Leo Segedin, 95, talks while sitting in front of his painting titled BLANK behind him displaying his experience as a child on Chicago’s West Side Dec. 19, 2022, in Evanston. (Michael Blackshire / Chicago Tribune) Whatever issue came up for discussion during a recent visit with artist Leo Segedin, he rested his position on an axiom: “I’m a West Side Jew boy. What can I say?” Advertisement Whether he was talking about the ‘L ‘ that crosses many of his Chicago street scenes, chichi art galleries, pedagogical philosophy, or the Holocaust, he invoked the same bit of autobiography. Grammatically speaking,...