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Would love to see the real cost-benefit analysis for all of his businesses from this foray into politics. On the one hand, all that government business. On the other hand, huge blowback…

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Not a good sign

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Always grim and awkward to report on problems affecting your own news organization. But our credibility depends partly on covering these issues the same way as any other topic. That’s what we tried to do here chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/05...

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Record store on Chicago’s South Side owned by longtime Democratic operative and union leader Jerry Morrison will eat “Trump Tariffs” for now — but not for long…

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Rare dust storm a huge boon to Chicago area car washes!

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📸 A dust storm/haboob envelops the Chicago skyline and lakefront, May 16, 2025. Taken from Hollywood Beach. #Chicago #photography #ilwx #wx #wxsky

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🚆 Metra UP-NW: inbound and outbound trains are currently operating up to 40 minutes behind schedule due to high wind warnings and signal issues. Please visit MetraTracker.com for the location of your train.

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Well, isn’t that normal … in Libya maybe? #Chicago weather - haven’t seen it all just yet apparently…

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This case has dragged on for nearly 4 years already - and the allegedly corrupt ex-City Council member continues to collect a city pension that's up to $121K/year

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Let them play IOC www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/m...

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[email protected] wonders whether prominent Dem consultants are publicly advising against a 3rd JB Pritzker term to clear field for Rahm run for governor capitolfax.com/2025/05/13/a...

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Chicago cop partied at Trump Tower on inauguration day - showed then showed up drunk to work in Mayor Brandon Johnson's detail www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/12/m... scoop by @samjcharles.bsky.social

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[email protected] has sued ICE and Homeland Security over FOIA violations. Their lawyers are from the Topic FOIA Team (which also represents WBEZ in FOIA cases) #BringInTheLight blockclubchicago.org/2025/05/13/b...

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Amid presidential speculation, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to decide on whether to run for 3rd term in "coming months" chicago.suntimes.com/illinois-gov... via Dave McKinney of @wbezpolitics.bsky.social team

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At Chicago O'Hare International Airport...

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Austan D. Goolsbee, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, said tariffs & uncertainty around President Trump’s policies still risked a combination of higher consumer prices & slower growth www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/b...

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Pope Leo XIV expressed solidarity with imprisoned journalists and affirmed the “precious gift of free speech and the press.” He spoke in an audience with some of the 6,000 journalists who descended on Rome to cover his election as the first American pontiff.

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The new Pope’s first official trip may be a visit with the Orthodox Christian Patriarch of Constantinople archons.org/not-turkey-e...

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Lots of plaques for Chicago Public Media at the Lisagor Awards this weekend — including for this series we aired on @wbez.org before the 2024 DNC

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From Chicago to the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV is making history as the first American pope. Celebrate this groundbreaking moment with this commemorative tee, featuring the historic front page of the Sun-Times. chicago-sun-times.myshopify.com/collections/...

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Peruvians in Chicago are celebrating the election of Pope Leo XIV, a Chicagoan who spent two decades of service in Peru, as the elevation of one of their own.

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Sen Dick Durbin, D-Ill., questions the validity of Fox News’ “Judge Jeanine” taking over the biggest U.S. Attorney’s office www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...

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Congrats to all my winning Chicago Public Media fam @wbez.org and @chicago.suntimes.com and to all the other esteemed colleagues at local news org who celebrated together last night headlineclub.org/2025/05/10/t...

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Her own executive producer at Fox News once called her a "reckless maniac" in an internal email. Now, longtime Trump fan "Judge Jeanine" will run the biggest US Attorney's Office www.cnn.com/2025/05/09/m... by @brianstelter.bsky.social

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The Trump administration's actions toward some news outlets "paint a really alarming picture of deteriorating media freedom in the U.S.," says Katherine Jacobsen of the Committee to Protect Journalists. By @obedmanuel.bsky.social and @michelmartinnpr.bsky.social

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As I’ve told many people who are the subjects of my stories, I have no control and no involvement in writing headlines. But within 15 minutes of the white smoke going up, I did say DIS was the only possible front page headline!

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Holly Boblink remembers pretending to hold Catholic Masses with a childhood friend in south suburban Dolton during the 1960s. Boblink said she had no idea then that Robert Prevost, who she called Robbie, would become the newly elected Pope Leo VIX.

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@chicago.suntimes.com found a photo of Da Pope at the 2005 World Series chicago.suntimes.com/religion/202...

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Cardinal Robert Prevost (center, blue shirt) visited the flagship @AureliosPizza location in Homewood in August with friends and family. Who could've imagined what would happen less than a year later! wgntv.com/news/robert-...

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Attention national media: see below. "Dolton" is not pronounced "DOLT-un"; it's "DAHLT-in." (Phonetic version I take responsibility for.)

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The last pope came from the same country as the best soccer player ever. The new pope comes from the city that was repped by the best basketball player ever.

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Listening to live @npr.org coverage hosted by Scott Detrow in Rome, with Sylvia Poggioli translating the speech of the American Pope Leo XIV, is just an astounding moment.

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I know lots of people have questions about the state of #FOIA and best practices for securing documents in this climate. I’ll be discussing all of that in a @bloomberg.com Live Q&A with Edward Ludlow TOMORROW at 1pm EDT. Send me any of your FOIA-related questions in advance at [email protected].

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A Pope born in Chicago and raised in Dolton, @bylaurenfitz.bsky.social has the details about his upbringing in the South Suburbs chicago.suntimes.com/religion/202...

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The new pope, as profiled by @bylaurenfitz.bsky.social for the @chicago.suntimes.com:

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NBC somehow found a Chicagoan in St. Peter’s Square, who happily proclaimed “we’re not the Second City anymore.”

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Anyways Chicagoans are gonna be very normal about this, I'm sure

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Pope Leo XIV's childhood parish Church, 137th Street.

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huge update: my uncle chuck knows the pope

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what’s the pope’s calumet fisheries order

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Great @chicago.suntimes.com profilr of the new pope from just a few days ago, including interviews with people who knew back in the day - in Dolton, Illinois chicago.suntimes.com/religion/202...