William Mullen

Long a welcome sight to mariners experiencing trouble on Lake Michigan, the recently retired U.S. Coast Guard cutter Acacia should soon be familiar to strollers and tourists along the banks...

By the end of his life, C. Paul Bradley, a widely admired public-interest lawyer and defense attorney, was a self-confessed agnostic who liked to recall how he spent part of...

Nearly 50 years after a prospector found some mysterious fossilized bones on a remote Philippine mountain, they have been identified in Chicago as those of an extinct species of dwarf...

It's not a boy! Nobody is exactly red-faced about it, including the youngster or the parents, but a beluga whale calf at the Shedd Aquarium identified at the time of...

Using humor and music to attract their members, a labor movement known as the Wobblies that was founded in Chicago in 1905 went on to create one of the most...

"Body Worlds 2," a sequel to an exhibition that last year became one of the most popular temporary events in Chicago museum history, will open Jan. 17 at the Museum...

When the newly named Chicago History Museum closed its doors last year to begin a $27.8 million, 10-month extreme makeover, one of the goals of the staff was to find...

One of Norman Rockwell's most beloved paintings, at least among stalwart Chicagoans, has found a permanent home at the Chicago History Museum, settling a minor fracas between the current and...

A young husband on his deathbed dictates a list of valuables he wants to go to his wife. It turns out the goods he wants his wife to have actually...

In life, a hulking, 150-pound Queensland grouper named Bubba was one of the most famous and beloved fish ever to have lived at the Shedd Aquarium. In death, he remains...