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Sophie
@sophiama.bsky.social
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Chicago!! & Notre Dame ‘23 🥹 I like taking pics of the built and natural environments in Chicago. I love Midwest/rust belt architecture & history. Old stuff is cool. Rooting for da bears & Notre dame football, & Blackhawks hockey. leftist.
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Sophie @sophiama.bsky.social · 1d
couple more #digicam #photos I took this weekend in #chicago . feat. (my beloved) L; a fenced off and overgrown empty lot - still owned by CHA - which is the former site of a public housing high-rise; and some Chicago buildings + fall foliage

#photography #urban #architecture #abandoned #city
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Sophie @sophiama.bsky.social · 1d
some #digicam #photos I took on walks this weekend in #chicago , my beautiful beloved city (and supposed warzone?)

#photography #urban #infrastructure #midwest #rustbelt
The skyline of Chicago is seen behind an imposing, complex geometric-looking steel tower for supporting telephone/internet wires(?) A picturesque tree rises in the middle of an otherwise empty & abandoned grassy lot, seen from behind a fence, in the former site of public housing in Chicago. View from beneath the L’s (elevated) tracks in Chicago on a sunny fall day, with the trackage creating a geometric pattern of light and shadows on the grassy ground below. The sun casts shadows tracing the silhouette of an adjacent section of L trackage on the brick wall of a large building in Chicago.
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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 1d
Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:
View of Chicago skyline from William E. Dever Crib in Lake Michigan east of North Avenue. // Image captured at: 2025-10-13 12:00:01 UTC (about 7 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Chicago: 56.33 F | 13.52 C // Precip: overcast clouds // Wind: S at 7.449 mph | 11.98 kph // Humidity: 84%
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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 18d
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"Fanny Stout, sculptor, standing on a tenement porch in Chicago, Illinois, next to a monumental Ethiopian sculpture"
View of the rear of an apartment building with a woman next to a statue on the porch. Other apartment buildings can be seen in the distance.
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Sophie @sophiama.bsky.social · 5d
here’s some random pics of #buildings I walked past in #chicago this week (including a ghost sign, one of my fav things to spot in the city!) (just casual iphone #photography this time🥴)
A light-orange-brown brick residence (a workers cottage?) with a raised porch supported by black beams is visible in the foreground, with the strange & somewhat brutalist textured facade of a taller structure in the background. A reddish brick three flat featuring white detailing/ornaments and a verdantly ivy-coated side wall is seen from behind the shadowy canopy of a tree in Chicago. The tops of several brick buildings seen in Chicago. I believe that’s the silhouette of a bird mid-flight in the air above said buildings. A pale ghost sign (for “swap-o-rama”) adorns the neglected brick side wall of a structure in Chicago. seen from behind a (barbed wire?) fence. The back of a billboard is also visible at top.
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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 10d
3222 W. Washington, Chicago. Built in 1891, Patton & Fisher, architects.
Two-and-a-half story brick residence with rusticated limestone facade. The entrance and the first floor windows have arched openings. The door is boarded up. The second floor has a bay window with a balustrade to the left of it and above it. The roof is a steep gable. Vines are covering most of the top half of the building.
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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 9d
“I would like to know by what authority United States troops come in here and shoot our citizens without the slightest warning,” the mayor of Hammond, Indiana, said in 1894. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/22/i...
In 1894 Pullman strike, Illinois’ governor fought president’s decision to send in troops
During the Pullman Strike of 1894, the governor of Illinois decried President Grover Cleveland’s move to call in the federal troops.
www.chicagotribune.com
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beautiful women updates @aoife.bsky.social · 10d
"One doesn't ask of one who suffers: what is your country and what is your religion? One merely says, you suffer, this is enough for me, you belong to me and I shall help you."
-Louis Pasteur

'Servant of Humanity'
Erected by the people of Chicago, 1928
a statue ft a bust of pasteur on top of on obelisk the quoted plaque
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Every Lot Chicago @everylotchicago.bsky.social · 11d
1340 North Lockwood Avenue
Google Streetview of the property with PIN10 1604119024: 1340 North Lockwood Avenue
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Every Lot Detroit @everylotdetroit.bsky.social · 11d
10633 DEVINE, DETROIT, MI, 48213
Street View image of property
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Sophie @sophiama.bsky.social · 13d
I still remember exactly where I was for this ,, “The great radinsky hold”
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Sophie @sophiama.bsky.social · 13d
Thank you!!
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Sophie @sophiama.bsky.social · 13d
Thank you!!
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Sophie @sophiama.bsky.social · 14d
#photos I took on my dads old digicam of downtown Boston’s fascinating variety of structures from different #historical periods and #architecture styles - love the juxtaposition of such different buildings in close proximity
#photography #boston
several different structures are cast in sunlight and shadow, with the built up ‘steeple’ / clocktower of a lighter colored building in background Mix of different buildings in Boston, including a more ornate hotel-style structure, an old church / meetinghouse with a steeple, and modern skyscraper with reflective glass facade at back another jumble of different architectural styles/forms/periods, including older, ornate brick and stone structures, slightly brutalist geometric skyscrapers, and a small segment of another skyscraper that looks curiously similar to Chicago’s sears tower Historic old church / meetinghouse structure/s seen in Boston, striped in alternating sunlight and shadow cast from skyscrapers looming behind.
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Sophie @sophiama.bsky.social · 14d
some cool shots I took in downtown #boston on my #digicam last week :) (still learning!)
#architecture #photography
Three very different buildings seen in downtown Boston, with one comparatively shorter, older structure nestled between two vertically towering skyscrapers. The most distant skyscraper’s sleek glass facade reflects the faces of both structures opposite it. Two buildings in Boston are contrasted in this detail shot, with the closer-up brick corner of the nearer structure drawing a vertical line against the more distant skyscraper’s geometric window-checkered facade Shot of several very different structures in downtown Boston, with a squat older substation-type building in the foreground, behind which rises an historic old church/municipal structure with a white steeple, and a more modern looking, geometric skyscraper in background
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Sophie @sophiama.bsky.social · 14d
Some cool #brick #buildings and #architecture I photographed during my trip to #Boston last week!
#photography
several brick buildings in Boston’s beacon hill neighborhood are shown in afternoon sunlight, casting interesting shadows from the fire escape. Detail of the tops of three different, well-kept brick buildings in Boston. Each boasts a unique style of ornamentation. A view down a narrow street along Boston’s freedom trail route, with the white steeple of a historic church/municipal structure commanding attention from behind several brick structures. A view between several brick buildings in Boston, revealing the old contours of their surroundings in discolored brick.
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endlessrevisions @endlessrevisions.bsky.social · 24d
51st & Wood - Chicago
A mixed media painting of a two floor, seemingly abandoned building with a small grocery store painted green with white hand lettering listing groceries and Link card information. It seems like it might be morning but my head is a bit foggy.
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Sophie @sophiama.bsky.social · 28d
soft, end-of-summer shades of green in #chicago last week. #photography via my #digicam
view of lake michigan from a grassy lawn in a park in downtown Chicago. Lawn chairs and a figure are visible in shadowy silhouette in the foreground. A sailboat is seen on the lake. Scene is framed by foliage. detail view of an apartment building’s light green facade, the ornament around the windows cast in sunlight and shadow view into a red brick, courtyard-style building in Chicago, through the sunlit canopies & green foliage of several trees.
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Sophie @sophiama.bsky.social · 28d
soft blur & end of summer haze, in #chicago. via my #digicam.

#nostalgic #photography
View of the sky after sunset, with layers of pink and purple resembling sorbet Blurred / out of focus view of a brick building lit up bright red by the setting sun in Chicago Soft blurry view of a wooden fence, behind which a tree and the back porch of an apartment building are visible, cast in a dappling of sunlight and shadow view looking out at a sun-dappled lake michigan in downtown chicago, with a sailboat visible and three silhouetted figures in the foreground.
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Certified Illinois Expert @mrillinois.bsky.social · Sep 10
Madison St. in Oak Park
A five story brick building with red terra cotta panels under each of its many windows
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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · Jan 27
Fire escape
Lena, IL
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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · May 11
Corner entrance
Douglas, NE
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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · Aug 12
Associated Potato
Drayton, ND
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Sophie @sophiama.bsky.social · Sep 11
I like to imagine that this building just has a ridiculously long/tall chimney
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Every Lot Chicago @everylotchicago.bsky.social · Sep 10
4306 West Haddon Avenue
Google Streetview of the property with PIN10 1603400028: 4306 West Haddon Avenue
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Sophie @sophiama.bsky.social · Sep 11
couple pics I took on my digicam last weekend of cool #architecture in downtown #chicago & beautiful #sunset skies in Hyde Park. #photography
A building’s turret looms silhouetted against the fading colors of a post-sunset sky in Hyde Park, Chicago. A diverse array of architectural styles & eras/periods are juxtaposed within a cluster of skyscrapers in Chicago’s loop, seen from the river. The sky over an intersection in Hyde Park, Chicago during a particularly colorful sunset, with some deeper pink, soft & wispy clouds adding to a sorbet-like effect. Several buildings of different heights, eras, and architectural styles are contrasted against one another, cast in alternating light and shadow, in Chicago’s loop.
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