31 minute gap during rush hour on one of the city’s busiest bus lines. 🙃

This has got to be the most unserious counterproposal I've ever seen. It completely misdiagnoses the cause of housing affordability, and aims to worsen it by actually *increasing* the regulatory burden. And to add insult to injury, they ask for more money to do it.

Everybody post rainbow 🌈

Today is Great Lakes Appreciation Day, so you might appreciate this fun fact: the deepest point of Lake Michigan is nearly 350 feet *below* sea level.

Since 2010, 15 largest US cities all added population, but changes differ by race/ethnicity. —NYC, LA, Chicago, Philly lost a large number of Black residents. Chicago lost 19% of its Black residents! —All cities gained Asian residents, & those with 2+ races. —Most cities gained Hispanic residents.

May 4th will mark 140 years since the Haymarket Affair, a watershed moment in the American labor movement. Haymarket Square, which had been a gathering place for a century, was effectively obliterated in the late 1950s by the construction of the Kennedy Expressway. Before-and-after below.

if you ever feel constrained by the dictum not to speak of ill of the dead, this is a great moment to share your memories of what an abomination Rudy Giuliani is — as in this reminder of his consumate awfulness long before he made himself an absolute grotesque for Trump

Three midwest teams into the second round. (No, OKC is NOT a midwest city.)

The drab morning became a beautiful, albeit windy, afternoon.

I really don't understand this. Are we not innocent until proven guilty in this country? Exoneration overturns a wrongful guilty conviction, meaning once again you are INNOCENT. What am I missing here?

Black Lives Matter and no human is illegal…but we’re against multifamily housing in Evanston www.flickr.com/photos/james...

This is how bleak it's gotten for people looking for housing from corporate-owned and managed complexes in the Chicago suburbs. $375 in non-refundable fees just to get started. And if you do get approved, you're looking at $1,200 to $1,500 in fees before you even get your keys.

Symptoms of an undersupplied rental market

Less than 2 miles away from here a driver murdered a man this morning by deliberately driving up on the sidewalk and running him over. But “bike activists” need to stop “demonizing” drivers?…..

MOAB: mother of all burls You know the wood grain is going crazy in there.

This building was completed in 1926 for the Egyptian Lacquer Company. Great write-up by Chicago Patterns: chicagopatterns.com/the-portrait-artist-and-the-egyptian-lacquer-company/

Dang, we lost Allan Mellis and Pete Kastanes in the same week.

DC, Maryland, Virginia

This reminds me of some math I did last year. There are over 3000 places where two one-way n’hood streets intersect in Chicago. If we bumped out the curb to prevent parking within 30’ of the stop sign (which is the law, by the way) at half those intersections, we could depave 3 million sqft of road.

I’m assuming that’s just a placeholder monument, but I kinda like the idea of erecting a large featureless monolith with no explanation.

So now, a bunch of suburbs - are losing their population of children - have almost no affordable housing at all - don't comply with the state's requirement to have a plan for affordable housing and are still lobbying against statewide missing middle housing

36-minute gap during rush hour. Remember, IDOT’s preferred alternative for North DuSable Lake Shore Drove DOES NOT include bus lanes!

Anyone here want to be in The Economist? I am looking for people who grew up in the suburbs of a big US city (Chicago, NYC, LA) but are now choosing to raise kids in the city

This makes me physically ill. What an absolute waste.

I missed this crazy road rage incident last week. Clearly this guy is unhinged, but the way most drivers absolutely lose their minds if you touch their car warrants further study.

Lots of exciting things are happening on the Mag Mile. Perhaps with a new 42nd Ward alderperson, we might actually be able to so something about the avenue itself! I believe Brendan Reilly was unopposed all 5 times he ran, so I really have no idea what'll happen now that he's retiring.

The best way to handle bad-faith critics: refuse to take them seriously! I love this.

I enjoyed the Chicago Report, which replaced some of what was lost when WTTW gutted Chicago Tonight. Hopefully NBC will let him do something similar over there.

A real photo of Kid Rock addressing service members at the Pentagon today. Nice summation of where things stand in the United States.

The Nuggets may be mopping the floor with the Timberwolves tonight, but the Wolves win where it really counts: arena urbanism. (In fairness, there are probably just as many parking spaces in the parking decks surrounding Target Center as are in the massive surface lots near Ball Arena.)

Cities should be designed for those who live in them, not for those who cross them in their cars

Doesn't really inspire a lot of confidence that our state agencies will step up as the Trump admin rolls back federal environmental protections.

Greystone, but make it McMansion.

Wtf does this even mean?

Still mad that we traded Dosunmu, but I’m really happy for him. What a performance.

Meet me at the 24 hour harmacy.

Cherry trees in Kyoto. Not a subtle signal.

Usually when a community gets up in arms about the scale of a residential development, they're actually nowhere near the area's historical population. That is, in fairness, not the case here. But it's not like Galewood is bursting at the seams. Pop density of the highlighted area is ~13k/sqmi.

Yooooooooooooooooooooooooo! My kids are gonna be so pumped. They've been staring longingly through the window at this for months.

Cold patch pothole repair on the Kedzie Blvd service drive. I have a bad feeling that means no resurfacing this construction season 🙃

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social has 2500 rides and 444 hours on Citibike

Spring scene on Kedzie Boulevard

Fresh Kermit at the Logan Square traffic circle.

Passed by the Accordamino on my walk today.

What’s the vintage on these common park benches, and why are they so prone to tilting? Were they just poorly installed?

In addition, there are now several studies showing that you also have to interrupt driving, and make it less easy. Because with the best will in the world, why would somebody who habitually gets in their car for every trip even notice a free bus, let alone make the effort to learn to use it?

I could start a daily series about drivers acting badly on the Logan Square boulevards. This morning, a driver tried to use the service drive to bypass the light at Fullerton but got stuck behind me and my kids. I could tell they were pissed by the way they peeled out when turning onto Fullerton.

Happy Earth Day from Chicago!

the Illinois Senate will have their first hearing about BUILD on Thursday and I'm looking for a few good Illinoisans to submit their first "witness slip" in the next 36 hours Open this page and follow the instructions in this thread: bit.ly/BUILDWitness...

*passed by a cyber truck while riding home from school* Me: that's the fourth cyber truck I've seen today. Son, 3: what's a cyber truck? Me: That ugly car that just drove by. Daughter, 6: I love cyber trucks! Me: really? Why? Daughter: They look like Legos!