“Livvy in the Sky” from Ryan Tova Katz in Lake View, 3/21/24. I think I would have become [more] unbearable if someone had painted a mural this size of me as a child. It is one of quite a few murals done on Peak Properties sites. No playing children were elbowed out of the way for this picture. I promise.
American Grinding & Machine Co (1943) in Belmont Central, 2/22/24. The newer and larger section is barely in shot to the right.
A Jesus mural in Little Village, 2/27/24. I really like that some work had to be done but what could be kept was. I think the artist’s name was on the new section but I can’t read it on this 2020 shot I found on Jeff Zoline’s Flickr.
A very nice entryway in Belmont Cragin, 2/22/24. The history of this is still unclear to me because the address 5801 seems to have shifted over time. Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co was at 5801 Dickens by at least 1921 and Google Street view has that number on this entry. But, the 1950 Sanborn Map has a different number for this section of the factory and says it was built in 1930, being used by the Pioneer-Gen-E-Motor, Inc (who had a one day wartime strike here in 1943, Trib). 5801 now is next door and houses Amped Kitchens. They maintain rentable commercial kitchens inside. This was on my radar from a tip by social media photographer Deborah Mercer who had thought the central flying tire referenced Yellow Cab (X/Twitter). I’ll go with that until something else comes up.
Neon Dali by Pitiz in West Humboldt Park, 3/21/24. Faces andexpressions are Pitiz’s focus.
Some penguins in Lake View East, 3/21/24. This currently boarded storefront is hopefully covering something new and exciting. The anonymous artist has done a few of these stencils since April and the local news is curious.
Nice looking neighbors in Austin, 4/9/24. According to the CHRS, the Prairie School two-flat was designed by Douglas S Pentecost (1910s). The Queen Anne at right is from 1889 and was home to an Eastland Disaster victim (says a July 28, 1915 Chicago Examiner obit)
Apartments in Austin (William Van Keuren, 1911), 4/9/24. Looking good after a recent rough time. Van Keuren lived and designed many buildings in Oak Park, the other side of the street. My “to read” list has now gotten even longer.
For more of the bike in front of things, have a look at Looking Around 31
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