Chicagoan and designer Steve Shanabruch has embarked upon creating visual identities for all 77 of Chicago’s community areas—at a rate of two each week—based on each neighborhood’s history, makeup, area of the city, and any experiences he has had in it. It’s quite a nice idea, and the execution is even better. Take the entry for Mount Greenwood:
In 1879, after receiving 80 acres in a state land grant, George Waite called his new property “Mount Greenwood” because of the abundant presence of trees on an elevated ridge. Once an area known for its farming (with boundaries that include Chicago’s only remaining farm), Mount Greenwood is now a blue collar and predominantly Irish-Catholic neighborhood that is home to its fair share of firefighters, police officers and union workers.
(via Pretty Clever)
