Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ Profile Banner
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ Profile
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶

@matt_weiss_

Followers
2,369
Following
1,126
Media
2,020
Statuses
7,390

cities are for people. 🏙️ • 🚴‍♂️• 🏗️ • 🚆 • ✈️

Illinois, USA
Joined March 2015
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
Pinned Tweet
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
2 months
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities
18
29
692
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
20 days
Hands down one of the best third spaces in Chicago
Tweet media one
39
62
2K
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
8 months
Modernist beauties on the southeast side of chicago
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
18
70
2K
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
1 month
TIL 13 Minnesota State Parks have an all-terrain wheelchair that can be checked out for free!
Tweet media one
17
176
2K
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
6 months
My kind of town, Chicago is
Tweet media one
13
77
2K
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
2 years
I hate it here. Folks in the red house bought the prettier one on the right to demolish it into a side yard. The demo block expires today.
Tweet media one
77
83
2K
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
10 months
There is nothing more Chicagoan than this
@JoshLipnik
Midwest Modern
10 months
I’m all for fusion cuisine but man idk about Polish tacos
Tweet media one
100
70
1K
9
110
1K
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
5 months
Equality, Illinois
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
21
62
1K
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
9 months
When you need a vacation but are broke AF, the NW suburbs has your back
Tweet media one
27
63
1K
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
1 year
Philly friend sent me this and I'm truly losing my mind.. sometimes I forget how huge Chicago is
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
16
42
1K
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
1 year
By far the weirdest cvs sign in Chicago
Tweet media one
36
35
1K
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
2 months
Landed in STL tonight and catching a @STLMetro link train to Amtrak. It's hard to describe, but the "feeling" of safety onboard is remarkably different from many of my recent experiences on @cta . (🧵)
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
26
34
944
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
5 months
this is not a drill. apartment above culvers is available to rent (its $2,692 🫠)
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
38
34
870
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
1 year
kinda crazy that it is easier to take transit to Milwaukee than go to "Chicago's Hollywood Casino Amphitheater" for a concert
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
20
23
697
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
10 months
Former Greyhound station, Jackson, Mississippi
Tweet media one
7
45
677
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
5 months
Amazing how I cannot seem to walk across one major street in Chicago without almost getting mowed down. We have a uniquely terrible problem here.
79
29
651
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
22 days
you can carry anything with a bicycle! 📸: friend's photo in Mpls
Tweet media one
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
22 days
Tonight I asked someone what the wooden plank on the back of their bike rack was for and without missing a beat they said "oh that's to tow my sailboat". Reader, they weren't kidding in the slightest.. I'm clearly keeping the right company 🤣
1
0
83
10
56
646
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
5 months
Southern Illinois really is quite beautiful
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
17
18
636
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
1 year
This is truly an outrageous fare to charge someone for a 3 Mile bike ride.
Tweet media one
29
19
621
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
10 months
Me and the homies headed to the club 💅
Tweet media one
6
31
582
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
10 months
~concrete~ evidence that PBLs work
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
10
21
576
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
2 years
Look how they massacred my boy on zillow 😟
Tweet media one
21
30
540
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
1 year
RETVRN
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
15
21
535
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
2 months
this is what the left took from us, iykyk
Tweet media one
14
32
509
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
7 months
anomalies at Chicago Union Station
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
14
22
494
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
2 years
"Cook County has the largest urban forest preserves in the country". Always been so proud of this fact
12
48
490
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
2 years
That's it, I'm bungalow shaming.
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
21
33
476
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
2 years
Realtors be like:
Tweet media one
16
28
466
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
2 months
Gotta say, I was very impressed with how lovely the area around the Cardinals Stadium was. This is how you create places people want to linger, not by surrounding them with reams of parking. I might not be a Cards fan, but I am a St Louis fan.
Tweet media one
4
6
451
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
28 days
further proof that lincoln park is a suburb in a trenchcoat
@BlockClubCHI
Block Club Chicago
28 days
Barnes & Noble has made its return to Chicago.
Tweet media one
25
38
554
18
8
438
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
3 months
When you design for cars, you get cars.
Tweet media one
8
41
425
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
10 months
Thank you, metra
Tweet media one
2
8
419
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
7 months
wouldn't it be great if the once-hourly bus connected with the once-hourly train?
Tweet media one
7
21
413
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
1 year
In the bike lane behind greatness
Tweet media one
13
29
401
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
10 months
"Ladies and Gentlemen this is Homewood.. that's right the vacation destination sensation sweeping the nation, Homewood"
Tweet media one
12
7
371
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
1 year
Just a few of the fantastic homes in Jackson Park Highlands near 67th and Jeffrey.
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
6
30
367
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
6 months
This is what a 30 minute gap looks like. Will Dorval ever see it?
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
14
11
351
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
3 months
Are You Wearing the-- "Aldi socks and sneakers? Yeah, yeah I am 😎"
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
10
15
341
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
10 months
Amtrak time! (Which is gloriously on time *knock on wood*)
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
14
13
333
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
1 year
Here's something that feels really dated
Tweet media one
10
16
323
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
2 years
What if there was a network of sharable cargo bikes? Well, there is in Berlin and they're available for about 4 EUR per hour 🤯
Tweet media one
13
36
311
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
2 years
Okay where is this in Chicago though 🧐
Tweet media one
24
8
315
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
1 year
Midway kind of morning 🌞
Tweet media one
12
6
300
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
7 months
Rise & shine. $5.75 two egg omelette $1.75 bottomless coffee
Tweet media one
14
3
298
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
9 months
the @Metra according to Bing Image Creator
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
15
16
293
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
1 year
hey CBS maybe you could've asked before you used my time lapse video in an article? Just sayin
Tweet media one
@cbschicago
CBS Chicago
1 year
CTA reporting Taylor Swift Eras Tour boost in commuters
Tweet media one
1
1
6
2
16
283
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
2 months
Trains are running as scheduled, unarmed security has personal connections with riders and are engaging positively with people. Oh, and the trains are appropriately full of riders even at ~10pm. And if you can believe it, nobody is smoking on board.
Tweet media one
6
6
285
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
8 months
The newly upgraded bike lanes on Central Park at Lake are no match for a @cta vehicle.. literally across the street there is open street parking
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
26
6
280
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
10 months
The Navy Pier flyover is so mobbed
11
7
264
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
2 years
Keeping up with the Joneses, Chicago Bungalow edition
Tweet media one
10
9
253
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
6 months
Average pedestrian experience in the US 🇺🇲
Tweet media one
16
17
254
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
2 years
@YIMBYLAND all four of these pictures are from within 5 blocks of each other. I love Cincinnati, don't get me wrong, but this is really just a small section of a single neighborhood
6
1
238
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
1 year
white people go to south side without visiting hyde park challenge
18
9
244
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
2 years
Dutch style from the Chicago World's Fair relocated in Boston
Tweet media one
4
11
243
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
11 months
@Eric_Erins What do you mean it's the largest city in Egypt
1
0
235
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
4 months
👀 Damen Green Line Station coming in hot
7
12
235
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
5 months
now kiss
Tweet media one
5
12
232
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
1 year
Oh this thing is just a major time capsule huh 😌
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
16
9
218
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
6 months
pretty much
Tweet media one
5
9
221
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
9 months
TIL the term "pulling out all the stops" originates from the way an organ is played
Tweet media one
7
8
218
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
7 months
These new central Park bike lanes are beautiful
4
7
201
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
8 months
Castles of Galewood
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
5
8
197
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
1 year
All that just to cross the street.
Tweet media one
14
8
192
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
2 years
Finally made it to the weirdest ice cream place in Chicago.
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
3
3
191
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
2 years
Um guys the seatbelt wasn't federally mandated until 1968 in the US.. and it wasn't installed in American cars until that decade either
Tweet media one
12
13
184
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
1 year
Get you someone who makes you blush like this ☺️
Tweet media one
3
15
185
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
1 year
Looking at a trip to the suburbs on metra and Google suggests driving a c*r to the station across the loop..
Tweet media one
9
0
184
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
1 month
Get in losers, we're going to [the Mall of America]
Tweet media one
3
5
186
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
5 months
I finally saw the Chicago™ Rat™ Hole™
Tweet media one
5
8
181
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
10 months
@cornoisseur My favorite example of this is in 2018, Baltimore FD tried to depict how bike lanes caused their response times to be delayed. Instead it just proved that parked cars are the actual barrier & also their trucks are far too big for a city
4
3
178
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
6 months
Merry Christmas from the leaning tower of Niles
Tweet media one
2
9
180
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
6 months
Thankful for the Augusta bike lane 😌 Nobody seems to be using that parking we should probably get rid of it 😏
Tweet media one
3
11
177
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
10 months
ding ding here comes @bikegridnow
5
22
173
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
4 months
maybe Milwaukee Ave has become such a bike highway bc of how unreliable the Blue Line is
8
1
173
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
1 year
Nobody: Google maps: MILWAUKEE-DIVERSEY-KIMBALL
Tweet media one
9
5
166
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
6 months
There's nothing quite like the entitlement drivers feel. After nearly running over this uniformed traffic director, the driver left their vehicle and made aggressive advances. And for this to happen right outside #TRBAM really highlights the need for comprehensive mobility reform
11
6
161
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
18 days
does not compute 🤣
Tweet media one
@climatetransit
Climate and Transit
21 days
“I love Chicago” The Chicago in question:
Tweet media one
17
9
214
6
0
156
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
10 months
A colleague asked me if it's really "so bad" to leave their car in the bike lane for ~just a minute~ while they unload their kid. I told them to use the alley, and don't they have a dedicated garage space back there anyways?
4
0
150
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
2 months
Alighted at Stadium Station to get some late night food before my Amtrak connection. The platform was crowded (but not overflowing) with Reds fans and employees heading home.
Tweet media one
7
0
155
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
2 months
Post taco acquisition metrolink ASMR
3
1
154
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
9 months
Can we pls make the Amtrak Step Stool its own Twitter account? 🥺
@Amtrak
Amtrak
9 months
we’ll leave a light on for ya
Tweet media one
16
57
875
3
4
150
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
1 year
Standing outside Howard terminal and all of a sudden my eta goes from 45 minutes to 12 hours 🤡
Tweet media one
6
0
146
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
9 months
Blue Line run 215.. uhh can we keep the lights on?
8
9
143
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
6 months
How cool it was to check out Amtrak HQ today! 💙
Tweet media one
5
0
138
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
1 year
Pouring over some of my favorite homes from visiting KC this weekend
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
6
11
137
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
2 years
Caught an open for this well-preserved home in Rogers Park. Deconverted tho..
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
4
3
136
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
7 months
The way the CTA tracker works towards the outer reaches of the system does not instill rider confidence.
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
5
3
138
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
20 days
@PuppSkyler The 9th floor of the Harold Washington Library center in the Loop!
1
0
139
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
1 year
@foxyjewishmama That time we moved a mattress 10 miles across town 😅
Tweet media one
3
1
135
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
3 years
If you feel invisible, just remember at least you're not a stop sign in Chicago.
6
14
135
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
1 year
Yesterday I rode 50 miles through the south side and south suburbs and the most unsafe I felt was along the lakefront trail where motor vehicles were rampant. Chicagoans deserve better.
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
9
5
134
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
2 years
I literally don't want to be a transit activist I want to ride my bike 1/2 mile to the train and have it show up
0
4
133
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
3 years
Future home of the Lawndale Line elevated multi-use path.
Tweet media one
2
5
134
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
6 months
One of the most brilliant parts of @wmata is that their last trains are timed transfers that they hold for potential connections. The station managers ask riders what transfer they're making. What a thoughtful system.
6
8
131
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
5 months
Given the pedestrian fatality data from 2023, it's only gotten worse here. Drivers are more entitled and emboldened than ever. If we don't make real, concrete changes to our city's infrastructure, we will continue this negative trend.
4
1
131
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
2 years
@tomflood1 Bike lane so skinny they can't even fit the artists rendering of a bicycle in it
3
0
127
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
1 year
"this train is no longer in service. Everyone must exit the train. Thank you for riding metra."
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
4
4
125
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
4 months
Southern Illinois gravel riding ✨
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
5
0
125
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
6 months
DYK there is a museum inside the former Cook County Hospital building detailing its history? Open 9-5p M-Sa
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
4
10
124
@matt_weiss_
Midwest Tourism Bureau ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
1 year
Harlem CTA. Absolutely nobody is minding this damn sign
Tweet media one
12
1
122