Adler Planetarium crafts ‘world’s largest snow globe’
If you enjoy special holiday programming but don't have a lot of time or patience to experience it, here's one for you. The "world's largest snow globe" is playing all...
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Sand zombies and side plots: 5 thoughts recapping ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7 Episode 6
Another Sunday on "The Walking Dead," another new community to bring into our collective understanding of what in the hellscape is going on. The zombie apocalypse series will end the...
Your turkey and Mexico — the historic link?
As you sit down to your Thanksgiving turkey Thursday, think about Mexico. Specifically, think about the Oaxaca region a millennium-and-a-half ago. Field Museum archaeologists working there have discovered some of...
A look forward at the Trump Presidential Library
Greetings, and welcome to the Trump Presidential Library, Museum and Golf Resort. You are in for a fun and educational visit to this, the first American presidential library at which...
Gremlin crunch, praise Jesus: 5 thoughts recapping ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7 Episode 5
"The Walking Dead," the newest house-hunting show on HGTV, continues its tour of possible places to call home in the world after the zombie sickness. We've already been, in "Walking...
2016 holiday lights guide: Morton Arboretum flips the switch early
What is it about lights displays and the wintertime holidays? Is it the longer nights leading us to covet a little extra brightness, even if it's from a bulb attached...
At Field Museum, ‘fresh science’ gets a room of its own in new Grainger Science Hub
Science in action is getting a new permanent home at the Field Museum, but the exhibits themselves will be anything but. The new Grainger Science Hub, on the museum's main...
Guns and mattresses: 5 thoughts recapping ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7 Episode 4
Usually when a TV series serves up an extra long episode, it's for a profound purpose: a wedding, a crossover with another show, a season finale. But Sunday's fourth "Walking...
Trevor Noah says it’s time for ‘resistance mode’ on Trump
The American political scene is looking very familiar to Trevor Noah, the "Daily Show" host said from the stage at Chicago's Music Box Theatre on Saturday afternoon. "We already elected...
From young women to famed painters, art deals with pain
The top-floor party room at Nichols Tower overlooking North Lawndale was a pleasant cacophony of yellow. Yellow carnations in clear glass vases lit the staircase leading up to the balcony....