Cortney Lederer News Today

As part of the "Flight of Butterflies" initiative, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum of the Chicago Academy of Sciences will install 6-foot-tall butterfly sculptures in city parks in July.

What’s happening in Evanston this week? Here are some events — informative, useful and entertaining — coming up soon. Blue Monday with Ivy Ford Jan. 10. Doors open at 7 p.m. Show begins at 8 p.m. Chicago-based blues singer and musician Ivy Ford will perform Monday night at Evanston SPACE on Chicago Avenue. Tickets are...

Through the Thousand Butterflies Project, Evanston students are using butterflies — a symbol of rejuvenation in many cultures — to foster connection and community care. Since last summer, Evanston-based nonprofit Kids Create Change has hosted butterfly-making tables at community events, art festivals and block parties around the city. There, students can drop by to decorate...