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Followers
125.6K
Posts
86.7K
Following
1.8K
Account age
18 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$703 – $1.1K / sponsored post
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📊 Post performance
Recent posts · views
Dec 27latest
66.1K
Avg views / post
47.7K–91.6K
Typical post (views)
52.6%
Reach vs followers
78/100
Very consistent reach
Feb 2008
On X since
Half of recent posts land between 47.7K and 91.6K views (median 66.1K) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: With the strokes of multiple pens, Gov. JB Pritzker made Illinoi · 151.7K views
📊 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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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 …
The Chicago area is home to the country’s largest Palestinian American community.
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…
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.
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.
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…
.@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.
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.
"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.
She’s best known for her anti-lynching work in the South, but Wells spent nearly four decades advancing black equality in Chicago.
Chicago native Jacqueline Stewart has been hired as the first African American host of Turner Classic Movies. https://t.co/MP0iY2R96U
.@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.
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.
"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.
She’s best known for her anti-lynching work in the South, but Wells spent nearly four decades advancing black equality in Chicago.
Chicago native Jacqueline Stewart has been hired as the first African American host of Turner Classic Movies. https://t.co/MP0iY2R96U
💡 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
Estimated60/100
Fair
Credibility score
82%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 82% 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 — below the ~2.6% typical for this size.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
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