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I’ve thought about it more and I think you’re right, gonna delete the original since it feels unhelpful in this moment

What do you mean by empty occurrence?

If you get a chance in the future, can you ask him specifically how the Broadview security perimeter does not constitute “establishing a security or traffic perimeter surrounding [immigration enforcement] operations”? bsky.app/profile/lumb...

I’m confused why crowd control is a loophole since the statute explicitly names “establishing a security and traffic perimeter surrounding […] operations” as a disallowed activity bsky.app/profile/lumb...

I would be very interested to read about this history if you can dig anything up!

The irony is that many if not most Chicagoans do indeed live their lives this way

Text from the IHS home price index that reads: “Areas with the largest increases include much of suburban Cook County as well as City of Chicago submarkets where single-family homes sell for prices below the citywide median. These areas include south suburban Calumet City/Harvey and Chicago Heights/Park Forest where single-family house prices increased by 86.4 and 80.9 percent, respectively. In Chicago, gains were highest in Englewood/Greater Grand Crossing (97.0 percent), Chatham/West Pullman (78.9 percent), South Chicago/Hegewisch (71.2 percent), and Austin/North Lawndale (71.1 percent).”

3 years is still a very short span of time for a property’s value to double, but as the article mentions, the market has been incredibly hot on the South and West Sides since Covid. IHS’ SFH index has seen a 97% increase in Englewood/Grand Crossing, for ex. housingstudies.org/releases/coo...

Each property in Cook County gets reassessed once every three years, so the last year the City of Chicago was reassessed was 2021, just as the Covid housing market was heating up. These increases are still large, but it’s more accurate to think of them as 3-year increases rather than 1-year

I’m interested!

Gotcha! In that case my final plug would be for Lou Mitchell’s, which is a rare Sunday option

Monk’s is also fun though the beer menu is the highlight, so that would only be my first choice if I was with an enthusiastic lunch drinker

Oasis is always a good bet though they’re closed on Sundays, Maharaj is also solid and has good lunch specials

In these dark times, we have to stay focused on the important stuff (meeting KPIs and delivering shareholder value)

My partner and I have taken to buying a bag of egg and cheese hand pies from Middle East Market and keeping them in the freezer so that we can pop a couple in the microwave for a minute or two when we’re desperate for a quick breakfast

The ones I hear are usually katydids!

I’m curious how this would differ in scope from Hugo?

Where’s this from?

Thank you, I love the work you've done using the data we publish!

The West Loop location of Xi’an Cuisine rules

Thank you for your leadership on these critical issues!

The veggie lunch combos at Maharaj on Van Buren hold a special place in my heart

I think WMATA suffers from similar problems which might explain why it’s in the same tier despite being in a healthier place than CTA? Versus say LA, whose metro network is much smaller but is focused on the core

Terrible land use outside the core (Howard branch red line notwithstanding) + an aggressively radial system mostly designed to take office workers to/from downtown during rush periods would be my guess — but 2019 stats would definitely be interesting evidence for or against

It’s very convenient! But once you made it to the park I’m curious if you did any trails? Or did you just hang at the beach?

Which trails did you do when you were at the dunes? Were they comfortable on your bike?

That iconic blast of heat as you turn the corner onto Ardmore at the northern terminus of the Lakefront Trail

My understanding is that the current bill would not raise the transfer tax in the City since it’s already higher here. I think that’s the right thing to do but it does shift the burden. I’m not an expert in the details of the bill though, so I may be wrong

Maybe that message will work (I certainly hope it does) but I don’t actually think it’s factually true since we would need much less than $1.5b if our goal were just to maintain status quo at Metra. But time will tell, I do hope suburban legislators see it the way you’ve described it

As a concrete example, an expanded real estate transfer tax hits the suburbs hardest, and those are going to be key votes to get to a supermajority

I forgot that development authority is part of the governance bill, I’m very unsure how that will play but if pressed I would bet that development authority gets sacrificed in order to compromise with the suburbs and get to yes on board composition