Nationwide Hand Car Wash 3006 W Roosevelt Rd. Chicago

More Tudor-revival style homes of Chicago...The series no one demanded!

Scully Storage and Transfer Building over the years... 8105-8107 Skokie Highway. Rendering from irm-cta.org/NSL/Highball...

Some 1960s Chicago townhouses. Top to bottom: Pei & Weese (1969), Anderson & Battles (1967), Keck & Keck (1969), Tigerman & Koglin (1964).

Pen drawings of Chicago substation stone details. Left is at 2950 E. 80th, and right is at 6910 N. Glenwood (now the Lifeline Theater).

This 1977 CTA publicity shot may not have made Chicago transit look as welcoming as intended...

Some mid-century homes in Chicago’s West Ridge neighborhood rendered in watercolor and ink.

Mid-century housing in Chicago's Rogers Park and West Ridge neighborhoods. Watercolor and pen. #chiarchitecture

If you see this, post something orange.

North Pulaski Fresh Market 3850 W North Ave Chicago

Creating a Historic Preservation starterpack! Comment or DM to be added, or let me know if I missed anyone. go.bsky.app/D9w1NYJ

Alright, finally making the leap... (pic to test/send holiday wishes.)

I just named a file "reversed floor plan probably not going to work out.psd." I guess I'm ready for the holiday break...

CTA's "Aerial Galleria" considered in their 1974 Chicago Central Area Transit Plan. irm-cta.org/Documentatio...

Stumbled upon a streamline utopia in Riverside yesterday. All these plus a couple more within about a block of each other. Had there not been a depression/war to interrupt housing construction, perhaps we’d have whole neighborhoods of these all over.

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Some Georgians of West Ridge.

Flatiron Buildings of Rogers Park, #3.

fingers crossed this is how the new chicago housing and economic development bond will work

Flatiron buildings of Rogers Park, #2.

This is the second time this project has initiated approvals and Class L funding…

Such a nice day, I biked on California Ave. from Howard to 111th.🧵 with sights.

JOHNNIE ANDERSON'S BOTANY & ZOOLOGY DRAWINGS A recent drawing-focused publication from Public Collectors— dedicated to a young man's Botany and Zoology homework, circa 1931. This booklet is available for $13.00 here: halfletterpress.com/johnnie-ande... 15% off of that price through the end of 2024.

Flatiron buildings of Rogers Park, #1.

Thinking of the eight single-family homes approved on the former Cenacle site in Mid-North... chicagoyimby.com/2024/06/firs...

this is the laundromat where i found this sign complaining about a 9 year-old tax increase that happened 2 mayors ago

Half Letter Press sale! Everything is 15% off for the rest of the year. You'll see the discount applied in your cart when you check out. Free shipping on U.S. orders of $40.00 or more. Get those fussy family members & friends the books and zines they need. halfletterpress.com/publications/

since there was nothing else on the internet about st. columbkille, decided i may as well write something up for anyone else who was wondering why Grand & Paulina feels so off (but obviously i had to put it in my cursed format) www.postcard-past.com/st-columbkil...

3624 W North Ave Chicago

Some cottages of Chicago. Still one of my favorite series!

1509-1515 W. Morse Avenue, 1968. K.M. Knight Construction Co.

Four historic Chicago auto shops. Although to be fair, one of them has been demolished...

Some mid-century townhouses of West Ridge.

Not sure what to post... How about a bunch of stucco cottages in West Ridge built by Niels Buck in 1919?