illionois Visit the Chicago Sh*t Fountain Popkin

beanie Don't do this with a Bluetooth headphone knit hat Kevin Reome

bump Americans party like there's no pandemic Kevin Reome

belle isle Sammy Davis Jr.'s Tonight Show love song to a city Kevin Reome

andy cobb The naming of 'Inside Vladimir' Kevin Reome

chicago pd Chicago PD's predictive policing tool has been shut down after 8 years of catastrophically bad results Cory Doctorow

chicago Citing experience selling marijuana, unemployed Chicagoans seek permits to sell legally Jason Weisberger

chicago Dave Riley, bassist for Big Black, RIP David Pescovitz

john henry vs the jokebot Cards Against Humanity's Thanksgiving livestream pits a machine learning model against human joke writers Cory Doctorow

restorative justice Chicago teachers declare victory after 11-day strike Cory Doctorow

fair contract now #RedForEd rebooted: Chicago's teachers are back on strike Cory Doctorow

Blues Brothers Chicago driver goes full Blues Brothers, plows through suburban mall Gina Loukareas

Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't Abandoned coyote pup gets the care it deserves Séamus Bellamy

contagious corruption Corruption is contagious: dirty cops make their partners dirty Cory Doctorow

pangea Pangea raised $180m to buy up low-rent Chicago properties "to help poor people," and then created the most brutally efficient eviction mill in Chicago history Cory Doctorow

gig workers rising Uber drivers across America are going on strike — UPDATED Cory Doctorow

ReliAlert XC3 Chicago is demanding that children on bail wear private-sector ankle-cuffs with mics that can record them without their consent Cory Doctorow

lori lightfoot Chicago's first gay, Black, woman mayor won all 50 wards, defeating the machine candidate with an anti-corruption campaign Cory Doctorow

modern art Free to a good home: 70 washed, empty cans of Popeye Spinach Cory Doctorow

c2e2 Chicago! I'm at C2E2 this weekend with my new book RADICALIZED! Next up: San Francisco, Portland/Ft Vancouver, Seattle & Anaheim! Cory Doctorow