You can check out Chicago cultural institutions like the Adler Planetarium, DuSable Black History Museum, Shedd Aquarium and more, with many offering various free days during the week.

Artist Pugs Atomz asked the community what it wanted, and that led him and fellow muralists on a painting odyssey through the neighborhood — a journey that is continuing.

Though open-minded, the new owner of the magisterial 18th-century house needed to be convinced of some of her interior ...