per this the K9 guards are staying on. in what way are they more useful than the guards being removed

I feel like we get really hung up on "Was the Biden economy good for people or not" which I don't think is the right question. The real confounding thing that I have yet to see anyone have a good answer for was "Why did people think the Biden economy was worse than the Trump 1 economy?"

Stupid goo goo nonsense. The only way to get fair districting is to pinch republicans in the mouth enough until they agree to fairness. Doing this with Callais days away from ripping up the VRA is so stupid I don’t know where to begin.

“don’t blame me i would’ve voted for kam” is gonna be an embarrassing position in like, three months

Pedestrian killed by semi-truck in Chicago Lawn Autumn P. Perez, 29, was standing near the street in the 6300 block of South Western Avenue when she was struck Monday night. Perez was pronounced dead at the scene.

this is the second person killed at this intersection in less than a month

chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...

Lawmakers sweeten pot to keep Bears in Illinois, with stadium bill linked to statewide property tax relief The Bears continue to weigh whether to build a stadium in Arlington Heights or Northwest Indiana. A new property tax relief element to a measure that would allow the Bears to renegotiate their propert...

this is a terrible bill from kam buckner, increasingly clear that the good government technocrat shtick was mostly a facade

chicago.suntimes.com/bears-stadiu...

O'Neill Burke wouldn't denounce Trump because she wanted to 'maintain' relationship with feds, emails show The emails were referenced in a new court filing by a coalition seeking a special prosecutor to investigate Operation Midway Blitz. The coalition argued that Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neil...

Cook County's top prosecutor wouldn't denounce Trump because she wanted to 'maintain' her relationship with the feds, emails show.

The latest on a bid for a special prosecutor to take on Operation Midway Blitz agents, w/ @sophiesherry.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

After Uvalde I got into some twitter fights with cops because I said

“six rifle platoons worth of cops all jerking each other off because they were afraid of going after some dipshit teen with a rifle? Smells like bitch to me”

They were very upset.

nettie sweeney miller in the 1920s, second from left

eliel and loja saarinen in 1936

THE INDIANAPOLIS SUNDAY STAR, FEBRUARY 23, 1941. Work On "Costliest Church In World" Progresses T At Columbus; Completion Expected In Ten Months

floor plan

nettie sweeney miller went out and convinced eliel saarinen, who didn’t initially want to do an american church (too theatrical), and construction started in 1939

portrait of Edmund Beaman Gilchrist, A. I. A. Does principally residences of modern French type. Designed a group at Mariemont Village

The Pennsylvania Colonial Mes. Samuol V. Merrick's Chestnut Hill, Ponn., residence is a whitewashed brick Colonial type set on a plot that slopes up from rear to front, allowing an impres. sive stair to the front entrance, while the roar terraco is level with the first floor. Edmund B. Gilchrist was the architect The two most important first floor rooms. living and dining rooms. are located across the rear, with French doors opening to the porch. Flagstone and grass terraces lie beyond. The upper story pro. vides three master's rooms, two bathe and two servants rooms and a bath

1928 photo a church designed by Gilchrist in Pennsylvania

At top, is a scale model for what was to be First Christian church, a design prepared by Philadelphia architect Edward Beaman Gilchrist but abandoned when the architect had a nervous breakdown and had to withdraw from the project. Instead renowned architect Eliel Saarinen developed his iconic concept for the church which today is one of the most famous buildings in the city.

before saarinen, though, the congregation hired e.b. gilchrist, and architect out of philly whose plans for the church and previous work were…well, not modernist

Linen postcard on the left: buff brick and limestone bloc church, windowless, next to a tall tower unconnected with a clock, everything a little asymmetric and off center. Photo on the right: looks exactly the same but it’s 2023 and the tower is being restored so there’s a big tower crane and some scaffolding

nettie sweeney miller was the one who picked eliel saarinen, convinced him to do the project, and kept the congregation just onboard enough

not a great dynamic when one rich clan dominates a city like the irwin-sweeney-millers owned columbus, but man did they do some cool things with that dominance

Tabernacle Church of Christ/First Christian Church, Columbus, Indiana The building that set off the Big Bang of modernism that turned a little Indiana city into an improbable showroom of American architecture.

wrote about the saarinens’ first christian church in columbus, whose construction was more contingent than i realized—they hired another architect first, eliel didn’t want to design a church, the building committee weren’t exactly committed modernists, etc.

www.postcard-past.com/tabernacle-c...

i don't like that platner guy because a) nazi tattoo & b) if a genuine progressive was revealed to have a regretted nazi tattoo somehow they would be subjected to relentless attacks over it from places that're suspiciously quiet about platner. i consider that telling

The Killing That Won't Let Go | Defector Grief has no expiration date, and there’s no statute of limitations on murder. Twenty-one years ago this summer, Steve Cornejo was shot in the back and died in the courtyard of an apartment complex in...

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it's so good!!!

1709 w chicago, two story brick and terracotta, now home to brasero restaurant with art galleries above, there's a terracotta shield above the main entrance that has the the letters GF & co.

1922 ad for investments in the "pritzker building"

1922 building permit

brought my dad to the dabin ahn show at document gallery and he was wondering what 1709 w. chicago was originally

so: developed by nicholas pritzker (!), jb's great grandfather, as a general furniture co. store, completed in 1922 and designed by architect isaac s. stern

Ackerman Clarke’s booth, oil pastels by Duncan McGillivray-Smith

Ortega y Gasset’s booth and western exhibitions’ booths

good naked and another one I don’t remember, small paintings and small works in metal

it’s the last couple days to check out the barely fair, the tiny art fair that best encapsulates what’s so special about chicago’s art scene—it’s in mckinley park, make a date out of it and pair it with a visit to cadinho bakery or marz brewing

www.barelyfair.com

photographed the building today

hugo cuypers you beautiful belgian

still room on the fire bandwagon, this team is fun

guy looking at a large collage work on the wall at an art gallery, made up of images of a crowd and a power plant and smokestacks

(my dad was really into the marshall brown collages at western exhibitions)

1922 building permit in the trib, everything is mispelled

streetview of the former general furniture co. store at north & keeler in hermosa, also heavy on the terracotta with the same terracotta shield above the front entrance

the tribune got it real wrong in 1922 (PRUTZLER?) and i found it hard to make out the architect's name in the actual permit, but luckily isaac s. stern did a handful of other stores for general furniture, including this one at 4208 w north in hermosa

1709 w chicago, two story brick and terracotta, now home to brasero restaurant with art galleries above, there's a terracotta shield above the main entrance that has the the letters GF & co.

1922 ad for investments in the "pritzker building"

1922 building permit

brought my dad to the dabin ahn show at document gallery and he was wondering what 1709 w. chicago was originally

so: developed by nicholas pritzker (!), jb's great grandfather, as a general furniture co. store, completed in 1922 and designed by architect isaac s. stern

Two massive forked lightning bolts drop behind the Chicago skyline during a nighttime thunderstorm

Single frame. Two perfectly placed bolts. Thanks, Mother Nature!

#ILwx #Chicago

An adult greated horned owl and a young one sit in a tree.

A great horned owl sits in a tree.

A great horned owl flies, pursued by a crow.

A young great horned owl sits in a tree.

I came across a family of great horned owls in Chicago (at an undisclosed location). They were being harrassed by crows and a Cooper's hawk. I sure hope they don't eat any poisoned rats!

Party invitation to Gertrude Abercrombie's house at 5728 Dorchester, September 1954.

I think today is the day. The players finally realise the gravity of the situation we are in. Step on to the pitch and leave everything they have out there. Raise their level, give it their all, at last understand that “To Dare Is To Do”…

Tottenham Hotspur 0-2 Brighton

A gargantuan, nightmare of a tornado hit Easton, Illinois tonight in the pitch black darkness. Only with the lightning and a few power flashes can make out the shape of this beast...

May everyone across the midwest remain safe tonight, it's been one hell of a day.

🎥: Ali Wilson

#wxsky #tornado

the name ossian really fell off

huh, good call, thank you!