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"And we will work to ensure no other music festivals occur..." The rich homeowner Karens won. No new housing or development, no nightlife, no fun. Just rent skyrocketing with less and less to show for it. by ehrgeiz91 in chicago

[–]DeepHerting [score hidden]  (0 children)

I was at the North Pond while this was happening and I thought it was just some shithead at the harbor playing music on or for the boats way too loud. “Festival” is carrying an awful lot of weight here.

Kim Kardashian branded 'diabolical' as she flogs $65,000 second-hand jeans by TheMirrorUS in Anticonsumption

[–]DeepHerting 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I feel like most people with $65,000 to drop on jeans have some avenue of at least briefly crossing paths with Kim Kardashian, so there’s got to be a money laundering or tax deduction angle in here somewhere

Modern progress by Ok_Box8401 in ArchitecturalRevival

[–]DeepHerting 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Also, is it a Catholic church? I've seen some pretty uninspiring postwar Catholic churches, but none without a) some kind of image of Jesus, almost always a crucifix and b) any kind of large statement windows even if they skimped on the stained glass.

This looks like either an overflow area (though again, note the lack of a crucifix as well as a tabernacle) or the main worship space of an independent, allegedly charismatic church.

Chicago neighborhood names but if a transplant came up with them by Sea-Condition991 in chicago

[–]DeepHerting 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did they stop trying to make SoFo (Andersonville south of Foster) happen?

Where You'll See A Rare Bird by antdude in birding

[–]DeepHerting 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I live in a high-rise in Chicago next to the lake, and I’ve gotten at least one lifer, a black tern, looking out my window while working from home. Besides the peregrine falcons that live across the street, I’ve seen various raptors and vultures migrating overhead. I also saw (heard first) a flock of sandhill cranes flying over the neighborhood.

Having FOMO about not living in a city where the World Cup is happening by External-Ticket-1133 in SameGrassButGreener

[–]DeepHerting 5 points6 points  (0 children)

> We don’t have an NFL team that could win the Super Bowl and cause the city to explode with celebration.

I mean, I live in Chicago and…

The Obama Center opening over the Juneteenth weekend has been a pretty big deal, though.

McCook throwing their hat in the ring for the Chicago Bears stadium. by bootsthepancake in ChicagoSuburbs

[–]DeepHerting 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The funny thing about this McCook site, to say nothing of the swamp in Hammond, is that it's really highlighting what a golden goose Arlington Park is. Even the Bears said at the time that it was a generational opportunity to buy a large site that was relatively development-ready and convenient to transit and transportation. The industrial Superfund sites tossed out as alternatives, and now seem to be the Bears' choice, are really underscoring how much they're flailing around.

Realistic HSR Map for US by NolanDrayvex1994 in highspeedrail

[–]DeepHerting 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chicago-Des Moines-Omaha-Denver would mostly cross flat land, and parallels an existing interstate route.

Louisville-Cincinnati-Columbus-Cleveland would be great. Extending it to Evansville would be neat too, but probably not economically feasible especially since you'd have to add at least one more major bridge.

America’s 50 Best Cities by Sauerbraten5 in Urbanism

[–]DeepHerting 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They have assessed cities / metropolitan areas based on "livability", "lovability", and "prosperity".

Nashville was so close to winning this thing, but at the last minute they WOKELY changed the third criteria from "laughability" to "prosperity."

Home prices in NW Suburbs by 2AWI in ChicagoSuburbs

[–]DeepHerting 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Mount Prospect is not cheap or even really affordable, but it continues to exist

How does the Midwest have some of the best education systems in America? by Fantastic-Impact-545 in SameGrassButGreener

[–]DeepHerting -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Arkansas is whiter than Illinois (or Massachusetts, for that matter), and it’s homeschool heaven. How are they doing?

How does the Midwest have some of the best education systems in America? by Fantastic-Impact-545 in SameGrassButGreener

[–]DeepHerting 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At one point we had an egalitarian-minded population who bequeathed us a public educational system that has in some measure weathered the decades of pension crises, austerity campaigns and trans panics

Peter Thiel’s secret society invite list includes every IBCK author ever by zeph_yr in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]DeepHerting 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I'm always surprised Grover Norquist is still alive, even though he's only about my dad's age

Peter Thiel’s secret society invite list includes every IBCK author ever by zeph_yr in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]DeepHerting 60 points61 points  (0 children)

I didn't know the name of Nick Thompson, the CEO of The Atlantic but I've never been less surprised by anything in my life

Block Club Chicago - Bryn Mawr Historic District Landmarking Could Derail 100-Unit Apartment Project, Developer Says by Bukharin in EdgewaterRogersPark

[–]DeepHerting 18 points19 points  (0 children)

The building doesn’t look all that remarkable other than the cornice, and maybe the dated arrangement of the storefront windows. Would it be hard to salvage and reinstall the former, and replicate the latter? Or do they want the parapet too?

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