Though it wasn't planned this way, there's a thread through most of the feature stories in this issue that's personal for me, ...

Keir Graff has turned his Newcity story on the history of the Fine Arts Building—our longest feature ever published—into a book published by Trope, coming this June. He’ll celebrate its release at the ...

James Rondeau, the director of the Art Institute of Chicago, “will be returning to his role at the museum on [Monday] following the results of an investigation subsequent to a recent plane incident ...