Jacob E. Peters

Don’t drive on Halloween. Let the kids have a night.

Chicago has been making strides to accommodate more homes. But zoning changes could accelerate construction. We estimate that reforms legalizing small apartment buildings & enabling high densities near all transit stations could add ~10,000 additional units compared to baseline by 2041.

Corporate profits are at record highs — but revenue from corporate taxes has plummeted thanks to the tax cuts in Trump and Republicans’ big, ugly bill. Meanwhile, workers’ wages are stagnant and their share of the nation’s income is at a record low. Trickle-down economics was always a hoax.

Permit issued for #cf97 to proceed with facade & exterior structure for McDonald’s Park. chicago.urbanize.city/post/enclosu...

Vote early & drop off your ballots in person, so that this corrupt administration cannot have any opportunity to screw with your vote.

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It’s not the biggest problem with this idea but it’s dumb all around.

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

They're just speed running Idiocracy now, aren't they?

You have to learn about racism before you can even spell as a Black person in the US and some of yall are over 30 and don’t think it exists

No country is immune to a fossil fuel cost crisis, but some countries are a lot more vulnerable than others.

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

“Cyclists are often perceived as recklessly flaunting road laws. A new study challenges this perception. The study found only 5% of cyclists broke road rules while riding on bike infrastructure versus 66% of motorists who broke rules while driving.” Safe bike infrastructure fuels rule-following.

"We are not losing our young people because of the weather. We are losing them because of zoning." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/24/o...

Just got home from a house party, you amateurs

This is not an unfortunate byproduct of MAGA politics. This is the entire goal.

If your closing argument is “don’t let Indiana become Illinois” then it’s pretty clear your stance is “Keep Indiana Mediocre” If Indiana was just a little more like Illinois it really could flourish, but the GOP has been steering the state in a race to the bottom for the last 20 years.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney points out that Elon Musk and Trump's crippling of Starshield, to help Russia, has led to deaths and reduced Ukraine's ability to stop indiscriminate attacks on innocent people.

You can't remove debris from Earth orbit, either. I often use an analogy of ocean pollution to explain why orbital space isn't an infinite expanse to forever put things in.

Lilyland Ave.

This morning there was a beautiful ceremony to remember Elizabeth "Lily" Grace Shambrook, 3, by unveiling honorary signs for "Lily's Greenway" on Leland Avenue in Chicago's Uptown. Read more about Lily's life here. www.kelleyspaldingfuneralhome.com/obituaries/E...

CBS identified Illinois based Three Z Printing as the holder of the permit associated with the fake transgender mailers. One of the owners, Matt Zerrusen, is based in Dallas. His Instagram shows pictures with Charlie Kirk and Donald Trump, and comments from local Republicans.

Seems like the Trump White House agrees with everyone who says the Trump White House had committed countless crimes

What could it be?!

The 5-year cancer survival rate is up to 70% SIDS deaths have decreased by over 50% 89% decline in tornado deaths All thanks to federal investment in science and OUR tax dollars at work!

I'm so glad this is out. On the other hand, the EPA has been wildly forthcoming about every move they've made by way of erratic and frequent press releases exalting every single rollback — loud and proud about the moves they're making

So many things have gotten better over the last 40 years, but that will not cause me to accept the current backsliding we are in & repeating of the mistakes of the 80s.

Now is your chance to be a part of the Bus Vision Project! We’re hosting in-person meetings where you can give us direct feedback on bus service in your community and help set priorities for how the bus system should continue to improve. Hope to see you there 👋

Highway improvements never result in sustained time savings other than comparison to the construction period. They almost always increase congestion on the roads that lead to and from them. Invest in transit, as it actually increases throughput, with more passengers per vehicle.

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

what is there was a: Ridiculously famous Annual Great tradition that contradicted this Bullshit which every Rural town And lifelong Iowan was aware of the economic benefits of.

“The way to really flyyyyyyyyyy!”

Here's a summary from another outlet, for those who aren't prepared to subscribe to Forbes just to read this article.

In honor of the National aspect of this, here are some places that I have had a square cut thin crust pie outside of Chicago that were notable: - Gem City Pizzeria in Quincy, IL - Villa Nova Pizzeria in New Buffalo, MI - Zaffiro’s Pizza in Milwaukee, WI - Greenbush Bar in Madison, WI

Russian operatives are likely trying to meddle in the Senate race in Texas in the most prominent example yet of a foreign effort to mislead voters ahead of the midterm elections, three teams of disinformation researchers say.

It turns out that choosing the lesser of two evils is, in fact, a moral imperative. And some folks want to wait for the Revolutionary Perfect, but I would equally challenge them to demonstrate a single time where a 'start from nothing, year-0' revolution has turned out well for most people.

President Harris would probably not be at war with Iran. She certainly wouldn't have regime-changed Venezuela. Under President Harris, the USA wouldn't send anyone to CECOT. Under President Harris, Alex Pretti and Renee Good would not have been shot by DHS thugs.

Isn’t this just their old logo from the 60s-90s updated on a different background?

This would be the absolute worst outcome. Never-ending gridlock to a point where buses & emergency vehicles would be unable to move except on streets with dedicated lanes whose automated enforcement bankrupted companies whose technology blocked those lanes.

If you pretend to die they will show up with 100 police officers, but if you actually die they will show up with 1 to fill out the paperwork.

An exclusive sitdown with Robert Lewandowski: 🏆 The Ballon d'Or and Lamine 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Kane's "amazing" production 🇫🇷 Loves watching Olise: "Wow. He's the game-changer." ⚽️ Adjusting to life in MLS (turf) and Chicago. 🕰️ The "fear" of what life looks like after football. www.nytimes.com/athletic/770...

Some great investigative reporting here, from @woolsox.bsky.social. Really worth a read.

If the W was not going to do the right thing and ban this loser, the Dream did the next best thing offering him the suite. He couldn't get the videos and photos of him near the court causing chaos and it exposed how much of a grifter he and all these transphobes are.