iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Chicago Tree

Jennifer Messner @occasionallyzen.bsky.social · 3h

Hello, October

092

Reposted by Chicago Tree

Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 2h

Can we stop cutting down huge old trees every year? As storms are getting stronger and more frequent, Chicago is losing its mature tree canopy at an alarming rate. Just get a really baller fake tree and put this tradition to bed.

blockclubchicago.org

Search Is On For Chicago's Official Christmas Tree

Chicagoans can submit nominations online through Oct. 23. Norway spruce and fir trees and trees within 15 miles of the city are preferred.

2254

Reposted by Chicago Tree

organicgay.bsky.social @organicgay.bsky.social · 10h

Sugar maple offering up some beauty.

0172

Reposted by Chicago Tree

Eric Allix Rogers @ericallixrogers.com · 10h

TREE

0273

Reposted by Chicago Tree

myurbanlife.bsky.social @myurbanlife.bsky.social · 10h

Locust trees by bathroom at Loyola beach is a hot bed of yellow rumped warblers #birding

001

Reposted by Chicago Tree

Scott @skh80.bsky.social · 10h

Get festivals out of parks. Rinse and repeat every single year: 1. Festival destroys park 2. City has to fix the park 3. Park never improves and citizens can't use the park for a month or more every summer.

152

Reposted by Chicago Tree

ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social · 14h

Here is a nice mosaic wall

Three panel wall mosaic tile of Lake Michigan on the exterior of an Evanston grade school below a leafy branch of an old tree.

216426

Reposted by Chicago Tree

Andrew Hipp @andrewlhipp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Spider time... @mortonarboretum.bsky.social this morning

1185

Reposted by Chicago Tree

a matt @thrillhowse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

still there

0222

Reposted by Chicago Tree

Andrew Morkes @naturechicagoland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

15 seconds of native prairie bliss at Winding Creek Conservation Area in McHenry County. Look for my story about this great nature spot tomorrow. #nativeplants #prairies #illinois

074

Reposted by Chicago Tree

Ayesha T Qazi-Lampert @ayeshaqazilampert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A huge shoutout to our students spending the entire class outdoors in the steady rain & muddy conditions, carefully cutting down buckthorn & planting native perennial species plugs from IL’s largest native plant nursery today 🪏🌱 Climate action & conservation work is healing 🌎✨

Two photos stitched together, top and bottom, capturing students planting native perennial plant plugs while wearing rain ponchos and garden gloves

192

Reposted by Chicago Tree

Eric Allix Rogers @ericallixrogers.com · 01/10/2026

Same shot different day

Photo taken at night time. Looking out over railroad tracks leading towards the tall illuminated buildings of the Chicago skyline under a glowing sky.

5596

Reposted by Chicago Tree

Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We needed this gloom

1346

Reposted by Chicago Tree

Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Problems for now lake forever

Stone council circle, leaves, grey lake, grey sky, shadowy water intake station

0395

Reposted by Chicago Tree

cafenitz.bsky.social @cafenitz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ahhhhh. Grand Traverse Bay, MI.

081

Reposted by Chicago Tree

Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 30/09/2026

Moonrise over the South Loop.

A nighttime photo of Chicago’s South Loop with skyscrapers with a bright moon (90%) rising over the city. Thin, hazy clouds soften the light creating a halo around the moon

15611

Reposted by Chicago Tree

Dave Dolkart @daved1973.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Japanese Island | Chicago Botanic Garden | September 2026

031

Reposted by Chicago Tree

BJ @ltz.fyi · 29/09/2026

Today outside WGN. #fall #chicago

Autumn trees with vibrant red, orange, and yellow foliage line a sunny street beneath a clear blue sky.

0122

Reposted by Chicago Tree

lunarshocked.bsky.social @lunarshocked.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My hood puts in work buttttt Rogers Park outdoes us i cant lie #chicago

061

Reposted by Chicago Tree

Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Signed copies of THE LANGUAGE OF TREES (Special Edition) now available at Exile in Bookville. If you’re in Chicago, lucky you! What a great bookstore. I signed until my pen ran dry 🌿 #IndieBookstore #NatureWriting #Chicago #LongCovid #BookTour #Trees

Photo of me with Javier Ramirez in his bookstore, Exile in Bookville in Chicago. We’re surrounded by shelves of books, floor to ceiling. Lots of handwritten book recommendations stick out from the shelves below favorite books. I’m wearing a black face mask and white t shirt. Javier’s wearing a black Sonic Youth tshirt with Kim Gordon rocking in stripes. We’re both holding copies of the new special edition of my book, The Language of Trees: How Trees Made Our World, Change Our Minds, and Rewild Our Lives by Katie Holten.

Selfie! Katie Holten and Javier Ramirez smiling with a signed copy of Katie’s book The Language of Trees, special edition with gold embossed forest on the cover. Katie wears black face mask.

Photo of katie holten signing books at Exile in Bookville in Chicago. A long table piled with display of The Language of Trees.

Screen grab from a video, showing piles of books on a table. Gold forest of trees and roots flows on the cover. A red rope behind, adds a sense of luxury and special occasion.

Published by Tim House | Zando. This is a tree book unlike any other.

022

Reposted by Chicago Tree

Trees and Tranquility @immersedinnature.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wandering about Morton Arboretum and delighted to see these lovelies just hanging out, all friendly like! 😁 #mushrooms #fungi #forest #nature #naturephotography

0112

Reposted by Chicago Tree

r o n y t h e b i k e c z a r @ronythebikeczar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh it feels so good to ride in a fresh concert protected bike lane and breeeeze past traffic

324814

Reposted by Chicago Tree

John Lechner @johnlechner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A successful walk today 🍂

Photo of a hand holding seven maple leaves, ranging in color from red to yellow.

37711

Reposted by Chicago Tree

Ryan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 30/09/2026

loooootts of people out at da lake still

photo taken from the lakeshore trail of people out running and biking

1272

Reposted by Chicago Tree

A. Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Park District putting up this barricade instead of fixing the huge fucking pothole on the Lakefront Trail caused me to wipe out at full speed trying to get back on the path after being forced onto the lawn.

3261

Reposted by Chicago Tree

Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you are so inclined

1101

Reposted by Chicago Tree

Steph @hollygl11.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

At the hospital for my treatment today. I always try to make the folks who attend to me laugh. Nurse (asking the usual questions): “Do you use nicotine, alcohol, or recreational drugs?” Me: “It’s not 1987, so we’re good.” Mission accomplished. 😁 (Chicago skyline still breathtaking from here)

View through a window of the Chicago skyline far off in the distance. There is a large grey building to the left, and a smaller brick building in the lower right foreground. There are trees surrounding the brick building.

071

Reposted by Chicago Tree

Eric Allix Rogers @ericallixrogers.com · 29/09/2026

I lived, bitches.

Selfie of me riding my bike on a path through some trees.

71265

Reposted by Chicago Tree

gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

requested a street sign here via CHI311 app and glad to see it was installed — this is the only and final block of Randolph Street west of Ogden Avenue, an unusual layout that’s existed since the area was platted, due to Lake Street’s angle

031

Reposted by Chicago Tree

Stephen Boisvert 🇨🇦 🟦⭐⭐⭐⭐🟦 @srboisvert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My OG crow friend, Swoops, came to visit me to collect his peanuts during my walk back from my morning run . I can tell it is him because he is the only crow I know that will fit three unshelled peanuts in his beak. We've been friends now for at least 8 years. I hadn't seen him in a while...

Swoops, the American Crow, on the sidewalk with three unshelled peanuts in his beak. (one is partway down his throat and the other two are perpendicular)

0303

Reposted by Chicago Tree

Eric Allix Rogers @ericallixrogers.com · 29/09/2026

Same shot different day

Photo looking out over railroad tracks leading toward the tall buildings of the Chicago skyline under a blue sky.

0212

Reposted by Chicago Tree

Lakeshore Drive Slut @shredded-teat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

last year they had 4 rounds of babies starting in ~july. this is their first of 2026. it is already very good at making cardinal sounds

a fledgling cardinal in a tree, looks like a gray blob

1131

Reposted by Chicago Tree

Tucker @tjchc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Good morning from Lawrence ave omg Chicagooooooo 🥰

North branch of the Chicago river as the sun is coming up. Blue sky, no clouds, calm water, green trees, a little bird. I mean what else could you want

0112

Reposted by Chicago Tree

Chicago in Pop Culture @chicagopopculture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Chicago Bears program (1930)

1930 Chicago Bears football program cover featuring a blue bear bursting through a large gold football, flanked by two small uniformed figures. Red and blue lettering reads “Official Program,” “1930,” “Chicago Bears Football Club Inc.,” “Wrigley Field,” and “Price 10¢,” framed by a wavy red-and-blue border.

0163

Reposted by Chicago Tree

TomTom @tomtomchi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The vibes at Montrose earlier today were immaculate. Urbs-in-horto-maxxing.

Apartment towers beyond a green and yellow prairie

Chicago skyline and Lake Michigan from Montrose pier

1601

Reposted by Chicago Tree

Bob Dolgan @twibchicago.com · 29/09/2026

Yard birding.

0153

Reposted by Chicago Tree

chigeek.bsky.social @chigeek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Looking back to when Chicago’s Streeterville was full of parking lots like this one at Huron & St. Claire, September 1972.

Looking at a parking lot - Huron and St. Claire in Chicago’s Steeterville, September 1972 (photo: Mart Studios)

1232

Reposted by Chicago Tree

Gloria @rideintothesunset.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The chicken buffet is open now.

Large Chicken of the Woods mushrooms brighten up a fallen tree in Shawnee National Forest, southern Illinois. September 26, 2026. Green tree leaves are starting to change color.

614711

Reposted by Chicago Tree

#1 Babe: Pig in the City Fan @piginthecityfan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

taking photos in Chicago is just taking photos on easy mode, it's hard to take an uninteresting photo even if you try

obscured view of downtown from Lincoln Park Lagoon

elakethelakethelakethelakethelakethelaketh

0144

Reposted by Chicago Tree

Balu Puppy @balupuppy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Biked by the nearly $1,000,000,000 behemoth: the still under construction Ryan field. JFC. Exterior ugly AF. And northwestern Univ ocean side campus/city MUP is 👍👍👍👍. #TheChicagoOcean

Photo with Chicago skyline in the far background. Green trees and coastline on the right side. The Chicago ocean is central and left. Mostly blue skies, light fog looking at downtown.

082

Reposted by Chicago Tree

starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

what is the name of this ridiculously fragrant grass that apparently is all the rage in garden design right now

greenish yellow grass, maybe two feet high, near ish a small body of water

2133

Reposted by Chicago Tree

Stephen Boisvert 🇨🇦 🟦⭐⭐⭐⭐🟦 @srboisvert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The agony of defeat. Great opportunity. Wrong settings. Arrrgh! I was in point focus from trying to shoot flycatchers in the meadow amongst tall plants.

Two out of focus Coopers Hawks chasing each other. They are both bank showing the full undersides with wing wide and tails flared.

1111