William Mullen

Charles McAllister's death was frighteningly brutal and seemingly senseless, according to a terse, 119-year-old, handwritten entry recording it in a Chicago Police Department homicide ledger: Nov. 7, 1881. McAllister, Charles,...

Though planetariums are places that explore such things as the Big Bang and the beginning of time, they generally boast about having the newest skygazing technology around, not the oldest....

Three new species of the world's smallest living primates--shy, nocturnal, chipmunk-size mouse lemurs that inhabit the fast-disappearing forests of Madagascar--have been discovered by Field Museum scientists. Lemurs are the most...

Lucky for the Field Museum that the library at New York's American Museum of Natural History doesn't charge fines for overdue books. If the New York museum's library charged what...

The city's two oldest museums, the Chicago Academy of Sciences and the Chicago Historical Society, named new presidents for their institutions Wednesday, both hiring seasoned museum executives to lead them....

Given the chance to think about mathematics just for the fun of it, most people would rather walk away--fast. Fighting those odds, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum will open a...

In 1928 archeologists working in a 4,600-year-old Iraqi cemetery uncovered a trove of treasures that easily rivaled those discovered barely five years earlier in the Egyptian tomb of Tutankhamen. They...

Some of history's greatest adventurers and heroic figures made their reputations by traveling to the true ends of the Earth, the frozen desolation of the North and South Poles. Ernest...

The two Shipibo Indians--one with a metal disk dangling from her nose--stared at the fish swimming in the Shedd Aquarium's Amazon River exhibit, seeing them as none of the other...

Forty years ago, there wasn't a cheaper date or family outing in town than a trip to one of the city's museums. Because they lived off tax support and private...