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For all the hope that a holiday season brings, it also delivers the jolt of places and people and things that have vanished over the previous year.

The demolition of another pre-fire residence reinforces architect John Vinci's belief that Chicago is in desperate need of a museum of architecture.

Chicago’s most beloved skyscraper once opened the door to the Magnificent Mile. Take a look back at its history.

Wrightwood 659 presents Romanticism to Ruin: Two Lost Works of Sullivan and Wright, a dual exhibition exploring two of these architects’ long-demolished masterpieces: Louis H. Sullivan’s ...

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A cartoonist discusses his new show about the development of an American art form.

They are acclaimed artist Chris Ware; and the city’s cultural historian, Tim Samuelson. Tim Samuelson, cultural historian emeritus: This was an interest that we both shared, but Chris was able to put it into form as an exhibit. I could have never put together something like this. Even where there’s comics pages I know well and have read since a kid, when I see them on the wall like this it’s like, “Oh, wow.” Chris Ware, artist: A comic strip really is a visual two-dimensional rat maze...

Michael Phillips: The Oscar for Chicago Authenticity goes to ... well, not ‘Trial of Chicago 7’ or ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune © Glen Wilson/TNS LaKeith Stanfield and Daniel Kaluuya appear in "Judas and the Black Messiah." Can you make a persuasive, evocative Chicago movie without filming most, or any, of your movie in Chicago? © Glen Wilson/Warner Bros. Entertainment/TNS From left, Darrell Britt-Gibson as Bobby Rush, Daniel Kalu...

Can you make a persuasive, evocative Chicago movie without filming most, or any, of your movie in Chicago? For decades, Hollywood answered that with: Stupid question. Outside Chicago, who cares? Look at the late silent and early sound era gangster classics, from “Underworld” (set in an inferred, not stated, Chicago) to “Little Caesar,” “The Public Enemy” and “Scarface.” Those weren’t filmed here. Who cared? They worked like crazy, and they maximized ...