Drone light show at Sox Park

Sunday evening reminder: I'm hiring! Job posting closes Christmas Eve, so if you're interested, get your application in now. I promise the work is meaningful and mostly fun :-)

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I love this corner. Monroe and Fifth Ave., Chicago

The CTA told me traffic keeps wasting bus operator time so I asked how many bus operators they have and they said they just go to the job fair and get a new operator afterwards so I said it sounds like they're just feeding bus operators to traffic and then bus riders started crying.

poll (kind of): what's your favorite Christmas song / album?

rare L by The Onion. those of us who have been bullied by geese know that the road to recovery is long and painful and we deserve support, not shame and stigma. #BanGeese

poll (kind of): what's your favorite Christmas song / album?

Impressed with the Shellmound St bikeway in Emeryville, haven’t seen a speed bump used at a mixing zone before but I like it (and the channelization)

Ever looked at our High Quality Transit Stops dataset and wondered why a particular major transit stop was identified? These maps go step by step and explain our spatial methodology for identifying bus intersection major transit stops. Hoping this helps clarify a complex process, feedback welcome!

It's Sunday. Here's a church (and a former synagogue). 1508 S. Millard, Chicago. Bikur Cholim Anshe Rosh Poland was located here from 1928 to 1953.

I have never really cared about the solstice before but this year you can bet I am leaning in on the metaphor. the light is coming back y'all!!

dramaaaaaaaa

It’s clear at this point that the 2016 World Series victory by the Cubs was unfortunately/apparently the greatest sin against God ever committed by a human society and undoing what it wrought will require a variety of specific Chicago-related outcomes.

poll: does your job have a holiday party? what % of places you've worked have had a holiday party?

Current* conditions near South Haven, MI:

new dog is totally entranced slash mystified by the piano

Neighborhood watch

reaping / sowing meme for putting all your dishcloths in the laundry and then needing to dry your hands

it's important to have a pet because otherwise who will stare very intently at you while you eat

mentally I am here

Chicago, Aerial View

everyone talks about tortured identity language on the left but... "heritage American"?

CDOT is churning out hundreds of new bike racks this month. Some of the best upgrades are the simplest (and cheapest!) ones.

Here's the full statement from the police district council members and a link to the petition www.change.org/p/ccpsa-hear...

A real Chicagoan

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honestly it's this account more than any other that makes me feel like a housebound hermit. I don't see even like 2-3 new floors in the average week much less stylish ones

Uptown today.

one of the sacred duties of siblinghood is to notify the sibling whenever an embarrassing photo of them appears in any of your On This Day memories

once again will say that if you need an emergency vet in Chicago, VEG is my unreserved recommendation

Last workday of 2025 was a doozy, but it's over.

less than twelve hours after this post I once again found myself at the emergency vet (everything is going to be fine)

Psst...we're hiring an editor in chief! www.injusticewatch.org/about/editor...

I don't normally do these but I needed a win and for me this is Return of the King which I have to take as an optimistic sign

Some news about my place of employment! chicagoreader.com/columns-opin...

God forbid a squirrel have hobbies 🙄

if you live in chicago and you feel like you want to murder someone, take a deep breath, it's just because it went from 40 to 10 and is going back to 40 again in three days

this year has been just comically bad for me personally and unfortunately it has reinforced the fact that sometimes you do in fact need support from other people

also living near friends and family is low-key goated when having a support network is the vibe

dog fully wagging his tail in his sleep 🥺

poll: how many days are you working between Monday 12/22 and Friday 1/2

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poll: how many days are you working between Monday 12/22 and Friday 1/2

did an accidental A/B test on London trip where half our party took an Uber home from dinner and half took the train. the train contingent each ran errands on the way home, one planned and one spontaneous. the Uber contingent did not

Just about every other Friday a bunch of nerds gather in the bowels of the City-County Building to do meticulous, line-by-line searches of handwritten records, documenting every racially restrictive covenant we can. Now more than ever, this is an extremely necessary & urgent work. Join us!

The best thing about the bus is being able to jump off on a moments notice because I decided to get a bagel at the bagelshop.

Skyline with gulls

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