Chicago and Chicago and Chicago creeps in this petty pace from day to day...

The most interesting things I read this morning all concern the Greatest City in North America™:

• The Chicago White Sox won their second in a row against the Cleveland Guardians last night, bringing them one game away from the American League Division Series. If the Sox lose tomorrow, I'll be at Thursday's game; if they sweep Cleveland, but still win the wild card, I'll go to a division series game next week. It's very odd that I care about the White Sox at all, so this is all kind of new to me.
• Google has announced a $2 bn upgrade of 4 nuclear power plants in Illinois, along with another $2.3 bn elsewhere on the same grid. In theory the 2,700 MW of power Google has committed to purchasing could power 180 million homes for 15 years, and yet that's not what Google is going to use the power for.
• Is the best pizza in the world really called "tavern style?" That's what I call it, but apparently there is some controversy about the origin and use of the term to describe the mouth-watering thin-cracker-crust square-cut pie that taverns used to put out to encourage people to buy beer.
• Scooter-share company Lime is warning that a Divvy expansion deal currently wending its way through the Chicago City Council woud "create a monopoly for Lyft by making it impossible for Lime to operate a successful program.” But the City already prohibits Lime scooters from the central business district, and the company still had 6.1 million rides last year. Since Uber is Lime's biggest shareholder, and Lyft is Divvy's co-sponsor, I am firmly in Divvy's camp here. Both ride-share companies have questionable business practices, but Uber's are so much more rapacious than Lyft's that I simply won't use Uber (or Lime).
• Just 2 km from the Chicago border, but definitely of interest to The Daily Parker: demolition has begun at 605 Davis St in Evanston to make way for a 29-story apartment building that will turn Inner Drive Technology World Headquarters 2.0's office window into an air well. I feel bad for my former landlord, if she still owns the building that housed IDTWHQ for 4 years, because no one will want to rent office space on the west side of the building until construction is done, and even then, the lack of light and air will kill the value of the four offices on that wall. The building only has 9 offices total, so that's going to really hurt. (The IDTWHQ 2.0 office window is visible just to the right of the digger in the article's top photo; see this ancient post, 6th photo down, for what the view looked like in June 2005.)

And finally, despite my apartment being 25°C Sunday night while it was 11°C outside and my windows were open, both the sunrise Sunday and the sunset yesterday were spectacular:

I really miss—and will, within a year, move back to—vintage walk-ups with windows that completely open. The view is great, but I want fresh air. (And a decently-sized kitchen, but that's a different problem.)