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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Wherefore we, of all who walk the earth?

Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

In a new book about Cook County (America's wrongful-conviction capital), Brown University’s @nvancleve argues that false confessions stem from something more pernicious than shoddy law enforcement. #Chicago #CPD www.wbez.org/criminal-jus...

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

4/4 I RANKED THE CANDIDATES across all four of the congressional races by super-PAC funds supporting and opposing them, according to federal disclosures through Thursday.

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

‘HIS WORD MEANS NOTHING’: Cole Sheridan, 27, was charged with assaulting U.S. #BorderPatrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino near a Chicago-area immigration enforcement facility, but federal prosecutors dropped the case after a video seemed to contradict Bovino’s account. @wbez.org www.wbez.org/immigration/...

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Thousands of #NoKings marchers are making their way past #Trump Tower in downtown #Chicago. I grabbed this view from NBC5’s helicopter stream a few minutes ago.

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

The #Texas #Army #NationalGuard's 36th Infantry Division, now visiting #Chicago, has an award-winning concert band!

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

BREAKING: “We have no fear, kick #ICE out of here,” chant two dozen protesters at a hotel in west suburban Bloomingdale where some U.S. Homeland Security officers have stayed during a #Trump administration #immigration blitz in the #Chicago area.

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

BREAKING: As #Trump plans to send federal agents and #NationalGuard members to #Chicago in the name of fighting violent crime, @wbez.org finds the city had its fewest summer #murders since 1965 and violent crime has remained near its lowest point in decades. www.wbez.org/news/2025/09...

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

BREAKING: About four dozen protesters have found the unannounced suburban Chicago site of a planned news conference with U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Her department says the newser topics include “worst-of-the-worst criminal illegal aliens.” @wbez.org

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

#Chicago #police traffic stops plummeted last year, but the drop varied wildly across the city and sharp racial disparities persisted, a @wbez.org analysis of #Illinois Department of Transportation data has found. #CPD #twill www.wbez.org/data/2025/07...

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Alberto Rojas, a #California bishop letting folks in his 92-parish diocese skip Sunday masses due to fear of #ICE raids, was a #Chicago auxiliary bishop from 2011 to 2019. He worked closely here with Cardinal Blase Cupich and, several times, met Bishop Robert Francis Prevost (now Pope Leo XIV).

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

A bank in #Bogotá, the Colombian capital, is decked out for #pride.

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Mia Contreras, 21, of Libertyville says she turned out to the #Chicago march for her undocumented friends who could not attend. She called on #Trump to “stop running America like it’s a dictatorship…. Immigrants make the USA and now we’re trying to kick them out. It’s just sad.” @wbez.org

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

After a half-hour rally, the #Chicago crowd, now around 1,000 strong, set off on a march to #Trump Tower, chanting: “Donald Trump, you’re a clown. Immigrants will take you down!” @wbez.org and @chicago.suntimes.com

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Hundreds of immigrant advocates are rallying in downtown Chicago, chanting: “No hate, no fear! Immigrants are welcome here!” @wbez.org and @chicago.suntimes.com

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

A "young, vibrant and hard working" #Chicago police officer who was shot in the chest during a pursuit last night on the South Side has died, #CPD said. @schuba.bsky.social on it.

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

#Chicago #police officers dismissed a female recruit’s claim a male colleague sexually assaulted her. Then #CPD fired her. What happened to the alleged assailant? He was accused again and again. chicago.suntimes.com/police-refor...

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

BREAKING: #Chicago finished this past month with the fewest #murders of any April since 1962, a @WBEZ analysis has found. The month’s 19 murders make 115 so far this year, the lowest January-through-April tally since 2014. www.wbez.org/cpd/2025/05/...

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

NEW: With a nearly three-year robbery surge in the rearview mirror, #Chicago numbers plunge to historic lows, @wbez.org finds. The first three months of 2025 had the fewest #robberies of any quarter in decades. www.wbez.org/criminal-jus...

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

BREAKING: Cook County Public Defender Sharone Mitchell's office slams State’s Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke for pulling prosecutors from charging decisions in some gun-possession felonies. His office says letting police officers decide on charges increases risks of injustice.

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

1/2 BREAKING: Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke is expanding a pilot effort to pull prosecutors from charging decisions in some nonviolent Chicago gun-possession felonies.

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

BREAKING: #Chicago’s murder count keeps falling. The year’s first quarter had 96, 15% fewer than the first three months of last year and the fewest of any quarter since early 2019. Data analyst @jeffasher.bsky.social on @wbez.org points to a national trend. www.wbez.org/criminal-jus...

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Amid the #Trump/#Musk onslaught, a U.S. senator speaks up. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A Friday announcement by Cook County top prosecutor Eileen O'Neill Burke went mostly unnoticed. Burke, who stressed law and order to win her office last year, is backing an #Illinois bill to ease up on some first-time gun offenders. Imagine the uproar if her predecessor, Kim Foxx, had proposed it.

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Why is @realDonaldTrump ordering sanctions against this Ivy League university? Was it too tough on the Gaza protesters?

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

1/2 BREAKING: Public health advocates in #Chicago City Hall decry the roughly $170 million in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed 2025 budget for 1,155 #CPD sworn officer positions that are currently vacant. They call for shifting those funds to efforts such as …

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

JUST IN: As the #Chicago #Police Department moves at a glacial pace toward complying with its nearly six-year-old consent decree, the nonprofit Impact for Equity says these six reforms would have the biggest impact and spur more reforms. www.impactforequity.org/wp-content/u...

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

It's not often a chief judge's press release will make your day, but this one just might: "Nine children will be joined to seven loving families on Friday at a National Adoption Day ceremony hosted at the Daley Center courthouse." www.cookcountycourt.org/news/nine-ch...

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

BREAKING: #Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson underbudgets for #police lawsuits as actual spending soars. www.wbez.org/criminal-jus...

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

1/9 When Cook County top prosecutor Kim Foxx steps down December 1, Lake County's Eric Rinehart will be the only Chicago-area state’s attorney from a national wave of progressive prosecutors. (Photo by Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

It's fascinating that #KamalaHarris's 53.5% of the #Illinois vote lagged so far behind the 60.3% of voters statewide who answered "yes" to the advisory question asking whether millionaires should be taxed an additional 3% of their income to raise funds for property-tax relief.

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

1/6 Interviewed for WBEZ’s “Reset” (91.5 FM right now!), the major candidates to replace Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx talk about issues you might not expect in this race: #abortion and #immigration.

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

Now that #Chicago has deactivated #ShotSpotter, the city is trying to replace it. A request to vendors seeks technology that improves #CPD detection of violent crime and, unlike ShotSpotter, covers the entire city and includes a tool for community members to help cops.

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

Loyola University Chicago is reporting on #Illinois’s elimination of cash bail a year ago. Among findings, the percent of defendants detained at initial court hearings plummeted, jail populations shrunk, failure-to-appear rates dropped and crime rates kept falling. pfa-1yr.loyolaccj.org

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

#Colombian President Gustavo Petro arrives to a South Loop hall to speak to hundreds of Colombians in #Chicago. He starts by denouncing Trump’s “terrorist” accusations against #Haitian migrants in #Springfield, Ohio. He likens the former president to Hitler.

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

FUN FACT: 89% of @WBEZ funding comes from listener and community contributions. YOU maintain our independence. YOU enable us to deliver news you can trust, every day. Plus, giving TODAY enters you to win a trip for two to MADRID! Friends, do your part: donate.wbez.org

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

2/3 Ahmad Jitan of @imancentral, whose family fled its home in #Palestine in 1948, sang a poem that dates to nonviolent resistance to French colonial rule in #Senegal. The poem declares love for the “lord of the worlds.”

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

1/3 A candlelit vigil last night at #Chicago's Montrose Harbor remembered the tens of thousands of people killed by #Israel in #Gaza since the Oct. 7 #Hamas attacks. Speakers included Christian, Jewish and Muslim faith leaders. #DNC #DNCChicago chicago.suntimes.com/live/2024/08...

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

The Fraternal Order of Police lodge for #Chicago cops is serving hundreds of them lunch. Patrol officers are telling me the entire department is working 12-hour shifts for eight days to provide security for the #DNC.

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 12/08/2024

BREAKING: #Chicago top cop Larry Snelling tells a luncheon that “not having any major violent crime events” during the air-and-water show and Bud Billiken parade shows “that where we're deploying our people has been helpful” and bodes well for the #Democratic National Convention.

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 29/07/2024

1/9 Many international reactions to #Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s claimed reelection yesterday were predictable, but I found a few quite interesting.

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 29/07/2024

I'm so psyched about this. As far as I know, it's Chicago's first all-girls baseball league. Hardball!

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 23/07/2024

SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY? The U.S. incarceration rate is more than double Russia's rate, nearly four times China's rate and nearly seven times Canada's rate, the Prison Policy Initiative reports. Only El Salvador, Cuba and Rwanda lock up more of their people. www.prisonpolicy.org/global/2024....

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

Just a few months ago, the Fraternal Order of Police warmly thanked Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson for dropping the city's opposition to an annual police pension hike and for agreeing to double some annual pay raises scheduled for cops. This week, the union sent this to its 10,000 members.

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