Based on the amount of bike traffic I've watched the Cortland St. Bridge sidewalk bypass handle this last year, I project the 606 Extension will need to be 40ft wide. The people yearn for a low-stress North Side river & expressway crossing.

back on my bullshit in several different ways

"The future of transport should not only be electric. It should be lighter, healthier, more affordable and less car dependent."

It is hard to overstate the lack of seriousness with which we treat the ability to own and operate machines with the ability to kill and maim

We are hosting a vigil and bike jam for Riley. Flyer forthcoming. It will be on Monday, 6/8 at 7pm. Palmissano Park (Fitness Course; across from McGuane Park's playground)

A new @pewresearch.org study finds that infill housing near jobs, stores, and transit costs governments ~$21,000 less per home to serve, cuts long term infrastructure maintenance costs in half, and generates 13% more in annual property tax revenue per acre than sprawl.

“The youth are doing this because they don’t have anywhere to go” and now we are criminalizing them for existing in one of the few places they could go. It is in fact not illegal to hang out on the beach. It’s kind of the whole fucking point of having them.

Speaking of which, this is a tremendous show! Really translates well

eugene onegin avoidant king

Imagine the pure joy of getting to write this www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...

Thank god this still exists on the internet listography.com/linabot/book...

44th ward office is taking feedback on the cub’s multi-acre parking lot proposal. Let em know. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Just gonna leave this here. daniellekurtzleben.substack.com/p/when-authe...

Lisa was a friend of a friend and stories like this are way too common. It’s disgusting to me that anyone can say with a straight face that we’ve ‘gone too far’ with safe street initiatives. chicago.suntimes.com/news/2026/06...

Being Catholic is extremely normal. One day you’re reading a careful defense of human dignity in a world besieged by tech billionaires & warmongers written by the Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church and the next day the bishop of DC has to tell a priest he can’t say UFOs are demons.

A company that makes a no-tech, repairable tractor is having trouble keeping up with demand from farmers sick of John Deere's repair monopoly and simply want a tractor that turns on and works: www.404media.co/demand-is-bo...

public service reminder that Widow's Bay drops Tuesday nights at 8 p.m. CT

Reporting on how Talarico is reaching new people with his relatively run-of-the-mill mainline Christianity really shows how the media and political dominance of right wing evangelicalism has constrained the American religious imagination.

🎉🚇🚌 It’s official! The Northern Illinois Transit Authority is here, ushering in a new era of public transit for our region. Take the pledge to keep fighting for transit and email your legislators urging them to keep the promise of NITA at savetransit.org

The average monthly car payment is SEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS. Pay that for three months and you’ve covered an e-bike!

Relatedly: What’s the cheapest way to do an architectural boat tour with a group that includes a family of five, without them having to pay $200+?

I’ve got some family passing through Chicago next month and they want to eat deep dish. What’s the best option convenient to transit? (Five kids under 10 so Pequod’s would be a haul)

Join Sierra Club Illinois' Clean Water Team for a virtual workshop to learn about Illinois' 2026 Impaired Waters Report, what it reveals about the condition of Illinois waters, and how to submit an effective public comment. Let's speak up for clean water! 💪

Finally we are getting the Urban Renewal angle from the papers on this. Its a disgrace. BUT - the Ricketts don't have approval to expand the parking lot yet! Send a letter to northside alders about this, so we can block this terrible urban land use ➡️ actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...

Periodic reminder that 94% of US plastic does *not* get recycled, whether or not it goes into a recycling bin. And if it's not plastic 1 or 2, it's almost certainly going into an incinerator or landfill. Recycling is expensive & the market for recycled plastics is fragmented & small.

Swam my full triathlon race distance in the pool today, please clap

NOBODY is doing it like Widow’s Bay

Looking to reserve a room at a library branch. Is there a way to search all CPL locations at once to see who has a room open on the day I want? Or do I have to open each individual branch's scheduling website?

ai has taken so much from us but i will never forgive it for ruining em dashes

i am indeed enjoying mysekf by the lake though

one of those days I fear

Some of us just don't like getting colds

a few too many existential crises while biking and running lately… don’t try to solve your mid-30s search for meaning with a triathlon folks

Folks, it's 4pm on a holiday weekend, please help me workshop a birthday party idea: Miracle on 34th Street/Christmas in July I'm 34 this summer and the best Saturday given the birth date is July 25 Where in Chicago could I host this? Should we do a gift swap? If you have good ideas you're invited

i cannot be trusted with a 12 pack of diet coke

We have *never* before seen consumer sentiment this low.

It's Wrong Jacket Week in Chicago, we are celebrating the changing seasons by making sure that you are 100% always wearing the wrong jacket no matter what you do

Real question: What happened to school buses? The drop-off/pick-up line seems inefficient at best, antisocial at worst. When, why and how did buses go away and get replaced by this?

Chris Fleming in Widow’s Bay?!?!?!?

got home from bikepacking about 27 hours ago. have already spent [redacted] ordering a new saddle, bar ends to make my flatbars more comfortable, and an ebay pannier

Really good thread on yet another bunch of reasons why Dems should have been incessantly, annoyingly, loudly pushing for impeachment and removal this whole time

Waking up in your tent when it’s raining gently and not too cold out 👌👌👌👌👌

It me

UPDATE: After briefly letting a national ban take effect, the Supreme Court blocked a lower court’s ruling that would have prevented mailing a key abortion drug.

The real answer--as adopted by progressive advocates around the country, and electeds from Pritzker to Johnson to Mamdani--is that getting rid of regulations that require million-dollar mansions and investing in affordable housing are complementary policies, not at odds with each other.

crying in the laundry room listening to this ngl podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

the pride and accomplishment I feel for my own success is somewhat undercut by the knowledge that I'd have been absolutely screwed entering the workforce as a baby writer today. Like outside of writing / journalism, I just have no idea in general how new adults are surviving on their own rn

Widow’s Bay is so GOOD

“I struggle for adjectives to adequately describe the horror that this administration has visited on the world,” said a former State Department official. “It keeps me up at night.” Revisit this story from our series “The End of Aid,” a 2026 Pulitzer finalist.