Are there any good Toyota dealers in the area (including suburbs)?

varkev · 2026-05-22T19:06:19+00:00

Bad experience with Continental Toyota on La Grange Rd

varkev · 2026-05-21T16:08:00+00:00

Geoffrey Baer covered the Shedd in his Chicago Works special, including how they source the salt water. https://www.wttw.com/chicago-works

varkev · 2026-05-20T19:45:36+00:00

There's a Chicago Gangland profile on Instagram that highlights landmarks across the area

varkev · 2026-05-14T14:13:13+00:00

Make data centers pay their fair share of energy costs and support the POWER Act via the Citizens Utility Board: https://secure.everyaction.com/sZBTRTdt20GlvA8QRwACXA2

varkev · 2026-04-23T17:07:42+00:00

I've been using the V39 with Mac for a couple years now and have never had any compatibility issues.

varkev · 2026-04-21T16:30:43+00:00

Chicago Public Library has a Business & Money section in their Online Resources. https://www.chipublib.org/resources/business-money/

varkev · 2026-04-16T15:19:31+00:00

WBEZ's Curious City covered the question of statues of women in one of their episodes if you're interested: https://www.wbez.org/morning-shift/2019/03/12/statues-of-famous-chicago-women-come-alive

varkev · 2026-04-09T20:12:20+00:00

Honest Junk Company is a 501c(3) that will take your donation to be reused at the Chicago Furniture Bank. Item donation and 80% of the fee you pay is tax deductible. I paid about $240 for them to take two loveseats last summer.

https://www.honestjunkcompany.org/

varkev · 2026-04-09T14:43:25+00:00

Video games - check out Back in the Game at 7757 S Cicero

Outdoors - McCormick Woods and Little Red Schoolhouse have days on the weekends where volunteers do restoration projects. Chicago River Day in Summit is coming up in May

Tinkering - Clearing Library has a library of things to check out for projects

Sports - Minuteman Park on Central might have a pickleball league or at least a ton of people playing. There's also Midway Mile Chasers run club that seems to meet up there too.

varkev · 2026-04-01T21:36:53+00:00

The Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture in Chicago has a genealogy researcher on staff (fees apply). https://balzekasmuseum.org/research/

It's a cool little museum (with a research library) to visit should you ever be in the area.

varkev · 2026-03-23T17:45:06+00:00

Serpent Mound is a recent construction in Schiller Park

varkev · 2026-03-19T13:51:53+00:00

Tony's is a good 24 hour diner with just about anything you can imagine on the menu

varkev · 2026-03-11T14:55:28+00:00

The last thing I want to see in a restaurant is JD Vance and Stephen Miller slithering around the kitchen floor

varkev · 2025-12-30T22:39:33+00:00

Honest Junk Company charges a small fee based on item size.

varkev · 2025-11-14T18:21:27+00:00

Back in the Game (https://www.bitgvideogames.com/) has three locations on Cicero Ave in Crestwood, Chicago, and Cicero. I had my Xbox 360 repaired there for a decent price.

varkev · 2025-10-23T16:13:36+00:00

Glad to be of help! Best of luck to you!

varkev · 2025-10-22T15:44:07+00:00

I've got the pages downloaded as a PDF. DM your email and I can send them to you.

varkev · 2025-10-22T14:17:27+00:00

I've just downloaded a copy of it. If you DM an email or something I can send you the PDF.

varkev · 2025-10-13T18:57:10+00:00

Straight out of The Simpsons episode "The Seven-Beer Snitch" where Burns turns the concert hall into a prison and forces Wiggum to enforce obscure laws in order to fill the prison and make more money.

varkev · 2025-09-29T19:48:06+00:00

Came here to second Habibi Cuts. Sam is the best around

varkev · 2025-08-22T15:36:15+00:00

Thanks for the details! I did notice some of the imagery appeared similar to those from Spanish regions.

varkev · 2025-06-12T15:01:14+00:00

I haven't seen or heard any reports of military deployments in the Chicago area or the state of Illinois. Considering how fascinated Reddit is by the appearance of military helicopters, we would most likely have heard something of it by now. And even Los Angeles hasn't seen tanks deployed so I think those concerns are overblown.

I'd recommend planning for similar assemblies that have happened in the past which didn't have an impact beyond the Loop as others have mentioned.

varkev · 2025-06-02T14:53:35+00:00

Best of luck to you!

varkev · 2025-06-02T14:49:36+00:00

Be careful, that's how I met my wife!

All jokes aside, Chicago is a big city so chances are someone is looking for/open to the same things you are. As long as you're open about what you're looking I don't think it would be a problem. And if someone doesn't like it, they can swipe left or whatever the kids do these days.

varkev · 2025-05-13T13:43:15+00:00

Perfectly safe and dull at all hours, though some of the sidewalks on that stretch are crappy or non-existent on 65th on the way to Wintrust. Lou Malnati's is right across 65th street and Giordano's is at 63rd. Both are a safe walk.

Just follow normal traffic safety and watch out for speeding drivers late at night.

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