The LGBTQ+ community in Chicago is strong, diverse, and proud.
This year, I appointed Chicago's first-ever Director of LGBTQ+ Affairs, South Side resident Antonio King.
Growing up, my mom took me to Pride marches when they were still protests.
She taught me that if someone else’s rights are under attack, you don’t stand on the sidelines—you stand beside them.
That lesson has stayed with me my entire life.
Corporate interests are already mobilizing to defeat our ordinance and maintain the status quo.
But we’re not backing down. We won’t stop fighting until ‘housing as a human right’ is a reality for every Chicagoan.
I’m a rape baby. I wish I was aborted. My mother didn’t deserve to have to raise the face of her abuser and I didn’t deserve the abuse I got for being the product of her trauma.
For far too long, renters have been forced to navigate rising costs, predatory practices, and corporate consolidation in a housing market that puts profit before people. That's why we're introducing PRO,🧵:
Trump: E. Jean Carroll is not my type, trust me.
Prosecutor: Mr. Trump, who is the woman in this photo?
Trump: Oh, that’s my ex-wife, Marla.
Prosecutor: That’s E. Jean Carroll.
Trump: …………
I just got a letter from my mortgage company that I was at risk of default because my property taxes hadn't been paid, which is weird because I thought that that was what escrow was for, but whatever.
So I called the county and figured out how much I owed.
$.01. I owe a penny.
50 Cent, Busta Rhymes, Ja Rule, and Timbaland will perform at Donald Trump Jr.’s members-only MAGA club on the eve of America’s 250th anniversary.
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