ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

OPRAH WINFREY’S POPULAR daytime talk show, filmed in the West Loop at her Harpo Studios, came to an end in 2011, but she’s back in the neighborhood in the form of a mural that pays tribute to her influence.

The mural, completed in 2020, is about 300 feet long and 26 feet tall. The focal point is a portrait of Winfrey, looking rather regal, painted by artist Shawn Michael Warren, a Chicago native who was among the artists collaborating on the piece.

“It’s almost like planting a flag of a person that has claimed the territory,” says Warren.

The West Loop “was her territory long before it went through this major evolution in terms of being a go-to destination.”

The building that provided the canvas for the mural is part of a development called Porte, 855 W. Madison St., that includes townhomes, apartments and retail space. The mural is on the side of the building that faces Green Street.

TWO ARTISTS ARE trying to keep the memory of Jarad Anthony Higgins — the rapper known as Juice WRLD — alive in his hometown of Chicago.

Artists Corey Pane and Chris Devins painted murals memorializing the rapper, who was 21 when he died in 2019 from what was found to have been an accidental overdose of oxycodone and codeine after landing at Midway Airport.

Devins painted his Juice WRLD mural on the side of a building at 737 W. 59th St.

Pane’s mural is on a viaduct in the 800 block of West Hubbard Street by the Kennedy Expressway.

ROBERT HERGUTH/ SUN-TIMES BELOW: This mural at Hubbard and Green streets by Chicago artist Rahmaan Statik shows three versions of Daniel Dumile, the late rapper and hip-hop artist better known as MF DOOM.

ASHLEE REZIN GARCIA/ SUN-TIMES LEFT: In 2017, this 10-story mural of late-great Chicago bluesman Muddy Waters was dedicated in advance of the city’s annual Blues Festival. The painting is at 17 N. State St.