Spring has officially started in the Chicago area, though erratic temperatures have left residents dressing for summer one ...

Parking is free. The Chicago Botanic Garden offers 385 acres of garden walks, greenhouses and exhibitions (though the greenhouses don't open for the season until March 23). Visitors can also eat ...

Rockefeller, the University of Chicago is an urban research university ... But the university's 217-acre campus, which was designated a botanic garden in 1997, and its mixture of English Gothic ...