Bad news, girl. You didn’t poop this morning when it wasn’t snowing. So now we have to go out when it is much worse. If only you could comprehend cause & delayed effects.

NEW: After a year hiatus, the Cook County State’s Attorney reverses course and has restarted diverting nonviolent gun cases to restorative justice courts news.wttw.com/2026/01/28/c...

Witnessed this in person today. It cold.

Do food bots break in the cold? Or is this broken food bot taking up sidewalk space at Lincoln-Halsted during rush hour broken for other reasons? At least the second bot in the photo was working
#Chicago

At 4:48 am the CTA says that there is a “sick customer” at the Howard platform.

But CPD has already been notified that the individual was pronounced deceased at 4:29 am.

It’s not on CTA to alert people to deaths in our city, but sometimes a euphemism can be covering a lot.

I was in the room in 2023 when the statement was watered down to a single sentence on a ceasefire. I was already planning to leave @apha.org after that meeting & I have no regrets doing so. I knew that they did not represent me & seeing how they treated one of their section chairs is unsurprising.

The Chicago area saw notable increases in flu activity heading into and during the holiday season, according to the latest respiratory illness data from local public health departments.

https://to.wttw.com/45q6IH5

Overall crime continued to drop as the number of murders in Chicago decreased from 587 in 2024 to 416 last year, when scores of federal immigration agents flooded the city and President Trump repeatedly highlighted its crime. Mayor Johnson touted the "positive trend" but acknowledged “there’s a lot…

Chicago hasn’t been *yet* been hit as hard as NYC with the flu. But just yesterday @cdph.bsky.social put out this Health Alert Network notice on respiratory disease. It is here and building

www.chicagohan.org/alert-detail...

At first I only saw my SIL’s dog watching me get ready for my run. But then I saw my girl watching me, too

Brisk ride into the office this morning. Lack of traffic made it down right enjoyable.

The move marks the second time that state public health officials have broken away from guidance under U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.

Organization applying for grant highlighting their unionized workforce as a strength.

Me, remembering how hard they fought unionization: ☕️🐸
(I am literally drinking tea right now)

Peanut got new booties over the weekend for the extreme cold. She is not a fan.

Chicago's Smart Streets cameras began issuing new fine types for expired meters and parking in bus stops in late October. New cameras have come into rotation as well, to limited use.

Low impact to daily fines issued so far, and a majority of tickets are still warnings.

Dibs, Pilsen

Our database of over 100,000 reported bike lane obstructions shows business owners themselves use bike lanes as free parking. They know the current system is so broken they will not be ticketed. They also instruct delivery drivers and customers to do the same.

I am thinking of a journal article that I am having trouble finding the source. It’s about hazard & individual capacity. There is a graph of these over time & where the lines converge is where an injury happens. Thought it was a Haddon article.
@christenrexing.bsky.social @thesavir.bsky.social

Does CPD have a hate crimes division? Peanut believes her rights are being violated.

She wants to invoke the Geneva Conventions, but she’s worried that she has never been to Kane County.

Join us Thursday for our Suburban Advocacy connect at 12!
Neil Holdway, former Daily Herald Editor who now runs SuburbanChicagoBicycling.org, will be joining to share a run down of bikeway projects in the suburbs.

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College football becoming worse & worse as a metaphor for late-stage capitalism. The broadcasts are obnoxious filled with odious people.

And yet!
And yet.

Here we are yet again for The Game. Go Blue

It is fully sunbeam season now. Her absolute favorite.

Careful when you’re formatting your reference section. The article with a typo might belong to one of the reviewers.

But, a citation win is a win?

Hello, Better Business Bureau? I have a complaint about false advertising.

The Brown Line is now completely broken. A Kimball bound 🟫 is stuck at the Belmont station right before the flyover. Traffic is built up behind it.
It’s bad news bears, kids.
#cta #Chicago