Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Still a few spaces open if you'd like to join us for Saturday's walking tour looking at the many workers cottages in McKinley Park: workerscottage.org/tour.html 031
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Workers cottages were built in many older industrial cities on the Great Lakes, like this bright cottage in Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood 091
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A lush porch jungle at this cottage in South Deering 051
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A story we talk about on our Logan Square workers cottage walking tour, when banker Paul Stensland forged cottage mortgages and ran off with more than a million $ in 1906digitaledition.chicagotribune.comManhunt in MoroccoSun, 09/20/26 000
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Cooler fall weather is perfect for a walking tour. Come join us on Sept 27 to learn more about the stories of workers cottages in Logan Square, or on Oct 3 in McKinley Park workerscottage.org/tour.html 030
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Did you receive our most recent newsletter issue? You can read and subscribe through our website at workerscottage.org/news.html 000
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 07/09/2026A happy Labor Day celebrating the workers cottage homes built by and for laborers, like this Bowmanville cottage owned by house painter Peter Carlson in the 1890s 060
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The fence spikes are color-coordinated with the house 0174
Reposted by Chicago Workers Cottage InitiativeJonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Update: We won! 🎉 Congrats to Carlos and Emeline and everyone at @injusticewatch.org and @raceandequityproject.org who worked on this outstanding investigation into Cook County's unfair — and unconstitutional — property tax foreclosure system for this well-deserved recognition! 0176
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 04/09/2026More on the strange story of the historic Wacker cottage 000
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Built in 1905 by developer Robert Robertson, the first of a group of matching cottages built one by one on this block 000
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 18/08/2026A small cottage in Little Village that was never raised after the street level was built up 031
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Rare cottage in the midst of a ranch house neighborhood near Midway 031
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 12/08/2026A fancy Flemish gable in Lawndale 0283
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Wish we could see what this grandly-gabled cottage looked like before the paint and porch were added 020
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 04/08/2026The cottage pictured is still available 020
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 03/08/2026The contrast between the colorful flowers and dark painted bricks caught my eye as I was riding by 0112
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Cottages with wood clapboard are not so common nowadays: most are covered up by vinyl or aluminum siding 1243
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 24/07/2026This unassuming cottage in Belmont-Cragin was once home to the Museum of Ancient Spiritual Artifacts, run by TV psychic Mark Kurban in the early 2000s 030
Reposted by Chicago Workers Cottage Initiativedmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Pilsen, Chicago 2426
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 23/07/2026A brightly painted modern porch added to this 1902 cottage 010
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Despite the heatwave, there is apparently still snow on the ground in Milwaukee 000
Reposted by Chicago Workers Cottage Initiativedmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I accidentally and luckily came across four pieces of art in Englewood this morning. 16314
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Our Logan Square workers cottage walking tour yesterday was very lucky to meet Judi, who saw us standing outside her cottage and welcomed the entire group inside to take a look! 020
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 26/06/2026The only one in a row of 1903 cottages with still surviving ornament at the top. Come hear stories about these cottages on our Logan Square walking tour on Saturday afternoon: reserve a spot through our website workerscottage.org 050
Reposted by Chicago Workers Cottage InitiativeJohn Morris @john-morris.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Love these 031
Reposted by Chicago Workers Cottage Initiativegabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Photographed in 2017 051
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Secret row of cottages behind storefronts on Pulaski 172
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Come join us for a walking tour looking at the history of workers cottages in Logan Square! Reserve a ticket at: www.eventbrite.com/e/cottages-o... 000
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Hope your house survived the storm yesterday. This Logan Square cottage was fine, the car maybe not 030
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Such a tiny window upstairs! 030
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Here's another at 2228 W Foster. I believe the connection is that they were built by developer Sam Brown Jr., whose company built hundreds of cottages all over the city. I don't know how many of this design were built, or why they seem to appear randomly in his developments 0111
Reposted by Chicago Workers Cottage Initiativegabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 02/06/2026320 South Mozart Street was the former site of an 1870s Italianate frame worker’s cottage, Orange-rated for historic significance in the Chicago Historic Resources Survey. Archival photo from Illinois Historic Structures Survey 1971-1975; excerpt of 1896 Sanborn Map with building highlighted. 061
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Keep off the grass, in Belmont-Cragin 010
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 01/06/2026If you missed receiving our recent newsletter, you can subscribe at: workerscottage.org/news.html 010
Reposted by Chicago Workers Cottage Initiativegabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 26/05/2026This brick Italianate worker's cottage at 2905 West Monroe Street turns 150 years old this year. It’s lost some details like the bracketed cornice, window hoods and transom, but thankfully still survives. Built in 1876, my 2015 photo and one from the Illinois Historic Structures Survey, 1971-1975. 1131
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 26/05/2026The row of 5 wooden cottages in the background on the left were built around 1911 and are all still standing 051
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Stop by our table at the Chicago Preservation Expo to tell us what you love about workers cottages! www.chicago.gov/city/en/site... 000
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 18/05/2026It’s easy to visualize how this wooden cottage in Roscoe Village was raised up and a new brick floor was added underneath 0141
Reposted by Chicago Workers Cottage Initiativedmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Workers' cottages on W. Maypole in Chicago, from the 1880s. 2213
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Triplet cottages facing Kilbourn Park 030
Reposted by Chicago Workers Cottage Initiativegabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 11/05/2026I love my little 1876 worker’s cottage so much — and so great to see it on Every Lot 😊💗 1183
Reposted by Chicago Workers Cottage Initiativedmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Worker's cottage, 3056 (formerly 671) Flournoy, Chicago. It was built in 1888 by H. B. Fargo, a real estate developer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_B... 0222
Reposted by Chicago Workers Cottage Initiativegabriel x. michael 🎃👻🕸️ @g-x-m.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Built 1869 031
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Cottage with a train in the back yard, built around 1906 in Ravenswood 0111
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Pink flower view from the windows of this Bucktown cottage 080
Reposted by Chicago Workers Cottage InitiativeCertified Illinois Expert @mrillinois.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Did someone else on here stumble upon this same <CHAD> house in Cicero or are there many of these. I know I have seen it before. What does it mean? 5254
Reposted by Chicago Workers Cottage Initiativechinorthsider.bsky.social @chinorthsider.bsky.social · 23/04/2026If you need evidence that Chicago Workers’ Cottages were often built from salvaged or excess brick from area job sites, count the number of brick types in this amazingly intact one west of DePaul. Special appearance by Harley, the Magnolia Street Cat. 05310
Reposted by Chicago Workers Cottage InitiativeWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 21/04/2026#OtD 21 Apr 1855 a Chicago Beer Riot began after police arrested over 200 German beer drinkers following the increase of license fees and the banning of alcohol sales on Sundays. Germans were targeted by the Mayor for forming their own neighbourhoods 0299
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Farewell to this Logan Square brick cottage built around 1891 010