Tom Wartman is standing over a rectangle of blue flame and bending glass in his hands. "This fire is about 1,500 degrees," he says casually. He quickly and deftly moves the glass arc from the flame to ...

CHICAGO — Dylan Thomas once wrote: “Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” He wasn’t talking about Chicago, but he could have been when it comes to this city’s disappearing neon signs. These ...