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Sick (BBQ) burn! Capitol Fax called out Trib editorial board for implying Gale Street Inn, across from Jeff Park station, closed because of tipped minimum wage, when elsewhere in paper the owner said the issue was "Hiring and retaining quality staff." 🍖🔥 capitolfax.com/2025/07/01/mor…

The 146-mile, 77 community areas Tour de Chi is basically my old, leisurely +/- 100-mile Chicago Perimeter Ride on performance enhancing drugs. chi.streetsblog.org/2025/07/03/rid… Here's a writeup of the Perimeter Ride, which nowadays Jerome Hughes leads every year. newcity.com/2008/06/12/hav…

Argyle station art update.

I hosted an Icelandic hot dog dinner last night, using supplies imported from the Reykjavik airport by a friend. And yes, unlike Chicago-style hot dogs, you're *supposed* to put (apple sauce-based) ketchup on Iceland-style franks. More info: icelandhotelcollectionbyberjaya.com/magazine/blog/… Monica Eng

Currently the trajectory is every Chicagoland municipality is going to either have a blanket e-bike ban or varying conditions of where/what/how fast one can ride. Any reasonable person won’t be able to keep track of what the rules between towns. Where’s the Metropolitan Mayor’s

"Mayor Johnson signs executive order to curb smoking on CTA trains and buses." cbsnews.com/chicago/news/m… Psst... Mayor Brandon Johnson, here's a PSA idea. Image stolen from Pittsburg Regional Transit's etiquette campaign: rideprt.org/inside-Pittsbu… Neil Steinberg

Steal this clock design.

When I’m old, which Chicago sidewalk cafe or bar should I hang out at all day wearing a pinstripe suit and fedora, sipping espresso or red wine, watching the world go by, chatting with old friends, sharing wisdom with young people as needed and sometimes playing classical guitar?

I know it was goofy to ask Jonathan Roth (my go-to human AI illustrator) to draw this picture of the new "Argyle Vietnamese Sub-way Station". But I hope the CTA won't ban me from the system. (Did you get the 2nd pun, or was the joke / sandwich too dry?) chi.streetsblog.org/2025/07/29/sor…

If Otto von Bismarck was living in Illinois right now, he'd say, "Transit funding and reform laws are like Polish sausages. It's better not to see them being made." chi.streetsblog.org/2025/08/06/sho…