No correlation between undocumented population percentage in a state and home values, or between either of these and the change in the other, or between changes in both.

I'm too lazy to drive, sorry auto manufacturers.

Congratulations to #Chicago for reaching an epic milestone! Yesterday we reached 200,000 vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists involved in crashes for the year to date! 🥳🎉 data.cityofchicago.org/Transportati...

How is this tshirt still giving me bellybutton lint after 18 years of wearing it?

I'm not sure what year or geography this is referring to or which world war, but the annual death toll globally has been over 1 million for at least 45 years, and the US only lost 405,000 in WWII and 117,000 in WWI.

Did my first ever day of canvassing for a political candidate today with the @drakefor10.bsky.social campaign!

Builder's remedy FTW www.seattletimes.com/business/rea...

So proud. They're getting the basics right :') www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

Truly a cursed example of transit adjacent land use. Good job SLC metro area.

Depave DLSD!

I didn't know bus drivers were allowed to stop on their route for 10 minutes (9:28-9:38 northbound 56 at Kinzie/Desplaines) to pop into Jewel for some groceries 🤔 @chicagocta.bsky.social

Driving brings out the worst in people

All Trump or Biden would have had to do to get a sizeable share of independents squarely in their camp for years to come was legalize weed. Biden whiffed, and now Trump whiffed even worse. Shrug emoji.

Spanish high speed rail construction costs are 17.7 million EUR per km and they have 3973 km so that's 70.3 billion EUR or $81.6 billion total. Construction started in 1992. That's $2.5 billion per year (not accounting for inflation). Spain has 49 million people, so that's $51 per person per year. 💀

Back of the envelope analysis shows Chicago needs to double the amount of housing within 5 miles of downtown and add ~635,000 people to this area.

Cairo has 64 times the population density of Charleston, but the cars only move 25% slower on average

I've been looking at cities recently to find the most populous 5km radius circle in each. Turns out it's extremely difficult for sprawling sun belt metro areas with zero density gradient that are entirely single family sprawl.

Compiling a dataset of how many people are within a 1 hr walk of city centers around the world vs how many are within a 1 hr drive of city centers in the US using Tomtom congestion data and "population around a point". Houston slightly beats Dhaka. Chicago slightly beats Karachi.

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In bits of good news, the legislature passed parking reform in Illinois! I think the governor still has to sign it but this is cool chi.streetsblog.org/2025/10/31/i...

#DigitalWellbeing screen time tracker widget not working due to #DaylightSavingsTime

Lots of ghost buses this evening, and not in a good way. Waited 21 minutes for the eastbound 77 and 17 minutes for the westbound 76, during which time I tried to take the 22 and also got ghosted so I went back to waiting on the 76

New Orleans has got to have the longest ride from the airport terminal to the rental car center

It's the last week of veto session at the IL Legislature, and they haven't passed a transit reform or funding bill yet. 😱 Call your reps TODAY and let them know you want them to get the job done NOW! Sending an email only takes 60 seconds, and it only takes 5 minutes to make 2 calls savetransit.org

Only ~2 million people in the US live in areas with a population density over 30,000 people per km2. In France it's 1 million. Spain, 2 million. But Turkey? 9 million. It doesn't even register in other European countries. Western European cities are not that dense! Middle eastern & Asian cities are.

Build the sidewalks! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lShD...

An astonishing crowd! By u/sandrakaufmann in r/chicago

The No Kings March in Chicago is one of the largest gatherings I’ve seen here. Looking down from by the river, the crowd stretches for blocks down Michigan Ave and wraps around Wacker Dr. This video is from a few minutes ago and the end of the protest is nowhere in sight. @blockclubchi.bsky.social

Spotted alderman Martin at the No Kings protest

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🚨 HOUSING WIN 🚨 Today, the Zoning Committee voted 15-2 to approve the Broadway Land Use Framework. 🥳 AHIL members sent 765 letters in support of this important initiative, which will allow thousands of new homes to be built next to Chicago's four brand-new Red Line stations. 🌆

Come by the Sierra Club's office downtown before the No Kings protest on Saturday! Make a sign, have a donut and walk over to the protest with us. RSVP for location details: act.sierraclub.org/events/detai...

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It bothers me to think that there are some people out there that will see this clip, hear what she is saying, and NOT know what sarcasm is...

Blackhawk helicopter currently circling the Humboldt Park area #ICE

I talked to staff members who work near where federal agents were seen on video choking a Black man on the West Side. thetriibe.com/2025/10/vide...

A person in Mississippi is 17x more likely to die on the road than someone in Norway, despite Norway having a car ownership rate only 18% lower than Mississippi. This problem is not caused purely by using cars, or by how much people drive. Norwegians only drove 43% less than Mississippians in 2016.

I’ve known Steve for several years — he’s dug up a lot of stories of great importance to Chicago about a variety of topics, including CPD and now ICE. Journalism is not a crime