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Look at this beautiful poster! And then come to the event!

I wrote about a wonderful new Chicagoland Polish home movie archive for @chicagoreader.com

Wrote about the pleasures of being saved from burning planes for @nplusonemag.com, co-published here with @chicagoreader.com: chicagoreader.com/city-life/di....

I wrote about how local Palestinian American olive oil importers are contending with huge cost increases (from $275-$400 per jerrycan) in the olive oil they ship in from the West Bank. Some worry that settler violence will eventually eradicate this economically important Palestine-Chicago trade.

Last time Illinois moved women from one prison to another, guards in the new facility peed on the belongings of the new transfers. @blairpaddock.bsky.social reports on the mixed emotions elicited by Logan Woman's Prison planned move north.

For @chicagoreader.com I wrote about a months long anti-foie gras protest, that has been routinely confused for an anti-Israel protest, outside of the Israeli restaurant Galit. @blairpaddock.bsky.social shot the photos. chicagoreader.com/food/food-dr...

excellent news

60 miles of tunnels run under the Chicago loop - a vast, utopian infrastructure project mostly abandoned by the mid 20th century. Retired steelworker Tom Wells documented them in 3d photographs in the late 80s. I wrote about trying to find the photos for @nplusonemag.com and @chicagoreader.com

For @chicagoreader.com , I interviewed regulars at the Harold Washington Library, including: a man who copies reference books by hand, the lawyer who patented the Pringles can, a young woman banned from the library six times. Davon Clark's amazing pics in thread. chicagoreader.com/city-life/pe...

The life and times of the Harold Washington Library - Chicago ReaderRegulars recount reading, drawing, and fighting in Chicago's beloved librarychicagoreader.com

For @nplusonemag.com, my essay about Operation Midway Blitz. I wrote about the apartment building that ICE raided, a young woman in ICE custody, asylum seekers and phone games, Silverio Villegas González & the owner of the hot dog restaurant where he worked. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/pol...

ICE in Autumn | Morley MusickOscar Martinez’s remarks were emblematic of a more general response to Midway Blitz: an aggrieved, futile attempt to correct someone who has violently misinterpreted reality. Over and over, I heard Ch...www.nplusonemag.com

This is one of the best food courts in the city and its tenants are threatened with rental increases that could could force them to close. The landlord in question (Jiazhao "Frankie" Chen) is $65m in debt and facing foreclosure on 37 properties. His staffer told me he is in China.

Frankie Chen, landlord of Chicago's main Chinatown food court, has threatened to nearly double the rent on its tenants. Chen is $65m in debt and faces foreclosure on 37 properties. Tenants say they'll leave if the rent increases. My latest, for @chicagoreader.com chicagoreader.com/city-life/ch...

Tenants at Chinatown’s storied Richland Center food court brace for potential rent increases - Chicago ReaderSince last summer, Heung Seng Corporation’s staff have told tenants they will nearly double the rent on their next leases.chicagoreader.com

I wrote a dispatch for @nplusonemag.com about attending a corrections conference in Orlando while violently ill. The prison I saw was filled with Disney paraphernalia. I make heavy use of @blairpaddock.bsky.social 's previous reporting (www.thenation.com/article/soci...).

extreme cruelty