William Mullen

When Michael LaBarbera decided to take a closer look at the neighborhood he lives and works in, he was charmed to find back-stabbing assassins lurking in flower beds, hordes of...

Kumba, who made history in 1970 as the city's first captive-born gorilla, was euthanized Saturday by keepers at Lincoln Park Zoo after years of slow deterioration caused by kidney failure....

Parents with young children who spot a bright blue iguana at the Shedd Aquarium in the next few weeks might consider discreetly hustling the little ones toward the seahorse exhibit...

Given that "Body Worlds" features real, skinned human cadavers and sliced-up body parts, most early visitors seemed to agree that the new exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry...

Arthur Klug was an unreconstructed 1950s hipster whose eclectic style and taste became the hallmark of the Old Town Ale House, a neighborhood bar that for 40 years has been...

The Old Testament says that in 701 B.C., as 200,000 Assyrian soldiers massed outside the walls of Jerusalem under the bloody-minded King Sennacherib, the Jewish king Hezekiah prayed to God...

Preliminary laboratory tests have ruled out tuberculosis--a disease that can be transmitted between humans and animals--as cause of death for the two Lincoln Park Zoo elephants who died in recent...

Having lost two of its three elephants in the last three months, Lincoln Park Zoo on Wednesday said it would send the last one to another facility while its staff...

Peaches, at 55 years old the oldest African zoo elephant in the United States, died Monday night in her indoor habitat at Lincoln Park Zoo. Keepers arriving for work Monday...

After Dr. Bernard Fantus' healing powers in 1936 saved a woman's life in Cook County Hospital, the woman's husband asked if there was anything he could do for the physician...