William Mullen

When a young woman named Jane Goodall wrote a 1963 magazine article describing her three years of observing the lives of African chimps, her electrifying account set off a tremor...

By this time next year, visitors to the Shedd Aquarium will be in water over their heads and surrounded by sharks, with the planned opening of its $45 million addition,...

World famous for discovering enough weird, spectacular, fossilized animals to fill a museum, University of Chicago dinosaur hunter Paul Sereno is looking to do just that--give his beasts a permanent...

"The Flintstones" cartoon isn't exactly vindicated, but a Field Museum biological anthropologist's new theory suggests the earliest primates--ancestors of humans and apes--lived in the time of dinosaurs. In a letter...

Looking to fund major building projects and to bolster its small endowment fund to ensure it can continue free admission, Lincoln Park Zoo on Tuesday kicked off a five-year, $125...

Elbridge Ayer Burbank was a well-known Chicago portrait artist when he stepped off a train in Fort Sill, Okla., on a mission to paint the legendary Apache rebel Geronimo in...

Dennis Church, 70, a gentleman and a scholar in the rough and tumble world of Chicago City Hall, where he worked for four mayors, died Saturday, April 6, in Northwestern...

Though the state faces one of its worst revenue shortfalls, Illinois' public museum officials will be in Springfield on Tuesday to ask for a $400 million funding program over the...

Some of China's most priceless national treasures, housed in Beijing's sprawling royal palace complex, the Forbidden City, will come to Chicago in 2004 for an unprecedented Field Museum exhibition on...

An exhibit of recovered items from the Titanic that drew 850,000 visitors to the Museum of Science and Industry two years ago will return to the museum July 1 with...