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Caroline Kubzansky

@ckubzansky.bsky.social
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Criminal justice for the Chicago Tribune, ckubzansky@chicagotribune.com. @ctguild.bsky.social. Consulting maps from earlier days

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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 22h
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
"...emerging from an extended blackout, I'd walked out into the early spring in Portland, Oregon and seen flowers in a planter on the corner. I thought to myself then: 'you don't seem to have died yet, fancy that.'" @themountaingoats.bsky.social
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Inbox: 44 people applied to be the next superintendent of CPD.
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I have been waiting for the release of this song, by Six Foot Blonde, since I first heard it January — probably the most meaningful piece of music of my whole year. It's on their new album Hummingbird www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhEg...
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Drinker's Dozen
YouTube video by Six Foot Blonde - Topic
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sure why not
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My newsroom has shown what it's made of this last year. We're all set to band together again — this time to fight for solid local journalism at the bargaining table.
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Can I offer you an egg in this trying time
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This place over everything. Makes good days better and hard days a little less hard
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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A city on guard: What the raids left behind after Operation Midway Blitz. Our latest story with @andrew-carter.bsky.social @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social and @ckubzansky.bsky.social @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/13/c...
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A city on guard: What the raids left behind after Operation Midway Blitz
It’s been a year since the Trump Administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz.” What it left behind can be measured in the number of neighborhood patrollers, people who keep a wary eye from apartment balc...
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I'll be on WTTW's Week in Review at 5:30 today, talking about the year anniversary of Midway Blitz, the FBI investigation of John Catanzara, renter protections and City Council shuffling among other topics. You can watch if you like** here: news.wttw.com/recurring-se...
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The Week in Review | Chicago News | WTTW
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A very good, very sad read from Tess Kenny and Jason Wambsgans
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"If I ever want to drive myself insane All I have to do is watch your breathing And at 5 a.m. I turn the radio on And an old man's voice sings a short, sweet song" - There Will Be No Divorce, The Mountain Goats www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMBj...
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There Will Be No Divorce
YouTube video by The Mountain Goats - Topic
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This business with OpenAI and the Navier-Stokes solution has put me in an absolutely terrible mood
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
News: Federal investigators subpoena'd the IL Fraternal Order of Police last year for financial records and other documents relating to Chicago FOP president John Catanzara, per a copy we reviewed. W/ @samjcharles.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/08/f...
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Feds demand FOP president John Catanzara’s financial records from state union
Federal investigators issued a subpoena to the state police union late last year in an apparent probe into Chicago’s FOP President John Catanzara’s financial dealings, according to a copy of the docum...
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
As if there weren’t enough problems in the world to start bsky.app/profile/chic...
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I am the resident sedimentary rock of the Chicago Tribune
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Listening: Wild Mountain Thyme, The Longest Johns cover www.youtube.com/watch?v=74r_...
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Wild Mountain Thyme
YouTube video by The Longest Johns - Topic
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
News: The LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter experiment found something. Not clear if it is dark matter (which is all around us but has never been detected). The scientists behind it think there is a 0.5% chance that what they're seeing came from a known source, per news release www.science.org/content/arti...
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World’s biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle
It’s far too early to declare a discovery, physicists with the LZ detector say
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is now a homicide.
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Man, 35, critical after he was shot at 2340 W. 18th. Can see almost nothing from here but I counted three evidence markers. This is the last block of the 12th district and the second shooting in these few blocks for the summer.
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
15 shot, one fatally, in Washington Park last night. Rifle casings recovered, per sources, among two sets of shell casings on either side of Cottage Grove Ave. This is the largest mass shooting the city has seen this year, by our count. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/30/m...
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Mass shooting in Washington Park leaves 1 dead, 14 injured in Chicago’s largest shooting this year
A mass shooting in Washington Park Saturday night became the city’s largest of the year when Chicago police reported that a total of 15 people had been shot.
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Friend, A, yesterday came into possession of an ocarina (miniature flutelike object). So far the two tunes he has attempted are “Hard Times Come Again No More” and “Pneumonia” by Dem Atlas
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Seen at 21st and Hoyne
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Interesting to get a look at this guy after several years. He was calm for someone who’s facing hundreds of thousands of $ in fines and decades behind bars if he were to be convicted.
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Chicago Sun-Times Guild @cstguild.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Join us in demanding no layoffs due to AI from Chicago Public Media! Emails for CPM’s management are in the reply ⬇️
White text on black background with the Sun-Times Guild logo faintly behind it:

Chicago Public Media wants the "flexibility" to be able to lay off union journalists if it thinks our work can be replaced by Al.

We demand no Al layoffs during our next contract.

Join us in demanding a fair contract and tell CPM what you think!
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"Political soap opera with the potential to reshape competitive races for Congress and the Cook County Board" unfolding in SW suburbs. "The vehicle for that reckoning is, of all things, a Freedom of Information Act request." www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/27/k...
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Kiss video at center of Lyons Township FOIA fight could impact Cook County Board, Congress races
Surveillance video showing a kiss between Lyons Township Clerk Elyse Hoffenberg and Bridgeview Mayor Steve Landek has become a political flashpoint in both a Cook County board race and the race for Il...
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
If you want to be Chicago’s next superintendent of police, you have til Sept. 24 to apply
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The boy who faced Immigration Court Judge Shawn Abraham Wednesday needed the microphone lowered before his hearing could begin. His feet didn’t reach the floor. He is 12 years old. W/ Madeline Buckley www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/26/c...
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Immigration judges in Chicago deporting abused, neglected children in violation of their due process: attorneys
An immigration judge entered removal proceedings against some of the children, despite their attempts to seek a longheld legal protection to remain in safety in the United States due to abuse or negle...
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Chicago Sun-Times Guild @cstguild.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Today our members showed up to bargaining to once again tell Chicago Public Media we're asking for real protection: • No layoffs due to generative Al • No cutting hours or pay because of GenAl • No eliminating future jobs to make room for GenAl • GenAl can't write or create our editorial content
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Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Illinois law says local officials can't help federal agents deport people. So how did so many residents end up on ICE's radar through information shared by local police, sheriffs, and prosecutors? I filed 394 FOIA requests to find out. (An @injusticewatch.org partnership with @theintercept.com!)
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Illinois promised to protect immigrants. Local officials helped deport them anyway.
In over a third of Illinois counties, cops, sheriffs, and even prosecutors helped federal immigration agents route at least 150 people into the deportation system since Trump returned to office, despi...
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"Bleed out, bleed out, bleed out, bleed something sweet/oh bleed me dry, hard candy/it couldn't kill me/rip my heart out/pull it out of a cavity, rotting sweet/take a bite and taste it/spit it out and waste it" Listening: "Carmilla," Six Foot Blonde www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MN5...
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Six Foot Blonde - Carmilla (Official Video)
YouTube video by SIX FOOT BLONDE
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armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
People argue with federal agents while they conduct immigration enforcement actions in the Mckinley Park neighborhood Monday afternoon in Chicago. Story from Evgenia Anastasakos and Caroline Kubzansky: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/24/m...
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Two tow trucks later, the agents are gone. Rapid responders had to plead with the crowd to get out of the second tow’s way - they argued that with more agents around the city they needed to focus their attention on arrests that could still come.
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
33rd and Wolcott: roughly 50 people standing and yelling at, filming federal agents. Evidently waiting for a tow following a crash. Local aldermen onsite. 009th district brass onsite for CPD. @chicagotribune.com
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Mary Oliver: "May I be the tiniest nail in the house of the universe, tiny but useful. May I stay forever in the stream."
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Chicago Sun-Times Guild @cstguild.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The Chicago Sun-Times Guild is fighting for generative AI protections at the bargaining table. Follow along as we continue to push for a fair contract.
White text on black background reading:

“The Chicago Sun-Times Guild is fighting for protections against generative Al at the bargaining table.

Here's what we're asking for ->”

as well as the Sun-Times Guild Local 34071 logoWhite text on black background with the Guild logo faintly behind it reading:

“We're asking for real protection:
• No layoffs due to Al
• No cutting hours or pay because of Al
• No eliminating future jobs to make room for Al
• Al can't write or create our editorial content”
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Listening: Docket, by Blondshell and Bully www.youtube.com/watch?v=if2j...
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Blondshell - Docket (feat. Bully) [Official Visualizer]
YouTube video by Blondshell
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Police oversight officials recommended two South Side cops have their police powers stripped after they found that they'd tried to pry an arrestee's mouth open with a pair of tongue depressors while he was handcuffed to a hospital bed. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/19/c...
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Two CPD officers recommended for firing after allegedly drawing blood from suspect with tongue depressors
The Civilian Office of Police Accountability is recommending that two Woodlawn (3rd) District police officers be fired after finding that they drew blood from an arrest subject while trying to pry open his mouth with a pair of wooden tongue…
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Went temporarily insane and started writing about baseball www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/18/m...
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Man arrested and charged with slugging spectator at Wrigley Field during City Series
Just after the Cubs beat the White Sox in Monday night’s City Series opener, Chicago police were called to Wrigley Field and found paramedics attending to a man with a nosebleed.
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Before authorities found 56 corpses inside South Chicago Chapel and before Heights Crematorium was shut down, Evergreen Park police found a minivan with two decomposing corpses inside. Per a police report, the van belonged to Clark and Johanna Morgan. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/17/d...
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Years before corpses found at South Side funeral home, owners left decomposing bodies in van: police
An Evergreen Park police officer was immediately suspicious when he found a running Chrysler minivan with two clearly decomposing corpses inside.
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
So far the picks for off-key karaoke somewhere in this Loop office building include "Creep," "Hey There Delilah" and "Can't Help Falling in Love With You." Uff da
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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Missed opportunities, incomplete investigations preceded discovery of 56 bodies at funeral home — our investigation into systemic failures in the Illinois death care industry. There’s a lot here. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/15/f...
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Missed opportunities, incomplete investigations preceded discovery of 56 bodies at funeral home
The ongoing investigation into South Chicago Chapel is just the latest grim incident involving the so-called death care industry and highlights weaknesses within state law and enforcement.
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
@midnoircowboy.bsky.social made sure I knew exactly who Yummy was when I started midwatch three years ago and I still think of his case once or twice a week. This was crazy to see.
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Really lovely morning in 018
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I would thoroughly recommend this, by Joshua Yaffa, for anyone who is interested in war and conflict reporting. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Inside Russia’s New Gulag
Human-rights groups estimate that more than ten thousand Ukrainian civilians have disappeared into the Russian prison system. This is the story of one cell in the new Gulag.
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The moral of the story is that it can always get weirder
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
News: Two custodians were fatally shot Monday afternoon at Mark Twain Elementary School in Garfield Ridge. With Kate Armanini and Tess Kenny, photos by @mandophotos.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/10/t...
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Two fatally shot at Mark Twain Elementary School: police
A man and a woman were both in critical condition Monday afternoon after they were shot inside Mark Twain Elementary School on the city’s Southwest Side, according to a preliminary police notification...
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Listening: Folk Song in C by Elliot Smith www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ROQ...
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Elliott Smith - Whatever (Folk Song In C) (from New Moon)
YouTube video by Kill Rock Stars
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Body removal has wrapped at the South Chicago Chapel, where 57 corpses were found Thurs. Per sources, officials encountered bodies on gurneys but also on shelves alongside equipment. Some of the bodies were not bagged. Some appeared to have severed limbs. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/07/c...
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Removal of remains from South Deering funeral home continues as investigation unfolds: ‘It’s devastating’
Authorities on Friday continued to investigate after the remains of more than 50 people were recovered Thursday at a South Deering funeral home on the city’s Southeast Side.
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"And it's gone to shit without you/It was shit before, but at least I had you/No, there ain't nothing to report/But I hope you're bored and headed north." In my opinion this song is both extremely funny and extremely sad www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NZP...
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Headed North
YouTube video by Noah Kahan - Topic
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