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The Field Museum's Emily Graslie films an online video in Feb. 2017 about the Mexican gray wolves at Brookfield Zoo.

For ‘Prehistoric Road Trip’ TV series, Field Museum’s Emily Graslie roamed through time and her native west

June 12, 2020 at 12:46 p.m.

"Prehistoric Road Trip," the new PBS series written and hosted by Field Museum YouTube star Emily Graslie, wants you to wrap your head around the vastness of geologic time, to...

Sea otter Luna at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago on Monday, Feb. 26, 2019.

Shedd Aquarium lays off 8% of workers, furloughs many more

June 10, 2020 at 6:38 p.m.

The latest cultural institution to let workers go is Shedd Aquarium. The lakefront attraction said Wednesday it will lay off 36 workers and furlough 171 more after June 20 as...

Signage is posted to remind visitors to keep social distance at Navy Pier on June 10, 2020.

Navy Pier is back — sort of: A look at how the popular Chicago attraction is reopening with masks and caution

June 10, 2020 at 6:39 p.m.

Navy Pier proclaimed itself ready to begin the reopening process Wednesday. Mother Nature was not so sure. Amid gray skies and an intermittent light rain, the carnival midway jutting into...

Field Museum, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019, as seen from a building to the north.

Field Museum workers petition management to try to fend off COVID-19-related layoffs

June 10, 2020 at 9:05 a.m.

Knowing staff cuts were likely in the aftermath of COVID-19 forcing the institution to close since mid-March, Field Museum employees launched an online petition drive to try to save jobs...

Mauyak, a 38-year-old beluga at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium, swims with its calf on Thursday morning, July 4, 2019. The calf, later discovered to be male and named Annik and reportedly doing well, was born the day before.

Belugas, dolphins, penguins and more: fertile times at the Shedd

June 5, 2020 at 5:28 p.m.

The Shedd Aquarium hasn't been busy during the coronavirus closure, but a number of its animals have. Two beluga whales and one Pacific white-sided dolphin are pregnant, the lakefront aquarium...

Ciara Sillman and other protesters rally in front of City Hall in Chicago on Monday, June 1, 2020.

‘A revolution in our time’: Protester Ciara Sillman finds hope in the widespread embrace of the cause

June 5, 2020 at 4:04 p.m.

On the mask she wears both to the grocery store and to Chicago-area rallies protesting police brutality against people of color, Ciara Sillman has written the words "I can't breathe."...

Visitors pass in front of the painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat intitled "Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump" on May 7, 2010 in Basel, Switzerland.

Billionaire philanthropist Ken Griffin buys Basquiat painting for more than $100 million

May 22, 2026 at 8:03 p.m.

Citadel founder and Chicago philanthropist Ken Griffin intends to keep in the public view the Jean-Michel Basquiat painting he recently purchased for more than $100 million, a spokesman said Friday....

Fourth of July fireworks explode over Navy Pier as seen from Adler Planetarium on July 4, 2019, in Chicago.

Navy Pier to reopen outdoor areas Wednesday, including restaurants and requiring face masks

June 5, 2020 at 12:51 p.m.

Chicago's Navy Pier, one of the city's biggest tourist draws, will begin to reopen next week after 12 weeks of COVID-19-related closure. Parks surrounding and on the pier, the main...

ARIZONA | Total WalletHub score: 49.3
| Dependency on travel and tourism industry rank: #18
| Aggressiveness against coronavirus rank: #24

The Arizona Lodging and Tourism Association forecast a first-quarter loss of $2 billion in tourism revenue throughout the state. More than 40% of the 300,000-plus Arizonans who work in the hotel and resort industry have lost their jobs due to the COVID-19 crisis.

Museum layoff wave continues: Lincoln Park Zoo cuts 18 workers amid COVID-19 budget shortages

June 3, 2020 at 2:58 p.m.

Even as two outdoor-focused institutions tentatively re-open, the wave of COVID-19-related layoffs at Chicago museums continues. Lincoln Park Zoo said Wednesday it is cutting 18 workers, about 7 percent of...

The artist Christo is in Chicago Tuesday Sept. 12, 2017 for Expo Chicago where Galerie Gmurzynska will be selling two of his drawings of the wrapping of the Museum of Contemporary Art in 1969. Christo is photographed at the MCA.

Christo, who died Sunday, got his American start enveloping a Chicago museum in canvas

May 22, 2026 at 8:03 p.m.

Christo, who died Sunday in New York City after a lifetime spent wrapping very big things without ever resorting to a gift bag, got his American start at Chicago's Museum...

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