I spent 40 minutes taking to the down and out on the blue line. We talked about smoking in the train. How people view them as animals and how they're just people who are down on their luck.

“The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office said it was not involved in Thursday’s arrests, nor in a similar incident at the building last week.” Sheriffs were literally on scene pushing people out of the way to let these goons rush this kid outside. Just own your decision to collaborate.

Posted to a page for a neighborhood where a small group of politically backed people are trying to sabotage complete streets improvements on the street that this person's son was hit by a semi today. #BikeChi

Might be a good time to dash off some letters to Ray Ban and Oakley.

Grand Jury Rebuffs Justice Dept. Attempt to Indict 6 Democrats in Congress www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

I just stumbled across this and thought some of you might like to see it. A letter from E.B. White to a man who'd written he'd lost all hope:

"Our streets are choosing to exclude children"

I was just emailing a client about a project and got an automatic reply saying that they entered into eternal rest.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Ultimately, children’s cycling independence is not just a matter of skills or parental trust, but a collective design choice about what – and who – our cities are for. open.substack.com/pub/urbancyc...

6 unit building w/ 2 commercial spaces could be coming to Morgan and 34th in Bridgeport. Zoning meeting link youtu.be/91TpmMSP2uY?...

No, the point is that you made a choice to use lanes in a city designed for cars, while transporting your kids. That's reckless and unsafe. I think that kids should be able to safely bike wherever they are, that does not mean I believe the conditions exist today for that.

The subtext: then you deserved to be menaced by drivers

@stacystclair.bsky.social I'm sure you've got a full plate as the new managing editor of the @chicagotribune.com but hopefully you can get some guardrails up to prevent this kind of AI schlock. Your newspaper subscribers pay for stories written by actual people.

My bad. Apparently the average price is up to $50,000 for a new car these days.

Take the Moving Archer Forward survey from CDOT. It's short. #BikeChi www.surveymonkey.com/r/ArcherSpri...

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

Driverists think people should buy a $40,000 car if they want to take their kids to the grocery store or museum.

Chicago can't afford the CPD.

I am not a pot person I do not think anyone should be a pot person but people drinking less booze and smoking more pot is an obvious public health victory.

The ICE killings in Minneapolis were intended to send the message that *no-one* is safe.

Parking is just subsidized car storage, and doesn't cost what the true land value is worth.

Drop in at the next Moving Archer Forward open house at the McKinley Park Fieldhouse on Saturday, Feb. 28—anytime between 1-3pm. This is your chance to let city planners know what YOU want to see on Archer, from zoning and land use to transit and housing. More info: chicago.gov/archer

We need ALL of #BikeChi to come out for the Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety Complete Streets Monday 2/9 at 1pm. We've been keeping close tabs on our haters and we know they're planning to pack this meeting. Let's show them whose streets these are. Feedback: airtable.com/appzWPBWupXr...

Couldn’t be happier for @stacystclair.bsky.social, who’s among the classiest and hardest-working journalists I know. She’s the new managing editor of the @chicagotribune.com. And she’ll be great. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/06/t...

This is a great round-up of Operation Midway Blitz cases that have collapsed at Chicago’s federal courthouse. From Charles Thrush and Mack Liederman, via @blockclubchi.bsky.social: blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/06/t...

Marimar Martinez's attorneys also take on claims that it would "sully" Border Patrol agent Charles Exum to release his text messages. Martinez's attorneys call it "a fully deserved self-imposed sullying."

Do they all get deported now? Is that how this works?

Took this little chili pepper to Fitzgeralds via BNSF Metra on a whim this evening to see my brother play in a trio. Gonna get a ride home in brother's car.

We're going to St. Louis at the end of March for spring break. We often visit a city that's not too far away but a little warmer than Chicago for the week. We're planning to take the Amtrak and hope to stay in Central West or Forest Park SE n'hoods. Give me your recommendations!

This was a 70yo man who lived at the senior living center just down the block. He might have been walking to the DkD down the street for his morning coffee. The 5-lane stroad has a 35 mph speed limit, which means drivers are probably going 50mph. He's dead, and to many people, that's just too bad

Was it a self driving car? Or did a driver strike the pedestrian with their car?

NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons. We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team. Read more:

We’re now more than a week out from the storm. Obviously there’s still a lot of snow everywhere. Streets are narrower (sometimes entire lanes have snow piled in them), corners are tighter, etc. And the impacts to traffic are… basically nothing. This is the pilot program; make it permanent.

I'm banned from commenting on the Archer Guardians of Brighton Park FB page. Guess my comments didn't fit in w their goals. Among the recent topics was how Western is great for biking & the city had better not reduce the lane capacity. Folks, Western is EIGHT lanes wide here! It's a neighborhood!

As a pedestrian, I have my gripes about Rosemont, but they clear their sidewalks quite well... when there are sidewalks.

Injustice has always been part of America. What's new is white people are being targeted too. - Chicago Sun-Times share.google/kehYSc87ZmU6...

Don’t head crosstown yet, this is what 52nd st parking protected bike lane looks like 10 days after the storm when it’s too narrow to clear. #bikeNYC

Things seem to be getting worse in Minneapolis. There will be more blood spilled. Immigration agents draw guns, arrest activists following them in Minneapolis share.google/rDn3He40Wh4R...

"The mental scars will always be there as a reminder of the time my own government attempted to execute me. And when they failed, they chose to vilify me."

This is terrifying on a whole new level. "You might someday don a kerchief over your face to walk down the street, after every Ring camera feds directly into some vast central database."

BERNIE SANDERS: Do vaccines cause autism? BHATTACHARYA: I do not believe that the measles vaccine causes autism SANDERS: Nah. Uh uh. I didn't ask measles. Do vaccines cause autism? BHATTACHARYA: I have not seen a study that suggests any single vaccine causes autism

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

Safe Streets project becomes a proxy for political wrangling. Or should I say, 'Rangel ing.' These discussions color how elected officials view safe streets projects in Chicago. But safe streets shouldn't be political at all. southsideweekly.com/archer-ave-b...

The broken pipe blues are hard to shake.

Cook County State's Attorney sued for not investigating ICE agents breach of law.

We didn't say body cams on ICE. Their murders are already on video. We said no more ICE.

ICE beat this man's skull to pieces and lied that he ran into a brick wall. Nurse calls ICE story laughable. apnews.com/article/immi...

Here it comes. He's priming the well...

Some of the multitudes of street murals in Valparaiso CL