Winzeler Gear president John Winzeler tries on one of the pieces created by School of the Art Institure of Chicago student Joe Leamanczyk during the "Head Gear" show at Winzeler Gear in Harwood Heights. | Brian O'Mahoney~for Sun-Times Media
Irene Pipilas, of Park Ridge, an Advanced Headwear Concepts student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, shows one of the pieces she created for the "Head Gear" show held at Winzeler Gear in Harwood Heights. Students in the class created gear-th
A gear-inspired hat created by art student Kiah Rogers is just one of the examples of headwear born out of the collaboration between the School of the Art Institute in Chicago and Winzeler Gear of Harwood Heights. | Brian O'Mahoney~for Sun-Times Media
A gear-inspired hat created by art student Kiah Rogers is just one of the examples of headwear born out of the collaboration between the School of the Art Institute in Chicago and Winzeler Gear of Harwood Heights. | Brian O'Mahoney~for Sun-Times Media
Mechanical gears and art don’t often show up in the same thought. Unless you’re John Winzeler, president of Winzeler Gear in Harwood Heights. Winzeler produces gears primarily for the automotive industry. The gears that make your windshield wipers and windows move and your transmission shift …