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Jen A @jena773.bsky.social · 11h

Channel 32 with an antenna!

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Kate Dollarhyde @katedollarhyde.bsky.social · 13h

the stadium stopped selling alcohol seven innings ago. everyone at this game is sober now

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Jen A @jena773.bsky.social · 9d

Giant packs from Blick have served me well (also stencils). There’s been a lot of signs this year.

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Jen A @jena773.bsky.social · 9d

Kept my sign from the last No Kings protest.

I enjoy the confused looks from 99% of the young people. (Abe Froman is the sausage king of Chicago, dammit!)

“Abe Froman is our ONLY king!” and the Aon Center (or as my ma called it, the standard oil building).

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Jen A @jena773.bsky.social · 9d

Every single day I’m proud to be a Chicagoan.

A view of the Sears Tower, a blow up dragon and a sign that reads “My favorite type of acetaminophen is Tylenol rapid release of he Epstein files” at today’s No Kings Chicago family gathering.

Two beautiful older women sitting, one with a janky piece of cardboard that reads, “You his sign paid for by George Soros”.

Michael Myers holding a sign in hat reads “Ice is for boo-boos, not the streets” along Michigan Ave.

A sign. “Fuck Trump. Fuck Ice. Bear Down.”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10d

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 16d

❌️👑 + ❌️🤚 The Oct. 18 No Kings/Hands Off Chicago protest is organized by ACLU of Illinois, @chicagolabor.bsky.social, Equality Illinois, @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social, Personal PAC,
Sierra Club Illinois.

🧑🏽‍🤝‍🧑🏽👫🏼 We'll see you at noon, Sat. Oct 18, Grant Park! (1/4)

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · Sep 25

Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

Alyssa @alyssad.bsky.social · Sep 25

Hmmm....

US Border Patrol docks along Chicago Harbor Lock as part of immigration blitz

U.S. Border Patrol is making its presence known on Lake Michigan, the only Great Lake without a foreign border.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · Sep 9

Somewhat redundant that the Bears are honoring the 85 Bears tonight considering Chicagoland residents traditionally perform a small ceremony honoring the 85 Bears each morning before starting their day

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Jen A @jena773.bsky.social · Sep 7

I live close to there and there are fires all of the time, a lot of burning of plastics/chemical stuff, and a few have spread and become a huge issue. A lot of garbage is being dumped down into the river as well.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Sep 6

The Onion News Network truck is currently stationed outside the Broadview ICE Detention facility just outside of Chicago.

The Onion News Network truck featuring the headline ICE Opens New Supermax Prison for Most Hardened Toddlers stationed outside the ICE facility.

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Jen A @jena773.bsky.social · Aug 30

*everywhere

(I mock people who don’t proofread posts, got what I deserve).

Jen A @jena773.bsky.social · Aug 30

I highly recommend getting one of the AIA guides to Chicago (for a phone book app so it’s always on you). Everyone you go you can look up the neighborhood and be blown away by the amount of significant architecture that you may have never previously noticed.

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Molly DeVore @mollydevore.bsky.social · Aug 13

A recent study found that nearly 80 percent of forests in and around Chicago are infested with invasive shrubs

Restoration crews and thousands of volunteers are working diligently to change things

blockclubchicago.org/2025/08/13/i...

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Jen A @jena773.bsky.social · Jul 1

Simple and accurate, no one will ever be better than El Tractor.

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Jen A @jena773.bsky.social · Jun 15

And you can never have too much of a good idea. This was my sign…

“Abe Froman (The Sausage King of Chicago) is our ONLY King”

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Jen A @jena773.bsky.social · Jun 15

I was giddy with joy and sprinted through the crowd to congratulate the person with the very, very, very, VERY most Chicago sign, a take on the Shawon-O-Meter!

A protest sign based on the classic bleacher sign reflecting Shawon Dunston’s batting average.

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Jen A @jena773.bsky.social · Jun 14

This was my sign…

My protest sign reading, “Abe Froman is our ONLY king”. Abe Froman is the “Sausage King of Chicago”.

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · Jun 14

❌ 👑 TOMORROW: No Kings in Chicago and nationwide!!! We’ll be at Daley Plaza for a peaceful rally and march from 12-2 PM!
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🙌 Thank you the 60+ partners who are joining us tomorrow for a nonviolent day of action against Trump and MAGA’s tyranny, cruelty and anti-American authoritarianism

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Chicago Piping Plovers @chicagopiping.bsky.social · May 18

It's official! We are expecting!
On behalf of Imani and Sea Rocket, we are excited to announce the first egg of an expected four-egg clutch was laid on the Montrose Beach Dunes shoreline the morning of Sunday, May 18, 2025.

📸: Jobi Petersen Cates (Sea Rocket, Montrose, Chicago, May 2025)

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Deniz Opal @selzero.bsky.social · May 15

I think we should tell Gen Z that Head Cleaner's "Play Both Sides" was the 🔥 album of 1986

Cassette tape Head Cleaner Play Both Sides

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Jen A @jena773.bsky.social · May 10

Good day for the river. Today was the big Chicago River Day with clean ups everywhere! This is what was hauled out by canoe around River Park.

A massive amount of plastic and styrofoam was hauled out of the river near the confluence, including a bedspring, luggage, cast iron pan, and coolers.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · May 8

I am unapologetically telling you right now that Chicago is going to be insufferable about this, there is still a fading cardboard John Paul II in a Michigan Ave storefront looking out at Grant Park because he spoke there *once.*

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Chicago Piping Plovers @chicagopiping.bsky.social · Apr 11

BREAKING: Pippin is back at Montrose Beach!
Mark Kolasa, your Montrose Beach Dunes Volunteer Community Steward, alerted us and the birding community this morning of two banded Piping Plovers at Montrose.

📸: Lin Johnston (Pippin, Montrose protected beach, Chicago, April 11, 2025)

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Jen A @jena773.bsky.social · Apr 6

I would love it because of where I live. People have pointed out it would be really slow because of no wake zones, but I could live with that.