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A color "Peanuts" comic from 1980 is part of the "Snoopy and the Red Baron" exhibit at the Elmhurst History Museum Wednesday, March 21, 2018, in Illinois.

Snoopy battles the Red Baron again in new museum exhibit

May 22, 2026 at 8:23 p.m.

It might be easy, from the perspective of someone who didn’t grow up reading “Peanuts,” to dismiss Charles M. Schulz’s magnificent daily meditation on the temporary triumphs and the minor,...

Driehaus Museum picks Richard P. Townsend as director

May 22, 2026 at 8:23 p.m.

Chicago's Richard H. Driehaus Museum has picked New York museum director Richard P. Townsend as its new executive director, the museum said Tuesday. Townsend, who starts April 2, comes to...

At Lincoln Park Zoo in 1977, Miki-Luk is always eager for a tussle. But Marge is growing reluctant for such pastimes as the bear nears maturity. Marge and others fed the infant as often as seven times daily, and she was kept in the relatively germ-free environment of the birdhouse. This was because she lacked the antibodies that she normally would have ingested from her mother's milk.

New female polar bear at Lincoln Park Zoo has its mate ‘obsessed’

May 22, 2026 at 8:23 p.m.

The courtship of Siku and Talini plays, at times, like French bedroom farce. She scurries into one door of their habitat. He lumbers out from another. They engage in snout...

The hair, make up and prosthetics area, part of the 'Saturday Night Live: The Experience' exhibit at the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago.

Broadcast museum taps Julian Jackson as director

May 22, 2026 at 8:23 p.m.

Chicago's Museum of Broadcast Communications has named museum design executive Julian Jackson to be its first executive director after founder Bruce DuMont, the museum said Monday in a news release....

Future shock: Sunday’s ‘Walking Dead’ finally hints at a bigger purpose

December 14, 2018 at 4:29 p.m.

It was looking, on Sunday’s “The Walking Dead,” as though the Saviors were heading for a showdown with the Hilltop, the warriors against the farmers, a No. 1 seed against...

Former FBI Director James Comey on Capitol Hill in June 2017.

Former FBI Director James Comey to speak at the Chicago Humanities Festival in April

December 17, 2018 at 4:24 p.m.

Former FBI Director James Comey will speak in Chicago in April at a Chicago Humanities Festival event to promote his forthcoming book, the festival announced Thursday afternoon. Comey’s memoir “A...

A mummified falcon. A collection of animals mummified in ancient Egypt is being prepared for exhibit at the Field Museum in Chicago on Feb. 28, 2018.

A first look at the new ‘Mummies’ at the Field Museum

May 22, 2026 at 8:23 p.m.

There are many things the new "Mummies" exhibition at the Field Museum provides in addition to an opportunity to stroll among the ancient, unburied dead. It lets you peer inside...

Exasperation time? ‘The Walking Dead’ this week tests our patience, its own rules

December 14, 2018 at 3:25 p.m.

If you were planning on losing patience with an episode of “The Walking Dead” this season, then Sunday’s would be a good place to start. First, the Father Gabriel ’n’...

A studio at WLUP-FM (97.9) and Q101 (WKQX-FM 101.1) is seen at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago on June 21, 2011. Both stations had been bought by Merlin Media at the time.

WLUP nostalgia: It’s hard to miss what’s no longer there

December 14, 2018 at 2:50 p.m.

There’s at least a double album and maybe even a box set of nostalgia in Chicago right now for the Loop, the classic-rock radio station at 97.9 FM whose new...

New Field Museum branding puts its science face forward

May 22, 2026 at 8:23 p.m.

The Field Museum is hoping to change the way people perceive it. The institution in the big wedding cake-building by the lakefront knows that people know it as a natural...

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