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@jonrev.com
Observer of obsolescence.
Photographer & printmaker on Lake Wazzapamani.
Infodumps about dead malls/esoteric history/things on wheels/whatever...

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📍 the jonrev projects encompass 20+ years of exploring, digitally preserving and infodumping about dead malls, commercial architecture, abandoned buildings and other such places of memories.

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blog ➡️ jonrev.com
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My Lakehurst Mall artifacts and sign are currently on display at the Waukegan History Museum at the Carnegie, who is featuring an exhibit on the city's holiday shopping and traditions through December 20.
November 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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idk has AI stopped being largely used for revenge porn, justifying layoffs, content theft, and suicide inducement? if no, probably anyone who isn’t a sociopath should be against it.
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I don't know what retailers the Yorktown Center redevelopment hopes to attract, but watch your step in this one...
November 26, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Jawa Sandcrawler in Naperville, IL
November 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
After a 17-year lifespan (+/-), the longest I've used any electronic device: my first-gen iPod Touch is likely being retired. Battery only holds a charge for a few minutes.
November 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
American Signature, Inc. - owners of Value City Furniture - has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

www.furnituretoday.com/financial/am...

📷Golf Mill Shopping Center - Niles, Illinois (2020)
#deadmalls #retail #bankruptcy #mediumformat #photography
November 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
After a long 20-month slumber... Belvidere Cinema came back with a bang Saturday with one of the crazy busiest events we've ever done. Around 180 in attendance for E.T. between two shows - first, nearly a full house - with guests visiting from Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan.
November 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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private equity buys a company and immediately starts torturing their employees and the money
November 20, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Disco pants and haircuts
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Belvidere Mall opened 60 years ago today as the first enclosed shopping center in Lake County, Illinois. One of the very few malls to survive a near-death experience: today it remains a vibrant community hub with 38 shops, services and restaurants - nearly all locally-owned - still calling it home.
November 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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32nd Place, Bridgeport, Chicago
November 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The Curlicue sculpture at Lakeforest Mall (left) is confirmed destroyed.
Earlier photos saw Curlicue by Chris Byars intact but on its side. The fate of Monad by Robert Perless is not known.
November 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
My favorite thing about modern cars is the fact the entire dashboard (not just the gauge cluster) has become a video/touch screen yet when something's wrong the only information it shows you remains the half-inch orange graphic of an idiot light.
November 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
This weekend's project finished much-needed lighting upgrades at Belvidere Cinema Gallery
November 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Suzuki Sidekick in downtown Waukegan

#carspotting #weirdcarbs
November 16, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Next Saturday, November 22nd: E.T. comes home to a theatre near you...

Belvidere Cinema Gallery
West side of Belvidere Mall
2145 Belvidere St. (IL-120) Waukegan, IL

FREE SHOWS at 1:00 and 4:30pm
Limited seating available, B.Y.O.Refreshments
History & photography exhibits in the lobby open 12-7pm
November 16, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Well, that was a good $15 find at ReStore...
November 15, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Charlestowne Mall commission shipping tomorrow. 8x12's with mounting.
November 14, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Shop drawing of a terra cotta Schlitz belted globe insignia, likely destined to grace a tied house

📸 Northwestern Terra Cotta Collection, National Building Museum
November 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Northern lights over Waukegan Harbor, tonight
November 13, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Belvidere Mall's owners dropped a surprise truckload of unseen archive photos on us last week and now all my energy is directed toward readying the Cinema for November 22nd...
November 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
There's a kei van on my commute I keep trying to catch because I want to know how to register one of these against Illinois' bass-ackward 25-year import laws.
November 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
ebay pushing AI item descriptions has made browsing vintage electronics absolute hell. Stop regurgitating the same sales pitch and tell me what's wrong with this VCR.
November 4, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Deerbrook in headlights

Deerbrook Mall - Deerfield, Illinois (2017)
#deadmalls #abandoned #mall #retail #fountain #urbex #photography
November 4, 2025 at 8:04 AM
BCG is the last untouched, mid-century General Cinema theater in existence, debuting in 1966 and carved into fours through the decades. Officially closed since 2003, the mall allows us to run it as DIY space for art, music and movies -- our hope is to draw an angel investor who restores and opens it
November 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM