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Bill Savage
@rogersparkman.bsky.social
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Watch your noggins, everyone.
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Goodnight from the former Cunneen’s Old Style sign, in the wilds of Iowa. Happy Turkey Day to one and all. @chicagobars.bsky.social
Old Style bar sign on an exterior house wall, half-lit, with old-fashioned Christmas lights hung around it. For reasons unknown, a one-legged blue lawn flamingo is on a table beneath it. Some sacrifice or another.
November 28, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Spotted in Amerca’s heartland. We are such a fucked up nation. Happy Thanksgiving.
Brown/gray hooded sweatshirt with raggedy-ass American flag design. Tag on sweatshirt reading: “Rothco. Concealed carry hooded sweatshirt. Tactical outdoor apparel.”
November 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Manhole cover rings on the move. @robertloerzel.bsky.social @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social @jjtindall.bsky.social @kevinirvine.bsky.social
Manhole cover rings, brown metal, in back of a red truckbed.
November 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Goodnight from Chicago, home to excellent Art Deco industrial infrastructure.
Personified electricity guy, wielding lightning bolts, wearing a strange square loincloth, bestriding cityscape with small homes below and skyscrapers behind him.
November 24, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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Someone is on a mission.
Ad for FRIENDS AI on Harold Washington Brown Line stop, with graffito saying “only losers buy this.”
November 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Agreed.
Spectacular sunset.
November 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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So much for that.
Yard covered in fallen leaves. Curbside pickup vast pile of leaves. New yard waste bin also full of leaves. Looking forward to snow-shoveling season!
November 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Brand new Yard Waste bin!
Brand new green yard waste bin from Flood Brothers. Brown lid. Perfectly clean empty never-used bin. Kind of interesting shapes.
November 22, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Just spotted an official City of Chicago street sign that still reads “Congress Parkway” on what has been Ida B. Wells Drive since 2018-2019. It’s one thing when the indifferent corporate swine at AT&T don’t update their address, quite another when the City fails to follow through.
Street Sign on lamp-post in foreground of skyscrapers reads “Congress Parkway.” In lower background, another sign, correctly reads “Ida B Wells Dr.” State Street is the intersection. One Streets and San team, a ladder, and a grinder saw and problem solved. Other side of outdated Congress Parkway sign hasn’t worn well, reads “C GR S P WY.” Address reading “85 W. CONGRESS” on former (I think) AT&T building. C’mon, get a guy and a ladder and a crowbar! This isn’t brain science or rocket surgery.
November 21, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Goodnight from Rogers Park, where AI is unwelcome, to say the least. I’d sooner be stuck on a barstool between my two worst enemies, who are talking over me in code about what a jagoff I am, than I’d want to delude myself that some AI bot could be my “friend.”
Poster advertisement on wall in the Jarvis El station for an AI “friend” that reads: “friend [frend] noun someone who listens, responds, and supports you.” All punctuation and etc [sic]. And sick. A Rogers Park resident (I presume) has added “FUCK AI” in black marker. Amen.
November 21, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Corollary: the car is not a jagoff . . .
Bumper sticker on a Subaru, a car culturally associated with Liberal politics and identity. It reads: “The car is liberal, I’m not.” Driven by an old white guy on 103rd Street. Bet you didn’t see that coming!
November 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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One upside of the Bears being hot: you can get in and out of the Binny’s on 95th Street in five minutes flat. Never seen it so empty. @chicagobars.bsky.social
Mostly deserted parking lot.
November 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Guess where.
Three Jersey Barriers, across a wide road, in front of a chain link fence with lots of post-industrial weeds and trees, under some kind of rotting industrial tower. The barriers are painted baby blue. Written on them in black: “Once upon a time/there were two orphans/on a mission from God.”
November 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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It’s the middle of November and these wee little white flowers are still in bloom in the flowerbox. The impending climate catastrophe at least offers us some small beauties.
Small white flowers around black metal porch railing, with white brick building, walkway, and fallen leaves in the background. More small white flowers, from above.
November 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Sunset on North Shore Channel Trail.
A bit of the setting sun through mostly bare trees, with one red-leaved one to the right, ond yellow to the left. Over gone-to-seed prairie flowers.
November 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Aurorae Borealis are all well and good, but give me a Rogers Park mackerel sky sunset anytime.
Spectacular mackerel sky with pink and red and gray clouds, over Morse Avenue Red Line station.
November 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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What are the odds? I brought a gooseneck lamp that originally belonged to my great-grandparents in for rewiring(last rewiring was in 1950s, according to guy there, who’d know). Someone else had brought in THE EXACT SAME LAMP. Only in a big city . . . Recommend this place highly. alampandfixture.com
Two identical old gooseneck lamps. Grey-green with elaborate bases and round shades. See other picture Alt text. Just a different angle.
November 12, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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So many courtyard and other buildings constructed in Rogers Park during the heyday of Too Much Ain’t Enough. Like this stained glass decor in my old home, Campus Towers[sic: it’s only one Tower]. Or the half-assed Cathedral door.
Elaborate door to a building. Sort of European Cathedral-esque. Stained glass with colorful C and T intertwined. In former mailroom of Campus Towers
November 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Random Rogers Park heavily decorated door. Not sure how this gets translated into classic heraldic terminology. @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social
Doorway with elaborate stone framing inside red fave brick. Above the door two weird beasts (fish lions?) flank a heraldic shield with three blank quadrants and upper left with random lines, all below a crown.
November 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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When the first snowfall comes hard on the heels of the first leaf-fall, but before you can rake, interesting aesthetics ensue.
Chicago Common brick wall, with some orange and brown leaves next to it; some clear asphalt pavement, then snow, then car tire tracks in snow making clear ice through which squished leaves are visible. Then more snow.
November 11, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Anti-ICE protest in Little Village. WBBM just included it in the traffic news. Be safe.
Image of text from City Emergency alerts. Reads: NotifyChicsgo: Public gathering at 3100 W 26th st blocking traffic. Seek alternate route.
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Holy Moly, it’s a Mr. Boffo crossover, with Willy from Willy ‘n Ethel making an appearance at the lunch counter with Earl! @neilsteinberg.bsky.social Get Willie ‘n Ethel back in the Sun-Times, and I will double my donation on top of my subscription. @chicago.suntimes.com
Mr. Boffo, by Joe Martin. Cartoon of two men sitting at a lunch counter eating hot dogs. Each has a plate with multiple hot dogs, and a mouth-bound dog in hand. Caption: “Another way to tell when you’re dealing with hot dog connoisseurs.” One dude, Earl, regular character in Mr. Boffo, says “I’d rather have five chili cheese dogs with everything than twenty plain ones.” Other guy is Willy, from one of Martin’s other strips, Willy ‘n Ethel. He says “Amen!” They are flanked by bemused pets: to Earl’s right, Weederman the Wonder Dog. To Willy’s left, his nameless cat. A total masterpiece, perhaps only fully grasped by people like me who are still angry that Willy ‘n Ethel was dropped by the Sun-Times in the last millennium.
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Nice Moon. Gotta start sitting in window seats more often.
Moon with shiny arrows off it, over dark cityscape, with plane wing. Moon a second later with moondog/prism like a rainbow around it.
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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Morning. And night. What was I thinking?
View of desert plants with hills in the background. Lovely flowers on some sort of desert plants. Lake effect blizzard at Sheridan and Birchwood in Rogers Park. Bush covered in snow rather than flowers.
November 10, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Hello Gridness, my old friend. . .
View of Chicago’s mostly rectilinear street Grid, lit up at nght, from airplane window. Wing covers right third of image.
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 AM