City Council sees the writing on the wall — and takes the right step to protect historic signs

Grace’s Furniture is gone, but the vintage sign remains on the building in Logan Square. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

One of Chicago’s best commercial signs — certainly the most unusual — once adorned the former Rosario’s Italian deli in the Ashburn neighborhood.

Anyone who saw it never forgot the sign’s animated neon pigs happily leaping into a moving meat grinder, then coming out on the other side as sausage links spelling out the business’s name.