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"Downton Abbey" fan Geri Jackson arrives in costume at Pleasant House Pub in Pilsen.

Chicago-area ‘Downton Abbey’ fans don their vintage finery for ‘Downton Live’ bash in Pilsen

August 19, 2019 at 2:35 p.m.

In Aidee Abate's Shorewood home, there's now an uncovered window. The black curtain that used to adorn it spent Sunday night draped around Abate's body, refashioned by its wearer into...

A first look at two rescued southern sea otter pups (Enhydra lutris) at Shedd Aquarium in Chicago on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2019.
They came to the aquarium on Monday, July 8 after being rescued on the coast of California by Monterey Bay Aquarium. They are currently known as 870 and 872.
(Zbigniew Bzdak/baiduhai)

Newest rescued sea otter pups make their fuzzy debuts at Shedd

May 22, 2026 at 8:09 p.m.

Pup 870 and Pup 872, as they are called for now, rolled around on top of one another, then sprawled along the poolside ledge, their dense brown fur drying and...

Field Museum president and CEO Richard Lariviere in the Chicago museum's central hall.

Field Museum CEO Richard Lariviere will retire in 2020

May 22, 2026 at 8:09 p.m.

Richard Lariviere, the Field Museum president and CEO who remade the museum's central hall and stabilized the institution's finances, will step down in August 2020 after eight years at the...

Ta-Nehisi Coates and #MeToo reporters join Chicago Humanities Festival’s fall speaker slate

May 22, 2026 at 8:09 p.m.

National Book Award-winning author Ta-Nehisi Coates and #MeToo reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor will be among the featured speakers during autumn's Chicago Humanities Festival kick-off events, the fest announced...

15 years after the Dave Matthews Band let loose over the Chicago River, we survey the damages and uncover a new victim

August 8, 2022 at 10:34 a.m.

It was 15 years ago this week that a bus driver for the Dave Matthews Band toggled a switch that opened a tank and sent a torrent of the kind...

MSNBC television anchor Rachel Maddow, host of "The Rachel Maddow Show," at a national security forum at Harvard University in 2017. Maddow will kick off the 30th anniversary Fall Festival of the Chicago Humanities Festival 2019.

Rachel Maddow to headline Chicago Humanities Festival fall kickoff event

May 22, 2026 at 8:10 p.m.

MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow will kick off the 30th anniversary Fall Festival of the Chicago Humanities Festival with an event Oct. 12, the organization announced Wednesday. That makes it the...

Shedd Aquarium dolphin loses calf 3 months before due date

May 22, 2026 at 8:10 p.m.

The Shedd Aquarium dolphin Piquet lost her developing calf Wednesday evening following a "premature rupture of the dolphin's fetal membrane," the Chicago institution announced Thursday. Piquet, 31, was an experienced...

Exterior of the Art Institute of Chicago taken from Symphony Center on Michigan Avenue on March 16, 2016.

Up next for Art on the Mart: Classics from the Art Institute will be projected on the Merchandise Mart

May 22, 2026 at 8:10 p.m.

Beginning Thursday evening, Chicago Riverwalk users and Wacker Drive walkers stopping to check out the nightly Art on the Mart video projection will see four new works. Culled from the...

Children enjoy the "Nature Cat: Backyard and Beyond" exhibit at the Kohl Children's Museum in Glenview.

Hit ‘Nature Cat’ kids PBS show gets the museum treatment at the Kohl

May 22, 2026 at 8:10 p.m.

On television, the locally made "Nature Cat" is a subtle radical, a show that encourages kids to stop watching TV and, like its animated hero, explore nature. It's a star...

The Field Museum's Emily Graslie films an online video in Feb. 2017 about the Mexican gray wolves at Brookfield Zoo. Graslie next moves from YouTube to a national TV audience with a three-part series on PBS.

Field Museum’s Emily Graslie gets a national TV series: ‘Prehistoric Road Trip’ on PBS, produced in Chicago

July 29, 2019 at 12:31 p.m.

Emily Graslie, YouTube star and the Field Museum's Chief Curiosity Correspondent, will host a new national PBS series exploring the geology and vast fossil history of her native South Dakota...

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