Drawings by me of beer bottles from movies Slacker (1990) World on a Wire: Part I (1983) Double Indemnity (1944) Big Trouble in Little China (1986) marcusjmerritt.com/objects-from...

Chicago tire shops are excellent.

Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road. "Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!" source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...

Delgado Shoe Store 3504 W 26th Ave. Chicago

Johnson’s Transmission 4528 W Madison St Chicago

Jeanette Vizguerra, a leader of the immigrants’ rights/ sanctuary movement, and a friend of mine, was grabbed by ICE last night. Please consider signing this petition and giving to her family’s gofundme: secure.afsc.org/a/freejeanette

1149 W 18th St Chicago

The building in 1908 hub.catalogit.app/2670/folder/...

2617 W. North Ave Chicago

Shekinah Glory Holiness Ministry 2436 W Division St Chicago

Managed to raise more than $10k for the Reader in five days: can we double that amount in ten?

Chicago does exceptional local news, but the Reader allows journalists like me to write in a narrative way we can’t anywhere else. Support us here: donorbox.org/support-the-...

North Pulaski Fresh Market 3850 W North Ave Chicago

#53 Pulaski @chicagocta.bsky.social bus at Montrose

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WASHTOWN USA 4036 W. Montrose, Chicago

A 🧵 lost in migration: A little background on 1205 N. Milwaukee Ave, built in 1937-38, for haberdasher Andrzej/Andrew Starsiak, designed by Anton A. Tocha.

3624 W North Ave Chicago

Rest in Peace, Edie’s Party Liquors

Beauty Sa on 2714 W Division St Chicago

Baba’s Fish & Chicken 3420 W North Ave Chicago Oil on wood panel

Laundryland 3052 W Diversey Ave Chicago

Fireside Bowl 2646 W Fullerton Ave Chicago

Zurawski v Texas, a documentary co-directed by my wife @abbieperro.bsky.social, is playing at the Chicago film festival on October 26th and 27th. A truly powerful film worth seeing! Tickets on sale here www.chicagofilmfestival.com/film/zurawks...

George’s Music Room 3915 W. Roosevelt Rd Chicago

K’s Department Store 2816 W Cermak Rd Chicago

Dollar Plus 5548 W North Ave Chicago

Roeser’s Bakery 3216 W North Ave. Chicago

Fifth Avenue Foods 2961 W 5th Ave. Chicago

3500 & 3504 W North Ave, Chicago, through a glass block window