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NEW: Trump's pardon attorney discussed pardoning final Jan. 6 defendants — including Oath Keepers' Stewart Rhodes, lawyer says cbsnews.com/news/trump-par…

NYT glazes Elmhurst, Ill. nytimes.com/2025/05/21/rea…

NEWS: President Trump pledges to 'take a look at' pardoning ⁦Governor Gretchen Whitmer⁩ kidnapping conspirators detroitnews.com/story/news/pol… via ⁦Grant Schwab ⁦Craig Mauger⁩ The Detroit News

Congratulations to all of my colleagues from WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times who won a prestigious Education Writers Association Award for their coverage of Chicago’s historic first school board election ewa.org/awards/data-re… #EWA25

TACO Thursday 🌮 nytimes.com/live/2025/05/2…

Attacks on journalists have no place in American life. Everyone NH Public Radio is grateful to U.S. Department of Justice for persistence in pursuing Eric Spofford. His attempt to silence our reporting failed, as should every attempt to snuff out press freedom. nhpr.org/nh-news/2025-0…

Subject of investigative story “devised a scheme to harass and terrorize” New Hampshire Public Radio’s ace reporter Lauren Chooljian, her editor and her family. Lauren is a former WBEZ political reporter nytimes.com/2025/05/30/bus…

The forced arrests of several people by ICE outside of an office in downtown Chicago on Wednesday.

Advocates say about a dozen immigrants were arrested by federal immigration agents Wednesday after receiving text messages to show up for a routine immigration appointment at an office in Chicago’s South Loop. wbez.org/immigration/20…

Sweet played a free concert to a huge crowd at Grant Park in the summer of 1993, iirc. Greg Kot and/or Jim DeRogatis must have been there. I also interviewed him at the Blue Note in Columbia, MO not long after that

#WATCH: Around 3:30 a.m., dozens of Chicago police officers led their fallen sister to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office. A 36-year-old mother, four-year veteran of the department was killed in the line of duty late last night. WGN TV News WGN Morning News

Police Officer Krystal Rivera #19020 End of Watch: June 5, 2025 The Chicago Police Department grieves the heartbreaking loss of Officer Rivera, a courageous and compassionate officer who devoted her career to helping others and protecting our city. We will #NeverForget.

That Canadian wildfire smoke haze though…

Conservative SCOTUS majority shields DOGE from FOIA

Breaking: Chicago police confirm Officer Krystal Rivera was fatally shot by her partner last night. chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2025/06/…

Rep. Mary Miller is in trouble again for something she said. This time, in a now-delated social media post, she said it was "deeply disturbing that a Sikh was allowed to lead prayer in the House." Her post initially misidentified the Sikh man as a Muslim. herald-review.com/news/state-reg…

An Australian journalist was hit with a reported rubber bullet while covering LA immigration protests. 9News US correspondent Lauren Tomasi was shot in the leg by a non-lethal round from an officer in riot gear. Footage shows the officer turn toward the cameras before firing.

British photojournalist hit by non lethal rounds during Los Angeles protests | California | The Guardian theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

About 500 Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests, sources tell CNN's Natasha Bertrand & Haley Britzky cnn.com/us/live-news/l…

Feds: Michael Madigan 'amassed a personal fortune of more than $40 million' during career as Illinois House Speaker and state Democratic boss - with a side gig in property tax appeals chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-corrup…