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EXCLUSIVE: Earlier today ICE agents chase after a man in downtown Chicago after he made verbal comments but no physical or threatening contact. The man was able to get away.
Johnson says his Fair Share budget, with taxes on big employers and cloud software, invests in neighborhoods without costing the city growth. Mendoza told City Club those taxes cost jobs, and says her growth plan starts with credit-market confidence and outside investment.
I asked Mayor Johnson today about a line DHS wrote to me: that Chicago police had “a daily presence at the Joint Operations Center” at the FBI during Midway Blitz. He did not dispute it. He said CPD works with federal agents but not with ICE, and he hopes my report shows that distinction. It does. The agents on Sept. 28 were Border Patrol.
The report is here, with the full DHS response. The JOC line is in it. What CPD was doing in that room is the next piece.
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EXCLUSIVE: DHS told me Chicago police had “a daily presence at the Joint Operations Center at the Chicago FBI building.” That line came in a response about the man on the bike. You saw 18 seconds of him. I was there for 105 minutes.
Full report. 48 files measured, every halt timed, the DHS response published in full. I cut the clip and was paid to license it. I owed the rest of the afternoon.
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Chicago has two data center moratoriums. Neither has had a hearing.
Both have sat in the City Council’s Rules Committee since Sept. 23. The Council took no action on Oct. 14, and its next scheduled meeting is Dec. 8.
Part Six, from the public record.
Dec. 8 is the first meeting where a member can move to pull the moratoriums out of Rules. It takes 26 votes.
It is also one day after the deadline to put a question on the Feb. 23 ballot. Ald. Andre Vasquez has filed one asking 40th Ward voters about a data center moratorium.
What the Council did pass on Oct. 14: a 49-0 resolution urging Springfield to pass the POWER Act. In committee on Oct. 8 it was amended to name SB4016 instead of the House bill. SB4016 has had no committee vote.
Read Part Six:
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Christopher Sweat retweeted
Nobel Economist Daron Acemoglu WARNING: AI's Payoff Is NOT What You Think
@DAcemogluMIT
Timestamps:
0:00 Can science survive without democracy?
2:08 Why a Nobel laureate left Berkeley for China
3:58 What Galileo knew that Kepler didn't
5:12 Is peer review undemocratic?
7:41 The optimal amount of scientific heresy
10:06 Science isn't slowing. So what broke?
12:06 The design choice behind echo chambers
14:49 One rule that would fix social media
19:26 Should Elon Musk have this much wealth?
23:49 AI is a design choice, not destiny
Flock cameras are just one of many endpoints in Chicago, but they are the ones people understand. Red light cameras have been around for decades. Closed-circuit cameras have been in place even longer. Censors are everywhere in the city.
Around 1:40 central time on October 4, 2026, outside of Seat Geek Stadium an unknown type of explosive device was tossed and detonated near the crowd. You can see a man reacting to the explosion. This occurred at the “Crusaders March” hosted by Jake Lang in Bridgeview, Illinois, where a number of counter-protestors showed up as well as multiple law enforcement agencies from around the region.
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Earlier today, as Jake Lang & crew exited at 2:23pm in Bridgeview, Illinois, outside of Seat Geek Stadium crowd intervention became more persistent, objects were thrown, and windows were broken on vehicles.
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According to our source on the ground, ILEAS Mutual Aid Response Team is on the ground outside of the Seat Geek Stadium as crowd clashes escalate in Bridgeview, Illinois. GrayStak/Meridian
Multiple clashes are occurring with Jake slang as protestors and counter protestors engage outside of the Seat Geek Stadium in Bridgeview, Illinois. GrayStak/Meridian