i'm like the 5th generation of my family to live here but there's still people who will call me a transplant because i grew up a couple miles outside of city limits

CDOT Commissioner Cheaks should announce on Monday morning that the city will be phasing out "door zone" bike lanes starting immediately, as they are inherently deadly.

Semi trucks do not belong on city streets.

I worked with Riley extensively in 2022 to get a bike corral at our school. He worked so hard to try to make it happen & we talked on the phone many times & had many email exchanges after over the years. One of the good ones. Loved hearing his stories of growing up on the back of his mom’s bike. 💔

CDOT lost the best of our team yesterday. We're heartbroken. In memory of Riley O'Neil, please refer to these bike racks as "Riley Racks". He led Chicago's bike parking program for several years. Our hearts are broken, but we want to make sure his legacy lives on 💙🚲 Please spread the word

Update 2: we have learned who the victim was. We knew them. They were one of our earliest supporters. Poetic injustice.

Dooring is deadly and installing door zone bike lanes should get the city sued to oblivion.

Make the bears play inside of a data center

We need protected bike lanes in large part because the vast majority of drivers refuse to actually check if they're clear to open their door. Charge this driver with manslaughter, some kind of reckless endangerment at the very least

there is zero reason for there to be street parking on halsted to begin with, especially in that area!! how many more people have to get hurt or die before the alder does anything?

Sport team owners would literally rather build a stadium atop a slag heap in Indiana than pay for their own stadium

great paragraph from a great article on single stair

Chicago: the city that works.

this is funny because just this week at an AIA abundant housing event, i gave a presentation on single stair and said support spans from libertarians in texas to the seattle social housing developer.

The Merriam-Webster definition of a sacred cow is “one that is often unreasonably immune from criticism or opposition”

I love that we can't build a really common form of vernacular housing that is proven safe, because CFD doesn't want to change their operating procedures.

Lakeview folks: please tell your alder we don’t need another parking lot next to one of the best transit-served stadiums in the country!

It's funny how suburbanites are so scared that if they come into the city they'll immediately get robbed but they go to Cubs games and get charged $18 for a beer

sounds like CFD wants most SFH and two flats banned?? wut

Study: “Building homes near existing jobs, stores, and transit saves public dollars, in both up-front infrastructure and ongoing maintenance costs, and produces more revenue in property taxes per acre than local governments can expect from development at edge of town.” www.pew.org/en/research-...

Groundbreaking Held For The 1901 Project Around United Center Read more: https://chicagoyimby.com/2026/06/groundbreaking-held-for-the-1901-project-around-united-center.html

recently realized taking my road bike to work takes 20 minutes less than public transit even considering all the freight elevator bullshit

for international bicycle day i went on a group ride and nearly hit a dumbass who suddenly braked and didn't signal or call out, how was your day?

600 more homes (including 120 designated affordable) are proposed in four buildings at Sheridan & Thorndale, nestled amongst much taller buildings. Support the project by telling @the48thward.bsky.social why it’s needed 📋 the48thward.org/zoning-feedb...

Read this. Izzy Aly is dying of kidney disease because he is in a U.S. concentration camp. www.inquirer.com/opinion/izzy...

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Debbie Brockman said the incident “profoundly impacted my life on a day-to-day basis, leaving me uncertain of my future, my neighbors’ futures, and quite frankly the future of the United States.” blockclubchicago.org/2026/06/02/e... via @blockclubchi.bsky.social

idk if i could ever afford it but i would love to have a townhouse specifically so i can have every kind of bike i can't fit in a 600sf apartment

Block Club: Everyone loves this objectively good thing. We found one Facebook comment that disagrees.

The US is now spending more on data center construction than on public transportation infrastructure

are you even a yimby if you don't support extending uptown eastward to cover the wilson crib

My favorite Chicago fun fact is that the soccer fields at Lawrence and Simonds have a water crib essentially buried underneath them. The crib was abandoned and surrounded by landfill as the lakefront was expanded eastward.

Rush Hospital trying to generate more business for themselves. Shameful behavior.

one time my friend changed the coordinates of another high school on wikipedia to the mariana trench and it stayed like that for over two years

Chicago needs to do this next

This is why the state legislature needs to intervene - the vast majority of cities are not interested or equipped to build more housing

Former human rights lawyer here: under international human rights law, bombing or gassing a medical facility is a crime against humanity. Last night, the NJ state police gassed the medic tent at Delaney Hall over and over and over again until medics had to abandon it and flee for their lives.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

“Friday night, State Senator Mattie Hunter filed a floor amendment. That’s a clean 2-4 flat upzoning across almost all lots in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs. Today, only 11% of city land is zoned for 3- or 4-flats. This would be a massive improvement in city land-use policy.”

watching a tiktok about whether jesus had sex and the Dreaded One-Click DM Button appeared

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

If your “community character” is predicated on keeping people out of your community, it’s time for your community to ask itself some hard questions about its character

cops at 31st street beach for reports of an adult takeover

put some fuck ass big level of affordability requirement (like 50% or more) on SFH sprawl neighborhoods

our places need to be able to organically grow and react to change. call your state rep and senator and tell them to support the BUILD plan!!

Illinois regularly has political scandals, but this month we got a BLASPHEMOUS scandal! (Imagine being so addicted to micromanagement that you ignore the POPE when he tells you to help poor people and immigrants, and instead fight statewide affordable housing efforts. That’s what the IML is doing!)

Nashville to Chicago should be a train it’s less than 500mi

in case you were wondering what it's like to be a young woman dating men, I went to a speed dating event tonight, kept getting matched with men uncomfortably older than me and when I went to the host to ask about it she told me I needed to "be more flexible" 💀💀💀

Buses in traffic is a policy failure

Anyway, me and my partner are signing a lease at a market rate apartment today, that was built in the last 5 years, and is currently being rented at rents affordable to 60% AMI. Tenant advocates have really inflicted untold suffering on Californian renters it’s unreal.