A bill proposed earlier this month, the Art Market Integrity Act (pdf), “would amend the Bank Secrecy Act to require art dealers and auction houses to comply with anti-money-laundering and ...

By John Greenfield As I make my way through the blizzard to the Blue Line’s Logan Square stop, seven pigeons are huddled on Evelyn Longman’s giant eagle sculpture atop the Illinois Centennial Monument ...

An accidental visit to the Wilson Men’s Hotel may scare off unsuspecting, if apocryphal, visitors today, but the Near West Side, Chicago’s legendary Skid Row, is no longer “Land of the Living Dead,” ...

It is two-thirty in the morning at Carol's Pub. Most of the other bars in the neighborhood have closed, and customers of all ages—from twenty-one to sixty—file in to order more beer and whiskey, and ...

We're billing this issue as a summer double issue. But the content has evolved. Where the arts used to take a three-month nap ...

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Grain elevators were the city’s first skyscrapers, rising up as high as fifteen stories along the Chicago River and Sanitary and Ship Canal.

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“The architecture team of MAS Studio and Future Firm, along with Ellipsis Architecture, was commissioned to renovate two apartments in Chicago’s Marina City towers, originally designed by architect ...

The Greensfelder Design Studio is a childlike page in the story of our city. His studio is filled with 175 vintage and replica paper models of fairgrounds, gas stations, boats, trucks, castles, a ...

What Brinkerhoff and Blauvelt saw that day—or what they said they saw—was the sea serpent that Chicagoans have reported spotting for more than a hundred years. Unlike the Loch Ness monster, this ...