Reading Around on May 15th through May 17th

A few interesting links collected May 15th through May 17th:

• A Mattress Here, A Mattress There….Why are they everywhere? | Today's Photos: Today's best Chicago photos, handpicked by our editors. in Chicago – Carryout on 17 East Ohio

  by: swanksalot

• Chicago for the Architecture Buff – my photo of the Rookery stair used here:

  "Rookery Building

  Photo: swanksalot
  209 S. Lasalle St.
  Mon-Fri: 9am-8pm
  Sat: 9am-4pm

  Named for the giant flocks of pigeons that once roosted onsite, the Rookery is really two buildings in one."

• City Room – Metro – Alderman Destroys Public Art – "BALCER: You know I don't know if there was hidden gang meaning behind it with the cross, with the skull, with the deer, with the police camera's. Was there something anti-police about it? I don't know what's in his mind.

  MARSZEWSKI: It's really too bad that he didn't know that was art.

  Ed Marszewski is the art festival organizer who asked Villa to paint the mural. And it's his mom that owns the building that Villa painted on.

  MARSZEWSKI: We didn't realize that you need to get a permit to paint your own wall. Do you know if that is in fact a law?

  A spokesman for Chicago's buildings department says section 13 25 50 of the City Code requires building owners to have a permit for painted signage or to alter or repair painted signage on a building. But a spokesperson for the city's law department says there's no permit necessary for a mural on the side of a private building as long as it's not an advertisement and as long as the property owner has given their permission. "