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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 1d

Reporter Maxwell Evans & Binghui Huang of the Illinois Answers Project will moderate an evening of convos a/b inclusive economic growth, the promise of quantum computing & South Siders' hopes & worries a/b the planned Quantum Shore project. blockclubchi.co/4mP1GKh

📅 Oct. 9
📍 South Shore Library

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 3d

The admiration, the bat flip, the zoom to Fried 🫡

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tconn36.bsky.social @tconn36.bsky.social · 3d

VLAD MAKE YANKEE SAD

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Stephanie Lulay @slulay2.bsky.social · 12d

@afrodip.bsky.social on Bruce Sagan, the passionate, humble “renaissance man” who gave so much to the news and arts in Chicago.

Bruce Sagan, Hyde Park's Newspaperman And Renowned Arts Patron, Dies At 96

Loved ones remember Sagan as a passionate, humble "renaissance man" who had a seven-decade-long journalism career. He and his wife Bette Cerf Hill were instrumental in bringing the Joffrey Ballet to C...

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 8d

dozens of federal agents with border patrol and the fbi raided an apartment building in south shore shortly after 1 am as part of a “targeted immigration enforcement operation.”

neighbors report hearing flash-bangs and screaming, and one person told abc 7 they saw two people detained.

Federal agents surround South Shore apartment building as DHS requests military deployment

Questions remain after the announcement that the federal government plans to send military personnel to the Chicago area.

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Maxwell Evans @afrodip.bsky.social · 8d

You can't take pictures of an ego death, so here's the absolutely necessary Monday reset

Humber River at Kipling Avenue. What's good Dalano Banton

Disoriented dapper zombie, or me Sunday night

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Maxwell Evans @afrodip.bsky.social · 10d

Moose? Elk? Realizing I don't actually know how to tell. It's mildly perturbed to have been killed just to laze about on the wall for a century

Maxwell Evans @afrodip.bsky.social · 10d

Vampire contest at the garlic festival underneath a castle

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Maxwell Evans @afrodip.bsky.social · 10d

This was the only goal. In fact the only thing that happened last night. No need to verify otherwise

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Maxwell Evans @afrodip.bsky.social · 13d

In other Obama Center-related news, a 26-story hotel down the street from the center — backed by a developer who once hired a young Barack Obama — also passed council today. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/25/s...

South Side Hotels Near Obama Center, XS Tennis Center Get City Council Approval

Alderpeople approved plans for a 26-story hotel down the street from the future Obama Center in Woodlawn Thursday, as well as plans for a six-story hotel and 51 apartments near XS Tennis in Washington...

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Maxwell Evans @afrodip.bsky.social · 13d

City Council just backed a plan to set aside city-owned land for affordable housing and fund homeownership programs near the future Obama Center.

The ordinance passed within a day, after an initial draft — focused solely on South Shore — stalled for 2 years. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/25/o...

Obama Center Housing Ordinance Passes City Council After 2-Year Delay And Overhaul

Alderpeople on Thursday approved an ordinance to fund homeownership programs and reserve city-owned land for income-based housing in three South Side neighborhoods near the future Obama Presidential C...

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Maxwell Evans @afrodip.bsky.social · 28d

The price, which I didn't bother to check ahead of time because there was no way it would be $77.70, was listed as "$25-45 per person"

I asked the driver what tf that means and he was like "oh, I charged you in the middle, it's a good deal"

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Maxwell Evans @afrodip.bsky.social · 28d

Never in a million years did I think I would ride with a pedicab aka demon cyclist aka trail clogger this weekend. But I'm not going to make my auntie walk a mile, c'mon now

Never in a trillion years did I think a mile ride to Northerly Island would be $77.70

I will complain about this until I die

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Maxwell Evans @afrodip.bsky.social · Sep 8

Heads up: The next meeting on Blacks in Green's plan to buy city land and develop 20 apartments, 12 storefronts and gardens is 6 p.m. tonight at the Bessie Coleman Library. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/05/b...

Blacks In Green Wants To Bring Apartments, Shops And Gardens To City-Owned Lots In Woodlawn

The Woodlawn-based nonprofit is looking to buy four lots on which to develop a mixed-use project with 20 apartments and 12 shops, as well as sustain two gardens and create a new garden next to the fut...

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · Aug 31

[leftishly] gender is a BINARY. you’re either one or the other.

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Maxwell Evans @afrodip.bsky.social · Aug 31

Forgive me if this isn't news — I was in 7th grade for Til the Casket Drops and GOOD Music was practically my coming of age — but it's clicked that Malice is actually the slight 1 of the 2.

That Community feature... "mother auntie cousin, couldn't tell you who reside there..." that was it

Maxwell Evans @afrodip.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thank you for that! I would be glad to chat with him if he's available.

Maxwell Evans @afrodip.bsky.social · Aug 27

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DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ - All I Can Feel

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Maxwell Evans @afrodip.bsky.social · Aug 26

Hi world, I'm working on a story looking back at Hurricane Katrina's impact on Chicago and local relief efforts.

If you are/know someone who was displaced and came here — or if you were involved in relief efforts at the time — feel free to shoot me a DM or email.

maxwell[at]blockclubchi.org

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · Aug 19

$1.5 million for a home in South Shore www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-...

South Shore home with ties to the Manhattan Project sells for a record price

A scientist on the University of Chicago's Manhattan Project team stored radioactive waste from his other, peace-time projects in the basement.

www.chicagobusiness.com

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scary tall bart @tallbart.com · Aug 19

Sam Altman: I see humans achieving omnipotence using dark matter by… 2030 maybe? That’s if OpenAI is given a quadrillion dollars

Theo Von: Yeah

Altman: Or, we may become a race of slaves, genetically modified to be harvested by robot spiders. That’s if OpenAI doesn’t get the money

Von: Right

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Maxwell Evans @afrodip.bsky.social · Aug 18

Boring cable station rebrand, as well as boring BlueSky™ copy-and-paste discourse™ about said rebrand, are boring. Beautiful pearlescent 1992 Ford Taurus is exhilarating

kaizhen.bsky.social @kaizhen.bsky.social · Aug 18

This new MS NOW logo is fresh like this 1992 Ford taurus.

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Maxwell Evans @afrodip.bsky.social · Aug 17

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Corinthians

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Maxwell Evans @afrodip.bsky.social · Aug 16

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13. Letters - Chance The Rapper | STAR LINE | Standard Lyric Video

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