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Chicago Politics

Chicago 312: Pay No Attention to the Water Bills Behind the Curtain

May 14, 2026

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6 min read

Chicago 312: Pay No Attention to the Water Bills Behind the Curtain

A data center stole 30 million gallons of water, the Obama Center's anti-displacement ordinance was never used once, and Geneva is about to decide whether your boss can keep calling itself an algorithm.

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Chicago Politics

Chicago 312: Words Are Killing Ken Griffin

May 7, 2026

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4 min read

Chicago 312: Words Are Killing Ken Griffin

This week: Walgreens closes another South Side location, Ken Griffin is mad at Mamdani for the same reasons he supposedly left Chicago, and data centers aren’t a real revenue solution.

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Chicago Politics

Apr 30, 2026

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4 min read

Chicago 312: It's Not Just A Newsletter -- It's a Newsletter About Eileen O'Neill Burke Refusing to Investigate Federal Agents

This week: the Feds egged on Midway Blitz, the Doom of the Clipping Economy, Democrats found a platform, and Springfield's about to let the millionaires tax die.

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Chicago 312: Your Boss Asked Claude If 312 Is Funny (I Hope It Said Yes)

Apr 23, 2026

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4 min read

Chicago 312: Your Boss Asked Claude If 312 Is Funny (I Hope It Said Yes)

Post Midway Blitz, Pre-Tax the Rich, and a very funny thing that happened to Alex Jones this week.

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Why It Matters That Ray Lopez Loves Fox News

Apr 16, 2026

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6 min read

Why It Matters That Ray Lopez Loves Fox News

This week's 312: Everyone hates data centers, how to survive 'the clip economy,' and the robots are very sorry about the bus stop.

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Sam Altman Discovers the Four-Day Workweek

Apr 9, 2026

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11 min read

Sam Altman Discovers the Four-Day Workweek

This week's 312: Waymo could come to Chicago, the One Fair Wage vote in Springfield making changes deeper than pivoting to video.

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You Can't Reject the National Guard and Then Shrug at ICE

Apr 2, 2026

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10 min read

You Can't Reject the National Guard and Then Shrug at ICE

This week's 312: Snelling faces the public (?), Johnson pulls out the veto pen again, and Springfield tries to give tipped workers a 30% pay cut from 200 miles away.

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Michael Sacks Would Like You to Know He's the Real Victim Here

Mar 26, 2026

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12 min read

Michael Sacks Would Like You to Know He's the Real Victim Here

This week's 312: National news continues to unprecedent, the Right Wing media machine is grinding content about Chicago crime, and data centers, data centers everywhere. Plus: who is Michael Sacks and why can't he read the room?

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Chicago Politics

Chicago 312: City Council Votes to Freeze Tipped Worker Wages, Just Because

Mar 19, 2026

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11 min read

Chicago 312: City Council Votes to Freeze Tipped Worker Wages, Just Because

This week: Election, More Election, City Council, Raja Krishnamoorthi's lack of open bar

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Movement Communciations

How to Build a Post-"Nobody Nobody Sent" Chicago Politics

Mar 17, 2026

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5 min read

How to Build a Post-"Nobody Nobody Sent" Chicago Politics

The Chicago Machine died a while ago, but the Zombie Machine lived on. Tonight might kill it once and for all. (One more piece of 09 content)

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Chicago Politics

A $1.6 Billion Agency You've Never Thought About on the Ballot Next Week

Mar 14, 2026

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5 min read

A $1.6 Billion Agency You've Never Thought About on the Ballot Next Week

Three seats on the water agency that controls $1.6 billion and whether your sewer backs up. Here's your cheat sheet for March 17.

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Chicago Politics

Chicago 312: Raja Krishnamoorthi Wants to Abolish the ICE He's Taking Checks From

Mar 12, 2026

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11 min read

Chicago 312: Raja Krishnamoorthi Wants to Abolish the ICE He's Taking Checks From

This week: Mayor Johnson declared a budget victory over no one in particular and Raja Krishnamoorthi's donor list is not the greatest!

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Chicago Politics

Chicago 312: Kristi Noem Doesn't Know Who You Are (But She's Sure You're a Terrorist)

Mar 5, 2026

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12 min read

Chicago 312: Kristi Noem Doesn't Know Who You Are (But She's Sure You're a Terrorist)

This week: CCPSA, the Bears bidding war, Kansas attacks on trans people. Also, what are you reading?

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Feb 25, 2026

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1 min read

Thank You from Chicago 312

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Chicago Politics

Feb 24, 2026

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7 min read

Maria Pappas Never Claimed to Be a Nun

Long live Maria Pappas: a Chicago character in every era.

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Chicago Politics

Jan 18, 2026

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11 min read

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Trump threatens $3B in cuts, CCPSA stalls on CPD-ICE investigation, and Edgewater NIMBYs sue to reverse upzoning.

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Movement Communciations

Vertical Video For People Who Hate Making Vertical Video

Nov 19, 2025

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13 min read

Vertical Video For People Who Hate Making Vertical Video

Why organizers need vertical video, and how it builds narrative power.

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Movement Communciations

What Campaigns Keep Getting Wrong About Creators

Nov 11, 2025

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13 min read

What Campaigns Keep Getting Wrong About Creators

Part of a new Chicago 312 segment on movement communications and narrative: what's working, what's not, and what's possible.

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Chicago 312: Pay No Attention to the Water Bills Behind the Curtain

Chicago 312: Words Are Killing Ken Griffin

Chicago 312: It's Not Just A Newsletter -- It's a Newsletter About Eileen O'Neill Burke Refusing to Investigate Federal Agents

Chicago 312: Your Boss Asked Claude If 312 Is Funny (I Hope It Said Yes)

Why It Matters That Ray Lopez Loves Fox News

Sam Altman Discovers the Four-Day Workweek

You Can't Reject the National Guard and Then Shrug at ICE

Michael Sacks Would Like You to Know He's the Real Victim Here

Chicago 312: City Council Votes to Freeze Tipped Worker Wages, Just Because

How to Build a Post-"Nobody Nobody Sent" Chicago Politics

A $1.6 Billion Agency You've Never Thought About on the Ballot Next Week

Chicago 312: Raja Krishnamoorthi Wants to Abolish the ICE He's Taking Checks From

Chicago 312: Kristi Noem Doesn't Know Who You Are (But She's Sure You're a Terrorist)

Thank You from Chicago 312

Maria Pappas Never Claimed to Be a Nun

🚨 Chicago 312:

Vertical Video For People Who Hate Making Vertical Video

What Campaigns Keep Getting Wrong About Creators

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