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Environmental equity ordinance would help Chicagoans breathe easier chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-t... #Climateaction

This year, CDOT has been investing heavily in the Divvy system by offering (and continuing to offer!): 📍 5,200+ $99 memberships 📍 8,200+ price freezes for current members 📍 43,000+ capped e-bike rides 📍 31,600+ free unlocks in Equity Priority Areas

Help monitor the Chicago River every 3 weeks! 🌊💧 Data: chicago-river-checkup.herokuapp.com Join: act.sierraclub.org/events/detai... #ChicagoRiver #CleanWater #EcoVolunteers #SierraClub

So not only does the massive transit package passed last night fill the funding gap, it *boosts* ops funding by roughly the size of the gap, eliminates parking minimums within a half mile of rail stations, and gives the new regional transit board sweeping powers to do public development

Illinois Senate passes the transit reform bill. 36-Y, 21-N. Bill now goes to Governor and becomes law if he signs. ilga.gov/documents/le...

We saved transit.

SB 2111, the bill to fix and fund our transit system, is swiftly moving through the Illinois General Assembly tonight, and your support can make a huge difference. But you must act immediately. Tap below to fill out a witness slip: ilga.gov/House/hearin...

Submit a witness slip for transit funding below 1. Fill out your contact info 3. Under "firm/business" put "self" 4. Under "representation" put "self" 5. Under "position" choose "SB2111" and "proponent" 6. Under "testimony" choose "record of appearance only" 7. Agree and "Submit" mbl.ms/mKjrOneOv-0

It’s witness slip time! 🚨 Transit funding bill SB2111 has been assigned to committee and we need folks to file witness slips as PROPONENT immediately! The attached graphic provides guidance for submitting a slip. mbl.ms/mKgZnW7m-BQ

Witness Slip Warriors: You are a PROPONENT of SB2111 if you love trains and buses! Get to it. (Previously shared an outdated link, this is current.)

sent some emails on my train ride home using their template. you should too!

"CTA and CDOT Invite Public Input on Bringing Bus Priority Infrastructure to Five Bus Corridors." www.transitchicago.com/cta-and-cdot... @chicagocta.bsky.social @ctaction.org @betterstreetschicago.org @active

🚨 Sign up for rapid text alerts at alerts.savetransit.org 📲 Call your legislators and tell them to pass transit funding NOW at call.savetransit.org

We need to flood the zone today. Call your reps in Springfield RIGHT NOW. savetransit.org makes it easy!

Huge thanks to every dedicated advocate who met with legislators today to demand real climate action. We brought the urgency of the climate crisis to the forefront and pushed for bold policy now. Your voice matters! Let's keep up the fight. #ClimateAction #LobbyDay #ActOnClimate #ClimateJustice

🚨 Welcome to the last day of veto session, where Illinois lawmakers do NOT have an agreed funding package ready to vote on! If they don’t get it done today, they’ll send us hurtling towards the first steps of enacting service cuts. This is not a drill! Call your reps TODAY. 📲 call.savetransit.org

🚨 1 day to save transit and your legislators are not on the same page. Flood the gates! Call, email, tag your State Rep & Senator on social and tell them it’s time to get the job done NOW! Look up your legislator at the link in our bio ⬆️ Call and email NOW at savetransit.org

🚨 New phone banking shift just added for tomorrow at noon! Join us tomorrow to reach neighbors, asking them to contact their reps and demand they get the job done. Public transit cannot wait! Sign up and take action with us!

The Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act just passed the Illinois House 70/37. It’s off to the Senate now. If it passes the Senate CRGA becomes law and Illinois will double down on the clean energy transition.

Today, we brought the train to Springfield to deliver nearly 20,000 petitions to legislators urging them to get the job done NOW. Transit cannot wait. Legislators cannot continue to kick the can down the road. It is time to fix and FULLY FUND transit.

If you’re searching for an env. book club & reading community, join us this Saturday for part II of our climate conversations series Bring a friend or share with your network to anyone who may find this of interest 🌎💚 We will be discussing the book Is A River Alive? by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social

With time running short in the General Assembly’s fall veto session, Illinois House Democrats began pushing Tuesday for their own plan to provide an overhaul of the Chicago region’s mass transit systems.

Vote by Nov. 7 to rename the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal! www.boldpastbrightfuture.org/naming-commi...

This train rides the Rotunda Rail in the Illinois State Capitol. Save transit! @itazurakko999.bsky.social @nerdiesanders.bsky.social @betterstreetschicago.org @abundanthousingil.bsky.social @sierraclubchicago.bsky.social @atalliance.bsky.social @ilenviro.bsky.social @housedemsil.bsky.social

Attend a Budget Meeting to support funding Main St, Mason Park/Davis St and Citywide Traffic Calming, Ped and Bike Improvements Wards 3/8/9- October 29, 6PM Prieto Center Wards 2/5/6- November 4, 6:30PM Crown Center Wards 1/4/7- November 6, 6PM Virtual www.cityofevanston.org/government/budget

Demand for home solar has surged since President Donald Trump repealed a federal tax credit worth about $8,000 per household by the year’s end.

Productive meeting with Alderman Burnett today! Thank you for discussing the Cumulative Impact Ordinance with advocates, and for your strong vote in favor of ADUs. Two wins for sustainable & equitable development! #CIO #ADU #Chicago #ClimateJustice

Illinois has 9 new invasives that cannot be bought, sold, or planted, including Callery pear, tree-of-heaven, garlic mustard, leafy spurge, sericea lespedeza, and stiltgrass Details https://extension.illinois.edu/news-releases/nine-new-invasive-species-regulated-illinois-expansion-exotic-weeds-act

Sen. Ram Villivalam urges legislators to pass a robust transit funding bill this week. "If we are expecting to put a Band-Aid on this situation, and a world-class public transportation system to manifest itself, it's not going to happen." chi.streetsblog.org/2025/10/24/r... @chicagocta.bsky.social

On International Day for Climate Action, we remember that we are all in this together. From local advocacy to global policy, every action matters. We’re fighting for a just, equitable, and sustainable world. Join the Sierra Club in turning worry into action. #ClimateActionDay #SierraClub

Fittingly for this morning’s wintry weather, I saw a snow bunting at Montrose Beach.

Call your reps right now, before you put the phone down. Savetransit.org makes it easy!

Grateful to meet with our city council champion, Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth! 🙌 Thank you for your dedication to the Hazel M. Johnson CIO, ADUs, and the Department of Environment. Together, we’re making a difference! 🌿🏠 #48thWard #CityCouncil #Leadership #CommunitySupport

State Representatives Cassidy, Delgado, and Williams would like your opinion on progressive revenue proposals for funding transit. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We came. We saw. We lobbied. Last Wednesday, we brought 42 members to the Illinois State Capitol to talk with our legislators about public transit, healthcare, and tax reform. Thank you to everyone who joined us—and stay tuned for round two next week!

After Saturday’s wildly succesful ride, we’re getting the band back together and going on tour. 🤘🏽 #BikeChi Join us this Saturday and check out the Eventbrite link for more dates.

West suburban folks: Come to Glen Ellyn on Wednesday for a discussion (led in part by a high school student!) on climate anxiety, anger, helplessness and sources of hope.

Join us every day in the streets to reach transit riders, urging them to contact their legislators. Sign up for a shift that works for you!

Call your reps immediately and demand they fully fund and reform transit in Illinois. This is absolutely imperative for the state’s long term economic health and quality of life. As the federal government collapses in on itself we cannot wait. Now is the time for us to define our own future.

All hands on deck, folks — we gotta pass this NEXT WEEK! Call your state reps TODAY. Sign up to canvass. Sign up to phone bank. (links coming later today) We need you to get in the fight with us!

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Chicago is this country’s anti-fascist center. The Trump regime will do all it can to subdue our city and to coerce submission. But they won’t get it.

the camera just pulled up to give a full view down michigan ave and i gasped. that’s the art institute circled in red on the top left. people continue to pour out of grant park

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

Looking for a group to protest with today? Meet us at the Sierra Club office downtown from 10:30-11:30 and then we'll walk over together. RSVP below for location details!

Feel free to meet us at LaSalle and Van Buren at 11am. And if you haven't yet, call your legislator through our tool at savetransit.org