urbanist lincoln park trixie @urbanistbarbie.bsky.social · 3hAt the city council meeting about the Amtrak facility. John Daley spoke opposed 1111
urbanist lincoln park trixie @urbanistbarbie.bsky.social · 7hWinnipeg-Churchill is as fascinating as expected 030
Reposted by urbanist lincoln park trixieSierra Club Chicago @sierraclubchicago.bsky.social · 22hSierra Club is proud to support Shape Oak Park, a bold new plan to end single-family-only zoning and add environmentally-friendly, gentle housing density near transit Here are five reasons why: 312217
Reposted by urbanist lincoln park trixieViktor Köves @viktorkoves.com · 06/10/2026Some good urbanism news, and I love that survey responses mention not only traffic and safety, but also the opportunity for housing! “I’m having a hard time understanding the need... Expanding a parking lot is a terrible use of land, especially during the housing shortage we’re in.”blockclubchicago.orgCubs' Wrigleyville Parking Lot Expansion Rejected By Ald. LawsonA survey of Lakeview neighbors found overwhelming opposition to adding nearly 260 parking spaces near Wrigley Field. 57119
Reposted by urbanist lincoln park trixieDonald @rabbitoh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Chicago is a magnet that pulls in people from hundreds of miles around because those places failed to care for them. There are many causes but the result is real. When we say to shut the fuck up about Chicago (you don’t even live here!) this is what we mean. @harebrained.bsky.social 18723
urbanist lincoln park trixie @urbanistbarbie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026club penguin therapy session? 021
urbanist lincoln park trixie @urbanistbarbie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026i am once again saying illinois has way too many municipalities 1101
urbanist lincoln park trixie @urbanistbarbie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026searching the bib numbers of all the random ppl from college who ran races this weekend and realizing i'm faster than all of them 😈 230
urbanist lincoln park trixie @urbanistbarbie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026going to gold coast hits hardest between the months of october and december 010
Reposted by urbanist lincoln park trixiederek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 03/10/2026What awful, awful news. 172229153
Reposted by urbanist lincoln park trixieLynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Written by my friend Ruth, sharing her experience on Archer Avenue at night.ruthrosas.substack.comI Was Stabbed on Archer AvenueThe urban failures of a global superpower 4378
Reposted by urbanist lincoln park trixielumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Hi I'm allegedly a pollster and I'm texting you the sketchiest looking URL you've ever seen! 4395
Reposted by urbanist lincoln park trixieStar:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I figured out how suburbanites could avoid a parking surcharge 719121
Reposted by urbanist lincoln park trixieBike Lane Uprising @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social · 01/10/2026We can't do any more bike light giveaways until we get more bike lights funded. The days are getting shorter. Help us give bike lights to folks who need them. www.bikelaneuprising.com/bikelightgiv... 0103
Reposted by urbanist lincoln park trixieBUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026it is now Goldy's month 1130559
Reposted by urbanist lincoln park trixieEmily Hugan @changeurbanlife.bsky.social · 01/10/2026That is just not true. The numbers: median house 1500 sqft in 1960s -> 2200 sqft in 2000s. They are ALSO more likely to have a dining room! 46.9% 1960s -> 50.6% 2000s. 3595
Reposted by urbanist lincoln park trixieEmily Hugan @changeurbanlife.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Saw a comment on research why people aren't hosting friends for dinner anymore vs the 1970s. The commentator said the researcher should consider how people can't afford larger houses that have a dining room. 36411
urbanist lincoln park trixie @urbanistbarbie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026wtf is with the huge ass jet that just flew low over downtown 010
Reposted by urbanist lincoln park trixieMetropolitan Abundance Project @metroabundance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026New research from @pewresearch.org: a 20% rent drop (what Austin and Minneapolis achieved through zoning reform) would reduce poverty by up to 26% and child poverty by up to 38%. Housing supply is an anti-poverty policy. www.pew.org/en/research-...pew.orgThe Housing Shortage Is a Major Driver of PovertyHousing costs are usually the largest item in a household’s budget and can determine a family’s financial stability. 1319
urbanist lincoln park trixie @urbanistbarbie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026this is cruel and unusual punishment. 0120
Reposted by urbanist lincoln park trixieMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026abolish the death penalty 383149521
urbanist lincoln park trixie @urbanistbarbie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Happy Transportation Policy Failure Thursday! 0150
urbanist lincoln park trixie @urbanistbarbie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026reconsidering not dropping the $ on compression boots right now 010
urbanist lincoln park trixie @urbanistbarbie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026i think i might want to be done with half marathon until i think i can comfortably get sub-2. that was A Lot™ and i'm glad i did it but my knees and this giant foot blister disagree 150
Reposted by urbanist lincoln park trixieJake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Did you know: cities used to have balloons that would just follow children to school, until General Motors bought all the balloons and scrapped them 1532639
Reposted by urbanist lincoln park trixieBlock Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Nearly 100 mourners gathered Saturday to remember Juan Martin Márquez, who was killed in a hit-and-run while riding his bike in Garfield Ridge earlier this month. buff.ly/o3FmBng 05015
Reposted by urbanist lincoln park trixieMichelle @michelle345.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Wells St, probably the second most used bikeway to the Loop, 7:15 AM I was one of six people waiting at the lights Imagine how even more people would ride in Chicago if given more protection from cars #bikeCHI 6687
Reposted by urbanist lincoln park trixieLake. Big Lake. @lakebiglake.bsky.social · 23/09/2026When the bike lane is constantly blocked, it’s not a bike lane. Cars drivers have endless rationalizations which all boil down to “Blocking the bike lane was convenient for me, and I’m more important than bike riders because I have a car.” #BikeChi @bikegridnow.org @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social 1235
urbanist lincoln park trixie @urbanistbarbie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Archer is a death trap. We need safe routes to bike out southwest! 1131
Reposted by urbanist lincoln park trixieChicago 🏳️⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 22/09/2026a system where alders can just do this to people is a very stupid system. 2286
Reposted by urbanist lincoln park trixieProtect Bridgeport Bicyclists @stevevance.net · 20/09/2026eek...in the last 12 months, 50% of new housing permits in Chicago were approved in 85 days (or less) gotta get those numbers /down/ 4194
urbanist lincoln park trixie @urbanistbarbie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026telling transphobic street preachers that god is a they/them bitch 💅 030
Reposted by urbanist lincoln park trixiestevie. @steviemoraa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026“if you are not from here, you don’t belong here. you’re the reason i can’t find affordable housing. go back to where you came from.” when republicans say this stuff we call them xenophobic bigots, but increasingly i’m seeing this stuff from people in major cities and i find it a little alarming! 1264
Reposted by urbanist lincoln park trixiePacific Antifascist Research Collective @pacantifa.is · 21/09/2026Meet ICE agent Steve Rivas, of Chicago, IL. Rivas is one of the agents who brutalized the U.S. citizen in Evanston yesterday. Rivas has been involved in multiple questionable use of force incidents in Illinois and Minnesota. Rivas and his wife have been active in the local Chicago swingers scene. 10412249
Reposted by urbanist lincoln park trixiePannier Peter 🚲 @peter.dev · 21/09/2026I genuinely think some people's last memory of being a pedestrian is from being a toddler. Mommy told me I had to STOP and look both ways, pedestrians must stop! 1283
Reposted by urbanist lincoln park trixieillumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I never expected the water-guzzling data centers to guzzle my water 0469
urbanist lincoln park trixie @urbanistbarbie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026anyone know of a saddle library or other resource for finding the best bike saddle for you in chicago? bike fitter gave me a name but it's in milwaukee 😭 031
Reposted by urbanist lincoln park trixieTGS @lilybeansdad.bsky.social · 18/09/2026love this comparison between my two cities… go Toronto! Chicago Alders could learn a thing or two from their Canadian counterparts 162
Reposted by urbanist lincoln park trixieSteven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 18/09/20266 lanes for cars, a comfortable median, right outside of a school. But no room for a bike lane. 2447
urbanist lincoln park trixie @urbanistbarbie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026tired of being told that i need to be quieter 010
urbanist lincoln park trixie @urbanistbarbie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026my special interests include hockey and whales 010
Reposted by urbanist lincoln park trixieLevi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I got one of these a couple of years ago and it cannot be overstated how brightly it shines. If there is any light at all, it pops. I feel significantly safer when I wear it. 1133
urbanist lincoln park trixie @urbanistbarbie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Someone was living in this bus stop for several months and according to the city that means no one gets a place to sit now 040
urbanist lincoln park trixie @urbanistbarbie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026so many people talking about needing more "family housing" really only mean 3-4 bedroom housing for wealthy two parent households on the north side 140
Reposted by urbanist lincoln park trixieRosie @rozphy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026PSA the good folks at Igor’s Bike Shack (the LFT location, not the storefront) are unloading some e-bikes at deep discounts this week 055
![MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - JANUARY 13: A federal agent [Steve Rivas] exits his car on January 13, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Trump administration has deployed over 2,400 Department of Homeland Security agents to the state of Minnesota in a push to apprehend undocumented immigrants. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v4suqsx5woxqrcmca545wzuq/bafkreigmt3fyv55a4hckgjmg34psb4q3fx464w3c7pnptjz5epsw6klz6m)
