Some Chicago murals “are political, and some are purely beautiful, and most are somewhere in between," artist Cyd Smillie says.

Why not make your garden walls work harder for you? Art has the power to transform an unassuming wall into a meadow of wildflowers, a tropical jungle or an endless series of garden rooms projecting ...

Though bundled up in winter wear, the class of Lake Ripley Elementary School fourth-graders still shivered in the February cold, especially as the wind whipped across the playground, delivering an ...