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There would be bountiful parking that Soldier Field lacks and the neighborhood would remain a sports mecca and home to Chicago’s most popular team.

Plus: Plans for Thompson Center makeover, how the Chinatown Gateway became a Chicago icon and more.

CHICAGO — “Helmut Jahn’s State of Illinois Center is the most cerebral, the most abstract, yet easily the most spectacular building ever constructed in the Loop,” Tribune architecture critic Paul Gapp wrote when it opened in 1985. A year later, it would be featured prominently in “Running Scared,” the 1986 buddy cop action comedy starring Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines. The movie’s climax ...

Good morning, Chicago. The holidays are stressful, but it could be worse. You could work in an airport. In one of the busiest airports in the world. For free. You could work in an airport for free and sit for five hours a day wearing a blue vest and invite strangers — bring me your tired, your hungry, your flight-delayed, your missed connections, your abusive, your entitled, your perpetually ...

Not everyone liked the things artist Claes Oldenburg made — gigantic sculptures of commonplace items like a hamburger and a bat.