Progress on an ADU in the 48th ward, Andersonville

I keep saying that government is just people we pay to do stuff for us, but you can also totally just do stuff yourself. We all live here together, let’s take care of this place and each other.

A masked ICE agent sprayed David Black, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, directly in the face during protests outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois. Photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times.

UPDATE — Witness videos captured Border Patrol agents boating down the Chicago River today. Also, there are multiple anti-ICE protests planned for the Chicagoland area this weekend. More details ⬇️ thetriibe.com/2025/09/bord...

like i was saying

Three indie media outlets in Chicago have teamed up to boost the reach of their reporting on the ICE presence there. They're all on bluesky. The Triibe @thetriibe.com , Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com , and Unravelled @unraveledpress.com L.A. TACO interviews them here: lataco.com/chicago-ice-...

Another headline that I had to read multiple times because I didn’t think it was right

Reports from the Miami Herald reveal that a staggering 1,200 people have gone missing from just this one facility. Alcatraz is now drawing comparisons to Auschwitz.

My parents love their home health aides!

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇

Look closely! I am there too!

Chicago ADUs ! 🎉

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

everything i do is 'taking the L in chicago,' so to speak

I approve all of these messages

Love seeing my #PlowTheSidewalks design in the wild.

Take the L in Chicago and you may spot @nerd4cities.bsky.social @michealpodgers.bsky.social @betterstreetschicago.org @accessliving.bsky.social #PlowTheSidewalks

Came for the Nerd, stayed for the 🐐

Unironically i think clubbing cultur unfucks a lot of this but that’s dependent on cheap rents and cheap rents are downstream of urbanization which is downstream of reversing suburban sprawl/car dependency and suburban sprawl/car dependency was a major accelerant of all of this to begin with lol

This is like Chicago baptism

Happy to spend my birthday eve with you all! You rock 🎸 @michealpodgers.bake.social @nerd4cities.bsky.social @swcollectivechi.bsky.social @betterstreetschicago.org @itskylelucas.com

Local news is doing an excellent job on the ICE campaign in our city. This from the @chicago.suntimes.com is an especially detailed status report that says: -ICE is becoming more aggressive -The govt is NOT mostly arresting known criminals -Inhumane conditions at Broadview immigration lockup

The idea that if you make Dems a little more Republican, Republicans will vote Dem is what’s breaking us. And it doesn’t even work!

Good morning to all the essential workers in Chicago

DISNEY: "OK, we are putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. You can resubscribe now." ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."

we are all jimmy kimmel, they just created 1 million jimmy kimmels

"cuba doesn't have autism because they can't afford tylenol" is perhaps the funniest thing trump has ever said

#SaveWeissHospital #CoalitionToSaveWeiss

🍦✨ Join us TODAY, Monday Sept 22nd at Jeni’s Ice Cream in Andersonville to raise money for Trans Up Front! ✨🍦 Come grab a scoop, support TGNC youth & families, and be part of uplifting trans joy in our community. Every cone counts! 💜 📍 Jeni’s Andersonville 📅 3pm-6pm

Happy Autumnal Equinox. Happy Chicagohenge. Today, we move into another season of the year.

“What I would say to Black people is this: Right now, [this is happening to] a different part of the brown community, but it can be us next. And there are a lot of Black people being deported unfairly as well — whether they be Haitian, African, it doesn’t matter. It’s going to impact everybody.”

We spoke with @chicagoreader.com @thetriibe.com and @unraveledpress.com about the lessons and strategies they learned from media in L.A. and D.C. for their coverage. By @afroxander.bsky.social Find the story (sans paywall) here: lataco.com/chicago-ice-...

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"I have spent the last few weeks addressing and preparing for a military invasion by the President of the United States. No, I’m not a soldier or a foreign adversary. I’m the Governor of Illinois"

I’m at a community meeting about resisting ICE in Chicago. There are about 400 people in this high school auditorium. Chicago is showing up.

The plaza at the new Clarendon Fieldhouse is gorgeous and sunny. Love the public seating and the mosaic.

It's a beautiful day to be out on the Chicago river, seeing history get made. The third photo was the first finisher!

I told the Reverend he made me proud to be a Christian.

For the people in the back, bigotry is not an opinion…

Gorgeous lift door in 33 N Lasalle, Chicago

Some Far North Side goddesses

"By building the housing people want in the places they want them, we will align housing with transportation, energy, and economic development, meaning people can spend less money and time on transportation and pollute less while doing so." www.smartgrowthamerica.org/knowledge-hu...

on the North Side, just 2 percent of land allows construction of high-density multifamily buildings. These are high-opportunity neighborhoods, where schools boast higher test scores and where grocery stores are easier to come by. www.urban.org/urban-wire/z...

This is one of the most important posts of the day.

“Why does transit seem to be in an endless emergency? Why is it so easy to assume that transit’s financial situation is hopeless? Because we have constructed our transportation funding streams to make transit’s costs visible, while the costs of car dependence are mostly concealed.”

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

Northside transit townhall happening now at Truman

Curbside bike lanes on Clark near Wilson coming along nicely