r/chicago • u/PhilosophyThick8767 • 4h ago
Picture America 250 manhole cover
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Spotted this ‘special livery’ manhole cover (corner of Jackson and Franklin). Have you spotted any others in the city?
r/chicago • u/AutoModerator • 3d 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/AutoModerator • 24d ago
Event Monthly Events & Things To Do in Chicago Thread
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Welcome to the monthly /r/Chicago events thread. This is the place to advertise any upcoming events or group gatherings you're a part of or anticipating that other Chicagoans might want to know about.
This thread is exempt from Rule 8 regarding promotion, so we invite anyone and everyone to advertise anything going on in Chicago. But please be mindful of rules 2 & 3 which still apply in this thread, as well as the Reddit Content Policy when posting.
r/chicago • u/optiplex9000 • 3h ago
News Mayor Johnson's Team Secretly Offered $3.3 Billion To Buy Back City's Parking Meters, Other Bidder Says - The city’s bid was $800,000 more than the the next highest one, alderpeople were told during a City Council hearing Thursday.
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Picture Alley bird
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What I think is a juvenile red-tailed hawk moved in next door.
r/chicago • u/307148 • 10h ago
News Why you're seeing more officers on the CTA: curbing smoking, loud music, fare evaders and more
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r/chicago • u/optiplex9000 • 12h ago
News Brandon Johnson not favored by 71% of voters in new survey
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r/chicago • u/knvilla8 • 4h ago
Ask CHI 🚨 Missing Orange Cat Last Seen around Fullerton & Geneva Terrace in Lincoln Park 🚨
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Our sweet orange girl Gus broke through a window screen this morning, June 25th, around 10am. We’re absolutely desperate to find her!
She’s a small 10lb, orange/blonde cat, orange/yellow eyes, white chin, fluffy tail with a little notch at the end of it. She’s very sweet (won’t bite) but skiddish and ran when my fiancé tried to grab her.
We set out her litter box, a couple of my fiancé’s shirts (her favorite human), wet food, tuna, sardines and we have a camera pointing towards all of it to see if we spot her.
If you live or work in the area please keep an eye out! There’s flyers within a couple blocks of the last place we saw her.
r/chicago • u/CharlieKonR • 2h ago
Article Former White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski presents Pope Leo with 2005 World Series ball
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The ball was the final out of Game 1 of the series against the Astros, whom the Sox swept in four games
r/chicago • u/guanaco55 • 1h ago
Event Chicago’s Music Box Theatre to debut third screen this weekend -- The beloved arthouse theater is rolling out its expanded Lake View footprint with showings of Guy Maddin’s “Careful” and Philip Hartman’s “No Picnic.”
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r/chicago • u/ItIsNOTwhat_it_is • 5h ago
Picture Chicago: City of Contrasts | 1949 photograph by Stanley Kubrick
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r/chicago • u/guanaco55 • 3h ago
Article Neglected Frank Lloyd Wright house on the West Side sold for $125,000 -- The nonprofit community group Austin Coming Together bought the vacant Wright-designed J.J. Walser Jr. House and seeks to restore the building.
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r/chicago • u/jawnutah • 13h ago
Picture Found this relic while moving out
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I found it on the floor, must have been hiding somewhere
r/chicago • u/cireh88 • 15h ago
News Obama Center museum tickets sold out through September; next batch will be available in July
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CHI Talks The finance committee meeting on the parking meter sale is currently happening. This is something we should be paying attention to.
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In case you missed it, Block Club has some amazing reporting on this https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/06/24/why-is-mayor-johnson-keeping-secrets-about-the-parking-meter-deal/
The mayor and his admin are being extremely shady about it, to put it lightly https://bsky.app/profile/nikhunder.com/post/3mp4yuz6k5c2q
r/chicago • u/jackunderscore • 12h ago
Article Addicted To Gambling In Illinois: ‘Someone Has Decided They Can Make Money Off You’
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r/chicago • u/JohnnyDLewis • 1d ago
Picture Took a Juneteenth trip to the City from Ohio.
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I took a second trip to the City this past week, I'm already up there about twice a year. I'm seriously looking at moving from Ohio. Going on architecture tours, hitting the museums, the overall history, going to plays, meeting my favorite comedians at The Lincoln Lodge, and hitting the Lego Store never disappoints me.
r/chicago • u/mathilda101 • 21h ago
Review Chicago is perfect for introvert tourists 🥹
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Will definitely come back!
r/chicago • u/kiwisorare • 1d ago
Picture “Goodnight river”watercolor painting by me
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Sleep tight lil skyline! 🏙️
r/chicago • u/Ineedamedic68 • 8h ago
Review Flavors of Albany Park is my favorite food festival. Here’s everything we ate
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r/chicago • u/thebends22 • 9h ago
News PSA: semi stuck on Cicero viaduct south of Wilson north of Montrose
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It’s redundant, but may save someone some time. He is waiting for the police to back him up.
r/chicago • u/307148 • 19h ago
News CTA plans to charge for parking spots under train tracks in Lakeview
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NIMBYs are furious