Dan Mihalopoulos
@dmihalopoulos
Investigative reporter on @WBEZ's Government & Politics Team. Encrypted email for your confidential story tips: [email protected]
"This could be a stunt, quite frankly " Julie K. Brown, an investigative journalist for the Miami Herald who is widely considered the reporter who took down #JeffreyEpstein, speaks to @ErinBurnett about the #Trump administration effort to speak with #GhislaineMaxwell about…
Day after former CEO sentenced to prison in Springfield scandal
ComEd electric customers stung by a recent price hike that led to soaring electric bills are unlikely to see any relief next year. trib.al/KeAa25G
Sad to hear about Tom Durkin's passing. We met when he was defending Daley aide Robert Sorich 20 years ago and spoke about many of his cases since. He was deeply proud of Leo High and his family - including daughter @aedurkinricher, AP's DOJ reporter chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries/202…
There was a sailboat race on Lake Michigan this weekend when the water and the sky were the same exact color. This created the optical illusion that the boats were sailing in the sky!
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.@NeilSteinberg: Passing on elected offices in Chicago and Illinois like it's wedding china or a Patek Philippe often has worked out poorly for the rest of us. Walter Burnett is only the latest to treat his City Council seat like a precious heirloom chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/202…
Two of the "ComEd 4" corruption convicts have been sentenced to prison terms for their roles in the Madigan scandal. The other two face sentencing in the next couple weeks chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-corrup…
Thanks @capitolfax for highlighting this story as "Today's Must Read" on its must-read Illinois political blog capitolfax.com/2025/07/21/tod…
«Τούτη η δίψα δε σβήνει τούτη η μάχη δε παύει χίλια χρόνια αν περάσουν δεν πεθαίνουμε σκλάβοι» 🇨🇾 #ItIsAnOccupation Λογαριάσατε λάθος - Νταλαρας youtu.be/WAnvHNM4q7s?si… via @YouTube
Congress voted to claw back federal funding to public media. Some of those hit hardest include community radio stations in areas that voted for the president. npr.org/2025/07/20/nx-…
We solemny mark 51 years since the illegal Turkish invasion and continuing occupation of 37% of the territory of our beloved homeland. 20.07.1974 51 years in breach of international law and the UN Charter. 51 years of gross violations of all Cypriots' human rights. Our…
51 χρόνια παράνομης τουρκικής εισβολής και κατοχής στην Κύπρο. 20.07.1974 51 χρόνια μετά, η Τουρκία κατέχει παράνομα το 37% της γης μας, ο υπεύθυνος βάσει όλων των αποφάσεων της διεθνούς κοινότητας για τη συνέχιση της παραβίασης των ανθρωπίνων δικαιωμάτων του συνόλου του…
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by President Trump that attempted to sue Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward for publishing interviews during his first administration in an October 2022 audiobook called “The Trump Tapes.” wapo.st/4kNUZXE
Trump sues Murdoch for libel over Jeffrey Epstein letter story bbc.in/3GIfuXZ
Chicago could face a bill in the hundreds of millions of dollars for #police overtime in a long-running case involving 8,500 current and ex-#CPD employees, @dmihalopoulos reports. A former union lawyer says settling early would have cost just $14 million. wbez.org/investigations…
City Hall wouldn't pay $14 million for cop overtime. Now, it might have to pay at least $195 million. Story by @dmihalopoulos chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/…
Chicago City Hall wouldn’t pay $14 million for cop overtime. Now, it might have to pay at least $195 million. wbez.org/investigations… @dmihalopoulos @WBEZ @Suntimes
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That’s it. Congress has officially killed federal funding of PBS, NPR and local stations across the U.S. after decades of thwarted attempts.
Memories are short, but it wasn’t that long ago at all that Susana Mendoza ran for mayor and finished way out of the money amid stories about her ties to disgraced Ald. Danny Solis wbez.org/shows/wbez-new…