The Outsider Pages: Chicago's anonymous lakeshore gallery

The Lakefront Anonymous Art Gallery
The Portraits

After names and initials, the most popular carved subject along the lakefront is the face. Images tend to be more cartoonlike than representational, due presumably to the limited skills of the artists, but they are no less charming for it. (Images marked with "Doomed" are within the area of the lakefront anti-erosion project and are destined to be destroyed as the limestone on which they are carved is replaced with concrete.)