Dave Lineal

"And as the smart ship grew In stature, grace, & hue In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too" -- T. Hardy

@andreas_nigbur @Pres_Chicago Not quite true -- Art Institute building was built for the fair & survives as well

This is the only building to survive the Chicago Worlds Fair of 1893. Still here.🤔

John Waters at #NoKings: True.

“I don't believe a note of Gustav Mahler. I believe every note of Anton Bruckner”. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

@JackChambersGB Its all weird & worth reading-- for the real heads tho it's Pierre

2026 seems to be pointing at reading more Herman Melville

@Pres_Chicago The Museum of Medieval Torture on State street should be a museum about Chicago torture

What kind of museum is missing from Chicago? Here's what you told us chicago.suntimes.com/museums-zoos/2…

If you're good at the internet and like poetry, come work with me. @PoetryFound is hiring a social media associate: $70K-$78K per year, based in Chicago recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/Job…

@LeighGiangreco Lushs for Leigh!

Going on record now: If I ever run for office, it’s a chicken in every pot and an open bar at every watch party.

Detail from "Ascent of the Blessed" - Hieronymus Bosch, 1504

@EddieBarstool @chicagobars @kerrymanchicago Capone's rival Dion O'Banion was a singing waiter at this bar in the 1910s! It was a different bar then but also Irish

Day 12 of posting an Irish bar in Chicago every day in the month of March Bar 12 - The Kerryman at 661 N Clark St in River North @kerrymanchicago

“Like all men, he was simply given bad times in which to live.” – Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths

@savvypleb Lots of southern white heritage / history in chicago. Its always been a place southerners have moved

as a southern white and not a midwestern white i feel as if it’s my duty to move to austin or la not nyc or chicago

@HeySupMaya Newberry has alot online! CPL also

Research question for historians, academics, or relevant fields: where are some legitimate databases or sites I can find 1st source documents related to Chicago (specifically the Levee district) from late 19th century to early 20th century (about 1850-1925ish)?

@FeralPHunter Lasch is great. The stuff abt sports in there is v amusing -- he's gets in a Marxist huff abt baseball adding the DH

im late to the party

@LinkofSunshine Come on my history walking tour ! WalkingToursChicago.com

Chicago tickets booked yay will be there end of the month

@ForeverFlyMike Walking tour!

I’m making a list of Things To Do in Chicago on my day off. Can you guys add a recommendation pls

@6figga_dilla Or William Henry Harrison! Or especially Hannibal Hamlin

I wonder how things wld be today if we would have gotten a full James Garfield presidency 🤔

@sunraysunray I compulsively threw a library copy of What Happened across the room when i tried to read it

Hillary Clinton at least won the popular vote. She has a much more credible case to run in 2028 than Kamala Harris.

@paologerbaudo @a_a_f_t @grok ( Not pictured: Woody Allen, pseudointellectual)

@a_a_f_t @grok Alan Dershowitz, Steven Pinker, Robert Trivers, Larry Summers and Martin Nowak

It is incredible how many elite pseudo-intellectuals are in the Epstein files, Pinker obviously being the worst of them all.

@theliamnissan For example: "the Bellamy salute". Invented as a flag ceremony for the 1st Columbus Day

Not a lotta people know this but nazism and the eugenics movement started in the USA. It's where Hitler got his ideas