Chicago Sun-Times: All posts by Kyle Brown2021-05-14T13:30:00-05:00https://chicago.suntimes.com/authors/kyle-brown/rss2021-05-14T13:30:00-05:002021-05-14T14:11:47-05:00Chicago religious art: Chicago Loop Synagogue stained glass, River Grove mosaic at former Guerin Prep at risk
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<img class="Image" alt="This towering stained-glass window inside the Chicago Loop Synagogue was created by late artist Abraham Rattner and installed in 1960." srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/290fa28/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4032x2263+0+381/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2Fb5A7LR_MEJo-SJhJkkzu6hVaedw%3D%2F0x0%3A4032x3024%2F4032x3024%2Ffilters%3Afocal%281462x1556%3A1463x1557%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F22491974%2FBC6625B8_CF0F_4E51_AF6B_483DEB7EDEFE.jpeg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/8108945/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4032x2263+0+381/resize/980x550!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2Fb5A7LR_MEJo-SJhJkkzu6hVaedw%3D%2F0x0%3A4032x3024%2F4032x3024%2Ffilters%3Afocal%281462x1556%3A1463x1557%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F22491974%2FBC6625B8_CF0F_4E51_AF6B_483DEB7EDEFE.jpeg 2x" width="490" height="275"
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>This towering stained-glass window inside the Chicago Loop Synagogue was created by late artist Abraham Rattner and installed in 1960.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Kyle Brown / Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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<p>The Chicago Loop Synagogue has been at 16 S. Clark St. since 1958. For most of that time, a stunning stained-glass window has covered an entire interior wall overlooking the main worship space there.</p><p>Created by the late artist Abraham Rattner, the artwork stretches 30 feet high and 40 feet across, filled with hues of yellows, blues and reds with numerous symbols of Judaism.</p><div class="RichTextSidebarModule Enhancement" data-module data-align-hangRight><a class="AnchorLink" id="module-540000" name="module-540000"></a>
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</div><p>But the synagogue — which has long offered a space to pray for people who work downtown — has been facing financial strains in recent years, its membership declining even before the coronavirus pandemic wreaked havoc. With people working from home this past year, the synagogue now offers only an in-person Saturday service for now. </p><p>Supporters worry about its future — and about what would happen to the towering stained-glass art were the synagogue to close.</p><p>“We are not going to close our doors tomorrow,” says Lee Zoldan, the Chicago Loop Synagogue’s president. “But people need to understand that we do not have an endowment, and there’s no guarantee that we will be around forever.”</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullWidth>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>An iconic stained-glass window overlooks the main worship area at the Chicago Loop Synagogue downtown.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Kyle Brown / Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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</div><p>“We need support from the community,” Zoldan says. “Religious affiliation, not only among Judaism but across all types of religions, is really going down across the country.”</p><p>That’s also evident in River Grove, where the Catholic church’s Guerin College Preparatory High School was located until closing last year amid declining enrollment and financial worries. </p><p>Now, Guerin alumni are frantically working to save an 18-feet-tall, eight-feet-wide mosaic on an exterior wall there from destruction as the campus is redeveloped. Created in 1962, the artwork is titled “Our Lady of River Grove.”</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullBleed>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>The mosaic titled “Our Lady of River Grove” is embedded in an exterior wall of the former Guerin College Preparatory High School in River Grove.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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</div><p>The mosaic, which pictures Mary among bright flowers and fish, is made of small stone and glass tiles with some porcelain squares, according to a 1963 Chicago Sun-Times story that noted Mary’s eyes are two small pieces of stone from a fifth century mosaic at the Vatican. </p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-hangLeft>
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<img class="Image" alt="Sister Jeanne Hagelskamp, part of the leadership team of the Sisters of Providence that ran the former Guerin College Preparatory High School in River Grove, was surprised there’s been such intense interest from alumni about saving the “Our Lady of River Grove” mosaic. She was the principal of Mother Guerin from 1991 to 1997 and again from 2001 to 2002. “The kids really didn’t talk about the mosaic much, but it had come to be, for them, a symbol of the school.”" srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/3ec59df/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2400x1347+0+827/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2FhX2NT6eLEEyj_udMj0Ih5UqQfHk%3D%2F0x0%3A2400x3000%2F2400x3000%2Ffilters%3Afocal%281200x1500%3A1201x1501%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F22513340%2F41301DBC_BBD4_4236_AEB2_2AFEF2D96974.jpeg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/fe56494/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2400x1347+0+827/resize/980x550!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2FhX2NT6eLEEyj_udMj0Ih5UqQfHk%3D%2F0x0%3A2400x3000%2F2400x3000%2Ffilters%3Afocal%281200x1500%3A1201x1501%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F22513340%2F41301DBC_BBD4_4236_AEB2_2AFEF2D96974.jpeg 2x" width="490" height="275"
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</div><p>It’s unclear when and how the property will be redeveloped, but Sister Jeanne Hagelskamp, part of the leadership team of the Sisters of Providence that ran the school, says there’s a sense of urgency to save the mosaic.</p><p>She says the developers are fine with relocating the mosaic as long as supporters can raise the money to do that but that, because the art is embedded in an exterior wall, it might not be possible to remove the mosaic. She’s consulting with an expert on that and hoping to find somewhere else in River Grove to move the work.</p><p>Hagelskamp says she was surprised there’s been such intense interest from alumni about saving the mosaic. She was the principal of Mother Guerin — an all-girls high school that, after a merger, became Guerin Prep — from 1991 to 1997 and again from 2001 to 2002 and says students didn’t seem terribly interested in it.</p><p>“The kids really didn’t talk about the mosaic much, but it had come to be, for them, a symbol of the school,” Hagelskamp says.</p><h5>Click on the map below for a selection of Chicago-area murals</h5><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center><div class="Enhancement-item">
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https://chicago.suntimes.com/murals-mosaics/2021/5/14/22419841/chicago-murals-mosaics-stained-glass-loop-synagogue-guerin-catholic-high-school-river-groveKyle Brown2021-04-23T10:30:00-05:002021-04-23T11:40:16-05:00Chicago murals: Artists, volunteers fill King College Prep in North Kenwood with murals
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<p>The hallways and classrooms at Martin Luther King Jr. College Preparatory High School in North Kenwood looked a lot different when students returned April 19 for the first time this academic year. </p><p>Thanks to the work of a group of artists and about 100 volunteers one day in January, the walls at King College Prep in North Kenwood were now adorned with 15 new murals.</p><div class="RichTextSidebarModule Enhancement" data-module data-align-floatRight><a class="AnchorLink" id="module-ee0000" name="module-ee0000"></a>
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<div class="RichTextModule-items RichTextBody"><h3><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/murals-mosaics" target="_blank" >Chicago’s murals & mosaics</a></h3><br>Part of a series on public art in the city and suburbs. <b>Know of a mural or mosaic? Tell us where and send a photo to </b><a class="Link" href="mailto:murals@suntimes.com" target="_blank" ><b>murals@suntimes.com</b></a><b>. </b>We might do a story on it.<br></div>
</div><p>The project was part of an annual service event led by the organization Chi Gives Back, which worked with the group Paint the City to transform the interior of the school at 4445 S. Drexel Blvd.</p><p>“We really want this project and all projects that we do to reflect the fact that kindness does reside in all of us, no matter what ZIP codes we come from,” says Chi Gives Back co-founder Kouri Marshall said. “We really want students to understand that it’s important to also pay it forward.”</p><p>Ahmad Lee, an artist who goes by Reco the Great, was among the artists who contributed to the mural project. He brought in Paint the City, for which he’s a board member.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullWidth>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Ahmad Lee, 34, contributed to the mural project at Martin Luther King Jr. College Preparatory High School. It’s one of roughly 15 publics art pieces he has around Chicago.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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</div><p>Paint the City’s goal is to “paint every school in Chicago,” according to co-founders Missy Perkins and Barrett Keithley. They have six more schools lined up for similar projects.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullWidth>
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</div><p>Lee says that, beyond avoiding political statements, school administrators let the artists choose the designs they wanted. His artistic contribution was a work featuring a large jaguar — the school mascot — and an eagle.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullBleed>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>This mural created by Ahmad Lee, also known as Reco the Great, includes a large jaguar and eagle as well as smaller details such as writing utensils, ghosts and the Chicago flag. It was created as part of a beautification project at Martin Luther King Jr. College Preparatory High School.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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</div><p>“I kind of just go with whatever pops in my head, and the eagle, for some reason, came in my head,” says Lee, 34. “Everything else just kind of flowed from there.”</p><p>Lee, who calls his style “controlled chaos,” also included images of a pencil, the Chicago flag and a flower.</p><p>“There’s a lot of things going on, big images that are easily going to draw you in from afar,” he says. “When you come in closer, there’s smaller messages, patterns and little stuff that you’ll notice something different every time.”</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullWidth>
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</div><p>Other creations include a mural filled with sunflowers and kids’ faces, the words “I have a dream” in graffiti-style letters and the words “Your only limit is you.”</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullWidth>
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</div><p>“I could literally tell that that’s going to push some of the art students to go bigger and better and also give back,” Lee says.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullWidth>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>At Martin Luther King Jr. College Preparatory High School, there’s a new mural featuring a jaguar — the school’s mascot — and a person with large, blue hair.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>A doorway at Martin Luther King Jr. College Preparatory High School was painted as part of an “MLK Jr. Day of Service.” The door now depicts three children amid an abstract background that includes the Chicago skyline.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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</div><p></p><h5>Click on the map below for a selection of Chicago-area murals</h5><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center><div class="Enhancement-item">
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https://chicago.suntimes.com/murals-mosaics/2021/4/23/22396330/chicago-murals-martin-luther-king-college-prep-high-school-chi-gives-back-north-kenwoodKyle Brown2021-04-09T11:00:00-05:002021-04-11T18:39:53-05:00Chicago Murals: Bernard Horwich JCC mosaic highlights Jewish immigrants’ struggles
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<div class="LargeTextEnhancement">A mosaic at the Bernard Horwich Jewish Community Center on the Far North Side tells the story of Jewish immigration to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.</div><p></p><p>Titled “Fabric of Our Lives” and created in 1980, its images and words portray challenges they faced, coming to Chicago and elsewhere, typically from Eastern Europe, with little money, no jobs and often no grasp of English.</p><div class="RichTextSidebarModule Enhancement" data-module data-align-hangRight><a class="AnchorLink" id="module-9a0000" name="module-9a0000"></a>
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<div class="RichTextModule-items RichTextBody"><h3><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/murals-mosaics" target="_blank" >Chicago’s murals & mosaics</a></h3><br>Part of a series on public art in the city and suburbs. <b>Know of a mural or mosaic? Tell us where and send a photo to </b><a class="Link" href="mailto:murals@suntimes.com" target="_blank" ><b>murals@suntimes.com</b></a><b>. </b>We might do a story on it.<br></div>
</div><p>The 15-feet-tall, 13-feet-wide, glass-tile mosaic had suffered from the onslaught of decades of Chicago winters but restored in October at a cost of about $8,000 by Miriam Socoloff and Cynthia Weiss, the artists who originally had assembled the work in 1980. </p><p>“In addition to our strong feelings for the themes of the mosaic, it was profoundly meaningful and satisfying to repair something,” says Weiss, 67, amid a year marked by the coronavirus pandemic and loss. “2020 was such a hard year. There was so much devastation.”</p><p>The Horwich JCC, at 3003 W. Touhy Ave., is in a neighborhood that’s fairly heavily Jewish.</p><p>One of the tenets of Judaism is that people should work to repair the world. That made it even more meaningful to painstakingly restore the mosaic, Weiss says.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullBleed>
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</div><p>Socoloff, 71, says the weather hadn’t damaged the faces of any of the figures in the mosaic, but there was damage to some key parts of the work. </p><p>For one thing, the letters had fallen away from a sign a woman bears that calls for “a living wage for all” — meant to represent the labor union movement of the early 20th century, a time when many Jewish immigrants worked in sweatshops, toiling at tasks such as sewing garments for little pay. Socoloff says that’s a message that’s “still very much pertinent today.” </p><p>Before starting work on the mosaic four decades ago, “I didn’t know the history of Jewish labor,” Socoloff says. “This was all new to me, learning about the sweatshops, even though it was the history of my own family.”</p><p>One of her grandmothers immigrated to the United States and lived in New York tenements while working in a sweatshop before moving to Chicago.</p><p>Weiss had a grandfather who lived in Philadelphia and helped Jewish immigrants there adjust to their new country and find jobs.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullWidth>
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<img class="Image" alt="Artist Cynthia Weiss sits on the scaffolding used to repair the top part of the “Fabric of Our Lives” mosaic at the Bernard Horwich Jewish Community Center." srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/d9067ed/2147483647/strip/true/crop/828x345+0+373/resize/1440x600!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2FJJDC7Ive5Ae7aQ2FEI0b4UA-KoY%3D%2F0x0%3A828x1091%2F828x1091%2Ffilters%3Afocal%28414x546%3A415x547%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F22409816%2FDF0E103A_53A2_4B95_A361_9D642CC6B836.jpeg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/e98a299/2147483647/strip/true/crop/828x345+0+373/resize/2880x1200!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2FJJDC7Ive5Ae7aQ2FEI0b4UA-KoY%3D%2F0x0%3A828x1091%2F828x1091%2Ffilters%3Afocal%28414x546%3A415x547%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F22409816%2FDF0E103A_53A2_4B95_A361_9D642CC6B836.jpeg 2x" width="1440" height="600"
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Artist Cynthia Weiss sits on the scaffolding used to repair the top part of the “Fabric of Our Lives” mosaic at the Bernard Horwich Jewish Community Center.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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</div><p>The mosaic includes a musician, a Yiddish theater actor, someone holding newspapers representing the Yiddish press and a writer, for all of the “sweatshop poets and intellectuals,” according to the artists.</p><p>Sweatshop imagery takes up a big portion of the artwork. Three women are shown working on sewing machines, their fabric flowing into Maxwell Street, the historic first stop in Chicago for many Jews coming from Eastern Europe.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullBleed>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>A woman and a child make a purchase from a pushcart salesman at the old Maxwell Street market. </p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Kyle Brown / Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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</div><p>Maxwell Street — the last of which was destroyed in a Mayor Richard M. Daley-era move to create the new University Village near the University of Illinois at Chicago, much as it had been chopped up decades earlier to make way for the Dan Ryan Expressway — was home to many Jewish immigrants in the early 20th century and, continuing long beyond that, to its eponymous, bustling open-air market. </p><p>The mosaic also offers another nod to Maxwell Street with a scene of a woman and a child making a purchase from a man offering his wares from a Maxwell Street pushcart.</p><p>Along the base of the mosaic is the line: “From deep within my soul’s despair arose a striving reaching high.” That’s repeated in Yiddish.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullWidth>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Three women working in a sweatshop in the “Fabric of Our Lives” mosaic outside the Bernard Horwich Jewish Community Center.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Kyle Brown / Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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</div><p>There also are symbols of Jewish papercuts — a form of folk art that involves cutting images and sayings from paper — that include religious symbols and the tools of laborers, like a hammer and tile nippers.</p><p>“Those three ideas of culture coming from everyday experience, mutual aid and organizing for a living wage for all — those are the three ideas that are really meaningful to me,” Weiss says.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Artist Miriam Socoloff when she was working on restoring the “Fabric of Our Lives” mosaic 40 years after its creation.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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</div><p>Weiss and Socoloff — who’ve known each other since they were neighbors in Chicago in the late 1970s — were trying something new when they created “Fabric of Our Lives.”</p><p>“We had never made a mosaic,” Socoloff says. “So in a way, the whole thing was an act of faith.”</p><h5>Click on the map below for a selection of Chicago-area murals</h5><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center><div class="Enhancement-item">
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https://chicago.suntimes.com/murals-mosaics/2021/4/9/22359482/chicago-murals-mosaic-jewish-immigrants-bernard-horwich-jccKyle Brown2021-03-26T11:00:00-05:002021-03-26T14:59:00-05:00Chicago murals: ‘Gen Z looking mural’ highlights what’s important to its young creators
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>This mural, painted on wall outside apartments near Division Street and Springfield Avenue., was designed and mostly done by middle school students.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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<div class="LargeTextEnhancement">The mural painted on a wall outside apartments near Division Street and Springfield Avenue in Humboldt Park is different from most murals around Chicago in that it was designed and painted mostly by middle school students.</div><p></p><p>The youngest of them: sixth-graders. The oldest: high school freshmen.</p><div class="RichTextSidebarModule Enhancement" data-module data-align-hangRight><a class="AnchorLink" id="module-940000" name="module-940000"></a>
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<div class="RichTextModule-items RichTextBody"><h3><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/murals-mosaics" target="_blank" >Chicago’s murals & mosaics</a></h3><br>Part of a series on public art in the city and suburbs. <b>Know of a mural or mosaic? Tell us where and send a photo to </b><a class="Link" href="mailto:murals@suntimes.com" target="_blank" ><b>murals@suntimes.com</b></a><b>. </b>We might do a story on it.<br></div>
</div><p>The students did the mural through R City Print Shop, an organization that helps kids create art and learn entrepreneurial skills by silk-screening shirts and masks to sell.</p><p>Seven students met twice a week for about two months, completing the mural in November.</p><p>It touches on things that were on their minds. Like social justice and celebrities like Kobe Bryant who died young and unexpectedly.</p><p>Songiné Clarke, 30, a teacher who worked with them, describes the mural as “justice-oriented,” highlighting the Black Lives Matter movement and LGBTQ rights with a large “BLM” across a rainbow backdrop.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullWidth>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>The letters “BLM” — for Black Lives Matter — are at the center of a mural near Division Street and Springfield Avenue.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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</div><p>Part of the mural features the names of Bryant, hip hop icons Juice WRLD and XXXTentacion and actor Cameron Boyce.</p><p>Jeffrey Swider-Peltz, 31, R City Print Shop’s lead instructor, looks at aspects of the mural like the anime characters it includes and the references to cultural icons and an image of an MP3 player with the song “Happier” by Marshmello and Bastille playing and says, “I’m, like, ‘Wow this is what our students visually look like as a mural.”</p><p>The wall that’s home to the mural is outside an apartment building where one of the student-artists lives.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullWidth>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>The left side of the mural near Division Street and Springfield Avenue features the names of celebrities whose recent deaths were unexpected — including Kobe Bryant, Juice WRLD, XXXTentacion and Cameron Boyce.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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</div><p>“It’s a mural in their own neighborhood, so we were, like, ‘Hey, whatever’s on your mind, whatever’s happening, whatever you want to express to your neighborhood, feel free to do that,’ ” Swider-Peltz says.</p><p>He and Clarke started by having the students come up with their own ideas individually then discussing them as a group, deciding what to include. To form the design, they drew up the images they wanted on paper and moved them around like puzzle pieces to figure out how to make them fit.</p><h5>Click on the map below for a selection of Chicago-area murals</h5><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center><div class="Enhancement-item">
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https://chicago.suntimes.com/murals-mosaics/2021/3/26/22345759/chicago-murals-humboldt-park-blm-lgbtqKyle Brown2021-03-12T11:15:00-06:002021-03-13T09:32:04-06:00Chicago murals and mosaics: Next time you’re at O’Hare Airport between Terminals 2 and 3, look up
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>“On the Wings of Water,” a mosaic completed at O’Hare Airport in 2007, offers an enduring environmental statement on the importance of water to our planet.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Robert Herguth / Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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<div class="LargeTextEnhancement">A sprawling mosaic in the O’Hare Airport walkway between Terminals 2 and 3 celebrates water — and not the sort that sometimes drips down from leaky terminal roofs during a storm.</div><p></p><p>Titled “On the Wings of Water,” the artwork, completed in 2007, offers an environmental statement on “the source of life for our planet,” according to lead artist Ginny Sykes.</p><p>Part of the piece includes “a drop of water that’s falling into the water that has a ripple effect,” says Sykes, 63. “I’m also thinking about that and what we do has an effect on everything around us, on nature, on us.”</p><div class="RichTextSidebarModule Enhancement" data-module data-align-hangRight><a class="AnchorLink" id="module-840000" name="module-840000"></a>
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</div><p>There are Chicago-specific images in the design — like alliums, flowers that are common around here, and a cardinal, the state bird.</p><p>The mosaic also includes an image of a young girl looking out over a body of water. Sykes says that’s meant to make people think about how we’re all taking care of the Great Lakes or oceans or other bodies of water.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullWidth>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>The imagery of a young girl and a cardinal can be seen in the “On the Wings of Water” mosaic, which includes at least 35,000 tiles and is in the walkway between Terminals 2 and 3 at O’Hare Airport.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Dorothy Perry</p></div></div>
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</div><p>The piece is primarily glass — with more than 35,000 tiles.</p><p>But the cardinal and girl are ceramic to add texture and make it three-dimensional, Sykes says.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullBleed>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>A water drop creates a ripple effect in a mosaic at O’Hare Airport that’s meant to show how our actions effect the environment, according to lead artist Ginny Sykes.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Dorothy Perry</p></div></div>
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</div><p>Along the edges of the mosaic are puzzle pieces to represent the 15 to 20 students from the After School Matters program who helped her, according to Sykes.</p><p>She says the idea for that came from one of her students and fit the mosaic because water and environmental sustainability are “kind of a puzzle that we all have to solve.”</p><p>Artist Julia Sowles Barlow, who assisted on the mosaic, says this was her 10th project with Sykes but special because she’d recently given birth to a daughter, named Phoenix. Sowles Barlow remembers bringing Phoenix with her while she was working on the project and taking frequent breaks to check on her.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullWidth>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Because of how busy O’Hare Airport is during the daytime, artist Ginny Sykes and her crew installed the “On the Wings of Water” mosaic mostly during late nights and early mornings.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Brian McGlade</p></div></div>
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</div><p>Sykes was born in Washington, D.C., but has spent most of her adult life in Chicago, where she has worked on more than 40 public art projects — though none in quite as public a setting as O’Hare.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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</div><p>Sykes says she checks out the mosaic when she flies through O’Hare and occasionally will ask someone to take her picture in front of it.</p><p>She sees the subject matter as being as relevant today as it was when it was installed nearly a decade and a half ago.</p><p>“What is our future? That’s really what the question is,” Sykes says. “It’s pressing, and I do think it’ll be present for a long time.”</p><h5>Click on the map below for a selection of Chicago-area murals</h5><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center><div class="Enhancement-item">
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https://chicago.suntimes.com/murals-mosaics/2021/3/12/22312297/chicago-murals-mosaic-ohare-airport-ginny-sykes-environment-waterKyle Brown2021-02-26T11:00:00-06:002021-02-26T11:17:36-06:00Chicago murals: 1904 Quinn A.M.E. Church mural depicting Black Jesus inspires but needs restoration
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Jesus is depicted as a Black man in this mural on the dome-like ceiling of Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church, 2401 S. Wabash Ave.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Pat Nabong / Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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<div class="LargeTextEnhancement">When abolitionist Frederick Douglass visited Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church to speak in 1893, nearly 1,000 people turned out at the historic Black congregation on the Near South Side to hear him.</div><p></p><p>“The Black man will be respected nowhere while he is not respected in the United States,” Douglass told the crowd, according to a newspaper account that said his speech was greeted with “the greatest enthusiasm.”</p><div class="RichTextSidebarModule Enhancement" data-module data-align-hangRight><a class="AnchorLink" id="module-860000" name="module-860000"></a>
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<div class="RichTextModule-items RichTextBody"><h3><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/murals-mosaics" target="_blank" >Chicago’s murals & mosaics</a></h3><br>Part of a series on public art in the city and suburbs. <b>Know of a mural or mosaic? Tell us where and send a photo to </b><a class="Link" href="mailto:murals@suntimes.com" target="_blank" ><b>murals@suntimes.com</b></a><b>. </b>We might do a story on it.<br></div>
</div><p>“Our work,” Douglass said, “is to make ourselves respected.”</p><p>Nearly 70 years later, during the Civil Rights Era, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. also took to the pulpit at the church to speak.</p><p>Throughout most of that time and still today, there’s been a presence above the church’s altar that also speaks to the plight and salvation of African Americans. It’s a mural depicting Jesus as a Black man.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullWidth>
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<img class="Image" alt="A mural of Jesus, painted in 1904 by the artist Proctor Chisholm at the Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church, 2401 S. Wabash Ave." srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/2c427eb/2147483647/strip/true/resize/1440x600!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2F8kXW7Tz-T05zQ6i9XYu7KJXizrg%3D%2F0x0%3A6000x4000%2F6000x4000%2Ffilters%3Afocal%283000x2000%3A3001x2001%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F22295461%2Fmerlin_95645390.jpg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/8b3e1a9/2147483647/strip/true/resize/2880x1200!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2F8kXW7Tz-T05zQ6i9XYu7KJXizrg%3D%2F0x0%3A6000x4000%2F6000x4000%2Ffilters%3Afocal%283000x2000%3A3001x2001%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F22295461%2Fmerlin_95645390.jpg 2x" width="1440" height="600"
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>A mural of Jesus, painted in 1904 by the artist Proctor Chisholm at the Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church, 2401 S. Wabash Ave.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Pat Nabong / Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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</div><p>Painted in 1904 on the domed ceiling along with other religious figures, the mural remains a source of pride for the roughly 400-person congregation.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-hangRight>
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</div><p>It’s also a rare portrayal of Christ, who typically has been cast as a white man with European features.</p><p>“Oftentimes, when you grow up, you think that your set of circumstances are how it is everywhere,” says Will Miller, Quinn Chapel’s historic preservation chairman, who grew up attending services there. “Looking at that image, I thought that every church had images of a Black Jesus, especially Black churches.”</p><p>Tyra Owens, 33, a lifelong member of Quinn Chapel, says: “I just remember looking up at that mural during services” as a child “and seeing myself close to God. It really meant a lot to me.”</p><p>During the coronavirus pandemic, Sunday services have been held remotely and recorded. Tours are on hold. Even weddings and funerals aren’t allowed.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-hangRight>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Tyra Owens, 33, said she’s been a member of Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church for nearly her entire life.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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</div><p>Now, with age and water damage having taken their toll on the walls and ceiling of the church, Quinn Chapel is trying to determine how to have the mural restored so that it can remain vibrant for another century or more. The church is applying for a federal grant to help cover the cost, estimated at about $150,000. Church officials figure it will be sometime next year, at the earliest, that the work will be completed.</p><p>Beyond the mural, the congregation is a part of Chicago history. Now at 2401 S. Wabash Ave., Quinn Chapel was established before the Civil War — in 1844, with seven people meeting at a member’s home. The church was built in 1892, just before Douglass spoke there.</p><p>The church was a place of refuge for the Underground Railroad.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullWidth>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>A mural depicting Jesus as a Black man and former church members cast as angels decorates the dome-like ceiling of the Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church at 2401 S. Wabash Ave. Water damage is visible on walls throughout the building.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Pat Nabong / Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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</div><p>The building was designated a Chicago Landmark in 1977 and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-hangRight>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speaking in the 1960s at Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church, 2401 S. Wabash Ave.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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</div><p>Other speakers over the years included Presidents William McKinley and William Howard Taft and women’s rights advocate Susan B. Anthony.</p><p>The mural is titled “Risen Christ Mural.” It was painted by Proctor Chisholm, of whom little is know, according to Miller, other than that he was a church member and self-taught artist.</p><p>Miller says the images of Mary and the angels in the painting were patterned on women and children in the church and that one of the angels — seen resting her head on the clouds — was modeled on a girl who used to rest her head on a pew.</p><p>Though that’s the story told throughout the church’s history, Anna Swartwood House — an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina whose doctorate in art history focused on Renaissance art — immediately recognized the angel’s resemblance to an angel in the “Sistine Madonna” painted by Italian artist Raphael in the 1500s. That famous work features an angel in nearly an identical position as the one in the “Risen Christ Mural.”</p><p>Swartwood House was surprised to learn the Quinn mural was painted in 1904 because artwork depicting Jesus as a man with a non-white complexion was uncommon until the 1970s.</p><p>Experts say it’s almost certain that Jesus wasn’t the fair-skinned, blue-eyed, wavy brown-haired figure he’s still frequently portrayed as.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullWidth>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Part of the mural at Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church shows Jesus’ mother Mary and angels — said to have been modeled on members of the church at the time the artwork was created in the early 1900s.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Pat Nabong / Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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</div><p>“He had dark skin, dark eyes, dark hair,” says the Rev. Laura Mayo, a minister in Houston who earned a master’s degree at Wake Forest University’s divinity school and did her graduate thesis on God images and the way people view God. “He was a Middle Eastern Jew. This depiction of Jesus as white is inaccurate, and it distorts our connections to the stories of Jesus and to the stories” of people of color.</p><p>Swartwood House says depictions of Jesus as fair-skinned became increasingly popular with European artists in the 14th century. The line of thinking that people were created in God’s image led the white Europeans to model their depictions of Jesus on themselves. And that depiction spread through trade and colonization, she says.</p><h5>Click on the map below for a selection of Chicago-area murals</h5><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center><div class="Enhancement-item">
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Artist Kristianna Jacques says the sun at the center of the Rogers Park mural “Color Through Chaos” has rain clouds at either side to convey the message to not “get stuck in the clouds.”</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Kyle Brown / Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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<p>With images of plants sprouting, flowers everywhere and a bright colorful palette, it’s no wonder how the mural “Color Through Chaos” came by the first part of its title.</p><p>But artists Kristianna Jacques and CJ Williams say there’s more to the mural they painted last summer on an outside wall of Honeybear Cafe, 7036 N. Clark St. They say it was a way for them to address the protests that took place following George Floyd’s killing by a white police officer in Minneapolis last year.</p><div class="RichTextSidebarModule Enhancement" data-module data-align-hangRight><a class="AnchorLink" id="module-950000" name="module-950000"></a>
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<div class="RichTextModule-items RichTextBody"><h3><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/murals-mosaics" target="_blank" >Chicago’s murals & mosaics</a></h3><br>Part of a series on public art in the city and suburbs. <b>Know of a mural or mosaic? Tell us where and send a photo to </b><a class="Link" href="mailto:murals@suntimes.com" target="_blank" ><b>murals@suntimes.com</b></a><b>. </b>We might do a story on it.<br></div>
</div><p>Jacques says the aim was to create an uplifting work using spray paint after seeing a lot of graffiti attacking police.</p><p>“We wanted to show that you can do something, still with spray paint, that can be a positive message,” says Jacques, 31. “And to move forward with so much going on between the pandemic, social and political unrest.”</p><p>The center of the painting depicts a sun with rain clouds at each side. That pretty much is the theme of the mural, Jacques says, showing people not to “get stuck in those clouds.”</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullBleed>
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<img class="Image" alt="“Color Through Chaos” is the title of this mural that was painted at the Honeybear Cafe in Rogers Park amid the racial unrest that followed George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis by a white police officer." srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/d0cda8e/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4032x2263+0+381/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2FlbsQC-Zvg1CBf4bECb2dfov9T9I%3D%2F0x0%3A4032x3024%2F4032x3024%2Ffilters%3Afocal%282016x1512%3A2017x1513%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F22261100%2FB4343D9E_B37D_4A87_B1E7_532128C64FF3.jpeg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/3868c5e/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4032x2263+0+381/resize/980x550!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2FlbsQC-Zvg1CBf4bECb2dfov9T9I%3D%2F0x0%3A4032x3024%2F4032x3024%2Ffilters%3Afocal%282016x1512%3A2017x1513%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F22261100%2FB4343D9E_B37D_4A87_B1E7_532128C64FF3.jpeg 2x" width="490" height="275"
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>“Color Through Chaos” is the title of this mural that was painted at the Honeybear Cafe in Rogers Park amid the racial unrest that followed George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis by a white police officer.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Kyle Brown / Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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</div><p>Words like “elevate” and “inspire” are woven into the painting, those two in the form of leaves.</p><p>“Obviously having ‘Black Lives Matter’ in there somewhere was important, speaking to the times,” Williams says. “We didn’t want that to be the main theme of the wall even though that was a central focus of why we were doing it.”</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>CJ Williams (left) and Kristianna Jacques in front of the mural they painted last year outside a Rogers Park restaurant.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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</div><p>As a Black man, Williams says the mural was especially meaningful. Williams, 37, who lives in Lincoln Square and grew up nearby in Uptown, attended a few protests last summer but says he wanted to leave a more lasting message through his art.</p><p>“Me being there for other people to know, ‘Hey, there are Black people out here who can do positive things and nonviolent things, that care about their community,’ ” Williams says. “I feel like my people are just condemned to being looked at in this violent way or like we’re not helping society.”</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullBleed>
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</div><p>The idea for the mural came from an old sketch Jacques had in her notebook of a sun-like image. Jacques works as a licensed clinical social worker for an insurance company. This was her first venture into public art and her first effort with spray paint.</p><p>Williams, a professional breakdancer, says he had a lot of experience with spray painting, though this work was more abstract. He says he’s done more than 20 public art projects around Chicago.</p><p>Williams and Jacques met years ago but reconnected over art in response to the protests last summer.</p><p>Jacques contacted Ald. Maria Hadden (49th) about doing a mural, and she put them in contact with the Rogers Park Business Alliance, which pointed them to the Honeybear Cafe.</p><p>Cafe owner Prudence Faklaris says she had wanted a mural since she took over the space in November 2019. Faklaris says her main direction was to make it “as bright and colorful as you can make it.” She also asked that the artists offer a positive message in response to the pandemic and social unrest.</p><p>“A lot of people use it for family photos and stuff like that as a nice little backdrop,” says Faklaris, 36. “It’s pretty eye-catching obviously, and that was the whole idea behind it.”</p><h5>Click on the map below for a selection of Chicago-area murals</h5><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center><div class="Enhancement-item">
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https://chicago.suntimes.com/murals-mosaics/2021/2/5/22250829/chicago-murals-rogers-park-kristianna-jacques-cj-williams-civil-unrestKyle Brown2021-01-22T11:00:00-06:002021-01-20T17:52:53-06:00Chicago murals: Maxwell Street mural in University Village depicts history of storied market, neighborhood
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<p>In the late 19th century and early 20th century, Maxwell Street was home to a bustling open-air market where you could find almost anything for sale and at a good price if you knew how to bargain.</p><div class="LargeTextEnhancement">Maxwell Street and the surrounding neighborhood was home, too, to many of the Jewish immigrants who operated those stalls and stores, often living in apartments above them.</div><p></p><div class="RichTextSidebarModule Enhancement" data-module data-align-hangRight><a class="AnchorLink" id="module-5a0000" name="module-5a0000"></a>
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</div><p>From the 1940s on, it also was the center of a lively blues scene.</p><p>All of that faded over time as the Dan Ryan Expressway was built right through the fabled street, Mayor Richard J. Daley built the University of Illinois at Chicago and his son, Mayor Richard M. Daley, turned over what little remained by then of Maxwell Street to clout-heavy developers and further expansion for UIC.</p><p>You won’t find much in the <i>faux</i> Maxwell Street that’s there today to evoke the once-thriving marketplace.</p><p>But Nick Goettling says he aimed to keep the memory of Maxwell Street alive in the 82-feet-long and 12-feet-tall mural he painted on a retaining wall near 15th and Morgan streets in what’s known today as University Village.</p><p>It spotlights key moments in Maxwell Street’s history.</p><p>There’s a group of immigrants working on a railroad. Take a closer look, and you’ll see a train in the images of the workers and the faint outline of Chicago’s railroad system above.</p><p>“The mural itself is like a ‘Where’s Waldo?’ because there’s images within images in there,” says Nancy Plax, who’s lived in the neighborhood since 2007 and was involved in commissioning the mural.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullWidth>
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</div><p>Goettling says he wanted the mural’s impact to be felt whether people walk right by or live in an apartment building that overlooks it or even if they’re driving past.</p><p>“It was really important to have different scales of meaning and of detail,” says Goettling, 37. “When you’re up close, you can capture those little details.”</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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</div><p>Goettling says that by hiding little details within the larger images he hoped to make the mural feel fresh even to people who see it every day, giving them something different to notice each time.</p><p>That layering of imagery can be seen throughout the mural.</p><p>One section shows Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr, founders of nearby Hull House, the settlement house located on what’s now part of the UIC campus that, beginning in 1889, provided day care and other social services to the immigrants who poured in to the area from Europe. Goettling gives a nod to the distances they had to travel by embedding the images of a suitcase and pair of train tickets in the figures of Addams and Starr.</p><p>“My thinking was: You have all these groups of people and all the communities that have come and gone and left their footprint,” Goettling says. “So, within the figures, you kind of see the work they did in the community in a lot of cases.”</p><p>The center of the mural features the Maxwell Street market, which drew people from all over and from a wide range of backgrounds, as buyers and sellers, everyone coming together in search of a bargain.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullWidth>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>The northern end of Nick Goettling’s mural at 15th and Morgan streets portrays students graduating — a reference to the nearby University of Illinois at Chicago campus.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Robert Herguth / Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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</div><p>There’s also a scene of a man playing guitar as people dance across a backdrop of sheet music.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullWidth>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>A vintage-style microphone can be seen within the image of a dancing woman in Nick Goettling’s 2013 mural at 15th and Morgan streets.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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</div><p>Next to that is a man with <a class="Link" href="http://maxwellstreetfoundation.org/sightssounds/tom-palazollos-chicago/" target="_blank" >a chicken on his head</a> — an homage to one of Maxwell Street’s famed characters.</p><p>“He was called ‘Chicken Man,’” says Plax, 70. “His name was Casey Jones, and he trained over 200 live chickens and performed with them and his accordion over the years in the market.”</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullBleed>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>The mural at 15th and Morgan streets shows “Chicken Man” playing the accordion with a chicken on his head.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Kyle Brown / Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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</div><p>University Village residents raised money and commissioned Goettling to do the mural at a cost of about $12,000, according to Plax. It took about six weeks to complete and was unveiled in late 2013.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-hangRight>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Neighborhood residents put together a “Mural on Morgan” coloring book to raise money for the mural.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Kyle Brown / Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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</div><p>The mural was among the first for Goettling, a Tacoma, Washington, native who says he has produced more than a dozen other works of public art around Chicago.</p><p>Plax says the aim was to bring Maxwell Street’s history alive and also to brighten the viaduct so people “can walk through and feel good and see some beautiful art.”</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullWidth>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Nick Goettling working on the mural at 15th and Morgan streets.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Nick Goettling’s murals for the Chicago Mosaic School on Granville Avenue by a CTA Red Line L stop.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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https://chicago.suntimes.com/murals-mosaics/2021/1/22/22229885/chicago-murals-maxwell-street-nick-goettling-jane-addams-hull-house-university-village-uicKyle Brown