John Greenfield

Remember CTA riders: No feeding Cinnamon Toast Crunch to pigeons! Photo by a reader. https://t.co/FSpw7uc61u

Steal this idea: Make a deal with this BBQ joint in Chicago's Austin neighborhood to turn their storefront design into a t-shirt. https://t.co/KTcri3fIp8

Maybe I'm being alarmist here, but has @googlemaps bowed to Donald Trump by giving Chicago's DuSable Lake Shore Drive the "Gulf of America" treatment and de-naming it? Because I don't think the City renaming our most famous highway after Chicago's Black founder counted as DEI. https://t.co/Uz9lWn5b1j

Note that the bicycle is superimposed on "GO". Very CHIC! https://t.co/pNxCoIXcIF

Harebrained- c2E2 #1383 @HarebrainedInc

Help! This shirt is going up for preorder tomorrow, and we can’t decide which color combo we like best. Let us know which one you’d choose (1-4) in the comments, and check back in tomorrow for the launch. https://t.co/kaG5Y71MOC

Visiting my dad, 88, we watched "The Matrix" at home. (Fun fact: One of the Wachowskis has donated to Streetsblog Chicago.) I spent the whole time narrating the plot and pointing out Chicago references, which Dad kindly said was helpful, not annoying. https://t.co/at6U4guq7F

John Greenfield @greenfieldjohn

🧵 Writer William Gibson called "The Matrix," released 25 years ago in 1999, "arguably the ultimate cyberpunk artifact." I took a closer look at the Wachowskis' film to try to catch all the references to their hometown. (L) Map of the movie's fictional city (R) Map of Chicago https://t.co/G7VmIZWCCo

Look, if you're going to post silly, non-rhyming anti-bike poems, at least use proper haiku format: five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third. https://t.co/Rn54cCjNHy https://t.co/XHnF2PX6VX

RT @MRC_SLC: Never mind the naysayers: NYC-style congestion pricing would be great for Chicago https://t.co/Ykj2NVrVgd via @streetsblogchi…

A trek on the remote, icy planet of Hoth? No, a fun car-free weekend at the Indiana Dunes, made possible by @southshoreline. https://t.co/QFpMFjq6ud

- In 1993 a homeless bike messenger who slept under the Chicago/Halsted bridge started Urban Bikes, an "anarchist" bike shop, in a shelter garage. - In 2004 his partner turned it into Uptown Bikes. - On Tuesday her mechanics rebooted it as Broadway Bikes. https://t.co/dGM7iLokBX

(L) Details from 4800 N. block of Broadway in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood. (R) Diorama at Broadway Bikes, 4653 N. Broadway, formerly Urban and Uptown Bikes, which was reopened yesterday by 2 of the mechanics. Here's a brief history of the bike shops: https://t.co/dGM7iLokBX https://t.co/Zx5ChiURLN

RT @Socialistdrums: Happy Tranist Equity Day #TransitEquityDay https://t.co/EGpI4DLP5A

Wait a minute... Has anyone ever actually seen Chicago Alderman @DanielLaSpata and Evanston Mayor @DanielBiss in the same room? https://t.co/BBw5EXx3gC

Pardon? When was the last time the two of us got in a discussion about NIMBYs, other than that time you were one of them, trying to stop this affordable transit-oriented development from getting built next to the Logan Square 'L' station? https://t.co/qmGNobLQqb https://t.co/prNDCPTFCt

Chicago Kid @chilandlord

Remember that hypocrites are often enablers of other alders, anti-housing behavior/policies by simply being silent...pick and choose baby👇

With apologies to Lil Nas X: "Yeah, I'm gonna take my bike to the Old Town row I'm gonna ride 'til I can't no more I'm gonna tell Ald. Hopkins, so he knows for sure That all the NIMBYs blocking TOD have got to go!" https://t.co/30ScqrEVZ0

I'm very sorry to read that @Chicago_Reader, which previously published my sustainable transportation columns, is facing financial challenges. https://t.co/CnySsA0egP Consider chipping in to help keep this key part of our city's media landscape afloat. https://t.co/5hUVoD0KP9

I heard that this morning @WLUW played my song "Nauvoo", which tells the history of the old Mormon capital in western Illinois, where church founder Joseph Smith was living when he was imprisoned and killed by an angry mob. https://t.co/H2J4U5ssP3

John Greenfield @greenfieldjohn

I recently biked through the old #Mormon capital Nauvoo. In the 1840s it was bigger than Chicago, until Joseph Smith was killed by a mob and his followers left for Utah. Here's my song about that, performed in front of the rebuilt temple. @Ch_JesusChrist @ldsofficial @OnlyMormons https://t.co/LvWHLz27qT

Due to ICE concerns, some of Chicago's Mexican-American nabes have fewer people on the streets, hurting local businesses https://t.co/E3N4o4KBMg If you're not directly impacted, consider helping by riding CTA to these areas to spend cash. https://t.co/iIkZlUA21e @Chicago_Reader