Katlyn Smith

To say the late Ray Morrill left his mark on Wheaton and its parks system is an understatement.

Peru Dyer Jalea has created murals in Canada and Japan, for music festivals and skate parks, with a mood-boosting color palette.

Mayoral and city council candidates in DuPage County towns began filing their nominating petitions Monday, and some races are already getting crowded.

A new mural in Wheaton helps brighten the downtown plaza

Leask Lane is a pleasant stretch of road alongside the Morton Arboretum and curving around Gladstone Ridge, a home for horses for decades. “There’s so much nature. That's really what makes it so ...

A longtime DuPage Democrat who has previously called for letting voters decide the future of the county’s recorder of deeds office is now hoping to lead it. Liz Chaplin, a county board member since ...

One look around the former Dan and Ada Rice estate, and you can see how the couple reached the pinnacle of their sport. Their most famous racehorse, Lucky Debonair, won the Kentucky Derby 60 years ago...

First a family of trolls settled into the Morton Arboretum in Lisle. Then more humanlike characters, Mother Earth types, began to populate areas of the grounds. A new group of sculptural figures will ...

Come Election Day, voters throughout DuPage County will decide whether school, library and park districts can borrow millions for major building projects. Here’s a look at some of the referendum que...

Artist couple Fez and Heather BeGaetz are creating a larger-than-life white-tailed deer, dragonfly, sandhill crane, fox squirrel and brittle button snail for their arboretum exhibition, “Vivid Creatures: An encounter with colorful forest friends,” opening in May.