Allison Darrahill
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Allison Darrahill
@PanicBowl
pay attention to local politics. leader at Neighbors of Edgewater and Uptown
Chicago, IL Katılım Mart 2013
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@Eric_Erins is that what these are? I saw so many of them canvassing for the march election and thought they were so quirky and strange but couldn't for the life of me figure out why they were built that way.
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Chicago has such a funny built environment for a big city. You can buy...a kind of janky old carriage house from the 1880's that's built all the way at the back of an otherwise empty lot on the alleyway for $180K.
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@amazonmilkfrog @ignBees what undergrad are you doing that you have a thesis?
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this is not about killing myself this is about dropping out of school, an objectively stupid thing to do this close to the finish, except i do not really see how i can adequately succeed
🐸🖤 𒁹pallas 🖤🐸@amazonmilkfrog
what if i said fuck it and gave it all up
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you may have noticed that all prominent right-wing personalities on here are suddenly attacking same-sex adoption, almost as if they received their new directives overnight, but I'm sure it's a coincidence
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@Eric_Erins > arcade place
> no arcades
what did they mean by this?
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It looks like they’ve temporarily removed the cast iron arch over arcade pl on LaSalle. Building is going mixed use hotel and apartments
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@evancotthem @aarmlovi usually side by side duplexes are sharing what is effectively and interior wall vs townhouses which share an exterior wall or have a party wall between them
usually side by side plexes are a more suburban occurrence too
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@aarmlovi What demarcates a plex vs a townhome? If there are two homes side-by-side sharing a wall, it's a duplex, right? But if I add 4 more in a row are they townhomes? (or rowhomes?)
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Chicago is the poster child for why "Plex" reforms—duplex, triplex, 4plex—fail nationwide
Plexes aren't just infeasible to build new: Most existing plexes are infeasible *NOT TO TEAR DOWN* (!)
Townhouses or midrises are so often the highest & best uses in most submarkets 🤷♂️
Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist@UrbanCourtyard
These buildings were once most 2-flats but have increasingly been converted into single-family homes. While it’s good that affluent families want to remain in the city rather than move to the suburbs, in high-cost neighborhoods, scarce and expensive land is being absorbed by $1M+ single-family homes. This limits the overall supply of family-sized housing and pushes prices even higher and pushing many families out
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@2024dion I gotta say, Lee's Summit being its own UA is so wrong I don't understand how that happened. Any ideas?
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@2024dion the best thing about UAs is that they are more intuitive to people who live in an area. Nobody would bat an eye at calling Belton or Gardner part of KC but if you say Richmond is people are gonna think you're crazy even though they're nearly as far from KC
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@KWattChicago @SouthportCor Where's the article saying it'll be?
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Whole Foods to open new store in Lakeview - Crain's Chicago Business chicagobusiness.com/real-estate/co…
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@jonnaldj @pasta_nachos raining is a bit annoying, snowing is really fun and under 40° you don't even notice it after a few minutes
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This is just by every metric *you’ve* defined. The vast majority of the trips taken by urban residents are within 3miles. For short trips and not needing to find a space for a 16x6ft vehicle, they’re objectively better than driving
critical urbanism@criticalurban
Bikes are objectively inferior transportation by every metric. Slow, minimal carrying capacity. Can't carry passengers. Exposed to the elements, the rain, snow, sleet, heat, and cold. It's awful. Incapable of practical regional access.
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clearly this is deeply serious and fact based analysis that isn't undermined by basic factual mistakes like Kansas City having Kansas as it's state or the fact that basically all of the MSA and CSA numbers are wrong
Cern Basher@CernBasher
Tesla's Robotaxi is preparing to reach ~50% of US Population Tesla is hiring for the role of Data Collection Supervisor, Self-Driving (and previously for roles called AI Safety Operator) in many cities across the country. These cities cover about 50% of the US population (depending on whether you look at MSAs or CSAs). This table also shows the new cities (in green) where they've begun hiring. This helps to explain where all the Cybercab engineering test vehicles that @JoeTegtmeyer is seeing every day are going! Note: MSA ("Metropolitan Statistical Area") is a city's footprint while CSA ("Combined Statistical Area") reflects a network of metros acting as one regional economic system.
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they'll do all this and then from the outside it'll still look like an aluminum can
Hayden@the_transit_guy
Amtrak’s vision for the 800 long distance train cars it wants to purchase is nothing short of beautiful. A great way to celebrate Tax Day.
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@KaganKazgin @ChicagoDPD It's ruining the American dream to approve of an apartment building replacing a currency exchange on a parcel across the street from a 24h el station served by three lines?
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@ChicagoDPD Why are you ruining the American dream? These are disgusting structures.
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Plan Commission approved VV Howard Paulina LLC's mixed-use proposal at Howard and Paulina in Rogers Park. The $60 million transit-oriented project includes 80 affordable units, ground-floor commercial and 28 parking spaces in a renovated warehouse and new eight-story building.
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@0bservationism @Aobius @the_transit_guy @Amtrak if you are on any interstate in America you will have cell signal because they prioritize putting towers near them. the federal government could require cell providers to put infrastructure near the tracks too
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@tnertz this would sell like hotcakes pre-faded and sold at a vintage shop near boystown
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Chicago’s pre-1909 address system
Trent 🇺🇸@tnertz
3135 N Racine in Lakeview was originally know as 780 N Racine prior to September 1, 1909. That’s why there’s two address on the front door
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@JacksonFromTwit west as up was a very popular way of representing Chicago on maps for a very long time
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u can’t get chicago on this because we’re a normal fucking city that knows where north and also south are
We Good in the North@WWFerguson2
Your co-worker (Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac) from Montreal uses Google Maps with Detroit angled like this:
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Allison Darrahill retweetledi
Lifting sanctions in exchange for limitations on Iran’s nuclear program? The Art of the Deal!!! Greatest president of my lifetime!!!!
Clash Report@clashreport
JD Vance: Trump says to Iran: “If you commit to not having a nuclear weapon, we are going to make Iran economically thrive.”
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