The operator of my Red Line train just announced: “Attention: This is going to be a crowded train. We’re picking up all the Cubs fans. And they’re a little bit sad tonight.”

#golfsky Under Communism there wouldn't be any golf courses! Me:

maybe you’ve heard the rumors, or maybe you noticed the new split layout for chat on desktop. i’ll confirm it: group chats are on the way, and landing pretty soon too. it’s part of our move toward building for communities and closer social connection here.

Idris Elba has been knighted 'Sir Idris Elba' by King Charles.

Did you know Pinkerton was a abolitionist. Man people can contain multitudes.

Mornington Crescent underground station, London (2017)
Photo: Tube Mapper

My three-year-old was watching CBS when she turned to me gravely and asked ”Daddy, how come everyone sucks up to the orange man?” And when I told her “Because today’s elites are the most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization,” she started crying

New rendering of the CTA's Logan Square Blue Line Station Canopy Replacement Project via @anthonyjquezada.bsky.social, starting work this summer.

Use it up Wear it out Make it do Do without

the only radical center i respect is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

And even when the car traffic was finally stopped, people on foot only got 35 seconds total to cross 8 car lanes plus a median, it’s ridiculous, depave DLSD /end

What does it take to actually fire a CPD officer challenge?

"It’s full steam ahead on the Chicago area’s regional transit overhaul. Landmark legislation intended to prevent service cuts on the CTA, Metra and Pace goes into effect today. The transit law is expected to raise about $1.5 billion for public transit annually." Happy day of birth to NITA! 🎉

The RTA/NITA Board has approved the increase in the rate of the sales tax for transit in the Chicago region--15 to 0 vote. This move is a key element in the NITA transit governance/funding reform package that was enacted last Fall.

More on new NITA, with a focus on transit-supportive development features of the reform package. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

american police are indistinguishable from an occupying colonial force, part whatever:

say everything you want about chicago but biking to soldier field is not difficult

"So there's a new bible?"

Boy Dinner (full disclosure, I was drinking strawberry/guava margaritas and had to make an executive decision)

From @chicagotribune.com 3/4/1900: "When [Woodlawn] was first subdivided it was remarkable for a fine growth of timber on the ridge fronting what is now Madison avenue, and running south from Sixty-Third street . .

1800s survey map overlaid on current grid. Kinda hard to read but the map there says 'prairie' and 'timber'. So best guess, these were sold/platted separately after everything else had been. I believe most of land was owned by James Wadsworth (he donated the land that the now-closed school sits on

Diverting so-called surplus gas tax revenue from transit to the general fund would set an absolutely horrible precedent for raiding this vital funding source anytime an “exceptionally difficult” budget year (read: every year) arises.

in this video in like 4 different ways and I hate that

Going to be nice when that opens.

Its a pretty city.

Happy budget season to the Illinois State Legislature!

Imagine driving a car and coming to a complete stop at a stop sign. One of the most radical acts you can do behind the wheel.

Bridges around The Mart are pretty cool too.

🚨 WITNESS SLIP ACTION ALERT 🚨 The IL Senate is hearing housing bills at 6:30pm TONIGHT. You can show your support by filing a witness slip as a 'proponent' in a 'record of appearance'. We are supporting Yes in God's Backyard, a.k.a. Faith-Based Housing By-Right (SFA 2). ilga.gov/Senate/heari...

My 19yo just went "people in cars act like people online because they're both using armor" 😧

How Freedom 250 will be remembered twenty years from now:

Also, 4th place

"It is clear that ShotSpotter wasted officers’ time by sending them on wild goose chases"

Someone asked me the other day, “If Trump can just do whatever he wants, then a Democratic president can too. why is Medicare for All impossible? Why are reparations impossible? Why is anything off the table?”

BREAKING: The Good Ole Boys have withdrawn from the Freedom 250 Celebration.

Thanks to @apnews.com for the America 250-themed piece on our large-letter postcards! The Newberry's Will Hansen reflected on the postcards and the mid-century optimism they embodied. Visit us to view postcards in-person or look them up via @digitalnewberry.bsky.social apnews.com/article/amer...

Very important to note that parking prices have not changed, but automated enforcement means everyone's actually getting charged. The bus is still $2.25, by the way.

Baptist churches splitting over slavery tale as old as time.

This fascinating. From @kbernot.bsky.social #beer www.beerandbrewing.com/brewing-ingr...

4/6 Gray's Campus Drugstore, Minneapolis (1976) Photo: Hennepin County Library

ICE deported them. Cook County prosecutors still want them arrested for missing court. www.injusticewatch.org/criminal-cou...

People talk about creating things for teens to do, and that's absolutely an issue, but also how about we create jobs and programs and healthcare so parents don't have to work two or three jobs that make it infinitely harder to provide structure for their kids?