Reporter @injusticewatch | public service Pulitzer Pulitzer finalist 4 times | former @chicagotribune, @washingtonpost, @Chicago_Reader ...
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20 Nov 2025
Kudos to @ChicagoMaroon for breaking news its community needed, and for providing the most meticulous reporting:
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14 Oct 2025
If you're not in Chicago, it's difficult to understand how federal immigration actions have changed life as we know it in our neighborhoods.
@francialgh I break down how @blockclubchi is trying to meet the moment for our readers on @CJR's podcast:
13 Oct 2025
On the Kicker, @francialgh and @slulay2 of @BlockClubCHI on ICE’s Chicago surge and the attacks on journalists. Listen in with host @joshuahersh. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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12 Oct 2025
We have it in us to cheer for people from everywhere. To make room for people from everywhere. To bear witness to people from everywhere. To share each other’s joys and setbacks and triumphs and injuries and dreams.
A #ChicagoMarathon column ❤️
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11 Oct 2025
There will never be another Tony Fitzpatrick. Visual Artist, Poet, Actor, Writer, and all around pain in the ass. An Iconic Chicagoan who loved his family, his friends and our city. I love you Tony and can’t believe that you are gone.
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11 Oct 2025
Tremendous loss as Tony Fitzpatrick, a Chicago artist in many realms, has died at 66 chicagotribune.com/2025/10/1…
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11 Oct 2025
RIP, Tony Fitzpatrick, Chicago artist. This is his portrait of NYC's Flaco
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9 Oct 2025
Earning the trust of people who use hard drugs, @ZushaElinson & @littlewern (Julie Wernau) examine their medical bills to expose the multimillion-dollar fraud in America’s booming rehab industry:
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27 Aug 2025
From @BlockClubCHI, a powerful new @_ManuelRamos_ investigation into Chicago's "Death Hospital":
blockclubchicago.org/2025/08…
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17 Jun 2025
I'll leave this story from @poolcar4 and Kelly Bauer of @BlockClubCHI right here. blockclubchicago.org/2021/05…
17 Jun 2025
JUST IN: Anosh Ahmed, ex-CFO of Loretto Hospital on Chicago's West Side, is among four charged in a massive $290 million fraud/kickback scheme involving bogus COVID-19 tests
The new indictment alleges they billed almost $1 BILLION in a little over a year
Story to come
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16 Jun 2025
Anger over Chicago's 2013 school closures helped fuel the CTU's rise to political power - but today, empty high schools struggle with chronic truancy and high dropout rates, @chalkbeatCHI & @propublica report:
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12 Jun 2025
Thanks to @AARP The Perfect Scam's host Bob Sullivan for reporting on this case, and for speaking with Rev. Robin Hood, the indomitable David Herron, and myself. Please have a listen.
11 Jun 2025
Prof. Juliet Sorensen is featured in @AARP podcast The Perfect Scam about her representation of the victims of a predatory, race-based mortgage fraud in the North Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago. aarp.org/podcasts/the-perfec…
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12 Jun 2025
💧Poultry farms in Oklahoma tied to Tyson are using a loophole to pump groundwater without water permits. Experts say this honor-based system puts the aquifer at risk.
Read more: investigatemidwest.org/2025/…
#poultryindustry #TysonFoods #oklahomawater
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11 Jun 2025
Troubled Cook County tech firm used insider lobbyist Jay Doherty, the City Club of Chicago head who was later convicted in ComEd corruption scheme chicagotribune.com/2025/06/1… @poolcar4 and @ad_quig reporting
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11 Jun 2025
When a tech firm -- whose 3 govt contracts have now ballooned to $265M -- needed help in Cook County they hired Jay Doherty. He was later convicted in the ComEd 4 case. Folo of joint @chicagotribune/@injusticewatch invest by @poolcar4 and @ad_quig: chicagotribune.com/2025/06/1…
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3 Jun 2025
"... concealment and secrecy were the hallmarks of [former Illinois House Speaker Michael] Madigan’s conduct,” federal prosecutors alleged. @jmetr22b and @RayLong report for @chicagotribune:
tinyurl.com/45pr27ek
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1 Jun 2025
Out of state investors are snapping up Illinois farm acres -- and prioritizing conventional row crops and the the pesticides and fertilizers that can pollute streams and degrade soil. Karina Atkins launches a new investigation for the @chicagotribune:
tinyurl.com/56e66bb9
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18 May 2025
What a thrill to see Chuck Neubauer back in the Chicago Tribune - where he earned the @PulitzerPrizes half a century ago -- with @sandybergo:
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16 May 2025
Illinois has the “most abusive property tax forfeiture system” in the country, one expert said.
@ballesteros_312 and @emelpos investigate the massive transfer of generational wealth from families in Black neighborhoods to affluent investors:
tinyurl.com/mvyfn3yv
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20 Mar 2025
SO MUCH talent departing. Reminds me of the Trib about three years ago. This print media attrition - occurring across the nation - is a sad and foreboding thing: Chicago Sun-Times to lose 20% of staff after buyout offer - Chicago Sun-Times chicago.suntimes.com/money/2…
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19 Mar 2025
Nothing but respect for our colleagues and competitors at the Sun-Times. Their struggle is our struggle. And any losses there are losses for the whole city.
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