Guides
Signage Guides From a Chicago Sign Company
Practical guides on choosing, permitting and maintaining commercial signage, written by the people who build it.
- Written in-house
- Chicago-specific
- No sales pitch
- From a working sign shop
- Local codes and conditions
- Updated when the facts change
- Questions answered honestly
About these
Guides from a working shop
The questions customers actually ask, answered at length rather than in a sentence.
Most signage advice online is written to rank rather than to help, which is why so much of it is vague about the things that matter: what a permit actually involves here, why one sign type suits a frontage and another does not, and what moves a price.
These are written by the people who draw, build and install the work. Where something depends on your specific municipality we say so rather than generalising, because in this metro the municipality is usually the answer.
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