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Tracy Seneca @tracyseneca.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s the instructions - docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Great Chicago Fire Walk Last updated: Sep 2025 Disclaimer: the route sometimes needs updating year to year, depending on construction projects & whatnot. Bring your map app thingy in case you need t...

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Tracy Seneca @tracyseneca.bsky.social · 1d

12 miles!

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Tracy Seneca @tracyseneca.bsky.social · 1d

Montgomery Park could not be better looking

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Tracy Seneca @tracyseneca.bsky.social · 1d

Section of Brown Line tracks where Ogden used to come through. North and Larrabee.

Tracy Seneca @tracyseneca.bsky.social · 1d

Chunk of melted hardware store from the fire, just north of the Chicago History Museum

Map of the fire at the Chicago Fire Dept training center

Painting of fire related activity at Chicago Fire Dept training center

In front of Chicago Fire Dept training center. Jefferson & Dekoven, site of Mrs O’Leary’s barn.

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Tracy Seneca @tracyseneca.bsky.social · 1d

Happy 154th anniversary on the end of the Great Chicago Fire! Walked the perimeter today, as is my custom.

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Tracy Seneca @tracyseneca.bsky.social · 2d

Ha! The Walking Across Chicago meetup folks will be making our way north on Sacramento the same day. I like the idea of two crews of long-haul walkers covering parallel streets. Enjoy!

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Tracy Seneca @tracyseneca.bsky.social · 2d

Metra vista.

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Tracy Seneca @tracyseneca.bsky.social · 3d

Bluesky appears to think I’m a gay man with wide-ranging tastes and who’s only into females if they’re anime characters. And busty.

And Bluesky has a LOT of content for that dude. My alter ego, Mr. Tracy Seneca. Like a quarter of the content on my feed is for that guy.

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Tracy Seneca @tracyseneca.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago has a lot going for it, but it looks like Portland owns the absurd.

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 4d

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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Tracy Seneca @tracyseneca.bsky.social · 6d

63rd and Kostner. I walk here. These are all people that I could easily have seen when I explore the city.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 6d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Tracy Seneca @tracyseneca.bsky.social · 13d

Horner Park is *bopping*.

Wildflowers blooming in Horner Park, Chicago.

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Tracy Seneca @tracyseneca.bsky.social · 14d

Good morning from the Ragamala, Chicago Cultural Center.

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Tracy Seneca @tracyseneca.bsky.social · 16d

Life really is better if you can get out the door before dawn. Do I act on that? Almost never.

Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 16d

The colors are already starting to turn in the Chicago area. Peak autumn colors are predicted to arrive in less than 3 weeks.

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Tracy Seneca @tracyseneca.bsky.social · 18d

Phenomenal.

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Tracy Seneca @tracyseneca.bsky.social · 20d

Chicago River swim…

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Tracy Seneca @tracyseneca.bsky.social · 22d

“You’re worth two 43s, 86.”

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Tracy Seneca @tracyseneca.bsky.social · 24d

I’m glad to see more public discussion and awareness of what’s happening there.

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Tracy Seneca @tracyseneca.bsky.social · 29d

DCASE just confirmed via email that Ragamala is on for Friday the 26th. Details aren’t on the site yet, but yay!

Tracy Seneca @tracyseneca.bsky.social · Sep 10

Does anyone know if the Chicago Ragamala is happening this year? Or when? Because in my ideal world I’ll be up all night 9/26, then stagger over to the Hyde Park Jazz Fest in a music-induced stupor.

Tracy Seneca @tracyseneca.bsky.social · Sep 11

I did notice that I appear in the crowd scene on the Ragamala website, which is fun, but sadly it still doesn't have a date on it. Which is cutting it pretty close if it is going to happen. No doubt the work is really difficult this year.

Tracy Seneca @tracyseneca.bsky.social · Sep 10

Does anyone know if the Chicago Ragamala is happening this year? Or when? Because in my ideal world I’ll be up all night 9/26, then stagger over to the Hyde Park Jazz Fest in a music-induced stupor.

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Tracy Seneca @tracyseneca.bsky.social · Sep 9

youtu.be/nA0UOiVM1u0?...

Come On! Feel the Illinoise! Part I: The World's Columbian Exposition Part II: Carl Sandburg...

YouTube video by Sufjan Stevens - Topic

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · Sep 6

Chicago forever

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