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chicago.suntimes.com > photography > 07/18/2026 > how-we-photographed-wildfire-smoke-enveloping-chicago

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....

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chicago.suntimes.com > columnists > 07/17/2026 > photography-india-pakistan-muslims-immigrants-chicago-mehreen-lali-khalid-rummana-hussain

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…...

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chicago.suntimes.com > photography > 07/11/2026 > how-we-photographed-chicagos-flooded-streets

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....

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chicago.suntimes.com > architecture-design > 07/02/2026 > bowen-carl-schurz-high-school-overlooked-architectural-doppelganger-recognized

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…...

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chicago.suntimes.com > architecture-design > 06/29/2026 > altgeld-gardens-up-top-building-return-tip-top-shape-after-school-center

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....

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chicago.suntimes.com > obituaries > 06/28/2026 > david-plowden-photographer-photography-vanishing-america-trains

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....

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chicago.suntimes.com > photography > 06/27/2026 > how-we-photographed-juneteenth-joy-obama-presidential-center

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....

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chicago.suntimes.com > architecture-design > 06/26/2026 > chicago-stock-courtyard-buildings-wind-up-national-register-historic-places

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…...

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chicago.suntimes.com > arts-and-culture > 06/25/2026 > creative-economy-impact-study-arts-alliance-illinois-workers

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....

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chicago.suntimes.com > architecture-design > 06/25/2026 > neglected-frank-lloyd-wright-house-austin-coming-together-west-side-sold-125-000

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…...