Alex Nelson @aenelson4.bsky.social Board President @bscactionfund.org
The real infrastructure is the friends we make along the way. Free Palestine. She/Her.
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Better Streets Chicago Action Fund @bscactionfund.org Fighting for the streets Chicagoans deserve.
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Kay Coghill, PhD. @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team Head of Community at @blackskyweb.xyz and Hot Girl General. 1922.
Committed to a Black feminist politic of collective work as a scholar, educator, and practitioner.
Very serious about hobbies.
🔗 Kalyncoghill.com
Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social Chicagoan. Research interests in race, environmental justice, and transportation issues in Latine communities.
NITA Chicago @nitachicago.bsky.social One regional transit system. NITA sets fares, standards, and schedules across CTA, Metra, and Pace. Formerly the RTA.
Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social Chicago. Interested in how places are shaped. Friend to alley cats. I don't speak on behalf of my affiliations. he/him
"We know this world is good enough because it has to be."
Papa Rides a Bike @paparidesabike.bsky.social An avid pedestrian in Chicago.
Chicago Sun-Times Guild @cstguild.bsky.social Safeguarding the future of the Chicago Sun-Times. Loud and proud members of @ChicagoNewsGuild.bsky.social.
Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social Watch your noggins, everyone.
Cards Against Humanity @cardsagainsthumanity.com Party games for horrible people.
Get new expansions and annoy Elon Musk. www.SadLittleBitchWithNoFriends.com
Brandon @bedubble.bsky.social Bikes | Food | Transit | Housing | Travel | Music | Fashion | History | And More
📍 Chicago via too many places to list
Posts are not peer reviewed.
Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social Public servant running for U.S. Senate because it shouldn't be THIS hard to get by. Michigan born and raised. Girl Dad. Doctor. Vote by August 4th!
are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social chicago common brick lying in a tallgrass prairie | he/they
madopal @madopal.bsky.social Chicagoan (Portage Park), bungalow owner, recovering gamedev (Jaleco, Midway, et al), cat lover, data engineer, bike/transit advocate(ish) (former NW MBAC), aspiring historian/baker/woodworker, White Sox, Gen X, music nerd, just zis guy, you know? ✶✶✶✶
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
Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social Lifelong Chicagoan, lived other places, & it just reinforced my desire to live here. My opinions are mine alone. Find me on the other sites, w/ the same handle.
Eric Allix Rogers @ericallixrogers.com Architecture, interesting & historic places, Chicago, exploring cities by bike & transit. Mostly photos. Views my own. He/him. 🚲 🏙️ 🚆 🐱 🏳️🌈 📷
please be nice to patrick @nicetopatrick.bsky.social #blacklivesmatter / #actuallyautistic / #freepalestine / official state snack of Illinois / person of banger posts experience / he - him
🎉 erin ⁉️ @interrobang.bsky.social a constellation of enthusiasms in the shape of a midlife dirtbag. for all trans rights and some trans wrongs. she/her/y’all. chicago over everything 5ever ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ https://tadaemoji.com
Collin Whitchurch @cowhitchurch.bsky.social Chicago-based. Former editor at Baseball Prospectus. I write about movies I watch at wannawatch.substack.com.
Alex V. Hernandez @avhndz.bsky.social Bird Law Scholar.
Chicago journalist.
@loyolachicago.bsky.social Prof.
Co-founder @borderlessmag.bsky.social.
Alum @rooseveltu.bsky.social.
Opinions = Mine.
RTs ≠ Es.
✶✶✶✶ > Everything.
Matt Moore @mattmoorecst.bsky.social newsletters + words @chicago.suntimes.com 🗞️
📍Chicago ❤️
Leigh Kunkel @leighkunkel.bsky.social I'm a journalist in Chicago
But you're probably here for Birdie
Mary Dixon @maryldixon.bsky.social Host of Say More w/Mary Dixon & Patrick Smith on WBEZ.
Former Morning Edition host, former 93XRT
Irish memory ☘️
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/
Chicago Reader Union @chicagoreaderunion.bsky.social Official editorial union of the Chicago Reader, organizing with @chicagonewsguild.bsky.social. Established 2015.
Dave Swedler @daveswedler.bsky.social Public health statistician (PhD, MPH) currently working for Chicago DPH. All opinions are my own. Dog photos will be posted.
Chicago. He/him.
Mike Innocenzi @pantagrapher.bsky.social There is a very loud amusement park right in front of my present lodgings.
Viktor Köves @viktorkoves.com Chicagoan, climate developer, photographer, creator of @chiwho.bike and @electrifychicago.net | 🌎 viktorkoves.com
kay slater @kslater.bsky.social information worker + critical scholar | DJ | research network @libraryfutures.bsky.social | AI + Planetary Justice Alliance | Chicago, of course
views my own!
letterboxd: https://boxd.it/etsK7
Harebrained @harebrained.bsky.social Harebrained is a Chicago design company that makes underwear, shirts, trivia games and anything else we fancy. Artist owned. Fuck AI.
www.harebraineddesign.com
Calvin and Hobbes @calvin-and-hobbes.bsky.social Posting all the greatest from the famous Calvin & Hobbes comics by Bill Watterson. Not affiliated with Calvin & Hobbes Contact: contactcalvinandhobbes@gmail.com
https://thetigersletter.beehiiv.com/
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
ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org We are ProPublica’s union. We are the workers at America’s biggest investigative newsroom.
www.propublicaguild.org
WGN NEWS @wgntv.com Chicago's Very Own ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ WGNTV.com
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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/
DLS @forensicgarlic.bsky.social Chicagoan. Valpo grad. Member of Half Acre Cycling. Awesome Foundation. Occasional Karaoke singer. Anti Fascist. Radically pro-transgender.
Andrew Hertzberg @andhertz.bsky.social Chicago. Bikes. Books. Writes sometimes. Drums sometimes.
www.andrewhertzberg.com
Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social Professional landscape photographer focused on Chicago and Ireland. My website is BarryButlerPhotography.com for prints, books and calendars.
THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org The Far Side, near at hand
Account by @cowtools.org
Ryan 🏳️🌈 @pyry.lutefisk.online Language stuff, city stuff, bus stuff, inane posting, Uralic facts. World reknowned lutefisk influencer. Elder millennial, gay for cities. Feral Chicago fanatic (yes, in Chicago!) from Minneapolis, by way of Portland and others. 🏳️🌈
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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard, Author of, among other books, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings:An American Controversy,The Hemingses of Monticello,, Vernon Can Read: A Memoir with Vernon Jordan, On Juneteenth
RAYGUN @raygunsite.com Clothing. Home Goods. Time Travel Supplies.
Iowa (x6), Nebraska (x2), Chicago, KC, Madison.
Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com I'm an architecture photographer and Chicago is my backdrop. I post about weather, science, and urbanism issues, too. ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
📩: nick@nuphoto.com
https://linktr.ee/nick_ulivieri
Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social He/Him; Fenian bastard;
Area Code 1312
I speak only for myself; affiliates are blameless.
“If someone only looks at you to find a flaw, you're under no obligation to afford them a view.”
I periodically cleanse my feed; don’t count on your rts surviving
Chicago Department of Public Health @cdph.bsky.social The official account of the Chicago Department of Public Health.
Chicago Public Library @chipublib.bsky.social Read, learn, discover.
Opened in 1873, Chicago Public Library has locations in every Chicago neighborhood.
Adam Rhodes @byadamrhodes.bsky.social Deeply unserious person writing about serious things | award-winning investigative journalist writing about queer people & the legal system | nonbinary menace & belligerently queer | Chicago is home | DMs are off the record. More at adamrhodeswrites.com
TomTom @tomtomchi.bsky.social Urban planner, friend to animals, bike/transit rider, Chicago fag against fascism
Ryan Richter, AICP @ryanjrichter.com Transportation/urban planner. Fascinated with cities, geography and the movement of people and goods. Chicagoan. ryanjrichter.com
Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social Chicago Reader music writer
imleor.carrd.co
Aaron Rogers @aaron-r.bsky.social Not Aaron Rodgers | He/him | 🏳️🌈 ✶✶✶✶
Divverter Dyke @fulllanefemme.bsky.social Tired They/Them Chicago bike dyke. Lover of people-centered urbanism. Radical daydreaming about public housing, cats, end of empire, universal basic income.
Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social “Wild and wise—a perfect paradox of a woman”—my friend Amanda. Also posting here as ibikedinthis.bsky.social
Lee Bey @leebey1.bsky.social Chicago Sun-Times architecture critic and formerly ABC7 Chicago. Author/photographer of Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side. I dig vintage TV/movies and 20th century funk, soul and jazz.
Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social Federal Courts Reporter, @chicago.suntimes.com
Signal: jseidel.37
Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social Chicagoan, journalist, photographer, author, copy editor, flâneur. https://www.robertloerzel.com/
Aaron Silvers Lining Playbook @cut.buzz chameleon/survivor/trustworthy adult now presenting as barber
Look, Feel, and Do Better💈🪒
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social a very serious journalist | signal: shawn.56
John @localcelebrity.bsky.social he/him Product Strategist. Printmaker. Chicago, comics, & punk rock. Anti-tech-bro tech worker. Privacy wonk. Opinions mine. Millennial cringe. Probably on my bike. Say hi.
📍 ✶✶✶✶
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rstevens 🦆💨 @rstevens.bsky.social Entrepreneur, Forest Bathing Guide, Mindfulness Mentor, Happiness Coach, Master Ancient Tibetan Singing Bowl Artist, Intuitive Self-Worth Coach, Mindful Alchemist, Master of Bio-Energetic Medicine, Spiritual Thought Leader, Visionary, Hot Dog Stylist
Ryan North @ryannorth.ca You know, the @qwantz.com guy! The How To [Invent Everything | Take Over The World] guy? The Fantastic Four / Flash / Squirrel Girl guy? The non-linear Shakespeare guy? The "stuck in a hole with his dog" guy?
Look... I'm a lot of guys
🔗 ryannorth.ca
Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team Rudolph (Rudy) Fraser ⁂
CEO & Founder, building virtual 3rd places
[ @blackskyweb.xyz ][ blacksky.community ]
@mozilla.org Fellow 🦊
prev. @harvard.edu Fellow
🏴☠️ [ wethepeople.nyc ]
Board @pactcollective.xyz
TSC @lexicon.community
Black crypto-anarchy Ⓐ
Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social Engineer, data wrangler, and martian photographer at NASA-JPL, Los Angeles. Curiosity Rover ECAM PUL. Saturn native, commutes to Jupiter. USMC vet. Opinions are mine https://apoapsys.com
Chuck Sudo @bportseasoning.bsky.social Chicagoan. 1978 Prussing Elementary spelling bee champion. Writer. Cyclist. Semiprofessional flâneur. Gourmand. Guy who knows a guy. Navy vet. Wise ass.
Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social Chicago journalist. Formerly The People’s Fabric.
Co-founder @UnraveledPress.com.
Got a tip? Signal is @sheld.01. Email:steve@unraveledpress.com
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
CHIRP Radio 107.1 FM @chirpradio.org CHIRP 107.1FM is Chicago's listener-supported community radio station. Worldwide at chirpradio.org.
Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social News columnist on staff at the Chicago Sun-Times since 1987, also blogging daily at everygoddamnday.com, and the author of nine books, the most recent being "Every Goddamn Day," published by the University of Chicago Press. 
Justin Myers @justinmyers.net Journalist, tinkerer, crocheter, parent.
Married to @juliajrh.bsky.social.
Graphics editor, @chicago.suntimes.com and @wbez.org.
🏳️⚧️⚧🟨⬜🟪⬛, any pronouns.
Also active on fediverse/Mastodon:
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@myersjustinc
Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social reporter @chicago.suntimes.com
union member @cstguild.bsky.social
drummer, mediocre catcher
prev: Daily Herald | she/her 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
have a tip? DM me for signal
ellery @ellery.bsky.social not a dozen opossums in a trench coat. innovation editor at @chicago.suntimes.com and @wbez.org. she/they 🏳️⚧️
Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social Literary Agent at Morhaim Literary 📚 Newsletter: Agents & Books at agentsandbooks.com. 📚 WRITE THROUGH IT out June ‘25 📚📚 picture book called PAY ATTENTION TO ME out in ‘26!
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Write-Through-It/Kate-McKean/9781668055540
Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social Pictures, facts, memories and emotions from an irrepressible, sweeping, wild, exciting time of the 70s and 80s.
http://allmylinks.com/nokon1501
Matt Finch @themattfinch.bsky.social Southerner now living in Chicago
Kori Rumore Finley @chicagorumormill.bsky.social Mom + Chicago Tribune reporter + co-author, HE HAD IT COMING: 4 MURDEROUS WOMEN ... .
📬: http://bit.ly/3rr2hIw
https://www.chicagotribune.com/author/kori-rumore/
Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social Chicago person. Nonfiction books with Penguin Random House. Journalism in Esquire, NPR, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Boston Globe, elsewhere. Fiction in some hip spots. 2026 Best Mystery Stories of the Year. Medium tall.
Jason Meisner @jmetr22b.bsky.social Chicago Tribune reporter covering the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse and criminal justice issues in Chicago.
Signal: jmeisner48.08
Ben Bradley @benbradleytv.bsky.social 4pm news anchor and investigative reporter at @wgntv.com in Chicago. For those who @ me, try to be kind.
Jake Sheridan @jake-sheridan.bsky.social City Hall reporter for @ChicagoTribune, covering the City Council.
@CTGuild. Excited to be here! Let's talk: jsheridan@chicagotribune.com
Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social Investigative Reporter at WBEZ - Chicago Public Media
Doug Kiel @dougkiel.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Oneida Historian | Northwestern University | author of Unsettling Territory: The Resurgence of the Oneida Nation in the Face of Settler Backlash (Yale University Press) 🐢
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
Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me Ideal city: ⚛️ nuclear-powered, 🏙️ dense housing, 💰 affordable, 🚇 transit. Aka Chicago.
Posting about those things here, and trying to make them better IRL.
Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social Active transportation 🚲🚶🚇 • Climate and land use 🌳🌆 • Chicago politics 🌬️ • Dad x2 • Tweets and opinions my own • he/him
Patrick Monaghan @pkmonaghan.bsky.social Allies needn’t be perfect. They just need to be in the fight.
Chicago, films, MS, music, far too many effect pedals, Antifa Local 242.
Michelle @michelle345.bsky.social Chicago
PRO biking/walking for transportation
ANTI car-dominated streets
PRO cities/housing/flâneusing
Violin/guitar/art/weather/travel
1st generation American 🇩🇪 🇺🇸
#northDLSD #bikeCHI #ClarkStCorridor
Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social Current* conditions:
🏙 Chicagoan (Rogers Park) 🔢 data 🚍 transit 🚲 bike 📰 local news 🌊 Lake Michigan stan account 🙊 views mine ✍️ lauriemerrell.com 👤 she/her
Chicago Piping Plovers @chicagopiping.bsky.social The offical account for Chicago Piping Plover news and content. Media inquiries email piperwatch@chicagobirder.org.
jad 📸 @aerojad.bsky.social Information technology trash with a penchant for photography. Will like all photos of your pets. Chicago is the greatest city in existence.
♫ and while I’m alive, I’ll make tiny changes to earth ♫
[he/him]
https://www.flickr.com/photos/aerojad/sets
Jennifer Mach (she/they) @jennifermach.bsky.social Science writer and editor for Plant Editors (planteditors.com). Based in Chicago.
Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀 @bebopott.bsky.social ✶✶✶✶ devout Chicagoan || a blog called SILLY PRIZES || AudHD socialist rabble-rouser || doesn't have much plot significance but that doesn't stop him from chilling || "an account" per Chicago Sun-Times
Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social Inspiring a lifelong love of science in everyone - in museums, classrooms and online. We believe in a world where science belongs to everyone.
A Rogue Monster @aroguemonster.bsky.social Chicago-based cat-loving abolitionist nerd.
fund.nnaf.org/ALW26 - Fundraising for Chicago Abortion Fund
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.
Dani Welch @daniwelch.bsky.social Public defender raising a tiny human, 2 cats, and a sled dog with my husband in NYC.
Once I briefly ran for Congress.
#UAW Region 9A, Local 2325
pronouns: she/her
Juliana Stratton @julianastratton.bsky.social Mom of four, Illinois Lt. Governor, Democratic Nominee for U.S. Senate.
Giving the people what they want.
https://linktr.ee/julianaforillinois
Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social “comedy” writer for “television”
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
https://chanda.science
First book:
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Blog:
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all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️🌈/agender/woman.
Posts by/for me🖖🏽
Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live cooler by the lake 🕶️🏖️
Current* view of a webcam located around Lake Michigan, every 30 minutes
*randomly chosen image from a list of 50+ webcams. image captured within 30 minutes of post
@the.mazz.zone