Ezra Serrins
eserrins.bsky.social
Ezra Serrins
@eserrins.bsky.social
One of those people who's obsessed with living in Chicago
Austin FC | Chicago Red Stars
It *is* but - and this one is definitely just me being me - I call that "one block east of Cornell".

Like my brain just really really doesn't want to validate Hyde Park Boulevard as a street name.
February 22, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I also always do "King Drive"
February 22, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Am I weird for: I think I only say State *Street* to refer to it in the Loop, but not outside of it (in either direction).
February 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Was about to say this thing about intersections - even roads that keep their title lose it when it's an intersection
February 22, 2025 at 1:19 AM
yes, absolutely, regarding the Irving Park Road example - however, if I refer to an intersection, it's just Irving Park without the Road or even Park (e.g. "Irving and Ashland")

also, maybe this is my toxic trait, but Hyde Park Blvd is just 51st St in my brain...
February 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Are they though? Fatigue makes it sound like "wow those fans are tired of too many games". Not "fans are pissed at you for cutting a very specific set of important games in a cash grab"
January 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Can't they just cut funding to their private police force to fund actually beneficial public research?
January 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I'm too young to remember 9/11, but I remember this, and I am confident that still impacts me today.
January 27, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I remember it. I was in 5th grade in Austin. Another teacher came and whispered to my teacher. He closed the blinds and kept teaching but we could all tell something was wrong.

He later told us he didn't say anything in case someone's family worked in that building.
January 27, 2025 at 2:21 AM
"Broadway between Foster and Devon"
January 27, 2025 at 1:59 AM
When I lived in Hyde Park and fares were $2 to the loop, I took Metra over the 6. When they went up to $4, that flipped. It's not rocket science.
January 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Don't do that to the lake. It deserves to be free of all of the takes sinking to its depths.
January 25, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Ring took the PK away at RSL in 2024 for the consolation goal in the 5-1 loss
January 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I believe the format is that 1 and 2 will enter a draw for which R16 matchup they have...
(Which, I will add, I think is silly.)
January 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Makes total sense and that would be my guess as well. No one is truly exempt from the North Side to Skokie to Somewhere Even Farther pipeline.
January 20, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I have read Battle of Lincoln Park! One of my favorite Chicago-focused books.
January 20, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Question I asked here a while ago that you may know the answer to re: this thread. Do you know why River North/Old Town and Kenwood don't have large Japanese American communities anymore? Interested in info/sources about that
January 20, 2025 at 1:43 AM