Not quite a peak Cherry Blossom yet. Give it a week I think

Cherry blossoms this morning in Jackson Park

Relegated to the overflow chapel Ken Griffins money built this morning. Happy Easter!

One of the best commercial street activated buildings in the loop is the parking garage at Wabash and Adams send post

With DePaul potentially looking to offload the old Blackstone Theatre on Balbo Ave this probably does signal a really huge opportunity for the expansion of Theatre in Chicago.

A membership at the Art Institute is one of the better ROI’s in this city. Member only hours especially

It hurts

Oh...

Been watching these condos go up on Broadway forever. To my shock and horror they're asking $625K for a 2 bed 1 bath. I know inventory is tight but I just can't see it www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

One problem with Chicago's block builder program is where there are lots that clearly used to hold a row house. However you can't replace said row house. You can only buy it if you own one of the adjacent properties for use as a side yard. Make it make sense!

If I didn't have a job I could go to members only hours at the art institute every day 😔

Wait wait my IRA was just recovering

I just realized Ellis Park is....actually a really old park! Does anybody have any other pictures of its older iterations? I cannot for the life of me see anything from this postcard in the current park.

Victorian house flip over in Austin asking $1.3M?? Not sure about the design choices here www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

I'm about to fall for every single April fools joke tomorrow horrible day for people with horrible discernment

On April 1st?

Lots of commercial movement in Uptown all of a sudden. Yemeni coffee shop that’s open late opening in the old Starbucks space. A Puerto Rican dinner club opening next to the Green Mill. New restaurant from the guy behind Cariño opening next door. The Eagle (lol)

Can Chicago do a televised mayoral debate this year with the candidates like NYC did last year I wanna see something

Who can I yell at about this

The Chicago Tribune is having a flash sale for $1 for a year FYI

Chicago Train Line Overlay with Legend and Stations now!

Doing a land acknowledgement to Studs Terkel and Stanisław Szukalski before I spend $20 on a cocktail…

Going downtown for the people watching mostly I love to people watch!

I think there is a conversation worth having around whether or not the lack of building for larger household sizes isn't a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy. As much as I hate 2-flat deconversions it's hard not to see families doing it as acting in rational self interest!

Need some of my non Twitter users to see what the White House is posting over there

Buying Exxon and Dow so I can afford bread next year

I wrote a long review of Fogelson's "Downtown," exploring downtowns' glory days and the start of their decline in the early 20th century. I also discuss the economic justifications for subsidizing downtowns, and whether we could have saved them at all. pencillingout.substack.com/p/when-ameri...

I feel fine

I don’t really get what the CPD does. There’s a trend online right now of people showing off their (illegal) gun mods online wherein many of them are also showing themselves and their street corners? I’m not a detective but…

Are you guys seeing these AI generated lego videos Iran is putting out I feel like I'm going crazy

Not until Market Close on Friday. Not until Market Close

American firefighters will go to the mat to oppose a four-story, eight-unit apartment building with one stair because the sprinklers could fail, and then tell you with a straight face that this is safer if that happens

Kodansky is doing Summer in the Park with George this year AND Timeline is doing Merrily We Roll Along. Big Sondheim year in this town!

Gambreling along on West End Ave, all built 1906-1907.

Michigan Avenue has fallen

Always begging the universe for a dumpy fixer upper Victorian until it provides one. East Garfield Park. $140K. hmmmm www.realtor.com/realestatean...

Look at the tower on this guy down in Auburn Park www.realtor.com/realestatean...

Get a load of this Church, School, and Convent for sale down in South Shore. $2.5M. Kind of sad to see it on the market, but what a beaut. www.loopnet.com/Listing/7851...

Looking at this old ad for a Private Detective Agency that had its offices in the old Chicago Stock Exchange building back in the early 1900's....whatever happened to private detectives?? Are they still kicking around? Do they still have this kind of aesthetic thing going on?

Castle Themed Motel for sale just east of Beverly 🚨 www.loopnet.com/Listing/1140...

In theory booking a room at the Congress Hotel for a staycation could be a fun time. One of the oldest hotels in the city, extremely haunted, not that expensive. However unfortunately the rooms are sooo ugly looking

Love this eagle so much

House listed in West Chicago with a construction date of 1858? That can't be right, right? www.realtor.com/realestatean...

The last one??

Lincoln Park Blues

The Northmere SRO just south of Argyle is boarded up and appears to be in the process of being emptied out based on the dumpsters out front

Good job Mr President Sir

Anybody a member of the cliff dwellers? Once again considering if it’s worth it

People certainly are…creative with AI I guess