Carrie Shepherd

I'm a Chicago reporter for @axios. Before: Lead Producer @CityCastChicago and many things @WBEZ. Love this beautiful damn city.

[Carrie Shepherd @cshepherd]

Whenever I read or hear people bash Chicago and paint it as a terrible place, I always think: “But wait, have you been here?” I still walk around wide-eyed, jaw dropped.

[Samuel Littauer @swlittauer]

Someone asked about Wrigley Field

[Daniel Kay Hertz @DanielKayHertz]

This is also a moment to update your mental economic map of the city: Logan Square has basically an identical median household income now as Lakeview

[Carrie Shepherd @cshepherd]

@clarinetblower @rquinnmyers @BlockClubCHI For sure...there has been plenty of opposition: https://t.co/8SoI9kctkx

[Carrie Shepherd @cshepherd]

This history is greaaaaat. Perfect Saturday am reading.

[Block Club Chicago @BlockClubCHI]

How the Great Migration — and segregation — built the South Side’s Black-owned lounge culture.
https://t.co/PcGYYdbTfq

[Carrie Shepherd @cshepherd]

@byaliceyin Was this Wednesday night? We saw one on Wednesday around here...

[Gregory Royal Pratt @royalpratt]

We’ll see how things change in Minneapolis with Gregory Bovino gone. But he and his Border Patrol agents are the ones responsible for the biggest excesses in Chicago, Los Angeles, elsewhere. Homan isn’t the architect of the roving convoys stopping at Target and going for anyone.

[Brenden Moore @brendenmoore13]

It’s illegal for noncitizens to vote in state and federal elections. And studies and audits done in several states confirm that voter fraud is exceedingly rare. We’re talking maybe a handful or two of cases — certainly not the hundreds of thousands necessary to flip Illinois red.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Read this. The Minnesota state prison system suggests Gregory Bovino outright lied about the target of the operation during which agents shot and killed Alex Pretti.

[Courtney Spinelli @CourtSpinelliTV]

Talk about going above and beyond! 👏🏼 Kudos to this crossing guard for doing everything to get these kids and their families across the street/down the sidewalks safely amid a water main break near Bryn Mawr/California. Great stuff! @WGNNews

[Carrie Shepherd @cshepherd]

❗️PSA via @CityCastChicago If your sidewalk is busted – today’s the day to submit a request for the city to foot some of the bill. Applications are open till 10 p.m. https://t.co/k9q1fmiFak

[Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie22]

🚨 SCOOP – Rep. Jan Schakowsky is planning to endorse Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss as her successor in #IL09, sources tell me. The announcement is expected this week, possibly as soon as Wednesday #twill

https://t.co/N4vc46TGhW

[Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune]

Cause 4Paws Gary, Inc., a non-profit organization, recently offered a drive-thru Pet Food Pantry to address the need for giving pets gifts and other supplies to low-income families.
https://t.co/8ieHkYebZR

[Carrie Shepherd @cshepherd]

There’s a new way to try to insult theater kids, huh? Amazing how easily threatened some people are. Also who’s the “nerd” really? https://t.co/UOZIm7iFA6

[Carrie Shepherd @cshepherd]

I support Windy City Times. You should too. https://t.co/AyvrjdiZbI @fundjournalism

[Carrie Shepherd @cshepherd]

I support Windy City Times. You should too! https://t.co/AyvrjdiZbI
@WindyCityTimes

[A.D. Quig @ad_quig]

Keep hearing from sources openly worrying about the city's ability to pass a budget before the end of the month. Re-upping this @JakeSheridan_ story from last year (which the mayor's office declined to comment on at the time)...

[Carrie Shepherd @cshepherd]

@byaliceyin @edwardsimoncruz Was obsessed with the hed when I saw it earlier

[Axios Comms @AxiosComms]

Three Axios Local reporters -- @MelissaSantos1 in Seattle, @ByJohnFrank in Denver and @jeremyduda in Phoenix -- made @ChrisCillizza’s list of the best local political reporters.

🏆: https://t.co/LFEwgZp8p1

[Vanessa Lopez @lopez_vanessa_]

My first column is about losing my father to deportation — a grief of distance and of loving someone still living but lost to reach.

https://t.co/uDREcQizET