Rick Pearson

Part of Chicago Tribune team that won 2026 local reporting Pulitzer. Lifetime Achievement Award/Chicago Headline Club-SPJ. Tweets are mine. Trolls get blocked.

[Chicago Blackhawks @NHLBlackhawks]

PATRICK KANE'S FIRST GOAL AS A BLACKHAWK SINCE 2023 🚨

[Rick Pearson @rap30]

Let’s Go Hawks!

[Rick Pearson @rap30]

This may not have been the game America wanted to watch but it was the game Chicago needed.

[DaBearsBlog @dabearsblog]

The Case Keenum Game.

[Rick Kogan @rickkogan]

After Hours with Rick Kogan Monday Podcast: Talking Tony with Max Fitzpatrick: https://t.co/LT4kKWclVO

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Coming up with @pfingstenshow from 3-6p:

-4:10: Scott Reeder of the @ILTimes
-5:10: @rap30

📻97.7 FM, 970 AM, or listen online at https://t.co/gKzrh2CZ9W

[Dan Petrella @PetrellaReports]

Few people out there, if any, better qualified to write this story than @JeremyGorner

[Meghan Montemurro @MegMontemurro]

MLB has announced wild card series game times.

Cubs-Padres will play at 9 p.m. CT on Peacock/NBCSN for both Games 1 and 2 on Tuesday and Wednesday.

If Game 3 is necessary Thursday, game time will dependent on how many other WC games are played that day.

[Rick Pearson @rap30]

NBC5 Chicago, thanks for running a day old ticker for your Saturday nights sports cast. A day late…

[Rick Pearson @rap30]

@brittyknows @BourdageSherri @RayLong There’s a reason some people on social media are worth ignoring. Fact challenged is one.

[Rick Pearson @rap30]

Here we go again.

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

The White House is barring CNN from flying on Air Force One on Saturday as part of the news outlet’s duties covering the president on behalf of major television networks. https://t.co/D16Sq92nYb

[Jason Meisner @jmetr22b]

JUST IN: Attorneys for the “Broadview Six” say they fully support Sheri Mecklenburg’s motion to intervene because she has “substantial” information that relates directly to the issues at hand.. including the transcript requested by USA Boutros:

[Geoff Bennett @GeoffRBennett]

AP: "Very briefly in front of news photographers, Trump noted that Xi has the friendliest press corps in the world. The U.S. president quipped that the Chinese press ask Xi for permission to speak. China is one of the most oppressive environments for journalists in the world."

[Golf Channel @GolfChannel]

Bill Murray brings the Presidents Cup out to the first tee in the way only he can.

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

Despite the court order overnight, CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters are still being blocked from entering the White House grounds today. Yet for Xi’s visit, members of the Chinese state media are present.

[Ray Long @RayLong]

Early voting begins Thursday in collar counties but not until Oct. 1 in Chicago and Oct. 7 in suburban Cook @rap30
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[Rick Kogan @rickkogan]

The youngest brother in the Emanuel bunch, super-agent, foul-mouthed Ari, writes about his rise from New Trier High School wrestler to Hollywood big shot Hollywood and billionaire and what nasty word Larry David uses over and over at his second wedding. https://t.co/mKqXNO1u6X

[DaBearsBlog @dabearsblog]

EMERGENCY POD!

The 2026 Bears season was making the long, slow walk to the chair.

Then the governor called.

https://t.co/RsQM43Zndt

[Jason Meisner @jmetr22b]

NEW: The mayor hasn't said why he's asking for an eye-popping $401 million for police misconduct cases next year
But it seems the city has made a deal to resolve dozens of lawsuits in one of the biggest cop scandals in Chicago history
w/@JakeSheridan_
https://t.co/zzt4tkuXr6

[WHCA @whca]

The president said it plainly in the Oval Office, describing his own planned action as a “ban on the free press.”

The Constitution protects the freedom of the press from government interference. That protection does not depend on whether the president likes a news organization’s coverage, agrees with its reporting, or approves of the questions its journalists ask.

This is about more than the rights of journalists. It is about the right of the American people to receive a full and independent account of the activities, policies and decisions of whoever occupies the nation’s highest office.

The WHCA stands in defense of our colleagues at CNN, MSNOW, and Politico who are being singled out for doing their jobs.

- Jacqui Heinrich, WHCA President

[Rick Kogan @rickkogan]

More podcast offerings for you. Pick one or listen to them all: Irish American Movie Hooley, Candace Jordan on social scene and some final words about Roger Simon. Go here and find them, and others: https://t.co/kRLM0ZkcuO