Visit Norwood Park! Or Englewood! A Chicago artist creates and sells tourism posters for the city’s neighborhoods Illustrator Steve Shanabruch’s retro posters suggest 1930s travel advertisements — what was once a side gig now makes up half his income.

A Tribune article...about my art??? 🤯

www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/25/c...

A photo of a watercolor painting in a black frame. The painting depicts a two-story brick building with a band of blue sky occupying the top third or so of the image. The shadows of a row of overturned barstools run across the wall and painting

16 of my watercolors will be on display at Lula Cafe for the next few months. Eight of these paintings are for sale, and you can find details on my website. Prints are available as well.

I grew up there and don’t remember this. Guessing it wasn’t around for long after this was taken

Bears are kind of a mascot for the area and nearby Hendersonville too. Can‘t leave trash outside unsecured or they will go through it looking for food

This style of two-flat with large front stepped gables and ground level entrances are mostly on the NW and SW side of the city, particularly the SW side. I've never figured out why they are so heavily concentrated there. There are a few on the NW side in neighborhoods like Avondale and Mayfair too This is a miniature linocut print depicting 3 brick two-flats on the Southwest Side of Chicago. Printed with black oil ink on kitakata paper

Three two-flats on Pulaski near 31st in Little Village.

At first glance they all look identical with ground level entrances and large front gables

But there are small stylistic variations making each one unique

4x6 mini #linocut print

Cleaners: A Chicago-inspired Font — The Chicago Neighborhoods CLEANERS is a font that inspired by the Pride Cleaners sign in Chicago's Chatham neighborhood.

Font 21: CLEANERS is inspired by the Pride Cleaners sign in the Chatham neighborhood in Chicago. It was recently announced that Pride Cleaners would be closing, but hopefully the amazing sign and iconic building will be saved 🤞🤞🤞

www.thechicagoneighborhoods.com/fonts/p/clea...

It seems weird at first, why KFC from John Margolies?

This was toward the end of his life. Many of the things that seems quirky and distant to us from the 70s and 80s were as common as this KFC

John frequently photographed the everyday and ordinary places people might stop at while traveling

Curt teich linen postcard of the holy trinity russian Orthodox Church in chicago, a white church on a residential corner

hand painted mockup of the church postcard—the text in particular looks very human, but so do the leaves and trees and clouds

deltiologists deride the technical/artistic quality of the linen postcards popular in the 1930s & 1940s because the production process was much more mechanized

BUT before mass producing them, they’d hand-paint a mockup for customer approval, which are lovely little art objects themselves

are the sizes similar? or is the original larger?

Tic Toc…Linocut print. 78cm-58cm. 2016.

#printmaking #linocutprint #adeadesina
#print #linocut

This is a level of detail I rarely see in lino prints

My favorite prints are the ones you can keep looking at to discover new things, new worlds

And this is just that. nicely done

Linocut print featuring three Chicago bungalows. The middle and right two flats are similar in appearance with square front bay windows and a ground level entrance. Despite the overall similar style there are many minor differences between the two, including castellated brickwork on the middle one. 4800 block of N. Kostner. All built in the early 1920s

New mini print featuring three Chicago two-flats in North Mayfair

A mixed media painting of an abandoned building in Gary, Indiana.

Massachusetts St. - Gary

Thanks for the reply

This should have been opt-in and not opt-out

Who is asking for something so distracting and predatory as bnpl?

feeling burned by bigcartel about this decision to opt in by default

Hi, sorry for confusion. That klarna thing is new from @bigcartel.com and I don't like it at all. I'll have to follow up with them

You can use regular credit card through the site. If that doesn't work send me a DM and I can work with you so it's easy

A linocut relief print of residential buildings in Chicago, featuring a mix of styles. Romanesque on the far left, light Neoclassical in the left and middle. And a store and flats and building on the right features a mostly classical ornament with some Victorian whimsical ornament. The second building with ivy is colored green while the rest of the buildings are monochrome

A set of three three-flats and a corner store and flats building at the corner of California and Armitage in Logan Square

Oil ink #linocut print with a splash of color via oil pastel for the three-flat covered in ivy

turzak print of the north branch of the chicago river, steel ganties wiht the merchandise mart in the background

turzak print of the michigan avenue bridge, wrigley building, and tribune tower

turzak print "the workers" stylized men holding a sledgehammer, a book, etc.

how fucking cool

You've probably seen it but a block away is the Lawrfield Building

Good-Bye to Architecture Twitter As people delete or abandon their Twitter accounts due to its changes related to content ownership etc. that begin today, September 29th, I thought I’d look back at some of the content I’ve provided o...

I'm glad I ran across this blog post from @chigeek.bsky.social about the old Chicago architecture Twitter scene and her impressive output on the platform. I've learned so much from her over the years and always felt like she's an essential follow.
chicagolandarchitecture.substack.com/p/good-bye-t...

A mixed media painting of a two floor, seemingly abandoned building with a small grocery store painted green with white hand lettering listing groceries and Link card information. It seems like it might be morning but my head is a bit foggy.

51st & Wood - Chicago

The Future of Roger Brown's Home & Studio This past week Dennis Rodkin of Crain’s Chicago Business reported that the School of the Art Institute of Chicago is selling the historic 19th-century building in Chicago’s Lincoln Park where artist R...

I wrote about the School of the Art Institute of Chicago selling artist Roger Brown’s Home and Studio at 1926 N. Halsted in Lincoln Park, and the potential demolition of the historic property.

chicagolandarchitecture.substack.com/p/the-future...

Small metal type ornamental cityscape locked in a printing press.

Tiny Chicago on press. #letterpress

Found another nice one recently near the state line with an amazing bath mosaic

www.redfin.com/IL/Winthrop-...

Recruitment poster at Sokol Community Center at Elston and Kilbourn with a few Art Deco era typefaces

A poster at the Sokol Community Center with a few different typefaces that could be from @chgohoods.bsky.social

A suspension bridge at night. There is a neon sign next to it that says “Grain Belt Beer” on a bottle cap. The bridge and sign are reflected in water below.

Hennepin Avenue Bridge (1990) by HNTB and the Grain Belt Beer Sign (1941), moved to its current location in 1950.

Near me there are two bungalows and two tudors that are similar on the ground floor but with different roof profiles. The tudors have very slightly raised front landscaping too

Always wondered if a developer couldn't decide and chose 2 of each

black and white photo ambulance man splayed out on ground while others stand around, appears to be in front of a bar with an old style sign

2019 streetview man cycles past

851 w montrose

1977, "man, on way to lake to fish, dies and is taken away by fire department, ambulance on montrose ave."

jonas dovydenas photo

windmill gas, ellensburg, washington, 1987

windmill gas, ellensburg, washington, 1987

that's where I'm from and where my family lives. I suspect you're correct, though a somewhat recent development

1937 - 02 - 06 MBS Kay Kyser Live From The Trianon Ballroom Chicago Sourced from the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/1930-1937RadioNews

"By all means remember tomorrow is Waltz night at the Trianon. Remember too that on Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon and evening two great bands will preside at the world's most beautiful ballroom."

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I think 14. Pretty wild to discover this after knowing each other for so long!