Sidestreets

…and the footprints show the sign is being commonly ignored, so something more should be done.

From left, cast members Ellen Steinke and Hayley Cox interview guests Nora Leerhsen and Mike Simmons on stage.

The cast of Funny You Should Care finishes a musical number with razzle and dazzle and top hats.

The cast of Funny You Should Care adds Beastie Boys-style emphatic interjections to a patter song about safe streets featuring Ellen Steinke in the center.

Thanks to @ellensteinke.bsky.social and the cast at Funny You Should Care for the great show about safe streets tonight.

Special guests Nora Leerhsen of @chicagocta.bsky.social and @mikesimmonsil.bsky.social were great in convo and in improv!

[CTA brown line mirror effect]

A brown line train arrives at Sedgwick.

You’re my hero, brown line 🚈

The google maps view of Sunnyside Mall. In dark mode.

Everything the light touches (and some that it doesn’t)

Richard Buckminster Fuller American, 1895-1983, Dymaxion Car for Henry Kaiser, Longitudinal Section, A side-view section drawing of a bulbous dome-shaped car showing its internal mechanics, a steering wheel in two positions.A side-view section drawing of a bulbous dome-shaped car showing its internal mechanics, a steering wheel in two positions.

Dymaxion Car for Henry Kaiser, Longitudinal Section, by Richard Buckminster Fuller
American, 1895-1983
c. 1943

More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/191479

Pilsen was modest enough to cover its hole in the 50’s.

The Sunnyside pedestrian mall in Sheridan Park.

🎵 On the Sunnyside of the street 🎵

I don't see a river, only a canal!

The ordinance is here: chicityclerkelms.chicago.gov/Matter/?matt...

Your alderman's contact information is here: chicago.councilmatic.org/council-memb...

I'd love it if some people who know how to read ordinances could help make sure aldermen know what this ordinance is and isn't.

Looking at @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social @bikegridnow.org @lilybeansdad.bsky.social @bkevenides.bsky.social @chicritmass.bsky.social for my 🚲fam!

The substitute ordinance that passed out of committee only applies to commercial vehicles, doesn't give a bounty, and leaves enforcement to city officers.

But @chicago.suntimes.com called it a 'snitch law', and your alder was more likely to read that article than the actual ordinance.

A northbound truck for Windy City Movers parks on top of concrete barriers protecting a southbound bike lane on Clark Street.

The Windy City Movers haul stuff from the illegally parked truck into the parking lot of a Public Storage facility.

On the same block at the same time, an Amazon van blocks the same southbound bike lane where it mixes with a bus stop.

Photos like this of unsafe blocking of protected bike lanes and bus stops by commercial vehicles would be sent to 311 for rapid deployment of parking enforcement workers under Chicago’s SO2024-0010993.

It will be before city council on Wednesday. Call your alder!

Olive Fremstad holding the head of her beloved John the Baptist in the Metropolitan Opera's 1907 production of Salome by Richard Strauss

It seemed like a bit of a weird choice for Valentine’s…

Sticker in lavender, white and orange. Features an animated peach. Reads neighbors for Archer Safe Streets. Something we can all get behind.

Happy Valentines Day to Chicago community builders everywhere including Neighbors for Archer Safe Streets and especially artists who generously share their gifts for a better city for all 🍑

A person holds a pink bouquet of flowers while waiting for the CTA green line.

A couple ride the CTA train while one holds a bouquet of roses. (Obscured for anonymity.)

Flowers on the L, Valentine’s Day

🌹🚇💌

Angled view of the Vignelli map of the New York subway on display at the Newberry Library.

Closeup view of the Vignelli map of the New York subway on display at the Newberry Library.

A Vignelli masterpiece.

With @sorenspicknall.bsky.social and @satoruinoue.com and I it was apparently quite crowded with chi-bskies today!

Did you also visit today???

I assume it’s an instruction now.

Technically it goes until tomorrow, but the library is closed for Presidents Day.

Most of it is online, and you should be able to browse the Rand McNally collection at public hours.

“I would kill to have a hybrid-electric sedan,” General Motors President Mark Reuss said during a recent company town hall. “We’re working on how to do that.”

Conveniently for Ruess, GM mostly makes large SUVs that are very efficient at killing.

48 in any other unit of temperature is much worse biking weather.

Though in K or R it’s moreso deadly to exist at all.

You were there before me, I checked for my dot in your photo!

I was there in the exhibit’s final hour, belatedly heeding the advice of @stevevance.net to “Do Go”.

The score for John Cage’s Quicksteps and Waltzes Featuring instructions to go to ambiguously defined places in the Chicago area.

Wait I was also there today and feeling cagey.

Fun fact: the rest of the Camry Lot used to be a sprawling complex called the House of the Good Shepherd, which housed women and girls up until the 70s. The current operation on the site is a successor

I feel like I should clarify that this is Chicago with the map oriented with a right-facing north.

This is not Toronto.

I added my own dot, thanks to CTA fearmongerer Ald. Jim Gardiner.

Green is Asian, orange is Latino, Blue is Black, Pink is White, Mauve is Other, Red is “Don’t Go”

Here is the map key

A map of Chicago with colored dot stickers. Major red “don’t go” areas include Humboldt Park, Garfield Park, and Englewood. Smaller clusters include Austin and near 95th/Dan Ryan.

The last day of Tonika Johnson’s map installation at the @newberrylibrary.bsky.social

🔴 is where people have been told to not go, other colors are demographics.