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48 degrees, AQI of 24, and no sun, wind, or rain is the most civilized weather.

Also props to Kevin Morrison. A lot of electeds show up at detention centers for photo ops & leave. I know this was personal for him, but he was clearly there to get this woman found and freed, not for a commemorative "Well, I tried" t-shirt.

It's unfortunate that current events keep taking place here, but Matthew Eadie has done a stellar job covering them. Evanston Now is has risen to the occasion, much like The Tribe and Unraveled.

So CBP kidnapped as US-born citizen upon re-entering the country, lied to lawyers and law enforcement about it while secretly transfering her out of state to disappear her, and released her after media and pols got involved?

36 hours later, Sunny's family still doesn't know where she is.
#WhereisSundas

Credit: @reedforcongress.bsky.social

updates from cook county commissioner on a very weird and concerning situation in broadview

This is insane? Like, every aspect of it??

Updating: The woman is Sundas "Sunny" Naqvi, a current resident of Skokie who was born in Evanston

Afzul said her sister and her five coworkers were returning from Turkey after a work trip to India was canceled. She traveled to Bulgaria and Austria before flying back to Chicago on Thursday

CBP detained her for "irregular travel history," Afzul said.

BREAKING: U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained three U.S. citizens and three Green Card holders, including an Evanston resident, at O'Hare Thrusday afternoon

At least one, an Evanston woman, is currently being held at Broadview's ICE facility, her sister told me

A line of very low clouds, plus long shadows from tall buildings, over Lake Michigan in Chicago.

Looking good, Lake Michigan.

I was looking for a rainbow but didn't find one. I'm also not surprised to learn there was a tornado across the lake in MI. My spidey senses were going off today.

Grammatical nonsense aside, it hadn't occurred to me before that changing the name would obfuscate the difference between human lives and stocks. A bit too on the nose.

View of the Chicago skyline in the distance looking south from Evanston, IL. // Image captured at: 2026-03-06 17:03:08 UTC (about 3 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: windy.com // Current Temp in Evanston: 54 F | 12 C // Precip: heavy intensity rain // Wind: S at 1 mph | 2 kph // Humidity: 96%

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!!! I love this song so much.

Chicago Poetry: Then and Now, Black, White, and Brown Chicago literature always grapples with two fundamental questions: What is this place, Chicago? And who are we, Chicagoans?

Y'all: Spaces are still available in my @newberrylibrary.bsky.social online seminar for this term! It's a discusson of Chicago poetry, from Sandburg and Brooks to our lucky city's contemporary poetry Renaissance: Coval, Olivarez, Marshall, and Ewing. Check it out: www.newberry.org/calendar/chi...

From what I've read it sounds like a meeting of right-wing governments hashing out security and trade deals like the Five Families with the intention of becoming the Western Hemisphere version of the Axis powers.

I wanted to take care of the animals.

I tried to run away with a circus that came to my town.

I have an urn of my cat's ashes next to my mother's and several cats' plaster paw print memorials.

Thyme, cedarwood, bergamot & hemp seed oil bath. Foggy violet sky & Jazz Noir playlist. Blanc de blancs, carrot ginger soup, baguette, tangerines & dark chocolate.

I had to learn what the Shield of the Americas is from an article in The National Interest which was critical of it.

It's a US-led group of right-wing governments in the Americas. Honestly pretty creepy stuff.

If you told me last October Bovino and Noem would be out, I would have cried tears of relief. Now I am so incapable of having any positive emotions re: this administration that the main man could suffer a fatal cardiac event on live TV and my disgust and distrust would remain unchanged.

Absolutely thriving in this spooky fog.

View of the Chicago Harbor Lighthouse from one of the cribs located in Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2026-03-05 06:00:01 UTC (about 7 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: glerl.noaa.gov/metdata/chi/ // Current Temp in Chicago: 40 F | 4 C // Precip: overcast clouds // Wind: N at 2 mph | 3 kph // Humidity: 96%

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I need my cold, slim, steel Zebra F-301s. Plastic pens feel icky!

My grandfather was a bootlegger, ammunitions manufacturer, and alderman. My grandmother was a beautician.

No idea about the other side. They were farmers at some point.

In like a lion! I do love a sodden March. Give me all the clouds and fog and rain and mud. So dramatic and atmospheric.

The Chicago Stock Exchange itself should never have been demolished. This exquisite room is one of the few vestiges of it that remain, & it is absolutely outrageous that it should be endangered again.

Architects: Adler & Sullivan, 1894
Demolished: 1972
Reconstruction Architects: Vinci & Kenny, 1977

Oh you must read Too Loud A Solitude by Hrabal. It's a slight novella, but you'll never forget it. And Kundera, obviously. I like Skvorecky. You may also want to check out the surrealist Nezval and the Devetsil.

I wish I knew more about Czech women writers and contemporary Czech lit.