Chicago City Council will vote on legalizing ADUs citywide this Thursday! Call your alder and let them know we need incremental housing solutions like ADUs to tackle our housing shortage and support Chicago families. youtube.com/shorts/oeuB8...

“There is only one good ADU bill” for Chicago Facts. citythatworks.substack.com/p/there-is-o...

Nate Otto mural in Pilsen www.flickr.com/photos/james... creativecommons.org/licenses/by-...

Are these robotic boats? It has “bot” in the name but are they automated or remote controlled? Has Chipotle used them to deliver a burrito to anyone?

We had so much fun at our second annual Park(ing) Day! The Dovetail and Demo Brewing parking lots were transformed into family-friendly spaces with games, chalk, interactive exhibits, and live music. Excited to see what Park(ing) Day 2026 holds!

Each property in Cook County gets reassessed once every three years, so the last year the City of Chicago was reassessed was 2021, just as the Covid housing market was heating up. These increases are still large, but it’s more accurate to think of them as 3-year increases rather than 1-year

Are you coming to tour this special ADU next Tuesday, 9/23/25? It’s electric, accessible, and integrated with a bigger main unit around it but it looks like other houses on the block www.eventbrite.com/e/sfh-adu-el...

how many affordable housing units doth the Burger King have?

Tons of stuff to cover this weekend, like this Save Transit town hall! If you value our work, we still need $43K to keep publishing at full strength in 2026. We'd appreciate tips on major donors and grants. chi.streetsblog.org/2025/07/16/t... Thanks to recent donors!... @chicagocta.bsky.social

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...

There’s Kpop Demon Hunters artwork in Prospect Heights!

Stop by the Bryn Mawr block party and sign our petition! We are set up at the East exit at the intersection of Sawyer and Bryn Mawr! We’ll be here until 1 PM

this is what happens during a housing shortage

U Thant/Belmont Island www.flickr.com/photos/james... creativecommons.org/licenses/by-...

According to the announcer, when these river swims happened in the past there were 100,000s of spectators and we will get back to that in future years

Do our parking lots need to be... parking? We were thrilled to check out Park(ing) Day in Chicago, to see how parking lots can be transformed for other uses! Thank you to @abundanthousingil.bsky.social and @chicagogrowthproj.bsky.social, for hosting!

Joey Chestnut www.flickr.com/photos/james... creativecommons.org/licenses/by-...

Key Events in Chicago This Week: 1. ADU House Tour in Woodlawn - Tuesday, 9/23 2. City Council Votes on an ADU Ordinance - Will they vote on the right one? - Thursday, 9/25 3. Odd Lots Live Show - Thursday, 9/25

My Chicago candidates list has a lot of activity in the last 48 hours bsky.app/profile/did:...

why has the city been trying for decades to get people to bike to Rosehill Cemetery?

Something else Quinn and other alders have been saying is that they’re concerned ADUs will be unsafe they are held to identical building codes, safety standards, and permitting requirements as every other home in Chicago

*there’s less than one week until Chicago could legalize ADUs citywide but there are now two proposals and the new one will barely allow ADUs — read on for why*

Pro-housing flyer appreciation post. Please put up more of them, people

Stuck in traffic? Can't find parking? Take the red line! It's right there! Let's make the most of our $2.1B investment in the RPM project and #BuildOnBroadway in #Edgewater #Uptown #Chicago

Lots of folks out celebrating today!

We’re saving transit together inside the Den Theater, now until 1:30 pm I’m spreading the housing supply gospel for @abundanthousingil.bsky.social Come on over

Welcome to the Bronx www.flickr.com/photos/james... creativecommons.org/licenses/by-...

Planeview Park is the most appropriately named place in New York City

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Wednesday condemned the death of a Mexican immigrant shot dead by an ICE officer last week in west suburban Franklin Park. Sheinbaum is also demanding a thorough investigation into Silverio Villegas González' death. trib.al/o8LUBcc

The NYC subway is trying out articulated trains, an international standard, so that people can see the opposite end of the train snake through the city (snaking not pictured)

END TOLL ZONE www.flickr.com/photos/james... creativecommons.org/licenses/by-...

Park(ing) Day is today!! Come hang with us in some car-free parking spaces 😌

flight DL1021 (from last Friday), MCO to LGA

“Golden” played at at the bar inside Hyatt Regency tonight!!

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Tonight I learned of the miracle “too good to go”. My friend got $30 worth of baked goods from Whole Foods for $6.

Streets outside of schools should be so chock full of obstacles that drivers only dare traverse the path at 10mph if they have to access a destination on that block, & never else.

Add this event to your Saturday agenda It’s an urbanist festival with live music www.eventbrite.com/e/parking-da...

At the latest CTA budget hearing, the CTA explained that without extra funding from Springfield, public transit would only be able to operate from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. This would be disastrous for many who rely on public transportation in the Chicago area, especially for third shift workers. A short 🧵

27: moved from Denver to Chicago to live car free and life has improved. likes the frequent service update and wants to continue. fare increase is probably going to happen and is cautious about raising fares because of impact

5th: another car free resident, can see a difference since dorval carter has left and conditions + accessibility improving. asks to keep the public engagement events going and appreciates the efforts. asks to also focus on smoking on trains and buses

4th: blames the parking lot lobby for the woes of transit budget crisis, sprawl, making our city ugly and disgusting, says the irving park blue line station is the most disgusting station he's ever been (that's my station!!!) lots of claps from audience

but wait, a statement from state senator District 7 Mike Simmons who cannot be here: missed out the town hall because they're doing a town hall on immigration. emphasizes their support for the bill that passed the senate during general session and commitment to pass it again during oct veto session

Glad Ald Martin made this decision and I'm sure he didn't take a bribe to do so, but a system where you need individualized permission to build a 5-story apartment building in a major city and yields, in aggregate: (1) fewer apartments than we need; and (2) corruption

Rumor has it we’ll have some drink tickets on hand 👀

Tribune editorial also finds it a problem to have costly labor standards for Chicago’s smallest home construction projects (aka ADUs) www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/19/e... 🎁

Delta flight 824 www.flickr.com/photos/james... creativecommons.org/licenses/by-...

tonight’s the monthly Abundant Housing Illinois happy hour this one is unique in that’s it’s being held next to the Illinois Municipal League conference Details: www.eventbrite.com/e/yimby-happ...

📞 call your alderperson, ask them to support Ald. Lawson's ADU plan [many alders consider calls more highly than emails] look up their number here: chicago.councilmatic.org/council-memb...

I’m skipping the weekly Chicago #TrafficViolence thread this week but I took a look at the stats and guess what…it’s just as bad as usual