Caroline Kubzansky
@ckubzansky
Criminal justice for the Chicago Tribune, ckubzansky@chicagotribune.com. @ctguild.bsky.social. Consulting maps from earlier days
Sheriff received four subpoenas with letters attached. Nearly identical. Each one asks them to bring a different person in custody to ICE interviews or make them available upon release. Says failure to do so may constitute witness tampering. Signed by two different ICE field office directors.
“Sorry the Washington Nationals aren’t playing the Springfield Horseshoes, Caroline” - Jeremy Gorner
Interesting find in the transcript from the first session where prosecutors asked a grand jury to indict the Broadview Six. "I do not want to touch politics with a ten foot pole," AUSA Sheri Mecklenburg says. "I don't blame you," replies a grand juror. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/09/b...
Sights on follow-up reporting: roundtable with some anti-violence workers and Sen. Dick Durbin (today is National Gun Violence Awareness Day) and, next door, flowers and photos on every available surface. Taking guesses as to who is behind the flowers.
6 shot, 51st/Wood. Conditions unknown. About 100 meters from Cornell square park where 13 people were shot 13 years ago. Shell casings up and down 51st, but the scene proper is on Wood, to the south. intersection has emptied out near completely
New friend was waiting for me this evening. Anyone on bug-sky able to tell me what this guy is?
Art I am thinking about: “Falling in Love is Like Owning a Dog” by Taylor Mali. Big responsibility. Especially in a city like (Chicago).
Right here it’s hard to believe there is anything wrong with the world. I would like more of these moments
012: Man shot, Cullerton and Leavitt. At least 3 casings, can’t see caliber. Some witnesses here just left for the hospital, one in very bad shape. Victim seems to have been released from prison or was otherwise on EM based on what I’ve heard, and hung out on 18th St. No word on his condition
Art I am thinking about: Raymond Carver's "Waiting." Years since I read it in full
Thinking about "After Us," by Connie Wanek, today and also just always
Seen on 21st Street. Showed up in early April. Last few nights, someone has been coming by to make sure these are lit.
CPD releases seeking to ID bulletin about a white Honda and three occupants involved in a quadruple shooting at 26th and St. Louis Wednesday that left one man dead. Per a police report, Englewood (7th) police found a white Honda, recently reported stolen, set on fire at 79th and Ada soon afterward.
Black Disciples vs. Gangster Disciples + Vice Lords, seen at 60th/Prairie