Photo Essay: Chicago’s Ice Cream Carts And Trucks

In the summer, ice cream trucks and carts are an indelible part of the urban landscape, dispensing joy and annoying music everywhere they see fit to berth. Chicago has a wide variety of these vessels, as the following photos illustrate:

• Summer dreams, via Hello ChateauHo:

More licks after the jump…

• Vanilla & chocolate, via B Bretz:

• Turquoise truck in Pilsen, via fotoflow / Oscar Arriola:

• La Polar with baseball heretic, via the_toe_stubber:

• Phillips cart on the move, via Ctuna8162:

• Montrose Point soft serve sell, via mmmmarshall:

• “Indie Capitalism” at Pitchfork, via fairest:

• Good Humor/Bad Humor, via steven n fettig:

• Battle of the Bulge, via ljc@flickr:

Photo Essay: Chicago’s Ice Cream Carts And Trucks