We need to stop prioritizing parking lots over people.

Today, I assembled a roundtable to discuss our Building Up Illinois Developments Plan — and the consensus was that we need to act fast.

Looking forward to passing it and getting to work in our neighborhoods.

March 25, 2026 - 21:29 UTC

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How long have you been Governor?
Why only just now?
More performative BS?
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Tell your Illinois legislators you want fewer parking lots, more neighbors, and more homes! actionnetwork.org/letters/pass-the-build-plan/
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Until Illinois becomes less-taxed and free of the SafeT-Act, neighborhoods will be leaving, not coming.
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✅
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Arrest and remove Trump.
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If you do that you also have to support transit though
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I’ve got good news for you

gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.com/gov-pritzker-signs-northern-illinois-transit-authority-act
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Thank you Governor Pritzker! I hope one day we can see you do this for all of the United States of America. The people of these United States deserve a visionary and hardworking and caring person such as yourself as our president! (Just a slight nudge hoping you might run.)
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Granny flats ftw!
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Hmm, it sounds like parking carries with it high and sometimes hidden or unforeseen costs, interesting
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‘…They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinging hot spot
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot…’
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...and 'They' were BILLIONAIREs like Pritzker!
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Get me home Jay!
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but look at the historical character
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If we can't preserve derelict parking lots of abandoned warehouses for all of eternity, then what are we as a society?
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too hilly and too many pine trees to be IL?
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Housing First!
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To actually justify going another direction from parking lots, you need to reduce our need to drive everywhere. Also, encourage carpooling anyway you can. When there's one event and 50,000 people attend, where are their vehicles supposed to go? ..you want the roads congested from Canada to Mexico?
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So, a sporting event? I hear buses are great for those. Though in phx I take the light rail.
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This literally *is* addressing the problem, this is literally what you're asking for.

The congestion and long distances between things is *because* of all the required parking lots being very commonly larger than the place the parking is *for*.
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only 42,000 capacity here, but i think you get the idea
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Joni Mitchell would agree.
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Don’t it always seem to go?
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Affordable rents..vouchers for seniors and disabled meeting set income level..
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Can we stop that bill to force us to give more info to big tech? Why does Windows need to know my age?
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hell yeah! for those who might need more information about why we have too many parking lots:
>>> my fancy article with links to these videos down below: leftoftexas.org/news/suburbia-kills-cities-heres-why/
> vaush, suburban hellscape www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyo_KTU4OXk
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>not just bikes: Designing Urban Places that Don't Suck www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOc8ASeHYNw
> ray delehanty Walkable Cities But They Keep Getting More Affordable www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYLPUsn0X3E
> Climate Town: Suburbs are bleeding America Dry: youtu.be/SfsCniN7Nsc
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*Urge to vote for Pritzker in 2028 presidential election rising*
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hell at this point if these housing reforms pass, i’ll knock doors for him in iowa
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Just another BILLIONAIRE who talks the good talk while hoarding obscene wealth.
Why The Fuck to you people always look up to the BILLIONAIRE hoarders who steal from and exploit workers.
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He’s a billionaire, this is a good measure and a win, but he’s still part of the problem
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and lets turn empty, abandoned strip malls/shopping malls into third spaces that are free for everyone to use!!! We need safe and free community spaces and i see so many empty buildings everywhere (i live in Lombard). Thanks Gov Pritzker!
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Get rid of free parking, period.

It isn't free, it's giving drivers a crazy huge subsidy and it creates massive seas of parking lots around businesses that discourage walking and cycling.

Stop using parking minimums in zoning based on the busiest day of the year.
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Oh my god he said the thing. Massive dub
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Donald Trump has had it so easy he’s whole life trumps family made it easy for him
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Smaller houses.
New techniques of building.
21st century construction methods.
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👏👏👏
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He can get there by offering state tax credits for rehabilitation of historic buildings for housing.
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This is going to raise the prices of street parking in Chicago which is normally a really good thing! Unless you're a city like Chicago that doesn't own their street parking for another... 54 years.
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Oh, man... you are singing my tune. 💕
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Yessss!
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Great job on those housing reforms. You might make an excellent president after all. It would certainly be nice having somebody in office that can actually get things done for a change.
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