NEW: Alderman Brian Hopkins wants to ban unaccompanied minors from downtown after 8 p.m.
He made the announcement this afternoon, citing a violent attack on two people in Streeterville.
The city is proposing opening six roads cutting across Grant Park after the NASCAR race with no public meetings or community input. Chicagoans should have a say.
“Pro-cop” accounts admitting they actually think cops are thugs w/ this whole “Dollop better hope they never need the cops (to do their jobs) because Dollop refused to do some cops a favor once and now the cops will let bad things happen to them” thing, a thread
Apparently the CTA won’t allow their schedule planners to make schedules based on actual staffing levels because they’re scared to lose funding for any runs that they cut
@ctaaction
Watch for lobbyists and PR hits blaming restaurant closures on One Fair Wage before it takes effect, just like they did with violent crime and the Safe-T act
FYI
@AldMattMartin
- another full service spot in the ward shutters.
I know you're a yes on OFW but Chicago owned bars and restaurants can (usually) pay climbing property taxes, the Midwest's HIGHEST restaurant sales tax, or the region's HIGHEST wages. But they can't do all 3.
Ok fine, call them accidents. Now please explain how you wake up every morning and choose the mode of transportation where a little whoopsie can end someone’s life
Drivers and DOTs radicalize people who bike into bike advocacy and then clown on us for talking about it.
If you’re annoyed by activism, stop making activists! Give us a grid I swear we’ll shut up, nobody actually wants to roll up to a party and talk about how they got there
Biking isn’t my only personality trait. I also bike to see live music. I bike to try new restaurants. I bike to check out breweries. I bike to enjoy parks & trails. I bike to explore other cities. I bike to visit my family. I bike to my job. I bike to yoga class. I bike to…
In case you’re wondering, here’s Paul Vallas comment: “No one has access to my Twitter account and yes I was hacked again and will change my password yet again. Let me restate again that I don’t tweet likes or dislikes.”
If you pay attention you’ll find that drivers and cyclists break the law at the same rate. Look it up if you don’t believe me.
The difference is that bad driving kills people. Maybe we should design roads so that when people behave completely predictably, nobody dies.
@WGNNews
I watched a group of 6 bikers just rip through several stop signs on Lincoln ave yesterday. If you want to share the road you get the same set of rules, not special treatment to burn through signs and lights.
@ChicagoDOT
My replies are FULL of other people’s horror stories from Halsted’s painted bike lane. The problems w/ this unprotected bike lane are well-known. We need to demand BOLD leadership from
@chicagodot
to upgrade bike lanes across Chicago so they are ALL protected.
#bikechi
#chibike
@questionableway
Eh, I think if you are a business and you are trying to get an event permitted where a gajillion people swim in the lake in water where you can’t stand with only four exit ladders, I’d be surprised you could get a permit at all and I’d expect it to cost a lot.
@AJManaseer
It won’t but it will?
If banning kids from navy pier and Millenium Park (and soon Downtown) had any effect, we wouldn’t be having this conversation because none of this latest round of shitty behavior would have happened
Try to think about what you’re saying before you say it
@questionableway
Floaties are in fact not safe in open water! Banning floaties because they are not certified flotation devices is not a CYA regulation
If your first recommendation for a neighborhood restaurant in Chicago serves tacos on a steel zig zag you should be investigated (for being bribed by that restaurant)
To my
#DNC2024
delegates, please visit the neighborhoods.
Barcocina West Town
Fatso’s Last Stand West Town
Dell Rooster West Town
Jimmy’s Hot Dogs in West HumboldtPark
Jerusalem Grill Belmont Central
Frank’s Pizzeria Montclare
Mr. D’s Montclare
Meson Del Taco Belmont Central
@Amy4KY
No no no there are eight days of Fire Hanukkah and then eight days of Ice Hanukkah, we just try keep the ice stuff quiet because it freaks people out.
Happy Ice Hanukkah to your Mom.
#ChiLFTAlert
: Please be advised, due to high wave activity & below freezing temps., access to the lakefront trail is closed from Oak St. to Ohio St., & access from the Chicago Ave. underpass will not be available. For everyone’s safety, please heed the warnings & signage.
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@ChicagosMayor
Brandon Johnson makes some big appointments: Tom Carney becomes commissioner of the city's Department of Transportation, Sandra Blakemore is Department of Human Resources commissioner, and Alfonzo “Rudy” Conner Jr. is Department of Water Management commissioner
@AJManaseer
@GRUMM9301
I don’t think “belligerent teenagers” give a shit about a curfew, which we’ve had in this city for decades.
I also don’t think belligerent teenagers are automatically black, as your weird hypothetical implies.
@seskoog
All the youth committed crimes and should stop and then once all of them stop they can hang out in public again? That’s really what you think?
@JuniperFolly
Fenders help a lot. Most rain gear is built on the assumption that the water is coming from above you.
Also if your helmet doesn’t have a good visor wear a hat under it. Bike specific or just a baseball cap.
#bikechiRAGBRAI
training starts in March. 1000 miles by July 22, commuting counts!
All are welcome! We’ll have a meet up soon for new & experienced riders to talk about the ride, travel, training, etc.
Smash that like button if you’re interested, questions about RAGBRAI below.
I’ve had long covid for a while. It’s not as bad as it could be, for which I am very thankful, but it sucks.
If I’ve disappeared from your life that’s why. Will probably delete this soon, I’m just tired of having to tell people one at a time.
2023: people jump on a car at Pride, WGN reports the “neighborhood is destroyed”
2024: the city deploys 20+ cops PER STREET CORNER in Lakeview
You’re not going to believe what happens next…
Chi Chai Predictions: you'll be seeing a lot more of this mix around local coffee shops over the next year or two. Hugo Tea's chai concentrate will become more popular at high end shops, and Kilogram Tea's longtime go-to "premium" chai mix will probably lose market share there.
My forgiven PPP loan (barely) saved my small business, which is my sole source of income.
If your response to life-altering gov’t support is anything other than to hope and fight for the broadest possible application of life-altering gov’t support, you should eat your shoes
FRIDAY
I missed a call from my doctor.
I call back. It’s the infamous phone tree.
Eventually I get to a human and tell her I am returning my doctor’s call.
She says she’ll let the doctor know I called.
This takes eight minutes.
When I see you riding your tri bars at speed through the crowd on the LFT I pray to my very powerful and customer-service oriented diety that you’ll bonk in the water.
Fyi.
@ACannon_3
@BlockClubCHI
They were open about this last year. I asked and their consultant confirmed there would be no noise mitigation for trail users.
“There’s not much we can do. Normally you’d build a big wall but that would be an eyesore.”
Unlike a twelve lane highway.
@RottenInDenmark
Elon’s entire view of what’s wrong with Twitter seems to be shaped by the complaints of internet conservatives who have long been convinced that Twitter wasn’t showing their tweets to enough people.
This is a fee Divvy charged its members for its own operational failure and I’m glad they’re eliminating it but why are they still charging non-members $2.40 a ride every time it happens *to them*
Excited to announce a new benefit for
@Divvybikes
members! Members can now park e-bikes and e-scooters near a full station without paying the $1.20 out-of-station fee, making it more convenient to Divvy to our busiest spots🚲🛴
More info here:
I’m sick and can’t make the
@chi_streets
' inaugural annual fundraiser, so I just donated. Clinical trials show that supporting safe streets is as effective a cough suppressant as any over the counter drug. Won’t you suppress my cough?
@LeighGiangreco
Another possibility: the Sox hat is one of the best selling hats in baseball, the Cubs don’t usually break the top ten. Lids sells more Sox merch than Cubs merch on the strength of the hat. Fashion, the hat’s place in hip hop culture, south side representation all contribute
also shout out to the
@AldKnudsen43
staffer who stopped by to see how the diverter was working out and let me know they’re looking to replace the flex posts with something more permanent (planters?)
Me and the Sweet Roll Chicago peeps got yelled at on the LFT by a Lady Lycra, she told us to ride single file. I say again, a cyclist in Lycra yelled at other cyclists to ride single file. Why are they like this?
#BikeChi
Dorval is a distraction. Gia is a distraction. The only lever we have is the mayor. Do not vote for anyone without a plan for the CTA. Do not vote for anyone without a plan for safe streets.
Something that got a little lost in the post-CM yelling is that when we talk about practicing deescalation, we’re talking about tactics to prevent escalation from happening, not what somebody could have done to get a guy to put a gun away or how to unpunch a half dozen faces