An insane event weekend for the city of Chicago: Southside: Savannah Bananas @ Rate Field Westside: UFC @ United Center Northside: Cubs/Pirates @ Wrigley Lakefront: Bears/Bills @ Soldier Field And then to top it off the Chicago Air & Water show flying over everything.

We've waved goodbye to some tremendously beloved colleagues, but those of us Post Local are working hard to document and illuminate this moment. Grateful to be among the city's small-but-mighty press corps. Check out this thread for a sample of outlets and folks to follow.

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“As he turned to walk away, he hurled his hoagie at the chest of one of the officers and then ran off with the officers in pursuit” washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/…

Some personal news: I'm so incredibly excited to be joining the Los Angeles Times Washington bureau. It's bitter sweet as I leave the Miami Herald, my professional home for the past five years. I will miss all my colleagues, and the great work we did together.

it's funny seeing this comment in the year of our lord 2025 because 1. no one has said this since 2013 and 2. it's even less relevant now because ai has usurped those jobs anyway and made "learning to code" irrelevant. a thing of beauty, a relic of a distant, equally dumb past

The long and utterly strange campaign to bring John Stamos to Chicago’s Riot Fest may finally have worked. Btw Riot Fest - the late, great Marie’s Pizza on Lawrence made a nice Greek-style pizza fit for a Hellenic-American sitcom god chicago.suntimes.com/music/2025/08/…

Notably, Chicago is not in the top 20

Beautiful day in Bananaland! I’ll be here today and tomorrow covering the Savannah Bananas. Spoiler alert: there will be a lot of yellow

Not many takers today for these free cardboard King Tuck crowns.

Today’s 7th inning stretch is sung by Hayden Christensen with a guest entrance from a jet 😆

New: Mayor Brandon Johnson plans to elevate former Ald. Helen Shiller to chair the Zoning Board of Appeals. A role traditionally reserved for an attorney, the move is drawing push back from some, including Ald Timmy Knudsen, who previously served as ZBA chair.

They are LOW this year.

Chevron Statue sneak pass Pretty sure this is where the sonic boom came from

Hayden Christensen is in Chicago today. You can bet he prefers our concrete beaches

At least three different high-rise condo buildings had their windows shatter during today’s Chicago Air & Water Show practice. Residents and staff in one building in the 3900 block of N. Lake Shore Dr. say it happened twice — once in the morning — once in the afternoon. WGN TV News

ICYMI from Chicago magazine This Gen Z Congressional Candidate Is Actually From Here chicagomag.com/news/this-gen-…

My latest for ⁦Air Mail⁩ Inside “the Playpen” Booze, jet packs, “Join, or Die” flags, and the occasional severed limb: welcome to Chicago’s most controversial party spot airmail.news/sh/p1hVWX

when a masthead, writer and subject are perfectly aligned

Booze, jet packs, “Join, or Die” flags, and the occasional severed limb: welcome to Chicago’s most controversial party spot. Leigh Giangreco trib.al/kCJSvn2