trying to maintain my sanity and a sense of humor. Chicago now but crafted in Maryland
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These text messages have put me in a position of never wanting to donate to a political campaign again
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Stop with the GB sucks chants in the middle of a medical emergency. It makes us Bears fans looks like scumbags
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Hey, I have an idea!!
How bout we start chanting LET'S GO BEARS for this team?
They fucking deserve it. Let's retire the old chant. – at Chicago, IL
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Mi ropa en la lavadora después de que se me olvidó una servilleta en la bolsa de mis jeans.
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I don’t think you have a dog in this fight but if you did you would have shot it.
I’ll take @ellalangleymsic over Kacey Musgraves any day.
And if I’m choosin’ Texas, I’ll take Ken Paxton over James Talarico.
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Zara Larsson and Robyn talk about their admiration for Madonna:
"She is a pioneer and quite punk."
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Cream calls the shots for the free 🌭s. If Ben Johnson rocks the sweater and da Bears win free hot dogs all day Tuesday
RIP to da coach
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The men hoarding all the worlds wealth, want you to believe that with just a little bit more. They will give it all back
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My sister's longtime dentist practice got bought out by a private equity-backed dental group four months ago.
Same office. Same hygienists. Same chairs. Zero new equipment.
Last week they sent the new fee schedule for anyone with insurance.
A routine cleaning that used to run $120 is now billed at $310, with the group quietly dropping several insurance plans they used to accept.
When patients asked why, the new regional manager gave a scripted line about "aligning with market standards."
Private equity figured out the same trick everywhere.
They're buying up the things you can't opt out of: dental, veterinary care, urgent care, hospice, because they know you can't just skip your kid's cavity or your dog's surgery.
This isn't inflation. It's leveraged debt getting loaded onto places you have no choice but to keep paying.
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Huge Chicago Open House news. The Uptown Theatre is going to be on it. They’re opening the doors they’re letting us in
openhousechicago.org/sites/r…
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i’m ready to speak my truth
someone pls get these fucking e bikes & electric scooters off the street. i cannot fucking stand them & i’ve never ever encountered someone responsible on them.
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NEW: Chicago Magazine just published a deep-dive into how the city is killing food carts.
It is illegal to run a Chicago-style hot dog cart in Chicago. Because it’s illegal to prep food on a licensed cart.
That’s why out of an estimated 3,000 food cart vendors in Chicago, just 12 are licensed.
“We’ve had a merchant culture in the past, like Maxwell Street. [But] the current status quo is a de facto ban,” I told Ed McClelland.
“We have a political culture that emphasizes who you know, and food cart vendors are at the bottom of the economic ladder.”
You can’t start a Chicago-style hot dog cart in Chicago.
It sounds unbelievable.
But a Chicago Policy Center review of city data found there is not a single food cart licensed to sell hot dogs on city sidewalks.
And only *three* licensed tamale cart vendors.
In a city of 2.7M people.
Meanwhile, New York City is home to 7,000 licensed mobile food vendors, with a new bill more than doubling that number over the next five years.
Chicago’s licensing regime makes hot dogs—and other street-food staples—effectively illegal to sell from a cart.
Here are a few.
🚩The city bans all food preparation on food carts.
🚩 The city defines placing a hot dog on a bun—or pouring coffee from an urn—as “preparing.”
🚩 The city bans propane tanks on carts.
In this week’s edition of The Last Ward, go deeper on how these rules came to be.
How they’re hurting low-income entrepreneurs.
And how to fix them ⬇️
thelastward.org/p/why-you-ca…
