Mitch Pugh
mitchpugh.bsky.social
Mitch Pugh
@mitchpugh.bsky.social
Executive Editor of the Chicago Tribune.
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The first of five finalists for the 2025 Shadid Award is the @chicagotribune.com team of Lisa Schencker, Emily Hoerner and @staceywescott.bsky.social for their series exposing how Illinois health care systems failed to protect patients from sexual abuse.
www.chicagotribune.com/2024/02/18/h...
Patients reported sexual abuse by medical providers. Health care systems let them keep working.
Over the course of a yearlong investigation, the Tribune found that well-known Illinois health systems have allowed workers accused of abusing patients to keep providing care.
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February 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I thought it was Jason Bateman for the first half of it …
February 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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A judge temporarily blocked a Trump administration freeze on potentially trillions of dollars in grants and other federal spending but not before the president’s announcement of the plan caused tumult and confusion among Illinois government, social service agencies, nonprofits and universities.
Trump administration’s surprise federal funding freeze hits Medicaid while raising havoc and sowing confusion across Illinois
Illinois Democrats vow to fight President Donald Trump’s freeze of federal grants and loans, calling it unconstitutional.
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January 28, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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“I feel like we’re grieving something that hasn’t even happened. Or like we’re waiting for something that’s going to happen that we know we’re going to grieve.”

📝 @nellsalzman.bsky.social, @taliasoglin.bsky.social and Laura Rodríguez Presa
‘People are hiding’: Immigrants stay home from work to avoid potential ICE arrests
When reports surfaced over the weekend that mass deportations could potentially begin in the Chicago area Tuesday, Martin Ramos informed his boss that he was taking time off from work, stocked up o…
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January 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM