Museums’ reach is wider than walls
Most of Chicago's major zoos and museums are more than just showpieces for their collections, animal or anthropological. Two new scientific studies — both based in the Bahamas and deriving...
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Museums’ reach is wider than walls
Most of Chicago's major zoos and museums are more than just showpieces for their collections, animal or anthropological. Two new scientific studies — both based in the Bahamas and deriving...
Adler initiative wins $1.8 million Google award
A citizen science initiative led by the Adler Planetarium and Oxford University won $1.8 million Thursday from Google's Global Impact Awards. Zooniverse, a nonprofit collaboration between the two institutions that...
Brookfield Zoo plays mom to baby dolphin
The dolphin calf officially known as S13 is sometimes called Thor or Maximus by Brookfield Zoo staffers who've been taking care of him round-the-clock since his birth.On Tuesday, the young...
‘Chicago Time Machine’ looks at layers of history
Chicago history comes in layers. Thinking about the spot in southern Grant Park from which Barack Obama delivered his 2008 presidential victory speech, Geoffrey Baer realized that, four decades earlier,...
Christkindl Market, rediscovered
Every year about this time, the Christkindlmarket just kind of pops up in Daley Plaza, it seems, and then it stays there until Christmas Eve. This gives pretty much everyone...
Dinosaur discovered by Field expedition rivaled T. rex
Field Museum scientists have discovered a new "top predator" dinosaur in North America, a significant precursor to Tyrannosaurus rex and an important part of an emerging fossil record for the...
Review: ‘Furious Cool’ by David Henry and Joe Henry
In truth, there has been just one big new Richard Pryor pop-culture artifact of recent vintage, this year's Showtime documentary "Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic." But even that feels like...
Review: ‘Furious Cool’ by David Henry and Joe Henry
In truth, there has been just one big new Richard Pryor pop-culture artifact of recent vintage, this year's Showtime documentary "Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic." But even that feels like...
Fallon lays out familiar ‘Tonight Show’ vision
"Jimmy Fallon!" WMAQ-Ch-5 anchor Allison Rosati half announced and half shouted, cupping her hands around her mouth. And Fallon, entering the newsroom set at NBC's Chicago station, where maybe 15...