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3 months

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities

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2 months

Hands down one of the best third spaces in Chicago

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Modernist beauties on the southeast side of chicago

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3 months

TIL 13 Minnesota State Parks have an all-terrain wheelchair that can be checked out for free!

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7 months

My kind of town, Chicago is

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3 years

I hate it here. Folks in the red house bought the prettier one on the right to demolish it into a side yard. The demo block expires today.

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There is nothing more Chicagoan than this

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1 year

I’m all for fusion cuisine but man idk about Polish tacos

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6 months

Equality, Illinois

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10 months

When you need a vacation but are broke AF, the NW suburbs has your back

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1 year

Philly friend sent me this and I'm truly losing my mind.. sometimes I forget how huge Chicago is

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1 year

By far the weirdest cvs sign in Chicago

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3 months

Landed in STL tonight and catching a @STLMetro link train to Amtrak. It's hard to describe, but the "feeling" of safety onboard is remarkably different from many of my recent experiences on @cta . (🧵)

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7 months

this is not a drill. apartment above culvers is available to rent (its $2,692 🫠)

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@thrillhowse Got tired of looking at laptop screens 😕

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1 year

kinda crazy that it is easier to take transit to Milwaukee than go to "Chicago's Hollywood Casino Amphitheater" for a concert

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1 year

Former Greyhound station, Jackson, Mississippi

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7 months

Amazing how I cannot seem to walk across one major street in Chicago without almost getting mowed down. We have a uniquely terrible problem here.

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2 months

you can carry anything with a bicycle! 📸: friend's photo in Mpls

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2 months

Tonight I asked someone what the wooden plank on the back of their bike rack was for and without missing a beat they said "oh that's to tow my sailboat". Reader, they weren't kidding in the slightest.. I'm clearly keeping the right company 🤣

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6 months

Southern Illinois really is quite beautiful

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1 year

This is truly an outrageous fare to charge someone for a 3 Mile bike ride.

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11 months

Me and the homies headed to the club 💅

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11 months

~concrete~ evidence that PBLs work

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3 years

Look how they massacred my boy on zillow 😟

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1 year

RETVRN

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4 months

this is what the left took from us, iykyk

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8 months

anomalies at Chicago Union Station

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2 years

"Cook County has the largest urban forest preserves in the country". Always been so proud of this fact

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3 years

That's it, I'm bungalow shaming.

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2 years

Realtors be like:

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3 months

Gotta say, I was very impressed with how lovely the area around the Cardinals Stadium was. This is how you create places people want to linger, not by surrounding them with reams of parking. I might not be a Cards fan, but I am a St Louis fan.

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further proof that lincoln park is a suburb in a trenchcoat

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2 months

Barnes & Noble has made its return to Chicago.

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1 year

Thank you, metra

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5 months

When you design for cars, you get cars.

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8 months

wouldn't it be great if the once-hourly bus connected with the once-hourly train?

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1 year

In the bike lane behind greatness

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11 months

"Ladies and Gentlemen this is Homewood.. that's right the vacation destination sensation sweeping the nation, Homewood"

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1 year

Just a few of the fantastic homes in Jackson Park Highlands near 67th and Jeffrey.

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8 months

This is what a 30 minute gap looks like. Will Dorval ever see it?

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5 months

Are You Wearing the-- "Aldi socks and sneakers? Yeah, yeah I am 😎"

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11 months

Amtrak time! (Which is gloriously on time *knock on wood*)

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27 days

The CTA bus signs should switch from "GO SOX" to "GO CUBS" at North Avenue just like Homan becomes Kimball

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1 year

Here's something that feels really dated

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2 years

Okay where is this in Chicago though 🧐

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2 years

What if there was a network of sharable cargo bikes? Well, there is in Berlin and they're available for about 4 EUR per hour 🤯

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2 months

i will never be able to forgive the decision to replace this terminal with "Ogilvie Transportation Center" 📸:

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1 year

Midway kind of morning 🌞

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8 months

Rise & shine. $5.75 two egg omelette $1.75 bottomless coffee

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10 months

the @Metra according to Bing Image Creator

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1 year

hey CBS maybe you could've asked before you used my time lapse video in an article? Just sayin

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1 year

CTA reporting Taylor Swift Eras Tour boost in commuters

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3 months

Trains are running as scheduled, unarmed security has personal connections with riders and are engaging positively with people. Oh, and the trains are appropriately full of riders even at ~10pm. And if you can believe it, nobody is smoking on board.

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9 months

The newly upgraded bike lanes on Central Park at Lake are no match for a @cta vehicle.. literally across the street there is open street parking

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1 year

The Navy Pier flyover is so mobbed

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2 years

Keeping up with the Joneses, Chicago Bungalow edition

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8 months

Average pedestrian experience in the US 🇺🇲

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2 years

@YIMBYLAND all four of these pictures are from within 5 blocks of each other. I love Cincinnati, don't get me wrong, but this is really just a small section of a single neighborhood

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1 year

white people go to south side without visiting hyde park challenge

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2 years

Dutch style from the Chicago World's Fair relocated in Boston

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1 year

@Eric_Erins What do you mean it's the largest city in Egypt

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5 months

👀 Damen Green Line Station coming in hot

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7 months

now kiss

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1 year

Oh this thing is just a major time capsule huh 😌

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8 months

pretty much

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10 months

TIL the term "pulling out all the stops" originates from the way an organ is played

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8 months

These new central Park bike lanes are beautiful

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9 months

Castles of Galewood

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1 month

liminal 📍cumberland blue line

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1 year

All that just to cross the street.

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2 years

Finally made it to the weirdest ice cream place in Chicago.

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2 years

Um guys the seatbelt wasn't federally mandated until 1968 in the US.. and it wasn't installed in American cars until that decade either

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1 year

Looking at a trip to the suburbs on metra and Google suggests driving a c*r to the station across the loop..

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3 months

Get in losers, we're going to [the Mall of America]

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1 year

Get you someone who makes you blush like this ☺️

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8 months

Merry Christmas from the leaning tower of Niles

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6 months

I finally saw the Chicago™ Rat™ Hole™

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11 months

@cornoisseur My favorite example of this is in 2018, Baltimore FD tried to depict how bike lanes caused their response times to be delayed. Instead it just proved that parked cars are the actual barrier & also their trucks are far too big for a city

Mad About Bike Lanes, Baltimore Fire Department Takes It Out on Advocates — Streetsblog USA

One BCFD firefighter is facing assault charges for his attack on a city planner. But allegations of harassment and intimidation go beyond that.

usa.streetsblog.org

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Thankful for the Augusta bike lane 😌 Nobody seems to be using that parking we should probably get rid of it 😏

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11 months

ding ding here comes @bikegridnow

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5 months

maybe Milwaukee Ave has become such a bike highway bc of how unreliable the Blue Line is

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1 year

Nobody: Google maps: MILWAUKEE-DIVERSEY-KIMBALL

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7 months

There's nothing quite like the entitlement drivers feel. After nearly running over this uniformed traffic director, the driver left their vehicle and made aggressive advances. And for this to happen right outside #TRBAM really highlights the need for comprehensive mobility reform

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11 months

A colleague asked me if it's really "so bad" to leave their car in the bike lane for ~just a minute~ while they unload their kid. I told them to use the alley, and don't they have a dedicated garage space back there anyways?

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does not compute 🤣

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Alighted at Stadium Station to get some late night food before my Amtrak connection. The platform was crowded (but not overflowing) with Reds fans and employees heading home.

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Post taco acquisition metrolink ASMR

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11 months

Can we pls make the Amtrak Step Stool its own Twitter account? 🥺

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we’ll leave a light on for ya

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Standing outside Howard terminal and all of a sudden my eta goes from 45 minutes to 12 hours 🤡

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10 months

Blue Line run 215.. uhh can we keep the lights on?

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7 months

How cool it was to check out Amtrak HQ today! 💙

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2 years

Caught an open for this well-preserved home in Rogers Park. Deconverted tho..

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@PuppSkyler The 9th floor of the Harold Washington Library center in the Loop!

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1 year

Pouring over some of my favorite homes from visiting KC this weekend

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9 months

The way the CTA tracker works towards the outer reaches of the system does not instill rider confidence.

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2 years

@foxyjewishmama That time we moved a mattress 10 miles across town 😅

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3 years

Future home of the Lawndale Line elevated multi-use path.

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1 year

Yesterday I rode 50 miles through the south side and south suburbs and the most unsafe I felt was along the lakefront trail where motor vehicles were rampant. Chicagoans deserve better.

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3 years

If you feel invisible, just remember at least you're not a stop sign in Chicago.

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2 years

I literally don't want to be a transit activist I want to ride my bike 1/2 mile to the train and have it show up

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One of the most brilliant parts of @wmata is that their last trains are timed transfers that they hold for potential connections. The station managers ask riders what transfer they're making. What a thoughtful system.

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7 months

Given the pedestrian fatality data from 2023, it's only gotten worse here. Drivers are more entitled and emboldened than ever. If we don't make real, concrete changes to our city's infrastructure, we will continue this negative trend.

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