“While men made up the ranks of demonstrators who looked to stand in defiance of President Trump’s ongoing immigration crackdown, it was often women who led the charge.”

This focuses on the loop but I have been wondering the ongoing effects of immigration enforcement on street vendors. My sister and I were driving around Saturday in Humboldt Park trying to find a vendor and we were shocked we couldn’t find any. Less visible and less present than even a year ago.

Kinda used to having to get a key to use the public bathroom at most Chi public libraries I’ve been to so it feels surprising when it’s just open without a key.

Great news

“The petition, started by Bryce Jones, proposes renaming Wabash Avenue north of the Chicago River as Barack Hussein Obama Avenue, which would change the address of Trump Tower to 401 Barack Hussein Obama Ave.”

Obama center preview day yesterday Hope this becomes a resource for the community. Excited that there’s a new public library branch too.

Backrooms time.

Former Chicago fire player from Berwyn and now with Chivas speaks out about ICE raids. “It's been a hard, hard year for us," Gutiérrez said. "It's affected a lot of families, and I take (playing for Mexico) with great pride and hopefully show it on the field."

Blue island beer company closing?

“The 100 chairs, which were manufactured by the brand Fermob in Paris, cost $54,438 in total, according to a Park District spokesperson. Of that, $24,438 was footed by the city. Lollapalooza….paid the remaining $30,000.”

“Staff told me [on the first day of school following Billups’ killing] that grades go on at any time, even when any type of traumatic event happens,” said Zaynah, a junior and a friend of Smith.” “We haven’t felt safe or cared for,” said LJ, a junior.”

AI wants to summarize everything for me. Leave me alone, AI. I can read a two sentence email and short document.

Only time I want a slow bus is when I’m trying to catch it.

"Three students die in one month and the principal hasn't talked about it yet she don't care about us at all," student Aiyanna Jackson said.” Heartbreaking but also such brave students speaking out for their mental health needs. Three student deaths and nothing being said by the school.

“On May 28, Association House and LUCHA joined dozens of neighbors outside Avondale Elementary School for a rally organized by Palenque LSNA. The rally called on Governor JB Pritzker to reconsider the impact of the proposed BUILD Act on affordable housing and working families in Chicago..”

“We weren’t able to speak. They just spoke about numbers and statistics and a bunch of mumbo jumbo,” she said. “You can’t put your two, three kids on a bike, especially in winter. Like, when it’s snowing, who rides their bike in the snow?”

Two people died in a head-on crash on the Queensboro Bridge bike lane between the rider of an illegal e-scooter with a top speed of 50 miles per hour and a cyclist, underscoring the need for enforcement against illegal, super-fast micromobility vehicles.

The SW Suburbs Rapid Response team posted about confirmed ICE activity in the last week throughout the Chicago area.

40 + min waiting for one Howard bound red line train. My villain origin story (along with the platform full of people).

The “still” is doing a lot of work in this headline.

Very mount greenwood story.

“A Chicago Public Schools student was released from federal immigration custody Tuesday — just in time for his high school graduation.”

There were rumors that teenagers might go to the beach on a holiday weekend but don't worry Chicago deployed a bunch of police to prevent it

"..showing several police cars lining the lakefront as police tried to reroute traffic with hundreds of people all around" ... "Several" cops vs "hundreds" of kids is absurd re: optics. I counted 93 cop cars @ 57th beach, and definitely missed some. There were *hundreds* of cops there.

Beautiful weather today. Makes sense people flock to the beaches. There have to better approaches to addressing large crowds.

The place to be tonight 🍨

Some hear “bus lane” and act like the government personally stole your parking spot and burned down your driveway.

Always a viral summer post about Chicagoans on pavement at the beach.

Saw a little girl at the bus stop pull at her mom’s shirt repeatedly saying “I want to go to navy pier!” 🥹

Yes! Christian always brings uncomfortable yet necessary points to engage with. Especially with rampant gentrification. With fam in hermosa and Humboldt, it is hard not to feel skeptical when more luxury housing has not meant more affordability. We’ve been told that it would for a long time.

I'm supposed to meet people for brunch but I haven't finished the papal encyclical yet

The new BUILD amendment requires 40% of units to be “affordable” at 80–120% AMI. That translates to a studio at $1,678/month under current estimates. $1,678 for a studio is what’s being labeled “affordable housing” in this plan.

#Gentrification is racist and immoral. It is the extraction of profit from the displacement of racialized communities, and it reinforces segregation. Luxury housing in gentrifying neighborhoods is not “justice,” no matter how it’s marketed. It is textbook gentrification.

If policy simply removes rules without also addressing displacement, exclusion, and wealth extraction, it will reproduce the same unequal outcomes under a more “efficient” form. That’s why we have ETOD vs just TOD now, and why we need an equitable BUILD plan.

Deregulation of a fundamentally racist market is not progressive. There is a reason far right voices like the Chicago Editorial Board and Illinois Policy champion BUILD, along with its main backers, the realtors association, who proponents would like us to see as affordable housing champions.

Alderwoman Ruth Cruz posted that a pedestrian was struck and killed by a driver on Belmont and Kolmar yesterday afternoon.

There’s a frantic boundless energy in the city today. Dawn of summer.

My sister was searching for tamales oaxaqueños earlier and she found some in Logan. So good. 😋

Parts of Chicago feel really empty right now and downtown a hotspot with sueños and other events today.