About 45 miles southwest of the World’s Fair’s Jackson Park site, a giant old barn is slowly decomposing along U.S. 52 just outside of the Will County village of Manhattan.

Together with the White House Grounds team and the National Park Service, arborists took down the Jackson Southern Magnolia tree over safety concerns on Monday. A new tree is going up.

The White House has planted a new sapling to replace an ancient magnolia named for President Andrew Jackson. The nation's seventh president brought the seeds of a southern magnolia tree from his ...