InterestingIdeas.com has an amazing collection of roadside art, many of which I recognize from the Chicago area.

Is it any surprise that so much of America’s great art can be seen from the window of a passing car, in the melange of shop signs, billboards and cheesy buildings, in the personal monuments people make in their gardens and empty lots, on the makeshift, lean-to margins where artistic preconceptions and ambitions don’t exist?

Here are a few selections, just to give you the idea:

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