Steve Johnson – Page 92

Leaving the station: MSI sells off a few trains

December 17, 2018 at 6:58 p.m.

Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry is selling off five items from its historic train collection as part of an effort to present a wider range of transportation in its...

Lucianne Walkowicz, an astronomer at the Adler Planetarium leads a bikers to Joliet as they start the Galaxy Ride offered by the Adler Planetarium in Chicago on Friday, Sept. 18, 2015.

Biking through deep space on Adler Planetarium’s Galaxy Ride

December 17, 2018 at 6:58 p.m.

"Do you have anything to do with the Adler Planetarium?" the woman asked the group eating breakfast at the Panera Bread along Greenbriar Drive. She was the second patron to...

Luna, the rescued baby sea otter that became a media darling last year, is settling in well at the Shedd Aquarium.

Happy 1st birthday, sea otter Luna

December 17, 2018 at 7:00 p.m.

When last we checked on Luna, the abandoned baby sea otter taken in by the Shedd Aquarium in October 2014, she was fuzzy, adorable and, as marine mammals go, famous....

Kyle Joseph holds a meat grinder inside a re-created bucher shop as part of an exhibit on the hot dog at Foodseum, a museum he funded via Kickstarter inside Block 37.

Foodseum opens in the Loop, a museum devoted to all things food

December 17, 2018 at 7:03 p.m.

Kyle Joseph is using "pop-up exhibit" to describe the first bricks-and-mortar incarnation of Foodseum Chicago, a concept that he hopes will eventually become a full-fledged temple to the stuff that...

MCA Chicago taps Omar Kholeif as new senior curator

June 16, 2018 at 3:36 p.m.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago has hired Omar Kholeif as its new senior curator. Widely traveled and looking to bring new types of programming to the msueum, Kholeif was...

Another exhibit by Adam Tucker in April 2015 at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library. Tucker built thirteen famous buildings from Legos.

LEGO structures coming to the MSI

December 17, 2018 at 7:05 p.m.

LEGO bricks and structures and the principles they demonstrate will be the focal point of a new, late winter exhibit at Museum of Science and Industry, the Chicago institution announced...

Humanities Festival tickets on sale Monday

December 17, 2018 at 7:05 p.m.

Chicagoans who want to see Ta-Nehisi Coates, Aasif Mandvi, Claudia Rankine or scores of other speakers this autumn get their chance to buy tickets starting Monday.Chicago Humanities Festival tickets go...

‘What is that thing?’ Find out at Field Museum ID Day

December 17, 2018 at 7:06 p.m.

What if you're a fan of "Antiques Roadshow," but your potential treasures run more toward things geological or biological than, say, art historical? The Field Museum might be able to...

Field Museum archaeologist Bill Parkinson in the museum's Stanley Field Hall.

Field Museum’s Bill Parkinson got his hands dirty to make ‘The Greeks’

December 17, 2018 at 7:07 p.m.

When a trove of Greek artifacts is revealed at the Field Museum in November, no one, it is safe to say, will be more excited to share them with the...

Riot Fest organizers Paul Massaro, left, and Cash Witalis measure out the edges of a temporary road to a stage to be built at Douglas Park for the music festival.

Meet Douglas Park, the new home of Riot Fest

December 17, 2018 at 7:08 p.m.

Snapshots from a weekday afternoon in Douglas Park in the last full week before Riot Fest takes over: — Diego Gonazalez, his Community Links High School soccer team moved over...

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