Artists of the Wall at Loyola Park 2025: All Together Now

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A few photos I [Laurel Delaney] took from the 32nd Annual Artists of the Wall Festival at Loyola Park, June 15, 2025 with the theme "All Together Now." 

The Artists of the Wall Festival got its start in 1993, when a group of Rogers Park neighbors came up with a crucial idea. Gangs had been continually tagging graffiti on the 600-foot sea wall to the point where the Chicago park district couldn’t keep up maintenance. The group thought if the wall was painted by the community with art, that it would be respected and could be enjoyed by all throughout the year. And having the event on Father’s Day weekend would make it a family-oriented event that would bring the whole Rogers Park community out.

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Love this:  "While Trump was celebrating his birthday reviewing a military parade, the people of Rogers Park were celebrating their commitment to living together in harmony with works of mural art on the Loyola Park seawall." 

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