#Chicago

asha rosa

ashapoesis

THREAD:On Monday, Chicago City Council will vote on the budget. A group of us w @defundcpdchi who live in the 5th ward (parts of Woodlawn, Hyde Park & South Shore)

Holly, post-apocalypse elf.

hollymathnerd

WHY SCHOOLS SHOULD BE OPEN: A THREAD. Imagine that you got stung by something you didn't know you were allergic to. Breathing is suddenly difficult. You black out. You wake

Laura Portwood-Stacer, PhD (she/her)

lportwoodstacer

If you haven’t figured out the core argument you want to make with your book, or what its most significant contribution is, DON’T FEEL BAD. This is the thing almost

Rob Breymaier

rbreymaier

Every King Day I try to talk to people about his work to promote integration in housing. It is typically ignored when people talk about him and the civil rights

oscar perry abello

oscarthinks

That part.https://twitter.com/amaraenyia/status/1324765201426776066 Re-upping this list for a very small sample of the policies, ideas, investments Black communities have been pushing and making. Public banks, community-land trusts, worker-

A.D. Quig

ad_quig

CDPH's Dr. Arwady: Between 125,000 and 180,000 Chicagoans have active, infectious COVID right now. That's 1 in 15 Chicagoans. "That is why the risk of gathering is significant. It's why

BLMChicago

BLMChi

Welcome back to #Fuck12Friday!! We're proud to see Chicagoans keeping up the energy and continuing to come out to the streets. We're in this for the long haul! Lori Lightfoot's

Mass for Shut-ins (Podcast)

edburmila

Vexillological hot take: there are thousands of municipal flags in the US and Chicago & DC are the only two that are good. This was a trap to get you

WarNuse

WarNuse

1) Chicago, Illinois. The Gangsters. The Depression. Al Capone. The Prohibition. Dillinger. Thompson. The Untouchables. The Sting. The Blues. The 60's... And The Law Firm Sidley & Austin, Where 'Michelle'

Bijan C. Bayne

bijancbayne

Chairman Fred grew up during the peer pressure to either dress as a "Gouster" or an Ivy Leaguer. Gunplay was so rampant, Elijah Muhammad referenced the proliferation of guns among

Arlen Parsa

arlenparsa

It is time to tell a very difficult story.A story that happened exactly 101 years ago today.This is the story behind an image that has been called the world's first

Chris Blattman

cblatts

In this time of preventable death, a sobering statistic I learned today. We are tracking a group of young men surveyed 10 years ago in Liberia. Mostly youth involved in

woke or whateva

wokeorwhateva

Many men get offended by hashtags like #Menaretrash. Let’s get into the meaning of the hashtag and WHY hurt feelings mean nothing compared to structural and gender based violence! A

Jonathan Ballew

JCB_Journo

The same department that the Mayor gave $281 million of federal COVID relief money when the public health department got peanuts. The same department that can't get its officers to

Carolyn Cohagan

carolyncohagan

I’m amazed by the need of out-of-state people to criticize Texans during this horrible time. I’m calling it “Disaster Shaming.” But, as a Texan who has lived in both NYC

Alderman Matt Martin

AldMattMartin

THREADToday, we learned that nearly $300M of CARES funds in Chicago were spent on personnel costs in the police department.Since these funds are meant to meet the unprecedented needs in

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