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This French Fries bag logo should be as Chicago-iconic as the Italian map pizza box/bag design.
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ATTENTION Chicago ghost sign fans. I was tipped off re: these beautiful newly exposed ads. On wood, which is really rare. No idea when new siding will go on. 3609 N. Ravenswood.
@whet
@robertloerzel
@ChiGhostSigns
@tewhalen
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No one has ever had any question about this.
The police were handing out tickets to cars honking their horns in celebration outside Trump Tower if you have any question about where CPD stands
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One thing I haven't seen addressed re: Tr*mp Insurrection: WTF did these crazy MFers think would happen if they succeeded in shooting Pelosi & Schumer & then lynching Pence on the Capitol grounds? That all Americans would just nod & say "OK, so, I guess Tr*mp did win after all."?
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READ THIS. NOW. Chicago's Roman Catholic Cardinal standing up for American values, more than so many Democrat or Republican politicians.
This weekend proved to be a dark moment in U.S. history.
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Every cop killed on the job is a tragedy. So is every innocent person killed by a cop. Why is it so hard to recall these two ideas at once?
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Everyone who said Pritzker was just another Billionaire like certain Republicans, listen to his COVID press conferences v. Trump's. Day and night. Good and evil. He is right now speaking out against racism and in favor of common identity. Unimaginable from Washington.
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Maybe I am being a paranoid conspiracy theorist, but if I were the US translator from the Trump-Putin one-on-one, I’d be calling Mueller, telling all, and asking to get into the Witness Protection Program yesterday.
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@fakedansavage
@LOLGOP
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Jesus, I honestly cannot tell this from
@DougJBalloon
and NYTimes pitchbot. Self-owning beyond parody.
President Biden has finally caught a series of breaks, with progress on major legislation and six weeks of falling gas prices. Now, he faces the challenge of making those successes resonate with Americans who remain deeply skeptical about the future.
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A red-painted quarter! Aficionados of Chicago bar culture should know what this coin was for.
@chicagobars
@backwards_river
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This one I love. A graffiti mural of Mayor Richard M Daley’s smug mug being removed by the city’s own graffiti blasters.
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Say “I never worked a restaurant job” and “I am not a regular anywhere” and “No one will miss me where I never go anyway” without saying same. Sheesh.
@chicagobars
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Canonical Chicago Back Porch.
@backwards_river
@whet
@robertloerzel
@SorenSpicknall
@LEEBEY
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I swear to God, every story about how "Now Tr*mp is really in legal hot water, this will be the thing that changes everything!" just makes me insane. He'll appeal ad infinitum, and until he's perp-walked on live TV, none of it matters or will have any political effect.
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The Chicago Defender was the most important newspaper in Chicago history. No apologies to Tribune or any other paper: Defender made Chicago the North Star for the Great Migration, and made Chicago the birthplace of the Blues, home to G. Brooks and R. Wright and countless others.
The Chicago Defender — the storied African American newspaper — will cease print operations after a final edition set to be released Wednesday. via
@SunTimes
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Dems must attack voter suppression by registering voters NOW for '18 midterms in WI, NC, PA, MI, etc. Can't wait til 2020.
@fakedansavage
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@JortsTheCat
Happy birthday from the site of the Haymarket Tragedy, a sacred place for the American, and global, labor movement. “Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, and eight hours for what we will.”
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In a spirit of bipartisanship, on National Pizza Day, hoping to unite all Chicagoans, suburbanites, & tourists: I submit for your approval, Tavern-Cut Deep Dish Chicago Pizza.
@NachosAndLager
@edible_words
@valcapone
@Shokdiesel
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Teaching Mike Royko today. Three things: 1)None of my students had ever heard of him before my class. 2)Half the class, as always, now says he's their favorite writer in the course. 3)God, I wonder what he'd have to say about Tr*mp.
@rickkogan
@Judyroyko
@NewberryLibrary
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Great to see my favorite (literal) street art in Rogers Park is still
@in
good shape!
@bachor
@RepKellyCassidy
@ChiAlderwoman
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If we are lucky, and get our political shit together, in 4-5 years, Chicago will have a thriving Venezuelan-American community featuring great new small family-owned restaurants.
Wilfredo Garcia, a self-taught painter from the Venezuelan countryside, paid for his trip across several countries in murals, leaving traces of the spirit of the Venezuelan heartland all the way to Chicago.
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The next Dem president should just pardon all undocumented immigrants. Since it's OK for
#Arpiao
, surely no R could object.
@fakedansavage
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Someday, maybe, I hope, we will call this Trump Tower Chicago.
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Everyone surprised at Chicago institutions profiteering or manipulating or just fucking with the COVID vaccine distribution process to favor the rich and insiders over the poor outsiders: I refer you to all of CHICAGO HISTORY, since Du Sable sold to that fucker Kinzie.
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Why are meat-packing plants hit so hard by COVID-19? Oh, I dunno, let me check with this book from 1906 . . . which depicts EXACTLY THE SAME THING: rampant unregulated capitalism, union-busting, exploited immigrant labor, unsafe conditions, etc.
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A little early, but I'll take it.
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Why isn't the Press calling the Nashville Suicide Bomber a terrorist, or even a suicide bomber? The Logic of Prejudice. White men are always individuals who do things for mysterious reasons, v. marginalized people who always represent their group identity.
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Dunno about anyone else, but I am very much looking forward to Congressional hearings on the Tr*mp "administration"'s handling of the COVID crisis. It should be scaled according to how many Benghazi's worth of Americans die of COVID. Will take millions of hours, all under oath.
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Unity with these people? Are you fucking kidding me?
NEW: Marjorie Taylor Greene indicated support for executing prominent Democrats in Facebook comments, videos, and likes in 2018 and 2019
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Fuck this racist piece of shit excuse for a President.
Close up of President
@realDonaldTrump
notes is seen where he crossed out "Corona" and replaced it with "Chinese" Virus as he speaks with his coronavirus task force today at the White House.
#trump
#trumpnotes
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True: Hitler was a much better public speaker. Analogies do not have to be 100% accurate--and it's little steps like caging children that crack open the door. Once the analogy is 100% accurate, it'd be too late. Godwin's Law has been officially repealed.
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Al Capone moved from Chicago to Miami too.
Citadel will move from Chicago to Miami because of concerns about rising crime, Illinois' richest man & GOP donor Ken Griffin announces, reports
@McCormickJohn
reports for the
@WSJ
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Loyola's MO since the '80s. Buy old quirky affordable buildings, claim they're in disrepair, demolish. Parking lots or new construction, which is a form of commercial gentrification: small business owners cannot afford the rent new buildings require, so you get national chains.
Rogers Park neighbors to Loyola: Don’t demolish a building with local shops and longtime residents.
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@chicagobars
Other Chicagoans who remember a certain owner of that "local" ice cream parlor trying to leverage anti-immigrant hatred into political power in multiple failed runs for office have flocked away for years, perhaps leading to this lovely bankruptcy. Flock Oberweis.
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Will
@Dodgers
accept tonight's 10-2 loss to the
@Cubs
, or will they keep us in suspense?
@fakedansavage
@realDonaldTrump
@HillaryClinton
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I am proud to be a Chicagoan sometimes. Like right now.
When I was a child, I witnessed and experienced a lot of terrible things said about African Americans and the LGBT community. But I didn't have the words or strength to speak up.
I will be silent no more.
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Moment of silence for Beth Murphy at Wrigley. RIP.
@murphysbleacher
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First, they came for the Multi-Millionaires, and I said nothing because I wasn't a Multi-Millionaire. Then they came for the Billionaires, and I said nothing because I wasn't a Billionaire. Then they taxed them at a slightly higher rate, and I said nothing because . . .
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Take away 11 states of Confederacy (w/o WVA) & Clinton wins popular vote by 23.6 million. Economic anxiety, my ass.
@fakedansavage
@LOLGOP
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Thank you
@SenFettermanPA
for introducing the Pennsylvania/Chicago term "jagoff" into the national discourse.
@MaryLDixon
If those jagoffs in the House stop trying to shut our government down, and fully support Ukraine, then I will save democracy by wearing a suit on the Senate floor next week.
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Checks to every American won't solve the financial problem; we need a national freeze on rent/mortgage & student loan payments until COVID-19 passes. Make banks hit pause for six months on their obscene profits. They got bailed out, it's payback time. Eventually, they will make
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I've biked around Chicago, Rogers Park to Beverly, about 100 miles in the last 5 days; I've seen scores of cops in cars & on the street: not one has been wearing a mask. They're announcing their politics and endangering everyone they encounter, including their own families.
On busy red line train & 100% mask compliance EXCEPT for the 3 young cops on here. 😱🤷♂️🤦♂️
I think lot of CPD do hard jobs well but ffs 😷
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Anyone else beginning to think that Mayor Lightfoot may end up being the rarest of Chicago Mayoral types: a one-termer?
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Just watched a server turn away a guy trying the bullshit “I have a medical condition, I don’t have to wear a mask” card(on his phone!). He asked if his money was no good, then said he won’t be back. My money is good, and I will be back because I know they enforce health rules.
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Ok, almost exactly 148 years ago on this date, 8 October 1871, and at this time, 8:30 pm, the O’Leary barn was engulfed in flames. Soon enough, the Great Fire would obliterate and recreate Chicago.
@ForgottenChi
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Serious question: if Tr*mp is indicted, when FBI or NYPD or Georgia cops go to Mar-a-Lago to arrest him, are Secret Service agents bound to cooperate w/other LEOs, or just to protect Tr*mp? Unprecedented question, of course.
@AshaRangappa_
@MuellerSheWrote
@emptywheel
@gtconway3d
WATCH: FBI, NYPD and Secret Service preparing for potential Trump indictment as early as next week.
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As I dip my toe in the reality of going out to public places for a beer again, a new rule: If your establishment does not REQUIRE (and ENFORCE) the wearing of masks by all customers when they are not at their table, I will not return to your place. You're putting your staff and
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EVERYONE: if you get a fund-raising pitch, with postage-paid return from Trump campaign, DON'T PITCH IT. Fill it out w/some choice words, or just seal empty envelope. Then mail it, so the Trumpers get to help the
@usps
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I’m sitting in Miller’s Pub, in Bill Veeck’s Corner, drinking a Dovetail Hefeweizen. Muddy Waters is playing on the sound system, and the El just rumbled past overhead. I may be about to have a Chicago Overdose.
@dovetailbrewery
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. . . the Multi-Millionaires still had most of their multiple Millions and the Billionaires still had most of their Billions, while 330 million Americans gained better health care, cheaper education, rebuilt infrastructure & economic justice. So why say anything? Also, fuck 'em.
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So, a Rogers Park art mystery: who is filling potholes with sculpture made of bike parts, pottery shards, and tools? I have found 3 locations so far(the 2 small ones are adjacent).
@JayDubWard
@RPWRHS
@rpublichouse
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Wait, so Illinoisans aren't fleeing our Hellhole Democrat-Run Crime-Ridden Nightmare Cities? They're fleeing the Republican-run rural areas, that putative paradise of True Americans? Well, slap my face.
More people left Illinois than any other state in the 2010s. Part of the problem: Unlike elsewhere, urban growth hasn’t offset rural decline.
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My favorite Stockyards area monument. To the workers who rode the streetcar to their labor.
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Orwellian. Down the Memory Hole goes Merrick Garland. . . .
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Honestly, the hit a 24-hour diner in hip neighborhood phase of my life is long over, but if it weren’t, I wouldn’t go back to this joint After COVID. Pritzker? Blame COVID, blame guy who hid the truth, poiticized the science.denied Hint: name rhymes w/“dump.”
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Another Rogers Park freelance pothole filled with concrete and art. RIP RBG. May we all live up to her example.
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Anyone else feeling like the slow-motion train wreck of the entire Tr*mp administration has left you emotionally & intellectually semi-prepared for the Coronavirus pandemic we're facing? I feel oddly calm, like "Been here a while, ready for whatever happens next."(Knock wood.)
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Holy God, this picture . . .
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Any truth to rumors that since
@POTUS
has only 11 months left, GOP Senate leaders say today is NOT Presidents Day?
@LOLGOP
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Thanks for this image, Maureen!
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Are you fucking kidding me? Why is Chicago so big? Geography and transportation, then and now. Great Lakes/canals/rivers; then railroads; then interstate trucking and air traffic. Invented futures trading (and grain elevators). Diverse economy (unlike Detroit). Universities.FFS.
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Hey
@fakedansavage
, think R's would be upset if Russians are found to have tampered with the R Primaries, not just the General Election?
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.
@BlockClubCHI
is becoming the new City News Bureau. "First reported by BlockClubChicago" appears ALL THE TIME in both the Sun-Times & the Trib & on WBBM newsradio. Their editors must have a one-keystroke macro for it. Chicagoans: subscribe!
@ltaford
@annweiler
@slulay2
@stoomey
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The argument that Biden's student loan forgiveness plans are some sort of giveaway to rich Ivy Leaguers majoring in Gender Studies fills me with rage. Newsflash: RICH PEOPLE WRITE CHECKS TO PAY THEIR KIDS' TUITION. Middle, working class & poor people need student loans. JFC. 1/2
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All who think "strong institutions" will save USA must ignore speed w/which HSA & Customs did TrumpBannon's bidding.
@fakedansavage
#resist
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Ah, the Tribune editorial page, blind to irony as always. American supermarket shelves, like the Trib’s newsroom, have been stripped bare not by the bogeyman of Socialism, but by rampant Capitalism. No editor there to catch this, I suppose.
@ltaford
@RexHuppke
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When Bears decamp for the 'burbs, make Soldier Field the All Festivals Site and give Chicagoans Grant Park (and Douglass Park and Union Park etc.) back.
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These comments might be an issue for him in prison.
Arkansas resident Richard Barnett, who posed sitting at Pelosi's desk, said on social media he was a white nationalist, anyone who wasn't should leave the U.S., and he was prepared to die a violent death. By
@jonswaine
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So, re: videos of Chicagoans on skis being towed by cars: when I was a kid, we'd do that in a lower-tech way: just grab onto the bumper of a car (or truck or bus) and get pulled along. We called it "skitching." Anyone else recall this crazy, dangerous, fun-as-hell practice?
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Good to see patriotic Texans gouging the living fuck out of each other in a climate-catastrophe-based emergency situation. Their future in a nutshell. Worship at the altar of the Almighty Free Market, and you will eventually be sacrificed on it.
NEW: Hotels in Austin are utterly booked as people escape freezing homes. There is availability at a Ramada by Wyndham in South Austin. Price? $999.
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I collect Richard J. Daley ephemera and folk art. This is my favorite.
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Yes it is, and we can expect an attempt at this here. Autocrats leverage national emergencies to cement perpetual power.
@sarahkendzior
has been beating this drum for years . . .
A draft law would allow Hungary's Covid-19 state of emergency to be extended without parliament's approval.
Is this a dictatorship via a national emergency?
Commentary from around Europe in today's Eurotopics Press Review.
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I usually don't go all in on RT'ing reactions to an actor's or musician's death, but I am amazed at how many people I follow in totally different contexts are mourning Andre Braugher. We were classmates at St. Ignatius, class of '80. It does hit home. RIP.
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Chicago Flag Star Arguers: OK, I dig 5th star motivation, but let's focus: now, the flag's four stars are perfectly balanced: 2 disasters (Ft. Dearborn (Battle of) & Great Fire) & 2 parties (1893 & 1933 Fairs). Chicago is both a disaster & a party. 4 stars maintains that balance.
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First time at my regular spot
@TheHopleaf
since March 14, 2020. Hope Nature is healing as well as I am.
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Re-read The Jungle and Chicago Poems for my class tonight. Want to live in a world without environmental regulations, worker safety regulations, or unions? Check those books out. And then brace yourself, because it's coming again unless
@realDonaldTrump
and his ilk are defeated.
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Done deal. RIP Steve Cunneen, a great barkeep and even better person. His name is now part of Chicago’s streetscape. Thanks
@ChiAlderwoman
@chicagobars
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From back when even the most utilitarian buildings were designed to be beautiful.
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Cannot believe I failed to add an Impeach the Motherfucker Already button to my Mueller shrine already. Have now.
#itmfa
@fakedansavage
@dansinker
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There will be an exhibit about Mike Royko at
@NewberryLibrary
, opening in June. Everyone should check it out.
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