20 years ago the NCAA banned Chief Illiniwek. Now some students want U of I to move on The University of Illinois retired Chief Illiniwek in 2007, without picking a new mascot. Native American faculty say the inaction is damaging.

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Really been 20 years just choose Kingfisher already!!

Most Americans: I’m going to die working this job 😞

Members of Congress: I’m going to die working this job! 😃

Had some fog this afternoon

A car on the LFT.

Nice to be back.

Suddenly Everyone Wants a Tailor. They’re in Short Supply. Nordstrom, Men’s Warehouse and other brands are reviving an old-fashioned job.

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The Prince 100 Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson counts down his top Prince songs.

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We are gathered here to get through this thing called life. Electric word life and means a mighty long time. But I'm here to tell you there's something else called the after life.

How the Internet Fringe Infiltrated Republican Politics Inside the battle for the post-MAGA G.O.P.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Deeply Troubling.

Can Sponge Cities Save Us from the Coming Floods? As the planet gets warmer and the rains fall harder, the future of flood control is looking less like a wall and something more like a park.

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Sounds like a great way to mitigate heavy rains+ flooding.

Woke CIA doing regime change.

“to the home of PAC-12 Texas State” is a chef’s-kiss perfect jab in this really great thread about normalizing heroic deeds.

CTA Set To 'Refresh And Renew' 28 'L' Stations This Year, Including 51st Street Green Line Stop The Chicago Transit Authority will spend $6.5 million on maintenance and aesthetic upgrades this year at 28 "L" stops and 14 bus turnarounds.

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Hallelujah!!

Fewer young Americans are pursuing sewing careers. These Chicago tailors think they know why. Chicago’s emerging and longtime tailors have observed industry shifts they believe have led to fewer professional sewers.

www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/21/f...
1. We losing recipes!
2. Sad that more and more folks can't afford tailors+ dry cleaning.

Why Some of Milwaukee’s Iconic Beers Are Harder to Find Now Pabst Brewing Co. has sunsetted Blatz bottles, Schlitz cans and other brands – and diehard fans have noticed.

Blatz bottles, all Blatz Light (RIP) and a host of other mostly throwback brands – many with ties to Milwaukee brewing history – have been put on hiatus by Pabst. Diehard fans are sad. www.milwaukeemag.com/blatz-bottle...

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One time the guy who runs the dollar store next to my produce store came over and was like "why are you selling coconut water for $2.00? I'm selling it for $2.50" and I was like "YOU WANT ME TO COLLUDE TO FIX PRICES IN VIOLATION OF THE SHERMAN ANTITRUST ACT???"

a scene from schitts creek shows two men dancing Alt: a scene from schitts creek shows two men dancing

It's National Library Workers Day!!!! 🎉
CCC is just 1.5 staff so you know we can't do ANY of what we do without the help of of library staff at our member institutions! THANK YOU!

Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media

So you understand why Trump wanted Ellison to control #TikTok and Dina McCormick to head #META. You can read and share this without a subscription.

The A.I.-generated fake influencers have surged on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook & YouTube to hook conservative voters.
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Pope Leo 100% yelled at the TV for Spike to sit down during the 90s Bulls/Knicks playoffs.

Good!

This security contract was always bad. Countless stories from people all over the system of guards refusing to engage in scenarios they were hired for. Just staring at their phones playing candy crush.

It’s time to start looking towards transit ambassadors under NITA.

fox just had a banner referring to mamdani's planned grocery store as "trader zo's," and one must admit that's a good bit

To put it another way, if you fill up a totally-empty gas guzzler with a 16-gallon tank in Chicago, the state sales tax on gas comes out to almost exactly the cost of a single round-trip on a CTA bus. Which of those two options should we be financially incentivizing during a gas price shock?

Like... I'm sorry, but to win future elections, you need a good chunk of the people who sat out in 2016 or 2024 to vote for you, and I just don't think that sneering at them and saying it's their fault that things are the way they are right now is going to win them over, even if you truly believe it

I love getting tourism ads for Illinois while living in Illinois

The Sear Tower and the Saint Charles Airline Bridge viewed from the boardwalk at Ping Tom Park.

Ping

The best one is Trois-Rivieres IMO

A tweet from Pope Leo XIV that reads: “When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.”

Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.

Little Sal from Allagash at Off Color Mousetrap

Saison Day is one of my favorite of the year.

A traffic cone beside an arched & tiled pillar with depictions of a cocktail, microscope, commuter train, sunburst, and native wild rice plants.

Our first tile microscope…hoping for many more.