The possibility of locating the Barack Obama presidential library in Jackson Park or Washington Park is a good time to review the history of museums in Chicago’s parks.Attracting museums to ...

Attracting museums to parks has been a city trend since 1893, when civic leaders arranged for the Art Institute of Chicago to move to Grant Park and […] Skip to content. All Sections.

Dion Brough and her daughter, Cooke Magnet Elementary School second grader Amy Ramirez, are doing a grand tour of Waukegan parks this summer with the goal of getting to all of them before Amy goes … ...

Larger-than-life butterfly sculptures coming to Chicago’s parks this summer As part of the “Flight of Butterflies” initiative, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum will install 6-foot butterfly ...

All of their skills are on display at Chilab Studio, where art blends with nature, ... Fifteen of the 29 butterflies will be featured in Chicago parks. The rest will be on Michigan Ave.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A Chicago parks protection group sued the city on Thursday over a planned museum by "Star Wars" filmmaker George Lucas, saying the site is on a lakefront spot that cannot be ...

For married collaborators Steve Reidell and Stacey Marquardt, the opportunity took them to 14 Chicago parks throughout the city in the spring to record sounds — birds and bugs in Jackson Park ...

Parks, beaches, cafes, libraries ... University of Chicago campus. ... Numerous museums — such as the Smart Museum of Art and the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center — are on or ...

Art Institute of Chicago. The Art Institute of Chicago will offer “free winter weekdays” for Illinois residents, with free admission every Monday, Thursday and Friday through March 14.