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Gregory Royal Pratt

Chicago Tribune reporter, Pulitzer winner, author "The City is Up for Grabs." Little Village raised. @ctguild. I'm just trying to make my city a better place

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Last Front PageMAY 31, 2026Latest appearance

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Johnson pushes CTA to pick leader

A state law will soon limit the mayor's control over appointment process at the transit agency

View Front PageChicago Tribune • MAY 20, 2026

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Volunteers help immigrants get home after freed by ICE

Some held near their communities, but many sent to other states

Chicago Tribune•MAY 31, 2026

A human-interest story about community support for individuals released from immigration detention.

‘This community stands in solidarity with you today’

After 2 months in ICE detention, CPS senior free to walk Mather High graduation with classmates

Chicago Tribune•MAY 29, 2026

A human-interest story focusing on a high school student's release from ICE detention in time for his graduation.

Johnson pushes CTA to pick leader

A state law will soon limit the mayor's control over appointment process at the transit agency

With:Talia Soglin

Chicago Tribune•MAY 20, 2026•Lead Story

Frames the mayor's administrative directive as a time-sensitive maneuver reacting to impending state legislation that would reduce his appointment power.

ICE detains Chicago high school senior and mother during check-in

Asylum petition still pending as both held in jails since March

Chicago Tribune•MAY 18, 2026

Localises an immigration enforcement story by highlighting the detention of a community member and high school student.

Harrowing Rivera video released

Officer’s partner shown pivoting to right, firing and hitting her in hall outside South Side home

With:Sam Charles,Madeline Buckley

Chicago Tribune•APR 18, 2026•Lead Story

The paper leads with the release of body-worn camera footage of a friendly-fire incident, using the emotive word 'harrowing' but immediately following it with a detailed, procedural description of the events shown.

Rooted in service

Garfield Park neighbors and elected officials mourn wife, son of former Cook County commissioner found dead in apparent murder-suicide

With:Caroline Kubzansky,A.D. Quig,Sam Charles

Chicago Tribune•APR 16, 2026•Lead Story

The paper centers the community's grief and the victims' legacy of local service, subordinating the sensational details of the deaths to a respectful, memorial framing.

‘This house has known us, kept us, and loved us’

The Sorich family has lived in a house in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood for more than a century. Now it's time to go

Chicago Tribune•APR 6, 2026

A nostalgic human-interest feature chronicling a local family's departure from a home they occupied for over a century.

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Paperboy tracks bylines on the front pages of major US and UK broadsheets. This page shows every front-page story attributed to Gregory Royal Pratt in our archive, based on bylines extracted from front-page images by AI. It covers only front-page stories — not the full output of this journalist. Data begins April 2026.