Iconic Kitsch Shop ‘Yesterday’ Being Replaced by Three-Flat Tomorrow

Photo via Chicago Cityscapes Twitter.You can almost see it in my Twitter header image, a ramshackle building sticking out like a jaundiced sore thumb along Addison Street just down from Wrigley Field. The windows are plastered with posters gone nearly as yellow as the facade’s paint, beyond which is a collection of kitsch that looks like something out of Hoarders. Even if you never patronized the place, it was impossible not to recognize Yesterday as an iconic holdover from a previous chapter of Wrigleyville’s history.

But just as the lawn chairs and coolers on the roofs along Waveland and Sheffield have long since past, Yesterday’s tomorrows are running out. As reported by Chicago…