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Crain's Chicago Business

Crain's Chicago Business

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Followers
259.4K
Posts
138.3K
Following
33.7K
Account age
17 yrs
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📊 Post performance

184.4K
Avg views / post
71.1%
Reach vs followers
Dec 2008
On X since

🔥 Top post: Editorial: Weekend pandemonium requires a better response from B · 429.3K 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 · 2 image · 16 text.
Follower / following
7.7×
Follows 33.7K back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post Editorial: Weekend pandemonium requires a better response from Brandon Johnson 429.3K❤ 516🔁 226
Fitch downgrades Chicago's credit outlook to 'negative' 184.4K❤ 932🔁 376 Opinion: This $830M debt plan is Brandon Johnson's parking meter deal 56.9K❤ 481🔁 122 Opinion: Something amazing is happening — Chicagoans are paying attention to what's going on at City Hall 84.6K❤ 554🔁 138 Barnes & Noble opening four Chicago-area stores, including at Walgreens' former Wicker Park flagship 231.5K❤ 1.5K🔁 170 Mellody Hobson talks women and power on Meghan Markle's podcast ❤ 836🔁 261 Chicago ranks second on best cities in the world list ❤ 439🔁 145 "Chicagoans are really, really tired of everybody beating up on our city. And those of us who really care understand that it ain’t an overnight solve." Meet TikTok Chicago historian @6figga_dilla ❤ 536🔁 84 In the past eight months, ten sales of units inside Chicago's Trump Tower went for less than what the sellers initially paid. ❤ 745🔁 272 Following progressive backlash against reports that Rahm Emanuel was being considered for transportation secretary, Joe Biden may now be considering the former Chicago mayor for the somewhat less visible position of U.S. trade representati… ❤ 575🔁 908 BREAKING: Macy’s has notified its landlord that it wants to vacate much and possibly all of its huge Magnificent Mile outlet in Water Tower Place, sources tell Crain's. ❤ 1.3K🔁 1K BREAKING: The governors of Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana and Kentucky are officially signing on to a multistate pact to coordinate strategies for reopening their economies. ❤ 3.9K🔁 1.7K

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined X in 2008 — 17 years ago.
👁️Averages 184.4K views per post.
📤Posts about 0.1× per week.
💬0.6% engagement rate.
🏅Earned the 100K Followers for passing 100K followers.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated
54/100
Fair Credibility score
77%
Mixed Real audience
Medium Fake-follower risk
High Data confidence
  • Est. 77% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
  • Engagement (~0.7× of followers engage each post) is around typical for X.
  • Established account (17+ years old).
  • 0.6% engagement — below the ~14.4% typical for this size.

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

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