Gothic Revival on N. Harlem in Chicago's Dunning neighborhood
South Delano Court is a fun one because they named it after Roosevelt, but Roosevelt is named after Teddy Roosevelt not Franklin.
Laurie! Live!@laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 2w agopoll: what is your favorite street name in Chicago? [warning that if you reply you need to be prepared for your answer to be milkshake ducked]
lol they took away another goal for reasons I will never understand
The Cryptkeeper on commentary: PAIN have SCARED a GHOUL against SCARGENTINA
We also had our family portrait done at JC Penney's in 1989 but for some reason ours isn't in the Smithsonian
We don’t talk enough about how Naperville and Wheaton were basically at war over the DuPage county seat for like 30 years
![In 1857, the Illinois state legislature authorized an election to be held to decide the question of whether the DuPage county seat should remain in Naperville or be moved to the more centrally located Wheaton, which was on the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad. Naperville won the election by a vote of 1,542 to 762. Hostility between the two towns continued for the next decade and another
election was held in 1867, in which Wheaton narrowly won by a vote of 1,686 to 1,635. At a cost of $20,000, the City of Wheaton quickly built a courthouse to house a courtroom, county offices, and a county jail. The building was dedicated on July 4, 1868. 12]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fzvckr5pnqkkknf4mitbon5j/bafkreigrjskjjc5ucqnchsmeyyfhnqt3ufve3jgwssibn24skxlti6qwfy)
![However, animosity between the two towns continued, and in 1868, as records were moved from the old Naperville courthouse to the new courthouse in Wheaton, Naperville refused to turn over the remaining county records, prompting a band of Civil War veterans from Wheaton to
conduct what came to be known as the "Midnight Raid" on the Naperville courthouse. As Wheatonites fled back on Wheaton-Naperville Road,
Napervillians were able to secure some of the last remaining records, which were then taken to the Cook County Recorder in Chicago for safekeeping.
During this time, Naperville was mounting a lawsuit against Wheaton accusing election judges of leaving their posts for lunch during the vote when duplicate ballot stuffing allegedly occurred. As the courts deliberated the fate of the county seat, the
records were destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of
1871. Shortly thereafter, Wheaton was officially proclaimed the county seat. 13]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fzvckr5pnqkkknf4mitbon5j/bafkreigbzadrjfyo54s5rsh6jdmcswlbeangz5k6ux55q3noy7cgtomwt4)
New town every hour@townsusa.bsky.social · 3w agoWheaton, Illinois Pop: 52,745 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheaton,_Illinois Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=127872123 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10670132 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5183658
I’m quoted in this article on an important bill to improve Illinois’s system for compensating the wrongfully convicted.
Chip Mitchell@chipmitchell1.bsky.social · last mo.A bill awaiting @govpritzker.illinois.gov's signature could boost #Illinois payments to wrongfully incarcerated people and, for the first time, make children eligible for the compensation, @wbez.org reports. #twill www.wbez.org/politics/202...
She didn’t “pull ahead!” Counting ballots is not a basketball game! Complaining about this is hopeless! I know!
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2mo agoNithya Raman, a progressive member of the Los Angeles City Council, has pulled ahead of the reality TV star Spencer Pratt in the city’s mayoral primary.
Great thread. Love these weird little guys.
dmercer.bsky.social@dmercer.bsky.social · 3mo agoSomeone on Instagram posted this photo of a cottage with a sideways entrance. I went to find it and other similar ones. I found one at 3517 W. Hirsch, but missed one at 3518 W. Evergreen. The one from Instagram is at 3516 W. Melrose, which I didn't get to. Anyone know of others? All in Chicago.
New: The Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts released a report today analyzing Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke's first 500 days in office. For a sense of how they feel Burke has performed, they titled it "500 Days Forward... 10 Years Back." My latest for @unraveledpress.com:
Chicago legal reform group lambasts Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke in new report
The Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts found that in Burke’s first 500 days in office, she has pursued policies that “present fewer checks on police power in prosecution and prevent wrongfully c...
unraveledpress.com
There used to be a bowling alley where Noon O Kabob is.
SK@sk-76.bsky.social · 3mo ago1/n Chicago Bowling Alleys 1947 I can't even remember how I got started on this "project", but I may have had the idle thought "I bet there were a lot of bowling alleys in Chicago in the late 1940s". www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/e...
1/n Chicago Bowling Alleys 1947 I can't even remember how I got started on this "project", but I may have had the idle thought "I bet there were a lot of bowling alleys in Chicago in the late 1940s". www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/e...
Chicago Bowling Alleys 1947 - Google My Maps
Locations of bowling alleys in the 1947 yellow pages.
google.com
Thanks to the funds raised by this year’s Met Gala, we are closer than ever to finding a way to return Mr Met to his human form 💪 ⚾️
NEW: Certificates of innocence are court orders that can make it easier for exonerated people to get jobs and housing. Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke is trying to make them harder to get. (w/ @boltsmag.org) buff.ly/GAxhSl8
Cook County prosecutor fights to block exonerated people from clearing their names
Certificates of innocence can help exonerated people get jobs and housing. State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke is making them harder to get.
injusticewatch.org
It is the great sculptor Lorado Taft's birthday (b. 1860). He created some of our state's most beloved public art, and I'll be sharing some of my pics of it in this 🧵, starting with my fav, Lincoln the Lawyer, depicting a younger Abe following the legal circuit to Urbana.
"Equal Respect and Justice" (ca. 1962) Image: Maurice Pennington Political Cartoon Collection, Atlanta University Center
