{"id":785483,"date":"2026-07-26T12:51:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T12:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/785483\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T12:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T12:51:19","slug":"sidewalk-chalk-takes-over-downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/785483\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidewalk chalk takes over downtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\tTagged: <a href=\"https:\/\/evanstonroundtable.com\/tag\/chalk-art\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">chalk art<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/evanstonroundtable.com\/tag\/downtown-evanston-sidewalk-sale-and-chalk-art-contest\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Downtown Evanston Sidewalk Sale and Chalk Art Contest<\/a>\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/evanstonroundtable.com\/author\/joerg-metzner-2\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Avatar photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cropped-DSCF7461-121122f-2-scaled-1-120x120.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-120 photo\" height=\"120\" width=\"120\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJoerg Metzner is a portrait, architecture, and editorial photographer (joerg-metzner.com) based in Evanston. You can reach him at joerg@joerg-metzner.com or (312) 925-0545.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/evanstonroundtable.com\/author\/joerg-metzner-2\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Joerg Metzner\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tagged: chalk art,\u00a0Downtown Evanston Sidewalk Sale and Chalk Art Contest Joerg Metzner is a portrait, architecture, and editorial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,334195,229,334196,88],"class_list":["post-785483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-chalk-art","tag-design","tag-downtown-evanston-sidewalk-sale-and-chalk-art-contest","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}