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I haven’t. Thanks

Truly one of the best things I’ve seen in a long time.

Brutalist-style bank of mostly concrete. One corner is cut off at an angle and has a large curved concrete area on the second floor and the entrance protected by concrete canopy on the first floor. The side that is visible in this photo has six concrete piers rising from street level to the flat roof. Orange roman brick fills in the niches formed by the piers on the second floor, except for one area that is filled with squares of pinkish concrete/granite/? There are windows on the first level and a black stone foundation. At the far right corner is a rectangular blade of concrete pushing past the roof line.

6222 S. Kedzie, Chicago. I need @jmings.bsky.social to do the Alt text!

YouTube video by DiscoBar80 Tina Charles - I Love To Love (1976) Tv - 10. 07.1976

This song figures prominently. youtu.be/O4-dRPfOQcg?...

Did I ever tell you that I saw her in person in a club in NYC?

You're hitting all my Evergreen Park favorites today!

So much mid-century modern!

One-story flat-roofed commercial building with an arched colonnade of white stucco. The structure behind the colonnade is faced with tan brick. There are little coach lights between each arch.

3600 W. 95th St., Evergreen Park, Illinois. Part of a former funeral home.

Wall of a mid-century modern apartments building. The main section is basically a cream brick box with a gable roof sitting on top of a shorter and smaller gray brick box. The large section has a rectangle of orange brick on the right, a longer rectangle of turquoise brick at the upper left, two vertical stripes of black brick intersecting with the turquoise, and one horizontal stripe of black brick intersection with the vertical stripes and the orange brick. A neon sign saying "The Riviera" is suspended from the gable end.

9739 S. Kedzie, Evergreen Park, Illinois, 1962

Apologies for forgetting the Alt text.

My husband, Dave, and I have a new venture.😉

(Stolen from @LadyTophamKatt) "Color photo of a very, very green four story apartment building with two entry towers of green stone and vertical ribbons of stained glass in various colors." There are green balconies that run across the front of the building and curve around on both sides.

Finally saw this today with my own eyes: 3140 W. 99th Street, Evergreen Park. ca. 1967. It's called the Kiwi Condominiums. Building nerds extraordinaire @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social and @tudoraf.bsky.social conjecture that the architect was Carl Federici.

Yoon and Prince Andrew wishing they had a friend like John Roberts.

Cc: John Roberts

'Smiling' fossil discovered in Northumberland The unusual looking fossil is estimated to be a few hundred million years old dating to the Carboniferous period.

Put!

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Back!

1.5-story brick worker's cottage set way back from the street between two larger buildings. It has a gable with with an added dormer on the right side and a frame addition on the front. The brick has been painted beige and the trim white.

1119 N. Mozart St., Chicago, 1893

Aww, thanks.🥰

Everything is absolute shit.

Me, too. Plus the ending was so emotional.

Last night I finished watching the brilliant British television show from 2015, "River." It starts Stellan Skarsgård, Lesley Manville, Nicola Walker, and Adeel Akhtar and is one of the best things I've seen in a while. Skarsgård will shatter you.

Libraries are among the few public institutions that represent the kind of world we want to live in. They must be fought for.

This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades.

It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.

Photo of the corner stone laying for Mount Sinai Baptist Church in 1953. It is possible to see parts of the brick facade and the columns that appear in the 1894 rendering.

The photo from 1953 from the church website has a closer resemblance to the 1894 rendering that the current facade. My questions: Is it possible some of the original Menoken Club facade is behind that 1960s one? Is any of the brick section at the back original?

1896 map showing the Menoken Club House. The drawing indicates a wooden porch and a two-and three-story brick structure with a basement.

1922 map, when the property was the Town & Country Club. It still has a wooden porch, two-story brick in the front and a three story section in the rear. Two oriel windows are indicated facing the alley.

It later became the Town and Country Club and then the Volunteers of America. The church seems to have moved in in the 1950s. The 1896 map shows the footprint of the Menoken Club. The 1922 map shows the Town and Country Club. An couple of overhead shots from Google show the footprint now.

Facade of Mount Sinai Baptist Church, possibly from the 1950s-1960s. The entrance is in the center, accessed by two staircases facing sideways. It is clad in white brick and has a metal? green mansardish roof. There are three columns of yellowish plastic panels running up the front of the church, separated by small, narrow horizontal windows. The foundation appears to be stone.

Alley view of a 4-story buff brick building with rows of windows on the side and on the back. On the right, above a blue dumpster, is a white oriel window.

Article from December 1893 Inter Ocean, describing the building. "Raeder, Coffin & Croeker are completing plans for the Menoken clubhouse. . .at a cost of $20,000. . . .The exterior will be of mottled roman brick with cut-stone trimmings. . .The basement will contain the bowling alley and kitchen, and the first story the office reception, reading and billiard rooms, while the second story will be devoted to the library cardroom, and dancing hall.

Rendering of the building. It is Italianate in style with a center entrance under a stone portico.

2841 (formerly 1196) W. Washington in Chicago is a bit of a mystery. Right now, it houses Mt. Sinai Baptist Church and has a 1960ish facade. But yesterday I notice a larger brick building behind it and drove into the alley to get a look. In 1894 a meeting place for the Menoken Club was built here.

Two 2-story residences with rusticated stone facades. The one at right is pretty plain; there is arched stone over the first floor windows and the entrance, and a bit of carving along the top. The building at right has a stone porch roof supported by slightly pudgy rectangular columns with a balustrade above. On the right side is a 2-story curved bay with columns between the windows. The columns on the second floor are Corinthian. Across the top are carvings of: 1) an ugly baby holding a fish; 2)an homely cherub face with wings behind it; 3) a sad lion head sitting on some foliage; 4) a second homely cherub.

Closer shot of the ugly baby holding a fish by the tale. There is a second fish hanging out to the left of the baby.

Closer shot of the top of the curved bay showing the two homely cherubs and the sad lion.

The building on the right has the creepiest cherubs ever. 3057 W. Jackson, Chicago

Red brick rowhouses with mansard roof. The house on the left has a gabled dormer projecting from the roof. the dormer is decorated with sunburst patterns and other gingerbread and painted brick red and mustard yellow. Below the dormer are bay windows on both the first and second floors. The entrance is up some steps to the right of the bay. there is a single window above it on the second floor and a small arched dormer above that. the house on the right has an elaborate arched dormer with multiple sunburst decorations and a finial at the top. Below the dormer, instead of bay windows, is an arched window on the second floor and a mulipaned rectangular window with leaded glass on the first floor.

Clipping from April 9, 1885, Inter Ocean: George Ross, two-story dwelling, 16 x 60 ft, No. 539 [1514] Jackson st.....3,000. A. G. Merriman, two-story and attic dwelling, 21x70 ft., No. 541 [1516] W. Jackson st.....$4,000.

1514-1516 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago. 1885, John Mill Van Osdel, architect

These clippings are from 1928. That decision was in 1948.

Right? The penalty for being a suspected drug dealer isn’t instant execution!

The penalty for being an actual drug dealer isn’t instant execution, either!

BRING BACK DUE PROCESS & THE RULE OF LAW