She is either trying to prevent me from going to Baltimore or trying to go with me to Baltimore

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

mature camry no. 280

Engaging in south suburbs activities (putting my day on hold while waiting for a stopped freight train to get out of a crossing)

Soooo is anyone missing a husky? Found by Grand and Division, no tags

The Ridge Historical Society is sending its 2 biggest nerds to this event tomorrow to infodump on the unsuspecting public. I will also be running a presentation that uses my own family archives to talk about how now more than ever it is incredibly important to preserve & tell our stories ourselves.

There appears to be an AI slop T-shirt shop opening in Hyde Park

Incredible post office

Found out I'm in the background of an Adamn WhoDeyWant TikTok

@katewagner.wehwalt.net KATE YOU NEED TO SEE THIS HOUSE

The former First Lutheran Church of the Trinity is being treated so poorly by its current owner. It's been horrible to watch over the last two years. This week, the building owner demolished the entire steeple and removed the bells to offload to a salvager. At least they're not being thrown out.

New Google Doc People Gripe About just dropped

According to Illinois Sunshine, the Corey Oliver mentioned here also co-chairs the Neighborhood Building Owners Alliance PAC. They’ve written checks to: -James O’Brien, who is running for HD-13 -Paul Kendrick, who is running for HD-12 -Patrick Hynes, who is running for county assessor

A rich person I dislike has three cute houses instead of one grotesque house and it's annoying that I can't hate on their taste

The former First Lutheran Church of the Trinity is being treated so poorly by its current owner. It's been horrible to watch over the last two years. This week, the building owner demolished the entire steeple and removed the bells to offload to a salvager. At least they're not being thrown out.

After a month and a half break from print, the Reader makes its debut as a monthly. Thank you to everyone who supported the paper last year when we were scraping by week to week, and all the ups and downs before then. Thank you to everyone who picks up a new issue, it means the world.

This trip is coming up and I'm now accepting all recs for things to do and see in Baltimore. Bonus points for getting me out of downtown, little unique local things over big obvious attractions, excellent coffee shops, and interesting vernacular architecture.

This trip is coming up and I'm now accepting all recs for things to do and see in Baltimore. Bonus points for getting me out of downtown, little unique local things over big obvious attractions, excellent coffee shops, and interesting vernacular architecture.

This house in suburban Baltimore was featured in an ad for Formstone in 1949, and then sold to a new owner in 1955. It hasn't changed hands since, and is remarkably true to the appearance it had 74 years ago.

This will substantially decrease complaints from friends who spend most of their time in better transit served neighborhoods than mine when they come visit me

For years, I've carefully fixed the tassels on the ends of this rug each night before bed so they don't get tangled. However, since bringing Sepa home a month ago, she has decided to align this activity with the start of nighttime playtime. She is gleeful in her destruction.

Kaegi's the right choice for Assessor, but "You've Been Fritz'd" is admittedly a funny slogan for Patrick Hynes' campaign to have come up with

Once again lobbying for Western Avenue through Beverly and Morgan Park to be recognized for its many examples of highly intact small-scale midcentury commercial buildings

Some people got together to create a new iteration of Free Geek Chicago - a nonprofit that takes in e-waste, restores devices to function, sells refurbished electronics for well below market value, and diverts remaining odds and ends to electronics recycling programs.

this is how dril got unbanned

ALTAMFJJJ (ALT texting an asymmetrical MFer by Jens J. Jensen)

Oh my God I have SO. MANY. QUESTIONS. How did this miniature railroad ever get registered as a rail carrier? Did he file with the IL Commerce Commission? (Yes, there are much weirder things in here. No, those aren't what I'm focused on. h/t @monicacarmean.com )

TfL: we will refund your ticket if we're 30 minutes late Metra: sorry we keep forgetting to unlock the shack

The members of @propublicaguild.org are preparing to strike to win their first contract: www.propublicaguild.org/updates/the-...

FYI: Pinterest been on that bullshit

A hatch and a trap door are two different things

This is an incredible thread and an incredible story, and I encourage you to stop everything and read it right now. There are things here that are of interest to folks in law and political science—but this whole thing is just a great story.

bizarre story/thread. a good morning read. this guy probably sucks but i appreciate the weird commitment to repeatedly trying to use loopholes to make himself a cop. i also like the casual bit about the unrelated insurance fraud scheme.

Things that appear in this thread: - a fake railroad - a type of police officer who can only make arrests in cemeteries - changes to state law - a police force whose sole task is to guard a playground - a notable soul singer - another fake railroad

Big four bedroom unit for sale in the Powhatan featuring one of those huge asking price vs. monthly costs differentials that are frequently found in Kenwood and Hyde Park. Get in the door for just $300K, as long as you can afford the $6,738/mo HOA fees.

You may read this article and come away with a lot of questions. What's going on in Pembroke Township? What's the deal with the miniature railroad in one of the old photos? The story is much longer and weirder than this one piece of coverage. Robert Ellis has basically been Loophole Man for decades.

IIRC, at some point before RLE was funded this land was floated for use as a surface parking lot since it's at the current end of the Red Line. I'm relieved to see a stronger vision is being applied to it now.

I'm sorry, GabeN bought a superyacht manufacturer?

Bryant from Studious Coffee, an excellent cafe just outside Chicago city limits in Blue Island, has been hard at work setting up a roasting operation in the back of his building for the last year. He finally dialed everything in, and now Studious is selling beans! Nice to have a new local roaster.

Personally, I wouldn't label a Nutella latte this way, but you do you

It's also not unique to this moment for people who are brand new to believe they have it all figured out, or for onlookers to believe the same. That part of the equation rhymes with a whole lot of history, and people who stick around long enough learn that they don't know what they don't know.

Three people might find this cool, but I stumbled across a wind rose report that documents the average wind speed and direction (as measured between 1970-2025) at O'Hare Airport (Chicago's official weather reporting station) ➡️ mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/sites/windro...

There are 44 days until spring.

321 North Laramie Avenue

You can be fiercely dedicated and well-intentioned and accomplish good things and also, simultaneously, be pompous, arrogant, neglectful of others' needs, disrespectful of those whose contexts give rise to different tactics than the ones you prescribe, and consequently untrusted by potential allies.

Old thread imported from Twitter, so no alt-text unfortunately, but I would like to remind everyone about this futuristic chunk of Soviet metal that somehow ended up at a random marina in Chicago:

"White guy who was a member of the Black Panther Party and also a close associate of Epstein" is not something I expected to learn about today

I saw a pre-production Slate Truck testing in my neighborhood and didn't get a photo, so I made a drawing instead. Slate is a new manufacturer gearing up to enter production this year with one of the first genuinely small small trucks that the US market has seen in ages, smaller than a Honda Civic.

Do enough people know that copwatching as a political practice and strategy was popularized by the Black Panther Party? It was part of its approach to self-defense. www.justicecommittee.org/cop-watch

Judges are often really annoying writers even when they're right