Category: Arts & Culture

ISIS takes aim at Iraq’s ancient past

By Ramsen Shamon The Islamic State, or ISIS, is using everything from sledgehammers to bulldozers to rewrite Iraq’s cultural history, a priceless legacy of art and

Courtesy of the Chicago History Museum

History & fashion of the Mag Mile on display

By Mallory Hughes “Upper Michigan [Avenue] will be properly designed for magnificence, dignity and character, and will be like no other commercial thoroughfare in the

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Controversy over Lucas Museum continues

by Constantina Kokenes Plans to build the large Lucas Museum of Narrative Art on Chicago’s lakefront near McCormick Place have been controversial since filmmaker George