Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social Chicago Tribune reporter, 2026 Pulitzer team, author "The City is Up for Grabs." Little Village raised. I'm just trying to make my city a better place
CineCalendar @cinecalendar.bsky.social When you absolutely, positively got to know every "On This Day" in movie history, accept no substitutes.
10+ years & 50,000 followers on Twitter, making a new home for ourselves here. (formerly Dates in Movies)
Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm
Edyong.me
Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social international bestselling pervert • writer: DAYSPRING, AVENGERS ACADEMY, etc • film programmer • phd • any pronouns http://linktr.ee/meakoopa lycan sub scribe.
DAYSPRING - out now! dayspringbook.com
Jarrah Hodge @jarrahpenguin.bsky.social Books, cats, geekdom, housing, PWHL. Located on unceded, unsurrendered Algonquin Anishinabe territory (Ottawa). She/her. trekkiefeminist.com
Sue @subspacesue.bsky.social Trekkie. Podcaster. Arts worker. Cat mom.
Star Trek sun, Sondheim moon, Muppets rising.
She/Her | ADHD 🧠 | Ace ♠️ | Tired 😴
Live Long & Protect Trans Kids 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social 
Dimension 20 @dimension20.dropout.tv 🩸 CITY COUNCIL OF DARKNESS
☀️ GLADLANDS
☁️ CLOUDWARD, HO!
⚡️TITAN TAKEDOWN
💅DUNGEONS & DRAG QUEENS S2
✨MISFITS & MAGIC
💥NEVER STOP BLOWING UP
🧙🏿♂️ FANTASY HIGH
🧠MENTOPOLIS
📖 NEVERAFTER
🚀 STARSTRUCK ODYSSEY
dropout.tv/shows/dimension-20
Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow.
Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop.
Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist.
New podcast: Collateral Damage
Substack: radleybalko.substack.com
Signal: radleybalko.52
Autumn Witch @autumnwitch.bsky.social BlueSky Account for my Dragon Age Fan Site (RDAF). Lesbian. Scottish. She/her. 🏳️🌈 Banner by Vнєnαn Sєqυιтυr at RDAF
Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app Writer, hex throwing goon. Dainty, delicate, and deadly.
Chrissie De Clerck-Szilagyi @thegoddesslivia.bsky.social Historian and History Communicator. Adjunct Professor and unionizer of adjunct faculty. Trekkie. Leftist.
Co-host of History with the Szilagyis.
Co-host of @IDICPodcast.bsky.social.
Patrick Carlin @pjc4774.bsky.social 
Lauren Peters @lpeters.bsky.social 
j'orge yorickgarcia 🐦 @yorickgarcia.bsky.social I work for the birds of Chicago while exploring the intersection of technology and environmental sciences with the Windy City Bird Lab.
https://windycitybirdlab.org
🐦🤖📚🚲☕️📷
Julie Sampson @thejsampson.bsky.social IFT| Citizen Action/IL | SSA | Wellstone Alum| Peace Corps.
JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social Writer. Illustrator. Joto.
Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social I co-host #VibeCheckPod. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World.
My next book HOME OUT THERE comes out in May.
I live in Cambridge, MA. 🦃
Dan @pigeonscout.bsky.social Dad. Wife Guy. Toby Ziegler Wannabe. Star Wars Enthusiast.
@whoopsimbailey.bsky.social @whoopsimbailey.bsky.social Actor B*tch Cats Dogs Eavesdroper Feral Goddess Hungry Im Just Kidding Look My Next Obsession Probably Quivers, Rightfully So, Thinking Unashamedly, Vices Won't Xplain Your Zeal
Anders Lindall @alindall.bsky.social 
KC @kcstralka23.bsky.social Leslie Knope Wannabe | Insufferably Proud Chicagoan | Rom Com Aficionado | Washed up athlete | MUBB Fan | 🇺🇸 Opinions are my own
Chasse Rehwinkel @crehwinkel.bsky.social Chicagoan, Public Finance Nerd, CFO of Devon Bank, I teach banking @harrissocial.bsky.social, Frm. Chicago City Comptroller, Frm. Director of Banking for Illinois - posts are my own!
Jamie Bernstein @ DragonCon @uajamie.bsky.social chicago, data scientist, public policy girlie, recovering blogger
host of the EnterpriseSplaining podcast, a comedy podcast about Star Trek Enterprise (she/her)
bes'bev 🍉 @besbev.blacksky.app ☭ middle-aged, disabled, Irish-American, bi/pansexual enby in the Deep South. AuDHD. Chronic pain. SJW. Nerd. Geek. Rape survivor. (they/them/their or kaysh/kaysh/kaysh)
Rabid Star Wars lover.
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. Opinions are my own (but they are correct)
https://mattdpearce.substack.com
Protect Bridgeport Bicyclists @stevevance.net Chicago, zoning, ADUs, transportation, maps
my blog: http://stevencanplan.com
my business: http://chicagocityscape.com
BUILD: https://buildforil.org/
John @localcelebrity.bsky.social he/him Product Strategist. Printmaker. Chicago, comics, & punk rock. Anti-tech-bro tech worker. Privacy wonk. Opinions mine. Millennial cringe. Probably on my bike. Say hi.
📍 ✶✶✶✶
🔗 subism.com/links
Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social Suburbanite. Sustainable transportation advocacy, for Chicago and Chicagoland. #BuildTheTunnel
“The smart, transit-oriented [social media] account” -Chicago Tribune
Planning, building, breaking, rebuilding.
Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social Midwest correspondent at The Economist, in Chicago. Before that, in London, Mumbai, Nairobi and DC.
Buy my book: http://shorturl.at/BJOUV
whet moser @whetmoser.com newsletters @ nyt. ex qz, chicago mag, chicago reader. i'm not a miracle worker, i'm a janitor
kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net Unheil-bringer. lithium prince. architecture critic @thenation.com
my blogs are https://late-review.com, https://wehwalt.net and mcmansionhell.com
she/they
Maya Dukmasova @mdoukmas.bsky.social Senior reporter at Injustice Watch. Citizen of Flavortown. Chicago Reader alum. Send your courts tips.
Headshot: Varvara Mikushkina
Cover photo: Brian Cassella
Beautiful Women Updates @aoife.bsky.social great lakes secessionist | ask your therapist about me (she/her)
Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social Chicagoan, journalist, photographer, author, copy editor, flâneur. https://www.robertloerzel.com/
Soren Spicknall (currently being annoying about visiting NYC) @sorenspicknall.bsky.social Chicago. Interested in how places are shaped. Friend to alley cats. I don't speak on behalf of my affiliations. he/him
"We know this world is good enough because it has to be."
Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com (He/Him) Folk Technologist • anthony.moser@gmail.com • N4EJ • http://www.BetterDataPortal.com • baker in The FOIA Bakery • http://publicdatatools.com • http://deseguys.com • #1 on hackernews when you search for "hater" • anthonymoser.github.io/writing/
Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀 @bebopott.bsky.social ✶✶✶✶ devout Chicagoan || a blog called SILLY PRIZES || AudHD socialist rabble-rouser || doesn't have much plot significance but that doesn't stop him from chilling || "an account" per Chicago Sun-Times
Jonathan (Jonny) Ballew @jballew.bsky.social Journalist turned Defense Attorney.
Criminal Defense Trial Attorney. Public Defender in Illinois.
Bodéwadmi Ndaw (I am Potawatomi)
Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social ✶ State investigations editor at https://illinoisanswers.org/ ✶ https://www.jim-daley.com/ ✶ DM for Signal ✶ He/him
Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social Professionally disagreeable senior Chicago politics reporter for @wttw.bsky.social News
TomTom @tomtomchi.bsky.social Urban planner, friend to animals, bike/transit rider, Chicago fag against fascism
Ryan 🏳️🌈 @pyry.lutefisk.online Language stuff, city stuff, bus stuff, inane posting, Uralic facts. World reknowned lutefisk influencer. Elder millennial, gay for cities. Feral Chicago fanatic (yes, in Chicago!) from Minneapolis, by way of Portland and others. 🏳️🌈
❅ ❅ ❅ ❅
Alice Yin @aliceyin.bsky.social City hall reporter at the Chicago Tribune. Bay Area native. Chicago’s greatest instant ramen chef. Has a crush on lake michigan. ayin@chicagotribune.com
Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social Chicago journalist. Formerly The People’s Fabric.
Co-founder @UnraveledPress.com.
Got a tip? Signal is @sheld.01. Email:steve@unraveledpress.com
Injustice Watch @injusticewatch.org Injustice Watch is a Chicago-based nonprofit journalism organization that examines issues of equity and justice in the Cook County court system. https://linktr.ee/injusticewatch
South Side Weekly @southsideweekly.bsky.social News, arts, and investigations by and for Chicago's South Side. southsideweekly.com 
Zak Yudhishthu @zyudhishthu.bsky.social Sidewalk enthusiast and adopted Midwesterner (formerly Twin Cities, Chicago). I write and research about housing and cities. PhD student at UW-Madison.
https://pencillingout.substack.com/
https://zakyudhishthu.github.io/
foxyjewishmama @foxyjewishmama.bsky.social Sammy (she/her) Chicago-based architecture worker, cyclist, pedestrian, transit rider.
r o n y t h e b i k e c z a r @ronythebikeczar.bsky.social Bike Cities Food Systems Data Coffee Tea Bread Cat Former Coastal Elite Person
¡matt! ✶✶✶✶ @mattfromchicago.bsky.social just an idiot
✶✶✶✶
he/him
A. Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social One-time applicant for Chicago Alderman. Love books, history, movies, & architecture. Sometimes Too Online, but working to never be Terminally Online.
Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social Active transportation 🚲🚶🚇 • Climate and land use 🌳🌆 • Chicago politics 🌬️ • Dad x2 • Tweets and opinions my own • he/him
A.D. Quig @adquig.bsky.social Cook County, Chicago City Hall and Obama Presidential Center reporter for the Chicago Tribune. Hoosier. aquig@chicagotribune.com
DLS @forensicgarlic.bsky.social Chicagoan. Valpo grad. Member of Half Acre Cycling. Awesome Foundation. Occasional Karaoke singer. Anti Fascist. Radically pro-transgender.
David Teeghman 🇵🇸 🌏🚴🏻🌹 @teeghman.bsky.social West Sider, YIMBY, biker and organizer. @sierraclubchicago.bsky.social executive committee chair. Radicalized former public school teacher.
Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social Chicagoan. Research interests in race, environmental justice, and transportation issues in Latine communities.
Big Data Energy @jmochicago.bsky.social Multidisciplinary nerd. Use Qual+Quant data for sensemaking. Wrangle data & skip trace for fun. Business & organizational ethnographer. Tweets = my own. Will always be up for talking about public ed and nonfiction. Fueled by Ethiopian coffee. 
Molly Fleck @mollyfleck.bsky.social The best goddamn dancer at the American Ballet Academy
Jake Wittich @jakewittich.bsky.social 🌈 Managing Editor and LGBTQ+ news reporter for @windycitytimes.com
📧 Sign up for our newsletters! https://windycitytimes.com/newsletters/
📍: Chicago
Municipal Corporation @nikhunder.com (hire me policy professionals) Lighter of people, policy person, @chirppradio.org DJ. Bike guy. Chicago Dog stan. Doesn't proofread. Chicago by way of Cleveland | 🇳🇴
Streeterville Socialist @pasta-nachos.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🇬🇷🏴
I build robots, complain about Chicago’s mass transit, and do gay stuff. Sometimes all three at once
pasta_nachos on the hellsite
Ryan McCray @ryanmccray.bsky.social Printers Row and North Center
rory 🇵🇸 @kierkegaardvark.bsky.social chicagoan (naturalized), socialist (champagne).
Michelle @michelle345.bsky.social Chicago
PRO biking/walking for transportation
ANTI car-dominated streets
PRO cities/housing/flâneusing
Violin/guitar/art/weather/travel
1st generation American 🇩🇪 🇺🇸
#northDLSD #bikeCHI #ClarkStCorridor
Shylo @shylo.bsky.social California heart, Chicago home
Totally exhausted unclaimed treasure
Neighbors For Environmental Justice (N4EJ) @n4ej.org N4EJ is a grassroots, 501(c)3 nonprofit fighting for environmental justice on Chicago's Southwest Side #NoMatAsphalt
We already know enough to act.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/n4ej
📧 info@n4ej.org
bit.ly/IneffectiveByChoice
bit.ly/ChicagoPaidToPollute
Capt. Jack Sharrow @sharrows.bsky.social We are all we’ve got. We are all we need. ✊🏽
Community Organizer 🚲 @cyclingxsolidarity
AJ LaTrace @latrace.bsky.social Senior reporter at Inman
Previously: Business Insider, Chicago magazine, Curbed
aj at inman dot com
Susannah Ribstein @susannahribs.bsky.social Realtor at Compass. Specializing in the communities of the South Side. South Shore resident. Real estate, architecture, preservation, parks advocacy 🔗 https://www.susannahribsteinrealty.com/
Ryan Richter, AICP @ryanjrichter.com Transportation/urban planner. Fascinated with cities, geography and the movement of people and goods. Chicagoan. ryanjrichter.com
Christopher Silber @csilber.bsky.social In the weeds | Chicago housing and property tax system research | UIC | DePaul | geography, journalism, etc. | He/Him | Views = my own
Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social Chicago’s home. Interested in where we’re going and how we get there, in the very literal sense.
All opinions mine, he/him.
jean @jeanniebabies.bsky.social bikes, transit, housing, chicago. in a band called hard femme. bureaucrat in training
Kevin Zolkiewicz @zolk.bsky.social designer • engineer • tree advocate • urbanist • 🏳️🌈
Tony Coppoletta @tonycoppoletta.com Likes food. And trains. And cities. Info designer in transit. Made in Chicago. (Personal acct)
tonycoppoletta.com
Also super pro-trans and anti-facisct because I'm a decent human being.
He/him 🏳️🌈
Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social Personal account. Housing Director at Impact for Equity, a law and policy center in Chicago. Former policy director, Chicago Dept of Housing. Book "The Battle of Lincoln Park" on the origins of gentrification in Chicago.
danielkayhertz.com
HSRGood @hsrgood.bsky.social Trains.
I don't have enough of them.
(21)
ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social Chicago, local government, YIMBY, queer, Texan, Longhorn
🧦🏳️🌈🚰 🤠
he/him
unraveled @unraveledpress.com Independent, reader-supported investigative reporting from Chicago on policing and state violence.
Support us: unraveledpress.com/support-unraveled/
📧 info@unraveledpress.com
📱 Signal: unraveled.66
Eric Hundman @ehundman.bsky.social China analyst and research director at BluePath Labs, scholar, sometime artist. 中文通（非中国通), sci-fi geek, ex-STEM. Security, tech, and foreign policy in China + Taiwan. Views my own. 🏳️🌈
http://www.erichundman.com/
Chicago is home. 
David Powe @davidpowe.bsky.social Transportation planner working on making biking, walking, rolling & riding safer & easier | Care deeply about transparency | Posts are my own ofc
Kurtis Pozsgay @kpozsgay.bsky.social Certified urban planner. Letter "B" love: Books, Bikes, Beer, Bowling, Bocce. Malort. 
lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social notably sexy rascal | he/they | Chicago
Brian Harrington @bharr.bsky.social 
babski @babski.bsky.social Adam · I like bikes and the bus · he/him
🪩🌌🐎
Chicago via MN
Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social Chicago Reader music writer
imleor.carrd.co
Jessie @jessiesteckling.bsky.social transit/bikes & data person
John Amdor @johnamdor.bsky.social 'John Amdor needs to get out more.' -Capitol Fax commenter, March 19, 2018
tweets without punctuation or capitalization are by cricket
Maia McDonald 💫✌🏽 @maiamcdonald.me award-winning chicago journo, funky fashion enthusiast, and pink girlie™ 💖
✳️ prev: @raceandequityproject.org | vice president of the chicago journalists association | mizzou j-school alum | find me at maiamcdonald.me and @maia.pink | views are my own
just matt @questionableway.bsky.social illinois irredentist
Thomas Bamonte @thomasbamonte.bsky.social Chicago. Transportation law, policy, and technology mostly. Senior Advisor, Metropolitan Planning Council. Views my own. One ticket, one timetable, one network....
Audrey Henderson @audreyhenderson.bsky.social Journalist, writer, and researcher. Chicagoland by way of Upper East Tennessee (i.e. a genuine hillbilly). Pronouns: She/her/hers
sean w mcguire @seanmcguire.bsky.social architect, chicago
McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge @mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social Started as updates from an artifact from a significant South Side club that has been spared the scrap heap. Now mostly other Woodlawn/Chgo history. Jazz & minutia. Infrequent posts.
Katie Prout @katieprout.bsky.social features writer, Chicago Reader: harm reduction, homelessness, and chicago/rust belt history.
proud member, Reader Union
kprout@chicagoreader.com; signal katie.507
https://www.katieprout.com/