Old North Church’s oldest artifacts — four hand-carved wooden angels that have perched upon the church’s gallery railing since 1746 — will return to the historic site after undergoing ...

The Art Institute filed a 132-page rebuttal in April, arguing that the painting’s transfer — to a surviving relative, who then sold it to a controversial art dealer — was legal and unforced.

A Chicago family purchased the artifact, a limestone frieze that was most likely once part of an ancient Mayan building, from a local art dealer in 1988.