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Big things can come in small packages, and that certainly goes for artwork as well. A local maker of miniatures has a direct connection to the Thorne Rooms – those ever-popular scale-model rooms on view at the Art Institute. We explored some awe-inspiring little worlds on display in a new setting.
Mural art in Chicago has a long, honorable and often politically potent history of lifting up communities and giving them a voice. To trash a mural is self-defeating. The best ones speak up for those who have it hardest.