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Nearly 7 years after he resigned as Chicago Public Schools CEO amid scandal, Forrest Claypool is returning to the civic arena as an author - of what appears to be a hagiography of his former boss Rich Daley. Let's look back a bit at his last act as a public servant? /1

Full disclosure: Lauren FitzPatrick and I reported extensively on the situation that led to Claypool's downfall for Chicago Sun-Times. This story was a "tick-tock" of the matter that we wrote after Claypool resigned /2 chicago.suntimes.com/2017/12/11/183…

From Neil Steinberg -->> You don't have to have children to enjoy life. They do help. Unless they don't. chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/202…

My new favorite Chicagoan shown below in purple gorgeous braids and purple top // CPS - Chicago Public Schools students issue the grades in cafeteria taste test chicago.suntimes.com/education/2024…

Hello? It shouldn't take a reporter's phone calls to get people — particularly elected officials -- to pay their overdue city bills chicago.suntimes.com/editorials/202…

Who’s paying for Chicago’s Democratic Party convention? Voters won’t have the full picture till it’s long over -Mitchell Armentrout tells you all about it 📷chicago.suntimes.com/2024-democrati… **reposted because dumb typo in last version

This Taft High School student's artwork to be featured at the Democratic National Convention -- via Erica Thompson chicago.suntimes.com/2024-democrati… #DNCConvention2024

PolitiFact is live fact-checking former President Donald Trump's Q&A session today at the National Association of Black Journalists Convention and Career Fair in Chicago. Follow along here. #NABJfactcheck politifact.com/article/2024/j…

The crowd is cheering for real life fact checking #NABJFactCheck

Welp, the Q&A ended abruptly before Trump could address Project 2025. #NABJ24

There is undoubtedly a reason why Will Lewis, one month before taking over the Post, sought to intimidate me from covering the story in December and then to buy me off with the offer of an exclusive interview on his big plans for the Post. (I declined.) /con't.

There's certainly a reason why Lewis pressured Sally Buzbee not have the Post follow my reporting or subsequent developments involving him in hacking-related cases in March & again in May. But did Lewis believe he'd succeed in preventing the story from ever coming out?

$10M cash withdrawal drove secret probe into whether Trump took money from Egypt wapo.st/3SxAkvO

Over at #Threads. Come find me??? // #journalismthreads

Hey, I'm on #BlueskySocial now, too: bsky.app/profile/bylaur…. On hiatus from this Bird Site.

I love Fran Spielman > I hate this platform so let me sing the praises of my FRIEND + MENTOR who taught me how to NEWSMOM, as she marks 40 years at the Chicago Sun-Times IS she the longest serving City Hall reporter... ever? As kind as she is classy + tough, now you know how much j'adore

Congratulations to Fran Spielman on her 40th anniversary as @suntimes City Hall reporter! Seriously, though. Are there any other City Hall reporters in the country with a longer tenure? Kudos, Fran.