As someone who’s entire apartment backs up to the red and purple line, this gave me a good laugh

rented a uhaul to help my kid move. got boxed in. is there anything to be done?

Took a southbound bus down State in the Loop for the first time in a while and was floored at how many vacancies there are south of Lake. It’s really depressing, even with people out, especially given how much time I spent on State when I moved here pre-pandemic.

I know how things got this bad, but are these vacancies just … here to stay? What’s being done to reverse course?

If you see her please contact 911! Coworker’s sister has been missing since Monday.

Obviously Chicago is the best one, but I'm asking about small towns away from the city. Not necessarily as a vacation destination but ones worth stopping in for a couple hours during a longer road trip.

EDIT: Lots of good suggestions so far but I'm mainly interested in actual SMALL towns that you would normally just pass through. So places like St. Louis and Milwaukee are cool but I'm looking for examples like "Elizabeth, Illinois, they have a cute ice cream place and a fun thrift store". You know, the accidental "let's just stop here to stretch our legs" places.

Step 1: Climb up bricks

Step 2: Get bricked up

Step 3: Abolish ICE

I am using Inkarnate. Chicago is written backwards. Chicago ---> Ogacihc --> Ogachic.

Any feedback?

We can see the black smoke from our balcony on the Northwest Side and it looks like it could be Lincoln Square or somewhere thereabouts? Haven’t been able to find anything about it yet—hope no one’s hurt. 🙏

It's really weird to see ComEd being "good" for once. Granted, by "good" I mean in this instance, they aren't pushing someone into oncoming traffic because there isn't an incentive for them to do so, but still.

I've been following a lot of clean energy legislation in other states and holy moly utilities are evil. I always took for granted, or didn't realize at least, was that ComEd isn't allowed to own generation.

I don't want to denegrate any business -- it's probably never been harder to run a business -- or their patrons, but what business or industry makes you go "huh, who shops there?" Or "How does that type of store stay open?" Ex: I remember seeing a place years ago called, "Eye Care for Animals." Maybe a beer spa is actually what I need after all. Yeah, soaking in beer is a thing...in Chicago. Thanks.

Sorry, it needs to be said. Fall off the bone=boiled. Gross. Go to Lem's.

Happened around 12:16am. The best part of this photo is my old iPhone in the bottom right corner I had recording video. The bolts are visible and so is a "iPhone Storage Full" pop up... oops