WIFC advocates for & advances the careers of women and gender diverse people working in the screen industries—to achieve parity & transform culture.
A non-profit organization whose mission is to raise awareness for independent film and create opportunities for youth arts in Chicago. We host unique movie events and support ongoing youth outreach programming! https://linktr.ee/elevatedfilms
Filming permits issued by the City of Chicago
A podcast about Chicago films, hosted by journalist Paco Alvarez and film programmer Jeremy Marder (@jonesythecat.bsky.social)
Listen here: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/chicagpodfilmcast
The 13th Chicago Critics Film Festival will be held May 1-7, 2026 at the Music Box Theatre. Early bird passes on sale now. The only film fest curated by critics.
🎟️ https://musicboxtheatre.com/series-and-festivals/the-chicago-critics-film-festival
Screening 35mm, 16mm, and the assorted larger and smaller -mms since 2011
Official Glaze project Bsky account.
Glaze/Nightshade @ University of Chicago
https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu
https://webglaze.cs.uchicago.edu
https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu
Columbia College Chicago Archives & Special Collections shares the stories of our college history, unique manuscripts, graduate theses, and treasures from the Center for Black Music Research.
Past: Chicago Tribune, L.A. Times, etc.
Present: Film, theater, arts, culture; writing, editing, talking, teaching. Director, U of I Ebert Fellowship. Weekly on Classical WFMT-FM's "Soundtrack." Frequent "Filmspotting" guest.
Reel Chicago is the #1 female-owned local news source for feature and indie films, ad agency news, TV, streaming, music and entertainment.
News Director|Executive Producer
WTTW News
#ChicagoTonight programs,
http://wttw.com/news,
and "Daily Chicagoan"
https://news.wttw.com/daily-chicagoan @wttw.bsky.social
The official handle for the greatest freakin' city in the world.
Official account for Digitization Services at the University of Illinois Library. Check out some of the paper and print material we reformat! Find us on Instagram @illinoisdigitization
linkin.bio/illinois_digitization
The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives and museums, and makes them freely available to all.
always: creator & curator blackfilmarchive.com
💌: maya@blackfilmarchive.com + soon: incoming president / owner of milestone films. film curator + writer + curious about the world. based in los angeles.
Stories about the Greatest City in the World. Listen wherever you enjoy podcasts.
The Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative celebrates this housing style, seeking to preserve the unique features of these houses, protect them from demolition, and continue their use and reuse for the next century – https://workerscottage.org/
I post every lot in Chicago.
Picking up where Every Lot Chicago left off on Twitter.
👨💻 @mclean.bsky.social
🤖 https://github.com/MisterClean/everylotbot-chicago
I report on urban nature for WTTW News/PBS Chicago. Expect lots of pics of flowers.
Expert in Illinois counties. Acting State Symbologist (self-appointed). Libraries, Lincoln, nature, architecture, transit. Book my library programs & get my newsletter at johnkokoris.com!
Regional film archive dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to films that represent the Midwest. More at chicagofilmarchives.org
Independent, reader supported investigative reporting from Chicago on policing and state violence. Occasionally: hate movements and conspiracism.
Support us: unraveledpress.com/support-unraveled/
📧 info@unraveledpress.com
📱 Signal: unraveled.66
We find Chicago's most polluting buildings, so you don't have to! Powered by public energy benchmarking data. 🌎 ElectrifyChicago.net
Meets weekly @chihacknight.org
Dad, husband, teacher, coach, veteran. Governor of Minnesota. Working to move our state forward as #OneMinnesota.
Senior writer at Slate covering courts and the law. Co-host of the Amicus podcast. Dad.
Writer. Prison reform and inmate rights advocate. Felon.
https://linktr.ee/renegadeforjustice
Advocating for the rights of incarcerated people, prison reform, and the wrongfully convicted. Abolitionist of solitary confinement.
Respect for rights in the penal system with prison as a last resort.
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www.iprt.ie
Dialogue for systemic change, humanising and connecting. Social change - prison reform - dialogic education - climate 💚 🏳️🌈
dialogue-associates.com apfpd.org
#fbpe
Lead author, The Criminal Justice Blog; prison-reform advocate; criminal-justice system commentator; criminologist
thecriminaljusticeblog.com
🇧🇷🇬🇧🇳🇿 Head of Food Education @foodbehindbars 👩🏽🍳 all things prison reform, cooking, rugby & animals. views my own.
The Prison Reform Trust is an independent UK charity working to create a just, humane and effective penal system. Links and retweets are not endorsements.
We work to help free innocent people from prison and reform the criminal legal system.
The Cool Shenanigans of Tech Nerds
Outreach Director at Progressive Turnout Project
Founder, Postcards to Swing States
Chair of the Democratic Party of DuPage CountyIL
Former McMaster-Carr
Chicagoland - OG Asheville, NC
Opinions are my own
I mean, I guess I mostly spend my days archiving history anyway I’m Ash Lane, Art Director for The TRiiBE 🌈
Filmmaker, Force of Nature
Co-founder of thetriibe.com.
Become a member of The TRiiBE and get access to the RESHAPE newsletter https://thetriibe.com/newsletters
I Strategize!
Black woman in marketing 📈
Audience and Marketing Manager for The TRiiBE
Cultural Correspondent for The TRiiBE - Media Personality
Visit thetriibe.com for all my work.
Hit me - romej@thetriibe.com
(She/Her/Foe Nem) Chicago journo 🖊️Community Investment Reporter for The TRiiBE via Report 4 America | previously Crain’s Chicago Business
Award-winning journalist. I'm passionate about elevating the voices of Black Chicagoans and showcasing their resilience and joy—systemic racism reporter at The TRiiBE.
Delivered effective, efficient, and secure digital services for the American people until we were forced to stop on March 1, 2025. Not an official government account. Reposts are not endorsements. Our new website: https://18f.org/ #AltGov
Author of MOTHERLAND: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy. A finalist for the National Book Award.
DC correspondent at Puck.
All views my own.
Government can work for the people, by the people, in the new digital age. Let’s make it work for everyone.
codeforamerica.org
Former US Congressman, Proud RINO, husband, and military man. Fighting the MAGA brain worms daily!
Adamkinzinger.komi.io
Adamkinzinger.substack.com
They’re passing a new law. Its called Ride Your Bike.
Chicago
Suburbanite. Sustainable transportation advocacy, for Chicago and Chicagoland. #BuildTheTunnel
“The smart, transit-oriented [social media] account” -Chicago Tribune
Planning, building, breaking, rebuilding.
Short. Black. Mom. Wife. Writer. Photographer. Profanity enthusiast. Chicago architecture & history + classic film. Photos mine unless noted. Opinions always mine. Fighter against the tyranny of hard pants & unyielding waistbands. she/her
UX content strategist focused on improving the citizen experience.
🔥: CivicTech, GOTV, Voter Registration
❤️: Democracy, live music, gardening, dancing
Chi > NYC > Chi
U.S. Representative, IL-06. Personal account. Dad. Husband. Trained as an engineer, 16 years as a clean energy CEO, now in middle management. For official stuff see @casten.house.gov
🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ It's definitely mostly about the floors. 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
Lesser building nerd, real estate photographer
No kings
Actor/Producer he/him
Husband, Father, Entrepreneur at 1871 tech, Founder @thinkbigusa.bsky.social, Governor.
Fighting for a stronger, fairer, and safer Illinois.
Husband and father. Proudly serving as Illinois’ 43rd governor.
Real estate information platform for development in Chicago, Cook County, and Lake County (Illinois and Indiana). http://chicagocityscape.com
A Chicago-based national journalism lab reimagining local media though civic education, sustained impact reporting, and the #DocumentersNetwork 🔎
A daily magazine on the web.
NYTimes bestselling author - The Swans of Fifth Avenue, The Aviator’s Wife, The Children’s Blizzard & more. Cat lady, movie fiend & proud Chicagoan. www.melaniebenjamin.com
Writing, translation and psychiatry. Assoc Editor Longform CNF @craftliterary. Translating French-English. Essays, transl. & reviews: @HungerMtn, @pleaseseemelit1, @JAMANetwork, @NecessaryFic, @worldkidlit, @ChicagoRevBooks @mayday.mag . Insta: @skron11
I’m a Chicagoan and a prof and I write a lot of things like books [Original Sins, Electric Arches, 1919, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, Maya and the Robot] and comics [Exceptional X-Men, Black Panther, Ironheart] and more + I love my dog so so much
Rose Metal Press is a non-profit publisher specializing in the publication of hybrid genre books. Founded in 2006. Posts by co-founders Abby Beckel and Kathleen Rooney. Check out our books and amazing authors here: www.rosemetalpress.com
Writer ("Herself When She's Missing"), Teacher (U Chicago Graham School/Story Studio Chicago) Creative Coach/Developmental Editor
Artist Writer Professor Parent Citizen Human.
Fulbright scholar, Pushcart Nominee, NEA award winner,
Author of You Should Have Known/Crooked Lane; Excavating History /Stepsister press; professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
radical publisher of politics, culture, current events
haymarketbooks.org
I make Dad jokes on NPR and also write books and other things.
I am an author and educator in Chicago. My latest novel is DOWN THE STEEP, a Great Group Reads 2024 pick for book clubs. I teach literacy education at Northeastern Illinois University. Also, I have a cat.
Editor at Rose Metal Press & Professor at DePaul
Writings: https://kathleenrooney.com/
Typewritings: http://poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com
Man Overboard!: A Novel (July '26): https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Man-Overboard!/Kathleen-Rooney/9781668212387
writer, editor, teacher, axe-thrower 🪓
meganstielstra.com
Writing memoir, poetry, essays, performance stuff (etc.) in Chicago
newsletter.aaronjacobwolfson.com
Bram Stoker Award-winning author | IT CAME FROM NEVERLAND '26 | SOMETHING FOLLOWED US HOME '26 | LOTERÍA | CHICAGO SAGA | VANISHING DAUGHTERS | MFA, PhD English(c) | Rep-Lane Heymont
Events Director (StoryStudio Chicago) Writer (Pushcart Nominated flash fiction/ short stories, romance novels with Wild Rose Press), Co-host of the Creepy History Podcast. https://creepyhistory.buzzsprout.com/
@storystudiochicago.bsky.social
A @storystudiochicago.bsky.social publication! Editor-in-Chief @mbwwelch.bsky.social
We are a literary arts nonprofit focused on building a writing community. Classes and events online and in person. Come write with us!
https://www.storystudiochicago.org
Gadfly. Flying through life as a gadget geek and theatre artist...commenting along the way. Every day I learn something new is a good day. Reblogs offered without endorsement. Comments on the other hand...
Chicago based.
https://warnercrocker.com
Chief of Staff for Governor JB Pritzker.
A continually aggravated Philadelphian making her way in the great city of Chicago.
E-learning dev & AI educator at U of Arizona Libraries. Former head of UX at MIT Libraries. Winner of MIT Excellence Award. nicolehennig.com. Digital nomad from 2013-17, locationflexiblelife.com.
- vegetarian
- car-free
- universal basic income: yes
Dozentin am Zentrum Medien & Informatik PH Luzern | KI in der Bildung| AIEOU AI in education at the university of Oxford
#CAS Fachkarriere Schule in der Digitalität
linguist / cognitive scientist / writing professor obsessed with all things relating to language, learning, and the mind. And knitting and sewing and music (especially violin and ukulele). And cats. Also a UU. neurodivergent. she/they. 🌈💖💜💙 /🖤🤍💜
Asst. Professor @usouthflorida. GenAI in education. AR/VR. Algorithms. Computational Research. Digital Writing Technologies. UI/UX. Rhetoric, writing studies, technical communication.
Scholar, author, policy advisor
alondranelson.com
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Feminist. Rhetoric: science, environment, tech comm, disability. really worried about climate change. she/her. Praxis or GTFO.
Yes, it's Cagle. No, please don't call me Lauren.
send dog pics (alt text a must)
nothing here reps my employer
Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/
BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
Critical AI, data journalism, literary nonfiction. Professor at NYU. Author, "More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech." meredithbroussard.com
Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse.
Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
i criticize the tech industry
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
📖 https://roadtonowherebook.com
Writer, community college writing teacher, obsessed with AI in education, #OER advocate, author of HowArgumentsWork.org.
annarmills.com
writer @ Core Memory • my two accomplishments here are that i invited AOC and i started the first-ever Hellthread • signal: kylie.111
Writer / entrepreneur / single mom
Podcast: Hi, Smart Friend!
(VERY SERIOUS) USA TODAY humor(ish) columnist. May or may not be notable. Hypocrisy enthusiast. WOKE MOB, CO-FOUNDER. ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE (2017 to present). Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas.
Nomad & Print Artist since 1998: Home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling. Traveling along my German grandmother’s roots. Mover: Strong voice against Trumpism. Linktree: linktr.ee/Strandjunker
politics reporter @ Rolling Stone • host of @americanfric.bsky.social • clipping with @snapstream.com • siempre jodiendo 🇲🇽
send me a book: https://linktr.ee/Nikkimcr
signal: Nikkimcr.70
http://SnapStream.com/nikki
Editor-in-Chief of Mother Jones/Center for Investigative Reporting/Reveal. Past president of the American Society of Magazine Editors. Mom. Upzoning, street tree, and rescue dog enthusiast. Views, mine.
Senior researcher & journalist. @splcunion.bsky.social. Former internet person at @thebaffler.com. hannahgais@proton.me Signal: 334-315-8634 http://seedisclaimer.com. Newsletter: https://postsfromunderground.ghost.io/
4 dogs. 2 kitchens. Zero chill. | Lawyer | Journalist | co-host of Boom! Lawyered podcast | Host of B*tch, Listen podcast | abortion rights are, like, 80% of my personality | skeets are the opinion of your employer. | Colorado, America🏳️🌈
Director of Business & Industry at WIRED. Author of Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk’s Twitter. Signal zoeschiffer.87
Subscribe to www.lawdork.com for SCOTUS and other legal news. / lawdorknews@gmail.com / Signal: crg.32 / About me: Sober. Queer. Bipolar. Theater. Buckeye. / He/him.
Spokesperson for IL House Speaker Emanuel "Chris" Welch
