The energy from the limited-capacity ‘‘sellout’’ crowd of 3,820 boosted the Hawks to three first-period goals en route to a 4-2 victory.

Rick Gunville has attended countless Blackhawks games. His family has held season tickets since 1972.

But waiting in line Sunday to be one of the first spectators inside the United Center, he knew he was about to enjoy a one-of-a-kind fan experience.

‘‘It will definitely be unique,’’ Gunville said. ‘‘Obviously, the stadium is not going to be full, but I’m sure there’s a lot of passion with the group of people that are here — longtime fans. It’s going to be nice having the energy back in there. I’m assuming the players will feel that.’’

He wasn’t wrong. The Hawks welcomed a limited-capacity ‘‘sellout’’ crowd of 3,820 back to Madison Street with a rousing 4-2 victory against the Stars, scoring three goals in the first period and protecting that lead the rest of the way.

Alex DeBrincat moved into third place in the NHL with his 30th and 31st goals, with the second all but sealing the victory with 3:12 left. He was around for three years of 21,000-person crowds but was reminded Sunday how it’s ‘‘a lot of fun when they’re in the building.’’

Goalie Kevin Lankinen, however, was not. After dreaming all season about what his first game with a roaring crowd behind his crease would look, sound and feel like, his first-star lap was something out of a fairy tale. He earned it, too, saving 37 of 39 shots in his final start of the season.

‘‘I wanted to soak it all in,’’ Lankinen said. ‘‘Those are the moments you dream of growing up playing hockey as a kid. Especially here in the United Center, you know how loud the fans can be. It’s probably the best place to play a great game. So I really took my time and enjoyed it. It’s going to be a good memory for me going forward.’’

Collin Delia will start in goal in the season finale Monday, so Lankinen officially finished his season 17-14-5 with a .909 save percentage.

‘‘He was excellent,’’ coach Jeremy Colliton said. ‘‘[I’m] really happy that he has that one to leave with. He’s had a very good season and [taken] a big step for him and his development.’’

Including Lankinen, 10 of the 20 players in the Hawks’ lineup were rookies, tying the franchise record set in 1927. Twelve players weren’t in the opening-night lineup just four months ago.

And that group held its own in the third period, showing maturity beyond its years even as the Stars pushed for an equalizer.

‘‘I don’t know how many teams end up playing 10 rookies in a game, and it’s not like it’s the last one, either,’’ Colliton said. ‘‘We’re going to do it again [Monday]. It says a lot about them.’’

As much as the last couple of months have underscored the flaws in the Hawks’ roster, Sunday represented an encouraging glimpse of a brighter future: a new-generation team, headlined by players such as DeBrincat and Brandon Hagel (goal, assist), playing exciting, successful hockey inside a raucous United Center.

Those big-picture thoughts can be saved for the offseason, though. The Hawks’ players and coaches and the few thousand fans making up the first home crowd since March 11, 2020, were content to savor the occasion Sunday.

‘‘I’ve been talking about it for weeks,’’ Gunville said, shortly before heading up to Section 223. ‘‘I just wanted to see one game. And tonight’s the night.’’

‘‘It was such a huge difference, right from the anthem,’’ Colliton said. ‘‘You couldn’t help but smile when you heard the reaction of the crowd. As the home team, you really feed off that energy. We’ve missed that this year.’’

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Veteran Garrett Temple feels the new front office has sent a message to the rest of the league with its actions this season, but first things first, as the Bulls are still trying to push for a play-in spot after latest win in Detroit.

The message was sent long before this recent three-game winning streak, capped off by the dismantling of an undermatched Pistons team on Sunday night.

The way veteran Garrett Temple sees it, the Bulls front office sent the message very early on in its new tenure that the goal was to make Chicago a destination place.

An aggressive coaching search, the drafting of Patrick Williams, and then swinging for the fences at the March trade deadline were just a few examples.

The standings might not show it, but winning is now a priority. And Temple feels the league is listening.

“I think AK [executive vice president of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas] and [general manager] Marc [Eversley] have done a great job, have done a great job showing that they keep things close to the vest, that they understand the business, and deal with a level of privacy that’s refreshing in today’s NBA,’’ Temple said. “Not only do all that, but they have an eye for talent. Getting Pat where they got Pat, and being able to trade and bring an All-Star in [Nikola Vucevic] here, and also being able to get [Daniel] Theis as well, who has shown what he can do in the league, I think people that understand and are free agents and things of that nature, are probably looking at the Bulls front office as a place, a group of people that know what they’re doing for sure.’’

That’s the business of the offseason, however.

Where Temple and his teammates were still focusing was on the business of the next week.

The 108-96 win over the Pistons in Detroit, pulled the Bulls (29-39) to within 2 ½ games of idle Indiana for the 10^th and final play-in spot in the Eastern Conference with four games left to play. The problem is those four games.

The Bulls play the Nets twice, Toronto sprinkled in between, and a home finale with Milwaukee. The Pacers are in Cleveland on Monday, then host Philadelphia, Milwaukee, the Lakers and finish in Toronto.

So even with Zach LaVine scoring a game-high 30 points and looking better and better after missing 11 games when he tested positive for the coronavirus, and fellow All-Star Nikola Vucevic remaining a double-double machine – 29 points and 16 rebounds against the Pistons – very little is in their control as the regular season winds down.

That’s the frustration.

“The last [few] games we’ve shown what we can do when we’re fully healthy and guys are playing at levels we can play at,’’ Temple said. “So to see that it makes it even more disappointing. But at the end of the day there’s still a pathway and we’ve got to worry about what we can control and let the chips fall where they may.’’

Those chips fell easily in Detroit, with the Pistons without Jerami Grant, Cory Joseph and Wayne Ellington to name a few, while the Bulls were still without Troy Brown Jr. (ankle) and Theis, who banged up his hip in the win over Boston.

The visiting team wouldn’t need either.

With Coby White also chipping in 21 points, it was the defense that again earned some praise from coach Billy Donovan, holding the opposition under 100 throughout this winning streak, and setting the tone early with Detroit by holding the home team to just 18 points in the first quarter.

“I think kind of playing with each other,’’ Donovan said of the defensive turnaround. “We talk a lot about offense, but then playing together on defense is also important in terms of rotations and terminology. We’ve gotten better.’’

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A gunman opened fire at a birthday party in Colorado, slaying six adults before killing himself Sunday, police said.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A gunman opened fire at a birthday party in Colorado, slaying six adults before killing himself Sunday, police said.

The shooting happened just after midnight in a mobile home park on the east side of Colorado Springs, police said.

Officers arrived at a trailer to find six dead adults and a man with serious injuries who died later at a hospital, the Colorado Springs Gazette reported.

The suspected shooter was the boyfriend of a female victim at the party attended by friends, family and children. He walked inside and opened fire before shooting himself, police said.

The birthday party was for one of the people killed, police said.

Neighbor Yenifer Reyes told The Denver Post she woke to the sound of many gunshots.

“I thought it was a thunderstorm,” Reyes said. “Then I started hearing sirens.”

Police brought children out of the trailer and put them into at least one patrol car, she said, adding that the children were “crying hysterically.”

Authorities say the children, who weren’t hurt in the attack, have been placed with relatives.

Police on Sunday hadn’t released the identities of the shooter or victims. Authorities say a motive wasn’t immediately known.

“My heart breaks for the families who have lost someone they love and for the children who have lost their parents,” Colorado Springs Police Chief Vince Niski said in a statement.

It was Colorado’s worst mass shooting since a gunman killed 10 people at a Boulder supermarket March 22.

“The tragic shooting in Colorado Springs is devastating,” Gov. Jared Polis said Sunday, “especially as many of us are spending the day celebrating the women in our lives who have made us the people we are today.”

Colorado Springs, population 465,000, is Colorado’s second-biggest city after Denver.

In 2015, a man shot three people to death at random before dying in a shootout with police in Colorado Springs on Halloween. Less than a month later, a man killed three people, including a police officer, and injured eight others in a shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in the city.

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Cubs right-hander Kyle Hendricks could be forgiven for asking manager David Ross to try using an opener on the days he’s scheduled to start.

Hendricks’ first-inning ERA sits at 19.29 through seven starts this season. Against the Pirates on Sunday, he loaded the bases with no outs on the way to giving up three earned runs in the first. The Cubs went on to lose 6-5.

Hendricks didn’t allow many hard-hit balls, especially in the first, when the highest exit velocity was Adam Frazier’s leadoff single at 89.7 mph. The Pirates reached and drove in their runs on bloop singles most of the afternoon.

”A ton of soft contact falling in,” Ross said. ”It felt like the groundballs were where we weren’t. Didn’t play our cleanest defense behind him, but a lot of soft contact fell in. Wind blowing in, it’s a tricky positioning thing.”

In all, the average exit velocity on the nine hits Hendricks allowed was 83.5 mph and four were below 74 mph. The defense didn’t help things, with infield errors in the first and third resulting in two unearned runs.

Hendricks joined Ross in thinking he executed well Sunday, even if the outcome didn’t indicate it.

”Definitely frustrating, but you have to somehow not look at the results like that,” Hendricks said. ”I have to be immersed in the process right now, just focus on each pitch I’m making, making sure I’m making a good pitch and go from there. . . . My focus was good today, attacking, pitching to contact. Just hopefully it will go my way next time.”

The loss might have been partially the product of bad luck, but Hendricks has looked far from his usual self this season. His ERA sits at 6.23, in part because he is walking batters at the highest rate of his career and giving up about three times as many home runs per nine innings as he has before.

”I thought he threw the ball fine,” Ross said. ”Some soft liners found holes. Felt like wherever we positioned our infielders or our outfielders, they hit it just away from them. I think Kyle threw the ball really nice. Balls were down, off the end, ahead in the count a lot. All those things point to good signs for him.”

There’s some reason to think things eventually might improve for Hendricks. Going into his start Sunday, opposing hitters had a .318 batting average on balls in play against him. That is the highest of his career and up from .272 in 2020, suggesting that some of the balls that dropped in for hits Sunday are due to start turning into outs going forward.

”It’s still on the right track,” Hendricks said. ”I’m still getting better action on my pitches, I’m getting to the bottom of the zone better. Threw some good curveballs, good changeups today, so at least I have a chance going out there. I feel like I can trust my stuff more, so I would say still positive progress. Progress in the right direction. Just have to stick with it, keep making good pitches and things will turn around.”

A three-run ninth inning rallied the Cubs from a 6-2 deficit, but the comeback fell short. Anthony Rizzo was hit by a pitch leading off, and Kris Bryant drew a walk. Two outs later, an RBI single by Joc Pederson and a two-run double by Ildemaro Vargas made it 6-5. The rally ended, however, when pinch hitter Javy Baez grounded to second to end the game.

Outfielders Jake Marisnick (right hamstring) and Jason Heyward (right hand) left the game early. Ross said both will be further evaluated Monday.

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New Cubs outfielder Jake Marisnick helped introduce the hobby to his teammates this year, and now as a part of their pregame rituals, guys are gathering around as new boxes and packs are being opened.

Baseball-card collecting is experiencing a major boom, and the excitement has reached the Cubs’ clubhouse.

Outfielder Jake Marisnick helped introduce the hobby to his teammates, and guys now are gathering around as new boxes and packs are opened before games.

‘‘They are into some of the new basketball cards, baseball cards, collecting those, opening up packages, everybody’s around,’’ manager David Ross said. ‘‘It’s like a huge ordeal when somebody gets a new box and you’re going through [it].’’

Across the country, card sales are up significantly over the last three to five years. Online retailer eBay reported card sales jumped 142% in 2020, partially driven by collectors — old and new — looking for something to do during the pandemic lockdown.

Card values are on the rise, too. A LeBron James rookie card sold for $5.2 million last month, tying a 1952 Mickey Mantle rookie card that sold in January for the most expensive card in circulation.

One of the new features of modern card-collecting is the Topps Now set, which features special events during the course of a season as they happen. First baseman Anthony Rizzo’s recent relief appearance was one of them, but it hasn’t surfaced in the Cubs’ card-opening sessions.

‘‘I haven’t heard about that, but that would be nice,’’ Ross said. ‘‘I’ll see if Rizz can sign me one, if that’s a thing.’’

Ross has joined in on the action, too.

‘‘They even let me open one the other day,’’ Ross said. ‘‘I didn’t have a whole lot of luck in getting the good cards, so I’m suspended from opening any cards.’’

Baez improving at the plate

In April, shortstop Javy Baez looked like he was back to the free-swinging, high-strikeout ways of his first couple of seasons in the majors. But he has been better in May.

Last month, Baez struck out 39% of the time and drew only one walk. So far in May, he has cut his strikeout rate by 16% and boosted his on-base percentage and batting average by about 100 points each.

‘‘I feel like this is more the player that we all have seen have a lot of success,’’ Ross said. ‘‘Working through some things early on mechanically and approach-wise has really got him locked back in.’’

Ross said he has seen Baez look more in control at the plate lately by staying in the zone in his approach and with his swings.

Checking in on the IL

Marisnick exited the game Sunday in the top of the first inning with a strained right hamstring suffered while trying to chase down an RBI single by the Pirates’ Wilmer Difo.

Baez left the game Saturday with back stiffness and was out of the starting lineup Sunday. He grounded out to second pinch-hitting in the ninth inning to end the game.

Right-hander Jake Arrieta (abrasion on right thumb) and infielder Nico Hoerner (strained left forearm) are on schedule in their rehab. Arrieta threw a successful bullpen session Saturday and is scheduled for another when the Cubs are in Cleveland. Hoerner has been taking dry swings and doing infield drills with no issues.

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This You Gotta See: Cubs-Indians, White Sox-Twins, the end of the line for the Blackhawks and Bulls and — here already? — season openers for the Sky and Red Stars.

Starter Kyle Hendricks had some weirdly bad luck Sunday in a 6-5 loss to the Pirates that stopped a Cubs winning streak at five games. One softly struck ball after another fell in for a hit. By the time a dazed Hendricks staggered off the mound after the top of the first — his team already down four runs — it was back to the drawing board for a supposed ace gone bad.

Opponents are hitting .320 off the fastidious right-hander, for whom lugging around a 6.23 ERA must be both stressful and unconscionable. If Hendricks were a real professor, colleagues would be urging him to take a sabbatical.

The .500 Cubs are going nowhere without Hendricks at his best, but were they really going anywhere regardless? Right now, Adbert Alzolay might be their best starter. If not Alzolay, it’s Jake Arrieta, who is far from the Arrieta of old. It’s certainly not Trevor Williams or fellow newcomer Zach Davies, who was very effective in his last start but also weirdly lucky — the Pirates didn’t score off him, but they swung and missed a grand total of once.

Indeed, this is an ace-less team. And that means not that a teardown is coming, given the Cubs’ tenuous relationships with Kris Bryant, Javy Baez and Anthony Rizzo. It means the teardown has already started. A five-game winning streak hardly changes that.

On that cheerful note, here’s what’s happening:

MON 10

Wizards at Hawks (6:30 p.m., NBATV)

Bradley Beal rolls out of bed scoring 30, Russell Westbrook is an automatic triple-double and the soaring Wizards are hotter than all get-out. Daniel Gafford sure has found himself one heck of a supporting cast.

Stars at Blackhawks (7 p.m., NBCSN, NBCSCH)

It’s a wrap after this one, the season finale. No playoffs for the young Hawks, who at least kept things halfway interesting. Stay tuned after the game for the participation-trophy ceremony.

Jazz at Warriors (9 p.m., NBATV)

Soon-to-be scoring champ Steph Curry is taking the one-man-gang thing where few have taken it before. Serious question: Has anyone else since Michael Jordan been as fun to watch?

TUE 11

Cubs at Indians (5:10 p.m., Marquee)

The Cubs open a two-game set at the site of their greatest glory. Let’s face it, we should squeeze in all the 2016 references we can while Bryant, Baez and Rizzo are still around.

Nets at Bulls (7 p.m., NBCSCH)

Is this where the Bulls’ play-in hopes meet the end? Rookie Patrick Williams gets to stick Kevin Durant, which figures to be about as easy as putting lipstick on a giraffe.

WED 12

Twins at White Sox (7:10 p.m., NBCSCH)

AL Central roundup: The Indians are a hilariously inept offensive team, the Royals are pretenders, the Tigers are the Tigers and the Twins — weren’t they supposed to be good? — keep inventing new ways to lose. Might as well kick ’em while they’re down.

THU 13

Twins at White Sox (1:10 p.m., NBCSCH)

That sound you hear is Nick Madrigal putting the bat on the baseball, undoubtedly with two strikes. Oh, and the other sound? That’s Tony La Russa riffling through the rulebook, but we can talk about that later.

Fire at D.C. United (7 p.m., Ch. 9)

The Fire are off to an 0-3-1 start. Other than that, they’ve been crushing it.

FRI 14

Royals at White Sox (2:10 p.m., 7:10 p.m., NBCSCH)

Not one but two chances to whack away at these Kansas City pitchers? That’s like finding a second pinata on Cinco de Mayo.

Cubs at Tigers (6:10 p.m., Marquee)

If all goes well, this is when Nico Hoerner and Ian Happ return to action. If not, it’ll be yet another game with a patchwork lineup — or as baseball insiders call it, “Tigering.”

SAT 15

Sky at Mystics (noon, Ch. 7)

What a treat it’ll be to watch Candace Parker in a Sky uniform. If only she could’ve come home before her 14th WNBA season, but, you know, better late than never.

Aces at Storm (2 p.m., Ch. 7)

Champion Seattle opens against 2020 MVP A’ja Wilson and Las Vegas, last season’s runner-up.

Cubs at Tigers (3:10 p.m., Marquee)

It’s 420 feet to the wall in dead center at Comerica Park, not quite as far as it was at Tiger Stadium but still a mighty long stretch. As many bombs as these two pitching staffs give up, though, no wall is safe.

SUN 16

FCS title game: Sam Houston State vs. South Dakota State (1 p.m., Ch. 7)

It’s the No. 2 Bearkats against the No. 1 Jackrabbits in Frisco, Texas, for all the marbles. In related news, a 24-team football playoff still beats the heck out of a four-team football playoff.

Red Stars at Portland (6 p.m., Twitch)

Hopes are high for the Red Stars, but getting the league-favorite Thorns on their home turf to open the season is one tough assignment.

Bucks at Bulls (TBD, NBSCSH)

The regular season ends here, which almost certainly means the end of the line for the Bulls. Sorry, you’ll just have to get by on Denzel Valentine highlight videos from here.

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Entwistle regained 10 pounds lost to COVID-19 while also becoming a better skater during his impressive season. Kirby Dach also learned from his brief 18-game season.

After a season of working on improving his speed, young Blackhawks forward MacKenzie Entwistle enjoyed a validating moment Thursday.

Midway through the first period against the Hurricanes, Entwistle saw a counter-attacking opportunity, took a pass from Vinnie Hinostroza and blew past Carolina defensemen Dougie Hamilton and Brady Skjei, creating a breakaway from the red line in.

“It’s a little easier to try to get that breakaway speed when you know there’s just you and the goalie,” Entwistle said Saturday with a smile. “But that was definitely a moment where I could see my skating’s not the issue.”

Entwistle has long embraced his future as a third- or fourth-line grinder at the NHL level — “Not everyone can be the Kanes and the Kubaliks,” he said in March — but modern hockey requires athleticism, quickness and offensive input even from those types.

Making three straight Hawks appearances this week after playing just six minutes previously in the NHL, the 21-year-old, 6-3 forward demonstrated those elements to his game.

“I’m very, very pleased with his progression,” coach Jeremy Colliton said. “He got in the one game earlier in the season, but even since then, he’s taken another step. His physical attributes, his conditioning, look more to the level he needs to be at. He’s got more work to do, but his skating has really improved.”

“Especially being a bigger guy, my first three steps have gotten better and improved since my first year of pro [hockey],” Entwistle added.

Making Entwistle’s season even more impressive is the fact he has improved while also regaining 10 pounds he lost during a severe COVID-19 case in January. His body is “back to being 100%” now thanks to extra meals, protein shakes and targeted workouts.

Dach learned from 18 games

Kirby Dach’s 2021 season was limited to just 18 games, missing the team’s first 34 recovering from his wrist surgery and final four after experiencing “post-operative discomfort” with scar tissue.

But Colliton believes the 18 games were still valuable for the second-year center, as he insisted they would be all along.

“It was good for him to play, even if it wasn’t easy,” Colliton said. “Getting in these games and being challenged — and they were important games and we were right in the mix — he’ll take that with him. Hopefully [he’ll] have an excellent summer of training and be better than ever come fall.”

Dach finished with two goals and eight assists for 10 points while averaging 18:34 of ice time per game, increasing his even-strength scoring rate versus last season even if he wasn’t as dominant as hoped.

His comfort level seemed to increase over time, though. The Hawks can point to Dach’s performance Apr. 29 as a prime example: Colliton matched him against Alexsander Barkov and he largely shut him down. The Panthers had only one shot on goal and the Hawks scored the lone goal during Dach and Barkov’s shared ice time.

Dach’s integration into the penalty kill was a major positive, too. He played 23:21 on the penalty kill this season and recorded the third-best penalty-kill scoring-chance ratio on the team.

He and Alex DeBrincat added a dynamic new look to jumpstart the PK’s second-half turnaround.

“It makes [the power play] uncomfortable,” Colliton said Apr. 27. “Maybe don’t make that tight play at the blue line because you know [you’re facing] a long stick with great instincts in a guy like Kirby. [With] Brinksy’s quickness, he can jump on it and create a 2-on-1.”

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The much-reviled, soon-to-vanish Thompson Center was only the most visible of his contributions.

For many years, if you stood in Helmut Jahn’s office at 35 E. Wacker and looked out the window, you were confronted with the ugliest building in Chicago: the Sun-Times’ home at 401 N. Wabash, a squat, trapezoidal monstrosity that, next to the Venetian splendor of the Wrigley Building, looked like an overturned grey galvanized metal tub set beside a spun sugar ivory Victorian wedding cake.

Perhaps to block that view, Jahn kept a model of the latest version of his sailing sloop, Flash Gordon, which won the Chicago to Mackinac Race in 1995, its presence a violation of his own edict not to keep “personal things” at work; the reverse being true at his home, which was free from images of the stunning buildings he created around the world during his long career.

“A place for each,” he told me, when I stopped by Murphy/Jahn for a visit, years ago. Born in Nuremberg, he had a fierce devotion to order, both a very German and very architectural quality: his paper clips were all red, his push pins all gray.

Jahn didn’t hang around the office much anyway, spending half his time on the road, traveling the world, building dramatic structures in China, Thailand, Qatar, Germany, Poland.

His main gift to Chicago was the much-loved, much-hated Thompson Center. “Modern Masterpiece or Blue Turkey?” the Wall Street Journal asked when it opened in May 1985, and of course the answer was “both.” The soaring 17-story lobby, inspired by the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, was a must-see for Chicago tourists who gawked at its soaring blue and salmon enclosed space.

They also jammed the glass elevators, making it hard for state workers to get to their offices, one of a number of design flaws that made working there a challenge, particularly the greenhouse effect of that curve whale of glass — the special glass Jahn stipulated was replaced for cheaper materials — that saw sweltering state employees putting fans on their desks and cowering under umbrellas to protect them from the sun.

“It’s obscene,” Chicago architect Harry Weese said at the time, one of countless criticisms fired at Jahn, who never gave up on his vision. Just last year, he came up with a plan to save the Thompson Center, repurposing it as a kind of enclosed urban forest.

The state, in some strange, misguided display of penny-wise/pound-foolish economy, stopped maintaining the building. There were strips of grey duct tape holding the carpet together in the governor’s office. When the current governor, J.B. Pritzker announced it would take $375 million to repair and clean the building, nobody blinked at that figure, more than twice what it cost to build the place.

So if you are the type who looks for silver linings in tragedy, Jahn’s death Saturday afternoon, at age 81, in a bicycle accident near his home in St. Charles, means that at least he didn’t suffer that grim fates for an architect: to see his buildings torn down. Cold comfort to his loved ones, no doubt and to the architects who revered him.

Even should the Thompson Center come down, Chicago will retain marvelous Jahn structures: the Xerox Center, an early work, built in 1978, the aluminum and glass curtain wall doing a friendly curve at the corner of Monroe and Dearborn. United Airlines Terminal One at O’Hare, including its neon-lit, Gershwin serenaded walkway, a dramatic portal to the city that works.

My favorite Jahn building is the Mansueto Library at the University of Chicago, whose dramatic reading room is mostly glass ceiling — with a working air conditioning system —the collection of books tucked away in sub-basements reached by a wondrous automated retrieval system.

Jahn came to Chicago in 1966, to study under Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, adding a whimsy to the former Bauhaus chief’s minimalism or, if you prefer, brutalism. Since Mies came here under the wing of Frank Lloyd Wright in the late 1930s, you can draw a direct line from Louis Sullivan through Wright, then to Mies, then to Jahn and … well, there the line sort of ends there.

The most exciting architect today in Chicago, if not the world, is Jeanne Gang, and Jahn embarrassed himself in 2019 by his sour grapes decrying of Studio Gang’s selection for the $1 billion-plus O’Hare expansion. But this is a time for appreciation, not criticism. The man left his mark.

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