Charles Storch

The Chicago Children's Museum is considering leaving Navy Pier, eyeing sites that include the Daley Bicentennial Plaza area in Grant Park, sources told the Tribune. "We are exploring a number...

For 30 years, "Site Q" has been a mystery name anthropologists attached to an unknown, ancient Mayan city that was the source of exquisite looted artworks and hieroglyphs showing up...

Our state is home to three of the 25 newly minted MacArthur Fellows and a fourth labors from afar for one of our premier museums. Yes, California and New York...

Hopeful news from Downstate Morton, a.k.a. "The Pumpkin Capital of the World": Don't write off this fall's pumpkin harvest, despite the pessimism in recent coverage of the drought and its...

In a funeral befitting a fallen head of state, visiting dignitaries and average Chicagoans on Monday remembered businessman John H. Johnson, crediting the publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines with...

"Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre" is a big draw. Since the exhibition opened July 16 at the Art Institute of Chicago its attendance has exceeded several recent museum blockbusters. The Art Institute...

John H. Johnson was known as the man who turned Ebony into gold. Ebony magazine became the cornerstone of Johnson Publishing Co., a privately held publishing, cosmetics, television production and...

Five Chicago cultural institutions said Wednesday that they will offer Vietnam War-related programs beginning in September as a buildup to the planned unveiling Nov. 11 of the city's Vietnam Veterans...

"Someone Tell Mayor Daley, the Pirates are Coming." As if Hizzoner didn't know. Actually, it's not a cry about subpoena-carrying feds or GOP bounty hunters at City Hall's door but...

Paid death notices rarely have interest beyond a deceased's family and friends, but not one that appeared July 2 in the Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer. Dorothy Gibson Cully, 86,...