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Sunny Days
Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Feels like spring is slowly showing its head. As I walked into the living room I was struck by the light breaking through our windows silhouetting the whole room.
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W Byron St, 1 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Cycling around I was stuck to find that much of W Byron St. had its trees wrapped in pride colors.
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BLM Boards, 29 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Saw this at the corner of Lincoln and Montrose. I’ve appreciated that as businesses chose to board up, that many have used this as an opportunity to create murals.
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Uptown Protests, 25 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 There was a march up Broadway Avenue in opposition to Alderman Harry Osterman and Alderman James Cappleman, both of which are opposing police reforms in city council.
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Welles Park, 16 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 I biked over to Welles Park to sit and read and took in this sunset. The silhouette hides it, but there is a crochet ‘BLM’ sign on here. You can see it here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBhgRnYDG6s/
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DePaul, 11 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 The sign at the—currently locked—entrance-way to DePaul University’s Lincoln Park Campus displayed a ‘Black Lives Matter’ message.
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Protests in Lincoln Square, 7 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Our neighborhood had a large protest on Sunday. Beth Ann came with me and we biked circles around the perimeter. Our community is overwhelmingly white and has had, at times, problems with white nationalist graffiti. I’m proud to see so many of my…
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Cafe Tola, 3 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Cafe Tola is a small coffee and empanda shop on Southport Avenue that has expanded over the years into a chain of stores all over Chicago. This one however, is near and dear to my heart. In light of everything going on they’ve boarded up…
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Andie’s Restaurant?, 2 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 A few year back Andie’s Restaurant on Montrose closed ‘for remodels’ and never reopened. This week they put up boards to protect it from looters.