Allan Gray
As a newspaper copy editor, Allan Gray had the uncommon ability to use a disarmingly sweet sense of humor to avoid raising the hackles of reporters while rewriting and improving...
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Beatrice Klug
Given her outward appearance and soft-spoken, gracious manner, Beatrice Klug sometimes seemed out of place at the Old Town Ale House, one of the city's legendary and eccentric late-night watering...
AN ENEMY WITHIN
ON A PLEASANT EVENING in early June, two former German U-boat crewmen quietly dined together in the new $35 million exhibit hall built by the Museum of Science and Industry...
It’s a baby ape for Lincoln Park
Good news came in a small package to Lincoln Park Zoo Tuesday morning when keepers arrived at the apehouse and discovered that Kowali, a 27-year-old lowland gorilla, was holding her...
History museum gets new leader
Faced with a $1.3 million operating deficit and a building that largely will be closed to the public for the first nine months of next year, the Chicago Historical Society...
Babylon’s dirty secrets: No tablet left unturned
Only 200 or so people in the world are fluent in the Akkadian language. Scattered across four continents, they get together only once a year. So by the time the...
CSI: Art history
For the 74 years that a painting of ballet dancers by French postimpressionist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec has hung in the Art Institute of Chicago, historians regarded it as merely a...
Shrub poisoned zoo monkeys
This story contains corrected material, published July 13, 2005. A two-month outside investigation of animal deaths at Lincoln Park Zoo found the zoo generally acted appropriately but revealed troubling, previously...
Shrub poisoned zoo monkeys
A two-month outside investigation of animal deaths at Lincoln Park Zoo found the zoo generally acted appropriately but revealed troubling, previously unpublicized circumstances in the May deaths of three langur...
Gorilla attacks keeper at zoo
A male gorilla attacked and bit an intern keeper Tuesday morning at Lincoln Park Zoo after another apparent breakdown of safety protocols placed her in an outdoor gorilla exhibit while...