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How we photographed wildfire smoke enveloping Chicago
16+ hour, 40+ min ago (14+ words) Plus, 12 more photos from Chicago Sun-Times photojournalists from this week in news....
Visual artist captures broader picture of South Asian, Muslim immigrant communities
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (669+ words) Mehreen “Lali” Khalid in one of her self-portraits from her “Zid” series, part of a larger exhibit of her work at Columbia College Chicago’s Glass Curtain Gallery at 1104 S. Wabash Ave. Motionless for minutes, they stared vacantly at their camera-wielding…...
How we photographed Chicago's flooded streets
1+ week, 19+ hour ago (283+ words) Plus, 14 more powerful photos from Chicago Sun-Times photographers from recent news....
Bowen High — Schurz High School's overlooked architectural doppelgänger — gets recognized at last
2+ week, 2+ day ago (857+ words) Bowen High School, 2710 E. 89th St., has been nominated for a National Register of Historic Places listing. Carl Schurz High School is an architectural marvel: An absolute Prairie School beauty at Milwaukee Avenue and Addison Street that rightfully earned city landmark status…...
Altgeld Gardens' 'Up Top' building to return to tip-top shape as an after-school center
2+ week, 5+ day ago (464+ words) By The Hand Club For Kids' renovation would revive an often overlooked building that was designed by noted architects then became the birthplace of the environmental justice movement....
David Plowden, renowned photographer who sought to capture a 'vanishing' America, is dead at 93
2+ week, 6+ day ago (219+ words) From steam trains to small-town America, he worked to preserve the images for future generations. A longtime north suburban resident, he died at a retirement home in Evanston....
How we photographed Juneteenth and joy at the Obama Presidential Center
3+ week, 19+ hour ago (11+ words) Plus, 13 more great Chicago Sun-Times photos from recent news....
Could Chicago's stock of courtyard buildings wind up on the National Register of Historic Places?
3+ week, 1+ day ago (948+ words) The Pattington is a courtyard-style condo building at 660-700 W. Irving Park Road. Chicago’s entire class of vintage residential courtyard buildings — totaling in the thousands — could be headed for the National Register of Historic Places under a measure before a state panel…...
New study finds the creative sector is Chicago’s third-largest industry
3+ week, 2+ day ago (527+ words) The report from Arts Alliance Illinois measures the sector’s economic impact, in a moment when the creative field has faced funding cuts across levels of government....
Neglected Frank Lloyd Wright house on the West Side sold for $125,000
3+ week, 2+ day ago (652+ words) The deteriorating J. J. Walser Jr. House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, at 42 N. Central Ave. in Austin was purchased by the nonprofit Austin Coming Together. A dilapidated Frank Lloyd Wright home that has needed a savior for the past 30 years has found…...