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Young Brookfield Zoo dolphin dies unexpectedly

May 23, 2019 at 12:55 a.m.

Maxine, a 3 1/2-year-old Atlantic bottlenose dolphin at Brookfield Zoo, has died of a bacterial infection, the zoo announced Tuesday. The acute infection “quickly caused organ failure,” Bill Zeigler, senior...

A worker guides in a piece of the Field Museum's new 122-foot-long titanosaur skeleton named Maximo on May 23, 2018.

Too pink! New Máximo dinosaur is repainted at Field on opening weekend to fix color

May 22, 2026 at 8:21 p.m.

Máximo, the Field Museum's brand new prehistoric showpiece, is already getting a makeover. The good news about the 122-foot-long titanosaur skeleton cast in Stanley Field Hall is that it is...

In working with Roseanne, ABC played with fire, got burned

December 14, 2018 at 9:12 a.m.

In getting into business with Roseanne Barr for the reboot this spring of her classic sitcom, ABC had to know it was running alongside an electrified fence. Yet while the...

Largest dinosaur ever, Sue’s replacement, starts to stand tall in Field Museum

May 22, 2026 at 8:21 p.m.

At the Field Museum, the prey has replaced the predator. Chicagoans this week are finally getting to meet the dinosaur that has kicked Sue upstairs: It's a red-hued, skinless behemoth...

Buzz Lightyear greets visitors at the entry to "The Science Behind Pixar" at the Museum of Science and Industry.

New ‘Pixar’ exhibit at MSI has Buzz Lightyear and real STEM — and isn’t just a booster for the movies

May 22, 2026 at 8:21 p.m.

The point of “The Science Behind Pixar,” the big new temporary exhibition at the Museum of Science and Industry, isn’t necessarily to wow visitors with how many memorable films the...

Luke Barnicle, 8, left, his brother Shane Barnicle, 8, center, and their mother Jeannette Barnicle, of LaGrange, identify reef fish on May 18, 2018, at Shedd Aquarium's temporary exhibit, "Underwater Beauty," which will open May 25, showing extraordinary colors, patterns and movements from the world of aquatic creatures.

‘Underwater Beauty’ at the Shedd is like a fantasy snorkeling trip on dry land — and no upcharge

May 22, 2026 at 8:21 p.m.

It may sound more like a questionable Bennigan’s appetizer, but there really is a salt-water species known as the “sexy shrimp.” And it really is one of the creatures on...

"Head of Adam Emory Albright (Head of My Father)" by the late artist Ivan Albright in an exhibit of his work titled "Flesh", on May 14, 2018.

Ivan Albright and the shock of the ‘Flesh’ at the Art Institute

May 22, 2026 at 8:21 p.m.

Ivan Albright’s paintings, when you first encounter them, can come as a shock to the system. There is so much detail, so much care, and so much of it spent...

Layla, a rhinoceros at Brookfield Zoo, got a CT scan May 15, 2018, to check the results of an earlier surgery for an impacted molar.

Black rhino Layla gets a forklift-aided CT scan in Brookfield

May 22, 2026 at 8:21 p.m.

The forklift in the rhino enclosure and the team of at least 40 people around it were some of the signs that Tuesday was not a normal day at Brookfield...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

A year after the Trump interview, Lester Holt delivers his pitch in Chicago

December 17, 2018 at 4:17 p.m.

Lester Holt — network newsman and inquisitor in what is now known, in the annals of President Donald Trump-watching, as "the Lester Holt interview" — did not actually climb that...

New mega-dinosaur at Field Museum is named Maximo, unveiled June 1

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

The new titanosaur skeleton cast replacing Sue in the Field Museum's central Stanley Field Hall now has a name and a debut date, the Chicago natural history museum announced Friday....

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