Chicago police officer Carlos Baker shot and killed his partner, Officer Krystal Rivera, in 2025. We partnered with the Chicago Sun-Times to fight CPD in court and get the body camera footage of both officers released. Read: https://bit.ly/4tTljEI

It’s the most wonderful time of year y’all

PS: move to St. Louis 😘

🚨 @illinoisanswers.bsky.social and @chicago.suntimes.com won a court case to release the records including body cam footage of last summer's fatal police shooting of Ofc. Krystal Rivera by her partner, Ofc. Carlos Baker.

Mentally ill man restrained in chair for 3 days settles case in Williamson County A man with mental illness who says he was strapped down to a chair for three days at Williamson County Jail reached a settlement in his civil rights case against […]

Almost two years ago now, we wrote about a man with mental illness who was restrained in a chair for 3 days in an Illinois county jail. Now, he has received a settlement in his civil rights case. @illinoisanswers.bsky.social illinoisanswers.org/2026/04/07/t...

We are officially entering the “oh is it going to be as warm as yesterday-oh it’s going to be worse today” part of the year. Happy day to all who celebrate 😂 (me, it’s me, I love the heat!)

Basically, yeah. There are monsters and awful people in the files. But a ton of regular people also got swept up in it, and as always — details matter.

BREAKING: huge summary judgment win in our Voice of America case

EVERYONE put on admin leave is ordered rehired & all other decisions made by the Trump admin to gut agency down to "statutory minimum" r "vacated and set aside"

Kudos to r amazing partners & clients in labor, democracy & journalism

Brand new (as of today!) Bevo resident checking in 😎

For a long, long, long long time I didn’t think I would be able to do this, but St. Louis made it possible. I’m so proud to finally officially belong to you ⚜️❤️🖤💛

Madison County judge finds name in Epstein files because of legal representation Madison County judge finds name in Epstein files because of legal representation Article Summary  This summary was written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.  EDWARDSVILLE — […]

The latest from me and @bhundsdorfer.bsky.social —

Madison County judge finds name in Epstein files because of legal representation illinoisanswers.org/2026/03/17/m...

For @illinoisanswers.bsky.social @capitolnewsil.bsky.social

just give me all the data you have.

wait, wait … i worry what you just heard was, 'give me a lot of data.'

what I said was, give me all the data you have. do you understand?

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When the records clerk says "you can just email me rather than using the portal in the future"

And I’ve never gotten better returns on records, anywhere, anytime, than if I just call every single day or show up in person (always remain professional and polite, of course, but those two things have taken me far!)

Well. Probably part of the reason I have such a good return rate so far this year is I'm now FOIA’ing in Illinois 9 times out of 10, and the law/records culture over there is far, far superior to the Sunshine (ahem) State’s.

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Almost through the first quarter of this year, and I have received records 86% of the time I've FOIA'd for them. I'll take it!

Wasted Waters: How Southern Illinois is Coping with Decades of Sewage Flooding… and Why it Still Isn’t Solved. Five dozen communities in Southern Illinois account for a third of the reported sanitary sewer overflows in the state in the last decade. But with low revenues, population declines, and bureaucratic d...

Lexi, Lacretia and I have all done reporting on the water and sanitation issues in Cahokia Heights, where residents say sewage backups have been happening for decades and they haven't trusted their drinking water supply for years illinoisanswers.org/2025/06/17/w...

E. coli found in drinking water of Southern Illinois city that floods with sewage Cahokia Heights residents have found E. coli in their drinking water through community-organized testing of samples from kitchen taps. The results raise new questions about infrastructure in a communi...

E. coli found in drinking water of Southern Illinois city that floods with sewage — from me, Lexi Cortes of the Belleville News-Democrat and Lacretia Wimbley of @stlpublicradio.bsky.social illinoisanswers.org/2026/03/09/e...

Proud of this collaboration with our partners at the Belleville News-Democrat and St. Louis Public Radio ⬇️ we’ve got the latest out of Cahokia Heights

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

Former deputy in Sonya Massey killing serving prison sentence, but state officials won’t say where Article Summary Sean Grayson was convicted in October of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Sonya Massey, a Sangamon

Former deputy in Sonya Massey killing serving prison sentence, but state officials won’t say where capitolnewsillinois.com/news/former-...

Feds accuse former Carlyle police chief of wire fraud, theft Article Summary A federal grand jury in East St. Louis returned a four-count indictment against former Carlyle Police Chief Mark

With @jayohday.bsky.social
Feds accuse former Carlyle police chief of wire fraud, theft capitolnewsillinois.com/news/feds-ac...

Feds accuse former Carlyle police chief of wire fraud, theft Article Summary A federal grand jury in East St. Louis returned a four-count indictment against former Carlyle Police Chief Mark

"A Metro East police chief spent more than $100k of public money intended to combat drug use & support a local fire protection district on...basketball tickets, travel, and a diamond engagement ring."

The latest from me, @bhundsdorfer.bsky.social capitolnewsillinois.com/news/feds-ac...

Feds accuse former Carlyle police chief of wire fraud, theft Article Summary A federal grand jury in East St. Louis returned a four-count indictment against former Carlyle Police Chief Mark

The Carlyle police chief, who resigned Dec. 1, was indicted this week. @bhundsdorfer.bsky.social and @jayohday.bsky.social have more. ➡️ https://loom.ly/zGRDHpk

I hope you get some rest! You done good.

really racking up the good neighbor points over there

Wow this thread. Thank you for sharing with us — and for being a good neighbor-from-afar 💓 that’s the STL spirit

St. Louis Post-Dispatch “week in Illinois” section from Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022 edition, with a photo headlined “Texas buses migrants to Chicago”

Going through my stack of old Post-Dispatches and

Ahh the comfort of hearing the KMOX guys read the Brown and Crouppen commercial once again

IYKYK

It feels like everything is terrible but

It’s less than one month until opening day 🙌⚾️

Dashboard-style web app titled "NICAR 2026 Posts on Bluesky from Jan. 13 to Feb. 26." At the top are three large summary tiles showing total posts, unique authors, and total likes. A left sidebar lets you select a date range and filter by authors (with checkboxes) and optionally show only posts containing external URLs, plus a button to download the current dataset. The main area contains a searchable, filterable table of posts with columns for timestamp, post text snippet, author, likes, reposts, replies, and tags; entries include links to open the original post. [Alt text by ChatGPT]

Browse, search, and filter all the NICAR 2026 posts on Bluesky R Shiny app collects all the posts with the #NICAR26 or #NICAR2026 hashtags
App: apps.machlis.com/shiny/nicar2...
#RStats code: github.com/smach/bskyconf
#RShiny
[Did this for Twitter years ago, now updated]