Steve Daniels
@stevedaniels27
Editorial board of the Chicago Tribune. Former business journalist. Apologies in advance for music and sports tweets.
As always, @paranoiacs is spot-on. Great piece on all those sanitized rock documentaries we're getting of late nytimes.com/2025/07/24/mag…
.@chicagotribune editorial: Illinois' electricity crisis draws nearer, as our ComEd bills are showing. Springfield needs to act — pragmatically, not ideologically chicagotribune.com/2025/07/24/edi…
Getting swept by @whitesox is hazardous to your future employment
BREAKING: The #Pirates are expected to relieve GM Ben Cherington of his duties. Likely announced tomorrow.
.@chicagotribune editorial board: Intense war of words between @GovPritzker and @StateFarm on the nosebleed cost of insuring homes is serving no one. There should be plenty of room to negotiate chicagotribune.com/2025/07/16/edi…
.@chicagotribune editorial: Why Kraft Heinz's decision to split in two is probably bad news for Chicago chicagotribune.com/2025/07/15/edi…
Tiffany Henyard 2.0? How her successor in Thornton Township maneuvered to keep her six-figure salary: wgntv.com/news/wgn-inves…
Good morning from the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse, where sentencing for the first “ComEd Four” defendant, ex-ComEd exec John Hooker, is set to take place more than 2 years after the trial ended. As Hooker himself liked to say, “Drop and do.” Background: chicagotribune.com/2025/06/30/fed…
Chicago faces one of the grimmest budget years in ages. @ad_quig with the gory details chicagotribune.com/2025/07/13/upc…
Who better than @PWSullivan to remember the now dearly departed Lee Elia and his rant for the ages on the Bleacher Bums? chicagotribune.com/2025/07/10/lee…
Everyday we stray further from god's light.
Introducing our new burger of the moment. The Miss American Pie. Our house burger with cheddar cheese, apple pie filling, vanilla ice cream and nilla wafer crumbs. Come say Bye Bye to this!
“Nothing good is going to happen with these owners.” @BillSimmons thinks that the Bulls are the no. 1 team that future NBA owners should try to buy.
Ken Burns' Civil War captivated the country 35 years ago. He looks set to do it again with the forthcoming "American Revolution." The timing couldn't be better wsj.com/arts-culture/t…
Ray Long, an icon of Chicago and Illinois journalism, walked out the door for his last day. Anyone living in this state should appreciate his dogged reporting and aggressive fight against corruption. Please salute my friend and colleague.
.@chicagotribune editorial: Independent restaurants are hanging on for dear life. @ChicagosMayor needs to backtrack on eliminating the subminimum wage for tipped workers, or more like Gale Street Inn will close chicagotribune.com/2025/06/29/edi…
.@chicagotribune editorial: A larger rival wants to buy @NorthernTrust. If Bank of New York Mellon is successful, it would be a tremendous blow to Chicago chicagotribune.com/2025/06/23/edi…
Wow he really is an honest to god White Sox fan
In our competitive society, where it seems that only the strong and winners deserve to live, sport also teaches us how to lose. It forces us, in learning the art of losing, to confront our fragility, our limitations and our imperfections. It is through the experience of these…
.@chicagotribune edit board on the Madigan verdict chicagotribune.com/2025/06/13/edi…
Blakey rules Madigan gets enhancements as a leader and organizer, citing several wiretaps and trial evidence: “Madigan acted as the central command post of the entire bribery scheme, and but for his leadership role in it, none of it would have occurred,” Blakey says.
Interesting anecdote from Blakey. Leinenweber oversaw the "ComEd Four" trial, which was all about bribing Madigan
Judge Blakey tells Madigan about a conversation he once had with the late Judge Harry Leinenweber about sentencing defendants. Blakey says Leinenweber told him, "the day it's easy is the day you have to quit." Blakey: "I'm not in danger of quitting today."