Illinois DCEO @illinoisdceo.bsky.social The official account of the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO).
🔗 dceo.illinois.gov
Lakeshore Rail Alliance @lakeshorerail.bsky.social Promoting workforce mobility, economic development, quality of life for the Great Lakes and Northeast Megaregions through fast, frequent passenger rail service.
Iowa Association of Railroad Passengers @iowarail.bsky.social Iowa Association of Railroad Passengers (IARP) was formed in 1981 as a voice for Iowa rail passengers
https://www.iowarail.org/
alex benzer @alexbenzer.com head of product @bsky.app
Jess Bateman @jessdbateman.bsky.social WA State senator 22nd district. Let’s build livable, walkable communities. 🏘️
Illinois Answers Project @illinoisanswers.bsky.social Working every day to uncover waste and wrongdoing in government, hold public officials accountable and lift up solutions to Illinois’ most pressing problems.
Kalen Luciano @kalenfor44.bsky.social Progressive community organizer running for Chicago’s 44th Ward to build a Lakeview for all
@ktwhitehead.bsky.social @ktwhitehead.bsky.social CTA External Affairs. Village of Brookfield Trustee. Formerly RTA and Active Transportation Alliance.
kaz @karenkaz.com Chicago: Belmont Cragin, #bikechi, CTA rants
Personal: greyhounds, cats, homeownership, sometimes sports
Work: marketing, data, analytics, nonprofits, city planning nerd
ABOLISH ICE is the merciful position
@brigidmania.bsky.social @brigidmania.bsky.social 
Chicago DOE @chicagodoe.bsky.social Making Chicago greener and more livable
Tracy Baim @tracybaim.bsky.social lgbtq+ \ journalist \ advocate \ chicago
lesbian \ feminist\ she\her 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🦄
Windy City Times cofounder 1985 \ author
Skeets my own.
Martin @martin-r-m.bsky.social 
Michael Pollack @michaelcpollack.bsky.social Cardozo Law professor writing about property and state & local government, but mostly sidewalks. Associate Dean & Co-Director of Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy
Bill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social Urban Geographer @ UMN. Cityscape columnist @ Minnpost. Skyway Don Quixote. Tread lightly on earth. he/him Author of "St. Paul: Urban Biography”
old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue i post public domain photographs from the john margolies roadside america archive in the library of congress. unaffiliated. built by @xor.blue
Patrick Gilsenan for 32nd Ward @patgilsenan.bsky.social Candidate for 32nd Ward Alderperson
Nick @thesunglasskid.bsky.social He has a curious mind with a photographer's eye and a compassionate heart.
Icon by RaeMyshu, banner by Phil Jackson
Ben Millett @benmillett.net I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.
🌈 🌈 🌈
📨 hello@benmillett.net
https://benmillett.net
Mike Bennett @mrhonorama.bsky.social Lawyer (State Appellate Defender), CHIRP Radio DJ (Sat. 9AM-Noon CDT at https://chirpradio.org), music & sports geek, politically aware, aging jock.
http://habloennui.blogspot.com/
Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social Cartoonist and comedian in Seattle. Buy my comix at BrettHamil.BigCartel.com, see my comedy at JOKETELLERS UNION every 2nd Wednesday at the Clock-Out Lounge
ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social I turn Art into Sports (and vice versa) | NO AI USED | “Everything I didn't know I needed" - follower testimonial
Frank Calabrese @frankcalabrese.bsky.social Cartography, GIS, maps, politics, and elections.
Chicago 📍
Chris Gentry @thechrisgentry.bsky.social Certified fast boi, lover of soccer tea, and unions
Debate Coach, Political Organizer, Writer, Baker
Natalie Oschrin, Charlottesville City Council @nat4cville.bsky.social Charlottesville City Councilmember. Graduate of Cville City Schools & UVA. Make housing more affordable and streets safer to move Cville forward. 🚲 🌇
Nat4Cville.com
Chicago DSA @chicagodsa.bsky.social Chicago Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America.
https://chicagodsa.org/
Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social A nerd at large. Writer. Musician.
Sometimes funny. 🏳️🌈
Join my sci-fi book club:
http://patreon.com/ellecordova
nerd humor • space & sci fi • books
That Person @that-person.bsky.social Your local asexual urbanist architecture student
Officially now a Chicagoan
Loren Johnson @lorenjohnson.bsky.social architect, urbanist, organizer, tabletop gamer, and essayist https://medium.com/@lorenordeanjohnson
President @ Heart of Lincoln Square
Cat Sharp @catsharp.bsky.social 📍Chicago
Best known for getting hit by a car
Josh Turek @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social Iowa House Rep for Council Bluffs and Carter Lake. 4x Paralympian, 2x Gold Medalist in wheelchair basketball. Disability advocate.
Ready to be Iowa's next U.S. Senator.
AT Protocol Developers @atproto.com Social networking technology created by Bluesky.
Developer-focused account. Follow @bsky.app for general announcements!
Bluesky API docs: docs.bsky.app
AT Protocol specs: atproto.com
Rail Passengers Association @railpassengers.org We are the oldest & largest national advocacy non-profit serving as a voice for the more than 40 million rail passengers in the U.S.
https://railpassengers.org/biolink
https://railpassengers.substack.com/
Chalkbeat @chalkbeat.org Chalkbeat is a nonprofit news network covering schools and education policy across the U.S. Follow our education journalism at chalkbeat.org. Have a news tip? Here's how you can reach us: ckbe.at/contact-chalkbeat or email us at community@chalkbeat.org
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
Sofi LaLonde @sofilalonde.bsky.social Journalist & Audio Producer. Currently editing the Optimist Economy podcast. Previously at Vox.com & WBEZ. 📍Chicago.
sofilalonde.com
optimisteconomy.com
Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social I'm a writer and a walker in LA. Tracking the city's megaevent progress at Torched. LA Podcast co-host, new episodes drop every Monday. LAUSD mom. @awalkerinla everywhere else. Sign up for my newsletter at torched.la 🔥
@chicago.at @chicago.at chicago.at
ntm @ntm.bsky.social mathematics, computation, history of science, climate action, systems, compositionality, urbanism in Chicago, bike lanes, type theory, tea, julia-lang, atproto dev
accelerationists btfo
Carrie Kisicki @cmkisicki.bsky.social Maryland Housing Advocacy Manager at @betterdcregion.bsky.social, bird and baseball fan. high priestess of woke 2. posts & opinions my own
john j. kim @jkimpictures.bsky.social 📷 @ Chicago Tribune
✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
http://www.jkimpictures.net
Capitol News Illinois @capitolnewsil.bsky.social Capitol News Illinois is a nonprofit, nonpartisan news service covering state government. A service of the Illinois Press Foundation.
Brenden Moore @brendenmoore.bsky.social Illinois government + politics reporter for @capitolnewsil.bsky.social. Corn dog connoisseur, White Sox fan. Always DePaul, UIS. Tips: bmoore@capitolnewsillinois.com
trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike she/her
I watch the trains go by from my living room.
Windy City Times @windycitytimes.com 🌈 The voice of Chicago's LGBTQ+ community since 1985.
📧 Sign up for our newsletters: https://windycitytimes.com/newsletters/
S Gronkiewicz-Doran for 45th Ward Alderperson @sgdfor45.bsky.social Bringing new leadership to Chicago's 45th Ward. Visit our site at www.sgdfor45.com to learn more, volunteer, donate, and sign up for our weekly newsletter (bit.ly/sgdnewsletter)
@smalldogsteffy.bsky.social @smalldogsteffy.bsky.social trying to make the world a better place, but hopefully we all are here
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
Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com Executive director of the Center for Building in North America (centerforbuilding.org), stephen@centerforbuilding.org. Personal account. Brooklyn, NY.
Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social Researcher on urban planning and public transportation.
https://marcochitti.substack.com/
David M Levinson ⁂ @transportist.org https://www.transportist.org
@transportist@mastodon.social
@transportist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Trnsprtst. Rogue Planner. Refreshingly Unromantic. So F*ing Lucid. fRSN. 2%.
Research: #Access, #TransportEconomics, #NetworkEvolution, #Traffic.
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org Individuals who have lost loved ones or been injured in a crash confronting traffic violence through advocacy and support. #EndTrafficViolence
GRIDS Vancouver @grids.reillywood.com An account for Reilly Wood's bad takes about cities. My good takes about computers are over at @reillywood.com
Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social the closer we are physically, the closer we are socially.
@nathansheskey.bsky.social @nathansheskey.bsky.social 
DLS @forensicgarlic.bsky.social Chicagoan. Valpo grad. Member of Half Acre Cycling. Awesome Foundation. Occasional Karaoke singer. Anti Fascist. Radically pro-transgender.
maybe: annie rauwerda @annierau.bsky.social more fun on depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
Illinois Traffic Cameras @iltrafficcams.bsky.social Posts videos from Illinois traffic cameras
Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social Chicago-based. Bikes. Books. Photography. Lot of politics.
Spacing @spacing.bsky.social Spacing.ca / Toronto urbanism uncovered in award-winning mag/web/books/podcasts.
Spacing Radio podcasts: spacingradio.bsky.social
Spacing Vancouver: spacingvancouver.bsky.social
Spacing Store: spacingstore.bsky.social
Vision Zero Network @visionzeronet.bsky.social The Vision Zero Network is a collaborative campaign helping communities reach their goal of Vision Zero -- eliminating traffic fatalities and severe injuries
visionzeronetwork.org
John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social 
@chisquaredtransit.bsky.social @chisquaredtransit.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ they/she
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
Eric Klinenberg @ericklinenberg.bsky.social Helen Gould Shepard Professor of Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowlege at NYU. New book: *2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed.* 
Sarah Goodyear @sgoodyear.bsky.social Writer. New Yorker. Co-host, The War on Cars podcast. Our book, Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile, is out now. lifeaftercars.com
Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social I share about walking, biking, great cities, & progressive politics.
I work for @streetsalliance.bsky.social (Seattle's walking, biking, and streets for people nonprofit), but these are my personal opinions.
John Morris @john-morris.bsky.social block prints
Chicago
http://tinycitypress.com
thechicagoneighborhoods.com @chgohoods.bsky.social One designer's take on the neighborhoods in his city, and other things too. Neighborhood prints and Chicago-inspired fonts available on the website: https://www.thechicagoneighborhoods.com/links
dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social Look up and stay curious. Mostly architecture.
Superdawg Drive-In @superdawg.bsky.social Not a wiener — not a frankfurter — not a red hot — but our own exclusive SUPERDAWG™. Since 1948. Open late.
Rudy Faust @rudyfaust.bsky.social 
Tony Jordan @tonyjordan.bsky.social Parking and local politics, mostly (and some dad-type jokes). President of the Parking Reform Network. Grist 50 Fixer.
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
Funny You Should Care @funnyyoushouldcare.bsky.social A Chicago comedy show that combines sketch comedy, improv, and interviews with policymakers and advocates to make complex public issues engaging and accessible for everyone.
Elizabeth Blasius @blaservations.bsky.social Architectural historian, writer and critic. Co-founder @presfutures. Old, new and future can coexist. She/her
🏳️🌈🚲Cole🚄🚟 @coleurbanist.bsky.social Chicago
Red/purple line enthusiast
Progressive
Occasional map maker
he/him
bsquiklehausen @bsquiklehausen.com I make stuff for transit and trains, but not only for transit and trains. 🚰
Oakland, CA, ex-NYC
he/him or they/them
Lakeshore Drive Slut @shredded-teat.bsky.social chicago bicycle supremacist she/her
William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social Gay urbanist (he/him), Coach Operator of the Year ‘21, ‘24, ROSE Award Winner ‘22, 3rd Generation Bus Operator, Near East Indy via The Athens of the Prairie // All views my own
Corli Jay @corli.thetriibe.com I write therefore I am 🖊️
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
Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city Visual urbanist. I like trains, buses, cities, and maps.
Art bot @art-institute.bsky.social Posting random artworks from Art Institute of Chicago's API. For more info, look at the API https://api.artic.edu/docs/#introduction
Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com Japanese-American physicist/translator/data scientist in Chicago. Writes about dishes, discs, and districts at https://www.satoruinoue.com
Japanese account: @inoueian.bsky.social
Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social Yes, I’m pulling the car over to look at plaques. I’ll be just a minute. Not a historian, but did minor in history at Indiana University. Formerly notgoingpro on other socials.
Kaarin Tisue @katchicago.bsky.social Investigations editor, Chicago Tribune. One Pulitzer Prize and seven finalists. My alter ego is a competitive ballroom dancer. UNC Tar Heel.
Adrian Martinez-De La Cruz @amartinez99.bsky.social Reporter for EvanstonNow.com // send tips, questions, etc to adrian@evanstonnow.com or 224-307-6253.
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
are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social chicago common brick lying in a tallgrass prairie | he/they
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
Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social Writing about history when I'm not gardening. #Chicago #HydePark #20th Century America through the lens of my family
Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social Eric_Erins on Twitter
Usually I’m out here posting buildings and real estate listings I think are interesting.
Chicago
Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music ∙ geekery ∙ media and comms ∙ more random musings than you can handle ∙ DC vibe checks & street photography ∙ somehow has a PhD ∙ opinions all mine ∙ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine
Sandy Johnston @sandypsj.bsky.social Transit geek. Planner. Cat dad. Cubs fan. Deputy Director of Regional Transit Planning at MBTA. Blogging much less than I'd like at www.itineranturbanist.wordpress.com.
Opinions my own.
Metro @metrochicago.com Your home for live music since '82.
linktr.ee/metrochicago
the jonrev projects @jonrev.com Observer of obsolescence.
Photographer & printmaker on Lake Wazzapamani. 🖕🇦👁️
Musings about retail/design/esoteric history/things on wheels/whatever...
www.jonrev.com
S.T. Bikes KC 🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎 @stbikeskc.bsky.social Vision Impaired
🚶♂️🚴 🚌 & 🚎 traveling at more of a human speed. I seek to be connecting with my neighbors and neighborhood.
Kansas City
Contact at stbikeskc@gmail.com
Divvy influencer @ticketmasterceo.com Columbus ✈️ Cincinnati
🌀 https://cailinpitt.com/timeline
Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social Research Assistant Professor of AI & Society at Binghamton University (SUNY) - Civics of Technology Board Member - Luddite Praxis - Dad Life - he/him