Field has mulled selling artifacts
When the Field Museum sold more than 30 works of 19th-century Western art for millions of dollars in 2004, it eased controversy by announcing plans to spend the proceeds on...
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Field Museum again offers its curators early retirement
The Field Museum is offering scientists early retirement packages for the third time in five years as the institution struggles to cope with flat revenues and a high debt burden....
Field Museum again offers its curators early retirement
The Field Museum is offering scientists early retirement packages for the third time in five years as the institution struggles to cope with flat revenues and a high debt burden....
Chicago museums reeling after building sprees
The turn of the millennium was a heady time for many Chicago cultural institutions. Cheap loans, high investment returns and swelling endowments spawned a slew of new attractions along the...
Pension, borrowing choices later hit museums, arts groups
Borrowing and spending on the assumption that more money and visitors would follow was not the only financial risk many cultural institutions took. They also put off pension payments and...
Tribune special report: Cultural cash crunch
In the years before the global financial crisis hit, many of Chicago's cultural institutions took on major financial risks by borrowing tens of millions of dollars to fund expansions, renovations...
Tribune special report: Cultural cash crunch
In the years before the global financial crisis hit, many of Chicago's cultural institutions took on major financial risks by borrowing tens of millions of dollars to fund expansions, renovations...
Dinosaur-size debt
For many people the defining moment in the Field Museum's recent history was the bid at a 1997 auction that made Chicago home to the Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton known as...
10 years after E2 nightclub deaths, a mixed record on exit safety
In the aftermath of the E2 nightclub disaster that killed 21 people in 2003, the city of Chicago vowed to step up weekend inspections of clubs. Ten years later, city...
10 years after E2 nightclub deaths, a mixed record on exit safety
In the aftermath of the E2 nightclub disaster that killed 21 people in 2003, the city of Chicago vowed to step up weekend inspections of clubs. Ten years later, city...