Wheatpaste poster advertising in Chicago.
Hand-installed paste-up posters across Wicker Park, Logan Square, Pilsen, the West Loop, and River North. Per-wall pricing, GPS photo proof on every install.
From $3,500, printing and installation both included. 7-10 days from brief to first wall.
500+ documented installs since 2019 · a GPS photo of every wall · printed and installed in-house
We delivered.
Brand partners include: FIFA World Cup 2026, Palantir, Sézane, G-Shock, Mitchell & Ness, True Religion, Huda Beauty, Yonex, Relevance AI, Momentous, RYZE Coffee, Bloom Effects, Incrediwear, Brooklyn Museum, Sweat FC, HydroJug, Frameline, Alchemy, OneRepublic, Lone Fox, Vaura Pilates.
Milwaukee Avenue holds the wall.
The Milwaukee Avenue corridor through Wicker Park and Logan Square carries roughly 8 to 12 high-visibility paste-friendly walls per block. The grid means more wall per square mile than any other Tier-1 in the country. Storefront shutters, painted commercial frontage, and boulevard brick sit at eye level on the streets your audience already walks. New paper reads as part of the corridor, not noise dropped on top of it.
That is the Chicago paste-up advantage. Not a billboard buy. Not CTA transit. Hand-installed wheatpaste at street scale on the surfaces a design-aware Midwest audience passes during Lollapalooza, Pitchfork, Riot Fest, and the Saturday gallery walk through Pilsen and River North. The wall is the campaign. Nothing surrounds it.
Walls we've pasted in Chicago.
Heavyweight stock, hand-pasted.
No vinyl, no machines. Paper and wheat paste on a real Chicago wall.
Placed where the city actually looks.
We scout the corridors first, then paste at eye level on the walls your audience already passes.
Crews paste across Chicago in one run.
8 neighborhoods on a single dispatch, timed to your launch window.
Every wall comes back as proof.
A GPS-stamped photo of each install the day it goes up. 0 municipal removals on record since 2019.
Chicago · Printed in-house · Installed by our crew
Got a wall in Chicago?
Send the brand, the neighborhood, and your window. You get a real quote, line by line. From $3,500, printed and installed, documented on every wall.
- Quote in under 24 hours
- No discovery call. The brief is the call.
- Printing & Installation under one roof
Brief us · 7-10 days to first wall
Start your Chicago campaign.
Paper, paste, and a real wall.
A large paper poster adhered to a wall with a water-based wheat-flour paste. The sheet grips brick, concrete, scaffold board, and plywood as a single skin — no frame, no vinyl, no grommets — and photographs as part of the building rather than a sign bolted on. The same water that cured the paste dissolves it on demand, leaving the surface clean.
- 01 Scout the wall
We identify permitted private walls, scaffold boards, and construction hoardings in your target Chicago neighborhoods before anything prints.
- 02 Print in-house
Artwork is matched to the surface spec by the same crew that does the install. No handoff between print shop and installer.
- 03 Hand-paste
Two coats of paste per sheet — the face coat soaks through the fiber and locks the poster down edge to edge. 7-10 days from brief to first wall in Chicago.
- 04 GPS-document every wall
Three photos per wall (wide, mid, and detail). Full log ships within 48 hours of the last install. 0 municipal removals on record since 2019.
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Brooklyn Museum
Eight neighborhoods. Eight registers.
- Wicker Park storefront shutters · painted commercial · 14-21 days
The Milwaukee Avenue corridor, 8 to 12 walls per block. Storefront shutters and painted commercial frontage. The densest paste-up audience in the Midwest. Highest paste velocity in the city.
- Logan Square boulevard brick · painted · 14-21 days
The California-Kedzie corridor along the boulevards. Boulevard brick and painted commercial walls. A high-velocity, design-aware audience. Pairs with Wicker Park on the Milwaukee Avenue run.
- Pilsen raw brick · mural-adjacent · 16-24 days
Fifteen blocks of organized mural culture along 18th Street. Raw brick, mural-adjacent walls. Paste-up here reads as part of the visual register only when the crew coordinates with the artist community. Not a posting zone.
- West Loop construction hoarding · retail · 12-20 days
The Fulton Market District. Construction hoarding and retail-corridor walls. Reaches design and creative buyers plus corporate-adjacent briefs. Strongest paste-up neighborhood for fashion, food, and agency work.
- River North commercial walls · 12-18 days
Downtown gallery corridors. Clean, controlled commercial walls. Reaches a downtown placement audience for product reveals and brand launches that want polished surfaces over raw brick.
- Bucktown residential-commercial frontage · 14-20 days
North of Wicker Park along the same corridor. Residential-commercial frontage. Extends the Milwaukee Avenue audience into a residential reach for DTC, fitness, and hospitality briefs.
- Wrigleyville commercial brick · 12-18 days
The game-day corridor around the ballpark. Commercial brick at street level. Heavy foot traffic on game days. Routing reroutes around home games so installs stay clean and crews avoid the crowd window.
- Andersonville neighborhood retail · 14-20 days
Neighborhood retail along Clark Street. Painted retail frontage at walking pace. The right neighborhood for independent-retail, food-and-beverage, and community-rooted briefs north of the river.
Chicago questions.
The short version. The brief covers the rest.
Q · 01 Is wheatpaste advertising legal in Chicago?
Permitted private-wall campaigns run with written owner consent, and we never touch public infrastructure: CTA transit, utility poles, traffic signs, or municipal right-of-way. Chicago's sign and zoning code regulates sign placement and prohibits unauthorized posting on public right-of-way. Zero municipal removals on record across 500+ documented installs since 2019.
Q · 02 How much does a wheatpaste campaign cost in Chicago?
Wheatpaste in Chicago starts at $3,500 per campaign with print and install included. Multi-neighborhood programs across Wicker Park, Logan Square, Pilsen, the West Loop, River North, and Bucktown price up from the published floor. The final number depends on turnaround, size, location count, and combined service mix, and it tracks print volume and crew days, not the brand on the poster. Festival-week briefs carry a premium on compressed install windows. Final quote returns in 24-48 hours. Full rate card is on our pricing page.
Q · 03 Which Chicago neighborhoods do you cover for paste-up campaigns?
Wicker Park, Logan Square, Pilsen, the West Loop, River North, Bucktown, Wrigleyville, and Andersonville. Wicker Park and Logan Square carry the highest density of paste-friendly walls along the Milwaukee Avenue corridor, roughly 8 to 12 high-visibility walls per block. Pilsen runs fifteen blocks of mural-integrated brick on 18th Street. The West Loop serves the Fulton Market design and agency audience. River North handles downtown placement on clean controlled walls. Each neighborhood carries distinct property-owner relationships and surface specs.
Q · 04 How fast can a Chicago campaign launch?
Seven to ten days from creative lock to first wall. Tier-1 pace, but property coordination runs 3 to 5 days because we secure written consent on every surface before paper ships. Installation moves fast once access is confirmed, and most campaigns go live across multiple neighborhoods in a single weekend. Pilsen adds lead time for artist-community coordination. Winter pushes absorb a 3 to 5 day weather buffer for cold-surface scheduling.
Q · 05 What proof do I get back from a Chicago campaign?
Three GPS-stamped photos per wall: wide, mid, detail. Delivered as a downloadable bundle and inside your client portal within 48 hours of install. A GPS install log with one row per wall (neighborhood, lat/long, install date, surface, installer ID). A 30-day audit memo with survival count and refresh log. The wrap deck breaks placement count by neighborhood with foot-traffic notes per corridor. Pilsen installs include community-partnership notes documenting the artist coordination.
From $3,500. 7-10 days, brief to first paste.
Printing and installation both included. Most shops do one or the other. Every wall is scouted, hand-pasted, and GPS-photographed the day it goes up.
