[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @Williamjkelly Reporter William J. Kelly #thatreporter Reporter William J. Kelly has been confronting Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on various issues, including his rhetoric against ICE and President Trump, as well as a grocery tax affecting struggling Chicagoans. Kelly also expressed frustration with Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson for ignoring his RSVP to a press conference and not disclosing its location. Kelly has been featured on national news outlets, including Fox Business, discussing the costs of spending on illegal aliens in Illinois. ### Engagements: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::22542822/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX +1,122% - X Month XXXXXXXXX +405% - X Months XXXXXXXXX +18% - X Year XXXXXXXXXX +43% ### Mentions: X [#](/creator/twitter::22542822/posts_active)  - X Week XX -XX% - X Month XX +44% - X Months XXX -XX% - X Year XXX +35% ### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::22542822/followers)  - X Week XXXXXX +2.60% - X Month XXXXXX +19% - X Months XXXXXX +32% - X Year XXXXXX +72% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::22542822/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::22542822/influence) --- **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) XX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) X% **Social topic influence** [$617m](/topic/$617m) #1, [loops](/topic/loops) #269, [brandon johnson](/topic/brandon-johnson) 5%, [chicago mayor](/topic/chicago-mayor) 5%, [$166b](/topic/$166b) 5%, [$522m](/topic/$522m) 5%, [cps](/topic/cps) 5%, [$225m](/topic/$225m) 5%, [$150k](/topic/$150k) 5%, [elon musk](/topic/elon-musk) X% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@wallstreetapes](/creator/undefined) [@janetjanet](/creator/undefined) [@renee1928maga](/creator/undefined) [@_janet_janet_](/creator/undefined) [@immeme0](/creator/undefined) [@dachipster](/creator/undefined) [@govpritzker](/creator/undefined) [@chicagosmayor](/creator/undefined) [@realdonaldtrumps](/creator/undefined) [@pauldmauro](/creator/undefined) [@johnjharwood](/creator/undefined) [@elonmusk](/creator/undefined) [@popbase](/creator/undefined) [@giannoulias](/creator/undefined) [@cosmski](/creator/undefined) [@lorraine0826](/creator/undefined) [@mark2dunn](/creator/undefined) [@ugenekrawec](/creator/undefined) [@floridacpamst](/creator/undefined) [@illinijen](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::22542822/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "🚫 Today I Was Blocked From Covering Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson's press conference - Thats Not Democracy. Heres the raw video of Gov. JB Pritzkers staff denying me media access to his press conference with Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson this afternoon for no reason and with no explanation other than I wasnt on the list. Ive attended and questioned Gov. Pritzker before and Ive been a credentialed reporter in Chicago for more than a decade. This is a textbook First Amendment violation. The Governors staff even threatened to have me thrown out of the building by State Police. 🚔 And lets be" [X Link](https://x.com/Williamjkelly/status/1972816935026110484) [@Williamjkelly](/creator/x/Williamjkelly) 2025-09-30T00:13Z 44K followers, 340.3K engagements "$617M in new taxes on Chicago businesses that critics say is likely kill more Chicago jobs. Of his $16.6B budget another $522M goes to Johnson's friends at CPS. Priorities priorities" [X Link](https://x.com/Williamjkelly/status/1978908004511617024) [@Williamjkelly](/creator/x/Williamjkelly) 2025-10-16T19:36Z 44K followers, 8359 engagements "Mr. Mayor youre asking struggling Chicago businesses to cough up $617M in new taxes while office buildings sit empty and the Loops still a ghost town. Chicagoans are scared this will kill even more jobs. Meanwhile your 150-officer personal police bodyguard detail costs taxpayers $22.5M. Why aren't you cutting that first Thats not shared sacrifice thats politics as usual in Chicago. #thatreporter" [X Link](https://x.com/Williamjkelly/status/1978931240037134760) [@Williamjkelly](/creator/x/Williamjkelly) 2025-10-16T21:09Z 44K followers, 1.8M engagements "I bet I know more about Chicagos real economic health than any member of the Economic Club of Chicago including Gov. Pritzker whos giving a speech there today. Does anyone have any real questions for Gov. Pritzker today" [X Link](https://x.com/Williamjkelly/status/1980690691358421316) [@Williamjkelly](/creator/x/Williamjkelly) 2025-10-21T17:40Z 44K followers, 34.1K engagements "Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson went after my followers on @X and it backfired. (Video below.) Those same followers are real passionate and exposing his corruption for the world to see with millions of views. Now hes lashing out slapping @elonmusk with the city's first-ever social media tax to punish innovation and silence voices that call him out. Hes also going after job creators even as Chicagos Loop has turned into a ghost town. This is the same guy who was $4000 behind on his own water and sewage bill before becoming mayor. Now hes running Chicago the same way he ran his own finances" [X Link](https://x.com/Williamjkelly/status/1979192931257839857) [@Williamjkelly](/creator/x/Williamjkelly) 2025-10-17T14:29Z 44K followers, 65.9K engagements "If MSNBC Elizabeth Warren and others are willing to distort something that can be verified in seconds thats not an error its intent. Reporters shouldnt be amplifying disinformation they should be exposing it. If the facts don't serve their story they bend it. And that tells you everything you need to know: the numbers aren't on their side so they inflated them" [X Link](https://x.com/Williamjkelly/status/1979927505323614271) [@Williamjkelly](/creator/x/Williamjkelly) 2025-10-19T15:07Z 44K followers, 15K engagements "Mayor Brandon Johnson's lethal budget for Chicago. The city - of what's left of it - will not survive if this passes" [X Link](https://x.com/Williamjkelly/status/1979954159412494597) [@Williamjkelly](/creator/x/Williamjkelly) 2025-10-19T16:53Z 44K followers, 8534 engagements "⚡ RAW VIDEO: Answer as a Man Kelly Confronts Mayor Johnson ⚡ At todays presser I asked Mayor Johnson what real Chicagoans are asking: how can you call law enforcement a sickness while you hide behind XXX sworn CPD officers And if you and your wife Stacey were ever attacked shot at rammed by a protester vehicle would you order your police detail to stand down He really didn't like that question. Then I asked him a question that infuriated him and his staff and they tried to shut me down: Last month a Nicaraguan illegal alien bashed a Chicago womans head into the sidewalk knocked her" [X Link](https://x.com/Williamjkelly/status/1975685416545370554) [@Williamjkelly](/creator/x/Williamjkelly) 2025-10-07T22:11Z 44K followers, 811.1K engagements "@Giannoulias Mr. Giannoulias are elected officials above the law" [X Link](https://x.com/Williamjkelly/status/1980999046287565238) [@Williamjkelly](/creator/x/Williamjkelly) 2025-10-22T14:05Z 44K followers, 2540 engagements
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@Williamjkelly Reporter William J. Kelly #thatreporter
Reporter William J. Kelly has been confronting Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on various issues, including his rhetoric against ICE and President Trump, as well as a grocery tax affecting struggling Chicagoans. Kelly also expressed frustration with Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson for ignoring his RSVP to a press conference and not disclosing its location. Kelly has been featured on national news outlets, including Fox Business, discussing the costs of spending on illegal aliens in Illinois.
Engagements: XXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXXXXX +1,122%
- X Month XXXXXXXXX +405%
- X Months XXXXXXXXX +18%
- X Year XXXXXXXXXX +43%
Mentions: X #
- X Week XX -XX%
- X Month XX +44%
- X Months XXX -XX%
- X Year XXX +35%
Followers: XXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXX +2.60%
- X Month XXXXXX +19%
- X Months XXXXXX +32%
- X Year XXXXXX +72%
CreatorRank: XXXXXXX #
Social Influence #
Social category influence finance XX% celebrities X%
Social topic influence $617m #1, loops #269, brandon johnson 5%, chicago mayor 5%, $166b 5%, $522m 5%, cps 5%, $225m 5%, $150k 5%, elon musk X%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @wallstreetapes @janetjanet @renee1928maga @janet_janet @immeme0 @dachipster @govpritzker @chicagosmayor @realdonaldtrumps @pauldmauro @johnjharwood @elonmusk @popbase @giannoulias @cosmski @lorraine0826 @mark2dunn @ugenekrawec @floridacpamst @illinijen
Top Social Posts #
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"🚫 Today I Was Blocked From Covering Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson's press conference - Thats Not Democracy. Heres the raw video of Gov. JB Pritzkers staff denying me media access to his press conference with Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson this afternoon for no reason and with no explanation other than I wasnt on the list. Ive attended and questioned Gov. Pritzker before and Ive been a credentialed reporter in Chicago for more than a decade. This is a textbook First Amendment violation. The Governors staff even threatened to have me thrown out of the building by State Police. 🚔 And lets be"
X Link @Williamjkelly 2025-09-30T00:13Z 44K followers, 340.3K engagements
"$617M in new taxes on Chicago businesses that critics say is likely kill more Chicago jobs. Of his $16.6B budget another $522M goes to Johnson's friends at CPS. Priorities priorities"
X Link @Williamjkelly 2025-10-16T19:36Z 44K followers, 8359 engagements
"Mr. Mayor youre asking struggling Chicago businesses to cough up $617M in new taxes while office buildings sit empty and the Loops still a ghost town. Chicagoans are scared this will kill even more jobs. Meanwhile your 150-officer personal police bodyguard detail costs taxpayers $22.5M. Why aren't you cutting that first Thats not shared sacrifice thats politics as usual in Chicago. #thatreporter"
X Link @Williamjkelly 2025-10-16T21:09Z 44K followers, 1.8M engagements
"I bet I know more about Chicagos real economic health than any member of the Economic Club of Chicago including Gov. Pritzker whos giving a speech there today. Does anyone have any real questions for Gov. Pritzker today"
X Link @Williamjkelly 2025-10-21T17:40Z 44K followers, 34.1K engagements
"Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson went after my followers on @X and it backfired. (Video below.) Those same followers are real passionate and exposing his corruption for the world to see with millions of views. Now hes lashing out slapping @elonmusk with the city's first-ever social media tax to punish innovation and silence voices that call him out. Hes also going after job creators even as Chicagos Loop has turned into a ghost town. This is the same guy who was $4000 behind on his own water and sewage bill before becoming mayor. Now hes running Chicago the same way he ran his own finances"
X Link @Williamjkelly 2025-10-17T14:29Z 44K followers, 65.9K engagements
"If MSNBC Elizabeth Warren and others are willing to distort something that can be verified in seconds thats not an error its intent. Reporters shouldnt be amplifying disinformation they should be exposing it. If the facts don't serve their story they bend it. And that tells you everything you need to know: the numbers aren't on their side so they inflated them"
X Link @Williamjkelly 2025-10-19T15:07Z 44K followers, 15K engagements
"Mayor Brandon Johnson's lethal budget for Chicago. The city - of what's left of it - will not survive if this passes"
X Link @Williamjkelly 2025-10-19T16:53Z 44K followers, 8534 engagements
"âš¡ RAW VIDEO: Answer as a Man Kelly Confronts Mayor Johnson âš¡ At todays presser I asked Mayor Johnson what real Chicagoans are asking: how can you call law enforcement a sickness while you hide behind XXX sworn CPD officers And if you and your wife Stacey were ever attacked shot at rammed by a protester vehicle would you order your police detail to stand down He really didn't like that question. Then I asked him a question that infuriated him and his staff and they tried to shut me down: Last month a Nicaraguan illegal alien bashed a Chicago womans head into the sidewalk knocked her"
X Link @Williamjkelly 2025-10-07T22:11Z 44K followers, 811.1K engagements
"@Giannoulias Mr. Giannoulias are elected officials above the law"
X Link @Williamjkelly 2025-10-22T14:05Z 44K followers, 2540 engagements