Please, join us in community as we celebrate the life of Riley O'Neil and Jam in his honor. 📍 Palmisano Park (Fitness Course) - 41.84177, -87.64905 ⏰ Monday, June 8th, 7p Start, 6:30p Meetup

I think everyone who has regular routes through the city can identify the spot, on basically every route, where things become absurdly dangerous for absolutely no good reason.

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)

CDOT Commissioner Cheaks should announce on Monday morning that the city will be phasing out "door zone" bike lanes starting immediately, as they are inherently deadly.

A four car brown line has shown up. Run 404. It is packed on here

Denied bendy bus seat privileges

Every fucking day I listen to drivers concerned about parking because they can't walk a little bit further. The city waters down a plan (never excellent to start with) and we're stuck with this shit for at least a decade because they ain't coming back to improve it. Out of low-hanging fruit my ass

Best group ride in the city

Bikes been creaking for weeks. The bike shop has seen it three times, only managed to temporarily fix it for a day and then it went right back to creaking. Finally figured out the source. Overtightened seatpost *sigh*. At least it was an easy fix once identified

Sometimes I don't think they'll ever finish. Two years and counting and it'll look nearly identical (besides the bus turnaround) at the end

Chipotlai Max is an AI agent that runs on “stolen compute” from Chipotle’s AI chat bot. They are looking to borrow from bots from Ikea, Expedia, Home Depot, and others. (via @masnick.com) [github.com]

This is what vehicles combined with sunshine and a temperature inversion will do to your air quality.

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...

For the @chicagoreader.com's Pride issue, I interviewed Matthew Keller, a social services associate & Midwestern queer who lives in a Chicago shelter, about what it's like to date while unhoused, finding salvation in the bottom of a clothing donation bin, & how it's never too late to start again.

There is a 90% chance I impulse buy a new whip Working Bikes just posted about. Nobody better buy it in the next hour. I hope the person who was test riding doesn't like it

Classic. You can never compare one city to another city or one block to another or one project to another, no matter how much data there is, because "this singular point in the universe is not the same as another singular point in the universe".

Fire suppression technology has greatly evolved since the requirement of double stairs. We're not in 1902 anymore. This is for a major piece of infrastructure. I bring it up to show that we know how to fight big problems and we can scale similar technology for residential buildings.

Provide support to the 600-unit (120 affordable) Emmanuel Congregation project in Edgewater. If you consider yourself one of the following options, your feedback is wanted. the48thward.org/zoning-feedb...

Every time I remember to do yoga on my day off I am reminded why I should be doing yoga every day

Get ready, the best time of day is coming and its 9 minutes after sunset

It's simple. When I cross the river on the Brown Line, I take a picture of the skyline.

Zoned DX-16. It's been empty ever since I first came across it in 2019. We need a land value tax so badly.

Just look at this (source: @blockclubchi.bsky.social) The driver who killed this person gets a “citation” and it’s ruled an accident. Died from “multiple injuries from automobile striking pedestrian.” Did the car just do that??? Where is the driver’s agency in this?

Spotted by @sidestreets.bsky.social

Join us for a marshal training at Union Park! Come out on Tuesday, June 16th and we’ll teach you how to lead a group ride, cork, and de-escalate safely with drivers. 📍 Union Park (NE corner of Ashland/Washington) ⏰ Tuesday, June 16th, from 6:30-8pm

We've partnered up with Walls Turned Sideways in Garfield Park for a drop-in bike repair fair with a ride around the neighborhood starting at 3pm. Thanks to @westtownbikes.bsky.social and @workingbikes.bsky.social for providing mechanics. Our friends at @atalliance.bsky.social will be there with us

⏰ 2717 W Madison 📍 12-5pm, 3pm ride/walk around the neighborhood. Learn more about Walls Turned Sideways here: wallsturnedsideways.org

I love taking the kids to school

"Industrial heat pumps, electric boilers, electro-thermal storage and resistance heating can already replace large shares of low and medium-temperature heat. These are not prototypes." janrosenow.substack.com/p/industry-f...

Lake forever, problems for now.

They should sell a season pass to McCormick Place so I can drop into whatever conventions are happening as I please

Does anyone know the answer to this? Checking social media for the first time in over a month and a half because I can't sleep before my colonoscopy today lol (well I can't sleep in general but I'm hangry and thirsty and here I am). I know that Johnny Sprockets on Broadway and like Barry/Briar has 1

Andre De Shields deserves more than one Tony

The Artist Looks at Nature, by Charles Sheeler (American, 1883–1965) 1943 More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/49714

They should sell a season pass to McCormick Place so I can drop into whatever conventions are happening as I please

The lack of parking spaces is killing our small businesses.

There’s got to be a better legislative system that doesn’t have decisions about $56B in spending routinely happening at 4 in the morning on the last day of the session. Does every state do this? It’s mind-boggling to me that this is how IL makes some of its most important decisions.

Something that has been really annoying me lately even though it doesn’t affect me whatsoever is when people drive cars covered in those bumper stickers that are like “bigfoot ate my ass at Marshall’s.” You are an unfunny CORNBALL!

Why does the program manager for CDOT's Safe Ambassadors not work at CDOT (they work for the engineering firm TYLIn)? This is what advocates mean when it's stated that too many government functions to private firms who are obliged to collect a profit.

Never gets old

View of Point Reyes Beach Looking North-Northeast, Point Reyes National Seashore #NPS #NationalParkService #PointReyesNationalSeashore

Good luck today to anyone with a state bill that hasn't died yet

More buildings cladded in limestone please

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...

Ratio

Somehow its already Friday and that time of the month. Join the Northside bike bus to critical mass at Jonquil Park departing a little after 5:30p.

Every three months someone makes another visualization of Chicago crash data. Collaborate with each other?

You heard it here first. I'm back on the air tomorrow (5/29) from 6a-9a. 107.1 FM on the dial or on @chirpradio.org via our new website. 1/3 world music, 1/3 60s-80s 1/3 rock adjacent

I'm glad my coworkers know to take pictures when I'm on the strenuous task