steve
@jbzktn.bsky.social
This is interesting to me as a noise guy and Chicagoan. I know how loud it is up there and how bad highway traffic noise is when you're that close. The residents have a right to be upset and to ask for walls. The path from asking for walls to getting them is a difficult one.
A group of Avondale neighbors are pushing for a sound barrier wall along a stretch of the Kennedy Expressway. blockclubchi.co/4kS4mq8
June 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
This is interesting to me as a noise guy and Chicagoan. I know how loud it is up there and how bad highway traffic noise is when you're that close. The residents have a right to be upset and to ask for walls. The path from asking for walls to getting them is a difficult one.
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The day we have waited for, worked for has come! All 4 chicks have hatched. Our work carries on as we continue to support Imani and Sea Rocket and their chicks. Thank you, as always, for your support.
📸: Chicago Piping Plovers (Imani removing an eggshell from the nest, June 20, 2025)
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The day we have waited for, worked for has come! All 4 chicks have hatched. Our work carries on as we continue to support Imani and Sea Rocket and their chicks. Thank you, as always, for your support.
📸: Chicago Piping Plovers (Imani removing an eggshell from the nest, June 20, 2025)
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June 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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The day we have waited for, worked for has come! All 4 chicks have hatched. Our work carries on as we continue to support Imani and Sea Rocket and their chicks. Thank you, as always, for your support.
📸: Chicago Piping Plovers (Imani removing an eggshell from the nest, June 20, 2025)
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The day we have waited for, worked for has come! All 4 chicks have hatched. Our work carries on as we continue to support Imani and Sea Rocket and their chicks. Thank you, as always, for your support.
📸: Chicago Piping Plovers (Imani removing an eggshell from the nest, June 20, 2025)
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BREAKING: Sea Rocket is home! 🤍🚀
New Plover Drop Friday is THE BEST!!!
📸: @thebirdherder.bsky.social (back of camera, Sea Rocket's leg bands, Montrose Protected Beach, May 9, 2025)
New Plover Drop Friday is THE BEST!!!
📸: @thebirdherder.bsky.social (back of camera, Sea Rocket's leg bands, Montrose Protected Beach, May 9, 2025)
May 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
BREAKING: Sea Rocket is home! 🤍🚀
New Plover Drop Friday is THE BEST!!!
📸: @thebirdherder.bsky.social (back of camera, Sea Rocket's leg bands, Montrose Protected Beach, May 9, 2025)
New Plover Drop Friday is THE BEST!!!
📸: @thebirdherder.bsky.social (back of camera, Sea Rocket's leg bands, Montrose Protected Beach, May 9, 2025)
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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)
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)
April 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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)
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)
Shoutout to all the Chicago Bird Collision Monitors putting in the work to get this into the public consciousness. Many more untreated panes of glass left to go.
For more than 40 years, migrating birds have been crashing into McCormick Place Lakeside Center.
But this fall, when bird collision monitors performed their usual daily searches of the building’s grounds, they found something remarkable: just 18 dead birds.
But this fall, when bird collision monitors performed their usual daily searches of the building’s grounds, they found something remarkable: just 18 dead birds.
Bird deaths plummet at McCormick Place Lakeside Center after safety film installed
Crash fatalities down more than 90% this fall with 18 deaths compared to 1,280 deaths in the fall of 2023, Field Museum expert says.
www.chicagotribune.com
January 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Shoutout to all the Chicago Bird Collision Monitors putting in the work to get this into the public consciousness. Many more untreated panes of glass left to go.
It appears the Acoustics BS has also gotten the axe. Maybe this happened prior to these recent cuts but either way it's a shame. Hard to think of another program being as successful. It was a small program but effectively all of us grads are now employed in the field.
Columbia College Chicago announced their latest deep cuts this week as they try to remain financially viable. About 20% of the school's degree programs are being fully eliminated, including their Art History BA, Creative Writing MFA, and Photogtaphy MFA. 25 full-time faculty are planned to be cut.
Academic Program Array
Columbia College Chicago is rolling out a revitalized array of academic offerings designed to keep our college competitive in an increasingly challenging higher education landscape and position our st...
www.colum.edu
December 21, 2024 at 5:07 PM
It appears the Acoustics BS has also gotten the axe. Maybe this happened prior to these recent cuts but either way it's a shame. Hard to think of another program being as successful. It was a small program but effectively all of us grads are now employed in the field.