Charles Storch

After a budget deficit, attendance crisis and months of renovations that have kept its exhibits closed, the Chicago Historical Society hopes its grand new name -- the Chicago History Museum...

Q. What would a museum here do if a clumsy visitor damaged something in its collection, as did a man in a Cambridge, England, museum who recently tripped on his...

During his class on contract and tort remedies at DePaul University law school the other day, professor Bruce Ottley was asked by a student about one of the recent lawsuits...

LESSON: IF YOU'VE BEEN ENGAGED TO PAMELA ANDERSON, YOU WIND UP GOING TO STRIP CLUBS FOR THE MUSIC Kid Rock was arrested in February for punching a disc jockey at...

"Cellular Field: While some other institutions discourage cell phone use, the Museum of Natural History embraces the technology. Is that a culture clash? Forward thinkers at the backward-looking Field Museum...

"Aerial artistry: Photographer takes to the skies to explore Chicago's remarkable landscape. She's not in Kansas anymore" Terry Evans is back on the ground. The famed landscape and nature photographer...

Tutmania has officially begun in Chicago. Field Museum members snapped up 4,000 discount tickets to next year's "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" by 4 p.m. Tuesday, the...

Singer Dolly Parton, actor Robert Duvall, musician Wynton Marsalis and author Louis Auchincloss are among 10 winners of this year's National Medal of Arts, the country's highest honor for artistic...

The corner near the Michigan Avenue entrance to Johnson Publishing Co. headquarters is to bear a new honorary street sign--John H. Johnson Avenue--to commemorate the late founder of that publishing,...

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago is to be the beneficiary when the 13-room, Hyde Park estate of one of its longtime professors, John Kurtich, is auctioned next...