And since 1994, the festival has included an insect art contest for area elementary and high school students. The point of the festival, says Berenbaum's grad student Cynthia McDonnell, is to improve ...

For nearly two centuries, a point of Chicago’s civic pride has been its connection to the natural world. One of our mottos, “Urbs in Horto,” extols ours as a city in a garden. Yet not ...