Help UIC transcribe old building permits! Don't play games on your phone while you binge podcasts... transcribe Book 39 West, 1926-1927 instead. (maybe not on your phone). While away the hours with inspectors Bomark, Slattery, Bateson and the gang. Here's how: researchguides.uic.edu/CBP/transcribe

Elston Ave

Irving Park & Pulaski

Here’s to Thomas Telford and the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, 1805. Longest in Great Britain and highest in the world. It’s an aqueduct, all right.

Shropshire Union Canal, Chester. Plus a train.

Even though it was a bit past the right age for me and we didn’t have a TV, I was still heavily influenced by Sesame Street. Because God knows I can’t resist a painted number.

Sunset on the Middlewich branch of the Shropshire Union canal.

I love that you sense that you’re on the water, but all you see is countryside.

Shropshire Union Canal

Stepped out this morning and my already great hotel had improved.

Train infrastructure, wattle and daub - London & Nantwich

Another fine Marche du Nain Rouge, Detroit.

Souvenir shopping in Detroit.

Union Station

Clouds over the Sears Tower.

Grey sky.

Philadelphia.

Pulaski

Pulaski

Pulaski

Pulaski

Learning the unforced rhythms of grace on Pulaski.

Pulaski.

Philadelphia

Blue sky.

Phenomenal sign.

Looking east from Lake St and Oakley in 1939 and today. I want to go back in time and stroll down Lake St.

Chicago looks good from UIC.

Incredible photo from ChiDrone on Instagram. Chicago rules

Aw, Hell. Bud Cort. youtu.be/fa_H2zd8Ybs?...

People of the world… not one of you can walk and use your phone at the same time. If you think you can, you’re just too absorbed in your device to notice that you’re moving like a drunk, lost person with a limp.

SuperbOwl, Majestic Theater, Monroe St.

The Internet has mostly been a disaster, in my view, but the way finding is great. Google Maps is directing me to cut through the Palmer House, and it’s not wrong.

Today’s haul from the Andersonville puzzle swap. What a great event!

Helpful found objects. Ravenswood, Chicago.

Jackson Park Highlands

Gas meter was indoors at some point - not anymore. Ida B. Wells Dr and something.

Roscoe and something

I hope this means that the CHM Research Center hours will improve from the current Wed-Fri 12-3. www.wbez.org/museums/2026...

24th, just west of Western.

This kerfuffle stands between me and the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct. And will for a good long time, I’m afraid. I’m crestfallen. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Sincerely one of the funniest things the WSJ has ever written or done. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

Amid the news that DePaul’s Loop Library may close, I just want to note that much of the design work on Explore Chicago Collections took place there. It was the perfect spot for folks from UIC, U of C, Newberry, IIT, CHM, AIC etc. to collaborate. Grateful to DePaul. explore.chicagocollections.org

Phenomenal.

The cold is so beautiful.

Dang. Who, other than Barry Butler, is ready for this shot? This person, apparently.

This is what we need to be doing with our time. As a society.

Hasn’t anyone at @chicagocta or anyone in any of the design firms CTA works with ever waited for a train on a hot day? Waiting at the Wilson stop in summer is like being a bug under a magnifying glass. Why would you repeat this mistake? We get 100+ degree days here!

Starved Rock looked great today.