Daniel Kay Hertz

@DanielKayHertz

Personal account. Beckee, Addie, Lucy, Olive. Book "The Battle of Lincoln Park" on the origins of gentrification in Chicago. 🍝 & 🚌. He/Him.

Chicago, IL danielkayhertz.com Joined January 2012

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Daniel Kay Hertz @DanielKayHertz 2d

The service improvements coming out of the NITA revenue and reform package (and, to be fair, some predating NITA) are extremely feel-good "public policy can just do things"

Chicago 2100 Urbanism Verified account @Chicago2100 Aug 19

CTA is expanding its Frequent Bus Network, bringing 10 min or less wait times to the 35, 74, and 85

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Daniel Kay Hertz @DanielKayHertz 3d

I’m not sure when streeterville started feeling like a real neighborhood on Sunday afternoons, but it does!

Daniel Kay Hertz @DanielKayHertz 4d

He rarely gets included in these lists for reasons I will let others speculate about but Brandon Johnson has both rhetorically aligned himself with YIMBYism and overseen significant parking reform and upzonings

Saad Asad @realsaadasad 6d

America's two largest cities now have pro-housing mayors. Let's f*cking build.
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Daniel Kay Hertz @DanielKayHertz 5d

An amusing thing about getting older is younger people not always knowing what they came up with and what predates them

Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist Verified account @UrbanCourtyard 6d

I’m getting “yas queen” from my 9 year old, and I know he means it as sassy Gen Alpha slang, but it’s such an improvement over the nonsensical “6-7” that I can’t complain
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Daniel Kay Hertz @DanielKayHertz 6d

Literally nothing more American than elected officials expressing pride in their ethnic community, unless you’re also freaking out when a congressperson says “Prost” at their local Oktoberfest this is just racist