Meze Table has found a home in Bridgeport after years of selling at pop-ups and markets.
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City Council names new Zoning Committee chair, ending standoff over key post The position has been without a permanent chair since September.

Amazing quote and new vocal stim unlocked: "It’s a bunch of bitches up in here." (gift link)

These food delivery robots have individual "names" and I'm curious about the decision-making that led to giving THIS robot — the one taking the blame for smashing through the glass walls of Chicago bus stops — an Arabic name, Nasir, as opposed to something more generically white guy like Bob or Pete

Absolute perfection.

A+ four stars 10/10 100%.

Peak duckling.

What an incredible baby bird season it's been. Onto month 2! 🪶 🐣

Today is the anniversary of the April 1 RIFs at NIH and HHS.

Thinking of my colleagues who lost their jobs last year.

These cuts did no improve efficiency. They undermined the functioning of our government.

Top Cop Refused To Attend Hearing On Whether Police Helped ICE If Experts Joined Panel A police watchdog is hosting a public hearing Thursday with Supt. Larry Snelling to discuss the department's interactions with immigration agents — but Snelling would only appear if experts weren't in...

A police watchdog is hosting a public hearing Thursday with the city’s top cop to discuss the department’s interactions with immigration agents — but he refused to participate if it featured legal, police reform and immigration experts, records show.

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I still remember the first time I noticed that Chicago parking ticket writers are employees of the Department of Revenue 💡💰

Gotta make money to spend money! 🤑 (in theory)

screengrab from the newspaper with women from 1900 brandishing brooms, plungers, rolling pins, umbrellas,fry pans, oil lamps. In front there's a little kitten.

186 broom handles, 102 table knives, 79 stove lid lifters, 76 rolling pins, 72 plates and dishes, 55 hatpins, 48 hair brushes and hand mirrors, 33 mops, 31 revolvers, 29 flatirons, 12 curling irons, 11 umbrellas, 9 shoes and slippers, 3 scissors, 6 forks, 4 books, 3 potato mashers, 3 riding whips, 1 lamp, 1 baby bottle

Things women used as weapons in 1900 as recorded in police court records. I can write the scenarios for some of these. Chicago Tribune
Chicago, Illinois • Sun, Sep 16, 1900Page 49

About The Other Night... - Graze Newsletter How Graze is defining the next era of a decentralized, open social attention economy.

I missed this when it happened but it's a very cool opportunity for news orgs to think about next time they have a story that will have a lot of social media buzz... November elections if not before
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When Oz says “things your family used to do for you” he’s talking about unpaid, undervalued, mostly female labor back in a time when fewer women had to work outside the home, and families were also much bigger. It’s misogynistic as hell, and ignores today’s economic realities.

Infuriating. But yeah sure, the corporate head tax was a bad idea. 😠

A Chicago Sun-Times article says there will be more parking aides patrolling the city in 2026 to boost parking and traffic ticket revenue by $43 million.

OH MY GOD I WAS RIGHT.

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Hosting a Table Talk at #ONA26: “Standing in the Gap: Why Journalism Doesn't Reach People.” Come chat from now to 11 a.m.!

I know this is totally anecdotal, but has anyone else in Chicago noticed a huge uptick in parking enforcement since roughly December? I swear I see ticketers on my Bridgeport block weekly now after almost never seeing them for seven years prior.

My latest for @americantheatre.org magazine is a powerful interview with new Golden Thread Productions Artistic Director Nabra Nelson! Here's a theatre company and leader to watch. www.americantheatre.org/2026/03/23/g...

Literally this: 1 billion dollars, conservatively invested to produce 4% interest a year, generates $100,000 per DAY in interest alone. 100Grand every day towards harassment and abuse, without touching the capital. She has 1.2 billion, so the other 20K/day in interest pays for life expenses.

JK is already a literal billionaire, and you need to understand the sheer scope of what that means and the very real influence that status affords her. She does not need more money, more publicity, more viewership. It’s so easy to withhold a personal contribution to that.

This is a newer one but I laugh every time I read the headline.

trans women have been trying for years to explain that the anti-abortion and anti-trans movements are ultimately the same movement and these bastards just come out and say it

Just a reminder that this account just makes things up and presents them as news. It's lib fan fiction. Nothing from the Halfway Post is real.

They pretend it's satire, but what is this even satirizing? What's the commentary? What's the joke?

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After all, shoveling snow is one of those “unalienable Rights” the founders cared so much about.

Mayor Johnson says he is discouraged by this vote, slamming "the self-proclaimed Democrats" who voted for the roll back.
"It's shameful," Johnson says.
"We will continue to stand with working people," Johnson says, promising to use "every single tool available to me" to stop it from taking effect.

I got to test out a 1-day version of this training a couple years ago and it was EXCELLENT.

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"Nearly half of U.S. generic prescriptions originate in India, which relies on the Strait of Hormuz for the arrival of key inputs in drug manufacturing including petroleum-based materials, and for shipping finished medicines to the U.S."

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