For those who have visited Vegas / Area 15, is there anything like that in or near Chicago?

Edit: I do mean Area15! It’s a touristy art installation / place with food and drinks. Not where we keep the aliens ;)

just wondering what are places you enjoy the most in chicago! what’s really worth it?

Context: I’ve set a challenge to name as many cities using Bananagrams tiles. Here’s the result for IL

Was on i94 and noticed like 4 or 5 coach buses getting a police escort. Seemed really cool so I'm just curious about it.

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Has anyone successfully used the appeals portal? Filing deadline for my township is coming up for property tax appeals and I'm curious if this is worth the DIY approach or if the Attorney adds anything to the mix.

Hi y'all. So me and my fiance bought a rehabbed home in August 2022. Purchase price was $229,000k(I know) on a 950sqft house with a huge back yard and driveway but NO GARAGE in a Chicago southwest suburb. Our initial monthly mortgage payment was $1,715 and in February 2023 it went up to $1854 due to a shortage in our escrow. Somehow our property taxes increased from $4,358 a year to $7,480. Last month we received a new statement from our lender saying our new mortgage payment would be $2,405 due to a -5,105 escrow shortage!!! There is no way in hell I am going to be paying no God damn $2,405 a month for a little house. I went to smart asset.com and according to what cook county assessed my house at which was $215,000 apparently, our tax bill annually should be $4,803. We panicked and just send the money to our escrow so our payment would not increase and stay at $1854. We even changed insurance and our yearly premium dropped $250. It seems like this shit is not right. I understand taxes increased but this $3k+ increase in 1 year is nuts.

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Interesting that this also got me banned from /pics as well

Liked the way the light was hitting the buildings. Took this a couple weeks ago while visiting.

Hi all! Was wondering if anyone has contacts of an independent cleaning lady who services the Andersonville area. Having a hard time finding one as most strictly service other parts of the city. Thank you!

I just switched from Xfinity to Astound internet due to a big price increase within the last week. Since the switch, my streaming quality has been awful. I have an OLED tv and mainly use YouTube TV (4K), HBO Max, Prime Video and a few others.

What’s everyone else’s experience with Astound? Am I just having a rough start or is this streaming quality going to continue? May have to look at other options.

Lake Michigan over Diversey Harbor. 6:08 this morning.

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I know this has been asked before in this sub, but looking for a little more clarity and direction.

For context, our building just found out that we might have a few bellies in our line — causing backup to go into the first floor unit. It happened once in April and again this week.

First thought was a clog as this is what caused the back up in April. They had a plumber come out. Lo and behold it was baby wipes and solid waste. I asked each of the units if they’re flushing wipes but they all say no. We think it was a previous owner (who happened to live in my unit prior to us moving in last year) and they JUST broke loose.

After they fixed the clog, back up happened again later that day. During a scope they found what looks like 3 bellies. Probably about 44’ of pipe in total that would need to be fixed.

They quoted us an astronomically high number. Like a new roof or nice car number. So I’m curious to know if anyone has had a similar issue, what anyone paid for a repair, and who you went with for the repair.

We have a few plumbers coming out this weekend to do quotes.

TL;DR: possible 3 bellies in our sewer line. What am I looking at for the price of fixing it?

UIC campus

I’ll be staying in west loop area and was curious which areas/bars have 25-29 year olds. I heard west loop was good but was also told it’s older folks and expensive. River north I hear is good, but I don’t know any places or bars to go to. Looking for jam bands and a big crowd of sorts.

In UIC, heard hundreds of fireworks going off.

Ummm why are folks down voting the questions lol???

I saw huge lines of Semi trucks lined up on both sides of Lakeshore Drive near McCormick Place. Any idea what's going on? I thought semis aren't even allowed on LSD?