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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 · 08/10/2026
"...there you were/kneeling by the roadside/with your little toolkit/fixing something."
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Two people have quoted the same line of New Testament to me in the last week: "Vengeance is mine, said the Lord." From Romans 12:19
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In other news, there is an alarmingly cute group of kids on a field trip to this Chicago Public library branch. One of them keeps peering over some benches to raise her eyebrows at me
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
News: 14 y/o boy critically wounded in West Ridge. Per police source was a drive-by where the shooters fired from a Blue Honda Accord. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/10/02/b...
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Boy, 14, critically wounded in West Ridge shooting: police
The boy was hit in the back of the head and taken to Lurie Children’s Hospital in critical condition.
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Seen on one: “THE BOOMERS SOLD US OUT”
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I like seeing all the graffiti on the cars
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
SDs vs. Kings, Latin Counts. Western Metra stop.
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Jason Meisner @jmetr22b.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
JUST IN: Lawyers for Marimar Martínez, the Chicago woman shot 5 times by a Border agent during Midway Blitz, will file a federal lawsuit Monday alleging new ballistics analysis shows Agent Charles Exum was not in harm’s way when he opened fire Background: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/11/m...
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Marimar Martínez lawyers say officials ‘created a culture of violence’ among agents
Lawyers for Marimar Martínez, the Chicago woman shot by a Border Patrol agent in October, said evidence released this week “shows the world” that Trump administration officials “have created a culture...
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Congrats to our friends and colleagues at the Daily Herald. That's a nice vote tally there
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mark has now landed in alternate response. I saw him out at a different standoff between some ICE agents and neighbors earlier this summer. His district has also seen a spike in gun violence this year, background here if you need it: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/03/c...
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In Back of the Yards, a wave of shootings highlights long-term questions in a city trying to build on historic progress
Near South Side areas endure bigger share of gun violence suffering, costs despite progress fighting crime elsewhere in the city.
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The original subject of the probe, ex-Chief of Patrol Jon Hein, was cleared of any wrongdoing in May and retired in June. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/27/b...
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Ex-chief of patrol cleared of wrongdoing in follow-up to Border Patrol shooting
Chicago police investigators have closed a probe into former Chief of Patrol Jon Hein’s actions in the hours that followed a high-profile shooting by federal agents during Operation Midway Blitz, newl...
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Joseph Mark, who led the 009th District, was SPAR'd (formally disciplined) earlier this summer, records show. He's one of at two 009 supervisors to get dinged for an investigation into how CPD handled the aftermath of the Marimar Martinez shooting in Brighton Park.
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
News: A CPD commander who was recently disciplined for his role in one of the most chaotic days of Midway Blitz has been removed from his patrol post and is now leading the alternate response section (policing Siberia). www.chicagotribune.com/2026/10/01/c...
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Commander disciplined in ‘Blitz’ response moved out of patrol leadership
Cmdr. Joseph Mark, who has overseen the Deering (9th) District since July 2024, will now lead the department’s alternate response section.
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
74th/Maryland
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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
Chicago/Rockwell
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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
Fair point.
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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
** if you're a nerd and watching the news at 5:30 on a Friday
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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 · 04/09/2026
Octopus made me smile
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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
S/o to the fellow riding his bike past the scene on the sidewalk blasting Nirvana
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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
Via Dan Petrella & @adquig.bsky.social. Anyone who says the suburbs are boring is simply not paying attention
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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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