Midwest Expat

• Remember the Titans (every classroom had a copy)
• Romeo & Juliet (Zeffirelli & Luhrmann versions)
• The Odyssey (Armand Assante mini-series)
• Simpsons re-runs (game days for my English teacher fb coach turned registered sex offender)

"Notable names include House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Martin Heinrich."

HOW INTERESTING.

It is wild how fervently Alderman Raymond A Lopez wants to be a racist caucasian man

Allowing both/and would be a win. Nation at large has overbuilt commercial space and too many Zoning Appeals cases to allow ground floor residential on main corridors.

Building mural at Western Ave/21st Pl in Chicago in September 2025 depicting the aliens in Mars Attacks (1996, 106 minutes)

Same building at Western Ave/21st Pl in February 2026, where the mural now depicts Jesus and other Christian imagery

There is so much great public art in Pilsen, so it makes the rare downgrade like this corner all the more saddening.

His dream growing up was to be the Calvin peeing decal

Tired: Ban sports gambling
Wired: Nationalize DraftKings

Love that he wants to enforce gated community rules at “Compassion Baptist Church”

Et tu, Nando’s?

MFer thinking he’s clever with Sebastian Gorka in his name 🤢

Will probably be embarrassed by my alma mater as long as I live but today, proud to be a Knowlton School of Architecture graduate 🫡

The age progression guy with Nathan Fielder in Nathan for You

There are real human experts already doing these things, tyvm.

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Anyway here’s a big scary apartment high rise next to the Damen Green Line stop and a turreted up AutoZone opposite the Kedzie Orange line.

My fool’s spring activity has been going for runs, ending at a L stop and riding the train home. I try to be out of the way so others don’t have to be next to my sweaty ass but even when unavoidable, its gotta be preferable to smoking.

Pritzker to propose statewide zoning laws to spur homebuilding, limit local control Gov. Pritzker’s BUILD plan proposes statewide zoning laws to legalize granny flats and expand multi-unit housing.

There’s a lot to love in Pritzker’s “Building Up Illinois Developments” (BUILD) plan!

ADUs allowed statewide 🏘️
Up to eight homes on large residential lots 😏
Middle Housing exempt from parking mandates 🅿️
Standardized impact fees & review timelines 💰

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As long as they came away learning a little bit it’s all good. In my experience GIS classes never run smoothly. A lot of material to cover from scratch and people moving slowly, having questions, etc. set things back pretty quick.

Abigail wexner Research Institute

Most cursed children’s hospital

Can confirm.

got in an argument with this khaki wearing guy who had his pristine f150 parked all the way across a sidewalk (?) and in the course of the argument i asked ‘do you do a lot of backcountry driving in that thing’ and it upset him so bad he had to lock himself in his truck lmao

“Suburban” is a state of mind

Oh hell yes

And it doesn’t even have an expressway view 🤯

This is how it looks 8/9 blocks south of the site in question. What context am I supposed to be worried about with what’s proposed?

Won’t somebody please think of the windowless warehouses.

Yeah the years of study and public feedback is the problem lol, get rid of that shit

Then advocate for vigilantism you cowards!

'“We’ve (...) brought a democratic process to development and zoning; created and preserved at least 800 units of affordable housing,” among other accomplishments, Sigcho-Lopez said.'

BSL thinks giving veto power to half a block via an online poll is "democratic". What would Flores do differently?

U-Haul stepping in to promote neighborhoods of choice where most local governments fail.