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Paintings of corner shops, liquor stores, laundromats, corner stores, and more. Socialist.

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Delgado Shoe Store
3504 W 26th Ave.
Chicago
A watercolor painting of a storefront. A metal grate is closed over the recessed entrance to the store, but boots and shoes and a shirt can be seen in display windows. A sign hands above the entrance and part of it reads “DO SHOE STORE”. Above that is part of a sign that reads “LGADO” and to the right of that is part of another sign that reads “DEL”. Below this last sign is a glass door that leads to some orange steps that disappear into the dark.
August 9, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Johnson’s Transmission
4528 W Madison St
Chicago
A watercolor painting of the entrance to an auto shop. An orange metal grate covers a grey door flanked by orange painted brick with the words “BRAKES” and “TIRES” written vertically. A window is covered in white board with the words “ac charge, brakes rotor, suspension, flats six, batteries, wheel bearings” written on it. Some of the brick exterior is also painted a light yellow. And empty white sign hangs above the window and door
May 21, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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1149 W 18th St
Chicago
A watercolor painting of a building entrance. A recessed door is flanked by storefront windows, which are covered by a metal grate. A grate over the doorway is half closed. Graffiti and tags cover the door, and the reflections of buildings are visible in the glass windows. A strip of red brick above the windows runs horizontally across the painting.
March 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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2617 W. North Ave
Chicago
A watercolor painting of a storefront. Above the central door hangs a yellow sign with the words “We buy gold, diamonds, silver, electronics, tools, antiques, etc.” written in blue. Flanking the door, the storefront windows are blocked by plywood on one side and piled high with cardboard boxes on the other side. A pink bay window juts out from the second floor of the building, its windows cast in shadow or reflecting a neighboring building.
February 21, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Shekinah Glory Holiness Ministry
2436 W Division St
Chicago
A watercolor painting of an orange brick building. Blue-grey doors flank four narrow windows with closed curtains. A sign above the windows reads “Shekinah Glory Holiness Ministry / Where the power of god is always falling / Eld. Calvin L Brown Sr. Pastor”. The shadow of a light pole runs across the sidewalk and up the face of the building
February 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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North Pulaski Fresh Market
3850 W North Ave
Chicago
An oil painting of the side of a grocery store. The words Pulaski Market hang above a row of windows filled with advertisements for aguacate, queso, and corn chips. The front of a red pick is visible along the curb, and a man in an orange shirt stands on the roof of the entrance, doing some work on the building.
January 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Another one
A photo of a low brick building with metal grating over the doors and windows. Above these is a yellow stripe of painted brick with the words “Food” & “Rosie’s Food Mart” in blue, red, and black paint, which is faded and chipping A photo of the same building but it has been painted white and the doors and windows black. The word “Sparrow” is painted above the door
December 7, 2024 at 9:02 PM
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WASHTOWN USA
4036 W. Montrose, Chicago
A watercolor of an abandoned laundromat. A sign that “Washtown USA” in fading black letters hangs over dark glass windows. Two steps lead up to a recessed entry cast in dark shadows. Above the store, sand-colored aluminum siding is bisected by uneven dark brown aluminum trim that juts out with a bay window, casting more shadow below it. A patch of blue sky is visible in the corner above the neighboring building
December 3, 2024 at 11:15 PM
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3624 W North Ave
Chicago
A watercolor painting of Edie’s party liquors. Grey shingled eaves cast a slight shadow on the sign and the red brick below. The words “rentamos sillas mesas” are painted along the wall”
November 26, 2024 at 8:01 PM
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Rest in Peace, Edie’s Party Liquors
A photo of Edie’s Party Liquors, a corner store with a colorfully painted sign A photo of the same building but it has been painted white with black trim. The original signage can shows through some of the white paint. The windows are empty and the store has closed.
November 26, 2024 at 7:58 PM
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Beauty Sa on
2714 W Division St
Chicago
A watercolor of a storefront. A glass door is dark with shadow and the words “Beauty Salon” are written in small white lettering, with the L missing”. Windows alongside the door reveal nothing but closed grey curtains. A turned off neon “Open Sign” casts a shadow on one of the curtains. The reddish wood siding of the building frames the door and windows.
November 20, 2024 at 3:50 PM
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Baba’s Fish & Chicken
3420 W North Ave
Chicago

Oil on wood panel
An oil painting on wood panel depicting a two story light blue building with a yellow awning that reads “Baba’s Fish & Chicken”. The awning casts a dark shadow over a red and blue store front with a window and door covered in metal bars. Abutting the building is a small cream-colored house with a blue door. On the other side of Baba’s is an empty lot where vegetation grows through a chain link fence. Green trees rise up behind the buildings and give way to a clear blue sky.
November 13, 2024 at 8:05 PM
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Laundryland
3052 W Diversey Ave
Chicago
A watercolor painting of a laundromat at night. The interior is illuminated brightly by fluorescent lighting that reflects of washing machines and orange pillars. The outline of the building is pitch black and frames the large glass windows and entrance. A sign above the entrance is illuminated and reads “Laundryland” in orange lettering
November 10, 2024 at 12:35 AM
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Fireside Bowl
2646 W Fullerton Ave
Chicago
A watercolor painting of the exterior wall of a bowling alley. At the base of the and colored wall runs a broad red line, above it two red framed windows display unlit neon Budweiser signs. Above the windows the word “BOWL” is painted in large red capital letters. Above that two more red stripes run across the wall. The smooth wall then gives way to brown brick interrupted by four second story windows
October 15, 2024 at 9:02 PM
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George’s Music Room
3915 W. Roosevelt Rd
Chicago
A watercolor painting of a two-story red brick building. A white sign with black and blue lettering spans the width of the building and reads “Georges Music” but the second half of the sign is missing or hanging loosely. A vertical sign reading “Georges” in red lettering juts out from the center of the building’s second story as well. The windows along the first floor and two windows on the second story are borders up with plywood. Graffiti covers the side of the building and overgrown plants encroach on the building and the sidewalk.
September 24, 2024 at 12:34 AM
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K’s Department Store
2816 W Cermak Rd
Chicago
A watercolor painting of a brown brick two-story building abutting a one story building painted bright yellow and red. In the large empty windows of the first floor, a banner reads “OPEN” with an arrow pointing to the right. A paper that reads “Discount Prices” has fallen from the window and is rolled at its base. A square of blue sky is visible above the yellow building.
September 12, 2024 at 8:03 PM
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Dollar Plus
5548 W North Ave
Chicago
A watercolor painting of a boarded up store front. A white sign hangs runs above the boarded up windows and door. It reads “Dollar Plus” and “Save more mart” in faded red lettering. On the second floor, four windows are set in yellow brick. Dark shadows frame the windows and doorway.
September 11, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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A watercolor painting of a corner store. The brick wall is painted yellow and covered in lettering that reads “FAMILY FOODS OPEN 7 DAYS” followed by a list of foods. Images of nachos, pop, milk, bread are painted on the wall as well. A blue awning wraps around and above the corner entrance has “MJ Food Mart” written in yellow on it. The yellowed metal supports of the El rise up from the sidewalk and cast shadows in front of the store.
October 31, 2023 at 10:32 PM
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A small watercolor painting of a yellow-named Amazon parrot. He is bright green with one red and one blue feather along his wing.
October 21, 2023 at 1:07 AM
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Roeser’s Bakery
3216 W North Ave.
Chicago
A watercolor painting of tall, narrow, 3 story brick building. The bottom floor of the building features large glass windows under a green awning, above which the words “ROESER’S bakery” are illuminated in pink neon. A green sign juts out from the building and the word “Roeser’s” and “Open Sunday” descend vertically. At the bottom it reads “bakery” horizontally. Bay windows project from the second and third floors and and are painted a mint green with ornate burnt sienna trim. Near the top of the building two other signs project horizontally and read “ice cream” and “baking memories since 1911”. The side of the building is partly painted yellow and features the name of the bakery and contact information and images of ice cream and cake. The building is illuminated by a bright sun and the bay windows and vertical sign cast dark shadows across the face of the building and its neighbor
October 19, 2023 at 3:07 AM
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Fifth Avenue Foods
2961 W 5th Ave. Chicago
A watercolor painting of the first floor of a shuttered storefront. Two doors, one white and the other brown and behind a metal grate, flank a boarded up window. Posters and advertisements cover the window which is also covered by the lattice of a metal grate. Above the window is a large sign that reads 5th Ave Foods in fading letters. A fading ATM sign hangs above the right door. To the left and right side of this door, Food and Liquor, respectively, are painted on the red brick. The bottoms of three dark windows are visible on the second floor.
October 5, 2023 at 12:11 PM
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3500 & 3504 W North Ave, Chicago, through a glass block window
A water color painting of a beige house with a boarded up storefront along the lower level that abuts a bright red brick three flat. Behind the buildings, green trees reach up towards a blue sky. The entire image is viewed through a thick glass block window, and is divided into twelve individual squares, with the image distorted and repeating from one block to another
July 4, 2023 at 3:33 PM
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A photo of two buildings on a Chicago street. The photo is taken through thick glass block windows
July 1, 2023 at 8:11 PM