Will Lee
@MidnoirCowboy
Windy City editor, cynic, console gamer, Soul music lover, cereal & #ClassicTV expert, crime examiner, pop culturalist & cheeky bastard. #Noir and #BondCourt.
Pinar helped make sure the evening desk hummed and filled in any gaps she found. The night shift will be harder because of her absence.
Pinar Istek anchored the night shift on the photo desk, directing after-hours visual coverage of breaking news. She is a proactive leader who looks out for the whole photo desk and was an essential part of dozens of breaking stories.
Bring back punny ledes. (From NBCNews) WASHINGTON — Jeffrey Epstein is dead, but the White House can’t seem to kill his story.
Waves of thunderstorms will periodically affect the area through Sunday with torrential rainfall and a threat for localized flash flooding. Oppressive heat and humidity will also build back into the region going into early next week. #ILwx #INwx
Today, @chicagotribune laid off five guild staff members in a roughly 10% cut to our newsroom. These layoffs underscore a sad but unsurprising failure of leadership by Alden Global Capital, our hedge fund owner, and local management.
They are following this story like WaterGate.
Privateer Rum CEO Andrew Cabot was on overseas work trip when his wife was embroiled in Coldplay ‘kiss cam’ scandal: source trib.al/vev0hFu
Harvey layoffs to hit 10% of city workforce, ongoing financial ‘crisis’ cited trib.al/wNT1dPD
///BREAKING/// Ex-ComEd lobbyist Michael McClain gets 2 years in prison for his central role in a scheme to bribe his longtime associate, House Speaker Michael Madigan, in exchange for the powerful speaker’s help with ComEd legislation. Story to come
Damn, now Chuck Mangione too. whec.com/top-news/roche…
Saddened to hear we just lost an all-time legend, true icon of the culture & American hero all the way from Rochester NY to Arlen TX. RIP Chuck Mangione. x.com/DannyDeraney/s…
If you chose “trampoline park fight,” please see the usher to claim your prize 🏆
JUST IN: 4 facing charges after ‘large’ fight at Northwest Indiana trampoline park wgntv.com/northwest-indi…
A few photos from the Englewood neighborhood as temperatures reach the mid to high 90s, with afternoon heat indexes between 100 and 110 degrees Wednesday in Chicago.
Ask me after tomorrow…
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Oh no. Not on a Jet Blue!
Couple accused of having sex in front of children on flight from New York trib.al/qNYqHCh
anyone in Dallas who cares about their city should do anything within their power to stop this
NEW: Alden Global Capital's MediaNews Group is making a last-minute bid for The Dallas Morning News, which reached a deal with Hearst earlier this month. MediaNews offering $16.50 a share to Hearst's $14 nytimes.com/2025/07/22/bus…
Chicago cop who tested positive for marijuana can keep job, police board rules chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/…
JUST IN: the Dirksen federal courthouse in downtown Chicago is being evacuated as negotiations continue in the lobby with a man reportedly armed with a knife. People are being corralled out the back and told to go east on Monroe. chicagotribune.com/2025/07/22/dir…
Ozzy Osbourne dies: Legendary singer of Black Sabbath passes away at age 76 independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…