This could describe so many restaurants.

With progressives like this, who needs conservatives?

This is truly horrifying. They crash a car into him, smash his window, shoot him, and abduct him all in two minutes.

The TTC has imposed a 25 km/h limit on the surface portions of the subway, presumably due to freezing rain yesterday. But making the subway slow and infrequent will encourage people to drive on slippery roads instead. It seems like "add a speed restriction" is the TTC's solution to every concern.

ruin two bands by combining them: Death Cab Calloway

Our pop stars continue to be both more accountable and more responsive to feedback than the editorial board of the New York Times

Why does every NWS post assume you are driving 100% of the time you are outdoors?

I used to manage wine programs for movie theaters and I am in the extremely unique position to say with professional certainty that the answer here is a crisp Albariño.

Flattering! Someone nominated SBC for "Best indie website" in the Reader's Best of Chicago contest. Polls close before the giant pierogi drops in Whiting, IN on NYE, so feel free to vote for us if you like. But please don't stuff ballots, only dumplings! chicagoreader.com/best-of-chic...

I have bad news about the Memphis Mud Island Monorail for those anxiously awaiting an update.

once you see how terrible US intersections are you can't unsee it.

Insane behavior. 5x the cost for something way *less* useful to people walking or rolling. No one in LA who is in charge of things walks, and it shows.

Parking removed; contraflow bus lane; protected bike lane.

When I win, I'm gonna get sworn in from the Block 37 never-used O'Hare Express station box.

Film.

Instructions: PRESS the button WATCH the barometer IMAGINE the devastation

From the archive: Grenoble Gondola

Random CDMX clip from the archive

Our photographer Alex Kormann captured the exact moment the presses stopped for the last time in Minneapolis, ending a 158 history of locally printed newspapers.

San Francisco publication dissing Chicago, 1886

December is tornado season now apparently.

I took a look at New Year's Eve celebrations in 1926, after Prohibition had launched the event as a big party but when the churches still held Watchnight services. open.substack.com/pub/patricia...

🧠: gondolas for ski 🧠🧠: gondolas for urban transit 🧠🧠🧠🤯: gondolas for apples The gondola connecting the central treatment hub of the largest apple producers consortium in Italy to the underground storage facility. Opened last November.

Some misinterpret this design as prioritizing cars while inconveniencing the bike. Incorrect. The setback allows one car to advance, waiting to enter the street, while keeping the bike path clear. A second car can wait behind the bike path, advancing only after the first car exits the waiting area.

Should have been a train

“Sovereign Parliament”

Logging onto this app is like logging into a parallel universe, the universe where everyone reads the news

The sidewalk on this section of 55th St is so bad that the wheelchair users have decamped to the bike lane.

This is transit's biggest structural challenge: all of its costs for users are marginal, whereas with a car most of the costs are fixed (acquisition, registration, etc.). One strategy is to increase marginal costs for cars (tolls, parking, gas) and shift some transit costs to fixed (monthly pass).

"Local safe streets advocate not sure what to complain about after finding a cleared sidewalk and unplowed road on morning run."

The building housing that combination Petco/Walgreens was formerly the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle, an early megachurch and pioneer in ministry by radio broadcast fromthevault.wheaton.edu/2022/06/01/j...

This is 1911 and 2025, Clark and Barry in Lakeview

It's hard to express how much more pleasant rail travel is thank air travel.

Madison... I am begging you to build out an S-bahn system.

Indianapolis... I am begging you to build out an S-Bahn system.

Miraculously, the Waymo discourse is even worse. The cars are not Mechanical Turks. Have you ever seen one on the streets? Driven next to one? I do this four times a day. You've never met a driver half as capable as a Waymo. The company sucks. Whatever. Regulate it. The technology is amazing.

(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne

We’re bombing Nigeria now?

Bike sized elevator with on-floor bike parking just outside your apartment door.

Lake forever, problems for now

The Christmas Song has South Side roots - cowritten by Mel Torme (55th & Ellis), the definitive version by Nat Cole (40th & Vincennes) youtu.be/c-RXKcc0sZs?...

hello milwaukee and chicago

It's true that this is wild to watch. DOJ's social account — and, likely, DOJ — is being run no differently than an online-sleuthing account. (Or, more accurately, an online grift account cannibalizing others' online-sleuthing.)

Also: majority of roads in most Blue States are in rural Red-voting areas. Cut off road money to Illinois, and watch Downstate fall to pieces.

16mm scenes shot circa 1956 at the Silvestri Art Manufacturing Co. factory in Chicago, from our Frank Koza Collection. Watch the whole reel here! collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objec...

A YouTuber visualized a redesign of Elston & Ashland, and this looks like a dream - protected bike lane, shorter cross walks, and clearer no more chaotic intersection youtube.com/shorts/YWQyz...

The point I wish got emphasized more is that the big winners from congestion pricing are *people who urgently need to drive*. Because they are ones that travel times really matter for. I always thought that instead of congestion pricing it should be called "free streets" - free from other cars.

I have thought the AI bubble* was covering underlying weakness in the economy and said so, Pearkes has a bunch of numbers here they suggests I was wrong. And he is that kind of analyst so you should listen to him. * I believe AI and adjacent services are oversold not useless.

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵