NITA Chicago @nitachicago.bsky.social One regional transit system. NITA sets fares, standards, and schedules across CTA, Metra, and Pace. Formerly the RTA.
Alex Harrison @alexhairysun.bsky.social Reporter @evanstonroundtable.bsky.social, hyperfocused on zoning + city gov + police surveillance • B/MSJ23 from Medill • NKY➡️Chicago • he/him
I do not use generative AI in my work.
Read my stuff: https://evanstonroundtable.com/author/alex-harrison
Free Software Foundation @fsf.org Fighting for essential rights and freedoms for computer users since 1985. https://fsf.org
Chicago Holes @chicagoholes.bsky.social 🕳️ Documenting the Chicago urge to dig.
📞 Call 811 if you plan on digging a hole!
💾 City of Chicago Data Portal
👨💻 @michaelmclean.me
🤖 https://github.com/MisterClean/chicago-dig-bot
A City That Works @acitythatworks.bsky.social Policy analysis and ideas on how to make Chicago work better.
Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social Researcher on urban planning and public transportation.
https://marcochitti.substack.com/
Jennifer Mach (she/they) @jennifermach.bsky.social Science writer and editor for Plant Editors (planteditors.com). Based in Chicago.
@buzzneon.bsky.social @buzzneon.bsky.social Urbanist. Fan of cities, transit, walkability, cycling, swimming and nature; also clocks, watches, whiskey and food. Australian raised, Chicago is home.
Patrick Gilsenan for 32nd Ward @patgilsenan.bsky.social Candidate for 32nd Ward Alderperson
patrickfor32.com
Justine Underhill @justineunderhill.bsky.social I'm a journalist with a background in economics and theater. I worked as an on-air reporter at Yahoo Finance, and I later created a documentary series. My focus now is on urban design, and I was recently elected to City Council in Falls Church, VA.
maureen @maureenf.bsky.social Chicagoan in love with urban ruins, labor history, poems, and where I live.
she/her
Alex Nitkin @alexnitkin.bsky.social Government Finance & Accountability reporter,
@IllinoisAnswers/@BetterGov. Formerly of @thedailylinechi, @trdchicago & @DNAinfoChi. Tips: Anitkin@bettergov.org
Kelsig 3D @kelsig.bsky.social microblogging @bsky.app
Galauxy @galauxy.com 
Eric the Red @realeric4real.bsky.social 
Leavitt-Palmer @leavitt-palmer.bsky.social End of the road for Palmer Street. Just an example of what happens at every crosswalk everywhere.
Caretaker for 2 Border Collies.
Stands unmistakably and inexcusably athwart
https://baseball-handbook.com
VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social mock me with praise/Chicago/fully krausened naturally carbonated/🏳️🌈
Likes: Doctor Who, soaps, Kylie Minogue, karaoke, mysteries, trains, defunding police, being queer, puzzles, sacred flame, sacred fire
Mike Fenner @mfenn.bsky.social Editor, writer. Chicago.
Nobody nobody sent.
Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social I live in Chicago. I work in a lab. Sometimes I bike. Views are my own.
Ian Loader @ianloader.bsky.social I teach and research criminology stuff at the University of Oxford - https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/people/ian-loader. I am also Chair of Cyclox - https://www.cyclox.org. You'll find me musing on ecologies of security, policing, urban mobilities and Arsenal FC
Sage @sageinplace.bsky.social Automobile delenda est
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
I biked in this @ibikedinthis.bsky.social Addressing common barriers to everyday biking and proving that you can roll in style—even in Chicago. https://www.instagram.com/ibikedinthis/ https://linktr.ee/ibikedinthis
NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social "Every day I have to marvel at what the billionaires and Fox News pulled off. They got working whites to hate the very people that want them to have more pay, clean air, water, free healthcare and the power to fight back against big banks & big corps."
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
Lettuce Cat @piero.bsky.social they 23 chicago
piemadd.com
i program and i work on trains
City & State NY @cityandstateny.bsky.social A website and weekly magazine covering politics & policy in the Empire State. First Read emails 7 a.m. & 6 p.m. Got tips? editor@cityandstateny.com
Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social Federal Courts Reporter, @chicago.suntimes.com
Signal: jseidel.37
Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social I make Dad jokes on NPR and also write books and other things. 
CTA Alert Insights @ctaalertinsights.chicagotransitalerts.app Major CTA disruptions — suspended segments, shuttles, delays. Auto-detected outages + CTA alerts.
chicagotransitalerts.app
github.com/cailinpitt/cta-insights
Not affiliated with CTA.
CTA Bus Insights @ctabusinsights.chicagotransitalerts.app 🚌 Chicago bus transit, live.
Bunching, long gaps, ghost buses + hourly speedmaps.
chicagotransitalerts.app
Not affiliated with CTA.
CTA Smokers @ctasmokers.com Crowdsourced tracking of smokers on the CTA
https://ctasmokers.com
Richard Day @rsday.bsky.social 
Anthony J. Quezada @anthonyjquezada.bsky.social Chicago’s 35th Alderman. Democratic Socialist. 🏳️🌈Delivering results for Irving Park, Avondale, Logan Square & Hermosa. Political account.
https://linktr.ee/peopleforanthony?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=422f0ab7-06ca-43d2-bd68-afc28860d3e1
Taniel @taniel.bsky.social Daniel Nichanian. Editor in chief of @boltsmag.org (follow us!). Elections, (local) politics, voting rights, criminal justice, and drag race.
DENIC eG @denic.de We, DENIC eG, manage the German country code .de on the Internet. With 17 million .de domains under management, DENIC is one of the largest Internet registries in the world. We operate the globally distributed name server network for .de domains.
Alex @3eeutiful.bsky.social Chicago inhabitant
Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov Official account of Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson. This is your city — let's make it a great place to live, work, and raise a family.
City’s digital policies at http://seattle.gov/digital.
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
Lisa Jarvis @lisamjarvis.bsky.social Chicago-based health & science columnist for Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bsky.social. Writing about public health, medicine, emerging technologies (Crispr!), biotech & pharma. opinions=mine, She/her. Signal: lisajarvis.77
Chaos Coded Guest Party Member @chaos-hero.bsky.social PUNK ROCK WILL NEVER DIE.
Opinions are my own. Ask me about organizing your workplace. Pro skub DNI.
They/Them
Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social Photojournalist in Chicago. Staff Visual Journalist and drone pilot
with Chicago Sun-Times send tips and hate at tlariviere@suntimes.com. I'm also on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tylerpasciaklariviere/
@techaltar.bsky.social @techaltar.bsky.social 
Emmanuel Grégoire @egregoire.bsky.social Maire de Paris
Fritz Kaegi @fritzforassessor.bsky.social Cook County Assessor. Running to make the property tax code work for working families.
Chicago Board of Elections @chicagoelection.bsky.social Born of referenda in 1885, the Board of Election Commissioners manages all voter registrations and administers all elections in the City of Chicago.
GNOME @gnome.org We’re a non-profit that believes in a world where everyone is empowered by technology they can trust. We work towards this world by building a diverse and sustainable free software personal computing ecosystem.
Donate: https://donate.gnome.org/
Brian Schatz @schatz.bsky.social United States Senator for Hawaii. Climate hawk. Chief Deputy Whip. 
David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social Cato Institute, Director of Immigration Studies, Cato's Selz Foundation Chair in Immigration Policy, BEER, not buyer. Cato, not CATO
Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com Welcoming media and government (and everyone else!) to Bluesky.
Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.
Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social Dad, husband, journalist at 9News Denver. Helping the community raise $18M via 300+ weekly microgiving campaigns. Next with Kyle Clark 6p weeknights + 9NEWS at 9/10p on-air/streaming on 9NEWS+. Signal tips: 303-871-1841.
Denis Agar (he/him) @denisagar.bsky.social Transit polls well. We use that popularity to push for more reliable & abundant transit. Let's make it better than driving.
I'm in Vancouver, unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ land.
ED @movementyvr.bsky.social
cohost @dwelltime.ca pod
Danny Villalobos @dvillalobos.bsky.social City Planner | Chicagoan
Lewis Lehe @lewislehe.bsky.social Assoc. Prof at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Traffic, transit and economics. https://lehelab.com/
Quentin ☕ @une-tasse-de.cafe Éternel bidouilleur, j'aime bien le café ☕
Lil SRE at @Luccasoftware
💌 mail: quentinj@une-pause-cafe.fr
MdDoogie3 @mddoogie3.bsky.social She/her. A lawyer, not your lawyer, fighting fraud/waste/abuse in healthcare.
Oxford comma militant.
Childless cat lady.
𝖠̶𝖻̶𝗈̶𝗅̶𝗂̶𝗌̶𝗁̶ ̶𝖨̶𝖢̶𝖤̶ Nuremberg 2.0 is the moderate position.
Views are my own, not my firm’s or my clients’.
Ellie Huxtable @ellie.wtf Infra, Rust, and motorcycles 🏳️🌈
Building @atuin.sh
Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social Writer, lawyer, Dodger fan, internet dog. nycsouthpaw18 at gmail. 
Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social Mom, Refugee and Congresswoman for #MN05. Progressive Caucus Deputy Chair. Fighting for a more just world.✨ http://HC.com/IlhanOmar 
Matthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social “If something on the internet doesn’t spark joy, mute it.” All views are mine and should be yours. Chaotic good tbh.
Buying Things Is Optional
TacticsFreeZone.com
T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social In-House Counsel @ BigTech. Ex-"Computers Guy," then decade litigating 1A in NC+TX. Servant to two cats (and a dog and a wife). Armchair Philanthropist.
(@greg_doucette on ExTwitter)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) @cncf.io Making cloud native ubiquitous
Liz Rice 💛💙🐝 @lizrice.com Open Source | Isovalent @ Cisco | eBPF | Cilium | author of O’Reilly books on Container Security and Learning eBPF | AWS Container Hero | music @insidernine.bsky.social
Kubernetes @kubernetes.io #Kubernetes: open source production-grade container orchestration management. #CNCF #K8s
John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com Historian and writer exploring how Americans engage with the past. **Thy Will Be Done: George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory** out now. www.johngmarks.com
John Abernathy @john-abernathy.bsky.social Independent Documentary Photographer
Bearing witness without permission.
No badge. No distance.
📍Minneapolis
https://linktr.ee/john_abernathy_
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
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
Maggie Hendricks @maggiehendricks.bsky.social Sometimes sports journo, sometimes comms pro, always a maker. Love Chicago. Probably making a Taskmaster or Murder, She Wrote joke. I won't answer any questions you can Google. I'm here for conversation, not debate. I mute whining about officials.
Drake Warren for Cook County Commissioner @drakefor10.bsky.social Running for Cook County Commissioner to make it easier to live in the city I love. Visit drakefor10.com to learn more.
Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social Ask not for whom the point is missed. It is missed for thee.
Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com Editor in chief of @allrisenews.com. Fearless journalism about the law, your rights, and your powers to effect change during the Trump era. www.allrisenews.com/
@williamreed.bsky.social @williamreed.bsky.social 
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Audrey Wennink @awennink.bsky.social Pedestrian, cyclist, transit rider, mom, knitter, urbanist, Chicagoan. Senior Director at Metropolitan Planning Council.
William Skudlarek @willskud.bsky.social 💼 - researching all things egress and other fun building code stuff as Policy Analyst at the Center for Building in North America (centerforbuilding.org)
✉️ - william[at]centerforbuilding[dot]org
📍- Chicago
I post about 🏗️, 🏠, 🚊, 🌐, and other random stuff
amos @fasterthanli.me hi, I'm amos! 🍃 they/them 🔮 "most level-headed AI user" 🫐 working on something dataflow-shaped 🦀 known for teaching rust and not much else
📚 https://fasterthanli.me
📺 https://youtube.com/@fasterthanlime
Dominik 🔮 @tkdodo.eu ⚛️ Maintaining TanStack Query
🔮 https://query.gg
👨💻 Design Engineering @sentry.io
📚 Blog at https://tkdodo.eu
🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
👧👦 Father of two
Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social Pastor, Activist, Theologian. The Gospel is anti-fascist, and so am I. Building a new world through the sanctuary movement, combating Islamophobia, and reparations. https://www.michaelcaseywwoolf.com/
Hardware Unboxed @hardwareunboxed.bsky.social We review PC hardware on YouTube https://youtube.com/@hardwareunboxed
Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social Doting grandmother, among other things.
Michael Rabbitt @michaelrabbitt.bsky.social Chicago’s 45th Ward Democratic Committeeperson | dems45.com | organizing for equity & justice
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com movement building reporter @us.theguardian.com
forever philly, longtime nyc
member @transjournalists.org
TIPS: lex_mcmenamin.68 on Signal
linktr.ee/lexmcmenamin
Christopher Silber @csilber.bsky.social In the weeds | Chicago housing and property tax system research | UIC | DePaul | geography, journalism, etc. | He/Him | Views = my own
Tony Coppoletta @tonycoppoletta.com Likes food. And trains. And cities. Info designer in transit. Made in Chicago. (Personal acct)
tonycoppoletta.com
Also super pro-trans and anti-facisct because I'm a decent human being.
He/him 🏳️🌈
ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social Chicago, local government, YIMBY, queer, Texan, Longhorn
🧦🏳️🌈🚰 🤠
he/him
Eric Hundman @ehundman.bsky.social China analyst and research director at BluePath Labs, scholar, sometime artist. 中文通（非中国通), sci-fi geek, ex-STEM. Security, tech, and foreign policy in China + Taiwan. Views my own. 🏳️🌈
http://www.erichundman.com/
Chicago is home. 
Brian Harrington @bharr.bsky.social 
Maia McDonald 💫✌🏽 @maiamcdonald.me award-winning chicago journo, funky fashion enthusiast, and pink girlie™ 💖
✳️ prev: @raceandequityproject.org | vice president of the chicago journalists association | mizzou j-school alum | find me at maiamcdonald.me and @maia.pink | views are my own
sean w mcguire @seanmcguire.bsky.social architect, chicago
Katie Prout @katieprout.bsky.social features writer, Chicago Reader: harm reduction, homelessness, and chicago/rust belt history.
proud member, Reader Union
kprout@chicagoreader.com; signal katie.507
https://www.katieprout.com/
Christopher Whitaker @civicwhitaker.com Civic Technologist | Executive Director, Alliance of Civic Technologists | Army Veteran | Alumni of Code for America, Defense Digital Service and USDS #civictech #chicago #illinois
Really doesn’t like bullies
Signal: civicwhitaker.53
Roberto Requejo ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @splanish.bsky.social Spanish, urban planner, Chicagoan. He/him. Product of the public transportation system. Board member - CTA. Sr Fellow - Center for Community Investment. Advisor - Elevated Chicago. Contributor - UN Local Solutions. Opinions personal.
Gary Scott @gscottjr.bsky.social Michigander turned Chicagoan.
Co-Lead of CNUChicago. Co-Founder and Board Member, ENU. Board Member, CNU. Co-Lead, BigTentUrbanistCoalition. MassTransit40Under40 - 2022 Honoree. ChaddickScholar. Views expressed are my own.
jes @jwolfe73.bsky.social I like ceramics and houseplants. There will be cat photos and typos.
Alderman Matt Martin @aldermanmattmartin.bsky.social 47th Ward Alderman.
aldermanmartin.com
SideStreets @sidestreets.bsky.social Radically pedestrian urban planning. Chicago-centric. ✶✶✶✶
Ben Bradley @benbradleytv.bsky.social 4pm news anchor and investigative reporter at @wgntv.com in Chicago. For those who @ me, try to be kind.
Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social Vox reporter - covering housing, homelessness, family policy
trying to prod productively