The Impossible Year

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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.

  • Emissions Testing, 10 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 In order to get our car’s registration renewed we needed to get it emissions inspected, which was entirely shut down until recently.

  • North to Ravenswood, 9 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 I spent Tuesday biking around listening to ‘Road to the Skeleton Coast’ with Brendan Kelly, as he explains the orgins of The Lawrence Arms and how deeply tied it is to Chicago’s punk movement, and influenced by inequity. Something about this empty lot alongside a…

  • Visiting Jamie, 8 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 We biked up to Bowmanville to visit our friend Jamie and share cookies from a safe distance in her courtyard. Unfortunately neither of the photos I took turned out as the flash on my camera did not fire for some reason.

  • 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…

  • Mindy’s Hot Chocolate, 6 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Spent some time cycling the retail corridors of the city and saw some amazing artwork painted on people’s boarded up windows. This Sam Cooke lyric really stuck with me though.

  • Deuce’s, 5 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 While huge parts of the country have erupted in protest, people in Wrigleyville are acting like everything is normal and there is no pandemic.

  • Urban Pooch, 4 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 As Chicago introduced a curfew and braced for a seemingly unending stream of protests, even our local dog daycare place boarded up.

  • 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…

  • 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.