Apartment I like in Kenwood is going to Auction oh

Who’s in the venn diagram of people who drive to the train and use the Green line using the Garfield Ave Park ‘N Ride lot?

I miss the Biden labor market, sorry, I liked making a lot of money.

I cannot be trusted with eBay

Oak Park, Illinois, rowhouses, all built before 1895, but I don't know who the architects were.

I wrote about apartments. I don’t think we’re building good ones open.substack.com/pub/ericerin...

Merry Christmas! Did anybody else get an original 1892 edition of Rand McNallys Pictorial Guide to Chicago?

Do not listen to this kind of hateful rhetoric

I’ve already been gifted a tin of oatmeal cookies and a tin of homemade peanut butter fudge. We’re entering the danger zone (Christmas Week)

This article is doing reputational damage to Chicago I fear

Exstistential dread over finally replacing my 20 year old car

Where is my Christmas market rally?

Was looking up the new skyscraper in Detroit built on the site of the old Hudson's store and it led me to wish I'd had a chance to explore said old store. TBH, I have barely spent any time in downtown Detroit as an adult and have never really gotten a chance to appreciate it.

Unit up for sale at The Powhatan. Which is pretty much a vertical country club down in Kenwood. 4 beds 4 baths, 4.2K sf. Fully staffed building, including elevator operators, a pool, a rooftop Art Deco Ballroom. Assessments are an eye popping $6.6K/month www.realtor.com/realestatean...

crèche heads — now is your time

Mussels on toast save me

Rumor is we’re doing another layoff on Friday. While everyone else is panicking about losing their job I’m panicking about having to pick up more people’s workloads

I’m just finding out the main original building at Michael Reese was a prairie style building decked out in Sullivanesque ornament. They saved the one pavilion but not this one??

Interesting Condo down in Beverly/Morgan Park. Right next to the metra, easy downtown commute. Only asking $200K. Somehow it manages to fit a LR/DR, 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms in its 1.3K square foot floorpan. They sure don't build em like this anymore. www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

It would add to my reasons to not live on the north side for sure

“New” scarf came in the mail

This is just necromancy

Sr Manager of my old department who went on leave for 2 months just got back and put in her 2 weeks notice dog they’re gonna try and make me pick up that slack I just know it

Adding University of Chicagos Basic Program of Liberal Education as a reason to maybe move to Hyde Park eventually. 4 years of reading classics with a dedicated cohort/discussion group sounds like fun. I want the grad school experience but I would NEVER EVER go to grad school

Merry #turrettuesday

Oh!

A Coca-Cola ad being painted on a wall at Lawrence and Ashland

I was wondering where one of my coworkers has been just to find out she’s been working from Ghana because of visa stuff 😳

3 years to completion why why why

Giggling uncontrollably, tears in my eyes. “I Demand the secrets of a MASTER MASON”

I’m getting a lot of AI generated femdom mpreg on my TikTok feed and I don’t know what to do with this

$175K top floor 3 bedroom listed on 53rd street ahhh

Mike Royko Column of the morning. June 3rd. 1980. On immigration and refugees. TW: Slurs your 85 year old uncle would say

There’s a live harpist in the lobby of my office this morning my bonus better be stellar this year

It is crucial that the next 4 months continue to look exactly like this

Some news of interest to local architecture nerds and preservationists in Chicago!

My realtor moved to Hyde Park now I feel less annoying to ask her to bring me to look at dump truck apartments when they come on the market

Sledding amongst skyscrapers in #Chicago on an incredibly snowy Novemeber day

Cozy

The ‘sun-room’? No no I’m in my snow globe

Is Johnson’s team on a mission to be the most unpopular mayor in this city’s history? What’s going on here

Life is worth living again

$550??

I can’t remember what Stranger things is even about at this point is it going to be worth finishing?

My Mom is watching a Nick Fuentes clip on her phone it’s so over

Need my leadership to cut the BS and send out the early dismissal email. Free us

Good Morning

It’s so over

Good Morning

This is the most damning thing you could say