Transit Tees

Transit Tees takes visuals from Chicagos metropolitan landscapes and transforms them into fashionable artwork. Founded in 2001 by Tim Gillengerten, a creative director who aspired to build an apparel line that reinterprets subway maps, street signs, city seals and flags in ways that the public had never seen before. Today, Transit Tees is an official manufacturer for the Chicago Transit Authority and locally designs, fabricates and retails their signature brand online and at three gift shops, including their flagship store in Wicker Park. After years of hard work, vending at summer street festivals, Transit Tees was able to take an essential leap and open its first retail store in Wicker Park at 1371 N. Milwaukee Ave. Since moving in, the neighborhood has seen an exciting evolution; with new bars, restaurants and clothing shops calling it their home and established businesses experiencing a new vibrancy. The Transit Tees store is stocked with t-shirts, hoodies, wall art, and gift...