The result was the formation of the Chicago Art Foundation, a nonprofit group whose goal is to create a museum dedicated to Chicago art and artists.
A year later, the Chicago Art Foundation is still in its infancy, and its plan to establish a Chicago art museum remains an unfinished canvas.
But Chicago artist Mary Lou Zelazny argues that as the art world's borders are blurring due to international travel and the Internet, regional art is increasingly important.
The Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois.
From 1978 to 1984, when the paper was purchased by Rupert Murdoch, it published legendary Chicago columnist Mike Royko (previously of the defunct Chicago Daily News), and Irv Kupcinet's daily column was a fixture from 1943 until his death in 2003.
Before Murdoch, the newspaper was for a time owned by Field Enterprises, controlled by the Marshall Field family.