J-Pilla
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A headline from a dark age country…
January 22, 2026 at 10:59 PM
A headline from a dark age country…
Good thing we live in Chicago, not “America.”
December 28, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Good thing we live in Chicago, not “America.”
The zoning code is obviously terrible but B2 is a good way to limit auto-oriented uses and allow ground floor residential. Every half mile major street isn’t going to be a major retail corridor again so it’s kind of the best tool we have in many cases - especially South & West Sides.
December 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The zoning code is obviously terrible but B2 is a good way to limit auto-oriented uses and allow ground floor residential. Every half mile major street isn’t going to be a major retail corridor again so it’s kind of the best tool we have in many cases - especially South & West Sides.
The first spike was when Rahm closed 50 neighborhood schools. The second was Covid.
December 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The first spike was when Rahm closed 50 neighborhood schools. The second was Covid.
They live in humane, walkable cities with a great sense of community, exercise, lighting, and outdoor dining year round with blankets and fires burning, etc. By escaping into cars we degrade our environment and forget how to live together, despite the weather.
December 11, 2025 at 1:17 AM
They live in humane, walkable cities with a great sense of community, exercise, lighting, and outdoor dining year round with blankets and fires burning, etc. By escaping into cars we degrade our environment and forget how to live together, despite the weather.
The strip mall area south of Belmont at Clark and Halsted should be the target.
October 17, 2025 at 1:22 AM
The strip mall area south of Belmont at Clark and Halsted should be the target.
He is such a pathetic wannabe rich loser
October 6, 2025 at 12:31 AM
He is such a pathetic wannabe rich loser
Talk is cheap Governor. Your actions this morning, with the State Police enabling ICE fascists to go about terrorizing and kidnapping Chicagoans, speak louder than anything you’ve ever said. It will never be forgotten.
October 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Talk is cheap Governor. Your actions this morning, with the State Police enabling ICE fascists to go about terrorizing and kidnapping Chicagoans, speak louder than anything you’ve ever said. It will never be forgotten.
America was fascist 60 years before it came to Germany (KKK)
October 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
America was fascist 60 years before it came to Germany (KKK)
Stop assisting ICE with State Police!
October 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Stop assisting ICE with State Police!
Result of gentrification and down zoning vast areas to RS
September 19, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Result of gentrification and down zoning vast areas to RS
Practical advice … stop driving if/when you can. You will be happier, fitter, and more aware and connected to the city in which you live.
August 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Practical advice … stop driving if/when you can. You will be happier, fitter, and more aware and connected to the city in which you live.
CDOT designed a 2-way roundabout, destroying the very concept and benefit of roundabouts 😂. This design is so dumb, but I guess better than status quo.
August 20, 2025 at 12:37 PM
CDOT designed a 2-way roundabout, destroying the very concept and benefit of roundabouts 😂. This design is so dumb, but I guess better than status quo.
How often do you drive alone? - just blocking the street with a mobile living room. Cars consume a McMansion worth of space at higher speeds - they are the least efficient, and most expensive and dangerous way to move through a city… and sit parked 90% of the time. This is a simple geometry problem.
July 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
How often do you drive alone? - just blocking the street with a mobile living room. Cars consume a McMansion worth of space at higher speeds - they are the least efficient, and most expensive and dangerous way to move through a city… and sit parked 90% of the time. This is a simple geometry problem.
America started going insane when it moved to car-dependent suburbs … escape fantasies, hyper-segregation, consumers instead of citizens, complete social isolation, having zero real world experience in what you pretend to know about, etc.
July 18, 2025 at 11:02 PM
America started going insane when it moved to car-dependent suburbs … escape fantasies, hyper-segregation, consumers instead of citizens, complete social isolation, having zero real world experience in what you pretend to know about, etc.
You cannot possibly think that we will take you seriously as an environmental organization when you’re advertising a planet and child killing monster truck 😂
July 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
You cannot possibly think that we will take you seriously as an environmental organization when you’re advertising a planet and child killing monster truck 😂
It’s the Alders that empower these people, not the planners.
July 16, 2025 at 2:43 AM
It’s the Alders that empower these people, not the planners.
The problem is that there’s really no citywide department or entity with funding that will take “ownership” over any non car-oriented space. Same goes for trying to close a street to cars - requires a local steward. CDOT doesn’t want responsibility for anything that isn’t concrete.
July 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The problem is that there’s really no citywide department or entity with funding that will take “ownership” over any non car-oriented space. Same goes for trying to close a street to cars - requires a local steward. CDOT doesn’t want responsibility for anything that isn’t concrete.
A disaster? Crime is at its lowest level since the 1960s, population is increasing, we’re leading the country in office -> residential conversions, corporate investment, etc. he’s not perfect but he deserves more credit than he gets.
June 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
A disaster? Crime is at its lowest level since the 1960s, population is increasing, we’re leading the country in office -> residential conversions, corporate investment, etc. he’s not perfect but he deserves more credit than he gets.
Harry Weese, a Chicago architect, designed the stations.
March 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Harry Weese, a Chicago architect, designed the stations.