My newsroom has shown what it's made of this last year. We're all set to band together again — this time to fight for solid local journalism at the bargaining table.

@ctguild.bsky.social · 6d ago

All smiles and ready to stand together! We're gearing up to head back to the bargaining table for a fair contract that ensures we can keep producing Pulitzer-winning journalism. Watch the web for updates 🗞️

Can I offer you an egg in this trying time

This place over everything. Makes good days better and hard days a little less hard

A city on guard: What the raids left behind after Operation Midway Blitz. Our latest story with @andrew-carter.bsky.social @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social and @ckubzansky.bsky.social @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/13/c...

A city on guard: What the raids left behind after Operation Midway Blitz

It’s been a year since the Trump Administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz.” What it left behind can be measured in the number of neighborhood patrollers, people who keep a wary eye from apartment balc...

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I'll be on WTTW's Week in Review at 5:30 today, talking about the year anniversary of Midway Blitz, the FBI investigation of John Catanzara, renter protections and City Council shuffling among other topics. You can watch if you like** here: news.wttw.com/recurring-se...

A very good, very sad read from Tess Kenny and Jason Wambsgans

Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 2w ago

Stolen ashes returned after car taken with 15-year-old son’s remains inside

"If I ever want to drive myself insane All I have to do is watch your breathing And at 5 a.m. I turn the radio on And an old man's voice sings a short, sweet song" - There Will Be No Divorce, The Mountain Goats www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMBj...

There Will Be No Divorce

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This business with OpenAI and the Navier-Stokes solution has put me in an absolutely terrible mood

News: Federal investigators subpoena'd the IL Fraternal Order of Police last year for financial records and other documents relating to Chicago FOP president John Catanzara, per a copy we reviewed. W/ @samjcharles.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/08/f...

Feds demand FOP president John Catanzara’s financial records from state union

Federal investigators issued a subpoena to the state police union late last year in an apparent probe into Chicago’s FOP President John Catanzara’s financial dealings, according to a copy of the docum...

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As if there weren’t enough problems in the world to start bsky.app/profile/chic...

Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 3w ago

Two more belugas die at Shedd Aquarium, officials announce

I am the resident sedimentary rock of the Chicago Tribune

Listening: Wild Mountain Thyme, The Longest Johns cover www.youtube.com/watch?v=74r_...

Wild Mountain Thyme

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News: The LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter experiment found something. Not clear if it is dark matter (which is all around us but has never been detected). The scientists behind it think there is a 0.5% chance that what they're seeing came from a known source, per news release www.science.org/content/arti...

World’s biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle

It’s far too early to declare a discovery, physicists with the LZ detector say

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This is now a homicide.

Caroline Kubzansky@ckubzansky.bsky.social · 3w ago

Man, 35, critical after he was shot at 2340 W. 18th. Can see almost nothing from here but I counted three evidence markers. This is the last block of the 12th district and the second shooting in these few blocks for the summer.

Man, 35, critical after he was shot at 2340 W. 18th. Can see almost nothing from here but I counted three evidence markers. This is the last block of the 12th district and the second shooting in these few blocks for the summer.

15 shot, one fatally, in Washington Park last night. Rifle casings recovered, per sources, among two sets of shell casings on either side of Cottage Grove Ave. This is the largest mass shooting the city has seen this year, by our count. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/30/m...

Mass shooting in Washington Park leaves 1 dead, 14 injured in Chicago’s largest shooting this year

A mass shooting in Washington Park Saturday night became the city’s largest of the year when Chicago police reported that a total of 15 people had been shot.

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Friend, A, yesterday came into possession of an ocarina (miniature flutelike object). So far the two tunes he has attempted are “Hard Times Come Again No More” and “Pneumonia” by Dem Atlas

Seen at 21st and Hoyne

Interesting to get a look at this guy after several years. He was calm for someone who’s facing hundreds of thousands of $ in fines and decades behind bars if he were to be convicted.

Jason Meisner@jmetr22b.bsky.social · 4w ago

Anosh Ahmed is appearing now before U.S. Magistrate Judge Young Kim. He’s in orange jail clothes, hands clasped behind his back. The judge addresses him as “Dr. Ahmed.”

Join us in demanding no layoffs due to AI from Chicago Public Media! Emails for CPM’s management are in the reply ⬇️

"Political soap opera with the potential to reshape competitive races for Congress and the Cook County Board" unfolding in SW suburbs. "The vehicle for that reckoning is, of all things, a Freedom of Information Act request." www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/27/k...

Kiss video at center of Lyons Township FOIA fight could impact Cook County Board, Congress races

Surveillance video showing a kiss between Lyons Township Clerk Elyse Hoffenberg and Bridgeview Mayor Steve Landek has become a political flashpoint in both a Cook County board race and the race for Il...

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If you want to be Chicago’s next superintendent of police, you have til Sept. 24 to apply

The boy who faced Immigration Court Judge Shawn Abraham Wednesday needed the microphone lowered before his hearing could begin. His feet didn’t reach the floor. He is 12 years old. W/ Madeline Buckley www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/26/c...

Immigration judges in Chicago deporting abused, neglected children in violation of their due process: attorneys

An immigration judge entered removal proceedings against some of the children, despite their attempts to seek a longheld legal protection to remain in safety in the United States due to abuse or negle...

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Today our members showed up to bargaining to once again tell Chicago Public Media we're asking for real protection: • No layoffs due to generative Al • No cutting hours or pay because of GenAl • No eliminating future jobs to make room for GenAl • GenAl can't write or create our editorial content

Illinois law says local officials can't help federal agents deport people. So how did so many residents end up on ICE's radar through information shared by local police, sheriffs, and prosecutors? I filed 394 FOIA requests to find out. (An @injusticewatch.org partnership with @theintercept.com!)

Illinois promised to protect immigrants. Local officials helped deport them anyway.

In over a third of Illinois counties, cops, sheriffs, and even prosecutors helped federal immigration agents route at least 150 people into the deportation system since Trump returned to office, despi...

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"Bleed out, bleed out, bleed out, bleed something sweet/oh bleed me dry, hard candy/it couldn't kill me/rip my heart out/pull it out of a cavity, rotting sweet/take a bite and taste it/spit it out and waste it" Listening: "Carmilla," Six Foot Blonde www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MN5...

Six Foot Blonde - Carmilla (Official Video)

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People argue with federal agents while they conduct immigration enforcement actions in the Mckinley Park neighborhood Monday afternoon in Chicago. Story from Evgenia Anastasakos and Caroline Kubzansky: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/24/m...

Two tow trucks later, the agents are gone. Rapid responders had to plead with the crowd to get out of the second tow’s way - they argued that with more agents around the city they needed to focus their attention on arrests that could still come.

Caroline Kubzansky@ckubzansky.bsky.social · 4w ago

33rd and Wolcott: roughly 50 people standing and yelling at, filming federal agents. Evidently waiting for a tow following a crash. Local aldermen onsite. 009th district brass onsite for CPD. @chicagotribune.com

33rd and Wolcott: roughly 50 people standing and yelling at, filming federal agents. Evidently waiting for a tow following a crash. Local aldermen onsite. 009th district brass onsite for CPD. @chicagotribune.com

Mary Oliver: "May I be the tiniest nail in the house of the universe, tiny but useful. May I stay forever in the stream."