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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 12h

Not too hard, depends on what public data is available! This is built on the assessor‘s dataset

Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Also the lakefront is so gorgeous— an advantage over Chicago is the little ridge/ bluff that provides a bit of drama, plus no eight lane highway

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

In Milwaukee, the pedestrian density in the third ward is really impressive for a midsize city

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Wonder if the don’t have the same building code cliff at 6

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Yeah that’s fair, I think it hinges on how you interpret “technical”

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I do think we underestimate how much writing is neither a product of personal expression nor provides a vehicle for active thought on the part of the writer

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Like ethically? Or just mechanically?

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Best I’ve done so far 🏙️ Buildle — 2026-10-10 7,256 / 10,000 · 🔥0 🗺️ 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩 📅 ⬜🟩🟨🟨🟩 danielkayhertz.com/buildings

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Buildle — a daily game: guess a Chicago building's neighborhood and the year it was built.

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 09/10/2026

If a whole city is zoned for a single story aboveground but unlimited habitable volume below ground, would the correct response to somebody saying it sucks to live underground be, “well it’s better than nothing…the beauty of the market is you can choose not to live there”?? Even if the former is…

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There was a point when property taxes came up and a commissioner said “but that’s not what we’re here to talk about, lowering property taxes” and it was all I could do not to jump up and shout

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I love you, dad, happy birthday. gardeninacity.com/2023/04/07/r...

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They keep talking about starter homes as if those are plentiful in OP

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The room is nearly entirely white and the median age has got to be north of 65, which I know are not the village’s overall demographics!

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

At Oak Park’s plan commission meeting on its middle housing zoning reforms. Largest applause of the night for a commissioner’s question about how it will affect single family home values. Second largest on a comment about how Oak Park can’t afford to pay for subsidized housing.

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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Trump's HUD has turned its authoritarian gaze upon - of all targets - Wells Fargo, announcing an investigation of the bank on the *putative* basis that its special purpose credit programs may violate the FHA. What's missing? A lot! 1. Any discussion of... www.hud.gov/sites/defaul...

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yes, especially on the near west side, which is essentially entirely gone

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/10/2026

One thing about Copenhagen is that there's tons of dense housing but you *never* find it fronting a busy road with cars racing past, which describes about 90% of the apartments in the US. They manage to make it feel tucked away, private, cozy. (These are all from Sluseholmen, my dream neighborhood.)

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I mean 2/3 candidates have been credibly accused of abusing children, so

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I know I’m posting a lot about this but this is a real easy test of basic integrity and it’s not going well.

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I don’t want my daughter going to school system run by someone who had these kinds of notes written about him and decided legal threats and absurd deflections were how to handle it. How would he handle overseeing investigations into the same sorts of allegations?

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Did Michael Sacks also go back in time and pay Hilario Dominguez’s supervisor to write in an internal report that he had to be spoken to multiple times about how he treated young women/girls

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yes, I think I may add a year cutoff to avoid this issue

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Gonna add the ability to look around (but not move) from the streetview spot

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm also considering changing it so you can pivot the streetview (but not move), which should help with location

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's limited to small-scale residential, which maybe I should say explicitly, and stratifies the sample to get different eras. But yes that was a challenging one lol. One reason I like it is to knock the "come see the building" blinders off of me!

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

didn't do so hot on my own game 🏙️ Buildle — 2026-10-06 3,646 / 10,000 · 🔥0 🗺️ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 📅 🟨⬜🟩🟨🟨 danielkayhertz.com/buildings

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Agreed, which is why I’m glad there are so many YIMBY orgs pushing on both sides—in IL, AHIL endorsed tenant protections in PRO and has supported policies to create more income restricted housing. At least in Chicago, I think that’s more the norm than the exception among the urbanist set

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

YEEEEEESSSS, Shadowal blocks on the stairwell of 4124 N. California, ca. 1959

Color photo of a metal internal stairwell in an open corridor apartment building, taken at night. The wall along the stairwell is a bold pattern of large connected hexagons.

Color detail from wall in first pic. Gray-brown rectangular blocks with a trapezoid relief, laid to make stacks of hexagons.

Black and white ad for Shadowal by Utah Concrete Pipe Co.
Copy reads:
Shadowal THE CONCRETE MASONRY WITH 1,000 FACES. Recesses in the face of each Shadowal unit can be arranged in an almost limitless number of dramatic sculptured patterns. The true versatility of Shadowal concrete masonry is limited on by the imagination and ingenuity of the designer. Pics show blocks making hexagon, trapezoid, and diamond patterns.

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I am mad about how gorgeous this report is admin.centerforbuilding.org/wp-content/u...

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oh, so this week’s attempted legal intimidation of an underage girl’s accusation of sexual harassment wasn‘t a one off

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Who are people’s favorite graphic designers in Chicago

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What are good cafe-ish breakfast places in the Loop, especially central/south?

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Overall less than inspiring first board chair election

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh I have no defense at all of Henderson, I think it’s a scandal he hasn’t dropped out. I don’t know enough to make an affirmative case for anyone, but if it’s a scandal-off between fudging attendance numbers to keep funding v harassing underage girls…

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Why would we not believe Dominguez would also use the power of the office, if elected, to enhance his retaliation against young women?

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And notably when multiple young women complained that the recently-former CTU comms director/their supervisor was harassing them, those young women were also retaliated against, fired and placed on the city’s do not hire list for completely indefensible reasons

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The harassment was ten years ago, the statement trying to legally intimidate a reporter (and presumably the accuser) was this week

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Chicago ADU Bot @chiadupreapprovals.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

New ADU preapproved 1 ADU proposed for the property. Type: Conversion. Preapproved 9 days after submission. Data Portal Record

Chicago housing preapproval announcement. ADU apartment preapproved at 3078 N HAUSSEN CT, Chicago. Application 957276. City status: Pre-Certified. Requested: 1 additional home. Ward 31. Preapproval dated Oct 2, 2026. The city identifies a conversion within the existing building; it does not specify whether it is a garden, attic, or other apartment. Building permit still required. Preapproval does not mean construction is permitted or complete. Bold white lettering on black, Chicago flag blue accents and four red stars above Google Street View imagery returned for the project address. The street-facing image may predate the application and may not show the proposed unit or rear coach house. Data: City of Chicago. Unofficial community feed.

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mind-boggling - just mind-boggling Now expected to peak at an extraordinary 4.2C in December

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