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Chicago, IL
Joined January 2010
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@jake____lewis
Jake Lewis
1 month
tim walz take the amtrak borealis to the convention
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have him waving off the back of the caboose like harry truman
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Jake Lewis
8 months
LiFe LoNg DeMoCrAt
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Jake Lewis
3 months
But I was told Chicago is in a death spiral????
@CrainsChicago
Crain's Chicago Business
3 months
Chicago is now home to 15 companies ranked among the 2024 Fortune 500 list, the most in the U.S. after New York City and Houston.
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Jake Lewis
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@PaulVallas
Paul Vallas
4 months
Lack of cops, punishing proactive policing, few consequences for criminals who rob & steal, rationalizing that criminals are products of systemic racism- is encouraging the rapid growth of a criminal economic sector where criminals act at will & with impunity. 
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Jake Lewis
8 months
the kiss of death
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Jake Lewis
6 months
In case anyone forgot, the Illinois Policy Institute is funded in large part by Dick Uihlein, who is also a major funder of the January 6 insurrection rallies and election denialism nationwide
@WGNRadio
WGN Radio 720
6 months
Austin Berg: There is an erosion of trust in the electoral process in Chicago
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Jake Lewis
8 months
paul vallas may be the most unbeknownst person of all time
@PaulVallas
Paul Vallas
8 months
In the last week I was asked to speak at a community forum. Unbeknownst to me it was a GOP fundraiser, and my name and likeness was used without my permission to promote the event. I will not be attending the event.
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Jake Lewis
2 months
Even if you believe the burden to care for migrants should be spread more evenly across the country, the way Texas shipped people to Chicago with no warning/coordination was heartless + dangerous. Someone who praises that behavior has no place representing Chicago or Cook Co.
@paschutz
Paris Schutz
2 months
Republican Cook County States Atty candidate Bob Fioretti greets Texas Gov Greg Abbot and praises him for sending buses of migrants to Chicago. We’ll have that exchange coming up at 5p on @fox32news
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Jake Lewis
3 months
Ok but at some point we should have a convo about the city seal
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David Mack
3 months
is there an american city that loves their flag more than chicago? you see it everywhere: in every business, in murals, in art, hanging in people’s homes. people across the usa love to unfairly shit on chicago but people who live there are generally damn proud to do so.
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Jake Lewis
7 months
Almost everyone I talk to about how much we pay for childcare is shocked. It's far, far more than our mortgage. The childcare system is incredibly broken in this country, but I'm encouraged to see some local governments taking on new ideas to tackle this challenge.
@MorePerfectUS
More Perfect Union
7 months
NEW: Child care costs more than college in the United States. Parents can pay upwards of $20,000 per child per year — but most child care businesses struggle to break even. Now half of all Americans live in child care deserts.
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Jake Lewis
8 months
Couldn’t the donors who gave money to Invest in Kids continue to support these students, just without the tax breaks?
@MaryAnnAhernNBC
Mary Ann Ahern
8 months
NEW: Two suburban ⁦ @archchicago ⁩ schools will close, citing the loss of state funds after lawmakers fail to support the Invest in Kids program ⁦ @GovPritzker
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Jake Lewis
6 months
the term "bring chicago home" was used about 500 times on chicago television and radio since the initial court decision, generating millions of dollars of free earned media and now its back on the ballot, with a freight train of positive earned media behind it...
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Jake Lewis
7 months
BCH is going to get millions of dollars of earned media in the next week plus — way more than it would have gotten without the suit. And people generally don’t like being told they can’t vote on something… I’m not sold that this is necessarily a bad thing for BCH supporters
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Jake Lewis
10 months
Ald. Lopez says a business in his ward has already raised prices due to the state paid leave law. REMINDER: The state paid leave law takes effect on Jan 1, 2024. And it exempts Chicago
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Jake Lewis
4 months
it might be worth noting that M3, the "chicago political consultancy" hired to do this poll, is run by a republican operative and was paid more than $500k by the vallas campaign last year. seems relevant!
@CrainsChicago
Crain's Chicago Business
4 months
NEW: @chicagosmayor Brandon Johnson is under water in an exclusive poll taken for Crain's on the eve of his 1-year anniversary. See the demographic breakdown: via @crainschicago
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Jake Lewis
6 months
12 days before Election Day and these are the front pages in Chicago. An earned media jackpot for Bring Chicago Home
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Jake Lewis
9 months
They were dropped in Kankakee with no money or food and “the bus driver told them they had arrived in Chicago.” Pure evil.
@Suntimes
Chicago Sun-Times
9 months
Around 35 migrants who were told they were being bused to Chicago were dropped off at a gas station in Kankakee early Thursday morning, officials said.
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Jake Lewis
8 months
lol. lmao even
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Jake Lewis
2 months
Again impressed at the success here considering there has been basically zero promotion of the new route in Chicago/Illinois
@DanRShafer
Dan Shafer
2 months
Wisconsin Republicans spent like 15 years talking about how no one would ride a train in the Midwest and it would be an expensive boondoggle...and then a new route was added and it turned a profit in less than two weeks.
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Jake Lewis
9 months
IPI tries to brush this off, but their main benefactor is Dick Uihlein, a sponsor of the insurrectionist Jan. 6 orgs and a huge MAGA donor. There’s no space between Uihlein’s agenda and IPI’s agenda
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Jake Lewis
8 months
rauner always was a big fan of school choice wasn't he
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@chitribopinions
Chicago Tribune Opinion
8 months
Bruce Rauner: Unions such as the CTU are taking away school choice from parents and their children
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Jake Lewis
5 months
GOP mega donor ken griffin is now buying digital ads to make sure everyone knows about his philanthropic giving... ...and those ads seem to be managed by bully pulpit interactive, one of the largest democratic digital firms in the country. seems weird!
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Jake Lewis
10 months
BREAKING: The Chicago Paid Time Off Ordinance PASSES by a vote of 36-12. Chicago workers will be entitled to 10 days of paid leave -- 5 sick days and 5 days of PTO. Once again, Chicago leads the nation in protecting workers' rights! #ChiPTO
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