Brigid Maniates

@lordesghoul @Eric_Erins lol I grew up in the EBA and he was the priest at my childhood church. He married my husband and I too.

@brigidmania @Eric_Erins 😮 yes

Feeling the lake breezes on a 70 degree night makes the whole winter worth it

@lordesghoul @Eric_Erins Fr Grassi?

@Eric_Erins My friends priest uncle lives in that building and his apartment is pretty sick tbh

@Eric_Erins tenor.com/bDBKW.gif next I’ll see you at Jackson Park Advisory Council meetings!

This bridge being out of commission actually gums up the entire pedestrian flow of the park in a completely unacceptable way it’s ridiculous

@Eric_Erins Growing up in a Benjamin Marshall ruined me for life. Everything honestly pales.

My current apartment building was designed by the same architect as this one. He’s no Benjamin Marshall but he’s up there

Fixer upper apartment at 6901 S Oglesby Ave in South Shore. 3 beds 3 baths and a parking spot. 2.6K square ft. Needs work. $125K. Only 40 units in the building which explains the $1.7K/month assessment. I hear the HOA is working on righting the ship realtor.com/realestateandh…

@Eric_Erins There are lots of new housing co-ops and co-housing communities. Shared Capital, Chicago Community Loan Fund, National Cooperative Bank are some of the lenders.

Are there any new build housing coops in America or are they truly just a relic of the past?

@RoselandChi1972 Yeah, the instructions definitely seem earlier. It is so cool! I wish they had that in the gift shop when Tut came recently 😂

@brigidmania I'm about 95% sure it came from MSI earlier--I do remember and went to the '77 Tut exhibit, but I think the box itself backs up my memory that this was an MSI thing. That's not late '70s typography, for sure.

Cool Things I Found Cleaning Out My Center Desk Drawer #5: Magnetic King Tut in coffin, from Museum of Science and Industry gift shop, probably 1960s. Of course Egyptian stuff in Chicago is at the Field Museum of Natural History or the Art Institute, but this King Tut demonstrates the magic of magnetism, thus he fits in the MSI’s wheelhouse. Click through for more views of the box—a treasure itself of course—and even the instructions! Again, this is an incredibly big drawer. Somehow there’s also room for pens and paper clips etc. 1/3

@robcat26 @charlesornstein @propublica Thanks!

@brigidmania @charlesornstein @propublica Probably related to the fact that the Private School Universe Survey is conducted only every two years- nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/. In contrast to public school demographic data which we'd have every year.

Oh happy day!! @propublica just launched a new tool that lets you look up the demographics of private schools across the country and see how they compare to the public schools nearby. projects.propublica.org/private-school…

@charlesornstein @propublica It looks like the data is only for half the years? e.g., 2001-2002, 2003-2004 Is this a quirk of the way data is reported or should years be 01-02, 02-03?

@charlesornstein @propublica For larger cities, are you going to break out private schools vs the most local public school. For example in Chicago, comparing a private school against the demographics of the entirety of CPS isn’t an actual comparison point. 1/2

@Eric_Erins @mrbobohonker It was Martin Kennelly who was the mayor that lived in the EBA.

@mrbobohonker That would be very on brand

What is the point for having Bryn Mawr as an on/off ramp to LSD when Hollywood is a block north. Does it alleviate that much congestion? I’m guessing it’s an IDOT thing?

@Eric_Erins @garpo3000 Hint: Harry Weese and SOM, separately, worked on this building.

@garpo3000 Which one is this?

One of the most underrated rooms in Chicago

@Eric_Erins Another is an editor at Vogue.

Is the Fields family still playing pretend aristocrats over in Europe what are they up to this century

@Eric_Erins @mcmansionhell Yeah it was torn down in the early 60s with pretty much everything on that block.

@mcmansionhell That can’t be the right address I’ve been up and down oakenwald too many times to miss that guy

@Eric_Erins @slucy and I have each separately done this. Think it is very worthwhile. And if you don’t need cash immediately, Hyde Park will always have a robust need for rentals.

Should I blow up my life and buy a 3K square foot fixer upper condo in Hyde Park that could be fun

@LeighGiangreco @chicagobars Jimmy’s Woodlawn tap

For a story, I'm looking for cash-only bars and restaurants in Chicago. Drop some names here! @chicagobars

In the U.S., kids are three times more likely to die in traffic on #Halloween than any other day of the year. Why? Just another example of the country's pedestrian safety crisis. The good news? We can fix it. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@ItsMeFlashE At least in Chicago taxi drivers had to take special classes and test that included memorizing the streets in the city.

Dawg...how tf did taxi drivers know how to get everywhere before GPS?

@nmbr1pitbullfan Also she went to Smith…she’s a traditional east coast liberal, not a republican.

In today’s complaints about public transportation in Chicago, it took me 90 minutes to go 6.5 miles. I decided I wanted to go home at 1:15, I didn’t get home till 2:45. That is a 6x handicap on driving.