Now, timed to the Democratic National Convention (Aug. 19-22), Chicago is debuting a new array of public art throughout the city, much of it by local talent, and all on democratic (with a ...

CHICAGO — Before Georgia O’Keeffe painted her legendary Southwestern scenes, she spent years depicting a very different kind of landscape: the harsh and smoky urban canyons of New York City.

A New York judge has ordered the Art Institute of Chicago to surrender a 1916 drawing owned by a Jewish collector that had been stolen by Nazis in the Holocaust.

The Art Institute now occupies about 1 million square feet, making it the second largest art institution in the U.S. after the Metropolitan Art Museum in New York City.

But eventually, in 1995, it was Chicago that offered a fresh start for the company to put down roots and carve out its own territory — a time zone away from the crowded world of New York City dance.