William Mullen

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...

Don't expect to find infant chimpanzees in diapers and petting areas with baby deer and llamas at Chicago's new children's zoo. Lincoln Park Zoo has bet $13.9 million that its...

Astronaut James Lovell, the hero of a failed space flight to the moon who was immortalized in the 1995 film "Apollo 13," was immortalized again Tuesday morning when the Adler...

For anyone who has pined away in wishful reverie over photos of the White City pavilions lining canals of Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exhibition, on Tuesday UCLA architectural historian Lisa...

Sorting through boxes of fossils collected 14 years ago, a Canadian PhD student discovered the deadly, poisonous bite of a 60 million-year-old mammal the size of a mouse. The first...

Following up on the most spectacular royal tour ever, nearly 30 years ago, the wondrous tomb artifacts of Egypt's ancient boy King Tutankhamun returned to America on Wednesday, coming to...

Sometimes having the right name isn't enough. Chicago economist Harlow Higinbotham, the great-grandson and namesake of an early Marshall Field executive who served as president of the 1893 Columbian Exposition...

Chicago merchant prince Max Adler, who made a fortune at Sears, Roebuck & Co., was not particularly interested in astronomy. John G. Shedd, another merchandising wizard who made his pile...

In the rural hills of central Tennessee, workmen are almost finished installing electrified double fences around 2,700 acres of forest: an 8-foot-high, chain-link barrier on the outside, and a much...

Facing a $1.3 million operating budget shortfall in the midst of a $22 million renovation, the Chicago Historical Society Wednesday laid off 17 people, some of them key staff members....