“The Spindle,” sometimes known as the Car-Kabob, a giant sculpture in the parking lot of the Cermak Plaza strip mall in Berwyn, Illinois, is set to be destroyed as part of a strip mall reconstruction. Instead, drugstore megachain Walgreens, apparently not content with its near-complete saturation of the Chicagoland landscape, will replace the legendary sculpture. Goodbye, quirky art, hello, homogeneity! (You might remember the 1989 sculpture by artist Dustin Shuler from the movie “Wayne’s World.”) But fans of the art and the citizens of the Chicago suburb of Berwyn aren’t sitting still: The website SaveTheSpindle.com has launched, and there’s a resolution in the Illinois House decrying the teardown. Will the sculpture survive? Hit the supporters’ site and show ‘em your love.
Save the Spindle
(Photo: Seth Tisue)
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@Greasy Thumb Guzik: The tribune is a joke, just fyi. Most poorly written news I’ve ever read.
It was not that long ago that North side favorites like Wrigleyville and Bucktown/Wicker Park were dangerous places to live. Humboldt Park (excuse me, Logan Square) is still as dangerous as many places on the southside.
The same gentrification that happened up north is happening in Bridgeport and areas around UIC. There are also great southside neighborhoods like Beverly you are forgetting. And the funny thing is, those great southside neighborhoods are generally filled with 2nd generation families. Those great neighborhoods on the north are filled with kids from Downers Grove, Des Moines, Milwaukee and Western Michigan and claim “I’m from Chicago!”
For the record Berwyn is on the West side of Chicago. Its even served by the CTA. Look at a map before you speak of things you don’t know.
what 100 is Berwyn? that’s south side, even if west as well. and west isnt so great as well, west side of chicago?
@AngrySicilian:
New York and Seattle? HA! It’s the best thing between New York and TOKYO!!
@mupethifi: Do you have anything intelligent to add to the commentary?
You just keep proving how little you know about Chicago and its suburbs whenever you post something new.
As far as “yuppies flocking north”, they’ve always had enclaves on the near Northside (which was part of the reason I mentioned the LP/GC area).But their also all over Chicago – Wicker Park, South Loop, Andersonville. And the tearing down of Cabrini (which BTW only started ~2 years ago, they were right on the “yuppies’” dorrstep for 30+ years) has just caused all the crime to migrate into other “safer” neighborhoods of the city.
Besides, if you definition of how “safe” a Chicago neighborhood is by the number of “yuppies”/chads/trixies there are, you are SERIOUSLY out of touch with this city.
When I name our fair city, I ALWAYS say “Chicaguh. Chicaguh, Illinoise – the Greatest City in the World”
Just like da Mare.