William Mullen

Come May 23, the cost of admission to the Art Institute of Chicago will jump by 50 percent -- $18 instead of $12 -- after the Chicago Park District Board...

Shedd Aquarium's celebrated collection of marine mammals, missing in action since the aquarium shut down the Oceanarium in September to recoat its whale and dolphin pools, will be back on...

When the pirate ship Whydah broke up in a fierce storm off Cape Cod in 1717, it sank carrying the plunder from 54 ships it had seized over the last...

Long counted as cultural, educational and economic treasures in their communities, American zoos and aquariums were more than a little upset when the $787 billion economic stimulus package signed into...

Long counted as cultural, educational and economic treasures in their communities, American zoos and aquariums were more than a little upset when the $787 billion economic stimulus package signed into...

A near-identical replica of a stolen stainless steel sculpture by noted Italian artist Virginio Ferrari was installed without fanfare early this week at the front entrance of the Newberry Library,...

When it came to dying, wealthy people living in the world's earliest civilizations saw no reason not to take their most precious possessions with them. They arranged to have their...

If all goes as planned, for two minutes at noon Thursday jubilant bells will ring from church spires, government buildings and campus carillon towers in every Illinois city, town and...

A 2,800-year-old Egyptian singer who came to the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago in 1920 inside one of the most brilliantly painted Egyptian mummy cases ever recovered is...

Two hundred years ago Thursday, two of the most influential men of all time were born on the same day -- one in a three-story country mansion in Shrewsbury, in...