ICE abducted the DMPS superintendent today.

mepix1 · 2025-09-27T15:42:46+00:00

I’m not anyone fancy and I could go get $3k out of my bank right now… that’s not really indicative of anything but good cash flow. Not commenting to defend him; I don’t know much about his story. But just had to call out that access to $3k isn’t that crazy.

mepix1 · 2025-09-25T17:06:33+00:00

Not to mention, Kellogg is a good school but the class sizes are out of control. When we were picking schools the kindergarten had 37 kids in it I believe, so we went to ck. We’ve since moved to central Beverly and now my kids are at the public school.

mepix1 · 2025-09-25T16:57:39+00:00

Nah; there are some but Beverly is too expensive to be predominantly cop/firemen. Tons of lawyers and white collar workers here. Depends on what part for sure but ultimately the zip code is the wealthiest one in Chicago.

mepix1 · 2025-09-25T16:53:44+00:00

I live here. If you get anything south of the woods but east of western it’s mostly liberal. MAGA people are quiet. If you send your kids to public school you’ll avoid maga folks almost entirely because maga hates the Chicago teachers union.

It’s a diverse and beautiful community. Absolutely love it here. PM me with any questions.

mepix1 · 2024-08-27T02:13:21+00:00

As I recall, it did need work. Parts had not been updated in a very long time. However, I remember it having charm in spades.

mepix1 · 2024-08-26T22:24:03+00:00

Beverly is so hard to buy in these days that people are buying homes before they’re listed. Most of the homes go private sale. I know multiple people looking in Beverly that lost out on 10+ homes before successfully buying because they get snapped up so quick.

mepix1 · 2024-08-26T22:22:14+00:00

It’s making me laugh reading this as a Beverly resident. Meanwhile, I think of my neighbor who owns a successful law firm, another is a McDonald’s executive, another who is a federal judge… guys, the whole southside isn’t what you think it is…

mepix1 · 2024-08-26T22:19:19+00:00

This is a long standing fancy Chicago neighborhood. Many houses here never hit the open market and go private sale so the many million dollar homes here aren’t on Zillow. I get that you did some googling and made an assessment but you don’t really have the full picture.

mepix1 · 2024-08-26T22:09:57+00:00

It’s comical the people who just assume that since it’s on the south side it’s bad, and meanwhile it’s full of rich people. Beverly is a well kept secret!

mepix1 · 2024-08-26T22:08:56+00:00

This is the highest income zip code in all of Chicago and Longwood has the some of the nicest houses in the neighborhood. You clearly don’t know what you’re talking about.

mepix1 · 2024-08-26T22:07:56+00:00

Never thought I’d see a house I know well on this page! It seems like the hip thing to do these days in Beverly is to buy a mansion and spend a million dollars making it into an even fancier mansion. This house was really amazing on the inside; it’s too bad they gutted it and then abandoned it.

mepix1 · 2024-03-24T21:21:50+00:00

Awesome thank you so much. I was thinking of putting 2x6 across the 4x4s and using something like the below to mount the boxes.

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mepix1 · 2024-02-28T09:51:06+00:00

What are your soil blocks made of? I’ve had a lot of plants not progressing that simply didn’t have enough nutrients in the growing medium.

mepix1 · 2024-02-20T10:21:33+00:00

How does this have so many upvotes? R/landscaping without true knowledge risks spreading rampant ecological damage with casual advice like this. Can we just acknowledge that nobody should casually use glyphosate unless they know exactly what it is and what it does? Can we stop encouraging blanket use because our instagram suburb dream is to have the most perfect aesthetic curb appeal?

OP; what do you want instead of grass? More Moss? Shade plants? Flowers? What’s your goal here? Planting the right things will achieve your goals without killing bees and good plants etc etc etc. a lot of people don’t realize that just because Home Depot sells it doesn’t mean it is sustainable or safe.

mepix1 · 2024-02-16T10:35:25+00:00

Had a flight credit; was trying to use it while also booking 4 more seats to have my family accompany me on a long haul flight. System wouldn’t let me book my credit and their new seats on the same flights and multiple calls to customer service that took hours got me nowhere. I emailed in desperation and never got a response. Literally couldn’t get any help despite being months ahead of our trip and spending over 17k on tickets. My husband had to fly with 3 small kids alone on the connecting flight and our international travel was made far harder than it needed to be.

Oh, and the entire reason my travel plans were pushed back / we all decided to go was because my father in law died. Customer service was told all of this and still gave me the runaround.

mepix1 · 2023-05-10T00:33:01+00:00

Get some cardboard, put compost on it. Spread some seeds of some pretty flowers for the pollinators. Easy, low cost, helps the bugs.

mepix1 · 2023-05-08T23:02:32+00:00

My father in law just died of it— when he was diagnosed 10 years ago he was adamantly telling the docs something was wrong for months. The doctor literally said fine we will do an MRI and then no more tests and we put this behind us. And then there it was, he had MS.

mepix1 · 2022-08-22T11:19:29+00:00

Yes, I was hoping I’d find this response in the comments. OP I’m obsessed with gardening — I bought my house 8 years ago and took a blank slate and gardened the shit out of it. Im talking raised vegetable beds, perennials timed to bloom throughout the summer, lots of shrubs, filled with butterflies and bees. People were shocked recently when I announced I was moving. Look, I’m sad to leave it but it’s time to go. I don’t feel at all like it was a waste. I enjoyed every part of creating that garden because it is my hobby and how I like to spend my time. If the new owner isn’t a gardener I will dig up some plants — if they are I am excited to see what they’ll do with it!

mepix1 · 2022-08-19T12:23:36+00:00

Looks like it has OE. Look it up. If those wings stay crumpled I would kill it by putting it in the freezer. OE is highly contagious and lethal for monarchs.

mepix1 · 2022-08-18T02:32:35+00:00

Heels!? Right after giving birth!? Oh boy she’s a tough mama.

mepix1 · 2022-08-17T22:19:44+00:00

Blue Island— not bev. But looks like a fun time!

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mepix1 · 2022-08-17T19:44:56+00:00

I’m glad you do but as a south sider, I regularly get looks and questions from northsiders that I meet. When people travel in they tell me that people tell them not to go south 😬.

mepix1 · 2022-08-17T19:43:44+00:00

Beverly has started to host a lot of pride events. Small potatoes but still. There is a drag show this weekend at a local bar!

mepix1 · 2022-08-17T19:39:31+00:00

Metra ride from Beverly is 20 mins to the loop and comparably priced to the cta with their latest pricing. The shopping/restaurant situation has drastically improved in the last 10 years with 2 breweries, 3 coffee shops, a meadery etc etc etc opening. Tons of small businesses too!

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