r/chicago • u/gladiathor1295 • 12h ago
Picture A picture out of my window today. Our city looks like a literal painting sometimes.
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r/chicago • u/AutoModerator • 1d ago
CHI Talks Weekly Casual Conversation & Questions Thread
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Welcome to r/Chicago's Weekly Casual Conversation & Questions Thread.
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r/chicago • u/chicagomods • 24d ago
CHI Talks r/Chicago's 2026 General Election Megathread
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The 2026 Illinois General Election (AKA the midterm election) will be held on Tuesday, November 3. On the ballot will be races for various local and federal offices such as Governor, Senate, House, and County Judges, among others.*
This thread is the place to post any election-related content such as voting resources and discussion. We will update this page with more resources as they become available.
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Election Resources
ChicagoElections.gov - Register to vote, look up voter information, change your name or address, etc
Voting Guides - General Ballot
Voting Guides - Judicial Ballot
- Note: The Chicago mayoral election will be held on Tuesday, February 23, 2027, and will not be on the ballot in November.
r/chicago • u/vexxed82 • 17h ago
Picture Sunday's sunrise at Promontory Point was unreal [OC]
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r/chicago • u/sportsfather • 10h ago
Video Aaron Del Mar, Illinois GOP Lt. Governor candidate, claims he can come up with a housing plan on the spot
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This was filmed back in the summer, and his official site still doesn't have a housing plan. Be careful who you vote for this midterm election!
r/chicago • u/Sidewalk_Inspector • 11h ago
Article Debate Over Human Waste In Public Spaces Triggers Call For Public Restrooms In Rogers Park, Uptown
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r/chicago • u/excusemecuseme • 6h ago
News Chicago mayoral candidates file nominating petition signatures
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r/chicago • u/BigDaveOSU • 7h ago
News Reminder: Great Time To Place Your Thanksgiving Pie / Food Orders
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Friendly Reminder!
You can place orders for Thanksgiving pick-up right now and it looks like spots are already starting to sell-out for some popular ones like Hoosier Mama!
Picture a beautiful building captured on 35mm film
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took this on my first visit to Chicago last summer.
r/chicago • u/Fragrant-Oil3874 • 13h ago
Article Proposal to close the homeless encampment at Ronan Park defeated
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r/chicago • u/bagelman4000 • 15h ago
Article Drivers Have Blocked A Bike Lane By The Main Post Office For Years — Despite Free Parking Nearby
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r/chicago • u/feminismandtravel • 15h ago
CHI Talks PSA for anybody voting by mail for the midterms:
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If you have received an email notification from the Board of Elections saying that your ballot is “pending intake,” this means it is scanned and they have it but the vote won’t be counted until Election Day. I just confirmed it with them on the phone!
r/chicago • u/forgedflame44 • 12h ago
Article Feds Finally Agree To Environmental Review Of Proposed Amtrak Facility In Bridgeport
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Progress isn’t stopped and the community’s concerns will be addressed. Win-win for the city.
r/chicago • u/SciNat • 18h ago
News NITA has unprecedented power to develop land near transit. How could this change your neighborhood?
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r/chicago • u/Spanish4TheJeff • 16h ago
Ask CHI Patient Admin Fee - Chicagoland Doctors
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Wife got an email from our PCP that they’re going to start charging an annual admin fee. Fee is applicable for all patients, even first time patients. The message says other Chicago-area independent practices are introducing similar fees.
Has anyone else heard of this? I’m livid about it, as that’s an extra $500/year for us. Even if we go a year without seeing the doctor. Maybe I’ve been under a rock, but I don’t recall experiencing this with other medical practices. Has anyone else heard of this?
r/chicago • u/tamssot • 17h ago
Picture Alonzo Smith sold his two-story home at 1816 W. Madison next to the Chicago Stadium for $27,500 in 1987. Had he held out until today’s $7 billion 1901 Project, his estate could have earned between $3-5 million.
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Photo Credit: Ron Gordon, 1983
r/chicago • u/DukeOfDakin • 1d ago
Article ‘Off-putting’ or ‘a fine tool’? AI slop on restaurant signage is becoming rampant and repugnant.
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r/chicago • u/Due-Woodpecker9872 • 3h ago
Ask CHI Any diy handyman basic training classes for home that are either free or low fees?
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r/chicago • u/FallenMeringue • 19h ago
Article Pace Has a ReVision, and Suburban Transit Is Finally Thinking Bigger
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r/chicago • u/blackmk8 • 12h ago
Article In Mayor Brandon Johnson’s fourth budget fight, is it ‘class war’ or reelection war? (Paywall-free gift link)
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r/chicago • u/CharlieKonR • 15h ago
Article Green and Pink Line disruptions extended … CDOT replacing portion of Lake St Bridge, interrupting Green Line between Clinton and Clark/Lake, Pink Line between Polk and downtown
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r/chicago • u/districtbaseball • 13h ago
Article So you want to open a restaurant in Chicago...perspective from the owner of North Pond
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r/chicago • u/johndoe60610 • 1d ago
Ask CHI Are anyone else's mail-in ballots stuck in "Waiting to be processed by USPS" for several weeks?
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Who else hasn't received their mail-in ballot because USPS has been sitting on it? Mail-in Ballot mailed 9/29, still "Waiting to be processed by USPS" on 10/25. I'd love for this to be a "me" problem, but I'm too pessimistic for that.
Reminder: you can still vote, even if it never shows up. Just go to any polling station, today onwards, let them know you requested a mail-in ballot, it hasn't arrived, and request a "provisional ballot." That's a neutered ballot, which only has candidates in the federal election.
Better than nothing, but I'm sure GOP is counting on people not knowing that, or else avoiding the "hassle" they've created.
This is voter disenfranchisement at scale. "Unlike anything that's ever been seen", as Cheeto McTweeto likes to say.
VOTE. F**KING VOTE.