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Artist's vision at one suburban Chicago store blends hardware tools, pop images and citizens' smiling faces.
An Ace Hardware store in Skokie, III., allowed Chicago muralist Jeff Zimmermann free reign to create an eyecatching mural on its exterior wall by combining everyday items found in a hardware store along with various pop imagery and the faces of locals. On this approximately 60-foot-long by 12-foot-high brick "canvas," giant nails assemble themselves in mid-air at one end of the stretch of building exterior. A hammer floats vertically at the...