I didn’t notice the faces the first few days I lived here. I thought the paper in the windows above the Chicago Printmakers’ Collaborative (CPC) on Western Avenue was simply hiding a remodeling job. Then I found myself standing on the platform of the Brown Line’s Western stop waiting for a train. I noticed that the windows appeared to be full of faces, and when I walked closer, I realized they were the faces of soldiers. I was mesmerized, enough so that I let my train come and go. A few days later I stopped in to talk to the CPC’s owner, Deborah Lader, to learn the story about the 648 faces of soldiers killed in the War in Iraq. (The photo is by Lia Conklin.)

Here’s the story, at Gapersblock.com:  The Faces in the Windows