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Maria Valdes holds pieces of a meteorite identified as coming from the asteroid Vesta on June 30, 2021, at the Field Museum.

Asteroid Day is a celebratory one for the Field Museum, whose scientists just classified a rare meteorite

July 1, 2021 at 9:01 a.m.

Maria Valdes hadn't celebrated Asteroid Day before, but this year she was an enthusiastic participant. "I have to say this is the most exciting way to celebrate your first Asteroid...

Alice Clark Brown performs with the Ringling Brothers Circus at Chicago's International Amphitheatre on Oct. 3, 1972.

Alice Clark Brown, trailblazing Black circus aerialist and performer, dies at 68

July 5, 2021 at 7:50 p.m.

When Alice Clark Brown told her family she was going to leave college and join the circus in 1972, they were shocked. But after catching "the showbiz bug" as a...

Pregnant Woodridge woman, who was injured when a tornado caused a tree to fall through the roof, loses her baby

June 28, 2021 at 4:21 p.m.

Katie Wilson, her husband and their 4-year-old daughter were upstairs in a relative's Woodridge home late Sunday evening when they heard tornado sirens announcing the storm that hit with 135...

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