Heidi Stevens
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—Writer —Director of External Affairs @TMWCenter —Fellowship coach @TheOpEdProject — @FamilyActionNet board member —Chicago stan —The one with the hair
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When I saw Oprah interview Michelle Obama, Oprah asked how Michelle got over feeling intimidated sitting at big tables filled with smart, powerful men and Michelle said, “You realize pretty quickly that a lot of them aren’t that smart.” I think about that quote every single day.
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I spent today with a man whose mom saved the July 21, 1969 Chicago Daily News for the moon landing coverage. (Column coming tomorrow.) It also contained this op-ed. 50 years ago. Unbelievable.
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We're getting OVER-EDUCATED, UNDER-LOVED T-shirts made, right?
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Trump: NO KNEELING
People who save lives for a living:
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Just witnessed a very moving
#WhiteCoatsForBlackLives
demonstration. Hundreds of healthcare workers flooded the sidewalks outside Northwestern. Column coming soon.
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It doesn’t feel like the land of the free when a 4th of July parade ends in death and bloodshed and trauma and surrounding towns have to cancel celebrations and close beaches and residents are advised to stay indoors.
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You can literally tweet “the birds are chirping today in Chicago!” and someone will be like “lol don’t get shot.” It’s such a sad, strange compulsion.
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Do schools have magic air? Do teachers/staff/students have superpowers to protect them from a virus that’s setting world records? I’m so confused by this guidance to avoid crowds, avoid gatherings, stay home…except send your kids into buildings with hundreds/thousands of people.
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The Trader Joe’s parking lot on Lincoln Ave is the most lawless place on Earth
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I never love Chicagoans more than when they’re helping each other (me) get their cars (mine) unstuck from snowbanks. (Guy hopped out of a Jeep with a his own Menard’s bucket of salt!) This town, man 😍
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Just Sunday, after a lacrosse game and a trip to Dairy Queen for a Blizzard and Home Depot for some flowers, my 12-year-old said to me, “Did you ever think how stupid active shooter drills are because the shooter is probably there just learning where everyone hides?” And no…
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It’s not easy to look this pretty in weather this bad
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When I was hospitalized w/ COVID last week one of my doctors told me about his 3 mo. old and 15 mo. old babies and all I could think about was the fear he must carry each time he returns home from his COVID unit. It’s unconscionable that the president is slandering these heroes.
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I was diagnosed with COVID-19 on Tuesday. I'm isolating at home, away from my family (all of whom tested negative) and I haven't had to go to the hospital. I'm breathing fine, just very achy, tired and dizzy. I'm sharing this in the hopes that ...
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Will never get over the dad saying he hid his son in a dumpster before running back to the parade to find the rest of his family
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Name a better city for outdoor December drinks. I’ll wait 😍
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I wish dead kids got this much Monday morning attention in Chicago.
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A life hack: If you're 63 and she's 25 AND YOU'RE HER BOSS the flirtation is always, every time, definitely unwanted.
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One thing I love about Chicago is how much Chicagoans love Chicago 💙
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I signed up for my COVID vaccine the literal second I was eligible and I am 1000% on board with offering vaccine stragglers money or donuts or pot or booze or whatever it takes to get them on board. Give them all the things. Doesn't make me feel cheated. Makes me feel safer.
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Happy new year from the loveliest city in the world ❤️
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77% of American workers have no paid parental leave. 1 in 4 moms goes to work 2 weeks after giving birth. Childcare costs as much as college, and the U.S. invests 0.2% of its GDP on it. For a nation seemingly set on making people have babies, we sure don't want to invest in them
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It's not that people who love and brag on Chicago don't know about the bad stuff—the violence, the disparities, the segregation, the disinvestment. We have access to all the same headlines you do. It's that we know Chicago is, like humanity, more than just its imperfections...
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Today, 26 years after I walked into 435 N Michigan Ave for an interview at the Chicago Tribune (April 1998), my daughter is walking into 435 N Michigan Ave for an interview at … a fancy coffee chain they’re opening in the lobby 😭😭😭
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Sunrise over Chicago this morning, captured by my airline pilot brother 🧡
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I read the piece criticizing Biden’s mourning twice, hoping to detect the point. All I find is cruelty.
Years of writing about loss showed me people grieve so individually, especially over their children. Even within a marriage. One spouse wants photos everywhere…
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No one loves Chicago naively. Chicago, when you love it, demands your loyalty, sweat, clear eyes & faith. And once you love it, you fight to hold onto that love because to surrender it would be to decide it’s not worth the trouble.
My column from hell 🔥
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A very cool thing is happening at the DuSable Museum. Chicagoans can bring family artifacts--photos, diplomas, VHS tapes--and have them digitized (free!) through a project aimed at preserving the culture and history of black communities.
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I love how you can be walking to your dumb car in a nondescript parking garage in this city and get hit with a view like this 💙
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A 21-year-old college kid died this week trying to take down a gunman in his anthropology class. His fucking anthropology class. I refuse to believe this is the best we can do.
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…and helping bereaved parents know their children are too. I can’t believe front page space was set aside to malign a father’s grieving. I hope there’s a discussion in the coming days that illuminates what the paper was trying for here. I’m at a loss.
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My CEO is stepping down and the word apocalypse appeared in the first sentence of a news story about my company this morning and my therapist just told me she's retiring. Should I get bangs?
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Chicago Public Schools is requiring masks this fall. Count this mom among the grateful 🙏
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More soon, but for now this: A lot of people are leaving the Chicago Tribune. (I am one.) A tremendous amount of talent will remain and will continue to cover the hell out of this city and its complexities--tragic, joyful and otherwise. I'm rooting for them with my whole heart.
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Nobody wants to reach me as bad as Walgreens when my prescription is ready.
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I took a turn for the worse midweek, COVID-wise, and ended up in the hospital. If all goes as planned, I should be leaving later today. It’s been a crazy stay...
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Happy to report the breeze once again feels like a breeze and not what happens when you open the oven to pull a lasagna out. Good morning, Chicago! ☀️
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Spending the rest of the week working in coffee shops in case a nice billionaire walks in💰
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I just don't get why my inbox is filled (filled!) with live performances being rescheduled and doctor visits going virtual and therapy appts moving online and conferences switching to Zoom but when teachers want in on any of that it's called a strike 🤔
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Retweeting without comment bc I can’t compete with the comments 😂
Thank you Illinois for making me so proud to live here and work for you!
#Pride2023
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 (Jordan’s got soaked 🌧️🌧️)
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Am 100% that Chicagoan who’s lived here two decades and still gets excited enough about the holiday train to take her phone out at a red light and take terrible photos. (What a sky though!)
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My dad used a portable DVD player to make a drive-in for his toy train village. (Today’s feature is “American Graffiti,” despite what the marquee says.) Cheers to all the grown-ups going to tremendous lengths to create some wonder today ❤️
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Twenty five years in this gorgeous city and I finally took my first
@chiarchitecture
river tour. More in love than ever ♥️
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Tell me your wife handles all the pediatrician visits without telling me your wife handles all the pediatrician visits
"Think about it. Before COVID, did anyone go out and seek testing to determine if they were sick?"
@GovRonDeSantis
today
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A year ago today I was on short term disability, laid up on my couch, crossing my fingers that my heart would bounce back from Covid. Vaccinated and boosted 12 months later feels like nothing short of a miracle, but it’s something even better: science. Grateful ❤️
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I wavered a lot on writing this, but here goes: I was hospitalized with COVID, and it damaged my heart. I'm lucky, but I'm also scared.
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I went with "not dying of COVID" as my incentive
Free weed, doughnuts and other incentives offered to get reluctant Americans to take COVID-19 vaccine
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I don’t know, man. If the Senate won’t see and champion the value of family care 19 months into a pandemic that killed 700,000+ Americans, shuttered daycare and schools, jettisoned millions of women from the workforce and torpedoed our economy, I’m not sure they ever will.
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...There is growing evidence that mask-wearing reduces the severity of your illness, if you do happen to catch the virus in spite of wearing one, as I did. Please vote.
Also: Kamala won that debate last night. No serious person can argue otherwise 🔥
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This country keeps finding new and endless ways to break your heart.
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Prettiest morning ever? Gotta be top 5, at least. Good morning, Chicago 💕
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Well I found my favorite way to get around Chicago 🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️
What a joyful, inspiring, humbling day. I feel a million things right now, but gratitude is in the lead 🩵
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I’ll tell you who really runs Chicago is these squirrels
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Every Saturday morning I walk by this spot on the way to meet my running group and every Saturday it looks a little different and every Saturday it takes my breath away, just for a second. Every time.
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Prettiest fall ever. I’ll be taking no questions at this time.
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I hadn’t thought of that. And certainly when I was 12 I wasn’t thinking about it because I didn’t spend my childhood worried about being fucking slaughtered inside my classroom. Not even one time did it cross my mind. And now no child in the past 20 years has gone to school …
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Showed up at my parents’ house to go to a wake together for a longtime family friend and my mom said “Are you wearing what you’ve got on?” I’m 47 😂
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Today marks 23 years
@chicagotribune
. I started as a 23yo intern. The newsroom was drinking champagne on my first day because Paul Salopek just won a Pulitzer and it seemed like a good place to learn more about journalism & Chicago & humanity. I'm still learning. And grateful.
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Shirtless, icy, lakefront calisthenics. Good morning, Chicago. Never change.
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Lake Michigan is my heart and this marathon is my love letter to Chicago and here we go ♥️
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It’s also my first day of school 📝
I’m officially a full-time
@UChicago
employee today, working as the director of external affairs for
@TMWCenter
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First time I’ve had my own office, and I’m letting that little unicorn be a daily reminder to let life be surprising 🦄
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It will never not stun/annoy me that opening schools is considering safer than opening the damn lakefront
The lakefront could reopen soon — but Chicago is not "past COVID" and still needs safety restrictions, the city's top doctor said.
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and kissed their knees and dreamed of what they’d become and now this. Over and over and over. What the fuck are we doing.
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Just a friendly reminder that a bunch of CPS buildings still lack a/c despite Rahm Emanuel pledging every classroom would have air conditioning by 2017 🥴
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