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A glass brick design by Glick. Appropriate.

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The last one is the posterchild for "House Divided".

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I think this is the same building!

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Less parking, more fans - Evanston Now

They're not letting people park on the golf course anymore! "The Canal Shores Golf Course is no longer available. There are new parking restrictions in nearby residential neighborhoods. Adding those up, there will be 2,500 fewer spaces near the field this season."

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Getting to Ryan Field for sold-out opening game.

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Vision Zero Network @visionzeronet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Someone's opera needs a remix.

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A Missing Piece in Your Vision Zero Plan: Vehicle Safety

Many people assume that improving vehicle safety is out of locals’ control, but that’s not the case. Local and state agencies can influence the safety of vehicles on their streets in limited but impor...

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Encourage expansion into other micro-publishing formats with centralized hosting providers. Right now, webcomics are reeling.

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Dark Store Theory: How States are Addressing Retail Property Taxes - The Council of State Governments

Big-lot stores have also frequently argued that their properties are essentially worthless, for tax assessment benefits. The property tax loss drains small towns dry, while they pay for themunicipal infrastructure making those stores feasible.

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By Ishara Nanayakkara

Big-lot businesses try to appeal to highway users because they need a wider customer base. A Walmart will hollow out a town square, and then close citing lack of adequate customers. Then that town needs to drive to the next town's Walmart. It's risky economics for the town, regardless of bypass.

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Bypasses often give self-determinism to municipalities in Iowa, where the state's DOT severely curtails the ability to experiment on state roads with different economic strategies like street fairs and sidewalk cafes.

Winterset, Iowa, home to the bridges of Madison County, with a highway bypass around it's west and north ends.

Pella, Iowa, a historically dutch town that covered itself in fake-dutch facades, with a highway swinging widely south and west of the town proper.

Perry, Iowa, with a highway along the southern section of the town.

Fort Madison, Iowa, where the highway on the far eastern edge of town has a single intersection into town after the river bridge, and a highway in the far west doesn't come near the town.

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Bypasses aren't needed to suck commercial activity out of downtown. Keokuk, IA can't have a bypass because there's a difficult-to-relocate bridge at one end. The big-lot commercial still clusters at the municipal edge.

A google map view of Keokuk, Iowa, with a highway from northwest near a Walmart Supercenter through the town's commercial corridor to a bridge in the southeast over the Mississippi River.

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I think what will make this difficult it not the drivers angry about space, or the curbside drop-off zones, but the Millennium Parking Garages entrances and their binding contract.

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Editing the Blue-Gray Lady @nytdiff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

'Guevara, 80, now lives in Texas, and collects an annual pension of $91K. Since Guevara retired in 2005, he has been paid ~$1.5M from the police pension fund. Any attempt to revoke his pension is sure to fail, since he was not charged with criminal wrongdoing while a Chicago police officer.'

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Change in Headline

Before: America Used to Be Cool. What Happened?
After: Is American Culture Simply Bad Now?

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are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Make? No, Small Plans!

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Just in time for the APTA conference!

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Only south of the river, Roosevelt to Wacker.

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The legislature already handed them the lanes, they just have to vote to take them.

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Michelle @michelle345.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy bridge lift day to all who celebrate!

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“Aldermen are considering bifurcating parking meter prices by adding a surcharge for non-Chicagoans who park in the city, a move designed to raise revenue and promote public transit” 👀

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We could try a different process, but we'd need to do a put together an advisory group to design a pilot of that process before the full roll-out.

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The pedestrian refuge island on Ashland Avenue at the intersection where Marcela Herrera died in a hit-and-run is coming along nicely.

A pedestrian refuge island on Ashland Avenue at Cullerton, under construction with cones surrounding it.

A new concrete pedestrian bump-out at the southeast corner of Ashland and Cullerton

The pedestrian island construction, seen through a traffic sign with graffiti writing “SMAN” on it.

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They pay good money to lobby the state: maps.app.goo.gl/y6iGFYDoJJPd...

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The recommendation I should have made is the CNT map that includes mellow routes along with other routes:

Municipal Corporation @nikhunder.com · 29/09/2026

I forgot that this one combines the mellow map with the traditional bike lane map. Excellent recommendation!

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Tonight (9/29) at Clarendon Park from 5:30-7p. The Park District wants to create additional rules for e-bikes in its parks as allowed by the new micrmobility bill. I expect they may be tighter than the bill passed. Come tell them to leave e-bikes alone. www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/micromobilit...

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Micromobility in the Parks

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Interactive map: Precinct-level 2023 Chicago municipal results

I wouldn't call the black community the bedrock of support for his first-round mayoral campaign. Not having demographic voting data available, Lightfoot was the leader in Bronzeville, South Shore, Auburn Gresham, and even Austin. Johnson got that support to flip over to him in the runoff.

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Hear me out: maybe it's bad for Illinois business to give tax freebies to the Dick Wolf productions that make Chicago seem to the rest of the state/country like a lawless hellscape that's constantly on fire.

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It's a schoolbus and they know it.

And if you're able to pick it up from 5-7pm, they're consistently available on the leftovers app: www.toogoodtogo.com/en-us/find/c...

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311 Service Requests - Request Types | City of Chicago | Data Portal

I think the closest we have in the City Data Portal list is "Inspect Public Way Request". data.cityofchicago.org/Service-Requ...

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Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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The Ontario Government does municipal road design now apparently. "wants bidders to provide plans to “remove or relocate” islands, medians and gutters and “incorporate congestion relief measures at all major intersections to improve traffic flow, such as traffic signal adjustments"

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EXCLUSIVE: Inside the contract to rip out Toronto's bike lanes - Spacing Toronto

After the Ontario Court of Appeal (ONCA) shot down CycleTO’s legally innovative charter challenge that sought to stop Doug Ford’s attack on the city’s bike lanes, Queen’s Park wasted little time befor...

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