Jesse Orr

Yeah Borges loathed him

Raul Alfonsín top guy though, probably most principled/least corrupt Argentine president of past decades.

As one of my aunts put it he actually lived and died living in a normal middle-class apt, didn’t really steal anything!

Eh not necessarily - as a middle class urbanite decent chance you’d end up a Radical, Argentina’s OG democratizers turned loser middle-class urban more anti-populist party

Worth watching Argentina, 1985 partially for a sense of what the left-wing hippie Peronists were like

Lol I remember one my grandparents’ best friends, who were all leftists, once told us about how she wore red the day Evita died to celebrate (they left the country soon after to come to the States).

Interestingly grandparent generation basically all antiperonist, but my mom’s generally Peronist.

This reminding me that I also need to get around to reading @kevinerdmann.bsky.social’s book at some point…

This is in no way a dunk, but reading the blurbs of From Boom to Bubble makes it clear how much the discourse has changed - “overbuilding” discourse is the post-recession era replaced by emphasis on its opposite.

The question is which part of today’s discourse will be the same in ~10 years!

Every time I bike down Racine (which is often) I am always saying “Wow what a nice street” to myself

5-6% citywide among the primary electorate is super impressive.

I’d LOVE to know this number/percent by ward.

But Daniel, that’s a high-rise canyon!

[Ignore the fact that buildings would still be shorter than the RoW is wide]

Would love to see a regional income percentile chart that accounted for age, household size and composition.

Incredible. What was the percent, if you have it?

To answer this question well you also want to age-adjust it, which is pretty hard (and doesn’t need to be done actually lol).

Someone making $120k fresh out of college is a rich 22 year old, but class status is more slow/sticky than income and their class status is still parental dependent.

Lol wut.

Agree with this but with an age caveat - being 65+ and being *able to retire but choosing not to* v different than the same at 40 or even 50.

Delhi not the first real city I’ve lived in (Chicago!) but the first place I ever lived on my own without roommates.

Wait lol you’ve also lived in Delhi??

Next time you stop by for a PB chat gotta bring it up

Going north is an issue which is why Bryn Mawr should have been a people line station and they should 1000% add one at Loyola…

Wonder what the time savings are on running the Lawrence bus like that vs. straight. Four additional turns is no joke, and can easily transfer to purple at Wilson or Belmont if desired.

Yeah in an ideal world purple line gets stops at Bryn Mawr and Loyola and run all day.

I’m super curious what the annual cost for all-day purple line would be - I suspect it is a lot but not that much extra considering the $800M hole. Have there been CTA studies that are public?

Fwiw I don’t think we should incentive narrow or wide buildings with different allowed heights but it makes no sense that 100 feet of street frontage is allowed to be taller by-right if it is all developed all at once than incrementally parcel-by-parcel. Absolutely silly.

Our current zoning rules also incentivize wider buildings (they get more height) which is completely backwards since we also want more fine-grained & varying facades and smaller commercial spaces that are easier to fill incrementally.

Most of those spaces are flexible and can be subdivided into multiple spaces, though commercial landlords often prefer dealing with a single large “credit tenant.”

Screenshot of Redfin showing a house for sale at 6031 S Normandy Ave

Picture of the basement kitchen; About this home Is your family growing faster than your space can handle? This beautifully updated 5-bedroom home in in the most desirable neighborhood is ready to welcome its next chapter. Main floor has 3 bedrooms, large eat-in size kitchen-dinette with granite counter tops, ss appliances, center island, hardwood flooring and ceramic tile in kitchen. Finished basement featuring the 2 bedrooms, second full bath, kitchen and marble flooring throughout. Back yard with fencing on both

This bungalow for sale in the 13th Ward has a pre-ADU:

- separate kitchen & bathroom in the basement
- compliant basement ceiling height
- a separate entrance from the outside to the basement without having to go through the main floor

Why block the homeowner from renting the basement out?

846 CTA rail ops as of June 2025

846 marks the highest CTA Rail staffing levels since 2019. Solid flagger class too. On pace to hit those pre-pandemic numbers just in time for the fiscal cliff to hit.

I’m pretty sure when I first asked them it was Feb and I was like “May… 2025??” and then this was my response too

In hindsight it may have been better to shut down some bridges entirely and get it done quicker during the off season instead of this long drawn out half-at-time process, but those decisions were probably made 2-3 years ago during the procurement + design stage

Last time I talked to the contractors they told me by May 2026 🙁

But this concern is empirically wrong-founded? I.e. people are worried about it but we can see from 10,000’s of operating buildings that it isn’t actually an issue?