Chicago murals: Stacey King tribute in Logan Square was passion project for artist Darius Dennis
<p>Artist Darius Dennis grew up watching the Chicago Bulls championship dynasty in the 1990s. Stacey King played on the first three of those teams to win titles.</p><p>Dennis had King’s autographed rookie card after the Bulls picked the former University of Oklahoma star in the first round of the 1989 NBA draft.
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<p>Artist Darius Dennis grew up watching the Chicago Bulls championship dynasty in the 1990s. Stacey King played on the first three of those teams to win titles.</p><p>Dennis had King’s autographed rookie card after the Bulls picked the former University of Oklahoma star in the first round of the 1989 NBA draft. Years after the 1990s dynasty, Dennis regularly listened to King after he returned and spent two more decades providing color commentary for Bulls games. Dennis remembers turning his television from the national broadcasts to the local stations, just to hear King.</p><p>So <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/bulls/2026/06/07/bulls-announce-former-broadcaster-player-stacey-king-died" >when King died in June at age 59</a>, Dennis says, he knew he had to do something to commemorate him.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center> <div class="Enhancement-item" data-crop=""> <figure class="Figure"><a class="AnchorLink" id="image-3f0000" name="image-3f0000"></a> <picture data-crop="medium"> <source type="image/webp" width="490" height="275" data-srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/9040a75/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5540x3109+0+292/resize/490x275!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fcc%2Fc7%2F78d76729486aa8b78222c1c009bd%2Fmurals-logansq-260816-4.jpg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/f0163da/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5540x3109+0+292/resize/980x550!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fcc%2Fc7%2F78d76729486aa8b78222c1c009bd%2Fmurals-logansq-260816-4.jpg 2x" data-lazy-load="true" srcset="data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIyNzVweCIgd2lkdGg9IjQ5MHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=" /> <source width="490" height="275" data-srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/db641e8/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5540x3109+0+292/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fcc%2Fc7%2F78d76729486aa8b78222c1c009bd%2Fmurals-logansq-260816-4.jpg" data-lazy-load="true" srcset="data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIyNzVweCIgd2lkdGg9IjQ5MHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=" /> <img class="Image" alt="Darius Dennis stands in front of the mural he painted of Stacey King." srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/db641e8/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5540x3109+0+292/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fcc%2Fc7%2F78d76729486aa8b78222c1c009bd%2Fmurals-logansq-260816-4.jpg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/bfcb49c/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5540x3109+0+292/resize/980x550!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fcc%2Fc7%2F78d76729486aa8b78222c1c009bd%2Fmurals-logansq-260816-4.jpg 2x" width="490" height="275" data-src="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/db641e8/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5540x3109+0+292/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fcc%2Fc7%2F78d76729486aa8b78222c1c009bd%2Fmurals-logansq-260816-4.jpg" data-lazy-load="true" src="data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIyNzVweCIgd2lkdGg9IjQ5MHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=" > </picture> <div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Darius Dennis stands in front of the mural he painted of Stacey King.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Jim Vondruska/For the Sun-Times</p></div></div> </figure> </div> </div><p>“If no one steps up to the plate and paints a Stacey King portrait before I’m free, I’ve got to do it,” Dennis recalls thinking.</p><p>So Dennis, a Chicago native who works full time as owner and artist with Big Wall Sign and Mural, painted it himself.
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