I think this is the year that we should finally retire the word "gentrification." You can't measure it and you can't define it, so how do we know when it started and if it stopped?

If you're transgender you have got to go outside and talk to ur friends......ur friends on the computer can not help...also u don't know that girl....she's 500 miles away...

Waiting far too long at a doctors appointment so let's theory post. Normally for these I would do like housing/transit documents (eg when I got so annoyed at Evanston NIMBYs I read multiple shoddy academic papers) But I've just read Reject Trans Doom Posting ruthpearce.net/2025/09/25/r...

Politico is reporting that Trump is messaging that extensions of existing ACA tax credits for everyone are bad because trans people might be able to get healthcare... Other GOP leadership want to focus on messaging about banning healthcare for undocumented people. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Missing city council bc I spent the night somewhere and don't have a car to put my bag in thanks Chicago city council

The city nerd Q&A is closing on a question that I (and probably other ppl) submitted!!

It's Popeyes night in Evanston. The Land Use Commission is going to consider Popeyes' application to put the controversial restaurant at Dempster and Dodge and a very large group of opponents are gathered to object to it I'll be live-posting the night here, so follow along

i am at a packed developer meeting in jim gardiner's 45th ward regarding the edgebrook development on lehigh & devon avenue. this is gonna be interesting (live thread to continue)

On my way to @nerd4cities.bsky.social (running late bc a bad transfer) and man these new blue line sets are nice

Someone must have harvested and sold my email I am getting so much spam today from new senders

There have been over 100 miles of bike infrastructure improvements made in the past two and a half years in Chicago There's still a long way to go (see those huge gaps, hello Aldermanic prerogative!)

It's so so so funny that I can see the "stuck in traffic?" Edgewater NIMBY ad from the red line. Just. *Chefs kiss*

The thing that's so maddening about what has transpired with the ADU ordinance in Chicago is that there's not really an organized constituency lobbying against ADUs. Like, there haven't been NIMBYs showing up to city hall over this issue. It's squarely a panic by a bloc of alders who want power.

Official data is in today, and America set a new record-high for solar power in July, with generation up 30% compared to last year!

On a similar note, watching Disney adults go on the warpath over Kimmel and then mewingly explain to me why they're still buying Harry Potter stuff despite JKRs obvious commitment to use her money to support the genocide of trans people drives me insane.

I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him. I'm talking about something very different. Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired. Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to. But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Posts like this are so misleading. Most of the cost of electricity is the grid itself. It’s not free.

Ive seen the st Mary building for the first time and I have determined I love it dearly

This is my love letter to my favorite product: electric cargo bikes www.theverge.com/transportati...

My email to my alderwoman on the AFU bill if anybody wants inspiration

My model can quantify the portion of home prices that is the result of regional shortages, which regressively raise rents in a predictable way. Here is mortgage affordability in Charlotte based on today's market prices and market prices if there wasn't a shortage.

If anybody knows anybody who is good at Fair Housing Act non-discrimination stuff and/or community benefits agreements law, especially the intersection of the two, i have Some Questions

Back at Broadview this morning where Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25) is calling on Pritzker et all to apply pressure to shut down Broadview. The Ald. confirms construction workers were detained yesterday in Pilsen. “We must protect our constituents as we protected those legislators from TX”

everyone knows the answer to “how do i get from boystown to andersonville” is “take estrogen”

on the North Side, just 2 percent of land allows construction of high-density multifamily buildings. These are high-opportunity neighborhoods, where schools boast higher test scores and where grocery stores are easier to come by. www.urban.org/urban-wire/z...

Watching The Foundation s2e2 and "if you need me, find a way not to" hits pretty good

perfect, no notes

Disney adults canceling subscriptions, vacations, etc really are making the Harry Potter adults that threw a fit over a $60 video game look like huge bitches

Dawg we're cooked

Heartbreaking: rapper you like has an entire NIMBY song

This is the vibe I wish to bring to the function.

You might not agree with his logic, but you have to admire the moxie of this guy from Thursday's CTA town hall who went nuclear on the "gang of car manufacturers, real estate developers, single-families-only warlords and homeowners association authoritarians." chi.streetsblog.org/2025/09/19/c...

More people living in your neighborhood means your share of property taxes will be lower. Let people build more housing

When we don’t build enough housing in the places where land value is high, everyone else suffers

Hey is it good if your masked "immigration" police ID as Nazis?

Hey are blue line riders okay?

Hey @rush so when you tell parents that you don't provide trans youth healthcare... But other hospitals are doing it...

Chilling at parking day. The graffiti reads on the right says "this could be housing."

The ACIP has voted AGAINST requiring a prescription for COVID-19 vaccination. With a vote of 6 yes and 6 no, the decision went to the ACIP chair, who voted no.

hm that sure sounds like someone with a job endorsing political violence to me

Hey uhm. I didn't know they could do this? Red line is no longer a subway??? What the fuck is going on.

Spotted in Rogers Park. I'm doing my part.

Did a re-write of my last article that's a bit more accessible! Here's the story of how Evanston NIMBYs accidentally proposed 6 story apartment buildings by right everywhere (it's simple, they don't bother to read or understand things). medium.com/@chitranspla...

...Somehow I got highlighted in the Medium August Roundup as a new author? medium.com/p/939a73121f81

I arranged a date for tonight with a girl who just now told me she doesn't like mayonnaise. should I just cancel the entire thing?

"only candidate in the race who will stand up to trump and ICE" One of her opponents ran a town hall last night about ice and people's legal rights. Another was tear gassed at the same protest she's bragging about. Be fr girly pop

we've got fucking DRUDGE taking a stronger stance on the defense of trans rights than numerous democratic leaders. do you think if i start spinning around it'll negate my head spinning or will it just double its speed relative to my body

Relatively powerful lasers can be acquired cheaply on the internet and will try camera sensors. This is a crime and should not be done.