Peter Nickeas
@peternickeas.bsky.social
Chicago. Reporter now, @illinoisanswers.bsky.social. Focused on violence, and running to ground things related. Past: CNN, Chicago Tribune. More of a baseball account now if I am being honest. Well used to ghostly company by this time
Totally not shocking: New Evidence Shows Agents Using Slurs, Bolstering Profiling Claims www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/u...
New Evidence Shows Federal Agents Using Racial Slurs During Immigration Sweeps (Gift Article)
Body-camera video and other court evidence capture federal agents using slurs and targeting Latinos while bypassing white bystanders during immigration sweeps in Chicago and Los Angeles
nytimes.com
Got an olive pitter in the mail today, nothing worse than biting into an allegedly pitted olive and there's a little pit left behind
I get none of this is data. Just the turn of department happenings. But what's known - three times at least, in the last few months, tac teams appear to have missed guns on searches. In one of those cases, two officers were shot. In all the cases, everyone around was at risk.
Chicago Police Have Failed To Find Loaded Guns On Suspects Twice Since Swedish Hospital Shooting
A robbery suspect who got a gun into the hospital in April left one officer dead and another wounded, prosecutors said. Last month, jail staff found a loaded handgun on a man arrested 10 hours earlier...
blockclubchicago.org
Two more missed guns on arrests by tac teams since the shooting at Swedish, where two officers were shot (one fatally) result of a missed gun by a tac team. #chicago
Chicago Police Have Failed To Find Loaded Guns On Suspects Twice Since Swedish Hospital Shooting
A robbery suspect who got a gun into the hospital in April left one officer dead and another wounded, prosecutors said. Last month, jail staff found a loaded handgun on a man arrested 10 hours earlier...
blockclubchicago.org
JUST IN: An unarmed man shot by a Chicago cop during an ATF-led firearms sting in Country Club Hills in June was misidentified in the original federal charges as one of the gunmen who allegedly tried to rob the agents, the U.S. attorney’s office now says www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/11/m...
Feds: Man shot by Chicago police officer during ATF gun sting in Country Club Hills had been misidentified
An unarmed man shot by a Chicago police officer during an ATF-led firearms sting in Country Club Hills was misidentified in now-dismissed federal charges in June as one of the gunmen who allegedly tri...
chicagotribune.com
IL Department of Children and Family Services: -Ignored a lawsuit -Failed to appear in court when the lawsuit was called for a hearing -Ignored an order to produce records -When asked to account for its noncompliance, also failed to appear in court
Capitol News Illinois@capitolnewsil.bsky.social · 2d agoCapitol News Illinois sued the state child protection agency after it denied release of caseworker personnel records. @pqhancock.bsky.social reports. buff.ly/OAininu
Capitol News Illinois sued the state child protection agency after it denied release of caseworker personnel records. @pqhancock.bsky.social reports. buff.ly/OAininu
Judge orders DCFS director to answer for repeated failures to release public documents in child death case
A judge ordered DCFS Director Heidi Mueller to appear in court after the agency repeatedly failed to release records.
capitolnewsillinois.com
a poster's spirit cannot be contained even if you don't post anymore. my boyfriend deleted all of his social media during covid and now he tries to call into the brian lehrer show when he's driving to work. it's like being a dry drunk
“Months after Tribune Publishing promised Daily Herald employees their jobs and salaries were safe through yearend, the suburban Chicago newspaper has fired about a dozen mostly senior staffers — including Executive Editor Lisa Friedman Miner.” (Crain’s/gift link)
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Two more missed guns on arrests by tac teams since the shooting at Swedish, where two officers were shot (one fatally) result of a missed gun by a tac team. #chicago
Chicago Police Have Failed To Find Loaded Guns On Suspects Twice Since Swedish Hospital Shooting
A robbery suspect who got a gun into the hospital in April left one officer dead and another wounded, prosecutors said. Last month, jail staff found a loaded handgun on a man arrested 10 hours earlier...
blockclubchicago.org
Gov Pritzker, CTU campaigns spent more than $1.5 million with firms linked to two public corruption felons - one a former DCFS official and one a former alderman #chicago
Firms Linked to 2 Men Convicted of Public Corruption Have Gotten Campaign Business from JB Pritzker and the CTU
The firms tied to former Ald. Isaac "Ike" Carothers and former Blagojevich administration official Bamani Obadele have gotten campaign business from Gov. JB Pritzker and in the hotly contested race fo...
illinoisanswers.org
This week I put a number behind just how stunningly, remarkably, incredibly far murder has fallen in the United States over the last few years. jasher.substack.com/p/the-2026-u...
Jeff Asher@jeffasher.bsky.social · 3d agoWe're still waiting on the official 2025 figures from the FBI, but this week I wrote about what the data says about how low murder stats in 2026 will be. There's still time left, but the US is looking at around 10k fewer murders in 2026 than there were in 2022. jasher.substack.com/p/the-2026-u...
How much of the decline in media trust is actually about the media’s actions, versus the narratives that get spun about them? www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/is-a...
Is Americans’ declining trust in media driven by political messaging?
A massive analysis of every speech given on the floors of Congress between 1939 and 2023 finds that criticism of the news media is remarkably tied to specific partisan interests and historical…
niemanlab.org
chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog... good political reporting on the school board elections and the crooks getting paid by @drewjayadams.bsky.social @peternickeas.bsky.social
Firms linked to 2 men convicted of corruption have gotten campaign business from JB Pritzker and the CTU
The firms tied to former Ald. Isaac "Ike" Carothers and former Blagojevich administration official Bamani Obadele have gotten campaign business from Gov. JB Pritzker and in the hotly contested race fo...
chicago.suntimes.com
Gov Pritzker, CTU campaigns spent more than $1.5 million with firms linked to two public corruption felons - one a former DCFS official and one a former alderman #chicago
Firms Linked to 2 Men Convicted of Public Corruption Have Gotten Campaign Business from JB Pritzker and the CTU
The firms tied to former Ald. Isaac "Ike" Carothers and former Blagojevich administration official Bamani Obadele have gotten campaign business from Gov. JB Pritzker and in the hotly contested race fo...
illinoisanswers.org
reservoir now 93% full and 1-3" more rain coming overnight, means a lot of CSO (combined sewer overflow) events are likely overnight into various waterways
Patrick De Haan@gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 4d agoThe floodgates have opened in Chicago and TARP is filling up fast (I see waves in the reservoir!). Started the day at 69% full (McCook) and it'll probably hit 95% pretty quick tonight. Chicagoland is projected to hit 2-3" of rain today (I'm at 1" in Cook County so far)
the pre-ellison/weiss 60 minutes would have eaten someone like ross douthat alive. he never would have been hired for it, he doesn’t have the skill or rigor or discipline for it. he might not know that, but we do.
I’m reading a book published in 1944 and this logo is so unbelievably tough. I’d absolutely wear a shirt with this exact design.
somehow this piece manages to entirely avoid any mention of *the actual government attempting to impose ideological and political censorship on colleges*
New York Times Opinion@nytopinion.nytimes.com · 6d ago“The college experience has become more political than ever, albeit in more subtle and ultimately more insidious ways,” the sociologist Neil Gross writes.
Edwin Diaz didn’t have his slider but kept throwing it anyway. Diamondbacks walk it off. Dodgers are 0-6 since the Internet said they’d never lose again lol
Molly Knight@mollyknight.bsky.social · last wk.Dodgers are 0-5 since the internet said they’d never lose again lol
Just saw a thing where a director talked about taking out sex/nudity because audiences don’t want to see it. Here’s an idea: fuck the audience. I’m the chef & they’ll eat what I serve them and like it. *The audience* knows what they want? Why don’t you let a toddler drive a car next?
Who could have guessed the White Sox needed pitching if they wanted to be serious about making the playoffs
Body removal has wrapped at the South Chicago Chapel, where 57 corpses were found Thurs. Per sources, officials encountered bodies on gurneys but also on shelves alongside equipment. Some of the bodies were not bagged. Some appeared to have severed limbs. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/07/c...
Removal of remains from South Deering funeral home continues as investigation unfolds: ‘It’s devastating’
Authorities on Friday continued to investigate after the remains of more than 50 people were recovered Thursday at a South Deering funeral home on the city’s Southeast Side.
chicagotribune.com
Caroline Kubzansky@ckubzansky.bsky.social · 6d agoNow up to 57 corpses discovered decomposing at this funeral home, per sources. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/06/c...
This is it. There is no way to have a responsible conversation about school closures and enrollment that doesn't include talking about student assignment, which is the the third rail of CPS politics.
Anthony Moser@anthonymoser.com · last yr.talking with @miriamcb.bsky.social reminded me of a project I did a while back mapping Chicago's school attendance boundaries. My goal was to identify what I call "zone proximity conflicts", places where the zoned school is not the closest school. There are a lot! publicdatatools.com/zpc_map.html
