A playground in Door County and a trail and public square in Madison were named as some of the best public spaces in the U.S.

If there is one thing Iowa is known for other than corn and pigs, it's charming small towns and the rest of the country thinks so, too.

On the evening of July 12, 1893, in the hall of a massive new Beaux-Arts building that would soon house the Art Institute of Chicago, a young professor named Frederick Jackson Turner rose to ...