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I took this super quick last evening right outside the Logan Square stop whilst waiting for Jaime. I got off the train and immediately smelled them and walked over to go take them in. Spring/summer in Chicago is such a wildly more wonderful time than winter, which is positively insufferable in its coldness and, especially, its grayness. Flowers have been blooming, the air has been warm, and there has been a wealth of golden sunsets lately (seen here in glimpses). It makes me so much happier.
*Also, I edited this quicklike on my laptop, which I've never used to edit photos before since I don't have any of my programs on it. It looks lovely on my screen, but I know the laptop can often make strange colours and be too light, so hopefully it is displaying right for everyone else.
**I also made a muxtape, because I guess you have to, don't you? pear.muxtape.com/
It's not really a mix so much as a random assemblage of indie poprock I like a lot. I was going to make a mix of my favourite electronica/downtempo/triphop that I listen to when processing picture, but I couldn't get Nightmares on Wax to upload, and such a mix without them is...well, that's not a very good mix, now is it?
2503-2505-2507-2509 W. Fullerton
*The new condos on the left (2503) have remained available since being constructed a year or so ago. The three-story orange cream-colored house (2505) is listed with Coldwell Banker for $295,000. The first floor storefront at 2507, which was formerly a sub shop, is available for lease, as is the storefront next door at 2509.
Built in 1899-1901, this Renaissance Revival-style building was designed by Adolphus Druiding for St. Hedwig Catholic Church, founded in 1888 as a Roman Catholic Parish serving the growing Polish community on the city’s Northwest side. The building is one of several “Polish Cathedral”-style churches in the city of Chicago that were built for the city’s Polish community during the late 19th Century and around the turn of the 20th Century, most of which are located on the city’s Northwest side. The building is clad in buff brick with limestone trim, rusticated limestone accents, a latin cross plan with a nave, semi-circular apse, and transepts, stained glass windows in roman arched bays, a front portico with doric columns, a front pediment above fluted ionic columns, two front towers with octagonal belfries featuring domed roofs, small porticoes at the upper-level window bays, and oxeye windows at ground level, doric pilasters, and stone acroterions and pinnacles atop the roof and pediments. The building today remains in use as the home of St. Hedwig Catholic Church, now part of Blessed Carlo Acutis Parish.
Built in 1914-1920, this Renaissance Revival-style building was designed by Worthmann and Steinbach for the congregation of St. Mary of the Angels Catholic Church, founded in 1899 to serve the growing Polish Catholic community on the city’s northwest side. The latin cross plan building is clad in red brick with terra cotta trim, roman arched bays and large rose windows on the ends of the nave, apse, and transepts, a gabled roof, angel statues atop each pilaster on the exterior facade, stained glass windows, low aisles flanking a high central nave, a dome with oxeye dormers and a lantern atop the crossing of the nave and transepts, two front towers flanking the Corinthian front portico, and a series of accessory buildings to the south, which are connected together along the west side of the church property. Today, the building remains the St. Mary of the Angels Roman Catholic Church.
Built in 1908, this Renaissance Revival-style greystone two-flat is characteristic of the turn of the 20th Century townhouses that can be found throughout Chicago’s neighborhoods.