Also worth noting how much easier it is for cities like Amsterdam, Paris, and Barcelona to have better public transit since the cities are so much more compact. Our 5.5-mile Red Line Extension would be an entire crosstown line in Paris.

Chicago is actually really bad at building TOD. There are only 34 'L' stations in the entire city where the average surrounding building height is greater than 30 feet, and 16 of them are in the Loop.

The Development on Church Land Act has been filed in Illinois 🏘️ Allows faith based orgs to develop mixed-use housing on their property ❌ Limits local government from enforcing: - Height maximums (below 5 stories) - Parking minimums - Setbacks >10ft - FAR ilga.gov/Legislation/... #SB3187

I am incredibly sensitive to sound—migraines/sensory stuff/cPTSD. In what UNIVERSE is triggering any of that more important than saving people from concentration camps? Tl;dr Preventing atrocities is always more important than me, a privileged and disabled white person, avoiding a migraine.

when i say bring that baby home i mean EVERY BABY

Imagine living between Off Color and El Tragon The dream right there www.chicagobusiness.com/commercial-r...

Pro Tip: Do not fall for this CTA train operator statement “If you can’t get onto the train, step back, there is another one directly behind me”

"Couple excited to move to the big city and experience the exact same retailers as their current suburb but in cute buildings."

the whole point of the whistles is to trigger flight or fight dawg

slavs: factory work irish: being colonized (irish all early 1920s, one branch is from county cavan so... yeah)

i will forever associate the rock island line with shitty cheese curds

City transportation official opts for white line and signage instead of gate to keep their baby off the stairs.

ICE is now claiming it can arrest people without a warrant. This comes after another internal memo asserting ICE agents can forcibly enter homes without a judicial warrant. Hello? Democrats cannot let these blatantly unconstitutional actions continue. Not another penny for ICE.

Heart shaped sign seen in Minneapolis addressed to ICE: “If you’re feeling uneasy about what you’re being asked to do, you’re not alone. You have the power to speak up safely. Filing a report will also help protect your pension & bonus" Numbers given for DHS Office of Inspector General and OSC.

There’s a terrifying world where holocaust survivors die in American jails for protecting a minority community from a nationalist charismatic leader.

happy rectangular february, sunday-first world.

getting in trouble for spelling the f word on strava

reporting political candidate robotexts as spam is therapy <3

Build. More. Housing.

The family of an unhoused man is asking for help finding him after he went missing after an illness. blockclubchi.co/4t9b1kd

xbox live took stronger action against jeffrey epstein than the entire us government

in exchange for asking them nicely to try and not wear masks anymore, the democrats agree to fund ICE while they build concentration camps. "shut the entire government down" is not a radical position. it is the bare minimum.

It’s honestly really difficult to even remember and process the complete context in which all these things are happening.

lol earlier when i was listening to the blackhawks playing the penguins i got a tiktok on my fyp about what evgeni malkin got caught liking on twitter back in the day 😳

princess (gender neutral)

Leading democratic politicians should make plans to be in Springfield on February 4th

20 years from now there's going to be some pro athlete who wears number 67 because they picked it as a kid because of the meme and somehow stuck with it their entire career

I don’t love how one of their angel investors literally filed an amicus brief to overturn birthright citizenship. this should be beyond the pale imo

"Abolish ICE" was submitted 9,200 times for Chicago's snowplow naming contest, records show. buff.ly/ZH1qaAO

This is a scheduled pogrom

Just a PSA for people, FreeTaxUSA is an excellent tool for filing taxes. Do not, I repeat, do not give your money to TurboTax. They lobby congress to keep tax filings difficult and inflate their prices to make it more expensive. FreeTaxUSA.com is about as good as it gets today.

New SFH should be banned within a half mile of L stops at least on the north side

Chicago needs to build more housing

The chef-owner of Warlord, a popular Avondale restaurant, has been charged with sharing sexual photos of a woman. blockclubchi.co/4qMHdse

The coasts didnt build enough housing, and the confederacy is probably going to cement at least a full decade of power as a result. You don't hate the NIMBYs, and local control democrats enough.

Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE: Renee Good: $1,499,580 Alex Pretti: $1,289,249 Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423 Parady La: $45,848 Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991 Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640 Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538 Geraldo Lunas: $2,260 Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935

tiktok is fucking useless now, all it shows me is AI slop and videos of random couples even though I keep marking those things as "not interested"

A moment of silence that ends with someone shouting "fuck ICE!" and the crowd roaring in response

defunding ice is now the moderate position

Instagram has this really creepy feature where they tie your account to uploaded lists for ad targeting, and it said I was added to a list related to a medical diagnosis I have. I have never searched for anything related to that condition on there and use a different email for IG than health stuff

"Checking for a pulse and administering CPR is standard. Instead of doing either of those things, the ICE agents appeared to be counting his bullet wounds."

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

“people could die this weekend because of the threat of ICE in their area!” is this the kind of thing that would get interdepartmental demands that they downplay the severity of a storm… just like the attempt to downplay the severity of their kidnapping racket? you can’t make this stuff up

the video of another person being murdered by the state on the streets of minneapolis shows exactly what people are saying it shows. make your own choices but don’t feel like you are obligated to bear witness to it. reading a description is enough.

“I was hit so hard with the fact that this man would not do this for me"...“We were willing to do for this man, this human, what they were not willing to do for Renee Good,” Zemien said.

At Clybourn/Willow in Lincoln Park, instead of 500 new residences, there will be … basically the same thing there now: suburban style retail buildings with surface parking lots blockclubchicago.org/2026/01/23/c...

Reminder for Chicagoans that the high of 7 F you see on weather apps for tomorrow will be at 12:01am tonight as temps drop to about -10 F by morning. The daytime high tomorrow will be about 0 F.

Kind of weird being at the center of what might be a world-historical event. I can’t say I like it, but here we are, I guess. Your life is defined by making the most of the random circumstances in which you find yourself.

CTA is seeking feedback through the end of January for the Bus Priority Corridor Study. Do you want a better bus? Fill it out. www.menti.com/algv7baftywz

I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insane—on about eleventy different levels. Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.