Gregory Royal Pratt
@royalpratt
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Chicago Tribune investigative reporter, author "The City is Up for Grabs." Little Village raised. Proud @ctguild. I'm just trying to make my city a better place
Joined November 2009
Read @chicagotribune excerpt from "The City is Up for Grabs: How Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Led and Lost a City in Crisis.” “They won’t burn my city down,” a look behind the scenes at 2020 riots and MLL City Hall. Check it out and preorder
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RT @jangelooff: Five months ago, the NYPD claimed the teen in the below photo – 15 year old Camden Lee – was behind the mass shooting at t…
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RT @nellbsalzman: After watching her husband be deported by ICE and navigate reentry into Mexico, Lee Ragsdale wrote a guide with an in-dep…
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Fascinating story about the premiere “you’ve been deported, now what” self-help pamphlet and some of the people behind it. By @nellbsalzman
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RT @Suntimes: Yellow Banana promised to open six Save A Lot stores throughout Chicago with the help of city funds, but records show the com…
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RT @talia_soglin: against backdrop of looming existential threats to the Department of Education and federal labor law, in Chicago we have…
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Illinois braces for impact of new and potential tariffs: “Who will feel the consequences? Everyday Americans.” By @breenreports @srfreish @lizzie_kane17
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SEIU and CTU often work together in politics and got Brandon Johnson elected. Hard to see how he can get reelected if SEIU support collapses. Election is a ways away, but anger over CTU trying to take jobs from SEIU 73 is deep.
IL SEIU adopted a resolution declaring it is under attack by Chicago Teachers Union over what they say is a CTU effort to raid their membership. The conflict has massive ramifications for Chicago politics. Story with @talia_soglin and @nellbsalzman
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Chicago Public Schools announced that ICE had come to its doors but new video obtained by Caroline Kubzansky and @nellbsalzman shows pretty clearly they identified themselves as Secret Service. What a mess that day was
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RT @JakeSheridan_: Mayor Brandon Johnson's cultural commissioner faced formal bullying complaints as nearly a quarter of her staff left sin…
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Exodus of Chicago Cultural Affairs and Special Events employees blamed on Commissioner Clinée Hedspeth, who has been accused of bullying, yelling at child, making senior aide carry her purse. Folks say she’s left “void” in arts industry. By @JakeSheridan_
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RT @chicagotribune: Mayor Brandon Johnson delivered a pointed message to aldermen Tuesday evening about their “responsibility” to finalize…
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RT @oliviaolanderr: Today marks one year covering politics and government @chicagotribune! If you work in state government and we haven't m…
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RT @RobertChannick: Once-obscure Bolingbrook company WeatherTech has wild ride with its 13th Super Bowl ad
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Nick Sposato calls his committee the happy committee. Not today :(
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This story reads like mad libs: Byron Sigcho-Lopez appears to call Bill Conway a white supremacist, they go into a closet with Jason Lee and Will Hall to talk, apologize and pray. BSL said he wasn’t calling him a white supremacist.
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High-ranking Chicago Housing Authority director fired amid ongoing staff exodus. A lot of troubling signs coming from the CHA. Great reporting by @lizzie_kane17
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