Chicago Rubber Pride

Overview

Sold by PrideFlags.com as "Chicago Rubber Pride", part of its Chicago series. "All PrideFlags.com flags are printed on high-quality poly silk. Our flags are designed, printed and manufactured in the USA." ^[2]

Identity & Context

Subcommunity

Chicago LGBTQ community

Movement

Civic pride, LGBTQ visibility

National Context

United States; Chicago

One of a series of Chicago Pride flags from the same seller crossing the municipal flag with identity flags, in the city's strong civic-flag culture.

Creators

The Creator

Attribution notes

The design is attributed to PrideFlags.com as its designing organization and manufacturer; no individual designer is named. PrideFlags.com states in its FAQ that each PrideFlag is designed, cut, sewn and quality-tested in its Chicago studio. That supports Chicago as the organizational design and production location for the series; it names no individual designer. ^[3][2]

Origin

Country

United States

Region / state

Illinois

City

Chicago

Place Type

design and production studio / civic Pride design

Origin Type

organizational design and production location

Designed and produced in Chicago, Illinois, on the traditional homeland of the Council of the Three Fires (Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi). ^[4][5]

Indigenous land context

Council of the Three Fires (Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi) — traditional and historical homeland (Indigenous name: Niswi-mishkodewin). The Chicago area is the traditional homeland of the Council of the Three Fires, the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations, and has also been home to the Miami, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, and Sac and Fox peoples. The 1833 Treaty of Chicago forced the migration of Odawa, Potawatomi, and Ojibwe peoples west of the Mississippi River, and Chicago later became a destination for coerced relocation under the federal Indian Relocation Act of 1956. ^{[4][5] [4][5]}

Colonial / settler context

Chicago was incorporated as a U.S. city in 1837 following the Treaty of Chicago (1833), which forced the removal of Odawa, Potawatomi, and Ojibwe peoples from the region. ^{[5] [5]}

Chicago is the city the design represents and the documented organizational design and production location: the seller states each flag is designed, cut, sewn and quality-tested in its Chicago studio. No individual designer is named. ^[3][2]

Dates & Chronology

Year Created

2017

Documented

Documented for sale from 18 August 2017

Creation Bounds

The product record’s publishOn and addedOn fields both carry 18 August 2017, the first documented PrideFlags.com publication of the listing. Publication of the product page bounds the design’s creation rather than dating it. The sitewide footer "All flag designs ©PrideFlags.com 2019" is a copyright notice, not a creation or publication date; several products in the series demonstrably predate it. ^[1][2]

No use beyond the seller's listing has been located.

Lineage

Direct predecessors

Rubber Pride Flag

Lineage confidence

medium

A two-source design, in the pattern of the whole series: the City of Chicago municipal flag (Wallace Rice, 1917, four stars by 1939) supplies the civic structure, its white field and its bar and star positions, and Rubber Pride Flag supplies the palette. The municipal flag has no entry in this archive, as a civic rather than Pride flag. The other Chicago designs from the same seller are family members rather than parents or children of this one. ^[6][1]

Lineage tree

Every record reachable from this one through documented parent and child relationships: 2 records across 2 generations.

Ancestor

Rubber Pride Flag

This record

Chicago Rubber Pride

Colors & Symbolism

No statement of meaning is published. The palette is the identity flag's and the layout the municipal flag's. ^[2]

This flag has no official digital palette. Color values shown are approximate.

The palette and any motifs are inherited from Rubber Pride Flag, whose documented symbolism is carried on its own entry; the seller publishes no new statement of meaning for the Chicago recolouring, and none is invented here. The municipal flag’s stars historically mark four events in Chicago’s history; the recolouring keeps their positions, and no source states that their event meanings were intentionally retained. ^[6]

No colour specification is published. The values here are measured from the first-party flat product JPEG exposed by the seller’s own product record; they are measurements from lossy retailer artwork, not creator-issued specifications. Palette meanings belong to the parent flag and are documented on its entry; the recolouring inherits the palette without a new statement of meaning from the seller. ^[1]

Design

Aspect Ratio

3:2 · manufactured

Ratio Notes

The seller manufactures the flag in 36 × 54 inch and 60 × 90 inch sizes, both 3:2 in width-to-height terms. The first-party flat artwork file (ChicagoRubberPride.jpg) is 2500 by 1334 pixels, a source-image canvas recorded separately from the manufactured ratio. ^[2][1]

Orientation

horizontal

Layout

other

Additional Symbols

Four six-pointed stars in the municipal flag's row

The municipal flag’s white field survives. Both bar positions turn the rubber flag’s red, a hoist stack carries its black, yellow and red, and the four six-pointed stars are recoloured black, red, yellow and black. Described and measured from the seller’s flat product artwork. ^[1]

The municipal flag’s white field survives. Both bar positions turn the rubber flag’s red, a hoist stack carries its black, yellow and red, and the four six-pointed stars are recoloured black, red, yellow and black.

Usage & Adoption

Organizations

PrideFlags.com

Geographic Usage

Chicago, Illinois

Current Status

Documented for sale from 2017

The design is documented for sale from 18 August 2017 through the seller’s own product record, in 36 × 54 inch and 60 × 90 inch printed poly silk. A retail listing demonstrates manufacture and sale, not community adoption, and no organizational adoption or photographed community use has been located. ^[1][2]

Image Archive

The product

Footnotes & Citations

Image Sources

Rendering

The seller's flat artwork

• The image shown is Encycloflaggia’s derived copy of the seller’s product artwork; the first-party flat JPEG (2500 by 1334 pixels) is the principal visual evidence. ^[1] · Credit: PrideFlags.com · PrideFlags.com · first-party product artwork
• The seller’s flagpole mockup, evidence that the design is sold as a physical flag. ^[2] · Credit: PrideFlags.com · PrideFlags.com