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We are all fools to have left Chicago. It was a town to play in; a town where you could stay yourself, and where the hoots of the critics couldn't frighten your style or drain your soul. Charlie preserved it in his heart. Our friendship was based, largely, on the nostalgia we shared for this stockyard Athens. We both knew that the world would turn up nothing better for us than the frowsy streets and hooligan towers of Chicago.

"We are all fools to have left Chicago. It was a town to play in; a town where you could stay yourself, and where the hoots of the critics couldn't frighten your style or drain your soul." — Ben Hecht, writing about his friendship and writing collaborations with Charles MacArthur

his mullet taught us to keep practical solutions at the forefront without becoming fatalistic and losing our ability to find joy in a dying world

Only about a cubic foot, but as extra credit it's also full of dirt from when a plant got knocked into it like a year ago

Cloth and Complicity: Seth Rockman on Plantations, Textiles, and the Art of Weaving - Public Books “But I had found a set of instructions in the archives of one of New England's leading manufacturers of low-end woollen cloth for enslaved wearers.”

An interview with a historian who set out to weave a textile of the type that would have been sold to plantations for use by enslaved people, using period equipment.

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Sign reading "he sold you flowers and ICE took him."

seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte

Ginger Rogers by Ernest Bachrach, 1935.

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We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.

We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.

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Same, 54k. I let the bots back in.

YouTube video by WGN News Video shows ICE agents handcuffing Chicago alderwoman inside Humboldt Park hospital - WGN News at 9

Another one that somehow went under the radar: teargassing outside the Humboldt Park Health ER on October 3rd. Wgn was there but somehow it went unremarked, literally just the direction of the wind kept the gas from blowing into the hospital youtu.be/WnLN8wHW_xY?...

a neon scene of a rotting log covered in moss and fungus sitting in a moonlit forest, with text below that reads GO INTO THE WOODS

there are friends and treasure in the forest
#art

I hate these things

An ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ Timeline - City Cast Chicago At something of a crossroads, we’re looking back at the last two months of “Operation Midway Blitz.”

I think you're right. I was looking up a timeline (Shout out City Cast) and that Logan tear gas seems like the first one in a neighborhood. My friend texted me that day because she lives close enough to Rico to have heard the whistles and beeps when that was happening.

Thanks! It's weird, right? I've been feeling vaguely gaslit since this whole scene went down. Thank you for looking into it.

I stopped filming unfortunately right before they started dropping cans, but you can see the wgn van on the right there, and the wgn cameraman is behind the ice agent on the left. I kinda assumed they had it covered

Thanks, I'd love to see it if you find anything! I was legitimately pretty shocked to see them deploy chemical weapons outside a hospital, and having no follow-up or outcry about that incident in particular was very surreal. There was a news van there!

I looked around after the event but didn't find any coverage! I have only my own little eyes & those of like 25 other people as verification lol

October 3rd they also threw teargas at protesters outside the Humboldt Park ER where Fuentes had been arrested, a few hours later. Mercifully blew away down the street instead of into the hospital. I'm surprised I haven't seen much coverage of this, wgn cameras were right there

small hours big time look up / east for peak Leonids tonight lads Jovian moons putting show too shout out to Ganymede

17/11/25 - nocturn

I've heard this about that village specifically, I can't imagine they'll keep it up with customers getting mad at them. I'd pay those kind of prices for like, a really quality designer piece in good condition, but it sounds like the valuation they're doing isn't even very well-informed

Ah too bad, cool chair tho! I've found em surprisingly comfy for working on projects, etc

Is that style of chair called an old maid chair?? I have one and I love it, which makes sense since I'm an old maid 😁

BOOKS Carla Bruni discusses taking readers inside ‘Chicago Homes’  As any Chicagoan can attest, the city is a testament to architecture. But that doesn’t just include skyscrapers one might see in the Loop; it also includes the various types of residences throughout the city—homes that come with rich histories. InChicago Homes: A Portrait of the City’s Everyday Architecture, LGBTQ+ preservation/sustainability consultant Carla Bruni teams with Wonder City Studio President Phil Thompson to present an entertainingly detailed guide to the architecture of the buildings in which most Chicagoans live.

BOOKS Carla Bruni discusses taking readers inside ‘Chicago Homes’ 

As any Chicagoan can attest, the city is a testament to architecture. But that doesn’t just include skyscrapers one might see in the Loop; it also includes the various types of residences throughout the city—homes that come with…

This chipmunk came up to me and said “Chicago will outlive the federal government” what did he mean by this

Machinalia : Boris Artzybasheff's Fantastic Visions of Living Machines - Flashbak “I am thrilled by machinery’s force, precision and willingness to work at any task, no matter how arduous or monotonous it may be. I would rather watch a thousand ton dredge dig a canal than see it do...

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Attended a really raucous bobbing sesh at the close of my local urban farm's growing season. Most apples in a minute was hotly contested, I think the winner got 10, and also very wet.

Women don't care about the Cybertruck.

Women only want one thing; and it's a 1941 North Shore Electroliner by Saint Louis Car Company.

Went through my collection of old roller skate skate labels and scanned/rescanned them all. I did not realize that I had amassed 182 different ones.

The original purpose of these things was to affix them to your roller skate case and showcase all the different places you skated.

Well keep me posted if you decide to go that way! Do you ever sell originals?

Do you sell prints? I've been thinking about this one since you posted it, I really love it