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View of South corner of Damen and Clybourn showing large single story building most of the space with a Chase branch visible in the strip mall in the background from September 2024.
Screen cap from end of segment where kids ride their bike to the all star game. It shows 4 kids on their bikes outside the stadium, none wearing helmets and riding in the street.
View from upper deck seats at Wrigley Field showing a very large and mostly empty stage with only a drummer and guitarist on stage where the guitarist is doing many cool moves.
Strava route showing an attempt to enter the trail north of Superdawg and failing due to construction on the parking lot and trail entryway. The attempt to find an alternate route on Devon failed resulting in a complete route from Devon/Milwaukee to Devon/Caldwell. This is very unsafe.
List of odd jobs held by former 49ers head coach Jim Tomsula including night janitor, firewood cutter and doormat salesman
Street view of Orleans turning onto Division towards the northbound Clybourn protected bike lanes.
Instead, Kurkulis said his biggest issue is pedestrian safety. The protected bike lane separates parked cars from the sidewalk, creating a situation where customers — particularly older shoppers unfamiliar with the area — must cross the bike lane to reach their vehicles. “We’ve had close calls multiple times,” Kurkulis said. “Whenever we have elderly people in here, especially from the suburbs, generally one of us will walk them outside and make sure they don’t get run over by a bike.” Despite those concerns, Kurkulis said he supports the existence of bike lanes and understands why they were installed, recalling a fatal crash involving a cyclist he witnessed years before the project was built. Kurkulis added that the city could do more to improve interactions between cyclists and pedestrians, particularly as e-bikes and scooters become more common on the corridor.
Interior shot of bathroom with an exterior window on the left and a urinal and sink in the center of the shot with mirrors on the wall on the right.
Former multi-unit building in Roscoe Village converted to 5,685 sqft single family home.
May 7, 2026 — Nationally, public school current spending per pupil rose 6.6% from $16,526 in fiscal year (FY) 2023 to $17,619 in FY 2024, according to new data from the 2024 Annual Survey of School System Finances released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. Statistics are not adjusted for inflation or cost-of-living differences between geographic areas. https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2026/school-system-finances.html?hl=en-US
Costs $20/month to watch Cubs games in Chicago via Marquee
Street view of Clybourn near the Apple store and red line stop showing a car and UPS truck parked in the tow zone which is also the lane marked with sharrows for bikes.
Shabazz Palaces - Black Up cover
Radiohead - OK Computer
Chart visualization of CHIRP radio DJs over time. Demonstrates filter by DJ and viewing a specific week's playlist
16 years of CHIRP radio history in a single view. DJs aligned on the y-axis and weeks on the x-axis. A week where a DJ had a shift has a filled cell. Cells are color coded by DJ debut year.
Villa Taj Mansion on the Western edge of Cook County in Burr Ridge. A 30,000 sq ft middle eastern inspired mansion.
Purple Rio Zape flowers
Who is our favorite Commedia dell'Arte character? 2500 Americans polled: Columbine: 0% Scaramouche: 0% Pulcinella: 0% Pantalone: 0% il Dottore: 0% Don't know: 100%
Two-way sharrows on west side of Kimball leads to a controlled intersection between Kimball/Berteau but east of Kimball is westbound one-way so if you you were traveling east you're forced to turn onto a busy Kimball.
Search for Ice Cream in St. Ben's and Roscoe Village on Google maps showing almost no hits.
The cover of the Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime, which depicts an over the shoulder view of a driver driving exactly 55 miles per hour ("double nickels" in trucker slang) traveling southbound through downtown Los Angeles, where Interstate 10 ("The Dime"[23] in trucker slang) meets the San Pedro Intersection of Route 11/110. The album was named Double Nickels on the Dime as a reaction to the Sammy Hagar song "I Can't Drive 55," a protest against the federally imposed speed limit of 55 miles per hour on all U.S. highways in place at the time.
Cover of Theodore W. Allen's "The Invention of the White Race Volume 1."
Post from Chicago Bears wishing people Happy St. Patrick's Day showing the Chicago River dyed orange instead of green.
Headshot of Alderman Scott Waguespack appearing right above a headshot of Ray Lopez
Comments for the album on Bandcamp that are bleeding over into the side bar due to long track names and another comment saying it won't load into their music player properly.
Google maps directions from downtown Chicago to 3 Floyds Brewing in Munster Indiana. Highlights the section of the route where the Bears are claiming the site of their new stadium will be.
Cover to Bad Bunny's 2025 album Debí Tirar Más Fotos
You can look at the data and see that about 50% of the difference in levels of social trust between people in Italy and Scandinavia are reflected in the descendants of immigrants from those countries to the U.S., even after generations. You can then use your eyes to look at Minnesota versus New Jersey and see more social trust and less corruption in the former than the latter. You can even tie cultural background back to concrete social indicators! Parts of the midwest settled by Dutch settlers perform better on versus metrics than parts settled by Germans. Parts of the country settled by Puritans outperform nearly everywhere else in terms of good governance and low corruption.
Post from earlier today by @danielgray.com including a link to a Guardian article about cows scratching their back with a tool and the post text simply: "COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS"
Safety talk before the group ride at a nearby playground.
Scene from Mad Men S4E3 where Lane and Don go to the movies drunk. Lane quietly whispers to Don "This movie's very good".
5 star review of jif peanut butter with an included image of a two pieces of toast on a paper plate. Peanut butter is no visible anywhere in this image.
CTA train tracker showing loop bound brown line trains arriving in 10 and 27 minutes.
Photo of Dutch style herring with onions and pickles with a small Dutch flag planted in one of the herring pieces.
Panel from Captain Underpants where the main characters are slapping themselves because outside a store named "Everything Except Fabric Softener"
Google street view image of WIle E. Coyote Mural in Old Town in Chicago. The mural makes the building appear like a large bridge with dynamite attached to the underside with Wile E. Coyote in the bottom right corner poised to depress the plunger to make it explode.
Google streetview of intersection of Henderson and Lakewood in Chicago looking South. All parked cars are facing south because this is a one-way street.
Video clip of Mikhail Gorbachev from Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War with the player looking down at their feet as if they were dancing while the DJ Rashad song plays.
Reimagining of the original sign "Sidewalk Closed Local Citizens Only" with the words "Sidewalk Closed" replaced with "Hot Single" and a flirty emoji placed in the upper right corner and pixelated "Join now!" button pasted below the sign.
Screencap of Benny Johnson from X claiming: "Chicago ICE Facility Sniper Nest Hundreds of ICE officers have been injured by violent leftist protesters and terrorists at this facility. The Trump administration is not messing around anymore…"
Excerpt from 1997 New Yorker article about Trump: "“We hadn’t been airborne long when Trump decided to watch a movie. He’d brought along Michael, a recent release, but 20 minutes after popping it into the VCR he got bored and switched to an old favorite, a Jean-Claude Van Damme slugfest called Bloodsport, which he pronounced ‘an incredible, fantastic movie.’ By assigning to his son [Eric] the task of fast-forwarding through all the plot exposition — Trump’s goal being ‘to get this two-hour movie down to 45 minutes’ — he eliminated any lulls between the nose hammering, kidney tenderizing and shin whacking. When a beefy bad guy who was about to squish a normal-sized good guy received a crippling blow to the scrotum, I laughed. ‘Admit it, you’re laughing!’ Trump shouted. ‘You want to write that Donald Trump was loving this ridiculous Jean-Claude Van Damme movie, but are you willing to put in there that you were loving it, too?’”"
The notorious floating bike lane between Chicago and Ogden avenues, looking north. Photo: John Greenfield
Dog wearing Kirk Herbstreit's headset in the broadcasting booth
Antony Fantano
First person perspective of person holding baby while also having a laptop on their lap. In the background there is a TV with the fantasy football lobby on screen.
Excerpt from CWB article: Around midnight, 911 callers reported gunfire in the area and later called in a disturbance involving a man with a gun and a group of women fighting at 79th and Marshfield, according to CPD dispatch records. A police surveillance camera operator pulled up a feed from the area and reported seeing about eight women fighting, but no visible firearm. About 30 minutes later, the operator noted that the fighting had stopped and that the “main girl” involved in the scuffle had lost her shirt. Roughly 10 minutes after that, though, a Chicago Fire Department crew found the same woman—the “main girl”—lying on the 7800 block of South Marshfield with gunshot wounds to her face and leg. Officers at the scene said witnesses refused to cooperate with the investigation, and no one reported gunfire to 911. Police recovered a single shell casing and a can of pepper spray near the woman. She was taken to Christ Hospital, where police said she was listed in fair condition.
Excerpt from "The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1" where they quote Daniel O'Connell: "I have chosen to present the exchange in the form of a series of the Cincinnati Repealers’ “Allegations” and O’Connell “Rebuttals.” Allegation 1: The abolitionists have caused the treatment of the Negro to become more harsh. Rebuttal 1: Not true. But if it were true, it would add to the indictment of the slaveholder, who would punish an innocent person for the offense of a third party."
Vince McMahon meme with 4 panels with text from top to bottom: Various Private; Some Users; Anonymously; Potential Plans
Image of Pilsen Community Books "Always Carry a Book" tote.
Image of a sewer drain in the middle of the bike path on Clybourn heading northwest.
Cover of Stephen Curry children's book "I Have A Superpower".
Headline in my inbox is "Lincoln Square Retailers See Sales Drop in Car-Free Zone"
Now playing "You Should Be Hated Here" from Carissa's Wierd album "Songs About Leaving"
Screencap from Bloomberg's Billionaire index showing Musk as #1 with $330B. They show additional data like: last change -$558M (-0.1%) and YTD change -$103B (-23.8%).
Screenshot from twitter with the text: "Make fun of Bill Simmons all you want but if he didn't help start Keepin' it 1600 I woulda never started following the Jons on Twitter and been made aware of Chapo and start becoming radicalized by the wider leftist podcast ecosystem."
Fridge at Walgreens with a video screen for a door.
A screenshot of a review of Jif Creamy Peanut butter. The review image is 2 pieces of plain toast. Jif Peanut Butter is not present in the image.