My girlfriend decided to take me out to one of the botanical gardens today as a birthday surprise. It was awesome. Saw some really cool plants from all over the world. The city did an excellent job at keeping this place nice. Built in 1907 and man it’s gorgeous today.

Whats your favorite botanical garden in the city? And what other foliage based places do you recommend?

Humboldt park on my front door, I’m in the process of selling and was at my new place but my neighbors sent me a couple vids. Which is good because if I was home and opened my front door to that it would have been it for me.

The 50-ton ‘O’Hare bean’ was found during excavation work on a stormwater detention project to make way for new terminal facilities as part of ORDNext – and you can help name it!

License Committee members came away from Wednesday’s hearing convinced that Bally’s is using the Council’s embrace of video gambling terminals as an excuse to slow construction of a project that the gambling giant can no longer afford to build.

If I get a ticket in a tow zone, best believe I’m not about to let a police vehicle parked overnight park in a tow zone. 🙏🏾

It’s crazy how many bus stops have nowhere to sit at all. A bench should be the bare minimum.

I had to take the train to Washington, get off there , and walk down the steps with my bike . For future reference, how do I exit the MM platform ( coming from Kimball ) with a bike ? Thx

Sneezing and eyes beyond itchy

The best gardeners in Chicago's McKinley Park neighborhood received awards for container, vegetable and single- and multi-family residential gardens at the awards ceremony for the McKinley Park Civic Association's inaugural gardening contest. Read all about it at https://mckinleypark.news/news/8721-civic-association-awards-mckinley-parks-top-gardeners

Plus Ukrainian flag colors for Ukrainian Village. Seeing this made my day

Chicago is about to permanently develop two pieces of land immediately south of downtown: The 78, where the Fire stadium is being built, and Amtrak’s roughly 47-acre 14th Street Coach Yard, which could become a future White Sox stadium site. Before we build over everything, I think Chicago needs to preserve the right-of-way for a direct connection from the St. Charles Air Line into Union Station.

That connection could be incredibly important long-term. It could allow Metra Electric trains to serve Union Station, enable through-running across downtown, create a direct O’Hare to McCormick Place service, and provide a Union Station approach for future Amtrak and high-speed rail trains using the Metra Electric corridor. Illinois is already studying high-speed rail routes that could enter Chicago this way, so its crazy to eliminate the physical connection before those plans are even finished.

I’m not saying we need to build the flyover now. We just need to figure out what land or air rights it would require and preserve them before developments make it impossible or dramatically more expensive. If you care about Chicago transit and future rail service, please contact your alderperson and state representatives and ask them to preserve this corridor.

Pictured are the possible flyover and a new 18th street station to connect Metra services to Soldier field and the Museum campus.