The Trump administration has paused $2.1 billion dollars for Chicago’s red line expansion, with the admin stating that project has been put on hold, “to ensure funding is not flowing via race-based contracting”. (Whatever the fuck that means)

Not gonna lie China deserves to win the race for the 21st-century. They build thousands of miles of high-speed rail in just a few years while we can’t build any new transit projects because our president is afraid black people might work on them.

🚨 J.B Pritzkers 6 year infrastructure funding plan includes 388mil for Amtrak service to Moline 👀 🚨 A veto session happening soon could unlock this funding!!

"Why are they building a train to nowhere" and it's a metropolitan area of 500,000 people.

I find it bleak that ChatGPT now has more users than Wikipedia. Many people would rather be spoon-fed information by a machine than read and research for themselves. Tech isn't just making us dumber. Worse than that: it's killing curiosity itself and the desire to learn.

This is a weird comparison given that Tokyo is the biggest city on the planet. If you wanted to make a point on the lack of housing NYC has built compare it to Houston or Dallas which are both building more.

The new subway map for the MTA honestly looks so good

Mf’s living in a Cinnamon Toast Crunch

Beautiful park. They should still turn this into housing.

This is one of my favorite photos I’ve ever taken

No hate towards London but you used the most cherry picked image of the NYC skyline ever just to cut out most of lower Manhattan.

REAL mf’s watch the flight path the entire time instead of a movie on the inflight screen

They’ll give $40 billion to Argentina but god forbid we invest in our own infrastructure. Owning the libs or whatever.

Candy corn is a great Halloween candy when you don’t have some bitch in your ear telling you it sucks

This is a good thing I’d argue. Chicago is not just one hub but a smaller hub for many sectors; which means it’s not totally reliant on one industry. Any downturn in one industry isn’t going to crash the city’s economy like it would in other cities.

Hot take: Central Park should be turned into housing to solve Manhattan’s housing crisis.

Interesting thought experiment for y'all: could a city in this country ever top NYC as the most populous? I don't mean anytime soon of course, I just mean at any point in the future. If yes, which city could do it?