Chris Soprych

Chicago's long-awaited Millennium Park officially opens Friday, six years after Mayor Richard Daley first proposed it. Daley envisioned the 24.5-acre park as a way to welcome the 21st Century and...

Built as tombs for the three pharaohs whose names they're now known by, Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure weren't the first pyramids of Egypt and they weren't the last, but they...

The ancient Khmers erected monuments and temples in honor of the Hindu and Buddhist religions, but abandoned them when the Thai army conquered Angkor in 1431. The French rediscovered the...

A wonder of the spirit of freedom, a wonder of 19th Century engineering, the Statue of Liberty has awed generations. Once a symbol of French-American friendship, the statue is now...

There's more to sledding than just sliding down a hill. At the Olympic level, sledders seek every edge that technology, physics and the rule book allow in their pursuit of...

The U.S. Postal Service has delivered about 30 billion letters--five for each person on Earth--since Sept. 11. Three of those letters are known to have contained finely powdered anthrax, a...

Twenty-five years ago Homebush Bay was an industrial wasteland, a place so desolate and run down that it was used as the backdrop for a "Mad Max" movie. But thanks...