
Jonathan Bullington
Senior Journalist at Chicago Tribune
Senior journalist @chicagotribune. Former Louisville Courier-Journal and https://t.co/V227jKSSXt | The Times-Picayune. Got a story? Let's talk about it.
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4 days ago |
chicagotribune.com | Jonathan Bullington |E. Jason Wambsgans
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Our Route 66 road trip began at the end, at the famed fishing pier jutting out into the Pacific Ocean. On a breezy Sunday afternoon, the first day of June, a steady stream of visitors waited their turns to pose with one of the pier’s most popular attractions: a Route 66 sign, perched on a pole 12 feet above the wooden planks, advertising the spot as the “end of the trail.”Except, it’s not really the end.
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4 days ago |
yahoo.com | Jonathan Bullington |E. Jason Wambsgans
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Our Route 66 road trip began at the end, at the famed fishing pier jutting out into the Pacific Ocean. On a breezy Sunday afternoon, the first day of June, a steady stream of visitors waited their turns to pose with one of the pier’s most popular attractions: a Route 66 sign, perched on a pole 12 feet above the wooden planks, advertising the spot as the “end of the trail.”Except, it’s not really the end.
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1 week ago |
chicagotribune.com | Jonathan Bullington |E. Jason Wambsgans
Route 66, ‘The Main Street of America,’ turns 100By Jonathan Bullington and E. Jason WambsgansIt was created to connect us, a fused chain of existing roadways many unpaved that stretched 2,448 miles across eight states and three time zones, starting steps from Lake Michigan in downtown Chicago and ending near the Pacific Ocean and Santa Monica’s famed fishing pier. Route 66, “The Main Street of America.”There is perhaps no better-known highway anywhere in the world.
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2 weeks ago |
dailyitem.com | Jonathan Bullington |Jason Meisner |Caroline Kubzansky
A Chicago man who railed on social media against the ongoing bombing of Gaza fatally shot two Israeli Embassy employees near the Jewish museum in Washington on Wednesday before allegedly admitting to a police officer he “did it for Palestine,” according to federal charges unsealed Thursday afternoon.
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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Deanese Williams-Harris |Jonathan Bullington |Jason Meisner |Caroline Kubzansky
A suspect in the Wednesday fatal shootings of two members of the Israeli Embassy near the Jewish museum in Washington, D.C., has been identified as a Chicago man with no known criminal history who apparently has railed on social media against the ongoing bombing of Gaza by Israel. Elias Rodriguez, 31, of the 4700 block of North Troy Street, was being held for questioning, authorities said Thursday.
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