Pooja Ravindran
@poojaravindran.bsky.social
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Probably commenting on shenanigans chicityclerk.com
I am not my employer so neither are my opinions my employers' opinions
Probably commenting on shenanigans chicityclerk.com
I am not my employer so neither are my opinions my employers' opinions
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Spoken from a beloved historian and 40th Ward resident! Let's get rid of the air and water show and replace it with something else that will bring equal amounts of hospitality industry money and and less environmental and sound pollution!
What with the specter of the military terrorizing Chicago being an actual possibility, hearing fighter jets boom overhead is no longer merely a nuisance. It's trauma. Time to end the Air & Water Show, or limit it to the actually charming and entertaining stunt pilots, wing-walkers, and such.
BRING BACK THE WORLD FAIR
Apparently the Bay Areas transit is experiencing the threat of massive service cuts due to lack of budget that Chicago Area has last year before the state level reforms...what's going on?? Is it just big metropolitan mismanagement or years of austerity everywhere coming back to haunt?? Or??
October 2, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Apparently the Bay Areas transit is experiencing the threat of massive service cuts due to lack of budget that Chicago Area has last year before the state level reforms...what's going on?? Is it just big metropolitan mismanagement or years of austerity everywhere coming back to haunt?? Or??
Will someone read the federalist papers with me this winter? This has nothing to do with Lin Manuel Miranda and everything to do with Osita Nwanevu.
October 2, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Will someone read the federalist papers with me this winter? This has nothing to do with Lin Manuel Miranda and everything to do with Osita Nwanevu.
Chicago is amazing
September 26, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Chicago is amazing
Support group for city eLMS users 😵💫
September 19, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Support group for city eLMS users 😵💫
The art of meeting follow up
September 15, 2026 at 8:17 PM
The art of meeting follow up
Does someone have a Chicagoland trade union mapped to businesses @chicagobars.bsky.social
September 15, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Does someone have a Chicagoland trade union mapped to businesses @chicagobars.bsky.social
Woke 2: IL 2 Woke for Dems; But Woke Enough For Actual People playing now in IMAX
Chicago’s elimination came just five days after the national party announced that Illinois would not be among the states holding the earliest Democratic presidential primaries in 2028.
No Democratic National Convention repeat for Chicago in 2028
www.chicagotribune.com
August 20, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Woke 2: IL 2 Woke for Dems; But Woke Enough For Actual People playing now in IMAX
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ICYMI—
A Chicago ICE agent has been identified as the man who pointed his gun in a Virginia driver's face last week in videos that went viral.
We found members of his team involved in a slew of violent incidents recorded across several states in the last year. They're still active in Chicago:
A Chicago ICE agent has been identified as the man who pointed his gun in a Virginia driver's face last week in videos that went viral.
We found members of his team involved in a slew of violent incidents recorded across several states in the last year. They're still active in Chicago:
Chicago ICE team seen threatening drivers has roamed from Illinois to Minnesota to Virginia
A federal agent from Chicago identified by community members as 40-year-old Martin Lagunas was recorded pointing his gun in a Virginia woman’s face on Monday. His team of ICE agents has been doc...
unraveledpress.com
August 18, 2026 at 9:26 PM
ICYMI—
A Chicago ICE agent has been identified as the man who pointed his gun in a Virginia driver's face last week in videos that went viral.
We found members of his team involved in a slew of violent incidents recorded across several states in the last year. They're still active in Chicago:
A Chicago ICE agent has been identified as the man who pointed his gun in a Virginia driver's face last week in videos that went viral.
We found members of his team involved in a slew of violent incidents recorded across several states in the last year. They're still active in Chicago:
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These are big questions, in my mind.
Will CTA continue to defer to CDOT and alders on service planning?
Will CDOT permit NITA more authority over its public way?
Will CTA continue to defer to CDOT and alders on service planning?
Will CDOT permit NITA more authority over its public way?
👀 Will NITA flex its statutory authority--long held but all but unused by the RTA--to designate lanes for bus transit improvements such as bus rapid transit?
Completing a Better Streets for Buses project on Western Avenue, according to CMAP's 2026 project benefits appendix, would increase ridership by a number greater than the Orange, Pink, or Green-Lake branches of the L.
If we do Western and Pulaski, it would exceed the Brown line's ridership.
If we do Western and Pulaski, it would exceed the Brown line's ridership.
August 18, 2026 at 6:55 PM
These are big questions, in my mind.
Will CTA continue to defer to CDOT and alders on service planning?
Will CDOT permit NITA more authority over its public way?
Will CTA continue to defer to CDOT and alders on service planning?
Will CDOT permit NITA more authority over its public way?
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i am totally shocked that this hasn’t worked out as planned
Twenty-eight City Council members sent a letter to the gambling giant demanding that it resume construction of the hotel, event center and restaurants it promised to build as part of the $1.7 billion permanent casino project in River West.
Bally's is using battle over video gambling as excuse to slow construction at casino site, aldermen say
chicago.suntimes.com
August 13, 2026 at 1:28 AM
i am totally shocked that this hasn’t worked out as planned
Today, CPDs Chief of Stafftold me they can't give me an org chart of their policy division "because of the consent decree"
Y'all
Y'all
August 13, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Today, CPDs Chief of Stafftold me they can't give me an org chart of their policy division "because of the consent decree"
Y'all
Y'all
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This has been the argument against body cams from the jump. If they can't be used to hold law enforcement or militias accountable, their only functions are to surveil the public and to justify violence against civilians.
This was entirely predictable:
“ICE will promptly release video of shootings and other encounters in which its agents cause death or serious injury only after determining “it is in the best interests of the agency” to do so.”
“ICE will promptly release video of shootings and other encounters in which its agents cause death or serious injury only after determining “it is in the best interests of the agency” to do so.”
ICE will release body camera video only when seen in the agency’s ‘best interests,’ policy says
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving to equip officers with body cameras in the next two months but the agency’s policy gives it broad control over what footage will be made public.
www.chicagotribune.com
August 7, 2026 at 2:01 PM
This has been the argument against body cams from the jump. If they can't be used to hold law enforcement or militias accountable, their only functions are to surveil the public and to justify violence against civilians.
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The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning is holding a public hearing about its Regional Transportation Plan on Thursday, Aug. 6 at 3 p.m. CDT.
You can attend in-person or virtually.
Join us to provide feedback and advocate for a dramatic growth in electrified passenger rail in Chicagoland.
You can attend in-person or virtually.
Join us to provide feedback and advocate for a dramatic growth in electrified passenger rail in Chicagoland.
Public Hearing on the Regional Transportation Plan
CMAP occasionally holds public hearings to collect testimony and feedback regarding specific proposals or issues. These meetings are designed to provide notice to the public to ensure transparency,…
cmap.illinois.gov
July 30, 2026 at 12:00 PM
The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning is holding a public hearing about its Regional Transportation Plan on Thursday, Aug. 6 at 3 p.m. CDT.
You can attend in-person or virtually.
Join us to provide feedback and advocate for a dramatic growth in electrified passenger rail in Chicagoland.
You can attend in-person or virtually.
Join us to provide feedback and advocate for a dramatic growth in electrified passenger rail in Chicagoland.
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NEW: The Chicago Police Department spent more than its City Council-approved budget in 2025, costing Chicago taxpayers more than $162.5 million in unanticipated expenses, records show. @wttw.bsky.social
Chicago Police Department Overspent Its 2025 Budget by $162.5M: City Analysis
The Chicago Police Department has overspent its budget five years in a row, according to Chicago’s annual financial reports.
news.wttw.com
July 7, 2026 at 2:00 PM
NEW: The Chicago Police Department spent more than its City Council-approved budget in 2025, costing Chicago taxpayers more than $162.5 million in unanticipated expenses, records show. @wttw.bsky.social
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Well isn't that a shame chicago.suntimes.com/real-estate/...
Judge dismisses Edgewater residents, businesses' lawsuit over Broadway zoning changes
Cook County Circuit Judge Neil Cohen said Edgewater residents failed to demonstrate how they were deprived of their constitutionally protected interests, or how nearby residents were prejudiced by the...
chicago.suntimes.com
July 1, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Well isn't that a shame chicago.suntimes.com/real-estate/...
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HEY CHICAGO! The city wants to sell your parking meter company to the same private-equity firm that owns Omni Air International, the worst of the worst of ICE's charter airlines.
The city council's finance committee is meeting about it TOMORROW.
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The city council's finance committee is meeting about it TOMORROW.
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June 24, 2026 at 4:12 PM
HEY CHICAGO! The city wants to sell your parking meter company to the same private-equity firm that owns Omni Air International, the worst of the worst of ICE's charter airlines.
The city council's finance committee is meeting about it TOMORROW.
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The city council's finance committee is meeting about it TOMORROW.
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The joke does write itself, Vision Zero or Zero Vision, Chicago?
Vision Zero is when you refuse to see what's right in front of your eyes.
Drivers keep running over warning signs at a North Side intersection, but the city is planning no major changes. blockclubchi.co/4xJQghl
June 22, 2026 at 11:14 PM
The joke does write itself, Vision Zero or Zero Vision, Chicago?
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By popular demand housing-developer-game.dhertz.workers.dev
June 10, 2026 at 1:48 AM
By popular demand housing-developer-game.dhertz.workers.dev
Nothing to complain about re: @chicagocta.bsky.social today, it was a good transit day. Keep it up!
June 4, 2026 at 3:57 AM
Nothing to complain about re: @chicagocta.bsky.social today, it was a good transit day. Keep it up!
@kairyssdal.bsky.social seemed surprised about PE being in speciality markets, you should do a story on the 'Shark Tank effect'!
June 1, 2026 at 9:54 PM
@kairyssdal.bsky.social seemed surprised about PE being in speciality markets, you should do a story on the 'Shark Tank effect'!
Who is paying for the Mayor's trip to meet the Pope, this is a real question
May 28, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Who is paying for the Mayor's trip to meet the Pope, this is a real question
I believe in the power of lymphatic drainage
May 18, 2026 at 5:41 AM
I believe in the power of lymphatic drainage
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“‘We are confused and concerned by the Governor’s lack of engagement on the issue of data centers this spring legislative session,’ Kady McFadden, lead lobbyist on behalf of the Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition that has been behind several recent energy reforms, said in a statement.”
Advocates, accusing governor of ‘lack of engagement,’ urge passage of data center regulations by end of May
Article Summary Advocates are calling for the General Assembly to pass the POWER Act to regulate data centers before the
capitolnewsillinois.com
May 15, 2026 at 12:48 PM
“‘We are confused and concerned by the Governor’s lack of engagement on the issue of data centers this spring legislative session,’ Kady McFadden, lead lobbyist on behalf of the Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition that has been behind several recent energy reforms, said in a statement.”
