Journalist. Bylines in @WBEZ, @Grist, @climatecentral, @Chalkbeat, @AP, @detroitnews and more
Chicago, IL
Joined January 2016
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Michael Gerstein retweeted
New from @mikegerstein: When Trump's Immigration Crackdown Came to Chicago politi.co/4aHot66 via @politico
Michael Gerstein retweeted
The DEA, along with our @TheJusticeDept partners, is assisting @DHSgov and other federal law enforcement partners with their immigration enforcement efforts.
ALT Acting Deputy Attorney General Emile Bove and Border Czar Thomas Homan speak with federal law enforcement leaders during an operational pre-briefing in Chicago on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025.
ALT Homeland Security Investigations Chicago Special Agent in Charge Fitzgerald, Border Czar Thomas Homan and DEA Chicago Field Division Special Agent in Charge Sheila G. Lyons during an operational pre-briefing in Chicago on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025.
ALT Federal law enforcement personnel in a command post in Chicago on January 25, 2025.
Michael Gerstein retweeted
This is what it looks like when Chicago alderpeople debate for hours…
City Council finally passes Johnson's $17.3B budget — with no property tax hike chicago.suntimes.com/mayor-b… by @fspielman
Michael Gerstein retweeted
When people ask me why I am the way I am, I can now just show them this list
We documented every presidential/veep campaign stop in Michigan for the past nine months so you wouldn't have to.
We barely got all 71 of them on Page 4A of today's @detroitnews.
For history.
Michael Gerstein retweeted
.@CTGuild business: The @chicagotribune wants the power to replace me with A.I.
As a union member and as a reporter, I know that won’t work. Journalism needs human beings, not bots, to interrogate (and sometimes aggravate) the most powerful people in town
Michael Gerstein retweeted
Fascinating:
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is coming to West Michigan to campaign for President Joe Biden on Thursday, Biden's campaign just announced.
Michael Gerstein retweeted
The shipping industry has set ambitious decarbonization goals. But how to get there? @katie_brigham reports on Seabound, a company making tech for shippers to capture their carbon emissions at sea.
Read more:
heatmap.news/technology/seab…
Michael Gerstein retweeted
“wnba rough notes” = a new substack i made! subscribe for notes after each sky home game.
wnbaroughnotes.substack.com/
my goal is to increase creative weirdness in wbb & explore how basketball lives/feels in all of us, esp. as the seas ever-change!
real ones, spread the word? 🧡
Michael Gerstein retweeted
You know, Mayor Lightfoot’s team did a much better job blocking and tackling so she never really was in a spot where she maybe needed to run. But she was savvy enough that, if she got surrounded, she wouldn’t run. These are horrible optics for a big city mayor (or any politician)
NEW VIDEO: @ChicagosMayor RUNS from me and another reporter as we tried to ask him about the arrest in the death of Officer Luis Huesca.
He did not comment. As you see he drove off.
More on this at 4 on @cbschicago
Michael Gerstein retweeted
JUST IN: Friday Morning Swim Club has been canceled this summer as the organizers blame the city's "unreasonable" demands. buff.ly/3WkhgUz
Michael Gerstein retweeted
'Like a Disney movie': @ChiPubSchools students view partial solar eclipse, @MikeGerstein reports for @chalkbeatCHI chalkbeat.org/chicago/2024/0…
Michael Gerstein retweeted
Vocalo Radio gave some of Chicago’s biggest stars their start. It will shut down next month.
“We built relationships and championed artists,” a former director of the station said. “It’s a loss for Chicago culture.” buff.ly/3TPJ9B1
Michael Gerstein retweeted
The majority of 537,000+ traffic stops made by CPD in 2023 were based on dubious evidence of minor violations that took direct aim at Black and Latino Chicagoans but spared White Chicagoans, according to a new report from Impact for Equity.
to.wttw.com/4cFYvAD
Michael Gerstein retweeted
Among the expenses paid for so far with the taxpayer funded grant were $11,000 for a flight to Budapest, $4,500 for a coffee maker, about $100,000 to sponsor an event + $130,000 on legal/consulting fees incurred over the business' first months.
detroitnews.com/story/news/p…
Michael Gerstein retweeted
I spoke with the mayor this week about his first 11 months in office, mounting criticism from his opponents + allies, a strained relationship with the media and more.
What I got back was "almost unbridled confidence" in his tenure so far.
blockclubchicago.org/2024/04…
Michael Gerstein retweeted
The lavish coffee pot is just the start. Incredible journalism from @DNBethLeBlanc
$4,500 for a coffee maker? How a Michigan businesswoman is spending a $20M taxpayer grant detroitnews.com/story/news/p…