News From the Loft

We just hung the latest banners for the Lyric Opera and the Joffery Ballet on the Civic Opera Building on Wacker. The Lyric is presenting a collaboration with Billy Corgan called A Night of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness that runs through the end of November. The Joffery will follow with their rendition of the Nutcracker - set in Chicago just before the 1893 World's Fair.  Give the gift of entertainment this season. 

Paola's Delights  Just opened up next door. We are in trouble. Their stuff is amazing. Stop in next time you are in the neighborhood.

Millennium Park reached out to us and asked us to inspect and perform maintenance on the messenger cable system holding the speakers over the Great Lawn. We spent the better part of a week in an 80ft boom truck tightening turnbuckles and inspecting the system.

Thanks to the City of Chicago Small Business Improvement Fund for helping us renovate the front of the shop. We were able to save the original cast iron window frames and columns from 1884 and restore the cornice per the original design. The shop is much brighter and inviting.            

Check back often. We are adding new sails daily. We have hundreds of crates of sails and we process more every week.