Sotheby’s end Chicago sales
USA: Sotheby’s is likely to cease all sales at its branch in Chicago after November 1. Around 19 of the office’s 31 employees will lose their jobs as Sotheby’s closes the auction house they bought from Leslie Hindman in 1997 and reverts to running just a consignment office in the Midwest capital.
In just over two years the Chicago area will have lost its two largest salerooms, both following pur…