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John Crouch retweeted
Potential new National Parks. There are some great options on here. And even my state of Iowa gets some representation!
John Crouch retweeted
This is my single most technocratic take. The President should make something like $50M a year. Senators, $1M. House members, $500k. *And* the costs of work-related travel, and of maintaining a second household in the DC area, should be fully covered for members of Congress.
In exchange, ban all Congressional stock trading.
John Crouch retweeted
law to rename "property tax" to "municipal services tax" and then just Gen Z stare at Boomers
Does the world need another Holmes bio pic? Probably not, but then again that's not really what this is.
No matter what you are expecting from the Elizabeth Holmes doc, multiply the weirdness by a factor of 5. Go in blind and make sure to check it out with an audience.
John Crouch retweeted
Century-old, on borrowed time Lake Street Bridge rises to let a big chunk of its replacement pass underneath.
I love this. More buildings should be lit up on the evenings. Makes the city look cinematic.
Developer Michael Reschke offers up an image of a lit Field Building, which is going residential, as well as the lighting plan for his Jewelers Building, to illustrate his advocacy for lighting up more of Chicago's iconic architecture at night.
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John Crouch retweeted
Shortly after the September 11 attacks, Bruce Springsteen sang "My City of Ruins" for a global benefit concert carried by more than 35 U.S. networks.
The song walks through a hollowed-out town of shuttered shops and empty streets before rising into a gospel prayer for strength:
There’s a blood red circle on the cold dark ground
And the rain is falling down
The church door’s thrown open, I can hear the organ’s song
But the congregation’s gone
My city of ruins
John Crouch retweeted
Erick Erickson: "How long we remember is a fair question, and other people have answered it before us.
In 1913, 50 years after Gettysburg, more than 50,000 old men returned. Confederate veterans walked up the slope again, and Union veterans waited at the stone wall. When they met, they shook hands instead of firing.
The British have worn poppies every November for more than a century, and almost none of them ever met a man who died at the Somme. Neither of these is grief. Both are a people deciding a thing mattered enough to honor it for as long as they live."
John Crouch retweeted
A major new study ranks 60 major U.S. cities on how quickly homes can get permitted and built.
But Chicago was conspicuously absent from the list.
Author @esoltas notes the reason:
“Chicago has thus far not been able to comply with our public records request, as their buildings department does not appear to keep accurate records for issuance dates on certificates of occupancy (the ‘end’ date of our project duration measure).”
Not being able to measure Chicago’s performance against other big cities in this way is a problem.
Where in America can new homes get permitted and built fastest? And are we getting faster or slower over time?
In a new paper with @leonardo_damico and Audrey Wang, we show cities like Raleigh typically *finish* construction before cities like San Francisco even approve it.
John Crouch retweeted
WATCH: Rahm Emanuel on what he would do to cut the cost of housing in Chicago.
“I would say OK, I’m gonna put all our zoning laws, all our building laws, and all our permitting/planning laws, and I’m gonna measure them up against Dallas, Houston and Phoenix. You tell me what we have and why they don’t have it. And if you can’t justify it, get it the hell out of here.”
John Crouch retweeted
The @Cubs and @mlb had past Wrigley All Star designs like these, the Chicago flag stars, brick and ivy, the 1990 logo and shit the bed with generic corporate work. Only had 36 years to think about this one.
Love that the #Allstargame is coming back to Wrigley next season. But this is the lamest most phone it in logo esp compared to 1990. Not using the Chicago stars, the ridiculous Mastercard logo and the batterman logo in a logo is dumb. @Cubs @MLB
John Crouch retweeted
Leigh’s tweet reminds me of this PHENOMENAL photo taken by Gerri Whitley at Montrose Point last year.
It took my breath away when I first saw it. Such a creative way to highlight Chicago’s motto of Urbs In Horto (city in a garden)
John Crouch retweeted
If you watched the Obama Presidential Center opening, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade yesterday afternoon - and nothing else - you could actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250.
True story.
Damn. Lost a legend today. One of, if not the very best, to ever do it.
James Burrows, the co-creator of "Cheers" who reigned as television’s preeminent sitcom director for more than 30 years, died on Friday. He was 85. variety.com/2026/tv/news/jam…
