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Ben Szalinski @benszalinski.bsky.social Statehouse reporter for Capitol News Illinois | UIS PAR grad | Sports opinions mine | bszalinski@capitolnewsillinois.com 
Brian Mackey @brianmackey.com Host of the @21st.show, the statewide NPR talk show and podcast for Illinois.
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Ben Bradley @benbradleytv.bsky.social 4pm news anchor and investigative reporter at @wgntv.com in Chicago. For those who @ me, try to be kind.
Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com Breaking news since 1847.
Eric Zorn @ericzorn.bsky.social Editor of the Picayune Sentinel, former Chicago Tribune columnist, aspiring boulevardier, old time fiddler. Always on the lookout for funny posts. 
Joe Mahr @joemahr.bsky.social Chicago Tribune investigative reporter. Ohio native. Co-recipient of Pulitzer + finalist.
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In case you’re wondering..it’s pronounced [Nah-Bee-Lah].
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Samantha Smylie @sammiesmylie.bsky.social Figuring out my next steps.
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Christine Hatfield @christine.21st.show producer of Illinois Public Media's @21st.show, journalist, trans nerd. 🏳️🌈📻🏳️⚧️ she/her. based in Champaign-Urbana. past: UIS PAR '21, WPR.
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Nell Salzman @nellsalzman.bsky.social Local investigations fellow @nytimes / originally from Denver
Jerry Nowicki @nowickipress.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief at Capitol News Illinois.
Ann Dwyer @anndwyer.bsky.social Editor of Crain’s Chicago Business
Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social Husband of one, father of four. Writer and other things. What was your favorite part of the day?
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Will Lee @midnoircowboy.bsky.social Windy City journalist/cheeky bastard. I love Soul music, toys and the 1980s. Also pie>cake.
@lynnsweet @lynnsweet.bsky.social I'm the Chicago Sun-Times Washington Bureau Chief.
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Mike Miletich @mikemiletichtv.bsky.social WAND TV Illinois Capitol Reporter
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Cook County Record @cookcountyrecord.bsky.social Reporting on litigation, decisions and trends in Chicago's civil courtrooms, as well as the political and cultural realms that influence them
Jason Meisner @jmetr22b.bsky.social Chicago Tribune reporter covering the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse and criminal justice issues in Chicago.
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John Sahly @johnsahly.bsky.social Managing Editor, Shaw Media
Grace Kinnicutt @gkinnie.bsky.social Journalist at The Dispatch-Argus/Quad-City Times • Quad Cities IL/IA• popcorn fiend 🍿
Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social Forklift-certified journalist in Chicago. Words in the Chicago Reader, Unraveled Press, The TRiiBE, South Side Weekly, Courthouse News Service and some other ones I forget right now. All opinions & bad jokes my own. DM me for news tips/Signal info.
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Alex Nitkin @alexnitkin.bsky.social Government Finance & Accountability reporter,
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Ray Long @raylongchicago.bsky.social Retired Chicago Tribune investigative reporter, 40+years govt/pols/scoops: 2x Pulitzer Finalist, 7 govs, City Hall, Obama, Burke, Madigan.
Author: The House That Madigan Built
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IBA Newsroom @ibanewsroom.bsky.social Online resource for Illinois broadcast news managers, reporters, producers, photographers and students. Features tips, guides, Illinois Open Meetings & FOIA
Jeremy Gorner @jeremygorner.bsky.social Illinois State Capitol reporter for the Chicago Tribune
Daily Herald @dailyherald.com Employee owned. Covering Chicago's suburbs. Big Picture. Local Focus.
WAND News @wandnews.bsky.social WAND News is Central Illinois' best source for news and weather. Send your tips: news@wandtv.com
Bob Ambrogi @bobambrogi.bsky.social Lawyer/journalist covering #legaltech and innovation at my blog LawSites and podcast LawNext, both at www.lawnext.com. Also run the #legaltech directory directory.lawnext.com, and host Legaltech Week live every Friday at 3 ET www.youtube.com/@legaltechweek
Mark C. Palmer @palmerlaw.bsky.social #LegalTech #AI #Ethics #Mentoring ⚖️💡 | Chief Counsel, Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism | Fastcase 50 | Adjunct Professor | twins’ dad ☕️ drinker #Illini alum🔶🔷
Anne Caprara @annecaprara.bsky.social Chief of Staff for Governor JB Pritzker.
A continually aggravated Philadelphian making her way in the great city of Chicago.
CWBChicago @cwbchicago.bsky.social Chicago crime and public safety news
Jamie Ludwig @jamieludwig.bsky.social Indulging my many sound fixations. Writing. Coffee. Music. Projects Editor @chicago_reader. Freelance everywhere. (Illustration by @berhuff.)
Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social Chicagoan, journalist, photographer, author, copy editor, flâneur. https://www.robertloerzel.com/
Jonathan (Jonny) Ballew @jballew.bsky.social Journalist turned Defense Attorney.
Criminal Defense Trial Attorney. Public Defender in Illinois.
Bodéwadmi Ndaw (I am Potawatomi)
Andy Masur @andymasur1.bsky.social AM Drive Sports Anchor, Host of “The Hamp & OB Show” on WGN Radio | WGN TV Chicago | Play-by-play MVC Basketball | Former MLB play-by-play (Cubs, Padres and White Sox) | Dog lover | Photographer
john j. kim @jkimpictures.bsky.social 📷 @ Chicago Tribune
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Adriana Pérez @adrianaperez.bsky.social she/her/ella ✶ Environment and climate change for @chicagotribune.com 🌱 Sometimes immigration and breaking news. Notre Dame alum. Ecuadorian.
Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social Criminal justice for the Chicago Tribune, ckubzansky@chicagotribune.com. @ctguild.bsky.social. Consulting maps from earlier days
Araceli Gomez-Aldana @araceligomezaldana.bsky.social Journalist
Reporter/Host @WBEZ
Past: JSK Fellow @jskstanford.bsky.social
greta johnsen @gretamjohnsen.bsky.social freelance podcast host/ interviewer open to gigs!!! / GRETAGRAM newsletter / co-host of official HBO pods for GAME OF THRONES and DUNE: PROPHECY / book nerd / professional curious person
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
olivia obineme @oliviao.bsky.social in the journalism, community media space
no longer on twitter/x
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thirdnook.co
South Side Weekly @southsideweekly.bsky.social News, arts, and investigations by and for Chicago's South Side. southsideweekly.com 
YTJF. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social Embracing my villain era. Words: @blockclubchi.bsky.social
Invisible Institute @invisible.institute A nonprofit journalism production organization on the South Side of Chicago. Home to CPDP.co, Beneath the Surface, and more. 
Bill Cameron @billjcameron.bsky.social Retired Chicago politics reporter
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
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Patrick Smith @pksmid.bsky.social Co-host of Say More with Mary Dixon
Wendy Fox Weber @tvjedi.bsky.social UNION YES
Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social WBEZ Chicago reporter on public safety and health.
https://www.wbez.org/author/chip-mitchell
Mobile/Signal: 312-286-9986.
Frank Sennett @sennettreport.bsky.social Author of the Rafe Hendrix thriller SHADOW STATE, named Best New Novel by a Chicagoan in the Chicago Reader 2023 Best of Chicago awards. Creative writing instructor in the SNHU MFA program. Editor of Chicago Culture Authority.
Shia Kapos @shiakapos.bsky.social Politics reporter at POLITICO and author of the Illinois Playbook
Kelly Garcia @kellygarcia.bsky.social investigative reporter @injusticewatch | signal: kgarci25.49
Sam Stecklow @samstecklow.bsky.social journalist & FOIA fellow @invisible.institute
indie local news cheerleader
if you were really smart, you’d know what to do
orlando
he/him
cam rodriguez 🔎 @camrodriguez.bsky.social meddling kid / journalist. map nerd, midwest defender, chicago fanatic. 🇲🇽🇺🇲. data @wbez.org & requesting a lot of docs over @foiaday.bsky.social
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Alex Harrison @alexhairysun.bsky.social Reporter @evanstonroundtable.bsky.social, hyperfocused on zoning + city gov + police surveillance • B/MSJ23 from Medill • NKY➡️Chicago • he/him
I do not use generative AI in my work.
Read my stuff: https://evanstonroundtable.com/author/alex-harrison
Manny Ramos @mannyramos.bsky.social Chicago-based Investigative Reporter at @blockclubchi.bsky.social
shawn @mulchy.bsky.social a very serious journalist | signal: shawn.56
Tim Broderick @timbroderick.bsky.social Data and viz, Modern Healthcare, but views here are mine and don't reflect MH. Anyway, I don’t post much. You’re welcome.
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Maia McDonald 💫✌🏽 @maiamcdonald.me award-winning chicago journo, funky fashion enthusiast, and pink girlie™ 💖
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Ariel Cheung @missprint.bsky.social Editorial Director at City Bureau. 📰 Previously Tribune, CS, DNAinfo. Dibs is law ❄️. (she/her) ariel@citybureau.org ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
Michael Hawthorne @scribeguy.bsky.social Midwesterner. Pulitzer finalist. Dig into environment/public health for the Chicago Tribune. Confidential tips welcome via SIGNAL: scribeguy.35
EPL/NBA/MLB obsessive. Victoria Concordia Crescit. https://www.chicagotribune.com/author/michael-hawthorne
Mary Dixon @maryldixon.bsky.social Host of Say More w/Mary Dixon & Patrick Smith on WBEZ.
Former Morning Edition host, former 93XRT
Irish memory ☘️
Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social News reporter, SAG-AFTRA steward, weary Chicagoan. Bird dogging and door stopping, @illinoisanswers. Tell the truth
Amy Qin @amyqin.bsky.social data reporter at @us.theguardian.com covering the trump admin's deleting/altering of public information and data
previously in your ears at @wbez.org
Maya Dukmasova @mdoukmas.bsky.social Senior reporter at Injustice Watch. Citizen of Flavortown. Chicago Reader alum. Send your courts tips.
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Alex V. Hernandez @avhndz.bsky.social Bird Law Scholar.
Chicago journalist.
@loyolachicago.bsky.social Prof.
Co-founder @borderlessmag.bsky.social.
Alum @rooseveltu.bsky.social.
Opinions = Mine.
RTs ≠ Es.
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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social Chicago Reader music writer
imleor.carrd.co
Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social Managing editor at Injustice Watch, a nonprofit newsroom focused on issues of equity and justice in the courts.
Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social TV and film critic for the Chicago Tribune
https://www.chicagotribune.com/author/nina-metz/
Newsletter: Nina Watches Everything
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Dan Hinkel @danhinkel.bsky.social Chicago journalist at Injustice Watch. 
Jared Rutecki @jaredrutecki.bsky.social Investigative Reporter at @wttw.bsky.social News/Chicago Tonight. Past life: Illinois Answers Project, BGA, Columbus Dispatch, ThisWeek News. I cover cops, courts, energy, health, finance, education, pensions etc. Prolific FOIA filer. He/him.
Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social Professionally disagreeable senior Chicago politics reporter for @wttw.bsky.social News
Maxwell Evans @afrodip.bsky.social south shore, woodlawn + hyde park for @blockclubchi.bsky.social. kalamazoo's child. what is it, where is it, how will it affect me
Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social Chicago journalist. Formerly The People’s Fabric.
Co-founder @UnraveledPress.com.
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Jake Wittich @jakewittich.bsky.social 🌈 Managing Editor and LGBTQ+ news reporter for @windycitytimes.com
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Bleacher Nation @bleachernation.bsky.social Chicago Cubs and MLB news, rumors, obsession. | by @Brett-Taylor.bsky.social here.
Kerry Reid (she/her) @kerryreid.bsky.social Theater and Dance Editor for the Chicago Reader. Usual disclaimer that all opinions are my own alone. . .
Grace Del Vecchio @delvecchiograce.bsky.social 💻editorial program manager @citybureau | Union household @cbworkersguild | Philly ➡️ Chicago
Britt Julious @britticisms.bsky.social Music critic for Chicago Tribune. Occasional freelance writer and editor. The last girl on the dance floor. 🪩✨
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shakeia @curlyfro.bsky.social NBA, The Athletic. live, not memorex.
A.D. Quig @adquig.bsky.social Cook County, Chicago City Hall and Obama Presidential Center reporter for the Chicago Tribune. Hoosier. aquig@chicagotribune.com
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