Zack Gil, of Homer Glen, prepares to fly a butterfly kite with his daughter Emilia Gil, 3 1/2. “They are very graceful and artistic,” Elizabeth Agui of Tinley Park said of the large kites ...

Kelly McGill flies a penguin kite on Sunday at the 12th annual New Era Kite Festival. (Photo by Madeline Scarborough) Children took their free kites outside and learned how to make them fly.

For 16-year-old Detroiter Talayah Gordon, going to the kite festival is a family tradition. Gordon always flies a butterfly kite that her mom got her.

Linnea Cubley, 5, had her sisters, Kelly-anne, 7, and Arianna, 3, close by to keep her company. With their mom, Jennifer Cubley, the girls flew a butterfly kite and snacked on carrot sticks.

Bright orange, yellow, white and black kites dotted the sky, marking the spot at the Pleasant Valley Road Historical Cemetery where the Monarch Butterfly Festival took flight Saturday. The ...

Looking up in the sky, 5-year-old Deja Zeigler shrieked with excitement. Deja’s reaction came after she and her father, De, were able to successfully get her pink and purple butterfly kite in the air.

Fortunately, Kris Runyon has been flying kites long enough to know what to do. He found a long pole and, within seconds, had expertly extracted his kite's string from the oak tree's highest branches.