Thanks for Workers Cottages

Thank you to this Bucktown cottage for the colorful decorations for every holiday!

The Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative sends a hearty thank you to everyone who attended our fall walking tours and homeowner workshop, and to everyone who stopped by to chat at several farmers markets in the summer. Your enthusiasm for workers cottages shows they becoming better known as iconic Chicago houses. Thanks to everyone for spreading the idea that workers cottages are an important part of Chicago's story worth preserving and celebrating!

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Sharing Homeowner Tips

Thank you to everyone who attended our homeowner workshop in October at Wicker Park's Den Theater. At the event, specialists in home design and repair talked about their experiences working on workers cottages in Chicago. Questions for the speakers continued into friendly conversations among attendees about their own house stories. If you were not able to join us at the event, be sure to look up our speakers to find out how they can help you with your next repair project:

• Bob McCarthy – Besco Air
• Jeremy Miller – Top Knot Painters
• Jane Price – Jane Price Design
• Grecia Tarakajian – Casa Tarakajian
• Ty Trier – Logan Square Electric

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CWCI Cottage Gifts

If you are looking for gifts for the upcoming holidays, how about cottage-themed poster or coffee mug? Show your love for neighborhood architecture with one of our three mini posters featuring a variety of picturesque local cottages in Avondale, Logan Square and Wicker Park-Bucktown.

Our hand-crafted and hand-painted birdhouses in the style of a Chicago workers cottage make a perfect home for city birds in your backyard garden.

These unique gifts, as well as CWCI mugs and t-shirts, help fund our efforts to preserve workers cottages in Chicago.

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Recent Tidbits

The Rebuilding Exchange, a 15-year-old nonprofit which recycled used cabinets, sinks, doors and other house furnishings, recently closed its Evanston and Chicago locations after a loss of federal funding.

Artist Tonika Lewis Johnson, whose Inequity For Sale public art project exposes the legacy of exploitive house sales in Chicago, won a MacArthur "genius" award

A new book by Carla Bruni & Phil Thompson titled Chicago Homes tells the story of all types of Chicago's vernacular houses, including workers cottages

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