#South Loop

[istandonsnowpiles]

Event-riddled Michigan Ave

[copperbadge]

[ID: A wooden bar in front of a window, looking out on the sidewalk; sitting on the bar are a paper cup of tea, a plate with a large cookie on it, and a pair of (discolored, don't judge me, life is hard) earbuds. It looks like a lovely weekend morning snack.]

There's a new coffee shop in my neighborhood, and I've been meaning to check it out for a while since it looked like it had a lot of good places to sit and work, and while I love going to the library to work on weekends, the study rooms there are super booked full right now. I thought I'd see how I did sitting at the "window bar" and it turns out it's great! I'm not super enamored of the macaroon I got (it's fine, just nothing special) and not a coffee drinker so can't judge that, but the tea and the ambiance are both excellent.

But also like. In the first forty-five minutes of sitting at the bar in the window, I encountered a friend who lives in the neighborhood passing by, a friend who does NOT live in the neighborhood but was down here for the farmer's market and came in to get a coffee, and also a total stranger from Rome who saw me in my AS Roma jacket and came over to introduce himself because he was so stunned to see a Roma fan in Chicago.

Him: Excuse me? I'm from Rome, and I can't believe I see a Roma logo --

Me: AH! DAJE ROMA!

Him: *HUGE BEAM* OH YOU ARE A ROMANIST!

He had thought I might not know what I was wearing, and was so pleased to meet an actual fan. He ended up asking for a selfie with me because his friends didn't believe he'd found an AS Roma fan in midwestern America. :D So I've just blown the minds of a couple of Romanisti, and also got a nice compliment on both my taste in football teams and my pronunciation of Daje (dai-yay!) Roma.

I do love my neighborhood. Sometimes I think I should sell up and move out far enough to be able to afford a real house with a yard and get rid of all the stress that comes with living in a crowded downtown city center, but then I spend a morning out in the South Loop and remember why I put up with all that.

[fairiedazes]

harrison st (2023)

[urbanchicagoan]

River City along the Chicago River in the South Loop, Chicago (10/6/2024)

[vvrong]

9.10

[urbs-in-horto]

Michigan Avenue and lakefront skyline 1896

An organization worth supporting Preservation Chicago https://www.preservationchicago.org/ Just in the news 206 S. Jefferson "The Warehouse" where Frankie Knuckles birthed the House music scene https://youtu.be/zbDzcwrs8H0 More history about Chicago House https://boilerroom.tv/chicago-house-now-then-gallery/

[chicagostumbler]

777 S. State St.: In the middle of this sidewalk is a raised, pitted section. It is located in front of 9Round Kickboxing Fitness and is just around the corner from an apartment building. Across the street and about half a block north is Jones College Prep, making this a tripping hazard for students and residents in this South Loop area.

You can report any hazardous sidewalks in the greater Chicagoland area by calling 311 or visiting 311.chicago.gov for more details. If you have any pictures of dangerous sidewalks, you can tweet them to @redlineproject on Twitter.

(Photo/Lian Gako)

[travelella]

South Loop, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Benoit Debaix

[petnews2day]

Man catches coyote following him as he walks dog in Chicago's South Loop

New Post has been published on https://petn.ws/g9H9b

Man catches coyote following him as he walks dog in Chicago's South Loop

CHICAGO (CBS) — A man was just walking his dog down the street in the South Loop recently, when a coyote started following him. Austin Ehle was visiting from out of town, and taking his sister’s dog, Cheddar, out for a walk last week. When he first noticed the coyote, he thought it was just […]

See full article at https://petn.ws/g9H9b #DogNews #Coyote, #SouthLoop

[alfiemartin]

Chicago Bears to announce plans Wednesday for new domed stadium on lakefront

Chicago Bears to announce plans Wednesday for new domed stadium on lakefront

[glitcha-tr]

(late) Good morning!

[valerioeliogabalotorrisi]

3/4 Bath Bathroom Example of a small eclectic 3/4 gray tile and glass tile ceramic tile bathroom design with a wall-mount sink, medium tone wood cabinets and gray walls

[copperbadge]

Now every time I walk through Printer's Row Park, I have to walk a certain way around the fountain so that I see "my" brick. I derive a surprising amount of pleasure from seeing it, every single time.

[ID: A photograph of the restored Printer's Row Fountain, a two-basin art-deco style fountain in a hexagonal concrete planter in a small park; it is ringed by plants, and water flows from spouts in the top basin and spouts under the lower basin. Bricks engraved with names ring the outside of the planter.]

[cl0wnc4rzz]

ew

[urbanchicagoan]

A series of murals in the South Loop, Chicago, signed Bakr, 2022 (1/26/2024)

[ashartstuff]

How it feels to draw South Park fanart every day