I'm a Chicago reporter for @axios. Before: Lead Producer @CityCastChicago and many things @WBEZ. Love this beautiful damn city. axios.com/signup
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1 Mar 2024
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.
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May 12
Someone asked about Wrigley Field
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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
what’s it like applying for apartments in Logan Square? well, the place we just applied to had a field for bidding on the rent price
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This history is greaaaaat. Perfect Saturday am reading.
How the Great Migration — and segregation — built the South Side’s Black-owned lounge culture.
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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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Jan 26
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.
Jan 26
🚨 Kamala “won” Illinois by 613,784 votes.
Illinois also processed 604,779 online voter registrations: no proof of citizenship required.
Suspicious, isn’t it? Makes you wonder what’s really going on in our state.
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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
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Jan 12
❗️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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29 Dec 2025
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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21 Dec 2025
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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15 Dec 2025
I support Windy City Times. You should too. windy-city-times.fundjournal… @fundjournalism
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15 Dec 2025
I support Windy City Times. You should too! windy-city-times.fundjournal…
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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)...
28 Oct 2024
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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9 Dec 2025
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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10 Nov 2025
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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6 Nov 2025
Fact check: Not even a tiny bit true.
5 Nov 2025
Lawyers play a video that was played for Bovino. In it, he tells agents "everybody fucking gets it if they touch you."
"This is OUR fucking city," Bovino tells them.
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30 Oct 2025
The Taco John’s about an hour from where I grew up (Thief River Falls, Minn.) is doing something awesome here:
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30 Oct 2025
lmao david byrne showed the video of the ice agents tripping over themselves while trying to run after a biker on wacker drive during the “life during wartime” segment of his chicago show tonight
ALT the video being projected behind all the performers on stage
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30 Oct 2025
I sorta thought editorials would say this...hey, let kids be kids, but at least someone did
axios.com/2025/10/30/pritzke…
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