A Hinsdale mansion that has been owned by a railroad executive and a prominent publisher and, in the movie “Backdraft,” a corrupt Chicago Alderman, is for sale. Built in 1890, the home, seven bedrooms ...

Greg Gorbett spends unmeasured hours building scale-model rooms, complete with furniture and fixtures. He then judiciously stacks wood cribbing inside and burns his creations. More often than not, he ...

Twenty years ago Ron Howard made Backdraft, a visually stunning triumph of special effects that is remembered far more for its arresting firey set-pieces than its converging humanist plot-lines. But ...