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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

DPD has released an RFP for modern courtyard buildings on city land! www.chicago.gov/city/en/site...

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Municipal Corporation @nikhunder.com · 30/09/2026

What's new/changing in the 2028-2032 Divvy contract? - City will collect at least $40M in system revenue (charges at 10% through $40M, 7% for 40-60M, and 5% above $60M) - 4,000 new pillar docs (the newer ones) in the core area for infill (see image) - city gets approval of advertisements

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Come work with me! Impact for Equity is hiring Polikoff-Gautreaux fellows, a two-year fellowship program for people who have (or will have) graduated law or policy school in the last five years: impactforequity.org/get-involved...

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Fellowships | Impact for Equity

Impact for Equity works with other organizations to offer fellowships and opportunities to post graduate students and individuals interested in change.

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joeengleman.bsky.social @joeengleman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you envision three principles of municipal housing policy, as @danielkayhertz.bsky.social described in the piece I did recently, those things are tenant protections, loosening zoning, & using public funds & legal tools to preserve & create affordable units. 1/ chicagoreader.com/books/book-r...

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Fighting for housing after The Battle of Lincoln Park - Chicago Reader

Late last month, Belt Publishing released a new edition of The Battle of Lincoln Park with archival maps and photographs.

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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Back to school has been good for ridership! Booming since kids went back. Weekend is at 100% and bus is 95% of prepandemic levels. Frequent bus network is kicking ass in improving ridership

Powerpoint slide says ridership has been building through the summer. The three highest ridership days since covid have been just this August of 2026, on the 26th, 27th & 28th.

Powerpoint slide says weekday ridership regularly exceeds 1.2 million rides. Green chart on the left shows ridership is still highest monday through friday, but in terms of recovering from covid weekends are in 90s to 100%

Powerpoint slide says frequent bus network ridership is following service investments. Over the past two years, the frequent bus network routes have seen a 21% increase in ridership, while non frequent buses have only increased 11%

Powerpoint slide says red-purple modernization project supporting ridership growth. The stations in the RPM project area added 1.1 million additional net rides during the 12 months following the station reopenings. These stations combined were worth about 1 out 5 all added rail rides in July 2026. Stations showed 26% growth YOY compared to 6% rail system overall.

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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

CTA good news: Ridership at 84% of pre-pandemic levels Regularly hitting 1.2 million rides a day Safety metrics - robberies down 45%, major crimes down 30%, violent crimes down 30% New safe rides specialists in Purple Vests coming soon to help crisis intervention & community needs

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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Director Alvarez asks what you'd do if you could do something bold to improve transit? CTA answers dedicated bus lanes, we're way behind our peer municipalities. A bold goal of 100-150 miles of dedicated lanes would be transformative. Ridership #s showing people want to ride the bus! 🚌👏

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ADU applications under the original 2020 ordinance and the 2026 expansion (shaded areas are ADU-eligible)

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joeengleman.bsky.social @joeengleman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Come for The Battle of Lincoln Park, stay for the bureaucratic wisdom from @danielkayhertz.bsky.social: “If you & your friends had to implement and enforce new legislation w/ just a Microsoft 365 subscription, how would you do it?” My latest for @chicagoreader.com chicagoreader.com/books/book-r...

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Fighting for housing after The Battle of Lincoln Park - Chicago Reader

Late last month, Belt Publishing released a new edition of The Battle of Lincoln Park with archival maps and photographs.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

As a person currently paying (through my HOA) for all-metal pipe replacements, this is relevant to my interests

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CTA Bus Insights @ctabusinsights.chicagotransitalerts.app · 19/09/2026

Route 12 (Roosevelt) — Westbound 10 minutes later, the gap had closed by 105 ft. 🎬 287 ft → 182 ft

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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 18/09/2026

After we dropped our kid off at daycare this morning we stopped by the local coffee shop and two dads sitting next to me were talking about how they just did their first bike bus with their kids. Becoming more and more common! This is how we win.

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It’s come to my attention that some of you are upset I did not articulate a comprehensive theory of political economy in this post. I apologize and pledge to do better next time

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joeengleman.bsky.social @joeengleman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Last month, @beltpublishing.bsky.social reissued @danielkayhertz.bsky.social's book, The Battle of Lincoln Park so I spoke with Daniel about how writing housing history informed his work for Chicago's Housing Department & his current housing research & advocacy work w/ @impactforequity.bsky.social

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/09/2026

We really can't let ourselves get accustomed to this. He's telling the people of NC that he's going to let them die if they don't vote how he wants.

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Sometimes you’ll see bill amendments that impact the fate of like billions of dollars in investment and the lives of thousands of people and the details are decided by like, two guys over cocktails.

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Your 20s are for believing everything is structural and your 30s are for learning that actually it's often just some guy or small group of guys (gender neutral)

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Is anyone doing this for municipal/state/governmental data anywhere??

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A real idea that someone should fund, or just volunteer and do: Governmental pdf freeing via LLM tools. From personal experience, there is oodles of data that public sector agencies have but can't act on because it's locked in a million pdfs (or poorly formatted excels).

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David Powe @davidpowe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Did you know Chicago Municipal Code requires daylighting at intersections? Keeping vehicles back from crosswalks helps everyone see and be seen. The principle is already in City code. But it's also important to look at how street design can make that protection physical, visible & self-enforcing.

Street view of a Chicago intersection at Adams Street, showing marked crosswalks and a corner building. Yellow arrows illustrate existing daylighting requirements, with 20 feet of clear space on one approach and 30 feet on the other to keep parked vehicles away from the intersection and improve visibility.

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

whoa I didn't even know you could do this. Amazing

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Does anyone know what proportion of new buildings in Chicago are electric v natural gas for heat etc?

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 14/09/2026

Appreciate them taking this stand. The more the better. bsky.app/profile/texa...

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Michelle @michelle345.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Want to get angry about CTA ghost buses on the regular? Follow @ctabusinsights.chicagotransitalerts.app

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Waited 15 minutes for a 92 bus that was supposed to come in 6 and now the countdown says 28 minutes

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

PRO is good and council should pass it but this (“no new protections in the last 40 years”) is a weird and false thing to say

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Taylor Rule @taylorrule.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Chicago is the glaring exception to that NYT article from a couple years ago about how new build apartments look the same everywhere in the country. Every new mid rise building in Chicago could only be from Chicago

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Every Lot Chicago @everylotchicago.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

W Flournoy Street

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Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Go out, check out the station signage pilot, have a nice meal at one of the restaurants nearby or shop at the rail & aviation memorabilia & model store (that is confusingly named after a different Metra station more than 3 miles away). Then fill out this survey. www.surveymonkey.com/r/9NMKTMB

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Edgebrook Metra Station Signage

Take this survey to provide your input on the new Edgebrook signage.

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

More five story infill on my walk home

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

1997 aerial of downtown Chicago from a Bulls broadcast on YouTube

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Guerrilla Press @guerrillapress.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

40th Ward Alderman Andre Vasquez comments on rising rents and the lack of affordable housing in Chicago. His full interview is available on the Guerrilla Press YouTube channel and podcast feed. Subscribe! #AffordableHousing #Chicago #40thWard #Affordability #Housing

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In the last decade, development on land zoned for multifamily residential has gone from 2/3 single family to 7/8 multifamily daniel-kay-hertz.ghost.io/the-2019-bui...

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In the last decade, development on land zoned for multifamily residential has gone from 2/3 single family to 7/8 multifamily daniel-kay-hertz.ghost.io/the-2019-bui...

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The 2019 Chicago building code not only unleashed five-story infill, it seems to have pushed three-flat construction to the South and West Sides daniel-kay-hertz.ghost.io/the-2019-bui...

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The 2019 Chicago building code not only unleashed five-story infill, it seems to have pushed three-flat construction to the South and West Sides daniel-kay-hertz.ghost.io/the-2019-bui...

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A Tower Grows In Brooklyn @theforestpark.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is a really big deal and should be celebrated.

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

An extremely niche fun fact: DuPage County has zero Faircloth availability...because it had no Section 9 public housing units at all on October 1, 1999

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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The whole 'Abundance' discourse was weird, because for a while, it seemed to be everywhere, but it was clear that a lot of the people who either loved it or hated it had...not read the book? The book was a real mixed-bag. At this point, it seems unlikely it will have much lasting influence?

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

#293: Georg Rasch, Church of Reconciliation (Versöhnungskirche), Cologne-Holweide, 1965

A church built of gray brick. On the right is the rectangular church building with a dark wood canopy at the entrance. On the left is a square, tall church tower. The whole complex is separated from the street by a human-high gray brick wall. Photo by Raimond Spekking via Wikimedia Commons.

The interior of the church, with blank walls of white/gray brick. There are two rows of rustic wooden pews and a simple, flat stone altar. The floor is of stone, seemingly inlaid; on the far right is an organ mezzanine. The ceiling is of wood. Photo by Niklas Baumberger/Thomas Ahrendt via Evangelisch in Köln Dellbrück | Holweide, https://evangelisch-in-koeln-dellbrueck-holweide.de/versoehnungskirche-3/

A photo of a wooden organ against a white brick wall under a wooden ceiling that appears to have square coffers. Photo by Niklas Baumberger/Thomas Ahrendt via Evangelisch in Köln Dellbrück | Holweide, https://evangelisch-in-koeln-dellbrueck-holweide.de/versoehnungskirche-3/

Another exterior view, showing the tower. Photo by Niklas Baumberger/Thomas Ahrendt via Evangelisch in Köln Dellbrück | Holweide, https://evangelisch-in-koeln-dellbrueck-holweide.de/versoehnungskirche-3/

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Jimmy (not one of those) Rothschild(s) @alsomuchcattle.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The guy in the suit and boater hat has his sign deftly turned away from the camera because it was a cartoon of a guy with a huge nose surrounded by dollar signs giving the synagogue to a racist caricature of Ald Manaa-Hoppenworth

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

NYC housing knowers: Do projects financed by the Acquisition Fund *always* depend on takeout from HPD/HDC/etc?

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