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CATEGORY | NAME | VOTES |
Sightseeing | Milwaukee Art Museum | 9 |
Sightseeing | Third Ward for shopping/coffee | 6 |
Sightseeing | Milwaukee Public Market | 5 |
Drinking | Lakefront Brewery for beer and cheese curds | 4 |
Drinking | Bryants cocktail lounge (get a WI Old Fashioned) | 4 |
Drinking | At Random | 3 |
Sightseeing | Bucks basketball game | 2 |
Sightseeing | Tour FLW homes/church | 2 |
Sightseeing | Pabst Mansion | 2 |
Breakfast | Alley Boy Bagels | 2 |
Sightseeing | Lake Park (Olmstead designed) | 2 |
Sightseeing | Lake Drive north to Shorewood | 2 |
Lunch | Sobelmans (burger and bloody mary) | 2 |
Dinner | Odd Duck | 2 |
Breakfast | Teds Diner | |
Breakfast | Blue Egg for breakfast | |
Coffee/dessert | Purple door ice cream | |
Coffee/dessert | Colectivo | |
Coffee/dessert | Stone Creek Coffee | |
Dinner | Ardent (fancy) | |
Dinner | Goodkind | |
Drinking | Foundation Tiki Bar | |
Drinking | Hacienda Taproom | |
Drinking | Bavarian Bierhaus | |
Drinking | Pfister hotel- drink in lobby | |
Drinking | Miller Brewery | |
Drinking | Holler House (vintage bowling) | |
Drinking | Tin Widow | |
Lunch | Comet Café | |
Lunch | Solly’s Butter Burger | |
Lunch | Vanguard | |
Lunch | Café at the Plaza | |
Lunch | St Paul’s lobster roll (in the Public Market) | |
Market | Gloriosos (Italian market) | |
Sightseeing | The Mural/Black Cat Alley | |
Sightseeing | Botanic Gardens | |
Sightseeing | Gilded age mansions | |
Sightseeing | Mitchell and Mackie buildings. Grain Exchange, Milwaukee gas bldg. |
The next day, with a little clearer mind, I resolved to get to them. But do I really know all the great house museums of Chicagoland? I started to make a map of some of the museums I'd been to and intend to go to.
Then I reached out to Chicago architecture Twitter with a request for others and got a ton of great suggestions. The result is this publicly available google map. For some of them, I started to add hours, admissions info, but in the end, I think the best thing is always to go check their websites for the most current information. Things changed during covid and will likely change again.
(If there are any house museums that we forgot, please let us know!)
]]>Generally, what makes a bungalow a "bungalow" is that it's a one- or one-and-a-half story home with a low-sloping roof and generally some kind of front-entry-shading veranda or dormer that distinguishes the face of it. They often have a fairly strong horizontal symmetry. There are many instances of the term being used liberally to describe much more elaborate homes--sometimes bungalow is used in connection with a home that might be considered a getaway home, or one that shares some of the looks of the traditional bungalow, multiplied by ten.
But these depicted below represent many forms that, at least, mark the American bungalow. They share a lineage with the traditional homes of the region of Bengal in South Asia (a region that includes India, as well as Bangladesh. In India, the state is West Bengal). British colonials lived in homes built by locals according to local designs and adaptation, and brought the home style back to Great Britain in the late 1800s. The Gujarati word for "from Bengal" was "bangalo."
By the early 1900s the style had caught on not only in Britain but also in America and major building booms and the availability of mass manufactured home kits for the middle class ensured that the bungalow found a ready audience. The bungalow style caught on widely in California and spread to other parts of the country between 1910 and the Great Depression, when for obvious reasons demand for new housing slowed.
Below I will go through the distinguishing features of each variety. These descriptions do not, by any means, mean that you can't find "The California " in the South or a "Southern" in the Midwest--these are just names for the varieties that are frequently seen in these places. You'll see TONS of "The Chicago" in Chicago, for one example.
This variety is notable by its roofline. See those really nice, wide, upside-down "V" shapes (the gables). Those gables are the stars of the California bungalow. They are often accentuated in a few ways: With prominent brackets, distinctive shingles, sometimes with different colors. They are usually prominent from the street view and have these nice, low angles. Sometimes there are two gables, as below, but often it's just one big gable.
These reflect the Craftsman style that was popular in the day. Lots of use of natural elements, wood in particular, and an emphasis on a handmade look. So you'll often see roughly hewn shingles, prominent wood trim, or impressive stonework in these.
Chicago saw a TON of home building in the time period that bungalows were popular--so much so that, according to the Chicago Bungalow Association, bungalows comprise nearly a third (!) of Chicago's existing single-family home stock. Because the city grew outward from the confluence of the Chicago river and Lake Michigan, bungalows' popularity for a certain few decades of building meant that it formed a "belt" around the city that exists today from North to South.
The Chicago bungalow is distinctive for being decidedly brick (the Chicago fire of 1871 and the Iroquis Fire of 1903 made the city very strict about preferring brick to wood). It also is generally long and narrow, built for the 25' x 125' standard Chicago lots. So unlike the broad-faced California bungalows, Chicago bungalows have a compact front from the streetview. They are also notable for their symmetry, central dormer, and prominent set of front windows--these are often a showcase for leaded glass designs.
In Chicago you'll find many in the standard brick color, as below, but also quite a few in yellow brick. I am in love with yellow brick bungalows with green trim on the windows, green Spanish tile roof. Throw some great terra cotta on there and that's heaven.
One of the defining characteristics of the Milwaukee bungalow is the protruding sun room that also serves as a little tucked-away front entryway. As you see in the other bungalows, this bungalow variety has a couple gables--like a mother and child gable. The Milwaukee bungalows are also known for having a light-colored stucco on the tops and bottoms.
They are also commonly seen with this kind of Darth Vader-head roof, called a "jerkinhead" roof. The term has some fuzzy origins, but the best that I've read has traced "jerkin" to "kirken" which was some Northern European language's word for church. The supposition was that the jerkinhead roof resembled that of the top of a church. The word "jerkin" also refers to a close-fitting leather jacket without sleeves. (The kind you might see worn by men in a movie about Shakespeare).
From what I've seen, the Milwaukee bungalow seems to be closer in dimensions to the Chicago, with a narrow face and a long, shotgun like arrangement, than the broad California, though they do seem a bit wider than Chicago.
I looked at a variety of historical photos and illustrations of homes from the Bengal region and many of them have that wide, front shaded veranda, a horizontal symmetry, a low-angled gable, and a dormer-like notch right at the top.
They traditionally had been constructed with wood, bamboo and a straw material called "khar," though homes are often constructed with red clay tiles. Terra cotta is incorporated in architecture through the region generally.
It's important to note that "Bengal" is a region that straddles India (the state of "West Bengal") and modern-day Bangladesh. At the time that home was introduced to the British, it was all considered part of India, pre-partition.
The Detroit bungalow is distinct for the big, central dormer and the sloping roofline. Generally they have a symmetry like the Chicago bungalow, and are often but not necessarily made of brick. Here's a selection from "A Detroit Architect's Journal:"
"Detroit Bungalows were typically built in the Craftsman architectural style. They are typically 1-1/2 stories, with sweeping low pitched gabled or hipped roofs that extend over a front porch that matches the width of the home. The first floor is typically raised a half story to allow for perimeter windows to bring light into a full basement. Dormers bring added living space and light into the attic story and provide an opportunity for the architect to design distinctive front elevations. The chimney also rises along a side elevation, and again provides an opportunity for creative designs frequently done in brick or stone."
The bungalow in the South is marked by two distinguishing features: a huge, wide veranda and touches of Greek Revival style, like stately columns, a liberal use of white, a grand entrance.
Essentially you just take the bungalow and add splashes of what's already going on in Southern residential architecture. Make your front entrance impressive, make sure it's shaded, and make sure you've got some great places to sit on it. You'll see these wide bungalows in places like Alabama in particular.
One thing you might see in hot climates, too, is the "airplane" bungalow--which have a dormer that sits at the peak of the roof and has windows in all directions, like a cockpit. Airplane bungalows would have a bedroom there and be set up to catch breezes from all sides.
This a style of bungalow that came somewhat later in the bungalow craze, 1920s, and is a larger umbrella category for a number of Revival styles from the Mediterranean. Spanish Revival, Spanish Baroque, Venetian Gothic, Italian Renaissance all found fans in homeowners and architects in that period. It's reflected in the commercial buildings of the day but also the humble homes like the bungalow.
This variety is marked, essentially, by traditional features that you'd find in the Mediterranean countries: stucco, clay rile roofs, arched windows and doors. If we trace the lineage even further: consider that the Roman empire completely dominated the Mediterranean for hundreds of years and that many of the styles you see from Spain to Italy reflect some of the same aesthetic choices, great for the climate.
You'll see this variety all over but of course most often in places whose climate is suited for it. In Chicago you might see this style but done up with Chicago brick instead of stucco.
Basically if you see a bungalow and say, wow that looks like it belongs in Spain, then you're looking at a Mediterranean Revival.
The "Borscht Belt" was a term for a handful of summer resorts in the Catskills, in upstate New York. It sprang up at a time when bungalows were popular nationwide, in the 1920s, and many of the resorts were archipelagos of small bungalow cottages, little getaways. They would be summer homes for many Central and Eastern European Jewish families looking to escape New York City for a spell.
From what I could find, many such bungalows had a fairly modest wood-frame build, they would have siding and colored trim. They were built, really, to serve their purpose, which was as a little summer cabin getaway. They have more in common, perhaps, with the classic cabin rentals that you see around the country, but some of them certainly had the marks of the classic bungalow design.
The Borscht Belt, BTW, was also a major hub for comedy and the place where a huge number of comedians, Jewish comedians in particular, performed. Some of them were hugely successful. Rodney Dangerfield, George Burns, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks.
I love the names given to these brick forms and orientations and patterns. They add such color to the language and hint at the histories and evolutions in building styles and methods. From Roman, to Norman, to Flemish Bond, the names kind of transport you to other worlds. And you thought it was just a humble brick.
For more on bricks and to get inspired by their look and fascinating stories, definitely check out Will Quam at Bricks of Chicago who, through virtual tours, beautiful photography, and many other resources shares his love for bricks, masonry, architecture.
If you're a company that wants an infographic, guide, some illustrated information that you think will make an impression on your customers, definitely reach out to us via the contact page. We'd love to talk to you about your project. We love learning about new subject matter and getting into the details.
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We've given our website a fresh look and are changing things top to bottom, from postcards to the sign on our door. It's amazing just how many things there are to change, and you will probably see signs of "Cape Horn Illustration" for some time to come, but eventually it'll be all Wonder City Studio.
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Our handmade ceramic plates are crafted from white stoneware, finished with a matte blue-gray glaze, and feature Phil’s pen and ink drawings.
Perfect for fans of classic Chicago bungalows, these plates are great for snacks, desserts, or simply for decoration.
This is made for anyone who loves the Riverwalk, gawking at the buildings on the riverfront, taking in St Paddy's Day--or who just loves the river, period.
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Albany Park, Kimball Brown line stop
Andersonville, Swedish watertower
Beverly, Givins Irish Castle
Boystown, Pillars on Halsted
Bridgeport, (formerly) Comiskey Park
Bronzeville, Monument to the Great Northern Migration
Chinatown, Gate on Wentworth
Edgewater, The Pink Hotel
Englewood (former) Masonic Lodge
Humboldt Park, Paseo Boricua
Hyde Park, Gates of University of Chicago
Old Irving Park, Craftsman-style home
Jefferson Park, Copernicus Center
Kenwood, Powhatan Apartments
Lakeview, Kwagluth Totem Pole
Lincoln Park, Conservatory
Lincoln Square, Giddings (or Kempf) Plaza fountain
Little Village, 26th Street Arch
Logan Square, Illinois Centennial Monument
Loop, Elevated tracks
Michigan Avenue, Watertower
Marquette Park, Darius and Girenas Memorial
Midway airport tower
North Center, pillar
O'Hare airport tower
Old Town gates
Pilsen, Nuevo Leon
Portage Park, Theatre
Pullman, The clocktower building
River North, Marina Towers
Rogers Park, murals
Roscoe Village, Painted bridge
South Chicago, Historic bank building
South Loop, Field Museum
South Shore, Cultural Center
Streeterville, Ferris Wheel
Wrigleyville, Wrigley Field
Uptown, Theatre district (Aragon, Green Mill, Uptown Theatre)
Union Stockyards, Gate
UIC/Little Italy, Columbus statue
West Side/Greektown, Ancient Greek-style Pavilion
Wicker Park, Flatiron building
]]>I couldn't resist making an illustrated "sampler" of some of the worst of suburban architecture (w/ inspiration from @mcmansionhell). pic.twitter.com/XQaoI9PqUt
— Cape_Horn_Illustration (@Cape_Horn_CHI) February 6, 2020I thought it would be fun to do a self-referential "home styles" guide of the American suburbs--or at least, the worst of the American suburbs. I've always enjoyed the writing of Kate Wagner of McMansion Hell, who hilariously breaks down exactly why some of the suburban home designs (McMansions!) just don't sit well, on many levels. So, taking inspiration from her writing, I made this little grid of homes from a fictional development called "Crest Ridge Country Land Reserve," and here it is.
]]>Renegade Craft Fair (Holiday!) - Dec 7-8 at Bridgeport Art Center
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The Chicago Blackhawks franchise dates back to 1926, at the time "Black Hawks." The team was named after the owner's World War I division, which was in turn named after Black Hawk, a warrior from the Sauk nation from the Great Lakes region.
The Blackhawks' original arena was the Chicago Coliseum, a venue with an exterior constructed of stone from a prison in Richmond, VA. The Coliseum itself (technically the third of three venues named "Coliseum" in Chicago) had a storied past. It's considered the home to the first Roller Derby, carried out in 1935, and hosted huge musical acts. It was shut down in 1971 after the place was damaged after a fracas over a show mishap, but it had already been on its last legs. A portion of that cool masonry exterior was kept standing until the 90's, when it too was demolished.
The Blackhawks moved into Chicago Stadium in 1929 and were the starring team there for years. The place was called the Madhouse on Madison, known for amplifying the crowd's roars, and was famous for its large pipe organ and the jingles throughout the games. The Bulls joined them as co-tenants in 1967. The two teams now, of course, occupy the United Center just a stone's throw from the original Chicago Stadium, which was demolished in 1995.
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The Historic Stadiums of the Chicago Bears
The Chicago Bears have their origins in Decatur, Illinois, where they were called the "Decatur Staleys." They moved to Chicago in 1921 and got the Bears name as a play on the "Cubs," with whom they shared a stadium: Wrigley Field.
The Bears played at Wrigley for fifty years, but the baseball stadium couldn't fully accommodate the full field of play needed to play football (safely). It was too confined, the team facilities not large enough. Beyond that the seating capacity was too low to make the much shorter football season economically viable.
Once the Souix City Cornhuskers, the "White Stockings" became so in their move to Chicago in 1900. They started playing at the South Side Park, which was actually the third of three "South Side Parks" in an area very close to where the current White Sox ballpark stands today, 35th and Wentworth.
The team's early and most influential owner, Charles Comiskey, oversaw the construction of what was to become Comiskey Park. It used the then-novel concrete and steel construction in ballparks, an upgrade over the wooden grandstands that was used for ballpark design. Comiskey became belovedly tied to the White Sox and even more so for its quirky features like the exploding scoreboard and fun game night attractions. And Disco Demolition Night.
The ballpark was demolished in 1991 and is now a parking lot serving what became the new home of the White Sox. For a short time, the new park was also known as Comiskey Park. The naming rights were sold twice--it was U.S. Cellular, now Guaranteed Rate--but old names die hard.
The team that is now known as the Cubs was once the "White Stockings" and has roots in Chicago dating back to 1870. The team went through a variety of ballparks since then, all of which were wooden until the concrete-and-steel Wrigley Field, the venue they currently call home.
The team's first ballpark was Union Base-Ball Grounds, located by the lake near what is now Millennium Park. Unfortunately it was a very short tenure. Within a year of opening, the Great Chicago Fire of October 1871 tore through the city and burned the ballpark to the ground.
The team took up residency thereafter at 23rd Street Grounds (at 23rd and State Street), followed by Lakefront Park and West Side Park. For a brief period before and during the 1893 World Columbia Expo, the team played an alternating series of games at South Side Park II (a predecessor of South Side Park III and Comiskey).
The team then moved to the West side, first at West Side Park, and then the second, much larger West Side Park or "West Side Grounds." Both were still wooden parks in the vicinity of what is now numerous UIC buildings around Wolcott and Polk. They were still known at the White Stockings at this point, then for a time the Colts, before being called the Cubs exclusively (circa 1907. Team names were a lot looser back then, more like nicknames). The Cubs' time at West Side Grounds was marked by many successful seasons, four pennants and two world championships.
Finally the team took up residency at what we know now as Wrigley but what was then known as Weeghman Park. That ballpark had been built in 1914 and was designed by the same architecture, Zachary Taylor Davis, who had designed Comiskey. Thus the two fields shared some of the same features and a bit of the look. At the time it opened, the park was home to the Chicago Whales of the now-defunct Federal League. The Cubs played their first game there in 1916; in 1921, William Wrigley took over and named the field for himself/his chewing gum company.
[Note: For most of these ballparks, the visual record is extremely thin. I depended in large part for the early ballparks on the research of Jack Bales, whose book Before They Were the Cubs: The Early Years of Chicago's First Professional Baseball Team is an invaluable resource to any Cubs enthusiasts. He found newspaper description of the ballparks when they first opened to the public.
Note 2: I called this "Ballparks of the North Side" as a counterpoint to the "Ballparks of the South Side," the Sox parks, despite the fact that some of the ballparks were not technically on the "North Side."]
The Chicago Bulls franchise is considerably younger than the others listed here. Its number of world titles for its relatively short life might make it most efficiently successful. The team was the third pro basketball team in Chicago (after the Stags and the Zephyrs) and was named with a nod to the city's long history of stockyards and cattle processing.
The team played one season at the International Amphitheatre, which had been home to the Chicago Zephyrs (which would ultimately move on to Washington, DC become the Bullets, then the Wizards). The Amphitheatre itself had existed since 1934 and was also tied to the livestock industry: It was built by the Stock Yard Company, next to the Union Stockyards, and specifically intended to house the International Livestock Exhibition.
The Bulls moved into Chicago Stadium thereafter, joining the Blackhawks, who had been there since 1929. They won their second of three NBA titles in 1992 at the stadium itself. For a time the Chicago Stadium and United Center co-existing but the Chicago Stadium would be demolished during the first season that the Bulls inaugurated the United Center. The United Center was designed to echo the look of the much-loved Chicago Stadium and in the way it amplified the crowd noise. The team would go on to win two titles at home in that arena in 1996 and 1997.
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I love the way the city formed. The city in its current form has a beautiful, orderly pattern of streets that radiates out from a core. I wanted to present some of the early maps of the city, where the first seeds of settlement happened, and present a chronology of illustrated maps.
Early cartographers showed the growth of the city from its origins at the Chicago River and its fork. Later cartographers and artists took liberties in showing the cityscape in different ways, highlighting certain elements like new transit lines, parks and boulevards, and modern aerial views.
Hope you enjoy getting these bird's eye views of the city's history and growth.
NOTE: If you want a closer view of these maps, right-click on the image and select "Open image in new tab." That will allow you to get an expandable view of the image and a better look at the details.
Imaginary view of Chicago in 1779. A. T. Andreas, History of Chicago from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, vol. 1 (Chicago: A. T. Andreas, 1884), frontispiece. Source
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Chicago in 1820. Chicago Lithographing Company, 1867. Chromolithograph on paper. Library of Congress. Source
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Map of Chicago in 1812. Source.
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The original 1830 subdivision by the Illinois and Michigan Canal Commissioners. Source.
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"Map of Chicago, Incorporated as a Town August 5, 1833." Walter Conley & O.E. Stelzer, 1933. Source.
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Chicago In Early Days. 1779-1857. Kurz & Allison, 1893. Source.
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Lithograph by Christian Inger, based on a drawing by J.T. Palmatary. Published by Braunhold & Sonne. 1857. Source.
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Chicago, Chicago Lithographing Co., 1868. Source.
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Currier & Ives.; published in Harper's Weekly (1 August 1874) Source.
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Richard’s Illustrated and Statistical Map of the Great Conflagration in Chicago. 1871. Source.
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The City of Chicago / sketched & drawn on stone by Parsons & Atwater. Currier & Ives, publisher. 1874. Source.
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Guide map of new Chicago and suburbs. Author Stine & Clark,1889. Source.
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"Bird's eye view of Chicago, 1892." Roy, Peter. Source.
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"1893 Grand View of Chicago." Treutlein, Th. Eagle Lithographing Co. Reynertson & Beckerman, 1893, c1892. Source.
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"Bird's eye view of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893." Rand McNally and Company. Source.
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Library of Congress illustration of the official birdseye view of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois in 1892. Source.
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Bird's-eye-view of the business district of Chicago. Poole Brothers, c1898. Source.
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Birds-eye view of the elevated railroads and the parks and boulevards of Chicago. Willis J. Champion, 1908. Source.
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"Chicago. View Looking West over the City, Showing the Proposed Civic Center, the Grand Axis, Grant Park, and the Harbor," (Jules Guerin). Plan of Chicago, published by Chicago architects Daniel H. Burnham, Jr. and Edward H. Bennett, 1909. Source.
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Chicago, central business section. Reincke, Arno B. 1916. Source.
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Map Showing the Territorial Growth of Chicago. Chicago Department of Public Works, Bureau of Maps and Plats, 1930. Source.
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An Illustrated Map of Chicago, Youthful City of the Big Shoulders, Restless, Ingenious, Wilful, Violent, Proud to be Alive! Charles Turzak, Boston, 1931. Source.
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A Map of Chicago's gangland from authentic sources: designed to inculcate the most important principles of piety and virtue in young persons, and graphically portray the evils and sin of large cities. Bruce-Roberts, Inc., 1931. Source.
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A Century of Progress, 1833-1933 : Chicago World's Fair Exposition. Reuben H. Donnelley Corp. 1933. Source.
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Chicago. The Greatest Inland City in the World. Colortext Publications, Inc. 1938. Source.
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Map illustrating the dominant ethnicities of different areas of Chicago in 1950. City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development. Source.
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"Elevate Map of Chicago Rapid Transit Lines." ca. 1950. Source: unknown
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Chicagoland Panorama. Homer Goodman. Published by: Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry. 1964. Source.
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Map of Hyde Park and view north. Lauren Nassef. 2007 [circa?] Source.
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Robert Bacon. 2013. Source.
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T.S. Shure Map of Chicago Magnetic Playboard and Puzzle [2010?]. Source.
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Map of Roscoe Village: A Neighborhood of Chicago. Joe Mills. [Contemporary] Source.
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Chicago Neighborhood Map. Ork Posters [Contemporary] Source.
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Show of Hands.
MAY 4-6. Architectural Artifacts (Ravenswood)Renegade Craft Fair (Spring).
MAY 12-13. Halsted St (Pilsen)57th Street Art Fair.
JUNE 2-3. Kimbark & 57th (Hyde Park)Printers Row Lit Fest.
JUNE 9-10. Dearborn & Harrison (Printer's Row)Gold Coast Art Fair.
JUNE 16-17. Grant Park. Just North of Buckingham Fountain.Southport Art Festival.
JULY 14-15. Southport & Waveland (Southport Corridor)Bucktown Arts Fest.
AUG 25-26. Holstein Park area (Bucktown)Renegade Craft Fair (Fall).
SEP 8-9. Division & Damen (Ukrainian Village)Ravenswood Artwalk.
SEPT 15-16. Venue: Beyond Design. (Ravenswood)Show of Hands (Holiday).
NOV 16-18. Architectural Artifacts (Ravenswood)Renegade Craft Fair (Holiday)
DEC 1-2. Bridgeport Art Center (Bridgeport)The One of a Kind Show (Holiday).
DEC 6-9. Merchandise Mart (River North)
These maps are two distinct, illustrated bird's eye views / panoramas that celebrate Chicago's beautiful lakefront. One is a view eastward, focusing on the details and sites along the lakeshore, and one is the view westward, a color edition of the (recently sold-out) "Lakefront Currents."
Just click here or the image preview below to visit the Kickstarter page and pledge your support. I greatly appreciate it!
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Painted in super-bright colors. By that I mean red and yellow. Picnic table & an umbrella that matches the building.
Called Sammy’s, Marty’s, Charlie's. A name that sounds like someone your grandpa would have a coffee with.
Proudly World Famous, Original, Founded circa 1954 or some combination in a fifties-era font.
Some relics of the good old days that actually date back to the good old days. For a few examples: a newspaper dispenser, pinball, gumball machine.
Some hints of their old logo or old name, maybe on a second sign or inside.
On the front of the building, everything on their menu painted in big letters.
Vienna Beef logos. Bonus: The Vienna Beef poster with the gigantic hot dog on Navy Pier.
Two line cooks with their heads down, working like crazy, radio turned up.
Amazing meats and fries, unbelievable cheap, incredibly fast.