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Giannis Antetokounmpo mural in Milwaukee is the work of Cicero artist Mauricio Ramirez

Bulls fans, don’t hold that against him. Ramirez has family there. He’s also the artist behind plenty of murals around Chicago and far beyond.

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Lincoln Park mural has an old school vibe except for the pigeon wearing a hardhat

You see, the mural faces an alley, and the company that commissioned it is involved in a lot of construction projects. Besides, artist Danny Torres just likes pigeons.

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West suburban Navy veteran finds ‘peace’ in her post-duty tattoos

Sabrina Waller says she has found comfort in her time in a tattoo artist’s chair, working through the experiences she faced during active duty through art.

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‘Artists of the Wall Festival’ saw over 160 murals go up along a seawall at Loyola Park

The 30th annual festival last weekend was the latest in the mural-painting effort that sees new images go up there each year.

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When your kids love ‘Mars Attacks!’ Chicago tattoo shop owner figured you need a mural with aliens

Created by two CAB graffiti crew members, the characters were inspired by the 1996 sci-fi comedy.

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Graffiti-style mural near Southwest Side Orange Line L stop features ‘Trains-formers’

The L car versions of “Transformers” characters Optimus Prime and Megatron were created by the graffiti artist Emte as part of a hip hop-themed art contest last weekend.

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James Jankowiak made use of a real tree for this mural near Midway Airport

His “Flight Patterns” mural at 59th Street and Central Park Avenue makes it seem the real tree is sprouting from the painted tree trunk. And check out the birds.

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Not a game when business owner with old mob ties gets a gambling license

It’s now up to the Illinois Gaming Board to get to the bottom of why Jeffrey Bertucci got a gaming license, since his sketchy past was no secret.

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He used to do business with reputed mob figures. Now, he’s licensed by the Illinois Gaming Board.

Jeffrey Bertucci testified in 2010 to illegally paying out winnings from video gaming machines installed in his Cicero diner and splitting his take with the mob’s so-called video poker king. In 2019, gambling regulators gave him a license to legally operate video gaming devices.

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‘The wall needed painting,’ Chicago graffiti artist Joos says is the philosophy behind his ‘beast on the streets’ spray-painting

He’s drawn to viaducts, L trains, abandoned buildings and other sometimes-dangerous settings.

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In AJ Paliev’s Deerfield mural, horse, rider keep ‘marching forward . . . to an unknown place’

“Walking Clock” was done while he was a student at Deerfield High School and can be seen on an AT&T building on Deerfield Road near Waukegan Road.

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Judge halts public release of Madigan recordings, slain officer mourned and more in your Chicago news roundup

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The decades-old mystery of a missing Chicago girl, Illinois pols’ Boeing ties and more in your Chicago news roundup

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With West Side mural, Barrett Keithley aims to reflect positive vibe from Black barber shops

“Whenever I walked in to a barber shop, there was an immediate sense of respect and positivity,” says the artist, who did the mural to promote a Lyric Opera production with a barber shop theme.

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Why are those eyeballs floating? That and more about Logan Square mural near Kennedy Expressway

But the painting, completed in October by San Diego artist Chloe Becky on the side of a townhome, ultimately is about the importance of nature.

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Glen Ellyn pedestrian tunnel is filled with trees, thanks to Pilsen artist’s mural

Juan De La Mora’s mural, completed in December, is part of a broader effort to create and celebrate public art in DuPage County.

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Ed Paschke’s artwork still dazzles even in mural reproductions in a Northwest Side viaduct

You don’t have to go to a museum or gallery to see the Chicago art great’s work. You can see them in murals that have been up for years along Lawrence Avenue just west of the Kennedy Expressway.

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Donkey Kong, Mario, Spawn make SW Side stretch of murals a retro video game, comic book celebration

Chicago artists “Peas” and “Doer” organized a three-day “paint jam” this summer that drew dozens of graffiti and street artists to a retaining wall along 49th Street where they recreated iconic and lesser-known characters.

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For West Loop foundry, artist painted a mural of a fiery gator

Christian Stanley did the mural in the 1500 block of West Hubbard Street in August as part of the yearly Titan Walls arts festival.

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Archdiocese of Chicago still protecting names of predator priests, Pritzker insider cashes in on lobbyist ties and more in your news roundup

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Garbage hauler the FBI once said was mob-controlled now doing work at O’Hare Airport

In a once-secret 2003 memo, the FBI said the company was secretly “controlled” by brothers John DiFronzo and Peter DiFronzo, reputed Chicago Outfit leaders who died in the past few years.

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Rensselaer, Indiana, has become a mural hot spot, drawing people from the Chicago area, elsewhere

More than 60 murals have gone up in six years in the small town about 85 miles from Chicago.

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International street art festival ‘Meeting of Styles’ returns

Over the course of the three-day festival, there will be music, food, arts and crafts vendors, and of course, street artists decorating viaducts under the Chicago Skyway.

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A Chicago businessman saw some artists painting boarded-up buildings. Here’s what came next.

“So I went up to them and said, ‘This is super-cool. I have a business. I always wanted to have some murals,’ ” David Chaimovitz says. And now he does.

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Little Village mural mystery solved; now Aurelio Diaz work is in line for a restoration

Completed in the late 1970s, “Education for the People” has new murals on either side of it. An artist behind those wants to repair and rejuvenate Diaz’s painting.

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