The Chicago Bench Collective @chicagobenchcollective.org Everyone deserves a place to sit. We build places to sit.
Request a bench: chicagobenchcollective.org
Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social I ride my bike, get angry at drivers, talk about disability advocacy, eat baked goods, and make sure Gus is well fed. I hail from the best state in New England.
Matt Frederick @mttfrdrck.bsky.social Edgewater Chicagoan | former St. Louisan
mattfrederick.substack.com
Andy Pandy 🇵🇸 @kingfloop.bsky.social Chicago cyclist/musician/good things enjoyer
Chloe @chloeph.bsky.social Baltimore person
Tucker @tjchc.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 in Chicago, former baker hopefully current ceramic artist soon, punk/90’s hip hop lover, roommates with an eccentric orange cat. The b&w picture is my grandma at a frog race
rory 🇵🇸 @kierkegaardvark.bsky.social chicagoan (naturalized), socialist (champagne).
David Teeghman 🇵🇸 🌏🚴🏻🌹 @teeghman.bsky.social West Sider, YIMBY, biker and organizer. @sierraclubchicago.bsky.social executive committee chair. Radicalized former public school teacher.
Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social 34. Autistic who hates computers and math. The hottest thing from the North to come out of the South.
Chicago Tree @chicagotree.bsky.social Mostly reposting Chicago trees & sometimes other trees. And birds. And other things I find interesting.
Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social Watch your noggins, everyone.
Aaron Maertins @amaertins.bsky.social Chicagolander
Transit planner 🚉
World traveler ✈️
Husband 🏳️🌈 and dog dad
Lover of Shark Week 🦈 and chocolate chip cookies 🍪
Miser @misernyc.bsky.social Organized many of the marches for congestion pricing in NYC. Started the daylighting movement, run MicromobilityNYC, and advised Zohran from day 1 of his campaign. (Was also the template for his own video strategy.) We're building a movement here
dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social two things make me happy and two things only: turgid, unworkable political theory and surly cats
всё идёт по плану
Brianinja @brianinja.bsky.social Professional Chicagoland suburban transportation planner by day. Cargo ebike suburban dad by night. Enjoys birds and cute art. 🏳️🌈 He/him.
Sage @sageinplace.bsky.social Automobile delenda est
trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike she/her
I watch the trains go by from my living room.
Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social Chicago-based. Bikes. Books. Photography. Lot of politics.
Liam Calvert @liamcalvert.bsky.social 
Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social A new communications-focussed collaboration launched to champion the truth and fight disinformation about how to make better cities for people. Formed by @brenttoderian.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social @grantennis.bsky.social.
www.UrbanTruthCollective.com
@williamreed.bsky.social @williamreed.bsky.social 
Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong @misscantbewrong.bsky.social Former Alaskan, current Evanstonian. Ruby and Bunny are my dogs.
Republicans are trash, stop voting [and making excuses] for them.
Extremely displeased with current events.
https://youtu.be/thuYNWYwQ68?is=vBLx-2oxtDwfBq6w
OffStageJobs.com @offstagejobs.com http://staging.OffStageJobs.com on Bluesky, obviously. This is our official account. Written (poorly) by Patrick Hudson: Founder/Owner. We have suspended posting on whatever Twitter is currently calling itself, while keeping the account as an archive.
State Senator Mike Simmons - IL-7th @senmikesimmons.bsky.social Serving Lincoln Square, Uptown, Edgewater, Rogers Park, Andersonville, Ravenswood, Lakeview, North Center, and West Ridge. 773.769.1717.
linktr.ee/SenatorMikeSimmons
Cait Hakala @caithakala.bsky.social Chicago ILGA witness slips aficionado and Nora Leerhsen stan account
Carlos @carlosedgewater.bsky.social Artist / Illustrator / Designer / Traveler / Avid Cruiser / Cook 🚢 🏳️🌈
katie @palindromese.bsky.social Michigan-raised, Chicago-claimed, Ope-filled
public health digital comms
my (mostly silly) opinions are my own
Senator Mike Simmons @mikesimmonsil.bsky.social State Senator and Former Congressional Candidate for IL-09. Here for the Fight.
Chicago native. Proudly LGBTQ+, Ethiopian-American. 🏳️🌈🇪🇹
Let's do this together! Go to mikesimmons.org to sign up!
Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social Politics & government reporter @evanstonnow.bsky.social 📸✍🏼 // @bostonu.bsky.social alum //matthew@evanstonnow.com
Have a tip? I'm on Signal: mattheweadie.02
Michael McCarthy @michaelmcc.com 🚲 🚇 🏙️ 🏳️🌈
Urban Planner from Chicago
Medill/Northwestern and UIC MUPP
Lucas Filipiak 🕊️ @power-bird.bsky.social Chicago. Student. Trains. Birds. Video Games. Music. He/Him.
Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social Chicagoan. Research interests in race, environmental justice, and transportation issues in Latine communities.
Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social Proud partner in the progressive movement.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/indivisiblechicago
Website: https://indivisiblechicago.com/
✨ Sparkle Monica ✨ @monicacarmean.bsky.social ⚖️ 🐕 🧀 🗳️ 💙
"10/10 Sparkle Monica for real. maximum respect" - @TheMountainGoats
Jonathan Zoia @jzoia.bsky.social 📍Chicago
👬Adam
🐶 Mari
acela2163 @acela2163.bsky.social trains | Chicago | she/they
Lev Lazinskiy🌈 @levlaz.org I live in Emeryville; love transit, reading, writing, music, #linux, chess, and cooking. Dreaming of a world with 1 min headways.
Currently working to help people make robots at Foxglove and studying Chinese (学中文）。
https://levlaz.org
RAMONA SLICK 🍒 @ramonaslick.bsky.social Red hot femme fantasy ❤️🔥 Draglesque artist ❤️🔥 Chicago’s cult classic
Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social "Fietser" (Dutch) 'feet-ser' Meaning: A Person Who Bikes For Transportation; Infrastructure, City Design, E-Cargo Bike Ambassador, Brasil 🇧🇷🔗, Train & Aviation Enjoyer
✨🌜Kaz Rowe 🌛✨ @kazrowe.bsky.social They/them— Cartoonist and history video maker on YouTube — Creator of Cunning Fire and Liberated.
kazrowe.com
https://youtube.com/@KazRowe
cunningfire.com
Wife of Debt (Debt Peon) @debtpeon.bsky.social Chicago pinko bullshit and Arsenal FC. So sue me.
Librarian/Father/Husband/Son/Uncle/Nephew/Brother/Cousin/Uncle/Step-Brother/Uncle/Nephew/Uncle/Librarian/Uncle
Bluesky Elder/respect me
Charter School Abolitionist 🇮🇷 @maniccage.bsky.social Beers, bikes & bong rips.
Chicago homer to a fault. (he/him)
starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social prairie-style socialism and postcards
https://www.postcard-past.com/
U.S. Mail Not For Sale @usmailnotforsale.bsky.social The US Mail Not for Sale is a worker led campaign to fight attempts to sell the public Postal Service to the highest bidder.
Bolts @boltsmag.org A publication that covers the nuts and bolts of political change: Boltsmag.org
Politics of Cars @thismachinekillsfascists.bike Car culture dominating society is social murder.
Posts are mostly about the US, sometimes focused on parenting.
sometimes writing more at https://politicsofcars.beehiiv.com/
Rob 🏳️🌈🚲🪴 @bobbyboy.bsky.social views mine
NITA (Parody) @nitachicago.org This is a parody account of @nitachicago.bsky.social, providing decent transit service since 2027.
Not affiliated with any Chicago or Illinois transit agency.
PFP by @evieatarax.bsky.social
Emily @allweeksend.com Bikes are transportation and recreation. Working in renewable energy. We have to imagine a better world before we can build it. she/her
allweeksend.neocities.org
Worker’s Cottage Core @sphem.bsky.social ✶ ✶ chicago ✶ ✶
home by home
Autocorrected to “mentally I’ll” @nocash.bsky.social Look out honey cause I’m using technology
Scott @skh80.bsky.social “I like getting older. I feel like I’m finally aging into my personality.” - Nick Miller
Chicago
Aaron Rogers @aaron-r.bsky.social Not Aaron Rodgers | He/him | 🏳️🌈 ✶✶✶✶
Daniel @streicher.io bike sock / one person edtech shop
🚲📸 Jack Cottle
Ted McClelland @tedmcclelland.bsky.social Father of Lark, Birch and Rose. Author of Chorus of the Union. Contributing Writer, Chicago magazine
Lucy Parsons Labs @lucyparsonslabs.com Chicago-based collaboration between data scientists, transparency activists, artists, & technologists that sheds light on the intersection of digital rights and on-the-streets issues.
https://linktr.ee/lucyparsonslabs
Electrify Chicago @electrifychicago.net We find Chicago's most polluting buildings, so you don't have to! Powered by public energy benchmarking data. 🌎 ElectrifyChicago.net
Meets weekly @chihacknight.org
PT Klein @ptklein.com Film historian and cultural critic. Movie theaters, cinema spaces, and filmgoing cultures. Radically optimistic. Writing at www.howtoreadmovies.com, Metro Weekly, Film Atlas, and elsewhere. Cohost @ColdWarCinema.com. He/Him/His.
Matt Baume 🏳️🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social Writer, YouTuber, small mammal. I tell fun stories about pop culture history. He/him.
> Videos: youtube.com/mattbaume
> Bonus videos: patreon.com/mattbaume
> Book: gaysitcoms.com
> Podcast: sewersofparis.com
> Hedgehog: 🦔
High Speed Rail Alliance @hsrail.bsky.social The High Speed Rail Alliance is a member-supported nonprofit organization advocating for fast, frequent, and affordable trains throughout North America.
https://linktr.ee/hsrail
Bikebarpro @bikebarpro.bsky.social Fiercely interested in cycling safety, safer cities, and riding everywhere I go. Working on a bike-mounted device to reduce the severity and frequency of close passes in cycling.
unraveled @unraveledpress.com Independent, reader-supported investigative reporting from Chicago on policing and state violence.
Support us: unraveledpress.com/support-unraveled/
📧 info@unraveledpress.com
📱 Signal: unraveled.66
Divvy Bikes @divvybikes.bsky.social Divvy, powered by Lyft. 🚲
Divvy is a program of ChicagoDOT.
Evanston Transit Alliance @evanstontransit.bsky.social ETA is a resident-led advocacy group working for a safer and better connected Evanston by championing pedestrian-oriented streets, bike infrastructure for all ages and abilities, and high-quality public transit.
evanstontransitalliance.org
Balu Puppy @balupuppy.bsky.social Puppy. Historian. 🚲
Chicago ****
Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social Chicagoan who loves my city, crafty mom, former lawyer. Certified Health Coach! Community builder, socialist and lover of mutual aid. Anti-Zionist Jew. If you live in Chicago, I probably follow you already. She/they
Lakeview Urbanists @lakeviewurbanists.bsky.social A neighborhood organization working to make a more bike, housing, and transit friendly Lakeview
DLS @forensicgarlic.bsky.social Chicagoan. Valpo grad. Member of Half Acre Cycling. Awesome Foundation. Occasional Karaoke singer. Anti Fascist. Radically pro-transgender.
Nathan @iamnathanbean.bsky.social 
Rachel Monk ✶✶✶✶ @rachelmonkfish.bsky.social la libertá é terapeutica ✨
Touch Glass Studio @ginfizzes.bsky.social stained glass maker. clippy personified. she/her.
Commissions closed
Reach me at touchglassstudio@gmail.com
Keep up with me at https://touchglassstudio.substack.com
PsyFi 🪬 @audicity.bsky.social 30's | He/Him | Massive Homo | Married 👬 | Seattle-ish | Don't take me too seriously |
Æthelred the UnPreddy @ready4preddy.bsky.social he/himbo. i like to walk around a lot. bus/train dude & local bike guy
Car Free Keith @carfreekeith.bsky.social Nothing makes me happier than places that have less cars. I make videos about that 👇
https://linktr.ee/carfreekeith
📍Chicago via NW IL, w/ a few years in New Orleans too
he/him
#1 Babe: Pig in the City Fan @piginthecityfan.bsky.social Babe: Pig in the City fan account 🐷 He/Him
#releasethemillercut
Chicago
Nicholas Riehle, MUPP @nicholasriehle.bsky.social He/him
Chicago-based transportation planner
Vélotafeur
Rabid divvy bike angel
Posts in french/english
I am probably riding my bike to the grocery store
Fighting for streets to live in rather than roads to die in
All posts represent me alone
YPT Chicago @yptchicago.org #yptchi Providing development, fellowship, and networking opportunities for young Chicagoans in the transportation field.
davi @davidasilva.bsky.social like if Mr. Mistoffelees was a gynecologist
📍Chicago
Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth @leniann.bsky.social She/her. Personal account. 🇵🇭🏳️🌈💃🏻💙
For official aldermanic services and response go to the48thward.org
Chicago 🏳️⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social Internally displaced southern queer refugee. All my homies hate landlords, car dependency, and exclusionary housing policy.
Housing policy is community, environmental policy, transit policy, and (anti-) segregation policy
Listifications @listifications.app Follow me to receive notifications via DM whenever you're added to a starter pack, block list, feed or when someone blocks your account.
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Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social I live in Chicago. I work in a lab. Sometimes I bike. Views are my own.
Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social Chicago (prev NYC, orig Iowa). Cycling and photography enthusiast. Dad to 2 boys, 2 cats and a dog. History junkie. In an alternate life: a 19th century composer.
Photos: http://jimlindstrom.com/portfolio/
FairVote Illinois @fairvoteil.bsky.social A nonpartisan, grassroots organization working for better elections. Join the movement to bring ranked choice voting to Illinois!
🔗: FairVoteIllinois.org/links
Pokey @junkyardcrawler.bsky.social architecture, dead mall, train, car enthusiast
Chicago-based
takes too many photos
non-binary
Blog: https://whatusedtobethere.blogspot.com/
Website: https://etaoin-shrdlu.net/
RIP COHOST - EGGBUG FOREVER - KEEP EM POSTING IN OUR HEARTS
Certified Illinois Expert @mrillinois.bsky.social Certified Illinois Expert. 🧡 libraries, buildings, nature, history.
Giving Illinois travel/history lectures at a library near you! See schedule at johnkokoris.com or request that your library book me!
Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social Guidebook author, TV & radio host, business owner, Lutheran, and NORML Board Member. Fanatically positive and militantly optimistic.
National Lawyers Guild Chicago @nlgchicago.bsky.social 
#chiLFT Lake Front Trail Status Bot @lakefronttrail.bsky.social I'm a bot. I repost trail condition posts. You can help: use #chiLFT to report current trail conditions.
https://chilftbot.streicher.io
SideStreets @sidestreets.bsky.social Radically pedestrian urban planning. Chicago-centric. ✶✶✶✶
chlurg @chlurg.bsky.social late to the urbanist party
Transit @transit.app We make life better without a car.
Live in 1000+ cities worldwide. Made in Montreal.
🌳🚌🚏🚇🚲🌼
En français svp 👉 @fr.transit.app
go.transit.app/more
Is The CTA Having A Good Day? @isctaokay.bsky.social Keeping you informed on how CTA Rail is performing a few times a day. Greater than 95% of scheduled service 👍 - 90% to 95% 🤷- Less than 90% 👎
Built by: @brandonmcfadden.com
Active Transportation Alliance @activetransportation.org We advocate for walking, rolling, bicycling and public transit to create healthy, sustainable, and equitable communities in the Chicago region. Join us! www.activetransportation.org
WFB: Safe @wfbsafe.org Working to make Whitefish Bay streets safe for everyone, and be a more welcoming home to future neighbors and friends.
→ https://wfbsafe.org
CassieWasRight (they/them) @cassiewasright.bsky.social No billionaires, no borders, no prisons, no police.