When will we have a mayor with this kind of vision in Chicago?? 😭😭😭

Being an American feels like getting on a school bus and then your bus driver decides to do a drive by

BlueSky is finally starting to feel like Twitter circa 2015 when big news breaks, a solid mix of earnest reporting, hot takes and witty comments

Well after all we are internationally known and respected for our very strict gun control laws

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

there should be a "good morning" feed on bluesky where you're not immediately thrown headfirst into the worst news imaginable while you're still half asleep

Reading up on Maduro’s biography and this is apparently his signature, where are the handwriting analysts

Photos taken exactly 50 years apart, to the day Not too many additions, actually, and the John Hancock still dominates Wonder what it’ll look like in another half century

It’s insane that there’s no signalized crosswalk on Michigan Ave at the busy NW corner of Millennium Park, and many people cross there anyway

Tucson trying to lure Chicagoans to visit with an ad featuring cars that have crashed? No thanks DON’T FIT RIGHT IN

Shel Silverstein’s lesser known book: Where the Protected Bike Lane Ends and Throws You Into Car Traffic

Here's an idea for 2026...

Cemeteries are obsolescent institutions that should be banned within city limits and the land put to better use as neighborhoods or public parks

Wanna feel old Gen Xers? First few Nancy Drew books are now in the public domain

You are allowed to say Happy New Year today through Monday, January 5, but after that stop it’s weird

This beautiful subway station doesn’t look “abandoned” to me, more like currently not in use www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/n...

So fun watching a new tower being built, this is 400 Lake Shore north tower in September and now, going up quickly

Civil twilight begins, soon the sun will rise earlier each day

Which lane would you rather be in?

Some of my favorite 2025 photos related to riding a bike, would love to see yours 🧵

The fog rolling in from the lake today is never ending

In 1976 there was a temporary bike lane on Michigan Ave, bring it back make it permanent #bikeCHI

Kids on Archer Ave near 44th in 1971 on a bike parade to promote bike safety #bikeCHI

Ignoring my To Do list today to delve into the CHI Public Library’s free digital archives www.chipublib.org/digital-coll...

Car Brain has been around a long time In 1910, you drive 60 MPH under elevated tracks, crash into a pillar, kill a friend, but sure, “skidding” is at fault

This is 1911 and 2025, Clark and Barry in Lakeview

When I forget to adjust the Divvy seat before undocking

A hazy Christmas Day at the Nature Boardwalk

Happy Christmas and may all your bike lanes be clear (Image: Graphique Santa)

The enormous mural Standing Tall by Dutch artist Mr Super A

I’m considering moving to the Lakeshore East Park area but not sure I could handle crossing either Wacker or Randolph regularly, might make me angry every day

I waited at Michigan Avenue’s worst bus stop so you didn’t have to experience it

Fabian Todorovic should update his iconic illustration, with a driver of an SUV, a bike share user, and delivery robots taking over sidewalks

I have no issue with the little robots, I just think it’s only an issue because pedestrians, robots, bikes, all fight for scraps, even while road lighting and signage is already encroaching on our space. Road diet the space for cars and make more space for everyone else! Problem solved.

Boystown is so colorful 🌈

Drivers get multiple wide lanes to move and store their vehicles while everyone else has to fight for effectively five feet of sidewalk space #ClarkStCorridor

We’ve already had six weeks of snow in Chicago and just reached winter solstice today, this was November frickin 10th TLDR it’s gonna be a long winter

Need this at Critical Mass

Kenosha has the Mars Cheese Castle but Chicago has something better

Seventeen people waiting for the #32 Clark bus at a single bus stop on the #ClarkStCorridor in Lake View, ya think maybe this might be a good street for a tram?

North Ave #72 bus will get more frequency, yay, now we need a bus-only lane from Clark to Milwaukee, the buses get caught up in massive clots of single-occupancy vehicles chicago.suntimes.com/transportati...

We heard about 18th & Wabash, a brand new protected intersection planned to help keep people biking and walking safe, so we trekked out in the cold after some snow, just in time to film it before it was partially rolled back. So what's all the fuss about? www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpKJ...

I’m so old I remember just going to the bus stop and looking hopefully down the street

Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss out there in person doing the work to fight ICE chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

An immigrant driver from India is arrested by border patrol at the O’Hare rideshare lot. He said he has never committed a crime in 11 years in the United States: “oh my God no”

You roll into Ohare one week before Christmas and cause chaos in the rideshare lot for only one reason and it's not to keep people safe.

It looks cold but 39 degrees feels relatively balmy today

Help me out with a thing: Give me some of the bikelashiest arguments you’ve heard against protected bike lanes in your community.

The magical, fleeting moments after sunset