Artworks in Illinois
Sculpture, murals and the outsized roadside piece you slow down for. Public work, standing where anyone can see it without paying to.
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1,134 artworks are published in Illinois. The list below holds the 473 best-documented.
- Statue of Liberty
- Marquette and Joliet Explorer Statue
- Kwa-Ma-RolasBuilt 1986
- Paseo Bourica Gateway Flags
- Young Lincoln Statue
- Monument With Standing Beast
- Alexander Hamilton Monument
- America's Courtyard
- Big Beaver Totem Pole
- Ravine Bluffs Street Markers
- Captain on the Helm
- Man with Fish
- Legacy Walk Rainbow Pylon
- We Will Chicago
- Fountain of Time
- Chicago Rising from the Lake
- John Alexander Logan Monument
- Alma MaterBuilt 1929-06-11
- Richard Oglesby Monument
- Chicago Blackhawks 75th Anniversary Sculpture
- Jack Brickhouse
- Miro's Chicago
- Paseo Bourica Gateway Flags
- Olmec Head
- Ravine Bluffs Street Markers
- Statue of Liberty
- ConstellationBuilt 2020 · 8.8 m
- Chicago Picasso Braille Model
- Little Village Arch
- Four Seasons
- The Chicago Lincoln
- Cow
- Alexander Von Humboldt Monument
- Man Enters The Cosmos
- Maxwell Street Musician
- Bust of Abraham Lincoln
- Legacy Walk Rainbow Pylon
- Lion “in an attitude of defiance”
- Chicago Stock Exchange Arch
- Chicago PicassoBuilt 1967
- Sue the Dinosaur
- FlamingoBuilt 1974
- Eternal SilenceBuilt 1909
- Michael Jordan
- John Peter Altgeld Momument
- Giant Radio Flyer Wagon
- Sir Georg Solti Bust
- Equestrian Indians (The Bowman)
- Cloud Gate10 m
- Maxwell Street Vendor
- Hector Guimard Metro entrance
- Maxwell Street
- Statue of the Republic
- Allow Me
- William Dunton
- Rockmen Guardians
- Lincoln StatueNational Register
- San Marco II
- Lincoln Memorial Replica
- Irv Kupcinet
- Menorah
- Crossing
- Leonard M. Louie
- Black Hawk StatueNational Register
- Lion "on the prowl"
- Ravine Bluffs Street Markers
- Equestrian Indians (The Spearman)
- A Signal of Peace
- The Alarm
- Brachiosaurus Replica
- Brachiosaurus
- Leif Ericsson Monument
- Robert Cavalier de LaSalle
- Cubi VII
- Benjamin Franklin
- Magdalene
- Paul Bunyan Statue
- Corridor in History and DevelopmentBuilt 2023-06-14
- Beacon of EnduranceBuilt 2023-07-19
- Sad Fido
- Independence Square Fountain
- Nesewin - How to Breathe Underwater
- Law and Knowledge
- Fido With Newspaper
- White-tailed DeerBuilt 1994
- Shit Fountain
- Justice and Power
- Washington (George Washington Monument)Built 1904
- Spirit Tree
- Flying Dragon
- Fido With Bowtie
- Farmers Market MuralBuilt 2015
- A Greater TaskBuilt 2006-08-11
- Local HeroesBuilt 2023-09-12
- Fido With Flower
- Modernist Old Abe
- Fido Sniffing Flower Pot
- Jacques Marquette Monument
- Lincoln's BenchBuilt 2006-07
- Peace and HarvestNational Register
- Fritz Reuter Monument
- Large Interior Form
- Nine Dragon WallBuilt 2004
- PrairieSumacBuilt 2017-06-22
- Indian War Memorial
- Unknown
- Cedric the Dragon
- Harmony Atlas
- Divine Servant
- goodthingz
- FiberwaveBuilt 1998
- Robert E. Wood
- Molecular ReflectionBuilt 1997
- Dialogo
- Monumental Fun Time
- Ceres9.4 m
- Art Alley
- Cosmic Seed96 m
- United States Flag Sculpture
- Yes AndBuilt 2020-11-22
- Laughing LincolnBuilt 2018-12-02
- Return Visit
- Mr. Big Beatle Finds His WayBuilt 2015
- Stanislaw "Stan" Mikita
- Vanna Whitewall
- Pokemon Ball
- Dian
- MananaanBuilt 1994
- Borneo
- Buffalo Skull
- AntipodeBuilt 2000
- Lion
- Sister 1
- DNA DanceBuilt 2022
- Which Way
- Is It Too LateBuilt 2007
- Woolly Mammoth Statue
- Tootsie
- George Huntington Hartford
- Aaron Montgomery Ward
- World's Largest Knitting Needles
- Chevron
- Theb #1
- St Anne
- Shield of Chichen Itza
- Bicycle
- George Wellington "Cap'n" Streeter
- Spiral
- PortalBuilt 2014
- Mile of Murals
- Buffalo Skull
- Kinetic Sculpture
- Windwaves
- Mile of Murals
- Flight Forms
- Monsignor John EganBuilt 2004
- Canada Goose
- Athyst IIIBuilt 1998
- Revolution
- Magoo – For Lord BuckleyBuilt 2015
- Dragon
- After GivernyBuilt 2018
- Mile of Murals
- Gorilla
- Illinois Landscape #3Built 1973
- Sonar TideBuilt 1983
- Key
- World's Biggest Barber Pole
- Vincent de Paul with two studentsBuilt 1994
- Mr. Big
- Beno
- Walking Stick
- Tumble GateBuilt 2011
- NianticBuilt 2002
- Big John9.144 m
- Tala
- Buffalo Skull
- Mile of Murals
- Flame Of The Millennium
- St Francis of Assisi
- Atiqtalik
- Emanuel Swedenborg Monument
- Untitled, 1945, cast in 1996
- The Colonnade
- Ancient Scholar BunjinzeBuilt 1400
- DNA Wind Sculpture
- Walrus "Olga"
- Unknown
- Mile of Murals
- Mile of Murals
- Ordinary Relic
- North StarBuilt 2004
- Portrait
- Robert Marvin "Bobby" Hull
- Pierre Menard StatueBuilt 1886-05-28
- CPD Officer Ella FrenchBuilt 2025-08-31
- Seven at the Gates of Dawn
- Splash
- Illinois Workers MemorialBuilt 1992-04-28
- Large Narrow HorseBuilt 2005-11
- Prairie BoatBuilt 2023-06-10
- WaterBuilt 2008
- Prairie BuoyBuilt 2001
- Illinois Landscape N 5
- Hamza
- Amplifiers
- Untitled, 1979
- Corn Cob
- Frog
- Fountain Girl
- Position #1Built 2006
- Sisyphus’Aviary
- Everett Dirksen StatueBuilt 1976-09-16
- OpenBuilt 2006
- Girl with a Scarf
- Because I Love You More
- Mouse Trap
- Play for Peace
- You Are on Potawatomi Land
- Stargazer
- Frog Sculpture
- The Missing Piece
- Bloom
- Fulton Market District GatewayBuilt 2014
- Edward Albert Filene
- Computing a Future
- Prairie SpiritBuilt 2015-05-02
- Bicentennial Liberty BellBuilt 1976-07-04
- Eagle ColumnsBuilt 1989
- Diss-ConnectionsBuilt 2014-10-10
- Reflections
- President Ronald Reagan as a boy
- World's Biggest Pencil
- Mother Skye
- Ninian Edwards
- Joe DiMaggio
- Untilted
- Red-headed WoodpeckerBuilt 2022-07-15
- Diamonds are ForeverBuilt 2011
- Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable
- Jahanna
- Return of the Yellow Cranes
- Marshall Field
- Two Girls Playing
- Into Thy HandsBuilt 2021
- Curve XXII (I Will)
- Stranger Reduction ZoneBuilt 2014
- Mile of Murals
- Frank W. Woolworth
- Winged Figure Ascending
- Death of the Last Centaur
- Life on the PrairieBuilt 2018
- Retro Tree
- Lion
- Our King
- Confucius
- Oprah Winfrey MuralBuilt 2020
- Falling Meteor
- Kabaka
- PictographBuilt 2018
- Double Dutch – A Jump for JoyBuilt 2011
- Major General John M. Palmer StatueBuilt 1923-10-16
- AISC Steel Teaching Sculpture
- Shoes
- Gwendolyn Brooks: The Oracle of BronzevilleBuilt 2018
- MetamorphosisBuilt 2022
- Arche Fountain
- Very Special Mosaic MuralBuilt 1985-05
- Riverview
- Landslide
- Lion
- The Nightingale
- Spirit of Survival
- Paul
- Phoenix
- Unknown
- Poet Carl Sandburg and Nellie the Goat
- Cape Variations
- Embryonoire, Nero Atlantide
- Well
- MarkerBuilt 1998
- Idea of an AppleBuilt 2016
- Mile of Murals
- Sister 2
- Inuit's Bone Sequi
- World War One DoughboyBuilt 2022-10-01
- Concrete Lady
- MaryBuilt 2023
- Wellspring
- Richard Yates StatueBuilt 1923-10-16
- Oscar’s Inclination
- Bodark Arc
- Peacock
- Ten Thousand Ripples
- Sherpa IIBuilt 2016
- Unknown
- Hope and Help
- Lincoln-Fell-Davis Statue
- Sea Maiden
- Only Rain Down The Drain
- Mile of Murals
- Beardstown Postage Stamp Welcome MuralBuilt 2021
- The Sower
- Puzzle
- Large Planar Hybrid
- Frame
- Lincoln MegalithBuilt 1964-05
- Field Rotation
- TakeawayBuilt 2024-07-15
- CelebrationBuilt 1986
- Cartwright MoundBuilt 1977
- Taking Stalk
- Ecce HoraBuilt 2002
- Bicycle
- Anya
- Uranus planet from Lakeview sun
- BeautyBuilt 2017
- Pyxis
- Fox
- Cat in the Hat
- Kinetic Sculpture
- Living Lincoln Topiary SculptureBuilt 2020-08-29
- Flowering
- Persian LiliesBuilt 2001
- Lincoln on Lincoln
- El-ahrairahBuilt 2000
- Unknown
- Southern PassageBuilt 1998
- Minimal Response III
- Sky Landing
- North Point
- Books Flying Off the Shelf
- Paul Laurence Dunbar Monument
- Fishing Eagle
- Mile of Murals
- Prairie Grid
- Flyfishing
- Big Bat
- Just RelaxBuilt 2022
- Prometheus I
- Out of CourtBuilt 2009-08-22
- Harry Caray
- 1835 Expedition
- TangoBuilt 1997
- World's Largest Windchime
- William Jennings Bryan
- Lion
- Siblings
- Crucixion with Mourning Women on pedestal
- Sprout
- Montrose Yacht Club Anchor
- Folk ArtBuilt 1998
- Lanleff - Demeure N 4
- Mural on MorganBuilt 2013
- Taking Flight
- Abraham Lincoln StatueBuilt 1918-10-05 · 3.2 m
- Mamie Till-MobleyBuilt 2023
- Astroterra
- Unknown
- Sextant Yoke
- Buffalo Skull
- Interconnected
- Sea Bird
- Minion
- House of Imagination
- AwakeBuilt 2019
- Pavilion/Sculpture
- Continuum
- Mile of Murals
- St Anne
- King Nyani
- Raza
- Richard Pryor Statue
- Sun Tracker
- World's Biggest Yard Stick
- Here and There
- Symbol
- Bi-Polar Apparition Attack-Formus InterrupiusBuilt 2016
- Suzi's GardenBuilt 2008
- Julius Rosenwald
- Quarks VI
- Balancing Beam
- YikesBuilt 2000
- MagicBuilt 2016
- Kwami
- Helping Hand
- St Anne
- Reuben Soderstrom Statue
- Droid 8508
- Mile of Murals
- Adelor The Lion
- Crossroads
- Crazy Horse
- Sweet Like LemonadeBuilt 2021
- Phoenix Rising
- Interconnected
- Red Green Purple
- Growth and ChangeBuilt 1997
- Lunar Disc I
- Traveler
- Turtle Fountain
- White Cedar
- Quandary
- IdylBuilt 1913
- New Heritage
- The Elephant
- Gourd Man
- Two in the HandBuilt 2015
- BlammO
- Mary
- Jetty
- 23
- FlukeBuilt 1998
- Mile of Murals
- St Anne
- The Quintessential Engineer
- Unknown
- Gahiji
- ChangesBuilt 1993
- Fatu
- Liberty Bell ReplicaBuilt 1977-04-28
- Hopewell Peter Toth sculptureBuilt 1975-11-19
- Alchemy—Birds and StoneBuilt 1983
- Jarvis
- Huskies on Parade - Nestle
- HIV Awareness Statue
- Cole
- Giant Basketball Hoop
- GraspBuilt 2023
- Newt Orange Cat Statue
- Winneberge Wheel
- Officer Friendly
- Hippos
- Structural Mechanics
- The Pedestrian
- Four Corners
- George Washington
- Sacagawea
- Sea Maiden
- Mile of Murals
- RacesBuilt 2018-11-30
- Jet Era
- Fathers & SonsBuilt 1999
- Upwells FountainBuilt 1991
- The Coal MinerBuilt 1964-10-16
- Reuben G. Soderstrom
- Lion
- Uppercutted
- Adwin
- Outgrown Pyramid 2
- Byways to EqualityBuilt 2014-04-19
- Prairie Fire
- Abraham Lincoln
- Prayer for RainBuilt 1899
- Darwin's Playground
- Search
- Rollin' on the River
- Miles Davis Statue
- Here and There
- Lion
- The Radiance of Being
- Flying Saucer
- Lion
- Art of Science
- The Gifting AngelBuilt 2015
- Worlds Largest Rocking Chair
- Top
- Zen VisionBuilt 2016-11
- St nnn
- BalenciaBuilt 1999
- John Wanamaker
- Carved Stumps
- Sunflowers