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Eric Allix Rogers
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Architecture, interesting & historic places, Chicago, exploring cities by bike & transit. Mostly photos. Views my own. He/him. 🚲 🏙️ 🚆 🐱 🏳️‍🌈 📷
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Posting lentils 🍲
Detail photo of lentil stew.
November 14, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Fierce predator. Sorry about the finger.
Photo of cat yawning with its mouth open wide showing teeth. My finger is blocking the top of the frame.
November 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Fact.
Cat sleeping snuggled up mostly under blankets.
November 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Love to torture the cat by tucking him in under the covers when he naps on my bed.
Photo of a sleepy, black and white cat's head sticking out from a tangled mess of bedding.
November 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Woah, 71st Street got a road diet and protected bike lanes from Cottage Grove to Dorchester! The terrifying drag strip along the southern edge of Oak Woods Cemetery is no more. This is so awesome!
Somewhat blurry. Night time photo showing a bike lane protected with some concrete curb and some plastic flex posts on the right hand side of a street under some trees with lots of leaves on the ground and it's wet. Photo taken at night of a green painted bike lane with a concrete raised section to be left and a sidewalk to the right. Photo showing a bike lane delineated with paint and plastic flex posts. Going through an underpass under railroad tracks held up by yellow and white concrete arches.
November 9, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Lol
Jumbled photo showing parts of my bike and my knee inside a CTA train car.
November 9, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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It's so great to live in a region where I can just go places without driving.
Photo of the inside of a train station concourse with an angled glass ceiling supported by lots of white metal structures, and a shiny terrazzo floor. Photo of the inside of a train with a green bike rack with a bike attached to it.
November 9, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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The new Homewood train station looks especially sharp once it gets dark outside!
Photo of an irregular blocky building with lots of Windows ringed in yellow and with a lot of light glowing out from inside. To the right of the corner entrance is a tall vertical pylon that says Homewood.
November 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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More photos of Black Bear Lodge at twilight
Photo looking directly at the glass wall of a low slung building in a wooded area, with lights glowing inside. Photo looking at the corner of a low slung glass and stone building in a wooded area, with light glowing through the windows from inside. Photo looking from a corner and over a gravel path towards a low slung glass and stone building with light glowing through the windows from inside in a wooded area. Photo looking directly at the front entrance of a low slung building with a glass wall and flat roof in a wooded area. Lights are glowing from within.
November 8, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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It remains what it was built to be: an active Scout lodge!
Photo of a stone wall with a recessed fireplace and a concrete bench and wooden plaques bearing the names of boy scouts at different levels.
November 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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I was there for a great talk by @ycwongarchitectfan.bsky.social about underappreciated architect John McPherson, organized by SoCoMCM: www.socomcm.org
Photo taken inside a building with a group of people seated on folding chairs facing a projection screen with a couple of people standing and speaking. Photo showing someone serving themselves from a table of pie and refreshments with other people visible standing in the background inside a building at an event.
November 8, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Black Bear Lodge, Homewood Izaak Walton Preserve
Photo of a low slung stone and glass walled building in a wooden setting. Photo directly looking at one corner of a low slung building with a glass wall and a perpendicular stone wall in a wooded setting. Photo taken. Looking towards the corner of a low slung glass and stone building in a wooded setting. Photo of the interior of a building with a shiny concrete floor and a stone wall with a massive fireplace inset in it to the left and a timber framed roof and glass wall to the right.
November 8, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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The diet, uh, resumes tomorrow
Photo of a delicious pizza.
November 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Number 17, sausage and hot giardiniera, old oven!
Photo of a delicious pizza.
November 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Papal pizza mothership
Photo of the exterior of a brick building with a sign that says Aurelio's, the family pizzeria since 1959. Photo of two framed white t-shirts. The one on the left has a round pepperoni pizza and there's the words Pope Leo XIV, Poperoni, peace love Aurelio's. The other days "Pope Leo Sent Me" and includes a photo of the pope and a prayer card. Photo looking at the distinctive arching wooden structure in the side, a restaurant with several colored glass chandeliers hanging. Photo of a red and white checked table in a restaurant with a sign on a post that advertises Poperoni pizza.
November 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Home Sweet Homewood
Photo looking down the platform of a train station with a commuter train visible to the left and a long distance Amtrak train visible to the right. Photo taken inside a new modern train station building. On a concrete wall next to a sloping ramp in a very large letters is the word Homewood. Photo taken inside the tall and bright entrance of a modern train station with walls of windows.
November 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Adventure Time, sort of. Really more of a series of train rides with last mile problems.
Photo of a train with a red moon white stripe front pulling in to a train station platform under overhead wires and cloudy skies with a distinctive tall building visible to the right. Photo of my bike attached to a green bike rack inside a commuter rail car.
November 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Ginkgoin'
Photo taken in a park centered on a ginkgo tree that has turned nearly entirely yellow.
November 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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I don't have an answer to this question, but I do have some questions about this Kerrygold ad at Museum Campus. What exactly is one supposed to be doing with butter on the field?
Photo of a concrete bridge abutment with a large green ad on it that reads: Enjoy Ireland's finest on and off the field" and has a photo of Kerrygold butter on grass.
November 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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TREE
Photo of a lone almost leafless tree standing amid the charred remnants of prairie grasses next to Lake Michigan.
November 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Same shot different day
Photo looking out over railroad tracks leading towards the tall buildings of the Chicago skyline under a bright blue sky.
November 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Welcome to the war on cars, cars! (Just your totally normal 10pm hit-and-run with a parked car. Whoever switched off the alarm without looking out the window first is going to have a bad morning.)
Photo of a car that is partly on the street and angled partly on the sidewalk, with its side door panels smashed in and some debris on the street.
November 7, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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If anyone asks what happened to all the sauce that was left in the pan, YOU DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING.
Photo of a cast iron skillet on a stove with a simmering sauce with a purple tint and bits of chicken and mushroom visible.
November 7, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Different shot same day
Nighttime photo looking out over railroad tracks leading towards the tall illuminated buildings of the Chicago skyline under a cloudy sky.
November 7, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Ginkgoin'
Photo taken in a park centered on a ginkgo tree that is turning yellow.
November 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM