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Text on Button CLEAN UP PAINT- UP APRIL 22 to MAY 4 SPRING IS HERE LIGHT UP PLANT UP
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white and yellow text on a black rectangle with an illustration of a yellow bird with white on eitehr side and black text between yellow lines

Curl Text PARISIAN NOVELTY CO-CHICAGO
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The “Clean-up, Paint-up, Plant-up, Light-up” campaign was a week-long city-wide community improvement drive in Chicago that took place during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Community efforts focused on painting buildings, cleaning up vacant lots and allies, and educating citizens on ways to improve the appearance of their property. Many of Chicago’s schools encouraged students to participate in the “Clean-up, Paint-up, Plant-up, Light-up” campaign throughout the school year to keep their schools clean.

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Parker High. (1954 April 28) Suburbanite Economist p 97. Retrieved from https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/54313150/.

Pupils Help Spark Drive to Clean-up. (1958 April 20). Southtown Economist  p 30. Retrieved from https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/53305796/

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