Jacob E. Peters
@archijake.bsky.social
Lifelong Chicagoan, lived other places, & it just reinforced my desire to live here. My opinions are mine alone. Find me on the other sites, w/ the same handle.
The nickel also costs more to make than it is worth.
November 12, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The nickel also costs more to make than it is worth.
But does he come with sunglasses & a red jacket?
November 12, 2025 at 2:15 AM
But does he come with sunglasses & a red jacket?
The Lexus ad where they show a family over the years & their car goes from a reasonable sedan to a bloated SUV with oversized hood by the end.
It accidentally tells the story of why pedestrian fatalities have been rising.
It accidentally tells the story of why pedestrian fatalities have been rising.
November 11, 2025 at 5:23 AM
The Lexus ad where they show a family over the years & their car goes from a reasonable sedan to a bloated SUV with oversized hood by the end.
It accidentally tells the story of why pedestrian fatalities have been rising.
It accidentally tells the story of why pedestrian fatalities have been rising.
Going back over my spreadsheet & realizing that I was misremembering a key detail:
The reason the Orange Line routing was causing a reduction in Red Line local tph was bc the proposal also involved increasing Orange Line train frequency to allow for more ridership growth..
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The reason the Orange Line routing was causing a reduction in Red Line local tph was bc the proposal also involved increasing Orange Line train frequency to allow for more ridership growth..
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November 9, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Going back over my spreadsheet & realizing that I was misremembering a key detail:
The reason the Orange Line routing was causing a reduction in Red Line local tph was bc the proposal also involved increasing Orange Line train frequency to allow for more ridership growth..
1/2
The reason the Orange Line routing was causing a reduction in Red Line local tph was bc the proposal also involved increasing Orange Line train frequency to allow for more ridership growth..
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This is the one, I actually like the amount of separation between brick faces they were able to achieve & how it gives the facade a certain amount of brawny character
November 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
This is the one, I actually like the amount of separation between brick faces they were able to achieve & how it gives the facade a certain amount of brawny character
Until the next one.
November 6, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Until the next one.
I actually did the census block analysis of this on my lunch break, & it's not 100% accurate, but it is almost the exact same population as Chicago.
November 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I actually did the census block analysis of this on my lunch break, & it's not 100% accurate, but it is almost the exact same population as Chicago.
If anyone in the Chicago cargo bike community has a kid who decided to take off their helmet during a ride recently around Belmont/Lincoln/Ashland. Your helmet is right by the Whole Foods bike racks.
October 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
If anyone in the Chicago cargo bike community has a kid who decided to take off their helmet during a ride recently around Belmont/Lincoln/Ashland. Your helmet is right by the Whole Foods bike racks.
I will be there making Upton Sinclair jokes, & singing a song whose melody is owed to a Black South African man in 1939, but whose lyrics (that make the song a perfect taunt for our opponents) were coined by a Brooklyn doo wop group who thought they were adapting an old folk song Pete Seeger liked.
October 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I will be there making Upton Sinclair jokes, & singing a song whose melody is owed to a Black South African man in 1939, but whose lyrics (that make the song a perfect taunt for our opponents) were coined by a Brooklyn doo wop group who thought they were adapting an old folk song Pete Seeger liked.
The kid's are alright.
btw it's even better than what the OP claimed. The student journalists actually wrote an entire new solidarity themed paper under a different masthead so that IU administrators could not punish IU journalists for insubordination.
www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...
btw it's even better than what the OP claimed. The student journalists actually wrote an entire new solidarity themed paper under a different masthead so that IU administrators could not punish IU journalists for insubordination.
www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...
October 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The kid's are alright.
btw it's even better than what the OP claimed. The student journalists actually wrote an entire new solidarity themed paper under a different masthead so that IU administrators could not punish IU journalists for insubordination.
www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...
btw it's even better than what the OP claimed. The student journalists actually wrote an entire new solidarity themed paper under a different masthead so that IU administrators could not punish IU journalists for insubordination.
www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...
Matrix reflecting all of the possible outcomes of who the @chicagofire.bsky.social could end up playing in the MLS Cup Playoffs, depending on the results of the games this Saturday.
#cf97 home field advantage is denoted by Red & White, home field advantage for all other teams are their colors.
#cf97 home field advantage is denoted by Red & White, home field advantage for all other teams are their colors.
October 17, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Matrix reflecting all of the possible outcomes of who the @chicagofire.bsky.social could end up playing in the MLS Cup Playoffs, depending on the results of the games this Saturday.
#cf97 home field advantage is denoted by Red & White, home field advantage for all other teams are their colors.
#cf97 home field advantage is denoted by Red & White, home field advantage for all other teams are their colors.
If you didn't know, I am a soccer fan who is from Chicago but went to school in Cincinnati, so of course I made this matrix as a cheat sheet for Decision Day this coming Saturday.
www.ripeters.com
(warning this website contains slight misinformation, but it makes for a better story, so go with it)
www.ripeters.com
(warning this website contains slight misinformation, but it makes for a better story, so go with it)
October 15, 2025 at 3:16 AM
If you didn't know, I am a soccer fan who is from Chicago but went to school in Cincinnati, so of course I made this matrix as a cheat sheet for Decision Day this coming Saturday.
www.ripeters.com
(warning this website contains slight misinformation, but it makes for a better story, so go with it)
www.ripeters.com
(warning this website contains slight misinformation, but it makes for a better story, so go with it)
I told a friends dad earlier this year that the “very smart business people” were going to throw out the baby with the bathwater because their valuations were flawed.
I don’t think he realized he would be the “baby” in that analogy.
I don’t think he realized he would be the “baby” in that analogy.
October 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I told a friends dad earlier this year that the “very smart business people” were going to throw out the baby with the bathwater because their valuations were flawed.
I don’t think he realized he would be the “baby” in that analogy.
I don’t think he realized he would be the “baby” in that analogy.
An elegant solution to allowing residential conversions like this one as of right (I should’ve snapped a photo of the finished product when I biked by today)
September 26, 2025 at 4:57 AM
An elegant solution to allowing residential conversions like this one as of right (I should’ve snapped a photo of the finished product when I biked by today)
This traffic circle has some rough edges
September 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
This traffic circle has some rough edges
Courthouse Parking Lot seems to be underutilized, I wonder what it would be like if it was some kind of plaza instead?
September 19, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Courthouse Parking Lot seems to be underutilized, I wonder what it would be like if it was some kind of plaza instead?
Is someone doing the same thing to the New Buffalo, MI coaling tower? My nephew & I were in awe of it when we visited the Harbor Country rail museum with my dad last year.
September 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Is someone doing the same thing to the New Buffalo, MI coaling tower? My nephew & I were in awe of it when we visited the Harbor Country rail museum with my dad last year.
@ezraklein.bsky.social
Is this the right way to do politics?
Threatening the shredding of the Bill of Rights. Stand up for our country.
Take a lap & stop whitewashing hate fueled authoritarianism, & the dismantling of our democracy to prop up an unpopular tyrant.
Leave the anti free speech site
Is this the right way to do politics?
Threatening the shredding of the Bill of Rights. Stand up for our country.
Take a lap & stop whitewashing hate fueled authoritarianism, & the dismantling of our democracy to prop up an unpopular tyrant.
Leave the anti free speech site
September 18, 2025 at 12:20 AM
@ezraklein.bsky.social
Is this the right way to do politics?
Threatening the shredding of the Bill of Rights. Stand up for our country.
Take a lap & stop whitewashing hate fueled authoritarianism, & the dismantling of our democracy to prop up an unpopular tyrant.
Leave the anti free speech site
Is this the right way to do politics?
Threatening the shredding of the Bill of Rights. Stand up for our country.
Take a lap & stop whitewashing hate fueled authoritarianism, & the dismantling of our democracy to prop up an unpopular tyrant.
Leave the anti free speech site
My only critique of this painted curb extension is that they should have also installed a triangular crosswalk like at the Milwaukee/Damen intersection. Since this would reduce the minimum crossing distance even further.
September 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
My only critique of this painted curb extension is that they should have also installed a triangular crosswalk like at the Milwaukee/Damen intersection. Since this would reduce the minimum crossing distance even further.
I liked the 8 unit proposal that was presented in between the 2 proposals documented in this article.
chicagoyimby.com/2025/09/six-...
chicagoyimby.com/2025/09/six-...
September 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I liked the 8 unit proposal that was presented in between the 2 proposals documented in this article.
chicagoyimby.com/2025/09/six-...
chicagoyimby.com/2025/09/six-...
I wish our zoning code allowed for a duplex 1 bed 1.5 bath to be built above a replacement of a garage like this. It could be done without blocking any existing windows & such a unit would have wonderful light on 3 sides.
September 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I wish our zoning code allowed for a duplex 1 bed 1.5 bath to be built above a replacement of a garage like this. It could be done without blocking any existing windows & such a unit would have wonderful light on 3 sides.
I think this route is more effective at tying the multiple connections the bridge will make, with a bike roundabout at the base of each bridge landing, allowing for connections to/from Southport, Throop, east bank riverwalk, west bank riverwalk, & 606.
September 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I think this route is more effective at tying the multiple connections the bridge will make, with a bike roundabout at the base of each bridge landing, allowing for connections to/from Southport, Throop, east bank riverwalk, west bank riverwalk, & 606.
Legally park outside The Booze Hound challenge, impossible.
September 3, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Legally park outside The Booze Hound challenge, impossible.