Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 07/10/2025when your draft version of the street sign accidentally gets published 090
Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 26/09/2025Metra I love you but we have got to patch the two random 2 hour gaps in service on the UP-NW line. Missing a 9:35am OB and a 12:35pm OB. This is the crowding on the 1:35pm #629 from OTC. Truly SRO even with the refurb seats where people are more inclined to double up. 1120
Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 25/09/2025This is highly unscientific, but it's fascinating to come across a highway project in the burbs like this with a dollar amount that so closely parallels what Transit is asking for in Chicagoland. $800 million for 300,000 vehicles per day, or $771 million for 1 million NE IL transit riders per day? 2181
Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 18/09/2025this is hardly the most pressing matter facing Chicago, but it would be so cool if we had a top level domain ".chi" for the city 1284
Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 23/07/2025Happy 100th birthday to Chicago’s Union Station! 🥳 Even @govpritzker.illinois.gov made an appearance 0210
Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 20/07/2025Fill this out on their behalf: www.chicago.gov/city/en/site... 010
Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 23/06/2025good morning from Belleau Lake Forest Preserve in Des Plaines, Illinois 😌 0190
Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 21/06/2025Yesterday’s first annual Juneteenth parade in North Lawndale was magic on so many levels. 1281
Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 03/06/2025Rode the big bridge in MKE yesterday. Tell Wisconsin DOT to turn the highway ramps into a boulevard: www.794lakeinterchange.wisconsindot.gov 0243
Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 11/05/2025such an honor when to have a mural painted in your likeness 🥰 070
Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 01/05/2025is this what happens when you really shove your divvy into the dock without thanking it for its service? 4300
Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 20/04/2025I’ll wrap up this thread with a picture of Habitat 67, which I’ve adored for quite some time. When I visited in 2017, I was very fortunate to run into a resident who was excited to show me around their unit. 050
Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 20/04/2025Their list also introduced me to this wonderful church in Liverpool, England. 10/10 no notes. 110
Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 20/04/2025..Alexandra Road Estate in London which I recall learning about in Architecture History class in college, especially relation to urban renewal efforts to support urban density. 130
Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 20/04/2025The next location on their list is the Barbican Centre in London. I’m a bit surprised to see that ahead of another London example.. 110
Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 20/04/2025Although I haven’t been to the Marseille building, I have been to the Berlin outpost of the Unité movement. 110
Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 20/04/2025Probably the brutalist building of all brutalist buildings, “Unité d’Habitation in Marseilles, France, it means “housing unit” and reflects a lot of the social and political elements of the style. 220
Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 20/04/2025Oakland Museum of Art is included on their short list, which I’ve never heard of until reading the article. 210
Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 20/04/2025University of Illinois at Chicago’s “circle campus” on their list as well, and for good reason. For living in Chicago for so long, I’m surprised I don’t have a better photo of the Walter Netsch designed campus. 120
Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 20/04/2025..Salk Institute is not even one mile away from the Geisel library and by many estimations an even more iconic example of the movement. 120
Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 20/04/2025Theodore Geisel library is next on their list, which is named for the children’s book author “Dr Seuss”. My photo is from 2021. However, I’m a bit surprised they didn’t include the following building.. 130
Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 20/04/2025Boston City Hall from December 2016. Camera quality leaves something to be described, but the uplighting and the concrete are perfection. 100
Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 20/04/2025St John’s Abbey in Minnesota: I haven’t been here yet so this is the photo from the article. Can’t complain about this pick, it’s iconic. 130
Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 19/04/2025took my favorite train to the airport. blue line, count your days 2381
Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 05/04/2025Honestly one of the more high quality municipal flags out there. Celebrates their Dutch heritage with classic iconography. 2110
Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 02/04/2025Hands down the best April fools bit blockclubchicago.org/2025/04/01/g... 040
Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 20/03/2025“This tree was widely planted in the 1950s as a popular ornamental tree in the home landscape. Later cultivars could cross pollinate to produce seeds that birds brought to natural areas where the trees are now spreading.” extension.illinois.edu/invasives/in... 052
Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 20/03/2025it’s the first day of spring, so I’m sharing this pretty photo from the first day of spring 2024 taken in Carbondale, Illinois. The callery pear tree in the center is an invasive species in North America, known for its bright white buds and *ahem* unique scent (Google it if you need). 2152
Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 18/03/2025Festive St Patrick’s day buildings tonight along the river 0160
Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 08/03/2025Yeah i just found out while searching for the Chicago ones while in LA 110
Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 06/03/2025I’m not surprised but a bit dismayed that they both have their own drive thru’s wrapped around each other.. 140
Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 06/03/2025They got a new rainbow cone down in Flossmoor! Quite the architectural decorated shed. 2200
Matt ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @mattweiss.me · 03/03/2025Polish Fest at Hopewell brewing in Logan Square was very fun! In case you didn’t already know, nearly one third of all Polish immigrants in the US live in the Chicago area. 0111
