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fully pedestrianize a superblock grid of streets in the loop with a long term vision of eliminating all private vehicles in the city center in a decade or so

Outdoor fruit stand with huge pyramid of oranges and tall round banana display.

they’re just begging for a car chase

Quick question does anyone know how to restore virtue to a decaying society

girl me either

just heard a guy on youtube say "in the grand scream of things"

the people’s neighbor!

👀

Chicago, you’re next.

These work great in blocks with pre-war walkups.

three levels down, Lower Wacker Drive

sighing wistfully in american

thank god the traffic engineer that designed this death trap is finally going to jail for malpractice—oh wait, nothing happened at all? : )

a screenshot of a discord post that shows an image of a cute lil red convertible with a cool as hell woman driving it. she’s wearing sunglasses and living her best life with the rooftop down. the post text says “Make all cars mini convertibles so we have to wave at each other.”

a very misty view of the chicago river in downtown

unironically one of my favorite kinds of chicago weather

Photo of a short haired tuxedo tabby, standing up on its hind legs to examine the screen of a television, which is sitting up on a trunk in the living room setting.

Photo of a short haired, tuxedo tabby, sitting on a carpeted floor, gazing up at a TV, which is setting up on a trunk.

Photo of a shorthaired tuxedo tabby sitting on a rug that is on top of a hardwood floor in a living room type setting. It is gazing upward at a television which is sat on an old sewing machine table.

Photo of a shorthaired tuxedo tabby sitting on a rug that is on top of a hardwood floor in a living room type setting. It is gazing upward at a television which is sat on an old sewing machine table. It is essentially the same as the previous photo it’s just taken from a different angle behind the cat instead of beside it.

I recently found this set of four photos in which someone was documenting their cat’s obsession with the television. No date/info.

she doesn’t look a day over 129!

A photo of the Chicago skyline viewed from the north across a stretch of open blue water. The skyline is silhouetted against a light pastel sunrise sky

A wintry photo of the Chicago River surrounded by the dense downtown cityscape. There's an elevated train crossing a bridge in the foreground

A photo looking along elevated train tracks towards the distant Sears Tower under a bright blue sky

A photo of the Chicago skyline from the south taken from a park full of yellow winter grasses

Happy birthday Chicago!

"Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning."

Maybe they shouldn’t have capitulated with Na-zhays

A pink sunset over Lake Michigan

Midwest sunsets + Lake Michigan = 11/10

i think Chicago should host every DNC forever. the last DNC led to lots of nice signage upgrades and cleanliness on the CTA. one in the 90s gave us those fun red chicago star railings over the 90. upgrade the whole city

Breaking news: housing reform is popular, micromanagement is unpopular

From left to right: a three flat, a three flat, a three flat, a six flat, at the corner of Cornelia and Lakewood

while I was canvassing today for Drake I saw so many wonderful multifamily houses today that are all not allowed to be built new

there are 15 homes here and none of them are currently allowed per zoning

a brain genius

okay where can i buy flannel fabric in chicago? shocked that textile discount outlet in pilsen doesn’t carry flannel at all

this new dish wand is going to solve all my problems

Be the change: CMAP is hiring a Chief Data Officer workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

A stamp showing 3-4 story buildings in the Dutch style

I just up zoned my stamp collection west of Broadway and NIMBYs are furious

“a lot more singing than i expected. 5 out of 5” —my husbands review of The Sound of Music

"if you need to get to Midway, transfer to the orange line. If you need to get to O'Hare, transfer to the Blue Line. If you need to get to LAX, you're very lost"

A public comment stood out to me at CMAP's Transportation Committee mtg: In planning DuSable North Lakeshore Drive's future we should ask ourselves if today we had a magnificent lakefront park with no expressway running through it would we think it a good idea to run an expressway through that park?

our collective third rail (ironically lakeshore drive has no rails)