If the stuff happening in Chicago were happening in New York City it would be on every television on earth right now
24.10.2025 22:14 โ ๐ 844 ๐ 194 ๐ฌ 26 ๐ 21@danielkayhertz.bsky.social
Personal account. Housing Director at Impact for Equity, a law and policy center in Chicago. Former policy director, Chicago Department of Housing. Book "The Battle of Lincoln Park" on the origins of gentrification in Chicago. ๐& ๐
If the stuff happening in Chicago were happening in New York City it would be on every television on earth right now
24.10.2025 22:14 โ ๐ 844 ๐ 194 ๐ฌ 26 ๐ 21a 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.
25.10.2025 01:57 โ ๐ 13266 ๐ 4062 ๐ฌ 350 ๐ 253Picking up dinner from Clark St in Rogers Park (a Mexican business district). Total ghost town on a Friday night.
25.10.2025 01:59 โ ๐ 57 ๐ 11 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 5Why *is* it that concrete construction in the US is considered incredibly expensive, while in other countries it's just the default?
23.10.2025 11:38 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Extremely excited that Chicagoโs 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
24.10.2025 15:23 โ ๐ 23 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1Zeteo traveled to Chicago for a first-hand look at the president's militarized crackdown on one of Americaโs great cities.
Watch @swin24.bsky.social's report:
zeteo.com/p/watch-insi...
Just very depressing that this didnโt work out. Donโt know if this is why but the former alder held this up for years over parking www.chicagobusiness.com/real-estate/...
24.10.2025 16:52 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Extremely excited that Chicagoโs 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
24.10.2025 15:23 โ ๐ 23 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldnโt 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
27.06.2025 03:48 โ ๐ 83 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0No-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
22.10.2025 20:18 โ ๐ 31 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0People 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 whatโs currently allowed in other situations. So if you donโt like somebodyโs proposal and they try to analogize it to something elseโฆ
23.10.2025 02:29 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0There's definitely an RM version but most are B-3
23.10.2025 02:24 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0No it's B-3
23.10.2025 02:24 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0As 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
23.10.2025 02:23 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0many such cases (the L deviating from the neighborhood arterial) (hello, Archer Avenue)
23.10.2025 02:20 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I guess in many places these were impossible pre-Connected Communities because of parking
23.10.2025 02:01 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0But 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?
23.10.2025 01:58 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Like is this an outcome of some zoning or building code change from the last several years @jmings.bsky.social @jessezorr.bsky.social
23.10.2025 01:47 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0What'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...
23.10.2025 01:46 โ ๐ 22 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 0I 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.
21.10.2025 18:32 โ ๐ 637 ๐ 233 ๐ฌ 31 ๐ 11What kind of legislative protections do you have in mind?
21.10.2025 17:35 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Visited the Museum of History in Gatineau yesterday and saw this new piece - their residential school memorial - and itโs really striking.
20.10.2025 14:13 โ ๐ 242 ๐ 46 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 5Okay but that thread was so annoying
20.10.2025 13:51 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Deleted 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.
20.10.2025 13:39 โ ๐ 51 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 0The housing crisis is really weighing on Spain (satirical headline: Spainโs 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...
17.10.2025 13:03 โ ๐ 28 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 2Having those overly bright LED headlights is a sign you are a sociopath
20.10.2025 00:52 โ ๐ 76 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 1