Pokey

picking up a games magazine in the mid 2000s means you were being treated to approximately 300 images just like this one every month, in between a page of adverts for phone sex hotlines and fawlty towers ringtones

No no no no no no no no no. Build a parking garage on the existing lot if you want more parking.

Thornton, IL

📷Panasonic Lumix G100
📅February 28th, 2026

(of course I track every bus and railcar I ride on. You don't?)

the CTA's 2600-series cars are mostly confined to the Orange & Brown Lines these days, but the Blue Line still has a slim handful. I've had pretty good luck catching them. In recent months I've rode on Nos. 2736, 3128, 2999, and 2979

Rosemont is the Dubai of Chicago (extremely derogatory)

The Dan Ryan Expressway was built to increase segration in Chicago, displaced tens of thousands of Black Chicagoans and increases polution in neighborhoods. Why is naming it after someone supposed to be an honor?

Quotidian beauty. in #chicago on my #digicam

#photo #photography #photographer #film #analog #digital #urban #urbex #city #church #architecture #building #landscape #transit #historic #midwest #nostalgia #nostalgic #art #lonely #walk #walking

Buddy you best start believing in events. You’re in one

I mean it's not like poor people (who are most likely to accidentally overdraw a card) are the most reliant on transit or anything. Augh.

Also super cool how this extends to the Ventra *app* as well, so I have to do a stupid shell game where I transfer the money to a different card in order to add it to my transit card. The new Ventra updates better fix this shit but I'm not hopeful.

stumbled upon this incredible, old school billboard surviving in Hermosa. I'd only seen this style as little model train scenery before! There's still a gas station here, but no longer a Marathon.

I fell for a vibe-coded Spotify-like wrapper for Soulseek called Sonosano, really bummed me out, cause it worked alright and was real sleek. I'd heard accusations of vibe-coding, but being unverified I continued on- until I noticed they left the ChatGPT footer in their Github page.

"urbs in horto" sounds like what you get from translating nudes in bio back and forth from Chinese to English like 20 times

There's this beautiful level of "busy' on a bus, right between "full" and "crush loaded", that really makes you feel alive

Americans are addicted to cars, but in many ways it's a forced addiction. Decades of policy have made cars the dominant mode of travel at the expense of others, and marketing reinforces the car as the "best" choice. This isn't to excuse individual choices, but car dependency is a systemic issue.

Mexican Dance Studio Students Doused With Water, Threatened With ICE In 'Hate Incident' Neighbors threw liquid on kids leaving a dance class at Ballet Folklorico de Chicago. Police are investigating while the community rallies around the dance studio and its students.

Absolutely vile act by people who live next to this dance studio and had no hesitation about being caught

Old Cars In The City, Part 8

Mercury Grand Marquis
Volkswagen Beetle
Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme
Dodge Sprinter

I am kinda fascinated by art that you can clearly tell is a horrible racist caricature but times have changed so much I can't really tell who it's a racial caricature *of*.

I feel like we're on track to have "weird" Asian snacks that aren't actually sold in Asia, but only exist for those crappy snack grocery stores, in the same way that Mexican Coke isn't actually sold in Mexico.

Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

How Houses Re-Enchant Themselves

From the essay "The Ecology of The Abandoned Farmhouse" found in Beyond The Fields We Know: An Almanac of Midwestern Prairie Spirits.

why does laundry have to take so goddamn long, I wanna go do stuff for my birthday!!

What ever happened to the 7 buildings on Preservation Chicago’s 1st Endangered Buildings list? A look back at the seven sites initially highlighted by Preservation Chicago as threatened — and their most recent status.

Six out of seven ain't bad. The Trib's Kori Rumore looks at the current status of the 7 structures on Preservation Chicago's first, 2002 "Most Endangered" list.
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/07/p...

Doing one of those wine cork backsplashes but with monster energy pulltabs

I'm not especially superstitious but two days of ominous fog followed by thunderstorms sure feels like a portent of *something*

I've heard "front yard businesses" float around in urbanism circles a few times, but nothing snappy. When it's a suburban house with a garage jutting out the front, I've heard "snouthouses"

#catcrumb

why are you so small