Blog: Outdoor Signs

From The Daily Herald 9/15/15. Hanover Park installed new street signs last week that police hope will use a bit of humor to catch motorists' attention and remind them to stop at intersections where it's required. But the Illinois Department of Transportation says the new signs don't comply with...

From Crain's Thomas Corfman: A coalition of groups representing small-business owners is pushing the Emanuel administration to speed up the approval process for signs, which they say is needlessly slow and expensive. An application for a sign on average takes 10 to 12 hours to complete and then...

A great retail sign should capture the customer’s interest enough to read it; just like a great email subject line gets someone  to open it, or a compelling headline in a newspaper gets someone to read it. Here are seven tips to create compelling retail signage: Get to the point. We communica...

Do you own a sign purchased from White Way Signs in Chicago? Have you had a service contract with White Way Signs to maintain your sign? If the answer is yes, Parvin-Clauss Sign Company can help. White Way Signs recently filed for bankruptcy protection, leaving many businesses without a sign servi...

By Dawn Rhodes Chicago Tribune Glen Ellyn's electronic message board in downtown Glen Ellyn comes with $102,000 price tag. The LED sign will replace the monument sign at Main Street and Crescent Boulevard, a dual-facing sign village employees change manually. Village trustees voted in late April...

One of the things customers will notice when they first visit a business is the signs, directing them to where they need to go. It might not be something that businesses pay the most attention to, but way-finding and destination signage are markers your customers will rely on when navigating your bu...

From The Chicago Tribune: Steel beam by beam, metal spoke by spoke, construction workers at Wrigley Field are building the support of a structure that forever will change the game-day experience for Cubs fans. The jumbo-sized left-field video board, the Cubs insist, will be up and operating for...

By Lexy Gross with the Chicago Tribune: One of this year's "Chicago 7" buildings deemed threatened by a local preservation group isn't a building at all. Neon signs "throughout the city" made Preservation Chicago's annual list of the city's most endangered structures. The signs, which often be...

So you need a sign for your business.. Where should your sign go, based on your building location and the traffic flow, for the most effective visual impact? Take a look at a site map of your location (Google maps are great for this) and answer these questions: 1. What are the main roads near your...

To prevent another big sign like the one Donald Trump attached to his riverfront skyscraper, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is introducing an ordinance allowing new signs along the waterway but substantially reducing their size. Last June, through a spokesman, Emanuel called the Trump sign "awful" and in "very...