The Urban Truth Collective is a creative, evidence-based collaboration launched to champion the truth and fight disinformation about how to make better cities for people. Formed by @brenttoderian.bsky.social, @tomflood.bsky.social & @grantennis.bsky.social
Staff writer at Chicago Policy Review
MPP Candidate at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy
Household and Consumer Finance | Housing Policy | Urban Policy
Head of Communications, Bluesky Social.
former journalist and outdoor industry person. always an organic life form.
ped/bike planner/policy guy, at least for a little while longer, maybe. Cambridge, MA.
Professional Chicagoland suburban transportation planner by day. Cargo ebike suburban dad by night. Enjoys birds and cute art. 🏳️🌈 He/him.
he/him, bylines Public Notice, Chicago Reader, Revealer, Dame Magazine, Prism.
Newsletter: www.everythingishorrible.net
Poetry pubs: https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/poetry-publications-noah-berlatsky
Urbanist | Progressive | Badger | Structural Change Now | We need a better Democratic Party
Owner of queer store specializing in underwear, speedos, sweaters, and tees http://pandershirts.com
LA City Councilmember for District 4, urban planner, mom of twins. This account is being used for campaign purposes by Nithya Raman for Mayor 2026
📍Seattle/London. Board member at Seattle Neighborhood Greenways. Opinions amirite. Safe, sustainable, equitable, healthy cities. Dongho Chang superfan. (he/him)
Into climate risk mitigation and adaptation strategies. IT and data nerd. Web3 for climate. Energy Web Worker Node operator. I like maps. Cities are cool. Dogs. DMV sports. Tarheel basketball.
Union transit advocate ✊ | Electric Trolley / Zero Emissions | Parallel hybrid bike operator 🔋🚲 | Observability Engineer / SRE | Your friendly neighborhood fleet guy 🚌 | Proudly Cascadian 🌲🟦⬜️🟩
📍Forest Park, IL
Car-free transit guy in the streetcar suburbs. Gay urbanist Chicagolander. Chi sign guy/tradie, state capacity booster, left-liberal. Also quizbowl, bikes, and dive bars. Oddly happy when covered in graffiti. Opinions my own. He/Him.
Former IL Deputy Gov and State Rep., Chicagoan, @jbpritzker.bsky.social's running mate for Lt. Governor of Illinois.
Writer, comedian, urbanista
🎭 Creator Save Chicago Transit Comedy Show
✍️ Contributor Streetsblog Chicago
Retired historian + lawyer, Chicagoan, lesbian-feminist, sometime Dolly expert, angry. I lived in Knoxville TN for 16 very long years. Author, "Unspeakable: Father-Daughter Incest in American History." If you want to hate on boomers, I'm not your therapist
Co-host of Say More with Mary Dixon
Press Team @JBPritzker.bsky.social campaign
Writing, thinking, and speaking about transport, cities, and tech.
Contributing Writer @ Bloomberg and cohost @ Look Both Ways w/David & Wes. Working on a book about congestion pricing. linktr.ee/davidzipper
Newsletter & contact info: www.davidzipper.com
Urban planner + journalist writing about the intersection between planning, bureaucracy, and democracy. I’m also working on the green transition in Rhode Island. www.allisonlirishdean.com
Ride Illinois is a nonprofit organization with a mission to make Illinois better through biking. Our efforts, programs, and events aim to make riding a bicycle in Illinois safer, more enjoyable, and accessible to all.
Psychotherapist interested in Aging & Older Adults in psychoanalysis and beyond.
Home cook, data engineer, transit geek, Chicagoan, and mom x2
Theater Director | Director of Casting at Steppenwolf Theatre Co. | Chicagoan
💪🏽Running for Congress in IL-9
⭐️First Gen Z Elected Official in the US
bushraforcongress.com
AKA ninjadude752
Opinions are my own, and do not represent any group.
Go hawks!
President of Northern Illinois Urban Activists
https://linktr.ee/northilurbanactivists
🚲 🚇 🏙️ 🏳️🌈
Urban Planner from Chicago
Medill/Northwestern and UIC MUPP
Owner/Artist of TinyWerewolves.com (@TinyWerewolves.com) · Past toy designer · Wife @parkermolloy.com · Probably near coffee & food ·
Newsletter: tinywerewolves.substack.com/
Chicago
She/Her
🏳️🌈
Building The Bloc. We helped elect Summer Lee, Rashida Tlaib, AOC, and more because we need a Democratic Party that fights for voters, not corporate donors.
Fluxer is a free and open source instant messaging and VoIP platform built for friends, groups, and communities.
https://fluxer.app
notably sexy rascal | he/they | Chicago
Chicago’s 35th Alderman. Democratic Socialist. Proudly representing Irving Park, Avondale, Logan Square & Hermosa. Political account.
Margaret's kind of an either/or name.
In this house we believe Laura Kinney is Wolverine
chicago urbanist, mediocre triathlete, and baker
https://substack.com/@brickandwheel
they 23 chicago
piemadd.com
i program and i work on trains
Jewish, trans, abolitionist name-your-own-price IL lawyer. Forever loving @mistymotors.net. No legal advice; not your lawyer. Free Palestine. She/her.
Chicago's finest Roleplaying Gamer / Energy Wonk / Geekdad / Metalhead /Cargo Biker / Cat Parent
🏳️🌈He/him. Principal Policy Analyst @ Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) and Board Chair of chipride.org. (Re)posts reflect my personal opinions. Longer thoughts live here: https://substack.com/@rthompto
The shortform social app with AT Protocol at its core.
Now in open beta: sprk.so
Questions? Thoughts? Cupcake recipes? hello@sprk.so
Chicagoan back from Philly
Cities, movies, and politics
Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/sGW9
Co-author, "Life After Cars, co-host, The War on Cars podcast. Runner, Disney parks fan (he/him)
https://www.lifeaftercars.com
Donate to my 2027 run in support of PPMD:
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The Quigley Accountability Project seeks to highlight the ineffectiveness of Representative Mike Quigley, currently representing Illinois’ 5th district.
Call his office today:
DC: (202) 225-4061
Chicago: (773) 267-5926
pragmatic optimist and well-known email author
views are mine alone
cohen489.substack.com
americandemands.com
BOOK RECS THAT PAY ME + LOCAL STORES: https://bookshop.org/shop/cohen489
Adam · I like bikes and the bus · he/him
🪩🌌🐎
Chicago via MN
Candidate for the U.S. Senate. Congresswoman representing Illinois's 2nd Congressional District.
www.robinforsenate.com
Addressing common barriers to everyday biking and proving that you can roll in style—even in Chicago. IG: @ibikedinthis
CCPSA - 020 District Councilor
40th Ward Born, Raised & Employed
My opinions are my own.
writer | musician | co-host, The Line Break podcast | fiction reader, Cotton Xenomorph | 1/2 Lazy & Entitled | basketball junkie | Chicago Over Everything | exhausted dad | he/him
https://www.lazyandentitled.org/?page_id=41
Making Chicago greener and more livable
If found return to Chicago.
Award-Winning Placemaker (25+ North American Cities). Author. Speaker. Urban Planning Adjunct Professor. Subdivided Co-Editor. Two Book Deal w/ Penguin Random House Canada. Hip Hop & a lil Punk Rock. Hopeful.
Tech writer.
Gamer.
Game designer.
CITY OF HEROES/RIFT video geek.
Critter.
Hates fascists.
So smart I'm stupid.
She/her.
Same handle on FFN and AO3.
PFP by @morgankit.bsky.social
#CriticalRole
🇺🇸For People, Not Power.
🫂Join our uncompromised, unafraid path to a better future.
🗳️Democratic Congressional Candidate in IL-05.
https://linktr.ee/mattconroyforcongress
beneath the asphalt, the streetcar track
Executive Director of Citizens Impeachment, a project of Courage for Democracy PAC. Flowers are amazing. Pretty sure our humanity is the thing that saves us, not tech. All these things are related
Unemployed (pls hire me) | US Senate, Sojourners alum | Opinions are my own
Dad, husband, progressive leader, & fighter for working folks. Let’s take on the billionaire class together
State Senator and Running for Congress in IL-09 to fight for working people.
Chicago native. Proudly LGBTQ+, Ethiopian-American. 🏳️🌈🇪🇹
Let's do this together! Go to mikesimmons.org to sign up!
Congresista proudly serving the diverse IL-03. 🦋
I will not concede the power of the people.
A new organization building on the momentum of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign to deliver on the promise of a more affordable NYC (https://ourtime.nyc)
Apple Evangelist on the Web Developer Experience team for Safari & Webkit. #PwME
Humanizing the web with a user-centric search engine and browser - no ads, no trackers, just you and the product you love: https://kagi.com/
organizer. fighting for better bus service, social housing, and climate resilience. midwest. fil-am. they/them.
Pay attention to local politics. Certified KC enjoyer, now in Chicago.
neighborsofedgewateruptown.com
Renter; bike and transit rider
Construction project manager
Posts about safe street design and transit projects
Berkeley, CA
Artist, organizer, library worker.
Public health statistician (PhD, MPH) currently working for Chicago DPH. All opinions are my own. Dog photos will be posted.
Chicago. He/him.
Chicagoan. Valpo grad. Member of Half Acre Cycling. Awesome Foundation. Occasional Karaoke singer. Anti Fascist. Fuck Terfs.
Nonprofit newsroom. Media that builds power for working people.
Join us: https://linktr.ee/moreperfectunion
A 501(c)(4) organization of NYC bus and subway riders, winning better public transit by organizing riders into a powerful constituency.
Join ETA to support improved bicycle, pedestrian, and public transit connectivity in and around Evanston, IL
evanstontransitalliance.org
Global advisor on better cities, city planning, transportation & urban change. City planner + urbanist leading @ToderianUW.bsky.social. Past Chief Planner for Vancouver BC. Past/founding President of @CanUrbanism.bsky.social. International speaker & media.
Building a grassroots, progressive political movement in Chicago's 32nd ward and beyond!
Housing | Transit | Equality | Education | Environment | Democracy
https://linktr.ee/peoples32nd
Chicago. Transportation law, policy, and technology mostly. Senior Advisor, Metropolitan Planning Council. Views my own. One ticket, one timetable, one network....
Chicago, Climate, Cities, (bi)Cycles, Community, Change. #GoBlers, enjoying the process, let's make things better.
current twitter ex-pat. past congressional reporter. contributing editor @newrepublic.com. running a communications consulting business and raising a tiny baseball fan irl.
let’s work together! ⬇️
meredithshiner.com
Politics & government reporter covering #IL09 for @evanstonnow.bsky.social 📸✍🏼 // @bostonu.bsky.social alum //matthew@evanstonnow.com
Have a tip? I'm on Signal: mattheweadie.02
he/him | 👬 @daleckband.bsky.social | YIMBY urbanist | fka @tonyatcappa on fka twitter | dfw ➡️ chi 🤠 22
Ideal city: ⚛️ nuclear-powered, 🏙️ dense housing, 💰 affordable, 🚇 transit. Aka Chicago.
Posting about those things here, and trying to make them better IRL.
Tired They/Them Chicago bike dyke. Lover of people-centered urbanism. Radical daydreaming about public housing, cats, end of empire, universal basic income.
Public health professional/policy wonk/data nerd. I am a pollster’s nightmare. Fighting for safety and justice. Equity is my love language. Living in world's best city. She/her/hers
Street-level journalism in Los Ángeles covering news, culture, and the taco lifestyle. “The 2020 Emerging Voice” James Beard Award winner. Est. 2006.
https://linktr.ee/LATACO
Old dad, fortunate husband, nonprofit marketeer, jaywalker, viajero, Chicagoan by way of many places.
Transit-loving, pro-housing, YIMBY
I make stuff. Currently Says Who and Rebel Spirit podcasts & writing at dansinker.com. Formerly Punk Planet (RIP), impeachment dot fyi, OpenNews, and much more. Always something new coming soon.
journalist / founder @ thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: https://signal.me/#eu/VssgH88q6WQu7MtH5wF-08JdgWh4iAPWD13eXiOcXQNGdZUXijJBZInD-UtLJKFG
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Urban Planner•anti-imperialist Pan-African•BAP•former Vancouver Planning Commissioner #newwest
🏗️cities/‘hoods are capitalisms playground for race-class struggle & yet I love public housing, parks, trains, libraries, bike lanes & benches when we get them
A coalition of 80+ orgs building a strong united front to fight the racist and reactionary agenda of the Trump administration.
Join: coalitionagainsttrumpagenda.org
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Plangineer (AICP) when I’m at work, alter ego CityNerd when I’m not. New videos on cities and transportation every Wednesday. http://linktr.ee/CityNerd 🐘 @nerd4cities
Forklift-certified journalist in Chicago. Words in the Chicago Reader, Unraveled Press, The TRiiBE, South Side Weekly, Courthouse News Service and some other ones I forget right now. All opinions & bad jokes my own. DM me for news tips/Signal info.
