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Henderson the Purple Rain King
@ericksoen.bsky.social
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E-bike hive member since 2020. Biked to all 81 Chicago Public Library branches as a shitpost. Pro-Chicago til the day I die.
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The resolution to this shitpost only took 777 days and ~1500 miles but I somehow did it.

I’ve now biked to all 81 Chicago Public Branches in reverse chronological order (by year constructed). LFG.
LFG! Filled mine out. Should take less than 5 minutes.
It’s witness slip time! 🚨

Transit funding bill SB2111 has been assigned to committee and we need folks to file witness slips as PROPONENT immediately!

The attached graphic provides guidance for submitting a slip.

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I unfortunately can’t make @chicritmass.bsky.social due to a family conflict, but my cargo bike with a treasure chest and skeleton say what’s up!

Really need to get a pirate flag for next year…
Gonna go Tim Walz on this and say that people think this is a scandal are weird and we shouldn’t listen to them.
Does anyone have a rough estimate for how the hard the Chicago History Museum is to heist?

More or less difficult than the Louvre?
This racing sweater for the National School Boy's Inter-City Ice Skating Championship of 1922 goes hard af. 11/10. Would wear.

📸 CHM, Costume & Textiles Collection
It’s a great bike scene! It’s fair to be jealous.
Can you ride a bike? Can you blow on a plastic bag to help a sharpie marker dry faster?

This could be the perfect way for you to get involved (today was my first time).
As ICE continues to terrorize our communities, kidnapping our neighbors, 9 cyclists came together this morning at 6am to buyout 5 vendors and donate the food to a local shelter. They went home safe, hungry ppl were fed, this is #BikeChi ✊🏽
All store fronts along the pedestrian stroad that is Plateau Mont Royale are now empty and derelict.
I will say this is true and also has forced me to be a more creative parent.

Kids are fighting and not getting along? Stop and try to find a park to give them some space!

Still not getting along? Pull over to the side and walk for a bit.

When I’m driving I just…idle threat?
Under-discussed negative of the parenting cargo bike is when your kid is throwing a tantrum, everyone you bike past gets to hear and see and give you a look.
Me when I bike from Oak Park to Beverly and see a “Chicagoans who Bike” sticker
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
Love the subtle “Lakeview East” flex visible via the bike rack 😍
Me: why does this so much like Midway…oh!!!
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[Serenely smiling as I run a red light and plow into a preschool] I just want to acknowledge that I’m driving drunk on former Potawatomi land
If anyone knows of anything in the Berwyn to Franklin Park area, HMU!
You “just” have a bike? You can still do so much (everything worthwhile is done with other people). H/t @sharrows.bsky.social

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This weekend was record breaking for our mutual aid efforts! On Friday, the team got up bright and early to send home vendors. 6 vendors supported, over $500 worth of food. Saturday, we bought 100 tamales from 2 vendors! All distributed right back into the community. We keep us safe! #BikeChi
Love that newer CPL branches like Northtown, Independence, Little Italy, and Altgeld Gardens integrate with housing and social support programs.
Remember bike friends: if you bike to all 81 Chicago Public Librsry branches, you can quickly clock which ones are used as the cover image in news articles.
Cities are developing a new approach to developing housing: Integrating it into mixed-use library projects. These investments improve neighborhood vitality, add housing & improve services.

In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, I create a database of such projects & point to success stories ⏬
Aging Libraries Could Offer Cities a Unique Opportunity to Build New Housing While Improving Public Services
Since 2000, more than 1,800 apartment units have been built in combined library-housing developments. These projects not only address local housing needs but…
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You can just be booping around on your bike in Chicago and suddenly find yourself looking at one of the installations for now MacArthur Genius Tonika Lewis Johnson.
Adding this to my folder of things to cross-stitch.
Biking to O’Hare would certainly be less impressive if it had its own bike lane like Dublin does.