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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 13h

This rally was brought to you by the excellent intersection redesign from 2017 that bent Racine to meet Broadway at a right angle, creating a huge pedestrian plaza in the process. Would love to see more of these along Chicago’s diagonal streets.

Two side-by-side images of the same intersection before and after it was reconstructed to create a large plaza

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 23h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 1d

Yo I’m just trying to go to bed here. This is killing me. 🐅⚾️🔱

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 1d

Y’all need to see this sign.

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 1d

Cheers, also from the couch. Go Mariners.

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 1d

My mom sent us this popup Halloween decoration, and when my 3 y.o. son (who’s in a Spanish immersion daycare) saw it he said “that’s where chumbala lives”.

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 1d

The troops do it for the love of the game.

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 2d

The sidewalk data comes from CMAP's 2018 regional sidewalk inventory.

Regional Sidewalk Inventory, Northeastern Illinois, 2018

This feature layer presents the existence of sidewalks in northeastern Illinois as well as whether those sidewalks have a barrier or buffer from moving traffic. The features were digitized from aerial...

datahub.cmap.illinois.gov

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 2d

The pilot zone was never determined, so I picked an area roughly in the 1st ward, since the ordinance was sponsored by Alderman La Spata.

$24 million still isn't cheap, but it's not a crazy amount for such an important service. And we've already spent 10x that on misconduct settlements this year!

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 2d

Last week while voting down the Plow the Sidewalk pilot, Ald. Conway tweeted a misleading cost estimate for a citywide program. He extrapolated the pilot cost using area instead of sidewalk length and came up with a $40m price tag. I did the math the right way and got a figure almost half the size.

Alderman Bill Conway @AldConway · Oct 3

Plow The Sidewalks cost estimates.

The 1.5 sq mile pilot would cost $261,413.

Assuming 234 sq miles in Chicago, that would make the total cost $40,780,428 annually.

Hearing from @StreetsandSan & @ChicagoDOT & @MOPDChicago & @ChicagoCityLaw now:

Some potential caveats: 👇

Map showing sidewalks in a 1.5 sqmi area of Chicago bounded by North, Ashland, Chicago, and California Avenues. Total sidewalk length: 124,922.34 meters

Pilot cost $261,413.00
Example pilot zone sidewalk length 124,922.34 meters
Cost per meter $2.09
Total Chicago sidewalk length 11,579,447.17 meters
Total estimated cost $24,231,198.75

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 2d

Please lord don’t make me suffer through a Cubs-Dodgers series.

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 2d

Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 2d

Let’s expand downtown zoning along the entire lakefront!

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 2d

Despite being two blocks from the 'L' and in the shadow of a half-dozen 20-30 story high rises, this site only allows a FAR of 2.5 by right. And that's with one of the highest-density residential zonings! By my calculation, the existing building has a FAR of ≈2.47. We gotta up those numbers.

Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social · 3d

Huge Development site hit the market in Edgewater. Right on Sheridan, just south of Loyola, couple blocks from the redline. Demolition in progress on the old hospital. Asking $6M for the entire site. Can the market support a new highrise again finally? www.loopnet.com/Listing/6130...

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 3d

Even the street design in 1983 was leaps and bounds ahead of what we're doing today in the US. I'd kill to have traffic diverters like that in my neighborhood.

Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 3d

Frans Halsstraat, Amsterdam in 1983 and today

There are no trees in 1983 and the road is tarmac. Today it is paved and very green. A young girls cycles on her bike

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 3d

There's actually a very good (by American standards) intercity Amtrak route between Milwaukee and Chicago. But it should be better.

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 3d

PM2.5 concentrations in Cook County steadily fell from 2000 until leveling off in 2016. (Hmm, what else happened in 2016?) In recent years, we've seen several large spikes due to the impact of wildfire smoke.

The WHO recommends an annual average of 5 µg/m³. We've got a long way to go.

Average monthly PM2.5 concentrations at Cook County monitoring sites, 2000-2025

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 3d

Hello from the roof on this beautiful autumn afternoon. I just installed a mini weather station up here because that’s the type of nerd I am. I can already tell that I’m going to want an upgrade with more sensors.

A distant view of the Chicago skyline from a rooftop. The sky is blue and scattered with small white puffy clouds.

A weather station on a dresser with the time, date, indoor and outdoor temperatures, humidity, and wind speed/direction.

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 3d

Woah! 280 sensors! That's awesome. Can't wait to see the data.

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 3d

It seems like every few years, health experts decide to lower the threshold for what's considered safe levels of exposure to PM2.5, based on additional evidence linking it to all sorts of chronic and acute diseases.

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 3d

There are only 12 official PM2.5 monitoring sites in Cook County, none of which are in the most densely populated areas.

This is admittedly not my area of expertise, but considering how much PM2.5 concentrations can vary over short distances, that seems woefully insufficient.

A map showing the location of the 12 official PM2.5 monitoring sites in Cook County

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 4d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 4d

Absolutely hilarious moment in the Mariners game. Cal Raleigh smoked a homer straight to a guy wearing a “DUMP 61 HERE” shirt. And after he snagged it, he took off the shirt to reveal an identical one underneath that said “DUMP 62 HERE”.

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 4d

Very cool, thanks for sharing

Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 5d

Love the sentiment, but I guarantee the community would fight tooth and nail to save the parking lot.

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