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A lot of people want third places, fewer want to actually experience the spontaneous socialization with strangers that is the entire point of a third place www.eater.com/24433384/wha...

submitted 5 hours ago • 5 comments

ICYMI: Lawmakers didn't pass a bill to address Chicagoland transit's upcoming $771M budget gap. RTA says that requires CTA, Metra, Pace will have to make massive service cuts. If nothing changes soon, that means more traffic deaths, smog, and traffic jams. chi.streetsblog.org/2025/06/01/c...

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

Good news: Japanese researchers may have found an explanation for long Covid and a possible treatment for it.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Pretty sure that a buck and a half for DoorDashing a meal is more equitable for folks with disabilities than decimating paratransit

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Great Khan of the Great Plains has to earn that title.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

I think what I hope @govpritzker.illinois.gov understands is that his presidential ambitions will be fully shot if he doesn’t step up and secure funding for our transit systems in IL.

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

#doctorwho spoilers: Legit maybe the worst episode since "Kerblam"? What is going on over there?

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

I am sorry 'The Last Supper' fans, 22 hours from now, I will take 'The Last Supper' down. I cannot take this anymore.

submitted 187957 days ago • 12 comments

I moved to chicago from indianapolis because I love train. hate driving. I don’t want 40% less train

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

I am just so fucking tired of begging politicians for things that are objectively, unquestionably beneficial and that anyone with half a brain can figure out. We have to grovel and protest and they STILL don’t do the right thing. So overwhelmingly depressing.

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

(JFK voice, wavering) I do feel it could be improved somewhat, however

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

A balanced budget that allows public transit to collapse is one that is balanced on the backs of working families who will be left stranded.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Cuts to the CTA could begin soon if the state doesn’t fill a $770 million budget gap. buff.ly/mbtLe8Z

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

So Chicago fam, as I see it we need to pressure each and every one of our state house reps to sponsor this bill or negotiate with their Senator counterparts on a compromise. Where is Ann Williams? Where is Hoan Huynh? Where is Kam “I’m so great on transit” Buckner? www.ilga.gov/legislation/...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

happy pride everybody

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Gov. Pritzker held a post-budget press conference this morning. Here are excerpts from the discussion of transit from CapitalFax, probably the best source for state budget news. Be sure to give them some clicks by visiting their site. capitolfax.com @govpritzker.illinois.gov bsky.app/profile/did:...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Imagine doing this and then being like wait there was a transit bill?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Illinois today

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

move the capital to chicago if downstate likes driving so much they can drive their ass all the way up here

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Last night, HB3438 failed to pass the House. Our work is far from over. We will continue to fight for the public transportation system that all Illinoisans deserve. We all need an innovative, forward-thinking transportation network that is funded well into the future.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Chicagoland transit may be imminently on the chopping block but I can still look cute

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

But hey, on the bright side your burrito taxi doesn’t cost an extra $1.50

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

The fact that this bill didn't pass is devastating, Chicago is on the verge of losing 40% of all transit service and seeing major reductions in the transit work force. Please read this whole thread and get involved if you can, transit is critical to a thriving and equitable city.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

HOUSE DOES NOT TAKE UP HB3438. GOES HOME ENDING THE SPRING SESSION WITHOUT A VOTE FOR TRANSIT.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments