My first piece for Curious City! Had a lot of fun tracking down the truth to this typeface mystery 🕵️

Seattle streets and sanitation workers use e-bikes with wagons. No reason that can’t be done in Chicago for many park tasks.

🎶They see me rollin'...🎶

if you, a pedestrian, walk across the bike lane AT ANY TIME, i swear to god i will modulate my speed in such a way that you are unharmed and unbothered. my beautiful pedestrian child. i will love and cherish you until the day you die

This big boy is the saddest tree loss in the nearby hood. I should have put something on it for scale. It's by the racist sandwich shop, Kathy De's.

Today Today 1PM rollout!!! #Chicago

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

Riding your bike through Chicago as the bombs go off is the fucking best. Jesus Christ, I love this town.

I can hold down a job and stuff but I am incapable of keeping track of a pair of sunglasses.

Chicago Southside CriticalMass bicycle ride to Whiting Indiana.

Being a patriot front guy in 2026 is so funny bc the brownshirt goon squad they’re cosplaying is a real actual thing now, so presumably they couldn’t even meet the gestapo’s dumbed-down requirements or they’re just in it for the fraternity of cooking to death inside a U-Haul

My favorite American flag variant, seen on the South Side. Happy Independence Day.

Happy watch o'er ramparts day, everyone!

Taylor Swift gives $23M to charity. Her fans: "she is amazing. Imagine how the world would be if all rich people did that!" Taxes. You are describing taxes.

Okay folks, even tho the dude from Iced Earth is a J6er, you are allowed to listen to "The Star Spangled Banner/Declaration Day" one time tomorrow provided you do it in a closet with the door closed and the lights off and you only listen ironically.

I did not care about being from Illinois until they tried to ruin our magnificent flag.

Okay this is pretty sick (from the new Loomis stop apparently) www.reddit.com/r/chicago/s/...

Getting dinner.

We’re not waiting around for change. Join Team KAPOW for a series of phonebanks in support of Cori Bush in MO-01: ☎️ July 16, 6–8pm CT ☎️ July 18, 11am–1pm CT ☎️ July 23, 6–8pm CT ☎️ July 30, 6–8pm CT Sign up here: https://kapow.works/cori

It’s quiet and cool on the Lakefront Trail right now but some underpasses are flooded and impassable yet again #chilLFT

Oh so you think it's fine to celebrate rain falling on a notably evil and imperialist country?!

we needed this discourse

Finally, the rain discourse.

this website looks like everyone's posting porno today

Ban right turn on red. Driver stops in between train tracks making an illegal and reckless turn on red.

Get you a newspaper that hates your city as much as the trib hates Chicago

this is today! free! early! dungeon synth!

Went. This man doesn't lie.

i’ll be at cobra lounge whispering menacingly into a microphone tonight at 8 - come congeal with me

WE'RE PLAYIN A SHOW

This Tuesday, July 7th, we’re riding with All Bodies on Bikes Chicago — a group whose mission is to create and foster a size inclusive bike community. All are welcome! Roll with us at 🆕 4:15 from the AIDS Garden bike racks or at 5:30 from Queen's Landing! Details at chicagobikesox.com

Stuck at home, so I’m making a new comic

Has a road near you been resurfaced, but the bike lane paint was not put back down? Is the paint fading in an existing lane? Let us know below or DM us. We've seen many examples of CDOT failing to replace paint in the 32nd, 40th, 47th, and 48th wards so far

Democratic Party Leadership: Our tent is large and inclusive. [DSA-affiliated candidates winning nominations]: Happy to be here! Democratic Party Leadership: Whoa, there!!!

Fish Club 🚲🐟 is ON for Friday, July 3‼️ Meet by Cafe Jumping Bean, 1439 W. 18th St., roll at 6:45 a.m. to 31st Street Pier, arriving approx. 7:15 a.m. Hang out until around 8 a.m. Always a good time. #BikeChi @bikegridnow.org @chicagobikesox.com @chicritmass.bsky.social

great piece from incarcerated writer ian valencia about how prison rape jokes help obscure and normalize violence behind bars. the latest from the @chicagoreader.com's inside voices series:

In a few months the couple will be back on top of the Empire State Building doing a dramatic gender reveal

Public Meeting Alert: The 22nd, 24th, and 28th Wards are taking feedback on upgrades to Ogden Ave between Pulaski and Roosevelt to make it safer. Ogden is difficult to cross with excess lane capacity to dedicate toward bike-forward transport on this key diagonal street July 1st, 5pm, 3622 W Douglas

Any time I'm not already feeling bad enough I think about how there was definitely a time when putting 175+ MIWHT images out on the internet could have gotten me like a job instead of odd, scattered $3 print sales.

🎵 And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I have AC 🎶

Worst thing about biking in the heat dome? Cars.

First ride to camp of Summer 2026. We’re back, baybee! #hfxbike #kidicalmasshfx #bikejoy

one of my favorite things to learn about Yoshi's Island was that some of the most impressive effects in the game weren't even done with the Super FX, they were just HDMA trickery. like Salvo the Slime is made of numerous stacked lines pulled from a triangular background image

Alders want to be able to show there is community support. If you are an 11th Ward resident, please take a moment to add yourself to Bridgeport Alliances' open letter to Alderwoman Lee activetrans.quorum.us/campaign/165...

Put her in the hot dog suit. She needs to know who gave CPD a ton of money and no oversight.

The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant

ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through August 21st! ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽

she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October

Chicago History Museum is doing an ad hoc free admission day tomorrow for Chicago residents in order to give people an air conditioned place to be during the day, which is a lovely move. Do other local museums do the same during extreme temps? I hadn't heard of it before.