Robert Loerzel
@robertloerzel
Chicagoan, journalist, photographer, author, copy editor, flâneur.
Sidewalk chalk message in Uptown: GODZILLA IS HOLY REPENT (These messages usually say "God" without the "zilla.")
Piping plover chicks Buddy and Frankie this morning at Montrose Beach
The Edgewater Beach Apartments were on the horizon in that second picture. Here's a photo showing how it looked to my eye —and a copy of the same photo edited in Photoshop to make the building more visible.
Skylines obscured by smoky haze, as seen from Montrose Harbor and Montrose Beach this morning
Ross McElwee talks after tonight’s Music Box screening of “Sherman’s March.” Great film I’ve loved since I saw it 40 years ago.
This morning in LaBagh Woods, I was filming some Canada geese when a beaver swam into the scene.
I'm reading Chicago Tribune transcripts of an 1876 murder trial. Whenever something prompted a stirring in the courthouse audience, the text said: "[Sensation.]"
A semiquincentennial design, seen outside Rate Field. #ManholeCoverMonday @kevinirvine.bsky.social @sparrersway.bsky.social @willpunctuate.bsky.social @rogersparkman.bsky.social @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social @ironcovers.bsky.social @jjtindall.bsky.social
Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets sing “Cruel to Be Kind” tonight at Square Roots Festival.
Trump, Ending Decades of Protection, Opens Wild Habitats to Drilling and Mining… Ugh. And look at the species featured in NYT's photo. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...
Riding a Purple Line train now … with signs displaying a time of 11:41 a.m.
