For more than a decade, “Matrix” filmmakers Lana and Lilly Wachowski based their Chicago operations out of a North Side building on Ravenswood Avenue before putting it on the market a few years back.

Lana and Lilly Wachowski, who directed "The Matrix" series, are auctioning off props and other memorabilia from their films in support of trans youths. The sisters "have been doing some spring ...