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Annie Zak
@annie_zak
Editor & writer, economy/labor/essays. Previously in Alaska. Past: . Midwest forever. she/her
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Ok everyone should watch this movie i adored it
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Replying to @RaxKingIsDead
Dinner in America is somehow both enraged and adorable, and remembers the 90s without an air of nostalgia.
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In 2022, six unhoused Chicagoans I knew died preventable deaths. My first piece in 2023 is a long story about their short lives. It’s also about the rest of us: the deaths we accept, the lives we don't, & our role in them.
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don't make me use my Reporter voice on here
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"Nonprofit hospitals—which make up ~half of hospitals in the US—were founded to help the poor.
But a Times investigation found that many have deviated from those charitable roots, behaving like for-profits, sometimes to the detriment of patients' health"
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Recent egg sitch really got me reminiscing on that sweet, sweet food supply chain beat
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Two-flat of Logan Square, aged 116 years.
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croz posted like 20 times yesterday, dude went down posting. a first ballot hall of fame posting legend
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How is the “doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo” part of Suite Judy Blue Eyes just so perfect
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As the 10th anniversary of the 2013 Chicago Public School closures approaches, I looked into how the schools have been repurposed, sold, reused, or left vacant, and the forces that have shaped their outcomes. Read it in here:
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Third year of this pandemic, and I'm thinking again about the devastation of structural abandonment, not just in who it kills and who it leaves vulnerable, but also in the ways this callousness has infiltrated the rhetoric of care.
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Brick arches--700 block of S. California, Chicago
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U.S. local newspapers are dying at a rate of 2 per week. By 2025, a third of them will be gone. If you’re not convinced that’s a doomsday-level threat to democracy, read this state-by-state list of what local reporters uncovered in 2022. It’s a sample of what we stand to lose.
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HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED what books are banned in your state's prison system? After a YEAR of records request, today we published a searchable database of all the banned books list we could get our hands on - more than 54,000 titles.
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[1:47 PM 12/20] Impacts from this storm will be driven by the combination of cold, wind, and snow rather than snow alone. Don’t let your guard down by unimpressive snowfall forecasts; the combined effects will lead to dangerous travel conditions. #ilwx #inwx
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Doing some reading on the 2011 blizzard as we all prepare to cancel all plans
I'll tell you who died in White Lotus: me, after having to listen to all those North American hermit thrushes singing in the background of a Sicilian resort. Those birds aren't found anywhere near Europe!
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Investors are buying larger shares of homes in predominantly Black neighborhoods than ever before with the rate being the highest in South Shore, a stones throw away from the incoming Obama Presidential Center.
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I will never in my entire life not think of The Fugitive when Lee Crooks says Merchandise Mart
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Will sell arm or leg for Jack white empty bottle tickets. If you are a freak please inquire
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lol chicago friends someone please help me get a ticket to the jack white empty bottle show wednesday S.O.S. etc.
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My best friend’s incorrect response to my excitement about news that Jack White will play Empty Bottle this week
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Several people in sitka opened their cans of sweet potatoes only to find collard greens,lol. The community fb page is blowing up
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Yes I do in fact feel disloyal whenever I’m on a Metra line different than the one I grew up on
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Putting aside the issue at hand here for a second, one incredible thing I learned while reporting this was that Archie's is the top seller of 12oz Hamm's cans in the entire US. The bar sold around 50k in both 2018 & 2019, and is at almost 40k this year
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Archie’s Tavern’s iconic Hamm’s sign has been removed by city order, but owners of the 80-year-old bar hope to bring it back. buff.ly/3Xqxs4M
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Our #KimWall Memorial Fund gives $5,000 grants to women or nonbinary journalists whose work carries on Kim's legacy of reporting on "the undercurrents of rebellion." Apply by December 15 at bit.ly/KimWall23.
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Mexico v Poland on Tuesday threatens to rupture the Chicagoland area
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I both miss and very much do not miss this
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AK earthquake Twitter Check-in
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3839 North Alta Vista Terrace
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🧵 Let’s talk about access to voting in the U.S. — it’s starkly unequal.
Our investigation found that 26 states — all controlled by Republicans — made voting less equal in the last 2 years. Here are the states on the “worse” list:
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Oooooo!
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Good morning to our new followers!
We’re the Ghost Bus team from @chihacknight and for nearly six months, we’ve been comparing the CTA’s bus schedules to the ACTUAL service it’s been providing Chicagoans.
Watch this space, because we’re going to show you what we’ve found 
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telling a Chicagoan that you're considering moving to Chicago is like activating a sleeper agent that you thought was already activated. you don't understand how much more Like This we can get.
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Autumn leaves 🍁 at Graceland Cemetery
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Gonna do this for Chicago
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i have spent years building up this knowledge
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In 2012, I photographed 100 Chicago buildings destined to be demolished. This summer I returned to document what had changed over the decade: Nearly every North Side building was replaced while almost none of the South Side buildings were. See :
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