Trees provide shade, shelter, and sometimes fall color and fruit. But privacy? That’s up for debate. Depending on your yard, a tree can create a screen—you just need to be careful where you place it.

Growing evergreen trees on your property provides beauty to your landscape, shade in the hotter months, and habitat and sometimes food sources for birds and pollinators throughout the seasons.

The city of Chicago is turning to plants and trees to help address issues with stormwater flooding, which has been a repeated problem this summer. This week, Chicago's South and West sides were hit ...