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If you want to see a famous mug, visit the American Toby Jug Museum in Evanston

Stephen M. Mullins has assembled nearly 8,300 vessels from more than 60 years of collecting.

Say aloha to David and Amy Carter’s Tabu Tiki Room.

Keith Sadler’s Uptown one-bedroom holds a gallery’s worth of outsider art and other oddities.

Whatever else George Lucas’s proposed museum is, it’s a vanity project, something its predecessors were not.

A short list of reasons we shouldn’t want the Lucas Cultural Arts Museum—and a really short list of reasons why we might.

David Roth’s Evanston home links to his past with archival photos and a collection of analogue cameras used as decoration.

Founded by the late Jay Bennett, Pieholden Suite Sound occupies a former rec center.

Pete Klockau and Katie Monachos’s house is home to six-foot totems and 200 tiki mugs.

Current musical obsessions of Notes & Bolts founder Kriss Stress, Lakshmi Ramgopal of Love and Radiation, and more

Nineteenth-century weirdness meets Hawaiian flair in Laura Moeller and Todd Hembrook’s Ukrainian Village apartment.

Steve Krakow’s Humboldt Park apartment is teeming with records, comics, and an animatronic bear or two.

This week’s Chicagoan is Paul Speredes, owner of Able Removal Service