Thread by @Chris_arnade

So begins my walk from among the corporate plazas of downtown Chicago to some dive bar (to be chosen) in like Everton.

17 miles of whatever. I don’t know north Chicago at all. So should be interesting

Didn’t expect this

Why am I walking north, not south? My daughter lives in the north and i am meeting her for dinner. And I kinda know the south.

Chicago gots a Woolworth inspired building I see.

Ok. Too much great architecture down here to possible react to.

Well done Chicago

This is like very very some time period. 90s? 80s? 70s?

Was ready to proclaim downtown Chicago as best buildings award winner, then it gave me this

The cruelty is the point

Newspapers? How 80s of you

Just a side note that downtown NYC has like only 3 alleys & they are always busy with film shoots because everyone films videos & shoots pics in them because everyone expects downtown NYC to have alleys

Change of plans! Walking west for a long while, then veering north. Can’t do CUBs headquarters territory. Just not in my DNA

Even seeing Wrigley field on TV triggers me. I hear George Will pompously opining on the Beauty of blah blah blah. Can’t image seeing it in person.

Also. The Cubs beat my Indians in a World Series where all anyone did on TV was talk about how great Cubs are.

This is a good intersection

It was only a year ago that I realized the circle K logo was a K in a circle.

Hmmmm

Metaphor alert!

Lol.

Ps: whenever I see a bald ad I think of Julius Caesar sporting a bad combover while ruling the known world

Everyone of these long city walks is a reminder just how deeply interstates & highways impact cities, determining so much. The decisions made X decades ago, often brutal ones (& very classist & racist), still linger

Had public libraries not been a thing, modern politics wouldn’t have ever made them. We would get opEds from neoliberal left & right , opposing them. Free books? Free movies? What? Let the market decide!

Oh my god. I found my personal heaven.

Honestly. How did I not know about this place. Smells good. Sounds good (great music). Has everything

Want that scorpion belt buckle. Used to have one.

Ok. One last pic. Sorry. Mexican western wear is like the only fashion thing I get

I have really tried to like Ukrainian & Russian food. But it just never takes.

Is the Ukrainian version of a “I would rather be fishing” coffee cup.

There was a period when catholic architecture took a bad turn

This neighborhood (Ukrainian village) is really great though.

😊

Tacos. Pope. Well done Chicago

Ok. This place was a good as advertised. And I was the only over educated neolib in there. Usually they draw us like a swarm of mosquitoes to blood

Seems like that upstart North eastern artisanal coffee place @TheStalwart keeps talking about has made it to Chicago

While waiting out the rain in a nook smelling of piss, I glance down every few moments to admire my amazing fashion sense.

Did they just take some catholic clip art and jam it on an auto insurance sign?

Look @MattBruenig, Chicago gots your fav pizza & hot dog place. Next to each other!

Chicago owes Bronx copyright payments for this block

Why does all good things have to die?

This simply rocks. A+

I love all of this, especially the pasted on Mickey

Best thing about this mural is the Schwinn call out

Found my rest stop

Very good. Very good. Very very good

Specialized staffing solutions. 🧐

Thank God Kosciuszko got this nice park named after him — naming that BQE bridge after him was like condemning him to eternal hell.

Having a Kosciuszko park demands this church be a block away

Then this.

Ps: recent ancestry tests confirms I am obliged to have a drink here

Ok. Good place to end my walk. Took me in another direction. But that is what walks are for. 15 miles. Saw lots. Still only a tiny bit of Chicago. Enjoy and thanks. Now Time to figure out the subways.