What are some good Chicago history books? Not looking for any topic in particular, it can relate to any part of Chicago history

There’s a Bears-themed bake-off at WBEZ/Sun-Times today and my entry, with @NaderDIssa, is @CALEBcsw cookie hands. Bear down!

Ten-year-old Palestinian boy shot dead by Israeli forces in West Bank bbc.in/46WL4eN

Palestine’s most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, the man most capable of leading negotiations for a Palestinian state, was beaten unconscious by eight Israeli prison guards on September 14 as he was being transferred between prisons. theguardian.com/world/2025/o…

As a U.N.-recognized famine swept Gaza, Google allowed Israel to run YouTube ads claiming “There is food in Gaza.” An internal email reveals the company received many complaints about the ads, but ruled they could remain online. wapo.st/3WFtzto

BREAKING: Gaza's Health Ministry reports 44 bodies, 29 wounded people brought to hospitals in last 24 hours. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/hkwdmc?update=4035073

Israeli soldiers killed several Palestinians in northern Gaza on Tuesday, a day after US President Donald Trump touted the end of the war in the coastal enclave. on.ft.com/3KTW6c2

BREAKING: Israeli drone strike reported in Khan Younis 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/hkwdmc?update=4034824

During the Sept. 30 military-style raid on a South Shore building, a man heard a knock at his door. It wasn’t an ICE agent, but a mom and girl pleading for help. He let them in and hide under his bed. 🧵

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has signed an executive order creating “ICE free zones” on public property and private businesses who want to participate. “Our school parking lots are not for ICE to load their weapons.” It’s not immediately clear how it will be enforced.

.@UNReliefChief: Kids dying of starvation, effectively their bodies consuming their own organs, what we give them to try and avoid that is this high protein peanut butter paste. We’ve been told we can’t bring it in because it’s a luxury @amanpour: Seriously? Tom: Seriously Peanut Butter.

🚨BREAKING: Breathtaking moments captured by Al Jazeera’s correspondent as she interviewed Gaza residents, interrupted by relentless Israeli shelling on Al-Shati camp and Gaza City.

I’m curious—why is ICE using a vehicle adorned with Mexican flags during operations across Chicago? The flags are displayed on the hood, back, and side windows of the truck.

I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread👇

JERUSALEM (AP) — In 'unprecedented operation,' Israeli army takes over mobile phones of Gaza residents to carry Netanyahu UN speech live.

JERUSALEM (AP) — In 'unprecedented operation,' Israeli army takes over mobile phones of Gaza residents to carry Netanyahu UN speech live.

Man, to write like this

BREAKING: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a team of independent experts commissioned by the U.N.’s Human Rights Council concludes. apnews.com/article/israel-ga…

- @KarenAttiah, the last Black full-time opinion columnist at the Washington Post, says she was fired

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world's leading experts say bbc.in/42bgCdY

NEW | The world's leading genocide scholars' association has overwhelmingly passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Eighty-six per cent of those who voted among the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars backed the resolution declaring: "Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)".