sorry to my neighbors for the scream i just scrumpt

Thanks to everyone who voted Block Club Chicago Best Newsletter + Best Indie Site in Chicago Reader’s “Best Of” guide! S/O Hannah Boufford, who makes our newsletters shine! Sign up for our free newsletter: blockclubchicago.org/newsletters/ And support the Reader: donorbox.org/save-the-chica….

Incredibly proud of the Block Club Chicago team! We're nominated for 17 Headline Club Lisagor Awards for excellence in journalism, including Best Investigative Reporting + Best Community Reporting. We do this work for our readers, not awards. But it's an honor to be nominated.

been working hard in the kitchen with the Block Club Chicago team!! coming monday ... sign up here: blockclubchicago.org/newsletters/

Order up! 🛎️ The Block Club Chicago food & drink newsletter is here. Led by Janet Rausa Fuller, this weekly email is packed with staff recs, restaurant updates, features and more. Sign up: blockclubchicago.org/newsletters/ First edition: newsletter.blockclubchi.org/index.php?acti…

pulse check 🙃

We're so excited for Jake Cox to join the Block Club Chicago team!! Exciting things to come 👀💪

@blockclubchi, our nonprofit neighborhood newsroom, is suing ICE over immigration records. We believe in the public's right to know what its government is doing. blockclubchicago.org/2025/05/13/blo…

It's been an incredibly busy week, and the Block Club Chicago team did an amazing job documenting it all. Please take a look at our photos: This Week In Photos: ICE Arrests Spark Chaos, Bilingual Education Programs Fall Short And More blockclubchicago.org/2025/06/06/thi…

imagine taking beautiful footage of wrigley in the rain and then saying you miss your roof

We at Chicago Tribune Guild are devastated today by the company's unexplained, unnecessary, disrespectful and stupid decision to lay off five guild colleagues. The only reason is greed. These brilliant people deserve so much better than better. Chicago deserves better too.

A loss at the Tribune is a loss for all of Chicago. Such amazing staff who covered a wide variety of Chicago news. We need more reporters, not less. Shame on Alden Global Capital.

Lizzie is a superstar and one of our most talented beat reporters. This is apparent to her colleagues, our readers and the many natl and local journalism orgs that have given her awards in the last several months. Self-sabotaging decision by Trib but a win for another newsroom

Our hedge fund owners & management just laid off close to 10% of the the Chicago Tribune newsroom for no clear reason, in essentially the same breath as they offered $88 million to bring the show to Dallas 🙃

how am i supposed to live laugh lolla when the mlb trade deadline is in less than an hour

I said I wouldn’t be shut up for long and here we are: The Tribune offered me my job back, and I start again today. Thank you so much to everyone for their support and kind messages when I was laid off. It was unbelievable

Name a better way to spend your summer night ... We'll wait 😍

The Block Club Chicago Afternoon Newsletter: Come for the daily digest of city news. Stay for Stephen Montemayor sentences like: "It remains to be seen whether the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile will also flirt with breaking the sound barrier​" blockclubchicago.org/newsletters/