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In West Town murals, ‘divine empowerment’ and an industrial feel

Spanish artist Lula Goce and North Carolina muralist Gus Cutty painted the two works in August as part of the Titan Walls murals festival.

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Aliens, monsters dominate Berwyn mural, but what’s with the chicken wing shooting a laser?

The work by Daryl Harris adorns a bar and restaurant owned by an enthusiast of old-school horror and outer-space movies.

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How do we find the great murals we feature? Often, just by driving around

We get ideas for our weekly “Murals and Mosaics” series from readers sending in tips, by searching social media and by roaming the city and suburbs on the lookout.

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Hey, Mick Jagger, this artist pays homage to the Rolling Stones with her Near West Side murals

Debbie Peterson used the band’s signature lips logo and other images associated with the Stones on a building she co-owns because she loves their music: “They’re like family.”

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In Northbrook mural, nods to nature and, of course, ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’

Terry Luc and Gerry Luc included a water tower bearing the words “Save Ferris” like a real one nearby was painted for the 1986 movie by John Hughes, who grew up in Northbrook.

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In new Lake View painting, animals beg us to save Earth

This week’s Murals and Mosaics newsletter also explores public art in St. Louis, Pilsen-based artist Isaac Galvan’s latest mural in Berwyn and the beautification of a classic Chicago nuisance — potholes.

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Cook County residents shouldn’t pay for nursing home tax breaks

Let Gov. J.B Pritzker’s veto of a provision for millions in tax breaks stand. It doesn’t help that a key backer of legislation for nursing home tax breaks got $2 million in campaign cash from the industry.

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Southeast Side mural pays tribute to hip-hop’s Public Enemy

This week’s Murals and Mosaics newsletter takes a look at a mural on the Southeast Side, a new painting celebrating the Chicago Bulls and another piece of art in Austin chronicling Black history in Chicago.

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Backing ban on red-light camera campaign cash, then taking the money is just hypocrisy

Sure, the amounts some state lawmakers accepted were relatively small sums and dispersed before the reform bill was signed into law. But no means no.

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Martin Castillo had a mural painted on his house near Midway Airport to reflect his heritage

The Southwest Side home has scenes symbolizing life in the United States and Mexico, where he was born.

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South Side artist Max Sansing repaints, and reimagines, 79th Street mural

This week’s Murals and Mosaics newsletter takes a look at the recently restored 79th Street ‘Culture is Power’ mural, a 50-year-old mural on a North Side church and an Oak Park piece centered on joy.

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Max Sansing’s ‘Culture is Power’ mural is reborn on the South Side

The Chicago artist restored — and reimagined — the work that’s across from the Avalon Regal Theater after years of chipping and fading resulting from Chicago’s weather.

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Painting from rooftops and tagging trains, graffiti artist Zwon is making his mark on Chicago

The Chicago artist is doing that in alleys, on Loop towers, on freight trains, usually without permission.

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How ‘a Van Gogh on the block’ mural was restored on the South Side, then almost destroyed

This week’s Murals and Mosaics newsletter explores how a decades-old mural in South Shore was almost lost, and the art that lines the walls of O’Hare Airport.

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Poised to shutter Catholic parishes, Joliet bishop tight-lipped on financial impact of the priest sex abuse scandal

Bishop Ronald Hicks might consolidate 16 Joliet-area congregations and eventually close other parishes and schools, with “budgetary issues” a factor. His aides won’t say how much has been spent on fallout from the sex abuse crisis.

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‘We all have a soft spot for treats,’ artist behind new Pilsen mural says

The artist who goes by the name Luyu says she hopes the mural on Racine Avenue near 16th Street helps people feel “their sweet dreams rekindled.” And maybe they’ll want to stop for ice cream, too.

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With Chinatown mural, artist Ocean Muerto says he’s playing with the idea of ‘dust to dust’

The artist says his message was that “even something negative can regenerate into something positive.”

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In Rogers Park, love notes from artist Gina Caruso to her husband Keith Lord inspire a lakefront mural

She painted it featuring Post-It Notes with images of her husband over the years to show her love, and celebrate his role in creating the Artists of the Wall Festival at Loyola Park.

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In Pilsen mural, skeletons riding stampeding cattle offer a nod to Mexican heritage, the Bulls

Mario Mena and more than a dozen teenage artists completed the mural that envelops a house at 19th Street and Wolcott Avenue.

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‘Transformers’ figures transform a West Side wall in a new mural

They’re each worked into giant letters spelling out the word “CABOOM,” like kaboom, only CAB is the Chicago graffiti art crew that painted the mural.

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In Oak Park mural, Ken Reif’s towering tree takes centerstage because ‘I love trees and nature’

The Berwyn artist also likes to feature blues legends like John Lee Hooker, a family dog and Chicago bungalows in his public artwork.

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Brandin Hurley’s Celtic goddess mural let her ‘reach back to my family’s Irish roots’

“I do my best to live in harmony and connection with the natural world,” the Jefferson Park artist says. “And thinking of my ancestors doing the same was a comforting place to be as I designed this piece.”

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Illinois Gaming Board says it didn’t know of testimony about mob payoffs, now plans to revoke Cicero diner’s gaming license

The agency OK’d Jeffrey Bertucci’s Steak N Egger in 2019 to operate video gaming devices. But officials now admit they hadn’t realized he testified in 2010 in a mob gambling case.

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If you find Clare Bollnow’s Avondale mural a little unsettling, she’s OK with that

The 27-year-old Ukrainian Village resident is fine if you’re left feeling uncomfortable by this mural on Belmont Avenue just east of California Avenue or by any of her other work.

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In Old Town mural, artist Eric Lee captures Wile E. Coyote’s futile pursuit of the Road Runner

The Ukrainian Village artist says a lot of people in creative fields can identify with the cartoon villain, “as failure is a fairly large part of creation.”

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