Alex
@acannon.bsky.social
They’re passing a new law. Its called Ride Your Bike. Chicago
And I haven’t seen a single Chicago School Board candidate put out a statement denouncing the Great Chicago Fire. Your preferred candidate? Possibly pro-fire.
Robert Loerzel@robertloerzel.bsky.social · 3d agoChicago started burning on October 8, 1871. Here is a Chicago magazine story I wrote five years ago, for the 150th anniversary:
Popular pedestrianized street that the city opens up to cars 3 times a year
Smart Streets automated enforcement program analysis updated with data through September 12, courtesy of FOIA ninja @acannon.bsky.social You can see Clark Street really picking up steam! michaelmclean.me/chicago-smar...
DPD is soliciting proposals for Courtyard Apartment Buildings at three large-lot sites in Bronzeville. These projects will be used to inform planning for a new zoning overlay district aimed at allowing for new by-right courtyard buildings. www.chicago.gov/city/en/site...
Being an alderperson is first and foremost about protecting your constituents from harmful ideas like “Living in a Society” or “The Collective Good”
146 year old tram still gets stuck behind cars the old fashioned way
9 acre strip mall next to the Kedzie Orange Line is getting remodeled and adding a drive thru. Ranks pretty high on the Could Have Been Housing meter 😬
Yes I do think Chicago should build a Western line and yes I do think it should be cowboy themed
Comittee on Zoning, Landmarks, and Building Standards meeting is LIVE. www.chicityclerk.com/committee-zo... The Villegas-Sponsored FAIR ordinance will be the topic of discussion after Johnson-backed PRO narrowly passing out of Housing Committee yesterday.
I've made a ward scorecard for Divvy bikeshare infrastructure, inspired by the @chiwho.bike dashboard. You can drill into a ward and look at the station deployment and ridership trends. michaelmclean.me/chicago-divv...
Chicagoans Who Bike@chiwho.bike · 4w agoWe are so excited to announce the launch of a brand new tool for getting engaged with biking in Chicago - our new ward biking map! It'll show you bike routes in your ward, which ones were built this latest aldermanic term, and more. Let's break it down 🧵
$75M one-time payment 5% share of annual net operating income 2% payment on any future sale price Changes to true-up payments for street-fest closures 50% minimum in-city workforce Limitations to usage data sharing with feds we paid $7.6M in true-ups in 2024, interested to see the details there.
Heather Cherone@heathercherone.bsky.social · 4w agoBREAKING: A deal has been reached that will allow Chicago’s parking meters to be sold to a New York-based investment firm, which has agreed to sell an airline that has been carrying out deportations for the Trump administration, 5 Chicago City Council members announced Tuesday. @wttw.bsky.social
CTA has mostly recovered their headcount losses from the first half of this year. Rail is nearly back above the 2019 benchmark!
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Since 2010, Bronzeville (60653, proposed Bronzeville trail in Gold) has been able to add population and diversity while maintaining its existing black population. What other neighborhoods can say this?
You don't hate the "Friends of the Park" enough...
◥◤Kriston Capps 250@kristoncapps.bsky.social · last mo.George Lucas built a museum packed with comics, Frank Frazetta, cartoons, Frida Kahlo, manga, Ralph McQuarrie, illustration, Lucas Cranach the Elder, underground art, Norman Rockwell — and no themes or guides or organization. Read @cmonstah.bsky.social on the surreal Lucas Museum of Narrative Art:
Chicago Ward races as of today. 17 Uncontested incumbents 30 Contested incumbents 3 Open seats
Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀@bebopott.bsky.social · last mo.🚨🚨🚨 This is a Chicago Municipal Election Candidate List Emergency Update 42nd Ward Alderman Brendan Reilly has his first announced challenger of the 2027 cycle in Deborah Lane Alderman Reilly will be running for his 7th term in the seat he's held since 2007, after he ousted a 36 year incumbent.
Right now, hundreds of motorists are excitedly starting their drives eastward towards the DLSD on-ramps. After 5 grueling hours of bicycle tyranny, all is right again. The cars are free.
Ranking Chicago’s Plagues this summer 1. The smog 2. The floods 3. The flies 4. Corn Sweats 5. Library driver shortage
Many Alexs are saying this
Illinois already killed parking mandates. Chicago should finish the job.
The hard part is done, don't make it harder
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Alex@acannon.bsky.social · 10mo agoNow that NITA is signed, Chicago should go ahead amend the municipal code to clearly and uniformly eliminate off-street parking requirements citywide. No good reason to keep the entire parking and loading section around as-is when it only applies to a few scattered blocks on the edge of town.
I would like to see more research on this, but surveys from January show AI advertising sentiment +30 among Millenials, +2 for Gen-Z. I'm scared to know the figures for anyone older. It is probably important to grapple with how many of your neighbors are positively perceiving the AI Queso Tot ad.
Robert Komaniecki@komaniecki.bsky.social · 2mo agoHow do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right
Cook County DoTH has completed a Bike Share Feasibility Study! Check out the report by visiting the Bike Plan webpage: www.cookcountyil.gov/bikeplan
Bike Plan
Cook County has announced the completion of its first-ever Bike Plan. Click here to read the Bike Plan.Priorities laid out in the County's Bike Plan include:Increasing everyday cycling by connecting e...
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We needed today's rain... because it made this Schlitz ghost sign in Roseland more visible. Architect unknown. Built as a store in 1914, with the second floor added in 1924.
I don't think there is a more obvious candidate for a new Chicago train station than in Humboldt Park along the MD-N,MD-W and NCS Metra tracks. We should talk about this more. @nitachicago.org do something
Municipal Corporation@nikhunder.com · 9mo agoI visualized the data received as of 12/4. You can play around with the interactive map here nikhunder.github.io/Cook-County-.... 1/4
Empty Brown Line train Conductor freestyling the station announcements Life is good
