House of Crosses
Back in May I made a fairly lengthy walk up to the neighborhood of West Town, right next to Ukrainian Village. I did this in order to visit a rather famous house that was in the process of being renovated. And I believe by "renovated" they mean "torn down."
The house is known as The House of Crosses.
I will not replicate what's already on the web regarding this house. You can read some of the story of the house here:
http://www.weirdchicago.com/crosses.html
Of particular interest is an audio segment linked to at the bottom of the page for iTunes users. The conversation with the nephew of the owner of the house is quite interesting.
I was not expecting to see anyone there, but two men were busy removing the crosses from the house. I tried to strike up a conversation with them and inquire about the future of all those crosses but I think they were annoyed at my cameras' presence.
If you take a close look at the images you can see the outlines of the crosses that had already been removed. There were a staggering number on the front and (not pictured) the back of the house. I'm glad I was able to see some of the house before it was gone, but I do wish I had made the trek earlier.
