Banksy Work in Chicago’s West Loop

I’m a little late to the party.  This work was discovered last week, I think. You can even see pictures better than my iPhone could manage here, but on my walk to work this morning, ignorant of the news, I thought there was a slim possibility I was the first to notice this Banksy work in the west loop, only a few blocks from Manning’s Office.  Oh, and the Battleship Potemkin reference is particularly funny to me too…

The work is on the side of Veerasway Indian Restaurant on Randolph, two blocks west of Halsted in the west loop.  The adjacent lot used to have a building but it was very recently demolished, opening up the wall on which the work appears.  I remember seeing the staircase between the buildings when the demolition was taking place, and the mark it left on the wall provided the perfect setting for a Potemkin parody.