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Steve Dahl has taken his radio talents to WLS in Chicago. His first day was Monday at the station's studios on State Street.

A familiar voice as Steve Dahl returns to Chicago radio

April 5, 2019 at 8:56 p.m.

Grumbles about commercial radio's tight formatting? Check. Horndog comments to a female caller and his station's traffic reporter? Check. References to Disco Demolition and Garry Meier and a phone call...

Big dino discovery unfolds at a thriller’s pace

June 17, 2018 at 4:53 a.m.

"Bigger Than T. rex," the story of two University of Chicago paleontologists piecing together the facts about the largest predatory dinosaur yet found, unfolds at the pace of a good...

Morton Arboretum: Seeing the forest and the trees

June 17, 2018 at 5:11 a.m.

Along one of the miles and miles of footpath at The Morton Arboretum, I stopped on a recent Monday to soak in the scene. The forest floor was a bright...

The main floor of the Field with Sue, the T-Rex, the African elephants and more.

Field invites top natural history museums to Chicago summit

June 17, 2018 at 5:24 a.m.

In a new initiative in its industry, the Field Museum of Natural History plans to host representatives of fellow leading natural-history museums at a meeting in the spring of 2015,...

Drew Michael: a comedian obsessed with craft

December 17, 2018 at 8:40 p.m.

Yes, his parents divorced when he was 12. Yes, he was the kind of kid who wouldn't accept authority until authority proved its logic to him. But just as big...

Fighting Spirits and Bizango secret society fighter with two horns. This show is a visual stunner, says the Tribune's Steve Johnson. There are sequined flags, crude sculptures, sacred drums, coiled, cloth snakes and bejeweled life-size cloth figures.

Review: ‘Vodou: Sacred Powers of Haiti’ opens at Field Museum

December 17, 2018 at 8:41 p.m.

The first striking thing in "Vodou: Sacred Powers of Haiti," the haunting, otherworldly new temporary exhibition at the Field Museum, was the smell. It's earthy, dusky, not unpleasant, and it...

George Lucas museum to feature more than ‘Star Wars’

June 17, 2018 at 5:54 a.m.

Yes, "Star Wars" creator George Lucas is building a museum on Chicago's lakefront. But it will not be a "Star Wars" museum, the filmmaker said in Chicago Friday, calling that...

Without actually going all the way to Mexico, WBEZ-FM 91.5 reporter Linda Lutton will tell fellow passengers the story of the steady flow of people from Chicago to small Mexican towns by bus.

Humanities Festival preview: Journey off the beaten path

December 17, 2018 at 8:42 p.m.

Long before Lollapalooza became a fixture in Grant Park, long before Riot Fest and Pitchfork Music Festival and the myriad other concentrations of cultural events that have come to define...

Portrait of Chicago Humanities Festival Executive Director Phillip Bahar in the CHF offices in Chicago.

What’s next for Chicago Humanities Festival?

May 10, 2019 at 4:08 p.m.

Call this interview "Festival 101," and think of it as the Chicago Humanities Festival event that's not on the schedule. In the organization's nondescript offices on North Dearborn Street, CHF...

PBS series explains why Chicago needed a lift

June 18, 2018 at 11:42 a.m.

Chicago was the first American city to have a modern sewer system, and because it is so flat, it also had one of the hardest obstacles to achieving that. The...

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