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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️

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Witness to subterranean Chicago. King of Lake Street. Guardian of the city’s oldest buildings. Telling a story of the unappreciated, unseen, unknown. MCMLXXXIV. All rights reserved.

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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 12h
Seasons Greetings, Michigan Avenue
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
the historic Irvine Presbyterian Church, built 1837 in a transitional Greek-Federal Style
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
spooky season has started
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Actress - Cyclo / DarkFuture (2020)
YouTube video by GXM
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Merge, Lower Wacker Drive
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
such a lovely rainy October day for Actress youtu.be/579cSYquVOY
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Actress - 88
YouTube video by vriel
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
today’s dentistry, yesterday’s signage
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What hurts? (deferred), Lower South Water Street
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
bascule and buoy, Wells Street
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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
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
always wondered why these street signs on Lake Street are hung up extremely high
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i hate gay Halloween, wdym you’re Dr. Nicki Brand from the CRAM Emotional Rescue Show
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I CAN’T SEE NOTHING
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
fall is here 🍂
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
cattle futures, Traders Self Park Garage
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Friday night, Hubbard Street
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New town every hour @townsusa.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
featuring hairy wiles
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
lol, getting downrated during a “quiet ride” for being too quiet
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Don't see how. Power can't even go through this part of the circuit. It's just... there. Like some schmo just stuck it in there.” — Lower Michigan Avenue
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
time for fall decorations this week 🧡🐿️🍁🎃
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Saturday night skyline with spotlight
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
54° early morning, I missed this so much
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Goethe Street twilight
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Demolition permit issued for this very old cross-gabled house in Old Norwood Park at 6818 W. Hobart Ave — 148 years old via county assessor, but could be older. Sold at $75,000 in 1989, $325k in 2001, and $475k this year. www.chicagocityscape.com/permit/10108... (permit via @chicagocityscape.com)
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Your daily Inland Empire screenshot @bluetomorrows.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Every Lot Chicago @everylotchicago.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
4753 West Madison Street
Google Streetview of the property with PIN10 1615100002: 4753 West Madison Street
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Known as the oldest continuous running hot dog stand in Chicago: Dave’s Red Hots, since 1938 — at 3422 West Roosevelt Road, built 1893
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
covered in spiderwebs, Upper Wabash Avenue
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9’ 11” — low clearance on Lower Michigan Avenue
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I’m going to be me
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
former Allstate Insurance Building, built 1949 it appears this is headed for demolition court on 12/9/2026
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Every Lot Chicago @everylotchicago.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
3333 West Arthington Street
Google Streetview of the property with PIN10 1614417008: 3333 West Arthington Street
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
above Astor Street
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
sunday morning reading
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I love it (so autumn-coded)
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
new piece for home display
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Final firework show at Navy Pier for the season tonight at 10pm 💥✨🌙
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
iykyk
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“can’t talk to a psycho like a normal human being” —Poe
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
bleeding out bitumen behind Hubbard Street
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Beauty Queen / Horses (2016 Remaster)
YouTube video by Tori Amos - Topic
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
3:48 am, “feels like 91°”
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Gold Coast view
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
a kind of overcast sherbet sky
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Every Lot Chicago @everylotchicago.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
3401 West Harrison Street
Google Streetview of the property with PIN10 1614401018: 3401 West Harrison Street
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
former Weinstein and Sons Funeral Home, built 1914
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Sauerbraten at The Berghoff for dinner, my favorite 😍🇩🇪🥩
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Patterson-McCormick Mansion at 20 E. Burton Place, built 1892 with 1921 addition by David Adler. The mansion, now divided into 9 condos, is clad in orange Roman brick, terra cotta trim, brown sandstone base & two-story gallery-style portico with doric and ionic columns and rectilinear corner piers.
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gabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Navy Pier fireworks from Columbus Drive
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