Every kiss begins with Kei

"A bicyclist was critically injured when a semi hit him Friday morning on the Southwest Side, marking at least the fourth hit-and-run crash this week, two of which have been fatal." Safety from cars is one of the more pressing issues on the SW Side.

Deep in the Heart of Italy, they’re dining in the street tonight.

Spotted @anthonyjquezada.bsky.social and @gracielaforsenate.bsky.social doing a little ballroom dancing on the Milwaukee Avenue pedestrianized plaza today!

Today is the 20th birthday of the Bean in Chicago.

Tell your alderman to save the acquire the greyhound terminal for city use, before it gets sold out from under them: act.betterstreetschicago.org/chicago-inte... Thanks to @betterstreetschicago.org you might even get to 'select all images with a bus'. ✅🚌

This weekend in #bikechi Saturday with: @repguzzardi39.bsky.social @senatorguzman.bsky.social @anthonyjquezada.bsky.social and more

Chicago map lovers (you know who you are and there are too many of you to tag), look what's just been released! node.uchicago.edu/collection/m...

Hurrah, the city is raising millions in revenue from an automated enforcement pilot! But, only in areas where the infrastructure violates NACTO best practices. Case in point: the Kinzie bike lane. michaelmclean.me/chicago-smar... Paint-only: $217,750 bike-lane fines. Concrete: 1 ticket, $250 fine

Ask your legislators to bring back middle housing to Illinois by passing the BUILD Plan! actionnetwork.org/letters/pass...

We are less than a week away from the annual Ride of Silence on 5/20, commemorating bikers who lost their lives on our dangerous roads. The Chicago ride is due to visit the site of Damian Gomez's hit-and-run death, just a block away from today's hit-and-run.

1. The CTA Red Line 2. The CTA Blue Line 3. The CTA Green Line 4. The CTA Orange Line 5. The CTA Pink Line 6. The CTA Brown Line

🎵… turn your face to the moonlight…🎵

Chicago's Smart Streets pilot has issued nearly $900K in fines this year. Well over double last year's pace. March was the busiest month yet, but the overwhelming majority of issuances continue to be just warnings.

"Neighbors highlighted the lack of connectivity between Pilsen and Bridgeport over the river. The city plans to work with MPDC on the group’s South Branch Connectivity Project to identify potential points of connectivity along the river, Roback said." Build bridges, not logistics warehouses.

Illinois schools are tracking families through automatic cameras, credit reports, and private investigators. What a society to live in.

Arthur, IL is the place to be for July 4th fireball celebrations. "Schlabach said the 250 fireballs, plumes of fire rising 50 feet into the air, will go off scripted to an electric guitar version of 'America the Beautiful'. He also added it’s going to be his best display yet."

The gutter isn't counted towards the width of car lanes so why is it counted for bike lanes?

FULL STORY: The Chicago Board of Ethics fined former mayoral candidate Paul Vallas $214K for accepting $202K in excessive contributions from firms doing business with the city, in violation of city law. The fine is the largest ever levied by the Chicago Board of Ethics. @wttw.bsky.social

Much like ✶ Chicago's stars ✶, the BUILD plan has six points:

Illinois' #StopSuperSpeeders bill advanced out of the Senate Transportation Committee today! 👏 👏 To get this bill to the finish line, we need IL residents to call on your state senator to support HB4948 📲 Learn more about the legislation: ipmnewsroom.org/illinois-tra...

At least we considered whether Skokie needed a one-mile *checks notes* High-Speed Rail or Maglev system.

“I’m happy to tell you we’ve begun very preliminary conversations about the possibility of extending the CTA Yellow Line, the ‘Skokie Swift,’ to the Old Orchard corridor,” Mayor Ann Tennes said during her State of the Village address. 🟨🚇↗️🏬

This is really neat, I love this kind of thing

Update! Thank you to all who took action and filled out witness slips. This bill has successfully passed in the Senate Transportation Committee. Thank you as well to the committee members for their leadership in supporting this bill. Stay tuned as this will soon head to the full Senate for a vote.

Ya'll remember when the Magnificent Mile Association paid the Lamar Johnson Collaborative to design bus lanes on Michigan Avenue for a @chiarchitecture.bsky.social exhibit? theljc.com/projects/mic...

Cutting travel time to Level 1 Trauma Centers saves lives for shooting victims. southsideweekly.com/uchicago-tra... Two bus routes serving that same UChicago Trauma Center are being studied for dedicated lanes and modern signals with preemption, which could reduce ambulance travel times further.

Email your legislator to tell them to pass the BUILD Act! Illinois needs way over 200,000 new housing units to just keep up with demand. Without that prices will keep going up and we'll fall behind on other goals like affordable units. @abundanthousingil.bsky.social @govpritzker.illinois.gov

How to bankrupt a state

Ethanol is kind of the perfect poison for Illinois politics, because it takes an actually good idea (solar) and drags it out into a horribly inefficient and actively harmful process full of opportunities for favors and graft

Please tell me more about the grave threat to life and limb posed by ebikes and scooters, Chicago politicians. I am all ears for how we are gonna fix this safety crisis.

This is Roge👊 Park.

If they suspend the gas tax where you live please be SO annoying about drivers not paying tax in every comment section available to you

“During the legislative debate, the union representatives didn’t bring up fears about how the arrays might impact workers’ jobs, but proponents think IBEW may be concerned that plug-in solar does not require an electrician for installation.”

Chicago adding "traumatized Ken Griffin" to our civic resume.

I can only assume that the South Shore Line is preparing for Evil Knievel to jump onto the south promenade of Millennium Park

Saint Gregory High School

You love to see it 🚲

Happy national train day!

Southport Avenue is about to get nailed with 95 theses

“To bridge that gap, the city is rolling out a quick-build program to provide semi-permanent traffic barriers before a full infrastructure project is installed.” This is how you improve infrastructure: Less waiting on paperwork, more community design feedback.

Let the fount of summer flow freely

We are so back

americanos

This Saturday in group bike rides #bikechi @swcollectivechi.bsky.social @divvybikes.bsky.social

“Seattle’s pedestrian protection program got off to a flying start when Mrs. Helen Rose bit the traffic officer who gave her a ticket for jaywalking.” From Traffic Institute Review v.1 no.1, 1944.

new: since she took office in december 2025, cook county state’s attorney eileen o’neill burke has made a concerted effort to keep more people behind bars while awaiting trial. advocates accuse her of deliberately trying to undermine the pretrial fairness act. via @djbyrnes1.bsky.social

The Illinois Municipal League introduced the bill that would encourage municipalities to ban solar from rooftops and also outside their municipal boundaries. Apparently local control isn't enough, and they a 1.5 miles unincorporated anti-solar belt too. @votesolar.bsky.social

Congratulations to @metrolosangeles.bsky.social on finally having more purple line stations than the @chicagocta.bsky.social

A @tomflood.bsky.social classic spotted in the wilds of Lakeview