Jessica
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$1 billion lost and spent due to medical care, work loss, and quality of life loss because of traffic crashes in Chicago this year so far
June 17, 2025 at 3:46 AM
$1 billion lost and spent due to medical care, work loss, and quality of life loss because of traffic crashes in Chicago this year so far
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I can’t stop watching this. How does a professional driver allow this to happen?
Apparently this happened on the BNSF line, just before the Outbound Afternoon Rush mind you!
June 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I can’t stop watching this. How does a professional driver allow this to happen?
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Degraded air quality in Chicago suburbs, northern Illinois due to Canadian wildfires. What to know
Degraded air quality in Chicago suburbs, northern Illinois due to Canadian wildfires. What to know
Residents in northern Illinois will experience degraded air quality today as rain brings Canadian wildfire smoke south. Find out the AQI in your area.
www.pjstar.com
June 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Degraded air quality in Chicago suburbs, northern Illinois due to Canadian wildfires. What to know
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Businesses: “I don’t want the community my business is in to have safer streets, more public space, and better accessible transit options to get here”
People in the community the business is in: “Why doesn’t anyone care about the businesses????”
People in the community the business is in: “Why doesn’t anyone care about the businesses????”
May 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Businesses: “I don’t want the community my business is in to have safer streets, more public space, and better accessible transit options to get here”
People in the community the business is in: “Why doesn’t anyone care about the businesses????”
People in the community the business is in: “Why doesn’t anyone care about the businesses????”
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I think the kids who got to school on these bikes today deserve an explanation from the adults who hung up signs saying it’s ok to park their cars in the bike lanes in front of their school.
May 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I think the kids who got to school on these bikes today deserve an explanation from the adults who hung up signs saying it’s ok to park their cars in the bike lanes in front of their school.
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If you're available at 3:30pm on Thursday, and are interested in a transparent, nationwide search for transit leadership, this would be a good time to sign up for public comment.
lol 48-hour notice for a “special board meeting” for the CTA, classy move. Keep in mind the regular monthly meeting is a week from tomorrow, speedrunning for zero reason www.transitchicago.com/assets/1/21/...
www.transitchicago.com
May 6, 2025 at 11:34 PM
If you're available at 3:30pm on Thursday, and are interested in a transparent, nationwide search for transit leadership, this would be a good time to sign up for public comment.
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Just going to put it out there that appointing a CTA President with no transit experience, after the public has lost confidence in both the leadership at CTA in the past and the current Mayor, may not be the best move.
May 7, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Just going to put it out there that appointing a CTA President with no transit experience, after the public has lost confidence in both the leadership at CTA in the past and the current Mayor, may not be the best move.
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Crain's is reporting that MBJ has already made his pick for CTA President (City COO John Roberson), but advocates are still pushing to broaden the search www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/tra...
Johnson faces pushback over CTA pick as advocates push for broader search
Mayor Brandon Johnson is looking to appoint the city's chief operating officer John Robertson to lead the CTA, but is being urged to conduct a national search after Springfield acts on legislation to ...
www.chicagobusiness.com
May 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Crain's is reporting that MBJ has already made his pick for CTA President (City COO John Roberson), but advocates are still pushing to broaden the search www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/tra...
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April 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Vehicles continuing to ruin public infrastructure, this time taking a traffic light pole and an entire bus shelter.
April 11, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Vehicles continuing to ruin public infrastructure, this time taking a traffic light pole and an entire bus shelter.
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We need your help right away! Senate Bill 2111 is currently under consideration. It would allow bicyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs — a proven method to reduce crashes at intersections. Please ask your state senator to support SB2111! activetrans.quorum.us/campaign/118...
April 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
We need your help right away! Senate Bill 2111 is currently under consideration. It would allow bicyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs — a proven method to reduce crashes at intersections. Please ask your state senator to support SB2111! activetrans.quorum.us/campaign/118...
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Chicagohenge Panorama. Friday in Chicago.
March 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Chicagohenge Panorama. Friday in Chicago.
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People tell me to be safe while biking, and while I appreciate it, what I'd really appreciate is people going a step further and pondering *why* they think biking is unsafe. Because then they'd have to grapple with the fact that we've designed our society to make biking "dangerous" for many people.
February 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
People tell me to be safe while biking, and while I appreciate it, what I'd really appreciate is people going a step further and pondering *why* they think biking is unsafe. Because then they'd have to grapple with the fact that we've designed our society to make biking "dangerous" for many people.
Question for any data experts out there. Let’s say’s I have data files, each with its own data use policy. If I combine and transform that data into intermediate files and ultimately a final dataset, how can I track data use policies, on a data point level, throughout the entire data lineage map?
February 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Question for any data experts out there. Let’s say’s I have data files, each with its own data use policy. If I combine and transform that data into intermediate files and ultimately a final dataset, how can I track data use policies, on a data point level, throughout the entire data lineage map?
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Hey...remember that time a City of Chicago employee threatened and followed someone home for documenting them illegally blocking a bike lane? Ran across this today. The office of the Inspector General "OIG" recommended the person be fired. The city decided to keep them on staff.
February 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Hey...remember that time a City of Chicago employee threatened and followed someone home for documenting them illegally blocking a bike lane? Ran across this today. The office of the Inspector General "OIG" recommended the person be fired. The city decided to keep them on staff.
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January '25 numbers are in!
2483 infractions captures
352 tickets issued (2131 first time offenders)
42 paid for $6,180 collected
$39,630 in outstanding revenue
779 service hours from 8 veh across 20 days (3.2 captures/hr, .45 fines/hr)
Violations are 26% bike lane, 74% bus lane
Top hours: 1pm, 4pm
2483 infractions captures
352 tickets issued (2131 first time offenders)
42 paid for $6,180 collected
$39,630 in outstanding revenue
779 service hours from 8 veh across 20 days (3.2 captures/hr, .45 fines/hr)
Violations are 26% bike lane, 74% bus lane
Top hours: 1pm, 4pm
February 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
January '25 numbers are in!
2483 infractions captures
352 tickets issued (2131 first time offenders)
42 paid for $6,180 collected
$39,630 in outstanding revenue
779 service hours from 8 veh across 20 days (3.2 captures/hr, .45 fines/hr)
Violations are 26% bike lane, 74% bus lane
Top hours: 1pm, 4pm
2483 infractions captures
352 tickets issued (2131 first time offenders)
42 paid for $6,180 collected
$39,630 in outstanding revenue
779 service hours from 8 veh across 20 days (3.2 captures/hr, .45 fines/hr)
Violations are 26% bike lane, 74% bus lane
Top hours: 1pm, 4pm
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As I show in Holding It Together, "Billionaires like Musk use the myth of meritocracy to paint themselves as worthy of their wealth and the power that wealth provides." And the media plays a role in reinforcing these delusions of genius by holding him up men like Musk as meritocracy's poster child.
To the extent that Musk has a super-power it is that he is an obscenely rich person who is willing to confidently say (and get many people to accept) completely untrue things that (coincidentally) always serve his own interests. He's an ignorant person's idea of what an informed person sounds like.
"This is in violation of a presidential executive order. It needs to stop" -- Elon Musk, on Hannity's show, makes clear he has no idea how the American government works by asserting that Trump can use executive orders to unilaterally impound funds appropriated by Congress
February 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
As I show in Holding It Together, "Billionaires like Musk use the myth of meritocracy to paint themselves as worthy of their wealth and the power that wealth provides." And the media plays a role in reinforcing these delusions of genius by holding him up men like Musk as meritocracy's poster child.
Does anyone know if longitudinal ward-specific traffic crash reports for Chicago exist anywhere? I want to see where in my ward crashes are happening and how this has changed over the years.
February 20, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Does anyone know if longitudinal ward-specific traffic crash reports for Chicago exist anywhere? I want to see where in my ward crashes are happening and how this has changed over the years.
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I'm disappointed to see Ruth Cruz voted no on this since she was just telling me about the work she was doing to make her ward safer for pedestrians and cyclists.
Bad news: The ordinance to lower Chicago's default speed limit from 30 to 25 mph, which data from other cities shows would have saved lives, did not pass the City Council. We'll have more info soon.
February 20, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I'm disappointed to see Ruth Cruz voted no on this since she was just telling me about the work she was doing to make her ward safer for pedestrians and cyclists.
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Freezing Friday. Today on the Chicago River.
January 24, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Freezing Friday. Today on the Chicago River.
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This summer, join the tidymodels team as an intern and help expand the possibilities of feature selection!
Learn more and apply: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/01...
#RStats #tidymodels
Learn more and apply: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/01...
#RStats #tidymodels
tidymodels Internship for 2025 - Tidyverse
The tidymodels team is sponsoring a summer internship in 2025.
www.tidyverse.org
January 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This summer, join the tidymodels team as an intern and help expand the possibilities of feature selection!
Learn more and apply: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/01...
#RStats #tidymodels
Learn more and apply: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/01...
#RStats #tidymodels
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Join us this Saturday at @beermiscuous.bsky.social for our first ever download party!
We're working on an archive of federal transit and climate studies before they disappear again – and we need your help. Bring your laptop, grab a beer, and take action.
RSVP: https://bit.ly/DwnldParty
We're working on an archive of federal transit and climate studies before they disappear again – and we need your help. Bring your laptop, grab a beer, and take action.
RSVP: https://bit.ly/DwnldParty
January 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Join us this Saturday at @beermiscuous.bsky.social for our first ever download party!
We're working on an archive of federal transit and climate studies before they disappear again – and we need your help. Bring your laptop, grab a beer, and take action.
RSVP: https://bit.ly/DwnldParty
We're working on an archive of federal transit and climate studies before they disappear again – and we need your help. Bring your laptop, grab a beer, and take action.
RSVP: https://bit.ly/DwnldParty
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So the new Board of Ed President, appointed by Mayor Johnson, put in a request for $150,000 a year to pay for a car and driver, using CPS funds, in a time where CPS is having challenges in settling a union agreement and paying pension debt.
Do I have that right?
Do I have that right?
While the Chicago Board of Education has its first-ever elected members, those appointed by Johnson hold the board's top leadership positions.
Sean Harden will serve as board president. And Olga Bautista will be the board’s new vice president.
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Sean Harden will serve as board president. And Olga Bautista will be the board’s new vice president.
to.wttw.com/4alLWcP
‘Historic’ Hybrid Board of Education Officially Takes Over in Chicago as Elected, Appointed Members Sworn In
“This moment is no doubt historic," elected member Ellen Rosenfeld said, "not just for me but for all of us, because this body reflects the voices and values of the majority of the people of our distr...
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January 24, 2025 at 1:47 AM
So the new Board of Ed President, appointed by Mayor Johnson, put in a request for $150,000 a year to pay for a car and driver, using CPS funds, in a time where CPS is having challenges in settling a union agreement and paying pension debt.
Do I have that right?
Do I have that right?
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Chicago lies within the 100-mile "border zone" in which CBP carries powers that it doesn't in other parts of the country. Beyond these imminent raids, CBP often targets public transit to question people about immigration status. This ACLU guide discusses your rights in that situation and others:
Know Your Rights | 100 Mile Border Zone | ACLU
The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects people from random and arbitrary stops and searches. Although the federal government claims the power to conduct certain kinds of warrantless sto...
www.aclu.org
January 18, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Chicago lies within the 100-mile "border zone" in which CBP carries powers that it doesn't in other parts of the country. Beyond these imminent raids, CBP often targets public transit to question people about immigration status. This ACLU guide discusses your rights in that situation and others: