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From Street Fair to Board Chair: Helen Zell's Art Collecting Journey
By Cassie Walker Burke
Sam and Helen Zell made a splash in the Chicago art world Wednesday by donating $10 million to the Museum of Contemporary Art. Watch an insightful 2011 video of Helen Zell talking about how she went from being a street fair buyer to one of the most influential art supporters in the city. Read more
Fall Culture Guide
By Rachel Bertsche, Cassie Walker Burke, Elly Fishman, Kevin McKeough, Graham Meyer, Kevin Nance, Matthew Reddin, Matt Schur, Catey Sullivan, and Emmet Sullivan
Fall is typically Chicago culture's golden season, but this one gleams platinum. We're welcoming a Broadway-bound musical, an art blockbuster, first-class concerts, and the final installment of a razor-sharp literary trilogy—plus new plays, dances, movies, and more, from a crop of turbocharged Chicagoans. Read more
Thing I'm Loving Today: Wilco's 'Sunloathe' Music Video
By Cassie Walker Burke
Repeat viewings on this Wednesday afternoon: The new animated video for the song "Sunloathe," by Wilco. Financial risks aside, the band has clearly embraced the creative benefits to being on its own label. Like this animated video, by the California illustrator Nathaniel Murphy, who provided the drawings for the band's 2007 album Sky Blue Sky... Read more