The bust of Maurice Tillet, a professional wrestler, sits on display at the Museum of Surgical Science. While Tillet may have appeared “an apelike creature," he was brilliant and gentle. Read more
Perhaps Timothy Beach Blackstone was motivated by competitiveness with fellow industrialist Andrew Carnegie, or by civic boosterism, but he believed a library should be a work of art in itself. Read more
Phaedra Darwish, a Palestinian-American dance instructor, wanted to bring the Middle East back to its old neighborhood of Chicago Lawn for a day. Read more
“We want to build a food forest that adds to the beauty of the neighborhood," says Natasha Nicholes, founder of the small farm that occupies a single lot in the Far South Side neighborhood. Read more
