On Chicago Day at the 1933 World’s Fair, Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly was to present fair President Rufus C. Dawes with a flag to signify the selection of the event as the third star in the city ...

A century ago, author Wallace Rice covered the floor of his living room with colorful rectangles. He’d spent six weeks combining shapes and symbols, trying to find just the right image to rep… ...

The Chicago city flag’s sky-blue bars and red stars are everywhere in this city. There’s a website devoted to pictures of Chicago Flag Tattoos. The flag is on T-shirts, hats, messenger bags ...

Today marks the 100th anniversary of Chicago’s famous city flag. With its distinct light blue and white stripes and red six-point stars, the flag is commonly found throughout the city.

Chicago’s original flag was designed in a City Council-sponsored contest in 1917. The winning design was submitted by Wallace Rice, an author and a lecturer at the Art Institute of Chicago ...

Chicago flag themed gifts seen on display at the gift shop inside of the Chicago History Museum in 2015. (Kristen Norman/for the Chicago Tribune) Every day in Chicago is Flag Day. Try walking a blo… ...