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Eric Erins

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Eric_Erins on Twitter Usually I’m out here posting buildings and real estate listings I think are interesting. Chicago

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Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social · May 28

What I want my city to look like

ericerins.substack.com/p/what-shoul...

twitter urbanism hell. Guy complaining about ugly mass market apartments. Noah Smith imploring people to post what they think cities SHOULD look like

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Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social · 7h

You ever just stand on the train platform and stare at the moon?

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Steven @stevevance.net · 1d

there are two steps left in the Broadway corridor upzoning (zoning cmte. + city council)

Passing both steps isn’t guaranteed so showing up in SUPPORT on Tuesday is needed to counter those who prefer the status quo

Abundant Housing Illinois @abundanthousingil.bsky.social · 1d

Your attendance is requested at City Hall!

At 10am on October 14th, the Zoning Committee will vote on the Broadway Land Use Framework, allowing thousands of new homes to be built next to four brand-new Red Line stations. 🏘️🤝🚇

Please RSVP if you plan to attend.

www.eventbrite.com/e/1769724907...

Tell the Zoning Cmte. to Support 1000s of New Homes in Uptown & Edgewater

City Council's Zoning Committee will take up the Broadway upzoning ordinances on 10/14/25.

www.eventbrite.com

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Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social · 1d

He would have loved deviantart

Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking about Charles Gibson’s giantess panels again

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Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social · 2d

Living there would drive me nuts knowing what all used to be there idk how you do it and stay sane lol

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Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social · 2d

No I’m specifically bitching about the pre war post war apartment building swaps

Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social · 2d

Aborted gf meme but it’s lost pieces of our cityscape taunting me

Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social · 2d

Who did this I have questions

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Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social · 2d

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Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social · 2d

The guy seemingly lived everywhere down that way haha

Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social · 2d

The Gladstone Hotel; then and now. Look at how dense Woodlawn used to be!

Postcard showing an 8 story hotel on a corner lot

old postcard showing an aerial view of Woodlawn in maybe the 1940's?

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Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social · 2d

It almost got a 20 story addition in the early 30's

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Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently there was once a hotel on the site of the parking lot at 60th and stoney island right across from the soon to open Obama Presidential Center. Would have had unobstructed views of the park. Even had a garage, but that didn't save it from the wrecking ball.

Postcard showing a 7 story red brick hotel with limestone accents

overhead view of Jackson park with a pin on the parking lot

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 2d

Instead of nostalgia slop of kids consuming 90s video games, it’s nostalgia slop of a troop of multi racial Boy Scouts building a wheelchair ramp in their community while NAFTA gets signed on a TV in the background

Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 2d

90s diversity murals by the woke projects administration (WPA)

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Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social · 2d

Yes

Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social · 2d

I cannot be waiting on a bus everyday in this specific smellscape

Auntie Anne’s, Cinnabon and Rainbow Cone

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Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social · 3d

The good news is they all appear to be incredibly dumb and skittish but I fear that is inevitably going to end badly

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Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social · 3d

I get the impression they’re really just winging it is that a Nissan rouge?

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

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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beautiful women updates @aoife.bsky.social · 4d

"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

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Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social · 3d

I have not!

Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social · 4d

Which brings us back to my initial question. Do the environmental concerns have any merit? So far we haven't really gotten anywhere on that lol

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Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social · 4d

Hell with the exception of the orange line all of our real heavy public transit infrastructure was simply built because railroad companies bought the land. You could not just do that today

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Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social · 4d

The conversations about all the hypothetical reasons why we should not do this here is novel.

When the south works steel mill was built I think they just did it. And frankly same for 90% of the cityscape we see today. The idea that the entire community needs to come to the table is really new.

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Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social · 4d

Well that probably isn’t going to happen

Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social · 4d

I think the fact that we’re having the conversation at all is novel yes

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