Dan Mihalopoulos
dmihalopoulos.bsky.social
Dan Mihalopoulos
@dmihalopoulos.bsky.social
Investigative Reporter at WBEZ - Chicago Public Media
BREAKING: If didn’t appeal your property taxes the first time you had a chance, they’re reopening townships that were already closed to appeals this year.

So you get another chance to file an appeal to the Cook County Board of Review, which cites the “unprecedented circumstances”
November 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
BREAKING: Sean Morrison - the only Republican on the Cook County board - announces he will NOT seek another term in ‘26
November 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Early Thanksgiving gratitude for all anonymous news tipsters — even those who cannot spell my name correctly (but close enough it ended up on my desk)
November 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Missed the interstate exit, took the GPS-recommended detour — and soon saw a bald eagle sitting in a farm field in central Illinois.

Spotted another pair a few miles further, also just sitting there in the stubbly, recently harvested field
November 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
My favorite Sandburg poem, which may be even more relevant in the context of immigration raids
November 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Feds reportedly swarming NW suburbs of Chicago this PM — these photos from Des Plaines and Mount Prospect
November 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
A friend just took this picture of tonight’s first-of-the-season early sunset, in the Chicago burbs
November 2, 2025 at 11:29 PM
While others were giving out peppermints …
November 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
When you try to treat a lack-of-adequate-sleep headache with a double espresso but the coffeeshop playlist is moody, gloomy Brit/Scandinavian pop like The Verve and Of Monsters and Men.

Then you open this app and try to get through an East Coast media profile of an ex-Chicago mayor…
October 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
People in one of the richest parts of Chicago’s North Side scream at federal agents who were detaining a Hispanic worker today - “Fuckin cowards! Fuckin Nazis!” - and chant at them to “LET HIM GO!”
October 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
More from the same scene. Chorus of anti-ICE whistles in one of the most affluent (and safest) neighborhoods of Chicago
October 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
North Side of Chicago today: “He was working, you bastards. Let him go!”
October 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
JB says Rahm should stop criticizing other Dems — before quickly pivoting back to bashing Trump www.politico.com/news/magazin...
October 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Got to the @wbez.org studio long before dawn, spent a few minutes on the air, talking about a story we did and went for a stroll, making it to the end of the pier just in time for the sunrise
October 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Commander of Border Patrol in Chicago vows to “Liberate Chicago from illegal aliens,” in social-media reply to an account whose very screen name contains a racial slur (ironically, for whites)
October 19, 2025 at 12:29 AM
JUST IN: A fundraiser next week for the unannounced campaign for Chicago mayor of Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas, who long has pined for higher office…
October 18, 2025 at 2:46 AM
When Washington ended all public funding for media, we @wbez.org became totally listener-supported.

So gratified by all the support from this full house for the Chicago Public Media gala fundraiser tonight at the Old Post Office
October 17, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Damn you, FIFA! We went to every game in Chicago at USA 94 but can’t get any sort of legacy access to tickets for the World Cup…
October 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
After a half-century of short road trips to Springfield (and a few junkets to Türkiye), former Illinois House speaker and Democratic Party chairman Michael Madigan, 83, now finds himself a long way from his home in the 13th Ward on Chicago’s SW Side
October 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Couple more shots from Monday morning‘s awe-inspiring inbound commute in Chicago
October 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Amazing. This was my view as I drove in and I literally thought to myself “My iPhone photo doesn’t do it justice — I hope Barry Butler is out there getting this.” Sure enough…
October 14, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Another L for the G — and this time it’s a W for press freedom, in Chicago Headline Club et al vs. Noem.

Congratulations and heartfelt thanks on behalf of all journalists in Illinois #JournalismIsNotACrime
October 9, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Quick espresso break/pit stop while out on assignment for @wbez.org — repping our union @sagaftra.org, which gave me that spiffy T-shirt you see in the mirror here
October 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
October 6, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Border Patrol honcho responds positively to anonymous, racist post — “Juan of many,” get it? — and promises more of the same in Chicago
September 29, 2025 at 4:28 AM