I'm covering an event in an office overlooking the Bean and Millennium Park. The lake would ordinarily be beautiful from this window, but today you can't even see it.
Matt Krupnick
@mattkrupnick.bsky.social
Journalist, Chicago resident and occasional TV extra. Signal: Krupnick.76
A thread on FOIA limitations: Last month I wrote this story for Block Club Chicago, based on my records request for eviction data in the Chicago area. The court handed over data through last fall, but refused to answer basic questions about it. 1/6
Block Club Chicago@blockclubchi.bsky.social · 3mo agoCook County landlords have filed for more than 40,000 evictions since 2022. blockclubchi.co/42KsjZ4
Max Muncy vs Max Muncy day!! Both playing third Both batting 7th Both born Aug 25 Both drafted by the A’s Baseball is the best!!
This guy is dressed for the weather at Midsommarfest in Andersonville, Chicago.
Thinking today about the cool swimming pool with the Hockney mural at LA's Hollywood Roosevelt hotel.
Blocked access to Northerly Island during concerts has some neighbors fuming. blockclubchi.co/4uQCZ4d
"The Park District refused to allow a reporter to speak with officials knowledgeable about Northerly Island." A good read by @mattkrupnick.bsky.social
It was flying about 6 inches over our neighborhood beach today.
are you not infotained@alopex-ii.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe entire city of Chicago: [trying to have a nice Memorial Day at the lake] The cops: HELLO. WE ARE HERE TOO. DO YOU LIKE OUR HELICOPTER. DO YOU LIKE OUR HELICOPTER. DO YOU LIKE OUR HELICOPTER. DO YOU LIKE OUR HELICOPTER. DO YOU LIKE OUR HELICOPTER. DO YOU LIKE OUR HELICOPTER. DO YOU LIKE OUR H
We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agoTrump to NYT's David Sanger: "I had a total military victory. But the fake news, guys like you, write incorrectly. You're a fake guy. We had a total military victory. I actually think it's sort of treasonous what you write. You should be ashamed of yourself. I actually think it's treason."
They're everywhere! My dog goes nuts for them.
Thor Benson@thorbenson.bsky.social · 3mo agoNo one talks about Chicago's wild rabbits
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“Court’s records are missing addresses for nearly 10,000 of the cases filed between April 2022 and September 2025... which makes a thorough look at eviction trends all but impossible.” By @mattkrupnick.bsky.social
Cook County Landlords Have Filed For More Than 40,000 Evictions Since 2022
Most of the evictions were on the South Side, records suggest. But a quarter of the cases are missing key information, including addresses.
blockclubchicago.org
"You're not going to hold me accountable, I'll tell you that." That's what a Chicago court clerk told me when I asked why eviction records were so incomplete. Court employees stopped responding to me, and the records I received had thousands of glaring omissions. bit.ly/chicagoevict...
Cook County Landlords Have Filed For More Than 40,000 Evictions Since 2022
Most of the evictions were on the South Side, records suggest. But a quarter of the cases are missing key information, including addresses.
bit.ly
Today is a special day for the @chicagotribune.com But I also want to say how much I admire our city’s entire journalism community. Block Club in particular did fantastic work. So did our pals at the Sun-Times/WBEZ. Support local journalism, always
Louisiana Republicans have eliminated a city clerk position in New Orleans days before a Black man was set to take office. “It’s a sad thing to see the state government repeating what happened to Black public officials during Reconstruction,” said Calvin Duncan, who was set to take office Monday.
Louisiana Republicans eliminate elected position days before an exoneree was set to take office
Louisiana Republicans have eliminated the office an exoneree was set to take after being overwhelmingly elected to the New Orleans-based seat. Republican Gov.
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I covered his trial. Craziest experience of my life.
Daniel J. Willis@bayareadata.press · 3mo agoOh, here's a good one. When I was in high school they arrested a serial killer and cult leader about a quarter mile from my house, on the same street as my elementary school. My dad worked for the city and had to go help cut the house's utilities as they removed remains.
It's fake.
Philip Bump@pbump.com · 3mo agoThe first photo here is fake. A still from the same moment shows that Trump's head wasn't drooping like that. Also, he'd just adjusted his tie, which is why the guy two to the left of RFK is looking at him. Actual still at right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ctx...
The thing about the WHCD is, do you have any idea how nice it is not to go to something? And to have the excuse that you're doing it on principle? My god, take the win.
This timing is perfect but sad: Hampshire College announced that this would be its last year. My colleague Jon Marcus just wrote about tiny Sterling College in Vermont, which is also closing at the end of this semester: hechingerreport.org/more-than-a-...
As one Vermont college finishes its last semester, a new projection shows that 442 more are at similar risk
A new and previously unreported estimate projects that 442 of the nation’s 1,700 private, nonprofit four-year colleges and universities, with a combined 670,000 students, are at risk of closing or hav...
hechingerreport.org
The Long Beach Airport terminal has more birds than any forest I've been in.
I recently learned someone is posing as me, trying to work people for info. So I did some reporting of my own on what appears to be the latest evolution of online deception... www.propublica.org/article/impe...
Who’s Been Impersonating This ProPublica Reporter?
A mysterious impostor who claimed to be ProPublica reporter Robert Faturechi reached out to a Canadian official and a Latvian businessman working with Ukraine. So, the real Robert did some reporting o...
propublica.org
Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.” www.ft.com/content/744e...
Awful to kick off the season with that nonsense.
Molly Knight@mollyknight.bsky.social · 4mo agoCompletely robbed Miguel Rojas of his moment getting cheered. Very lame. HATED IT.
Oudone Lothirath missed four out of five chemotherapy appointments while in ICE detention and received no medical care there. Now he will likely die in a matter of days. www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...
Detained by ICE, he missed multiple cancer treatments. Now he’s in hospice.
Some immigrants with chronic health problems were swept up by ICE in Minnesota, leading to missed medications and, for one man, missed chemotherapy sessions.
startribune.com
