Abolish ICE in Chicago and Everywhere @amberchicago.bsky.social (she/her) Chicago. cats. critical thinking. communication. also: knitting, sometimes
Walter P. Reuther Library @reutherlibrary.bsky.social The Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs inspires academic research, serves community, and builds knowledge at Wayne State University. Learn more at https://reuther.wayne.edu/.
University of Illinois RBML @illinoisrbml.bsky.social Rare Book & Manuscript Library at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Main Library 346 | https://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/
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Sarah Mead Leonard @smeadleonard.bsky.social Associate Director of Fellowships and Academic Programs, Newberry Library (all views my own). PhD. Victorian Art History, #MaterialCulture, #HistoricLandscapes, those kinds of things. Also @morris-on-screen.bsky.social
Pax (nee Patrick) Crowley (they/them, þ/þs) @pilcrow5.bsky.social Rare Books Librarian, Classic Doctor Who nerd, Forever DM, synth dabbler, low-level crafter, gardener, likes to cook, prefers being barefoot -- In other words, a very tall Hobbit?
All posts personal. No posts represent the opinions or will of my employer.
Matt Maldre @spudart.bsky.social Artist & designer
Museum wanderer. Noticer of small things. Open web advocate.
Chicago / Glen Ellyn, Illinois
🎨 spudart.org
🏠 mattmaldre.com
🏢 tribunecontentagency.com
Raychel Steinbach @currentlocpress.bsky.social Letterpress prints featuring Midwest landscapes, native flora and fauna. Hand-carved blocks & hand-set type in the beautiful Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, IL.
www.CurrentLocationPress.com
Rd bacon @doublechinner.bsky.social Can a nation organized and governed such as ours endure? A whole world looks to see what we will do. We cannot fail their trust. We cannot fail to try.
Chris Getowicz @cgetowicz.bsky.social Dad/Artist/Organizer/Former MPS Educator/go go Sox/Fulham/Prison Educator.
@U of Illinois writing histories of education policy/activism/settler colonialism/race/space in Bdeóta Othúŋwe/Gakaabikaang/Minneapolis/ in the 1960s. Work on Chicago forthcoming.
Ross County Historical Society @rosscohistorical.bsky.social Museum, photo archive, and research library in Chillicothe, Ohio. We're located at 45 W. 5th Street, Chillicothe OH 45601. Our phone # is 740-772-1936. Open from April to December, Tues-Sat 1-5pm.
Jennifer Messner @occasionallyzen.bsky.social Books, coffee, photos, nonprofit grant writer, Southside Chicago
Jack Colby @jackcolby.bsky.social Won’t you pour me a Cuban breeze, Gretchen?
Chicago YIMBY. Sam Eagle-esque. Edgewater-Lakewood Balmoral
angela ✨ @astoldbyangela.bsky.social chicago born & bred. extremely bisexual. mostly nonsense, sometimes the historian jumps out. she/her 🌈
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social Senior politics reporter for HuffPost.
Drop me a tip or a hello: jen.bendery@huffpost.com
Signal: jbendery.41
The Formidable Genealogist @formidablegen.bsky.social Professional Genealogist - Jen
I write research guides to help you research like I do.
All client research projects $200/hr #genealogy
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Elena González @tlilxochitl68.bsky.social 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Simon Balto @simonbalto.bsky.social Professor, author.
Steady with your hope now. 
@rullirights.bsky.social @rullirights.bsky.social 
Pokey @junkyardcrawler.bsky.social architecture, dead mall, train, car enthusiast
Chicago-based
takes too many photos
non-binary
Blog: https://whatusedtobethere.blogspot.com/
Website: https://etaoin-shrdlu.net/
RIP COHOST - EGGBUG FOREVER - KEEP EM POSTING IN OUR HEARTS
Renée Carl @easteuromutt.bsky.social Professional Genealogist. Backyard gardener. Swimmer. Advocating for access to 20thC Immigration records at RecordsNotRevenue.com and occasionally blogging at EasternEuropeanMutt.com. most importantly: https://fundnara.com/
ZLibrarian @zolam.bsky.social Librarian, history researcher, writer, OER, gardening, arts, collaboration, communities, speculative fiction, dancing. Reader. ALA, ACRL. She/her. No DMs.
Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social I write about media, race, rights, Chicago, built environment, other stuff. History prof at UCL. Author of 5 books of varying quality. I like fixed gear bikes and being outside.
Still Askew Samantha @stillaskewsamantha.bsky.social All IL. All-Pro Social Media blocker: no random followers, no starter packs. Topics of interest: embroidery, nature, pets, science, animals, weather, Chicago. Go Bears!
CaryJo @caryjo.bsky.social ex chinurse
I’m probably not being sarcastic
she/whatever I AM A TRANS SAFE PERSON
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Chicago AQ @chicagoaq.bsky.social Monitoring Air Quality Index (AQI) pollutants (PM 2.5, PM10, NO₂, SO₂ O₃, CO) measured in The Loop, Chicago. Managed by @nikhunder.com
1Kellee @1kellee.bsky.social Renaissance Woman. Currently, academic special collections librarian. Posts never represent my employer (🙄). See pinned post.🚫No DMs unless I know you/you know me. Yes, it's me🎤🎶.
Hilarie Pitman Pozesky @hilariep.bsky.social Archivist. Writer. Hustler. Mom. Wife. Mah Jongg Player.
Thoughts and opinions my own.
Kheir Fakhreldin @kheir.bsky.social University Archivist at Chicago State. PhD student at Dominican University SOIS. Archival exhibitions, cultural memory in literature and music, iconoclasm, local history, encyclopedic novels, UMich & B1G women's sports, 12-string guitar. #SaveNARAChicago
kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social Senior Editor at Book Riot. Editor/Author of BODY TALK, HERE WE ARE, + (DON'T) CALL ME CRAZY. Former librarian. Anti-censorship advocate. Yoga teacher. Your favorite infernal witch. She/her. Library Journal Mover & Shaker in 2024.
Erica Thompson @ericathompson.bsky.social Arts and culture writer for the Chicago Sun-Times. Former features editor of the Columbus Dispatch. Award-winning reporter on race and gender. #Prince biographer. Freelance writer.
https://ericawrites.com/
Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com
Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
Infoweaver @infoweaver.bsky.social Retired academic librarian.
“All information to the effect that resistance is to cease is false.”
Sweden, 2025
“Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.”
Truman, 1952
Please don’t include me in your starter pack.
No DM
John Feeley @realjohnfeeley.bsky.social Loyola University Chicago Public History/LIS MA Student • UIUC Alumnus • Runner • Can recall the most random historical anecdotes
@gianttigerkitty.bsky.social @gianttigerkitty.bsky.social Democrat, environmentalist, animal lover. Trump crime family belongs in prison. SCOTUS is corrupt. 🐝🖖🏼🏴☠️ NO KINGS. Fuck everyone who didn’t vote for Harris.
lele @lelemae.bsky.social Chicago
DIY & solidarity forever
digital archives & cultural heritage
~mostly void posting~
Media Burn Archive @mediaburn.bsky.social Media Burn is a nonprofit dedicated to video’s overlooked histories and its most fiercely independent voices, from the 1960s to today.
The Obama Foundation @obamafoundation.bsky.social We believe in a world with more opportunity, participation, and trust.
Stephen Boisvert 🇨🇦 🟦⭐⭐⭐⭐🟦 @srboisvert.bsky.social Pedestrian birder in Chicago. Click on #birds tag to see just my bird photos without the whinging. I'm also sharing bird links using the #BirdLinks tag. I'm embarrassed by my typos but usually not enough to delete them. Gear: OM1 & OM 150-400 & 100-400
The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social The University of Chicago Press is one of the oldest and largest university presses in the United States and a distinguished publisher of trade and scholarly books and journals. Refining minds since 1891!
Sourcery @sourceryapp.bsky.social ✨A not-for-profit archival document delivery app developed by and for researchers.
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Loyola University Chicago @loyolachicago.bsky.social The official BlueSky account of Loyola University Chicago. Visit luc.edu to learn more. 
Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era @shgape.bsky.social An organization of historians fostering knowledge of U.S. history from the close of the Civil War through the 1920s https://www.shgape.org/
Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation The Poetry Foundation transforms lives through the power of words. Publisher of POETRY magazine. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/
thechicagoneighborhoods.com @chgohoods.bsky.social One designer's take on the neighborhoods in his city, and other things too. Neighborhood prints and Chicago-inspired fonts available on the website: https://www.thechicagoneighborhoods.com/links
Brian McCammack @mccammack.bsky.social Environmental historian. Rogers Park, Chicago resident. Dog lover.
Megan @booktothefuture.bsky.social Archivist by night, parent by later night
Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social Lesser building nerd, real estate photographer
CTA Alerts @legitctaalerts.bsky.social [Unofficial] Automated feed of alerts from CTA's website
Started after @ctaalert on twitter/x was shut down
Other Platforms: https://linktr.ee/legitctaalerts
Damien C-C @dccc-phd.bsky.social Human geneticist 🧬, bioinformagician 🧙🏻♂️, choral musician 🎼, and unrepentant city slicker 🏙️. Amplifying interesting signals (like #ScienceWin)! [he/him]
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3466-1846
ellery @ellery.bsky.social not a dozen opossums in a trench coat. innovation editor at @chicago.suntimes.com and @wbez.org. she/they 🏳️⚧️
Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social A @storystudiochicago.bsky.social publication! Editor-in-Chief @mbwwelch.bsky.social
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Middle Manager Mom ☕️ @coachkatjack.bsky.social Empty nester | Chicagoan | Sci-Fi Fan |💛Public Libraries | ❤️ Travel, dogs, cats, coffee
💚 Protect Your Data 🔗 https://rb.gy/j1jkcr
💙 Align spending w/your values @goodsuniteus.bsky.social
💜 How to resist tyranny https://timothysnyder.org/resources/
Chicago Public Library @chipublib.bsky.social Read, learn, discover.
Opened in 1873, Chicago Public Library has locations in every Chicago neighborhood.
Becca @rhymeswithmecca.bsky.social 
Mina Bloom @minabloom.bsky.social investigations @blockclubchi.bsky.social
Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social PSCCUNY. #CUNYStrong. Queer. Collective power, public good. Organize your workplace. Zindabad. Makibaka. Solidarity
Larry Shure @ultralocal1.bsky.social Preservation planner and architectural historian in support of public transit. Weekend artist.
Kevin Irvine @kevinirvine.bsky.social transit & disability inclusion geek. flâneur. Rush Univ. Medical Ctr. disabilities recruiter, in Chicago. Docs w/ Disabilities Initiative adv. committee. Active Transportation Alliance board member. 57 y.o. HIV+ bleeder
The Amazing Prizzini @amazingprizzini.bsky.social Chicago’s very own Clown Attorney.
Should not be taken too seriously, please.
Brandon @bedubble.bsky.social Bikes | Food | Transit | Housing | Travel | Music | Fashion | History | And More
📍 Chicago via too many places to list
Posts are not peer reviewed.
Dr. Carol Tilley 🏳️🌈 @anuncivilphd.bsky.social Library & Info Sci Prof @ U of Illinois | #Comics #Libraries #Education #Kids #History | '16 Eisner '20 Ringo '22 Lynd Ward ’25 Ignatz Juries | PhD | Queer | Hard of hearing | I debunked Fredric Wertham & lost on Jeopardy | https://ko-fi.com/caroltilley
Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social I live in Chicago. I work in a lab. Sometimes I bike. Views are my own.
Logeion Greek-Latin @logeiongklat.bsky.social Greek & Latin linguistics, philology, gadgetry; check out Attikos & Logeion (stress -ei-) in App Store; or http://logeion.uchicago.edu and http://perseus.uchicago.edu (Philo4Classics). Occasionally at voices.uchicago.edu/logeion
Chicago Reader Union @chicagoreaderunion.bsky.social Official editorial union of the Chicago Reader, organizing with @chicagonewsguild.bsky.social. Established 2015.
onetriibeunited.bsky.social @onetriibeunited.bsky.social We’re unionizing to build a fairer and more equitable workplace at The TRiiBE. ✊🏾
Chicago News Guild TNG-CWA Local 34071
https://linktr.ee/onetriibeunited?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=5a53148f-d517-4ab3-9423-e7e96adc02f1
@chinorthsider.bsky.social @chinorthsider.bsky.social Chicagoan, history, architecture, recovering lawyer.
ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ It's definitely mostly about the floors. There may be swear words. 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
Under the Tree w/Bill Ayers - A Seminar on Freedom @underthetreepod.bsky.social A podcast that takes you on a journey to reimagine how we can bring freedom & liberation to life.
https://linktr.ee/underthetree
@libaoscompanion.bsky.social @libaoscompanion.bsky.social 
@ridgehistorical.bsky.social @ridgehistorical.bsky.social 
SideStreets @sidestreets.bsky.social Radically pedestrian urban planning. Chicago-centric. ✶✶✶✶
Laura Lippman @lauralippman.bsky.social Likable character who specializes in writing unlikeable characters. Thick 'n Creamy since 1925, muting mansplainers since 2010, (cheerfully) uncoupled since February 2020. Just an old lady trying to eat a taco. I am too a Merry Sunshine.
Digital Newberry @digitalnewberry.bsky.social Exploring the Newberry Library's digital collections: rare maps, historical documents, postcards, and unexpected finds. Browse, discover, and help us transcribe. Free and open to all.
Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social TV and film critic for the Chicago Tribune
https://www.chicagotribune.com/author/nina-metz/
Newsletter: Nina Watches Everything
https://buttondown.com/NinaWatchesEverything
Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social
Archives, DH, Museums, African American studies, C19 and early C20.
all opinions my own, not my employer's
https://www.dorothy-berry.com
@chicityclerk.bsky.social @chicityclerk.bsky.social 
Scott Walter @slwalter123.bsky.social Librarian | Teacher | Speaker - San Diego State University Fighting against book bans and for public schools & libraries. Loves cats & dogs (since you asked)
jes @jwolfe73.bsky.social I like ceramics and houseplants. There will be cat photos and typos.
Susana A. Mendoza @ilcomptroller.bsky.social The official Bluesky account for Comptroller Susana A. Mendoza and the Illinois State Comptroller's Office. Follow us for our visual updates.
Brian Alberts @brewedculture.org Historian, writer, dad studying the cultural history of beer. Footnotes and pizza both Chicago style. 50/50 pop mourner. He/him
Sour berries @frozen-cranberry.bsky.social weird & round like frozen cranberry, extra tart. librarian from the South Side of Chicago
Andrew Hertzberg @andhertz.bsky.social Chicago. Bikes. Books. Writes sometimes. Drums sometimes.
www.andrewhertzberg.com
Lasiorhinus Kreftii @lasiorhinuskreftii.bsky.social Midwest Research Librarian
Emily @smbodyoranother.bsky.social Also smbodyoranother on what was Twitter 
Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com She/her. I write books about carriages, corsets, and smartwatches. Mother of (emoji) dinosaurs 🦖🦕. 羽生結弦 fan. Fan of tea. Born at 332 ppm.
This biography should not be taken as a complete description.
courtneymilan.com
American Historical Association @historians.org The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions.
http://historians.org/join
Scott Smith is Our Man In Chicago @ourmaninchicago.bsky.social S. Side; @erinjshea's guy; dad; host of The Frunchroom; Leo McGarry of the Cook County Assessor
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
MItten Mary @mittenmary.bsky.social Midwesterner. Looking for how our country gets back to normal. Following progressive politics, Chicagology, the arts, cats, and quirky stuff.
Why are people following me? I’m here more to read than post.
Sara Heymann @go-for-a-walk.bsky.social Artist, organizer, library worker.
Saraheymann.com
Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong @misscantbewrong.bsky.social Former Alaskan, current Evanstonian. Ruby and Bunny are my dogs.
Republicans are trash, stop voting [and making excuses] for them.
Extremely displeased with current events.
https://youtu.be/thuYNWYwQ68?is=vBLx-2oxtDwfBq6w
Chicago Area Archivists @chicagoarchivists.bsky.social An organization for Chicago area archivists, historians, librarians. Join us!
https://chicagoarchivists.org/
Take action to save Chicago's NARA facility: https://chicagoarchivists.org/NARAClosuresAction
Sign the petition: c.org/cVMG6VvqPS
Jennifer Thom Dalzin @jenniferdalzin.bsky.social Director of Digital Initiatives and Services, Newberry Library; likes to look at dog, cooking, handmade art photos.
The TRiiBE (backup account) @thetriibe.bsky.social The TRiiBE's backup account.
Verified: @thetriibe.com
Read more on thetriibe.com
Alive in Chicago (municipal boundary) @mosermostly.bsky.social I love good books and bad movies. Trying to raise healthy and kind humans on the South side. Overrun by pets and projects. (she /her) Free Palestine.
Starshaped Press @starshapedpress.bsky.social Celebrating 26 years of metal & wood type letterpress work. Love to share the process, forms and printing adventures. Jen & Jo.
Starshaped.com
carolyn @papersquared.bsky.social academic library director
summer scares social media goblin
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she/her
absolutely not a professional account