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Sophie
@sophiama.bsky.social
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Chicago!! & Notre Dame ‘23 🥹
I like taking pics of the built and natural environments in Chicago. I love Midwest/rust belt architecture & history. Old stuff is cool. Rooting for da bears & Notre dame football, & Blackhawks hockey. leftist.
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Nelson Algren, by his Favorite Division St. Bar, Chicago, by Art Shay
American, 1922-2018
1949

More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/191353
Art Shay American, 1922-2018, Nelson Algren, by his Favorite Division St. Bar, Chicago, A work made of gelatin silver print.
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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jonbois.bsky.social
i understand that dr. zack isn’t for everybody and that if you’re a longtime football fan, you don’t get a lot out of his segments. but they’re a great way for casual fans and newcomers to learn football concepts like the alphabet
awfulannouncing.bsky.social Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 25d
What the heck? 🏈📺😵‍💫 #CFB
October 22, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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jonbois.bsky.social
q: why did the outfielders raise their arms during this play?

a: according to the ancient scrolls in which the rules of baseball were found, if a ball lands and doesn't bounce that ball is declared god. the players were worshipping god. i doubt there will be a game 7 or any further baseball seasons
cjzero.bsky.social CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 15d
Absolutely hate the World Series wedgie here
November 1, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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jonbois.bsky.social
chuck schumer has been barred from formally observing this year's lexus december to remember sales event. they can't stop him from standing outside, but he will not be allowed into the showroom and he cannot directly behold the obelisk or participate in the thousand screams
November 12, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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dmercer.bsky.social
Wall quilt, West Garfield Park, Chicago
Section of a brown brick wall including the following elements: a piece of wood in the shape of Nevada that is painted white; rectangular areas that might have been windows or doors that are bricked up with white mortar, unlike the rest of the building; another opening that is filled in with white brick; a band of painted concrete across the top with peeling paint; narrow strips of wood attached from the bottom of the concrete halfway down the brick; some sort of concrete blocks with a triangle pattern pressed into them
October 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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dmercer.bsky.social
Columbus Park, Chicago
Trees with orange and yellow leaves seen through a large arched opening in a brick wall. The arch is trimmed in stone and has a stone balustrade across the bottom. There are two small round windows on either side of the arch.
November 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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4908 West Iowa Street
Google Streetview of the property with PIN10 1604421036: 4908 West Iowa Street
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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#chicago sights & scenes on a random walk last week in the vicinity of Lincoln Park. Via my #digicam

#photos #photography #film #vintage #fall #city #architecture #building #style #design #aesthetic #art #nostalgia
a high rise apartment/condominium building is seen from the sidewalk below, with fall colored foliage alongside. the front steps and surrounding garden scene of an elaborate old limestone house (mansion) in Chicago’s Gold Coast/Lincoln park area. a unique, contemporary/modern style building facade framed by bright yellow fall foliage two buildings contrast sharply - one darker colored, ornately detailed and short, one light colored, sleekly modern, narrow & high rise.
November 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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some shots of #urban #architecture and #birds (pigeons, I’m sure) in #chicago last week

#photo #photography #art #film #digicam #building #contrast #aesthetic #vintage #retro #city
November 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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#photos I took on my old #digicam of an adaptive reuse project under construction in #chicago the other day!

#photography #film #architecture #construction #building #city #urban #design #aesthetic
older church/temple type structure is seen with a new, sleek modern construction actively being constructed atop it, with foliage in the foreground. older church/temple type structure is seen with a new, sleek modern construction actively being constructed atop it, with foliage in the foreground.
November 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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couple more shots I took around west town, #chicago in recent months

#photos #photography #art #urban #urbex #film #digicam #city #midwest #bridge #gritty #nostalgia
November 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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#Americana in #chicago // every time I pass this spot in west town, I am struck by its ironically apt juxtaposition of an ornate old church directly behind a CVS pharmacy drive-thru. guess we all need something

#photography #photo #film #digicam #art #urban #modern #midwest #church
November 6, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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some of my fav shots I captured in recent months of end-of-summer #chicago

#photography #soft #photos #digicam #urban #city #urbex #architecture #infrastructure #abandoned #nostalgia #midwest
a section of elevated (El) trackage runs diagonally through a scene of brick buildings and green tree foliage in Chicago An abandoned shopping cart rests against a barrier beside railroad tracks, which branch off into two directions in the near distance. Buildings are visible in foreground, skyscrapers in background An overpass, presumably carrying either a roadway or rail trackage, is seen from below. Several brick structures in the background rise just above the overpass and into view behind it, bearing graffiti (ZWON)!
November 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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#walking around west town in #chicago w my #digicam

#photos #photography #digital #urban #midwest #autumn #architecture
the lightbulb-framed sign advertising a local corner diner (offering all-day breakfast!!) juts out from said restaurant’s intricate & well-preserved, green pastel terra cotta facade in west town, Chicago bright red and orange fall foliage obscures the side of a brick residential building, with one of its windows visible above a telephone line a sturdy tree still boasting considerable green leafage and vine-y branches leans in the foreground, with an ornate brick & stone building seen behind it.
November 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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an overcast #urban #landscape in downtown #chicago //

#digicam #photography #photos #midwest #city #skyscraper #architecture #buildings
a smattering of buildings & skyscrapers of varying heights and architectural styles/periods in Chicago’s downtown / gold coast area an eye catching brick church topped with a central dome is seen beside some other (seemingly residential) buildings in the vicinity of streeterville/old town in Chicago One of Chicago’s iconic corncob-es que Marina Towers rises in parallel vertically beside the Sears (/Willis) Tower & another modernistic skyscraper which shall go unnamed. two 19th century building facades are seen in detail, close-up view. Their color schemes contrast against one another. Scaffolding is seen on the building to the right.
November 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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funky foliage and #urban tree canopy in Lincoln park & wicker park, #chicago

#photography #photos #digicam #nature #tree #architecture #building #city #nostalgia #ethereal #autumn #fall
Sunlight streaks through a variety of different tree canopies & branches along a residential street in Lincoln park, Chicago. The branches and trunks of sturdy looking trees zig-zag and warp their way around telephone wires in Chicago. Fall foliage partially obscures a handful of brick residential buildings lining the street and dappled in sunlight behind the trees
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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shades of #fall on my walks in #chicago this week

#photography #photos #digital #digicam #architecture #nature #urban #city #midwest
Old brick facade with newer brick renovations peeking thru around the windows. West town, Chicago light and shadow dapple the brick face of this residential building in Chicagos Lincoln park area, as seen through a green and red urban tree canopy a series of rowhouses in Lincoln Park, Chicago, framed by telephone wires and a couple tree canopies. the ornately worked, pale yellow facade of a cottage-y house in Chicago’s near northwest side, seen next to the bright autumn-colored foliage of a nearby tree
October 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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morally/ethically good #graffiti in west town, #chicago ( #fucktrump #fuckice )

#photography #urban #midwest
October 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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#fall views at my beloved alma mater, the university of notre dame, in #southbend #indiana last weekend (go Irish! Beat USC!!) I love #football season

#photography #photos #digicam #college #sports #notredame #midwest
October 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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#fall foliage on #chicago residential streets, via my lil old #digicam :)

#photography #photos #architecture #nature #urban #brick #midwest
The upper portion of a brick three-flat is seen in detail, partially obscured by a tree branch of bright green and yellow autumn foliage which frames the shot. a red brick Chicago workers cottage, with a ladder propped up to allow maintenance/repairs workers (one of which is visible in silhouette) to access the roof, is seen from behind the green & yellow leaves of a tree in residential west town, Chicago The upper portion of a reddish brick three flat, with window ornaments and a stepped roof, is seen from behind a branch of yellow-green-orange fall foliage in Chicago.
October 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Decided to call this a wall quilt. Ford Ave. just south of Cermak Road, Chicago
Wall of a building resembling a patchwork quilt. Brick, cement block, stone, glass block, iron fire escape, two doors, a louvered vent in the glass block window and four pieces of blue tape.
October 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Random views & details in #chicago courtesy of my old #digicam :-)

#photos #urban #bricks #river #decay #photography
photo of part of the Chicago river system in west town, Chicago. Bridge visible in the distance, and graffiti is tagged on the foregrounded concrete wall/embankment. A cluster of bricks, rocks, and other rubble/debris lies near the edge of an otherwise overgrown & grass-covered empty lot in Chicago, as seen thru a fence. The former site of public housing high rises, since-demolished. The vacant lot is still owned by CHA. An onion domed church is seen in the background, with a wrought iron fire escape seen adjacent and the patterned/textured elevated brick facade of another building framing the view. a water tower is seen in Chicago, rising above a brick commercial-type building from behind. Green foliage and the upper portion of a light post are visible in the foreground edges.
October 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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couple more #digicam #photos I took this weekend in #chicago . feat. (my beloved) L; a fenced off and overgrown empty lot - still owned by CHA - which is the former site of a public housing high-rise; and some Chicago buildings + fall foliage

#photography #urban #architecture #abandoned #city
October 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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some #digicam #photos I took on walks this weekend in #chicago , my beautiful beloved city (and supposed warzone?)

#photography #urban #infrastructure #midwest #rustbelt
The skyline of Chicago is seen behind an imposing, complex geometric-looking steel tower for supporting telephone/internet wires(?) A picturesque tree rises in the middle of an otherwise empty & abandoned grassy lot, seen from behind a fence, in the former site of public housing in Chicago. View from beneath the L’s (elevated) tracks in Chicago on a sunny fall day, with the trackage creating a geometric pattern of light and shadows on the grassy ground below. The sun casts shadows tracing the silhouette of an adjacent section of L trackage on the brick wall of a large building in Chicago.
October 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:
View of Chicago skyline from William E. Dever Crib in Lake Michigan east of North Avenue. // Image captured at: 2025-10-13 12:00:01 UTC (about 7 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Chicago: 56.33 F | 13.52 C // Precip: overcast clouds // Wind: S at 7.449 mph | 11.98 kph // Humidity: 84%
October 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM