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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Traveling without my emotional support last-mile bike today and feeling very naked. At least I have the helmet, but it's not the same.

An orange helmet clipped to a blue backpack. Both are settled between a pair of denim-clad legs, on a speckled (subway car) floor

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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Is @nitachicago.bsky.social planning to implement fair-capping? Someone remind me. Bc I forgot to buy a Cta day-pass and now I'm annoyed. If you could buy in advance & choose to use it when you wanted that'd be fine, but you can't bc they auto-activate the next time you tap after purchase

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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nothing like ~30 people (more behind me) walking in a four-lane street (bc no sidewalks) to the next bus stop after their bus broke down. At least the NB 6s were bunched and the next driver waited for us!

Several people walking in the street and on a strip of grass next to overgrown bushes and trees. There is a bus visible in the distance

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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I. Love. Rain gear. Head to toe. Dry through the pour, the car splash, the clogged-drain street flooding.

A person (me!) lifting their leg to show that they are wearing rain boots, rain pants, and a rain coat, with an orange helmet over the hood. All the gear is wet, and the person is smiling

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 01/10/2026

#Recall: Gazelle USA Recalls Urban Arrow Cargo Electric Bikes; The front bolt in the seat post clamping mechanism can break, causing the seat to become loose, posing a fall hazard. Get repair. www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2027...

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Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

oh no

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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Bike is a black canondale, with a bit of red on the front fork. It has a rear rack black bag. This is as close as I can get.

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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Biker hit on Lake Park Park just north of 51st -- bike is in the median with bent rear wheel, but biker not on site anymore. CPD caution taping off the area, mentioned blood on the ground. Cops say biker taken to UChicago hospital, probably in the last ~30 mins. Idk any other details.

Four police blocking off a street with caution tape. There is a bike lying in the grassy median of the road, with a bent rear wheel visible.

Three police standing in an empty street. There is a bike lying in the grassy median of the road, with a bent rear wheel visible.

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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Lots of orange surveying markings all along the east end of the point, every ~40 feet or so. New since this weekend, I think. Anyone know what they're for?

2 perpendicular bright orange dashed lines painted on the pavement. There are bike racks nearby and grass and trees on either side, with the lake in the distance.

a bright orange dashed line painted on the pavement. There is grass and trees on either side, with the lake in the distance.

2 perpendicular bright orange dashed lines painted on the pavement. They are in front of a set of steps that lead up to a stone building.

2 perpendicular bright orange dashed lines painted on the pavement. There are bike racks nearby and a pavement patch of dark black asphalt in the middle.

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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Pls send recs for best bike lights! front & back. (Front was just stolen, but been in the market for new anyway) Musts: -hold charge even in v cold temps (I bike thru chicago winter) -high-vis -long-lasting Should i: -switch back to batteries from usb-c? I hear they last longer

A bike loaded with a pair of cross country skis+poles parked on a bike rack in a layer of snow. There are ski tracks visible in the snow. It is dusk, and the bikes rear red light is on.

A blue bike with yellow panniers and a colorful array of star-shaped shiny mylar balloons are attached to the back. The bike is leaning against a railing with foliage all around and a blue sky, and the chicago skyline in the distance.

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Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago @mwrdgc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Clean air starts with healthy trees! On International Day of Clean Air for blue skies, help us Restore the Canopy by planting a free native oak sapling from the #MWRD. Trees help improve air quality, provide wildlife habitat and keep neighborhoods cooler. Pick up a sapling: ow.ly/TFqA50ZJw2g

Graphic promoting MWRD’s Restore the Canopy, Plant a Tree program. The graphic features a free sapling brochure and illustrations of four oak varieties available in 2026: bur, pin, red and swamp white oak. Text reads “Free Oak Trees!”

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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Tfw you forget that "LSD" to most people is acid, so when you pose the hypothetical "what if we could have LSD every weekend, not just once a year?" non-Chicagoans are like, "um... Why can't you?"

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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Kinda crazy that this view is only accessibly to the general public twice a year, eh?

Landscape view of tall grasses with yellow flowers and a tall tree, with smaller trees in the background, all against a blue sky

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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Lake forever, *volunteer squash plant* for now!!!!

Cluster of large squash leaves amongst other plants and weeds popping through large limestone rocks along the lake

Closeup of two baby squashes, one with yellow squash flower still attached

Squash/gourd that is vaguely striped with light green and dark green

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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Okay, who's going to build @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social but for cars parked in fire hydrant spots? What about cars parked in crosswalks or broadly speaking other tow zones that never actually get ticketed or towed? My block is egregious on all fronts.

White car parked directly next to a fire hydrant. There is *not* yellow paint visible on the curb

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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Lake forever, duck convention for now

Cluster of ducks sitting stop large rocks on the shore of Lake Michigan, with the Chicago skyline visible faintly in the background

A dozen and a half or so ducks swimming in the lake, with large rocks in the foreground and the Chicago skyline in the background

A line of ~2 dozen ducks floating in the lake

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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Update! Not a new family! Just my neighbor who works at a bike shop and convinced them to let him borrow it for a few days.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

ICE continues to be active in Chicago. Community members in Little Village recorded ICE in the area of 26th & Drake this morning, and photos shared online show a masked fed chasing someone down an alley off Leland and Ashland in Ravenswood. Reports of activity in Bronzeville, Bridgeport, Hermosa.

ICE agent walking down Drake toward 26th Street in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. Source: Baltazar Enriquez Sanchez

Photo shared online anonymously of a masked fed chasing someone down an alley off Leland and Ashland in Ravenswood.

8/31 post by rapid response group Hijos De Migrantes showing agents active in Bridgeport, Ravenswood, Hermosa, Bronzeville and Little Village this morning

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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Ride to Montrose with 14mph tailwind and light drizzle, train back to HP (+ last-mile bike) to avoid headwind and actual rain. 10/10 delightful both directions

A seated train passenger using a hand to stabilizing a bike aboard the train

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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Point is full of eclipse watchers. And smoke from little fires everywhere. And *no cars*! Little changes, big wins.

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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I think an Urban Arrow just moved into my building, I'm so excited to meet them! It's been parked here the past few days. (The bike room is down a handful of stairs with a tight turn, so I'm curious what they'll do in winter)

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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Cars don't really use this road, we should really just shut it down.

Divided highway with one side entirely devoid of cars and one side showing a few vehicles (including a bus) clustered together in the distance. The streetlamps are on and the sky has peachy/mauve sunset colors

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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Crazy that we didn't have these bike racks until this year!

Set of bike racks completely filled with bikes on a strip of grass between a paved path and the lake. There is a biker approaching the rack and dismounting their bike

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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

How old can a new-to-me helmet be and still be good? As in, if it's never been used, but is 2015 manufacture date, is it still good?

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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I survived a SB red line run with my bike and one other biker on my car an hour before first pitch for a Sox game, AMA (I was going south of Comiskey)

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Chicagoan: The cup is in Chicago, the greatest city in the world

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Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

One does not simply "drive into Lake Michigan" at Chicago Avenue

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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Biked to Miller Beach in Indiana, training home ✌️

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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Why did Google Maps just start giving transit directions that includes driving a car to transit? Especially baffled by the one that has me drive one mile *within my neighborhood* to the train station???

Screenshot of top two Transit results from my location to Indiana dunes State Park. Both include a first step of driving to public transit and a last step of taking a lift from public transit

Screenshot of Google maps directions showing an instruction to "drive a car 24 minutes (8.1mi)" in order to get to the Chicago bus station downtown, and then to take a bus before ordering a rideshare vehicle for the final leg of the suggested trip

Screenshot of Google maps directions showing an instruction to "drive a car 7 minutes (1.2mi)" in order to get to the train station in the neighborhood

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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Do we think if I call the cops and say there are a lot of cars parked on the grass in front of the sign that says "no parking on walks and lawns violators will be ticketed and towed" that the cops will come ticket themselves? Anyway, fyi there's a cop takeover at the Point tonight

Handful of Chicago Police Department cruisers with lights on parked on a grassy field directly behind a red sign that says:
NO PARKING
ON WALKS AND LAWNS
VIOLATORS WILL BE TICKETED & TOWED

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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

First time actually getting to use this!

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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Are you kidding me?? Lake forever, radiant MSI for now

Sunset over the lake -- the sky is light blue with a crescent moon, and there are streaks of peach and mauve at the horizon and above a domed building with a bulky tower to its side. The colors are reflected in the lake and the foreground, and there are large rocks at the water's edge

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

By Natalie Moore. It’s great to see a story like this with a South Side focus.

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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The Trib is a northsider and the Sun Times is a southsider. I'm not sure why or how, but this has been my gut feeling my entire life. Maybe bc of associations with Trib/Cubs and CST/Sox?

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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Why have their been 8 (! pretty sure, might be +/-1) ORD-bound Blue Line trains that have stopped at Logan Square in the 12mins I've been waiting for a loop-bound one??

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Stephanie Lulay @slulay2.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

📢 JOB ALERT: @blockclubchi.bsky.social is teaming w/ @thetrace.org to hire a reporter focused on gun violence in Chicago. By combining the Trace's expertise + BC's neighborhood approach, this reporter will be positioned to land stories that drive change. Apply: blockclubchicago.org/the-trace-is...

blockclubchicago.org

The Trace Is Hiring: Staff Writer On Gun Violence In Chicago

The Trace, in partnership with Block Club Chicago, is looking for a full-time staff writer to cover the impact of gun violence on Chicago’s neighborhoods. The staff writer in this role, which is funde...

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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Free 3-month companion pass promo from @southwestair-inc.bsky.social currently. Their business model must not be doing well to give this away... Except can't figure out how to link to it?

Screenshot of details about free 3-month companion pass promotion

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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Is 6 SB from balbo fine or will it suck bc lolla? (Should I aim for metra if timing is even remotely close?)

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Janne K. Flisrand @jannefrommpls.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I hope cities like #Zürich who are just starting to build bikeways follow Copenhagen's lead and plan bike spaces scaled for future demand. This one gives 2/3 of the space to people riding and walking and 1/3 to drivers. There's 20 people biking or walking for each car on this bridge.

A wide concrete bridge over train tracks. On the left there is one lane in each direction for cars and trucks, then a barrier. On the right are biking lanes in each direction - both wider than either of the car lanes - and then an ample sidewalk before the far right has countless bike parking spots. Two cars are on the bridge. Roughly 40 people are walking or biking on the bridge.

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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Lolla is so disruptive that I can hear the bass and see the flashes from stage light displays from ~5 miles away

Lit-up Chicago skyline at night. There are big rocks in the foreground, and the lake between the rocks and the skyline. The sky is mostly dark

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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Retractable gate is stuck in the open position, and this time I am not able to get it to budge :(

A yellow gate roller back from its enclosure, leaving a large open section of pavement large enough for a vehicle to pass through. The opening is adjacent to a large road with many cars

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Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

If you are in Hyde Park #Chicago please remember that there are two Love Fridge locations at Augustana Lutheran and Rodfei Zedek. Get food if you need it. Leave food if you can. Neighbors need neighbors. Please check the guidelines www.thelovefridge.com/guidelines

Screenshot of the map. One is at 55th west of Woodlawn and the other is at 5200 South Hyde Park Blvd.

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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I HATE honey locust worm season

Tiny worm dangling curled near the center of the frame. The background (a door + door ell system for apartment) are in the background in soft focus

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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Why did someone think this setup was an appropriate way to water *either* the condo landscaping *or* the parkway grass?

Sidewalk with a building + landscaping on the left and parkway grass + trees between sidewalk and street. In the middle of the sidewalk is an oscillating sprinkler (turned on) and a hose spread across the sidewalk. The sidewalk is completely wet for several panels

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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Same shot, different day (1/30/21 vs today)

Black-and-white seeming (but not!) photo of a landscape scene with leafless trees and a bridge with a pond. The ground is covered in snow and the sky is white

Vibrant landscape photo of a garden with wood bridge and pond and large landscaping rocks. The sky is bright blue and the fully leafed trees are a variety of shades of green

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Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Has anyone ever seen this before?? I have not! The shadow of the lit-up Prudential building antenna is visible on the clouds *above* the building! And the building lights are reflected above off the clouds too!

A tall building with half (vertically) of the windows lit up in blue, and the other half of the building lit up in red. I talked the building is a tall antenna lit up and bright white. It is night and the sky is overcast/gray. Directly above the building, on the clouds, there are four halo'd shadows of the building's lit up antenna. In the middle of a shadows is a spot of blue light next to a spot of red light, reflected off the building's lights

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