly rare. We’re talking maybe a handful or two of cases — certainly not the hundreds of thousands necessary to flip Illinois red.
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Read this. The Minnesota state prison system suggests Gregory Bovino outright lied about the target of the operation during which agents shot and killed Alex Pretti.
Minnesota DOC launches new website to 'address ongoing misinformation by DHS' kare11.com/article/news/loca…
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Talk about going above and beyond! 👏🏼 Kudos to this crossing guard for doing everything to get these kids and their families across the street/down the sidewalks safely amid a water main break near Bryn Mawr/California. Great stuff! @WGNNews
❗️PSA via @CityCastChicago If your sidewalk is busted – today’s the day to submit a request for the city to foot some of the bill. Applications are open till 10 p.m. chicago.gov/city/en/depts/cd…
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🚨 SCOOP – Rep. Jan Schakowsky is planning to endorse Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss as her successor in #IL09, sources tell me. The announcement is expected this week, possibly as soon as Wednesday #twill
evanstonnow.com/schakowsky-w…
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Cause 4Paws Gary, Inc., a non-profit organization, recently offered a drive-thru Pet Food Pantry to address the need for giving pets gifts and other supplies to low-income families.
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There’s a new way to try to insult theater kids, huh? Amazing how easily threatened some people are. Also who’s the “nerd” really? nytimes.com/2025/12/21/us/po…
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Keep hearing from sources openly worrying about the city's ability to pass a budget before the end of the month. Re-upping this @JakeSheridan_ story from last year (which the mayor's office declined to comment on at the time)...
The challenge Mayor Brandon Johnson faces has made some aldermen wary of an unlikely, but troubling worst-case scenario: Could the city fail to pass a budget by the state’s Dec. 31 deadline? trib.al/Ut0OGyw
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Three Axios Local reporters -- @MelissaSantos1 in Seattle, @ByJohnFrank in Denver and @jeremyduda in Phoenix -- made @ChrisCillizza’s list of the best local political reporters.
🏆: chriscillizza.substack.com/p…
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My first column is about losing my father to deportation — a grief of distance and of loving someone still living but lost to reach.
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The Taco John’s about an hour from where I grew up (Thief River Falls, Minn.) is doing something awesome here:
