Love to have a local Democratic Party (Cook County) that endorses a crypto-booster for state treasurer and the scion of an old machine family for tax assessor over the progressive incumbent who has ruffled the feathers of corporate owners by trying to reform the appeals system that favors them. 1/2
STOP USING META. STOP USING TIKTOK. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, STOP USING X.
The days of getting around an annoying, ads-focused algorithm are long past. These are captured platforms serving a fascist oligarchy.
The Burnham plan has shaped Chicago for 100yrs, why did we stop dreaming big?
Chicago2100 is the plan for the next century, policy imperative for
- Transportation efficiency
- Housing affordability
- Emission reduction
- Health &safety
Sign the Petition: www.change.org/Chicago2100
Heyo, Chicago pals: Quick note that the executive vice president of the Bob Loquercio Auto Group is vociferously defending the murder of Alex Pretti.
The auto group has 16 locations in and around Chicago, listed below. Please take your business elsewhere.
www.blautogroup.com/locations/in...
Excellent piece on the return of bison to the Kane County prairie by my WBEZ colleague Zachary Nauth. Notice the skillful way he swoops from the personal to historical, including biology, ecology, politics. With lovely photos by Pat Nabong Well worth your time.
chicago.suntimes.com/environment/...
The rollback is crucially bad because this was our very first real no-compromises protected intersection (islands on all four corners, proper setbacks, etc)
If we can’t even do one, very little hope we can start pumping them out city wide.
A photo of a blurry moving London Underground train taken from an adjacent platform
A photo of a nighttime scene showing an illuminated London Underground roundel sign on a low brick wall next to some stairs with a tree behind them. There's a single pedestrian about to walk down the stairs
A photo of central London streetscape with a mix of historic looking low red brick buildings and taller modern glass high rises. There's an oncoming double decker red bus in the street with headsign reading "Shoreditch 35"
Before the return travel snafu, had a lovely time in London! Simultaneously inspiring and frustrating to experience an interconnected, reliable, well-signed, and frequent transit system. Let's hope NITA is the new TfL.
4. And this is hardest to replicate, but in the Netherlands, ~100% of drivers also bike regularly, or used to, or do sometimes. They are on the lookout for bikes. But the only way to get there is to build the intersections and other infra to get the majority of people onto bikes.
FIN
a video from earlier today shared to Fb shows about a dozen community members surrounding two SUVs driven by DHS agents at the Home Depot on 31st and Cicero in Little Village
A masked ICE agent sprayed David Black, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, directly in the face during protests outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois on 22 September 2025.
Photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times.
Pastor David Black of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, being sprayed directly in the face by troops during protests outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois in September. (Photo by Ashlee Rezin/via Chicago Sun-Times).
DON'T LOOK AWAY.
57th Street, Hyde Park
Masked ICE agents with military rifles dragging people into vans because of their skin color. Mothers & kids detained at the airport after a Sunday at the lakefront. If it weren’t happening down the block, I’d say this isn’t America. But it is. Know your rights. Chicago.gov/KYR
This is so stupid.
You can build a house with non union labor, but if you want to build a small coach house in the back you must use union labor?
if you were thinking about doing any of the following in support of ADUs, the end of this week is a good deadline to impose on yourself:
- sending a note to your alderperson
- writing a letter to the editor (Sun-Times, Insider Publications, Austin Weekly News, etc.)
- posting on your social media
lol - I meant 5 weeks when I posted this
Anyway, i need y’all’s signatures supporting re-legalizing coach houses
CHICAGO - A disused one-story commercial building and parking lot, 2652 W. Chicago Ave.
This is what “community meeting” attendees in the 36th Ward want their neighborhood to look like.
#LegalizeHousing
@abundanthousingil.bsky.social
@gilbertv36.bsky.social
Pedophile sex trafficker is elected dictator by people who worship him as their savior against pedophile sex traffickers. Take a bow, America!
Seriously though folks consider writing about this one, it’s extra close to home
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Changes like this demand communication, and it’s unclear whether the Mayor’s Office supported this effort in Springfield.
But Chicago taxpayers now own a multi-billion-dollar unfunded liability with no plan to pay for it.
The liability comes from a pension cap change:
• Old cap: $127,283, rising by ½ CPI or 3%
• New cap (7/1/25): $141,408, rising by full CPI or 3%
Just like a hike to your credit card interest rate, a small tweak compounded over decades is extremely costly.
I’m a former prosecutor and military officer. I deeply respect our police & firefighters—many are family.
I also teach Finance at DePaul & it’s hard to see how this won’t crowd out future spending on roads, schools, the CTA, even public safety & increase our borrowing costs.
By my calculations, this adds ~$3.9B in unfunded pension liability to the City of Chicago.
That’s the present value—the total payout is ~$11.8B between now and 2055.
It’s a massive hit to our budget. 🧵 www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/pri...
Chicago homicides in 2025: 232 people slain. Here’s how that compares with previous years.
Hear hear!
@aldermanlaspata.bsky.social is bringing it
DHS has arrested two medical personnel at a surgical center in California for demanding that the officers trespassing in their building identify themselves & provide a warrant, accusing them of another.... wait for it... ASSAULT. The case shows how DHS lies relentlessly to violate the Constitution
The video is shocking - but felony charges have been filed: against the protestors who are being beaten up.
www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...
