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@CarloFerlauto This is a popular opinion. John Strong raises and holds his voice anytime the ball creeps into the box. The pair speaks for 85% of the game and ruin the spectator experience. @FOXSports

Unpopular opinion: As an American, I am embarrassed by the unprofessional conduct of the two American announcers on Fox - World Cup. John Strong and Stu Holden are absolute and utter shite. Strong: Play-by-play 101 means that you say the names of the players as they receive the ball and you comment on the play. Stop with the damn drama stories and reality television anecdotes that don’t mean shit. Mention their club. Mention how their season went. The first inform us give us the play by play. Holden: Stop providing playing advice. You’re not on the pitch, so just stop. Your role is to offer insights regarding the laws of the game, snippets of information about their home clubs, and other player-centric issues without acting like “you would do it differently.” If you’ve never worked announcing in the English leagues, you have no business being an announcer in the World Cup because you just don’t get it. Period. Whenever these two clowns are the announcers, I watched the match in Spanish and get so much more out of it. Listening to them makes me want to chew my own arm off. Bring out the Brits.

@ChicagoAlek Lincoln Yards photoshopped my wife on divvy into these ads and renderings.

anyone else hyped for lincoln yards?

I still can’t believe a watchdog group successfully got this canceled in Chicago to save a parking lot.

@dlondonwortel @UrbanCourtyard

Is it Paris? Is it Vienna? No, it is...MINNEAPOLIS (as envisioned by the Civic Planing Commission of 1917). digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/collec…

@bobbyfijan Building amenities is a code word for an unwalkable neighborhood

Congratulations to @CoachDustyMay, Elliot Cadeau, and @UMichBBall on winning their first title since 1989! This team dominated the tournament from start to finish. Well deserved. Go Blue!

We need to stop prioritizing parking lots over people. Today, I assembled a roundtable to discuss our Building Up Illinois Developments Plan — and the consensus was that we need to act fast. Looking forward to passing it and getting to work in our neighborhoods.

The Reinsdorfs are slumlord owners of a poverty franchise. Adam Silver needs to step in and make them sell the Bulls, there is no other way to restore dignity to one of the league's great markets.

@ChicagosMayor needs to raise money, this is a great solution. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

@fynmere @BuildingChi @Pres_Chicago The copy and paste of 1910 n Dayton to this address is infuriating. I pity the nouveau riche who’ll purchase flophouses from the likes of Cashel Homes or Savane.

Hang on, broken record here - yet again - but did you know the neighborhood charm of Lincoln Park will see another loss? Another bit of character to be replaced with the equivalent of The Gap meets Starbucks architecture 😕 2029 N Dayton

@BuildingChi Savane is the worst of the worst with their ugly and tasteless builds

A $4 million permit was issued yesterday to build an addition on this Lincoln Park lot that will connect to the existing home on the left.

For years I’ve heard people who don’t live here tell about Chicago being a war zone. This is the only time, in 19 years of living here, that my neighborhood has even remotely looked like one. I can’t believe this is real life.

Michael Jordan would never.

@skuwamoto Figma Make helped me prototype a new experience for Wikipedia within minutes, while more or less keeping the UX and structure in place. I loved its ability to parse a figma frame or an image and design something quickly. figma.com/make/SOoaq98CY…

Figma Make (our prompt → app solution) is available to everyone as of today! The team has been iterating super quickly and the things people are making with Figma Make have been getting crazier and crazier. Check it out next time you need to create a prototype to show someone!

With help from @Chris_Smeder, @JonathanHillis, @levin_phil, @devonzuegel, @damonhemmerding, @Cobylefko, @jansramek, @AustinTunnell and @davegordon14, I made this wishlist of changes that could make it easier to build more beautiful & walkable places. Somewhat ranked in order of importance: 1. Remove parking minimums 2. Allow mixed‑use zoning city‑wide (ground‑floor retail, corner commerce) 3. Allow multiple housing units per lot (duplex‑ADU‑triplex, etc) 4. Raise FAR caps and height limits 5. Make small / infill projects ministerial (avoid CEQA & other discretionary review) 6. Eliminate front / side setbacks & side‑yard requirements (build at back of sidewalk) 7. Shrink minimum lot sizes and remove lot‑width minimums 8. Allow single‑stair buildings up to 6 stories 9. Narrow general & fire‑access street widths to 9 – 10 ft lanes; reduce right‑of‑way 10. Increase hose reach to 300 ft and adopt smaller fire trucks 11. Revise street‑design rules to prioritize safety & commerce over vehicle speed 12. Streamline all permits with strict shot‑clock deadlines 13. Guarantee non‑conditional development approvals (no off‑site exactions) 14. Fast‑track pathways for attainable / mixed‑income housing in high‑opportunity zones 15. Cap, reduce, or defer impact fees for car‑lite projects 16. Fee waivers / reductions for projects delivering long‑term attainable housing 17. Single one‑stop point of contact & mandatory timeline performance reporting 18. Utility agencies must guarantee service within fixed timelines (penalties for delay) 19. Enable car‑free or limited‑access districts by default 20. Plant & protect abundant street / park trees; expedite tree permits; drop bonds 21. Provide weather‑protected shelter at every bus stop 22. Paint high‑visibility crosswalks at every intersection 23. Allow stacked & reduced utility easements 24. Override the Subdivision Map Act for small lot splits 25. Reduce minimum dwelling‑unit size requirements 26. Create clean code sections for live/work units & 4‑50‑unit / small‑commercial buildings 27. Adopt international elevator standards to cut installation costs 28. Reform ADA / FHA so adding an elevator doesn’t trigger full‑building wheelchair retrofits 29. Allow Temporary Certificates of Occupancy once life‑safety criteria are met 30. Incentivize (or require) middle‑density cottage court typologies in infill & greenfield 31. Create generous TIF districts to finance walkable urbanism 32. Easy ministerial sidewalk‑cafe & outdoor‑dining licenses 33. Prohibit utilities from imposing requirements stricter than the adopted code 34. Remove mandatory facade articulation & prescriptive window‑to‑wall ratios 35. Provide plentiful shaded benches & public seating I made this because I hope for more beautiful & walkable places so I & others can visit them or live in/near them! Developers: What would you add, and what would you bump up to the top 10?

@cornoisseur If you read the proposal, they've already proposed to remove the statue and replace with art.

The Chicago Park District has proposed burying Lake Shore Drive in Grant Park! I'm asking them to replace the Columbus statue with a statue of Admiral Hyman Rickover, the Chicagoan who founded the nuclear navy.

Hoping this doesn't get caught in typical bureaucratic mud. This is the kind of thinking and action Chicago needs.

@HarebrainedInc How does one acquire such a masterpiece?

I specialize in Chicago niche.

Chicago Pope about to walk out to this:

@jbornhorst @subtleoptics Could try the Warby Parker model of pop-up shops, though their brand was "vibes" and a competitive price point vs incumbents. Influencer path could be viable, given the target market, or ads on youtube late at night.

@subtleoptics I always forget how hard this part is :) Would love suggestions. I'm slowly shaking my B2B enterprise habits off and adopting new approaches.

And now for the messy middle... Next growth goal for @subtleoptics is going from 10 warm first customers to 100. MVP is built and getting strong positive feedback. No shortcuts here. Working on hand to hand growth hacking in places where I think folks with latent screen strain might be hanging out. Would like more outcome evidence before bigger forums like Show HN, Product Hunt & optometrist referrals.