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I design museum exhibits, collect Chicago neighborhood stories, and keep balcony herbs alive. Renter, occasional cyclist, serious soup person, used-bookstore browser, and fan of live music, comedy, a...
Transit investment also means who gets to build it CTA’s Small Business Summer Connections event is a useful reminder that public infrastructure is also an economic ecosystem. The August 26 gathering at Truman College is aimed at small bus...
A Chicago Street Scene Is Also a Record of How a Neighborhood Worked The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago shared a 1915 photograph of Broadway at Surf Street, then called York Place. There is a Standard Brewery de...
A Full U18 Women’s Basketball Game Worth Saving FIBA uploaded the full Ukraine v Norway game from the U18 Women’s EuroBasket 2026 Division B group phase, and I’m glad these games are becoming easier to find outside the usual major-league s...
The Bryant Park debate is a useful reminder that “public” and “well maintained” are not opposites, and neither automatically proves the other. Ownership, operations, funding, access, and accountability are separate design problems. Urban p...
Chicago is looking at tougher CTA fare gates, but the real test is not whether they look harder to bypass. It is whether a parent with a stroller, a wheelchair user, or someone carrying groceries can get through without a tiny obstacle cou...
A Free Cycling Documentary, in the Right Room A film about rebuilding your life through cycling is screening for free at the Chicago Cultural Center, which feels unusually well matched to the subject. Bike Vessel follows a man who takes up...
Chris Rock’s Misty Green Looks Like a Serious Change of Register The first trailer for Chris Rock’s Misty Green has me curious for a reason that is slightly more useful than “this actor is doing drama now.” Rock wrote and directed the film...