"Feel it in his bones"? Oh, FFS.
14.03.2026 00:38
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"Feel it in his bones"? Oh, FFS.
I needed this laugh right now. Thank you.
I was on a bus with a seat that read "Service Merchandise." It must have taken that person so long to carve that into the seat.
Savage for the win.
Chicagoans - don't spend all that money on a fancy fast moving electric bike and then not get some kind of lighting system to make yourself visible during night riding. Signed, Old Man with Bad Eyesight
I want to befriend a graphic designer named Philip so I can refer to him as "Gradient Phil."
Join me Wed Mar 11, 6:30-9p at Katherine Anne Confections (Logan Square, Armitage @ California) for Chicago trivia! Categories: TV/movies, history, places, candy, music + more. Top 2 teams win KAC gift certificates.
Teams of 4 or fewer. Limited spots. Sign up!
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You gave me a mini heart attack, LTC I thought I misspelled his name!
One of the most heartbreaking photos from the Eastland Disaster in Chicago - that of a fireman holding the lifeless body of a child - was captured by Jun Fujita.
Learn more about Fujita's life and work in the latest episode of the podcast.
Pictured: The Illinois Army National Guard question a Black man during the racial violence that broke out in Chicago in 1919. Photograph by Jun Fujita; Chicago History Museum, ICHi-065477
From the Eastland Disaster to the 1919 Race Riots to the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Jun Fujita was there, camera in hand, documenting it all.
Hear more about Fujita's life and work in the latest episode of the podcast.
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Pretty sure no other post I'll read tonight will top this one.
Episode 821 - Behind the Camera: Jun Fujita's Chicago with author Graham Harrison Lee is available wherever you enjoy podcasts.
Another entertaining book launch at Book Cellar in Lincoln Square with authors Linda J. Hull and @keirgraff.bsky.social with their new collab "I Did Not Kill My Husband."
Graff wrote the book "Chicago's Fine Arts Building: Music, Magic, and Murder" discussed on the podcast.
#SupportLocalBookstores
Awww, man! More stuff to check out. Always something new to see in this city. Thanks for this, JL!
I have never noticed these plaques on the SE corner of Michigan Avenue and Wacker. Nicely done, Chicago. I'd love to see these all over the city to alert passers-by to cool history tidbits.
We should probably have realized when they insisted we call the Department of Defense, the Department of War.
I'm a little shocked that Pink and Carey Hart announced a separation, all to distract everyone from the fact that our government keeps acting super shady regarding the Epstein files. If you've got nothing to hide...
"None of it is true but we've been hiding / deleting the files anyway" isn't a good defense. Seems a little... sus.
So weird.
Wisconsin Steel covered 260 acres, supplying steel for International Harvester’s truck and farm equipment operations. James Hickman was working there when he heard the news something was wrong at his home.
Ep. 820 - People Wasn't Made To Burn: The James Hickman Story
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Good golly. Thanks for putting this together.
It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow
It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker
This was never about woman's sports
In just three months spanning late 1946 and early 1947, 751 fires broke out in Chicago, with many of them in overcrowded Black neighborhoods where families like the Hickmans were forced to live.
Ep. 820 – People Wasn’t Made To Burn: The James Hickman Story
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH: May 11, 1894 - A wildcat strike of 3,000 Pullman Palace Car Company factory workers occurs in Illinois, leading the path to African American unions. americasbesthistory.com/abhtimeline1... @chicagomuseum.bsky.social @chicagohistorypod.bsky.social @blackhistorydb.bsky.social
The grift was baked into it the whole time.
www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-treas...
In early 1966, Black residents in Evanston and Kenilworth, both just north of Chicago, had crosses burned on their property, with one incident dismissed by police as a "prank.”
FROM THE ARCHIVES – Sundown Towns of Chicago with Ernest Crim III
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As far as Movie Dads go, Harry Dean Stanton in "Pretty in Pink" is all right. Also, that movie is eight days away from being 40 years old.
@tomtomchi.bsky.social is pretty spot on. What is also bonkers to me is that Barack Obama was the first Democrat to carry DuPage County for president (in 2008) since 1852.
In Nov 1960, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke on civil rights at North Central College in Naperville. Because Naperville was a sundown town, he faced threats and wasn’t allowed to stay overnight; he had to sleep in Aurora instead.
Sundown Towns of Chicago with Ernest Crim III
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