Good morning, Chicago.

Hundreds of plant buyers visited the spring Hyde Park Garden Fair Friday morning at Kimbark Plaza after the fair moved from its old location at the Hyde Park Shopping Center, and organizers said long lines stretched along 53rd Street.

The fair, a local event dating back to 1959, will run again today from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. (1310 E. 53rd St.)

Morton Arboretum’s new art exhibition 'Vivid Creatures: Colorful Sculptures as Tall as Trees' opens today in Lisle, featuring five large-scale, colorful sculptures by artists Heather and Fez BeGaetz designed to invite visitors to connect with nature.

The display runs through spring 2027 +with one sculpture arriving on June 2+.

UIC’s Digital Accessibility Services is hosting a Zoom training session where Blake Bertuccelli-Booth explains how AI is changing digital accessibility for faculty and web professionals (the session highlights tools from Adobe, AWS, Yuja, OpenAI and covers techniques like computer vision and speech recognition).

Caleb Smith, a UIC engineering graduate, received a NASA grant for his capstone project and is headed to Huntsville, Alabama to intern at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center where he will work on additive manufacturing with simulated moon dust + continue his research while pursuing his PhD in mechanical engineering. He will design test plans, check performance data and document results to help make deep space travel safer.

West Chicago Mayor Daniel Bovey filed a lawsuit on May 13 in DuPage County Circuit Court claiming that the contracts for city administrator Michael Guttman and attorney Patrick Bond are invalid and asking for an injunction to let him appoint interim officials.

The case is set to be heard on May 28—Bovey argues that the contracts violate state law by extending beyond his term.

State officials will end a health coverage program for over 30,000 immigrant adults at the end of June—effective July 1—as Gov. Pritzker works to cut costs amid budget constraints.

Sen. Bill Cunningham said no new action has changed the shutdown plans for a program that started in 2021 to cover working-age immigrants.