Mayor Martin Kennelly, left, and Chauncey McCormick, right, president of the Art Institute, view the new Chicago city flag at the Art Institute, circa 1948.

The Chicago flag is pretty much everywhere in the Windy City. And ... Local Illustrator Tells the Story of the Chicago Flag Through Art. By AJ LaTrace Apr 2, 2015, 4:15pm CDT ...

Nihilists might say art is anything an art museum exhibits. Under that definition, an American flag laid on a floor is ”art” if the floor is part of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

He’d spent six weeks combining shapes and symbols, trying to find just the right image to represent the city where he’d spent his life, Chicago. He’d come up with hundreds of possibilities.

When the Chicago flag was first adopted, in 1917, it had only two stars: one for the Fire of 1871, another for the 1893 Columbian Exposition. A third star was added in 1933, for the Century of ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- June is LGBTQ+ Pride month, and the City of Chicago raised the flag Monday to celebrate. City leaders gathered Monday morning at Daley Plaza downtown – emphasizing the city's ...