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What are some good Chicago history books? Not looking for any topic in particular, it can relate to any part of Chicago history
Nader Issa
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Nader Issa
@NaderDIssa
Reporting @Suntimes. Leading @CSTGuild. Schooled @LoyolaChicago. Tips, insults, threats: [email protected] 🇱🇧
- Jacob Blake is handcuffed to his hospital bed, his dad says, and authorities won't say what he's been arrested for or charged with
- She's naked, handcuffed in her own living room, surrounded by 10 male officers (who kicked in the wrong door, raided the wrong home) and a cop says, "Okay. Okay. You don't have to shout." She's sobbing, another cop says, "Ma'am, ma'am, just relax, alright?" Inhumane, infuriatingWow: Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s law department went to court to try and stop @cbschicago from airing video of Chicago police raiding a social worker’s home. She was changing and naked; police refused to give her the video until a judge ordered them to. chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/12/14/you…
- This is where we're at in buying PPE. An Illinois official sped on a highway to get to a meet-up in a McDonald's parking lot, where she handed off a $3.4 MILLION CHECK to buy N95 masks from China with 20 minutes to spare, beating other bidders.
- Student journalists at WKCR are having to correct professional media, including CNN, claiming the Columbia protesters aren't students. What a black mark on our industry, forcing student reporters to fact-check our unsubstantiated claims while they watch police raid their campus
- A very large crowd is gathering at 71st/Chappel, where Chicago Police say they shot and killed a person this evening. It's hard to put in words how tense the scene is. Witnesses say a female officer shot the man in the back while he was running away. He was a local barber.
- Pro-Palestine protesters have disrupted the #DNC24 delegate welcome party at Navy Pier tonight. Video taken by a source there. "You are funding a genocide. And Harris-Biden administration keeps sending money to Israel. Free Palestine."
00:00 - NEW: Chicago Public Schools has suspended its meal distribution program "based on the evolving nature of activity across the city." The district has given out more than 12.5 million meals since start of the coronavirus pandemic. Remote learning continues, though. Story tk.
- Breaking: Chicago Teachers Union members vote to defy Chicago Public Schools' reopening plans and continue working from home tomorrow because of health and safety concerns, a source says. About 86% of CTU members voted, and 71% of those members approved the collective action
- I wonder if instead of "violent protests over the police shooting of a Black man" we in the news media could start to say "protests over the violent police shooting of a Black man"
- Chicago high schoolers are now sitting in City Hall calling for the City Council to pass a Gaza ceasefire resolution
Hundreds of high school students across Chicago walked out of their schools Tuesday to demand City Council pass a Gaza ceasefire resolution. "We don’t want to see any hypocrites." chicago.suntimes.com/education/2024… - Replying to @NaderDIssaThe crowd just finished chanting "Who do you serve? Who do you protect?" The crowd formed within two minutes after the shooting, witnesses say.
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