Alex Bean
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Academic admin. Husband & dad. One-time applicant for Chicago Alderman. Love books, history, movies, & architecture. Too online, but not yet terminally online.
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It's a great day to be a history nerd, by the way.
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Our UPS driver remains an absolute king. He just made my son's day.
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...why are sidewalk repairs not just paid for by the municipal authorities we pay taxes to in order to maintain public necessities like sidewalks?
PSA: You must apply by 10 p.m. TODAY for the city's Shared Cost Sidewalk Program. It allows residents to split the cost of sidewalk repairs with the city. Apps fill up quickly.
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THEY'RE DEMOLISHING A PRE-FIRE BUILDING?????!!!!!
Imagine being a building that survives the Great Chicago Fire and a 100 years of redevelopment just to be taken out by a 4 over 1
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Not every day you find cover art showing the exact bookstore you're standing in.
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I kind of dig how in a matter of just a couple years TikTok has brought back medieval peasant levels of brain activity in the populace 🤙
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I continue to be baffled at why these numbers look so grim for Biden when he's got a better legislative and administrative record than any single-term President in my life. How has messaging gotten so bad or ineffective all the sudden?
Wow is right. “Have policies of Trump/Biden done more to hurt/help you.”Trump 49/37; Biden: 23/53.
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Obviously Lori's judgment was always poor, but I'm a bit baffled as to why NASCAR thought this would be a smart move. I'm sure they'd like to expand, but this just seems like a truly terrible mismatch of product and audience.
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He came by again just now and made sure to pause and wave at the kids through the window.
My son turned to me and said "That's so nice! I think his heart grew three sizes."
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The oldest living thing in Chicago, a burr oak in the Lincoln Park Zoo that predates the city's founding, has reached the end of its life cycle and will be cut down soon.
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This was his truck last week.
The UPS driver who covers our block always plays great music loud enough for everyone to hear, but he takes it up a level at the holidays. He even delivers wearing a Santa beard, corncob pipe, and fake belly.
What a king.
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Honestly, this is wrong. Northerly Island is public property and the public should be allowed on it, even if they're just there to listen to distant echoes.
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The used bookstore at Clark and Wellington is pure chaos.
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A. Absolutely not, no.
B. The waters of the Great Lakes are controlled by international treaty and both US and Canadian laws bar anyone from just "piping" our water away.
C. There are no pipes that can funnel that amount of water 2500 miles away.
D. Still absolutely now, no.
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Amazing!
@ABeanTweeting
Oh yeah! 💚 The grinch rocked it- here with my mom at her salon. Bringing holiday cheer yesterday, thanks
#UPSgrinch
!
#HairTechSalon
#LincolnPark
#Chicago
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Absolutely and entirely ludicrous that this wonderful old house, built somewhere around 150 years ago, is on the verge of being torn down.
Obscenely wasteful and decadent.
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Orange Garden, on Irving Park, is the oldest Chinese restaurant in Chicago and one of the oldest in the country. Nearly 100 years old, as I recall.
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The WPA mural in the post office at Southport and Irving Park is amazing. One of the best works of art in the city.
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Not that the warmer weather is unwelcome, but it is ludicrous that Chicago went from winter to summer in the span of one weekend.
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Much as it pains me to say it, Pritzker's 5 years of bona fides in his office make me think that the Johnson folks are the ones dropping the ball here.
After Gov. J.B. Pritzker said today he was “deeply concerned” about Mayor Brandon Johnson’s pause on new migrant shelters, Johnson’s office releases statement saying state can open sites “at any time it chooses” & Chicago has “carried the entire weight of the new arrival mission”
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How in the world can you live in Chicago for 35 years and take the CTA all of once?
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The UPS driver who covers our block always plays great music loud enough for everyone to hear, but he takes it up a level at the holidays. He even delivers wearing a Santa beard, corncob pipe, and fake belly.
What a king.
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One cannot walk around Belmont and Southport without taking a photo of the landmark Schlitz Tied House.
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Honestly, it's sort of shocking that more people don't run for mayor/alder/state rep/governor on a platform of "I will make government services something less than a mysterious black hole of neglect and incompetence."
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I truly don't understand why drivers have become so much worse since 2020. It's insane.
Just witnessed someone speed up and intention strike a woman while crossing Broadway and Winona. Called police and EMS but I think this woman is dead.
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Aesthetically, it's not for everyone, and it needs a lot of work to function better, but the Thompson Center cannot be demolished.
It would be the city's worst loss of our architectural heritage in half a century.
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I'm sorry, they want to tear down two century-old skyscrapers because a judge wants a lake view????????
While we appreciate the public mention of the judges desire for unobstructed lake views,
We respectfully disagree that this wish warrants the $52M demolition of two important landmarks when a high-security adaptive reuse plan is ready to go.
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Cribbing from a Hyde Park FB group to show what Harper and 57th looked like before the UChicago-sponsored "urban renewal" demolition of the 50s and 60s.
Hard to even wrap my head around this, tbh.
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I can't believe I'd never walked over to see Laredo Taft's Fountain of Time before.
Monumental, gorgeous, and haunting. One of the best works of art in Chicago.
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I love hearing Chicagoans says "It's 46 degrees outside!" like they might never get another chance to be above freezing.
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I know it's silly, but I find Elon taking the Music Box audience in vain to be personally offensive.
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Oh shit, Chuy's transportation plan calls for BRT, a "circle line that links all of CTA’s rail lines and all of Metra’s lines," traffic calming, and a citywide protected bike grid.
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I appreciate the message, since "because it's how the Habsburgs fought the plague" is my reasoning behind basically every action I take.
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"The vibes are off" being a new rule of American politics is just...I dunno how to square that with every other Preaidential election in living memory.
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I know I bang this drum with some frequency, but Grant Park is really poorly designed compared to a lot of similarly-situated parks in peer cities. Would be well-worth an overall redesign.
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Takes an enormous amount of cruelty or an unimaginable galaxy brain to see the news about childhood poverty plummeting since last year and think "this needs to stop."
NEW: Sen. Manchin has told the White House the child tax credit must include a firm work requirement and family income cap in the $60k range, Axios has learned.
These demands would dramatically weaken one of Biden's signature programs.
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Honestly, why the fuck would you think you can park on a lawn in any public park? The fuck is wrong with people?
Currently like 12-15 cars just parked / driving at Promontory Point. This is becoming a crisis.
@AldermanLaSpata
@DanielLaSpata
@ChicagoParks
@yancyforthe5th
@HydeParkHerald
@streetsblogchi
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IT'S BEEN A LONG TWO YEARS, BUT LOOK WHO'S BACK!
There's a duck in my neighborhood tgat is completely obsessed with standing on car roofs.
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Is it possible to dunk on the Wisconsin GOP? I'd like to dunk on the Wisconsin GOP.
RESULTS: Both judges appointed by former Gov. Scott Walker -- Judge Paul Dedinsky and Judge Dan Gabler -- lose by at least 20 percentage points.
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Will no one think of the aesthetics of this pavement?!?!?!?!
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I love that Block Club sent out a breaking news email blast about this story and this story alone.
Good news
@RepAnnWilliams
: Rat Hole lives! Please let your constituents know. via
@BlockClubCHI
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I've started to wonder if Biden is faring worse than Obama 12 years ago, despite a better overall picture, because he doesn't have the charisma Obama could use to paper things over.
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Spicy hot take incoming: these buildings are very nice to look at.
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I remember how awesome the vast scale model of Chicago and its rail connections was, but I hadn't appreciated its attention to details a decade ago.
The Ashland 'L' station! The view down the LaSalle canyon! I love it!
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lmao
Please, I beg you. Run on repealing the 26th Amendment in 2024.
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Tell me you’re from Chicago without telling me you’re from Chicago, architecture edition.
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@Fraktl_
Wooden framing of the interior structure would not necessarily have doomed the building. Hell, there's buildings with wooden exteriors that survived the fire still standing in River North and Lincoln Park.
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One of the most interesting maps of Chicago I've ever seen.
born in Illinois -> born in another state -> born in another country
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First off, why does Mike Lindell look like he's been turned into a vampire?
Secondly, it's the Sermon on the Mount, not the mound. lmao
Thirdly, Paul was not at said sermon because he was converted well after the resurrection.
Fourthly, who turned Mike Lindell into a vampire?
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My Chicago quartet.
Apparently, everyone has a favorite building.
Spill it, peeps.
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I say that knowing that actually succeeding in changing a bureaucracy as big and old as that of the City of Chicago or the State of Illinois is no easy task and that many public servants and their staff work hard on this stuff.
But, man.
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The fact that this is just a spot where I can come grab some coffee has not yet lost its charm for me.
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I love Chicago and think its global influence is very interesting and worth celebrating.
That said, this is such a bizarre (and stupid) ad campaign that I did not initially realize it was intended to promote Chicago tourism.
Hey
@NYCMayor
, the Flat Iron is an iconic NYC landmark, but did you know it was invented in Chicago in1902 by Daniel Burnham?
Every city has a Chicago story.
#ChicagoNotInChicago
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Am I crazy or does the Law Library look better on gloomy days?
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Congratulations to Ron DeSantis and Chris Christie for each winning 100% of the vote in two separate Chicago precinct in yesterday's primary election. They pulled this off, despite dropping out months ago, by winning the only GOP ballot cast in two South Side precincts.
lmao
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Love catching the early morning sun on the Medinah Athletic Club. Makes the sculptures and reliefs look especially dramatic.
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Drove out to the Northwest Side to see the oldest building in Chicago, the Noble-Seymour-Crippen House.
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@jonathanmb32
Really, really great novella. Think the title issue is somewhat negated by its cover art not looking like a detergent.
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Promontory Point in the Fall.
That's it. That's the tweet.
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Oh, shit, an email from my Alderman says the Cenacle Sisters are seeking to demolish their eponymous (and incredible) conference and retreat center on Fullerton in Lincoln Park.
They're going before the before the Chicago Landmark Commission on June 3rd.
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You may not need to be told this, but Ping Tom Memorial Park is a terrific place to spend an afternoon.
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@erich_luepke
Honestly, I don't think it even stands up to the efficiency question because most residents likely don't know they're responsible or don't have the means to pay for repairs out of pocket.
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@mattzollerseitz
Also brilliantlynunmooring that he's not killed by Chigurgh, but by the other squad of conventional hit men that the cartel hired and which we have only heard spoken of.
Poor Beer Lady, though.
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@joshtpm
@marcorubio
To be fair, this is the most complete thought that the Senator from Florida has had in ages.
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@louisafloftus
There's a church two blocks down the street, surrounded by luxury high rises and a billionaire's mansion, that has a saint's femur encased in their altar.
Shit's wild.
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The Department of Buildings might want to update their posters.
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She's gone.
The last thing she saw was my face and the last thing she felt was Becky at her side. All her aches and anxieties are lifted and she can keep running, as she did while dreaming on my lap today.
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The good vibes y'all sent earlier worked very quickly because I just accepted a new position as the Administrator of the Law, Letters, and Society program at UChicago!
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Unlocking on here because I'm excited to share that I've been promoted to take over my old boss's job.
So, starting Monday, I will be the new Social Sciences Collegiate Division Administrator at UChicago!
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Galena is incredible. Like stepping straight back in time. I'm obsessed. Changing the purpose of my Twitter account.
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How can someone be this dense and still have people think his ideas are worth listening to?
I truly cannot understand it.
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Sincerely, what is fucking wrong with the people that are this mad about a bike path and a traffic diverter? Good lord.
dickens discourse drop: the vibes have given me a chronic illness
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Walked over to admire the lovely old parking garage, decked out in Art Deco terra cotta, at 55th and Lake Park yesterday.
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Transit needs to be improved 1000% at Halsted and Chicago with all this development.
This would be wild on its own but even more so when you take into consideration that Halsted Pointe is also looking to add a group of similarly sized skyscrapers right across the river
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Does Chicago's MCC currently hold this title?
It's hard to think of something more quintessentially American than "world's tallest prison"
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Probably the last time I'll see the Tenenbaum Hardware buildings. Set for demolition after 98 years in business.
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This is cheating at the "you can just say Chicago and get 50 likes" game.
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This week is probably going to be peak foliage in Hyde Park. Get out there and eat your hearts out.
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Is the Reg growing on me or have the Brutalism stans online gotten in my head?
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I'd never seen this construction photo of the Monadnock before.
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