Daniel Kay Hertz

If the stuff happening in Chicago were happening in New York City it would be on every television on earth right now

a photograph of the interior of a church. Several people are visible sitting in pews. In the pew immediately in front of the photographer, a black human-sized cardboard cutout in the outline of a woman is visible, as though a shadow is sitting in the pew in front of you.

Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.

Picking up dinner from Clark St in Rogers Park (a Mexican business district). Total ghost town on a Friday night.

Why *is* it that concrete construction in the US is considered incredibly expensive, while in other countries it's just the default?

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Extremely excited that Chicago’s Residential Investment Fund has a website and has released an RFI for potential development partners to build high quality, permanently mixed income housing in Chicago! www.chicagorif.com

Zeteo traveled to Chicago for a first-hand look at the president's militarized crackdown on one of America’s great cities.

Watch @swin24.bsky.social's report:
zeteo.com/p/watch-insi...

Grand Bronzeville mansion for sale after museum plan fizzles One of Bronzeville's most impressive historical facades will remain vacant and decaying, a dimmer prospect than it seemed to have just four years ago.

Just very depressing that this didn’t work out. Don’t know if this is why but the former alder held this up for years over parking www.chicagobusiness.com/real-estate/...

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Extremely excited that Chicago’s Residential Investment Fund has a website and has released an RFI for potential development partners to build high quality, permanently mixed income housing in Chicago! www.chicagorif.com

Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...

NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Color photo of the front door to an old apartment building. Kind of neoclassical white door surround. Cornice comes to a triangular point. On the left, in red paint, WEL. On the right COME.

Welcome to my thread of no context West Ridge pics

No-so-fun fact: the ICC does not know that Puerto Rico is part of the United States. They have it organized under their global code collection, right between Pakistan and Saint Kitts and Nevis, rather than in their U.S. collection

People are constantly telling me this in code. The reason is that the code has no performance objectives, so you can only evaluate proposals relative to the risk of what’s currently allowed in other situations. So if you don’t like somebody’s proposal and they try to analogize it to something else…

There's definitely an RM version but most are B-3

No it's B-3

As far as I can reason there's no reason this would have been fully impossible pre-2022 but the Connected Communities parking flexibility expansion probably massively increased the number of places where this was possible

many such cases (the L deviating from the neighborhood arterial) (hello, Archer Avenue)

I guess in many places these were impossible pre-Connected Communities because of parking

But like I'm not making up that these things weren't a thing in the 2010s, right? Back then you would have gotten like ground floor retail + three floors of stacked through-floor units?

Like is this an outcome of some zoning or building code change from the last several years @jmings.bsky.social @jessezorr.bsky.social

City Council approves development at 4100 W. Belmont The Chicago City Council has approved a mixed-use development at 4100 W. Belmont. Planned by Belmont Karlov LLC, the project site is located at the northwest corner of W. Belmont Ave and N. Karlov Ave...

What's the deal with these five story infill buildings? I feel like we didn't used to see these before a few years ago? chicago.urbanize.city/post/city-co...

I asked Biss if he would ever accept AIPAC's money or support in the future if they offered it, given its comments about him and

His response: "I'm not going to take AIPAC's money and I'll leave it at that."

NEW: Evanston mayor and #IL09 candidate Daniel Biss told me tonight he would not accept AIPAC money in the future if elected to Congress, in response to the email I've obtained that calls him and Kat Abughazaleh "dangerous detractors."

More on what he told me below:

A multiple line chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Views of Donald Trump by age in his second term." The chart has the sub-headline: "Do you have a favorable or an unfavorable opinion of the following people? [Donald Trump] (% with a very or somewhat favorable opinion minus the % with a very or somewhat unfavorable opinion)." The chart has the note: "Note: Responses of "don't know" are not shown."

NEW Economist/YouGov
Net favorability of Donald Trump [at the start of his second term | now] among U.S. adult citizens by age
18-29: +5 | -39
30-44: -6 | -14
45-64: +12 | -10
65+: -4 | -10
today.yougov.com/politics/art...

This mfer pulled me over and asked me if I was a us citizen.

What kind of legislative protections do you have in mind?

Visited the Museum of History in Gatineau yesterday and saw this new piece - their residential school memorial - and it’s really striking.

Okay but that thread was so annoying

Deleted post that is unfair to NYT reporter (don't post before coffee). But including image of response by @besttrousers.bsky.social about the way the NYT is wrong in a different way than I had assumed.

The housing crisis is really weighing on Spain (satirical headline: Spain’s economy is booming because people need to work hard to afford a 200-sq. m. rathole). But is any YIMBY movement building with it? Free-market and social housing starts, by year: elordenmundial.com/mapas-y-graf...

Having those overly bright LED headlights is a sign you are a sociopath