Alex Nelson

Just watched someone trying to navigate an icy intersection with a wheelchair almost get plowed into by a delivery robot that had raced across the street and almost got hit by a car in the process as the light was changing.

Yeah we all need to start carrying baseball bats

Woman fatally struck by CTA bus after apparent slip in South Shore: Chicago police

What a tragedy.

#PlowTheSidewalks is literally a matter of life and death in Chicago.

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The 'shape' in question is the dark star in the top right of the frame but it took me a bit to realize what they were referring to, since there are plenty of static shapes in the background image.

This is far and away the craziest captcha I have ever encountered.

A stupid delivery robot that went off the sidewalk into a snowy parkway

This delivery robot appears to be stuck.

Little Village Chamber Leader Thanked Border Patrol Agents As They Arrested Neighbors, Video Shows Little Village, an enclave for Mexican Americans and immigrants, was heavily targeted during Operation Midway Blitz. After Block Club uncovered the video, the chamber said the employee was no longer e...

Video shows him during a raid in Little Village saying to Border Patrol Agents "My regards for all of you and the work that you guys are doing... God bless you guys.”

At the time he was Director of Community Outreach at Little Village Chamber of Commerce.

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Join us on Sunday, December 7th at the West Loop branch for a community meeting to go over what happened to #PlowTheSidewalks and discuss where we go next.

📍West Loop Branch (122 N Aberdeen)
🗓️ December 7th
⏰ 2-4pm

RSVP ➡️ mobilize.us/s/qqb6u8

Her baby was in the NICU. She was in ICE detention. Before Trump took office, postpartum immigrants were rarely detained by ICE. Nayra Guzmán was detained while her 15-day-old baby was in the NICU.

Nayra Guzmán was 15 days post C-section — going to see her baby in the NICU — when she was taken to Broadview and held in custody for about 34 hours.

She slept on a bench and barely got food. She couldn't pump.

Her story is a rare window into the growing detention of pregnant & postpartum people.

My shoveled, clean sidewalk stands out on a block with snow on the ground. There's also a cleared bus pad that is visible further down the way.

Every now and then I go out on my balcony to admire my perfectly shoveled sidewalk and feel morally superior. And yes I am the reason the bus stop down the way is cleared as well. 😇

Her baby was in the NICU. She was in ICE detention. Before Trump took office, postpartum immigrants were rarely detained by ICE. Nayra Guzmán was detained while her 15-day-old baby was in the NICU.

The administration has taken into custody immigrants who are medically vulnerable and whose detention threatens not only their own health but also that of their newborn children — typically U.S. citizens — by depriving them of early bonding beneficial to a baby’s lifelong wellbeing.

A sidewalk and ADA ramp are covered in compacted snow and ice.

See an uncleared sidewalk? We want to see it too.

Be sure to post and share with the tag #PlowTheSidewalks!

The proposed Chicago city budget has a $5 million line item for a ShotSpotter replacement. Abandoning this failed pursuit would free up the funds needed to maintain 2025 funding levels at our city libraries, which would still leave the libraries underfunded but would avoid disastrous proposed cuts.

Happy "my dog is from California and refuses to take walks in this weather" season to all who celebrate.

RT to scare a Chicago alderperson #PlowTheSidewalks

also curious how many that oppose the #plowthesidewalk idea were out shoveling their walkways and neighbours to prove that the city does not need to spend the money…

That was the snowfall that inspired #PlowTheSidewalks!

Yes. And we've heard from people who would like to do this work if the opportunity was available to them.

What if — hear me out — instead of hiring a person to only plow in front of a single business, we hired them to go down the entire block….and the next…and the next…

We could even have a small fleet to cover whole swaths of the city. #PlowTheSidewalks

A "larger" sweeping machine in Göttingen. A Bücher CityCat VS20 with 3 sweeping brushes (one on a movable arm) and a 2 m³ tank. It is 4.2 meters long and 1.1 meters wide.

A even smaller sweeping machine sweeping a sidewalk, with a guy with a leaf blower supporting it by blowing the leaves out of the street-side greenery into the path of the machine. I don't know the model, but these also come without the brushes and can carry a snow shield and an apperatus to spray saline fluid.

The simpler vehicle outfitted for cleaning the bike paths. Outside of winter, these are used for service crews, street sweepers, and emptying the public bins around the city.

My city has these for sweeping. They have also simpler variant for emptying public bins in the city. These can carry snow plows and spray saline fluid to keep the bike paths open in winter. In autumn, they operate in tandem, one sweeping the street and the other carrying a guy with a leaf blower.

But *how* will they #PlowTheSidewalks? With what technology?

A true Chicago 'Welcome Home.'

Rewatching 'Charlie's Angels' which was an absolute favorite of mine growing up. This movie definitely had an outsize role in my formative understanding of womanhood.

Literally not a single person that has engaged with your post save for Kyle and myself thinks it's fake. Every QT and every reply is from a poster that thinks it's real. You're willfully spreading misinformation and tanking your credibility in the process.

A push notification from Lyft that reads "Ready when you land. Schedule your airport pickup and skip the scramble to find a ride. Your driver will be ready when you are."

I don't like that Lyft knows I'm on an airplane.

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.

If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

The Pillsbury Dough Boy float at the Macy's Parade

He is risen

Chicago literally has a queer poker scene.

I think my brain is broken. I take plenty of the normal tourist pics and selfies, but I also have so many pics of public bathrooms and broken sidewalks.

Building raided by ICE now ‘falling apart from the inside out,’ South Shore residents say • The TRiiBE “No one paid attention to the fact that people were living here without heat before ICE came,” said Infiniti Gant, a housing organizer with Southside Together. “People were living here with mice and r...

“No one paid attention to the fact that people were living here without heat before ICE came,” said Infiniti Gant, a housing organizer with Southside Together. “People were living here with mice and roaches and flea infestation before ICE.”

Oh yes please! I'll DM you my email