Just for the record: UW history has more majors and minors right now than at least since 2015, maybe 2010, and we are starting to hear people leaving, say, computer science, and explaining that the job market is uncertain everywhere so they may as well do what they enjoy
The U.S. Senate is expected to vote Thursday morning on an unprecedented move to strip mining prohibitions from an area near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Lawmakers are considering a measure under the Congressional Review Act. If passed and signed by the president, the measure would remove a 20-year ban on mining federal lands in the Superior National Forest put in place under then-President Joe Biden three years ago. Passage would mark a major victory for Rep. Pete Stauber, who represents northeastern Minnesota, and for Twin Metals, a mining company with plans to establish a copper-nickel mine in the area. The resolution would also bar a future presidential administration from reinstating the ban.
The switchboard is open to forward calls to your senators: +1 (202) 224-3121.
For more information on the Boundary Waters Wilderness and why it's so important to protect: morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/the-bounda.... 🌎
For our 10th anniversary, we’ve started the New Chicago Renaissance series to revisit exemplary works of literature about Chicago from the last 10 years, and explore their continued relevance. Stay tuned for one every month!
Our fifth installment in the Chicago Renaissance series is an essay about Megan Stielstra (@meganstielstra.bsky.social)—and her book The Wrong Way to Save Your Life (2017, @harpercollins.bsky.social)—by Julia Fine (@finejuli.bsky.social).
chireviewofbooks.com/2026/04/15/t...
Another morning of ICE sightings happening around Chicagoland and the northwest burbs as yes, they are still here, operating under the surface as they were before Bovino's spectacle.
I was lucky enough to be one of this weighty tome’s editors. @uchicagopress.bsky.social
it's nice to see people moved by a space mission again. #projectgemini #projectapollo #projectartemis
Middle school kids screwing around under the tracks at the Paulina Brown Line Station and suddenly...they break into perfect harmonized song. And just as suddenly...they're goofy, awkward kids again. Made my past choir/theater kid so very happy. We still rule!
This feels like how housing is set up in Barcelona, Spain. It seems to work really well.
Dear whoever in Chicago PL implemented this: please to be pitching a code4lib talk next year walking everyone through how you did it blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/08/c... 📚
He still needs to be removed from office. A war powers resolution will not suffice. He circumvented Congress to start the war. He circumvented them on tariffs and appropriations. Why anyone thinks he'd adhere to a Congressional war powers resolution is beyond me.
Rep Mike Quigley (IL-05) calls for impeachment and says Congress must return from recess TODAY.
(He asks the Cabinet to invoke the 25th amendment but this clearly seems a formality.)
Cherry blossoms this morning in Jackson Park
Lovely piece. Thank you.
Looks like wisteria. Invasive, but really pretty.
So recently I got this device called the Instruo Pocket Scion. It takes electrical signals from plants and passes them through a sound engine. I hooked it up to this calla lily in my garden and here's what happened:
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I have an Archivist joke, but it’s not processed.
The Grolier Club has digitized the meeting minutes of the Hroswitha Club! The Hroswithians were a group of women collectors not allowed in the Grolier Club. These minutes are a treasure trove, and Im thrilled to see them digitized and not in my phone anymore!
www.grolierclub.org/Default.aspx...
It’s weird to see all these people celebrating immigrant history today
Did the thing!
I read the “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Most of the media apparently *hasn’t* read it because, if they had, they would be sounding the alarm about the provision in Point 1, below, which almost none of them have even mentioned. I hope this summary helps raise awareness. 1/
Albee's birthday...my highest holiday!
I'm talking about "The Uptown: Chicago's Endangered Movie Palace" at 6:30 p.m. tonight at the Sulzer Library. www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/category/pos...
Last week UNESCO contacted all parties in the Iran war, sharing locations of revered cultural heritage sites hoping they might be spared. These sites are protected under international law.
But they are being hit hard by Israel and the United States
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/w...
