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One of the many treasures of the Music Box Theatre's 70mm movie festival: Jacques Tati's Playtime from 1967.

It's worth celebrating when good design occurs in Chicago, as is the case with La Casa Student Housing and Resource Center, a college dorm that opened last fall in the Pilsen neighborhood.

Mark Sexton discusses his firm's experience with projects as diverse as the Crown Fountain in Millennium Park to a new high security GSA building in South Florida.

David Schalliol and his team tell the story of an entire quadrant of Englewood that's being wiped away by a railroad company.

In 2010 Goes left, moved 92 miles north to the town of Delavan, WI.  And now within days, the company's 109-year-old former--a beautiful example of early 20th century industrial architecture--will be demolished.

Pablo Picasso has a special place in the heart of Chicago, thanks to that fifty-foot sculpture of his in the middle of Daley Plaza. But the Picasso-Chicago connection actually goes back one hundred years. A new show at the Art Institute of Chicago explores the love affair between the modern artist and this modern city.

For a brief moment in 1970, Bird of the Iron Feather was one of the most-talked about programs on local television.