63rd & Stony Island, 1961. You are looking north. The Stony Island station at left was end of the line for the Jackson Park branch of the el. Photo from Wm. Shapotkin
3rd attempt—I was poking around the Library of Congress and found this map of the 1893 World’s Fair showing the location of all the Remington typewriters in use at the fair.
I coded a web app that xerox's your images for fun! Just drag an image in and play with the dials. If nothing shows up (or it's all black) you may want to play with the threshold (first slider). Press "S" to save the image! editor.p5js.org/Chaoclypse/f...
AI submitting FOIA requests: www.muckrock.com/news/archive... AI answering FOIA requests: fedscoop.com/dhs-foia-pro... What could go wrong?
Using AI for FOIA in 2026: What requesters should know
Artificial intelligence tools can help public records users draft clearer requests, understand denials and review documents. But requesters should verify what AI produces and know what to ask when age...
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I think what’s really at stake is that there are vast swaths of sexual life in which women have sex that they don’t want, with men who know their opportunity to avoid or decline it has been curtailed, and men are outraged that this sex, which they feel they are entitled to, is being called “rape.”
Old Joliet has become a museum, a haunted house, and most recently, a ballpark. Stateville, built to replace it, is coming down. Who gets a say? https://bit.ly/4gS4dny
What does it mean to preserve a prison? - Chicago Reader
Old Joliet has become a museum, a haunted house, and most recently, a ballpark. Stateville, built to replace it, is coming down. Who gets a say?
chicagoreader.com
I wrote this for Chicago magazine about the U.S. government's plans to close the National Archives branch in Chicago:
Chicago magazine@chicagomagazine.bsky.social · 2w agoAt a time when dubious information runs rampant, we need more — not less — access to our history.
"We found that at least 150 institutions of higher ed... are using Flock’s surveillance network.. many campus police departments have facilitated immigration related investigations, even when they are located in sanctuary states and are legally prohibited from doing so" by @torinmonahan.bsky.social
Flock on campus: university police as appendages of a national policing apparatus
Dangerous new forms of networked surveillance are gaining traction with police departments across the United States. One popular example is Flock Safety’s Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR)...
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I built a program that will pull ~every historical aerial image and map for a given location in Cook County in one command
Columbus, OH: Polar Archivist, The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH: Polar Archivist, The Ohio State University
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Want to see a public collection of all the times cops have been busted abusing Flock systems to stalk exes, spy on protests, or deport migrants? You can check it out here 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 HT @deflock library.kansas.watch
ALPR Abuse Library — Kansas Watch
A publicly maintained index of news articles documenting abuses, misuses, and civil liberties concerns related to Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs).
library.kansas.watch
women are naturally worse at jeopardy because on the savannah they were gatherers whereas men's job was to know the state river of Indiana
Chicago Police officials said they would address the 200,000+ secretive traffic stops I had uncovered two years ago that were hidden from oversight. But now as CPD Superintendent Larry Snelling retires, the issue is worse— *half* of all stops in the last year were not properly documented
Chicago Police Promised to 'Fix' Secret Traffic Stops. A Year Later, the Problem Has Only Gotten Worse. - Bolts
This story was produced as a collaboration between Bolts and Injustice Watch, a nonprofit news organization in Chicago focused on issues of equity and justice in the court system. In... Read More
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“Grim’s claim that Politico and CNN ‘omitted a key detail’ in leaving out the massage message similarly misses the point. It’s worth remarking how much this can undermine the role of people like Racicot, on whom journalists depend to bring such stories to light.”
Reporting the Platner allegations.
In Me Too coverage, timing is everything.
cjr.org
This is a beautifully written, and deeply unsettling, piece about the disturbing pace of executions in Florida.
Why Is Florida Executing So Many Prisoners?
nytimes.com
ta nehisi coates tearing the fucking roof off okce again www.vanityfair.com/story/the-ne...
Did Kamala Harris's Silence on Gaza Cost Her the White House?
Ta-Nehisi Coates reckons with that question, and what it means for the 2028 election.
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Some really crazy cases in here - cop looked up ex-girlfriend and family in Flock 100+ times - cop stalked wife giving "test" as reason - cop searched one plate 395 times in 10 months; was later fired Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people www.404media.co/cops-keep-ge...
Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People
There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.
404media.co
A video shared by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shows him picking up two snakes with his bare hands.
Somebody has gone to great lengths to place hundreds of red Solo cups in the overpass fence spanning the Dan Ryan Expressway at 43rd to spell out an important message, and that message is "WHO TF IS DAN RYAN SIR?"
New: Documented Chicago Police traffic stops fell sharply — yet undocumented stops surged. As city leaders negotiate new traffic-stop rules (and a possible consent decree expansion), new data raises questions about oversight and compliance. The latest from @heathercherone.bsky.social and me.
CPD Failed to Document 267K Traffic Stops in 2025, 27% More Than Previous Year: Data
Officers made an average of 732 traffic stops every day for an entire year that were not documented as required by CPD policy and state law, according to data from the city’s Office of Emergency Manag...
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Beautiful Women Updates@aoife.bsky.social · 8mo agogreen briar park west ridge, chicago
I am now ready to admit I have too many books but I am not ready to admit that anything follows from this. It is an isolated fact shedding no light and recommending no course of action.
Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
“We Are Facing a Tsunami of Hate”: Amid ICE Crackdown, Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown in 10 Days
Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on Januar...
inthesetimes.com
I keep thinking about different aspects of this story Today's minor subplot: the detective who appointed himself the Perfect Paperwork under Poverty Patrol was disciplined by CPD for...you'll never guess what (not filing required paperwork re: his City debt) www.documentcloud.org/documents/23...
shawn@mulchy.bsky.social · 7mo agoNEW: beginning january 1, chicago will ban unhoused people on the sex offense registry from seeking shelter on public transit. it’s the latest in a concerted effort by mayor johnson’s admin to criminalize homelessness on cta trains + buses and in public parks during the coldest months of the year.
Someone should write a history of the syllabus. You could learn so much about higher ed just from the changes in these documents.
Tobias Wilson-Bates@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 7mo agoIn my lifetime syllabi have gone from a thing professors joked about in exasperation to a bizarre form of state surveillance equally loathed by faculty and students
Michigan’s Freedom of Information Act law allows agencies to charge reasonable fees. So how did one journalist’s records requests end up costing six figures? Read @seth-stern.bsky.social's article to find out:
Censorship by invoice: Public records cost $164,000 in Michigan township
A six-figure bill for public records is a good indicator that the government is hiding something
freedom.press