Michael McLean

In 2024, northern Illinois was the nuclear king. ⚡️ 93 TWh electricity consumed ⚛️ 89 TWh estimated nuclear electricity generation ⏰ Nuclear exceeded load 47% of the time 📅 Nuclear exceeded load on 338 days 💵 ¢17.2 per kilowatt hour for residential electricity

@royalpratt And this is even after HBO censors watered the story down

ICE agents are portrayed as bad guys in the latest Pitt episode.

The backstory here is that the Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of this land a century ago. They sued, got their land back, and used their sovereignty to ignore local zoning rules and build 6,000 new homes over the objections of nearby NIMBYs.

@Lib_Development How’s the transit?

After months of saying “I am eventually going get around to visiting Carmel Indiana” I finally decided to spend my free day doing it 9/10, excellent place, substantially better than Hyde Park, would visit again

@nukebarbarian The people of Joliet will once the money hits the city coffers

Folks we love to see it, don’t we?

Every single day that this war goes on, the more the economic damage just compounds. This is the key line right here from @tracyalloway bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

Illinois State House District 40 🏆Miguel Avelo-Rivera 55.7% 8,019 Jaime Andrade, Jr (Incumbent) 44.3% 6,374 michaelmclean.me/illinois-democ…

@CursedLavaLamp @RidgeKnapp @ConroyForIL epic af

@RidgeKnapp @ConroyForIL Conroy won my precinct LFG

As he considers a run for Mayor of Chicago, Rep. Mike Quigley won renomination to his seat in the Congress with 65% of the vote against three challengers. While not his lowest primary win (63% in 2018), Rep. Quigley did lose some North Side precincts to Matt @ConroyForIL.

@phicago @DemiforIllinois @RidgeKnapp Pretty sure his campaign plus individual contributions went almost to a million. for just 2.6k votes!

@cornoisseur @DemiforIllinois @RidgeKnapp This is actually funny because I got an obscene amount of mail from Adam Braun. Happy to see he got buried.

Illinois HD13 precinct results 🏆 41.9% @DemiforIllinois 9,988 27.7% James O'Brien 6,614 13.6% Sunjay Kumar 3,242 10.9% Adam Braun 2,609 5.9% @RidgeKnapp 1,410 michaelmclean.me/illinois-democ…

@PresidentRobYT @DemiforIllinois @RidgeKnapp ive only used the cook county election page. not sure about collars

@cornoisseur @DemiforIllinois @RidgeKnapp Any good places to get suburban results btw??

@_kenschutte need more like this

@cornoisseur Looks like it is just three buildings (Edgewater Plaza and Park Tower)

Edgewater: home to the second-highest population density tract in America

@RidgeKnapp @ConroyForIL Matt Conroy spend efficiency go brrrrrr Moneyball Matt

The Supreme Court is about to gut the VRA completely and this is what Black political leaders are fighting about btw

WHOA. Lewandowski is accused of demanding fees from a private prison company to steer them ICE contracts, at a time when he was widely known to be running DHS on Kristi Noem's behalf. Congress should conduct a full and bipartisan investigation into this.

Asked why he didn't coordinate with allies before going to war with Iran, Trump says, "We didn't tell anyone about it. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor, OK?"

By some distance, the most entertaining story of the week. The Voting Rights Act is dangling over a cliff, and the CBC is angry that Pritzker spent $5m to nominate a black female candidate they’re not close personal friends with.

@brendenmoore13 Its the second-highest population density tract in the nation

Tons of high-rise condo and apartment buildings line Sheridan Road in Edgewater. Leads to some major population density.

@minc798 lfgggg

New permit issued yesterday to build a new 7 story, 78 unit building at Oak & Larrabee. This is a long time vacant lot. Building will be part market rate and part affordable units. Just over a half mile walk to the nearest Brown Line stop.