Making bouquets is an art, and in Chicago, you'll find many florists creating stunning arrangements. Here are the five most charming flower shops in the city.

In early March, two weeks into Russia’s assault on Ukraine, Steven Dyme watched a clip on NPR’s Twitter feed about a florist in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, who had just stocked her shop with fresh spring ...

Southside Blooms is a non-profit that hires at-risk inner city youth to create farm-to-vase bouquets. Says founder Quilen Blackwell: "This is about eliminating the ghetto." Quilen Blackwell wants to ...

Quilen Blackwell didn't set out to be an urban farmer or a florist. Back in 2011, he relocated from Madison, Wisconsin, to Chicago to attend ministry school, which is when he started tutoring at-risk ...

In early March, two weeks into Russia’s assault on Ukraine, Steven Dyme watched a clip on NPR’s Twitter feed about a florist in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, who had just stocked her shop with fresh spring ...

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Chicago florist Mike Hines has been creating artistic, atypical, not-your-grocery-store-variety arrangements for private clients and upmarket hotels for the past ten years, at his lofty Epoch studio ...

For florist Marek Fortineaux, no prom has meant no corsages. Postponed weddings have meant canceled bouquets. Closed churches meant no Easter lilies. But Mother’s Day, by far his shop’s biggest ...

A 64-year-old florist was struck and killed while crossing a street on Chicago's West Side over the weekend. Alberto Zavala, owner of Zavala's Flower Shop on Fullerton Avenue, was identified as the ...