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Followers

125.6K

Posts

86.7K

Following

1.8K

Account age

18 yrs

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📊 Post performance

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

0.05 / week

A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 0 video · 4 image · 14 text.

Follower / following

68×

Follows 1.8K back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post With the strokes of multiple pens, Gov. JB Pritzker made Illinois the first state in the nation to withhold funding from public libraries if they ban books. #Illinois #bookban 151.7K❤ 2.5K🔁 588

Chicago restaurant owners say since the city’s One Fair Wage law took effect in 2024, it's forced them to raise prices, cut staff or limit hiring. Now, restaurant owners, along with the Illinois Restaurant Association, are pushing to have … 66.1K❤ 610🔁 231 The Chicago area is home to the country’s largest Palestinian American community. 91.6K❤ 605🔁 193 In light of video footage that shows an officer steering a 15-year-old to confess to a shooting he did not commit, some Illinois lawmakers are pledging to back planned legislation requiring a lawyer for any child being interrogated by poli… 46.9K❤ 441🔁 174 Illinois is poised to become the first state to completely eliminate cash bail. Other states have tried versions of what Illinois is about to do. 47.7K❤ 446🔁 86 The board for WBEZ voted Tuesday to acquire the Chicago Sun-Times, a move that will create a new journalistic powerhouse. The deal is expected to close Jan. 31. ❤ 1.3K🔁 385 Chicago police union president John Catanzara expressed sympathy with pro-Trump extremists who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday: “If the worst crime here is trespassing, so be it. But to call these people treasonous is beyond ridiculo… ❤ 2.4K🔁 2.9K

.@AP has declared incumbent Congresswoman Lauren Underwood the winner of the race for Illinois' 14th Congressional District. Underwood, a freshman U.S. representative, narrowly beat her Republican opponent Jim Oberweis, a state senator. ❤ 539🔁 85 Chicago police plan to arrest teens on “drug corners” this week to help reduce an expected spike in gun violence during the July 4th weekend. Critics say the preemptive move will only worsen relations with police in some areas of the city. ❤ 592🔁 606 "Hannity" viewers are 30% more likely to have COVID-19 than viewers of other Fox News shows. A new study stays that's related to how the host downplayed the coronavirus in the early weeks of the pandemic. ❤ 1.2K🔁 487 She’s best known for her anti-lynching work in the South, but Wells spent nearly four decades advancing black equality in Chicago. ❤ 849🔁 359

Chicago native Jacqueline Stewart has been hired as the first African American host of Turner Classic Movies. https://t.co/MP0iY2R96U ❤ 459🔁 115

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined X in 2008 — 18 years ago.

👁️Averages 66.1K views per post.

📤Posts about 0.1× per week.

💬1.13% engagement rate.

🏅Earned the 100K Followers for passing 100K followers.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated

78/100

Good Credibility score

94%

Real Real audience

Low Fake-follower risk

High Data confidence

Est. 94% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Engagement (~0.5× of followers engage each post) is around typical for X.
Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
Established account (18+ years old).
1.13% engagement — around average for this size on X.

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

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