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What's the *worst* spot for traffic in Chicago? Tell us about your experience and we'll add it to our map: blockclubchi.co/40U2pl5

The Barrel That Launched A Sour Beer Movement Is Now At Chicago's Off Color Brewing The barrel, known as pH1, has been used by at least a half dozen craft brewers, helping pave the way for wild fermentation in the U.S. Off Color founder John Laffler is ready to talk about what he put...

Our goal is always to tell a story and capture unique moments in place and time with our wild fermentation beers. @blockclubchi.bsky.social takes a look at an iconic barrel that embodies all that and more. blockclubchicago.org/2025/06/25/t...

The barrel that launched a sour beer movement is now at Chicago’s Off Color Brewing. blockclubchi.co/4k5rOyY

The Barrel That Launched A Sour Beer Movement Is Now At Chicago's Off Color Brewing The barrel, known as pH1, has been used by at least a half dozen craft brewers, helping pave the way for wild fermentation in the U.S. Off Color founder John Laffler is ready to talk about what he put...

Chicago's @offcolorbrewing.bsky.social is now home to the one barrel widely credited with launching the U.S. sour beer movement in the early 2000s. I report on how the "beer famous" pH1 barrel got here and have the scoop on what John Laffler just put in it.

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WE'RE HIRING: Block Club is looking for an experienced, passionate Investigative Editor to help lead our investigative team, The Watch.

Deadline: 6/27. Learn how to apply here: blockclubchi.co/4e1XWSF

Piping plover parents Imani and Sea Rocket have successfully hatched chicks on Montrose Beach again. blockclubchi.co/467GCtt

One of the three chicks of Imani and Sea Rocket the piping plovers at Montrose Beach on June 23, 2025. Credit: Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago

Imani and Sea Rocket the piping plovers at Montrose Beach on June 23, 2025. Credit: Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago

Imani the piping plover at Montrose Beach on June 23, 2025. Credit: Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago

One of the three chicks of Imani and Sea Rocket the piping plovers at Montrose Beach on June 23, 2025. Credit: Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago

I spent my morning watching the 3 recently hatched piping plover chicks scamper about Montrose Beach alongside parents Imani and Sea Rocket! What a great start to the day, and another great chapter for the endangered birds.

STORY in @blockclubchi.bsky.social: blockclubchicago.org/2025/06/22/3...

BREAKING: An ex-Loretto Hospital executive has been charged with stealing $300 million through COVID testing schemes, prosecutors said. blockclubchi.co/4mXRNem

Live: Assassination suspect apprehended in Sibley County, officials confirm Officials had asked the public for help finding suspect Vance Boelter.

BREAKING: Shooting suspect Vance Boelter was arrested by authorities late Sunday evening in Sibley County, according to a high-ranking state official.

Official: Boelter ‘manifesto’ mainly comprised of names, pieced together from multiple searches Sen. Amy Klobuchar was among the names on the list, which includes members of the DFL Congressional delegation and abortion providers.

What law enforcement first described as a “manifesto” is primarily made up lists of lawmakers and abortion providers, and was found at multiple locations rather than being discovered in just one place, officials said.

Live: Manhunt continues for suspect Vance Boelter in Rep. Melissa Hortman assassination Law enforcement officials asked the public for help finding Boelter.

The search continues for suspected assassin Vance Boelter. BCA Superintendent Drew Evans said authorities haven’t concluded if Boelter is traveling on foot. Authorities believe that he is still alive.

Sen. John Hoffman and his wife are awake Sunday, will issue statement when able The two were shot multiple times by a would-be assassin at their Champlin home early Saturday morning.

“John is enduring many surgeries right now and is closer every hour to being out of the woods,” Sen. Hoffman's wife Yvette wrote in a statement. “We are incredibly lucky to be alive.”

Who is Vance Boelter, the man police identified as suspect in the assassination of Rep. Melissa Hortman? Law enforcement sources identified Vance Luther Boelter, 57, as the main target of a massive law enforcement manhunt after he allegedly fled from Melissa Hortman’s home following a police shootout in the wake of her killing.

Law enforcement sources identified Vance Luther Boelter, 57, as the main target of a massive law enforcement manhunt after he allegedly fled from Melissa Hortman’s home following a police shootout in the wake of her killing.

About 1,000 protestors remain in Daley Plaza following the conclusion of the “No Kings” march, with some attempting to return to the streets to keep marching.

Officers have formed lines at the east & west ends of the plaza to keep them from moving forward.

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7 years ago today, laid-off DNAinfo journalists launched @blockclubchi.bsky.social.

Since then, we've told nearly 28,000 stories.

We’ve grown from 8 to nearly 40 full-time staffers.

And our reporting has changed laws, led to criminal charges + uplifted our city.

Thank you, Chicago. 🙏

NEW: Chicago is bracing for a surge in immigration raids as Mayor Brandon Johnson urges the city to "resist." blockclubchi.co/4dVSG2Y

Thousands of Chicagoans took to the streets Tuesday night to protest ICE raids and the Trump administration's immigration policies. blockclubchi.co/45N9J5i

Thousands Of Chicagoans Take To The Streets To Protest ICE Raids, Trump Immigration Policies Another protest against the Trump administration is being planned Saturday for Daley Plaza as part of a nationally coordinated series of demonstrations.

Thousands Of Chicagoans Take To The Streets To Protest ICE Raids, Trump Immigration Policies blockclubchicago.org/2025/06/10/t... via @blockclubchi.bsky.social

A few thousand anti-ICE protesters are marching their way through downtown Chicago. Currently they’re on Wacker Drive and passing Trump Tower, which is blocked off by salt trucks.

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Chicago Police Officer Krystal Rivera Was Killed By Friendly Fire, Police Say Rivera, 36, had a young daughter and had been with the Police Department for four years when she was killed on the job Thursday night.

Chicago Police Officer Krystal Rivera Was Killed By Friendly Fire, Police Say blockclubchicago.org/2025/06/06/c...

We Don’t Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right’s Supreme Court Supermajority The inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that remade the American legal system — and what he plans to do next.

Who is Leonard Leo?

He's a lawyer, but he's never argued a case in court. He's never held elected office. But for years he rebuilt the American legal system, resulting in the Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority.

By @andykroll.bsky.social‬
(Published Oct. 2023)

Chicago created a task force to tackle anti-trans violence. Can it make a real difference? blockclubchi.co/3HpTn8B

ICE Mass Arrest Sparks Chaos In South Loop As Activists Fight To Disrupt Operation At least 10 people were arrested at check-ins under an ICE monitoring program for immigrants and an alderman said he was thrown to the ground by agents while protesting the arrests.

ICE Mass Arrest Sparks Chaos In South Loop As Activists Fight To Disrupt Operation blockclubchicago.org/2025/06/04/i...

Chicago museums and libraries are feeling the sting of Trump funding cuts. blockclubchi.co/4kLXcU9

UPDATE: Secret Service agents — not ICE — were denied entry at a Chicago school despite initial CPS reports, a CPS source said.

Secret Service agents were looking for an 11-year-old who posted an anti-Trump video, the source said. https://buff.ly/3EatFDz

FBI searching autism centers in Minneapolis, St. Cloud after finding ‘substantial evidence’ of health care fraud Federal law enforcement suspects many autism centers are billing the state for services not actually provided to young Minnesotans with autism spectrum disorder.

FBI searching autism centers in Minneapolis, St. Cloud after finding ‘substantial evidence’ of health care fraud
By @smontemayor.bsky.social and @deenawinter.bsky.social
www.startribune.com/fbi-searchin...