William Mullen

Occupying a converted warehouse on the Near South Side, the 3-year-old National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum is relatively little known in Chicago, drawing only a thousand or so visitors a...

Having gotten all the way out to O'Hare last January to board a flight to her proposed new home at New York Aquarium, Mauyak, a 17-year-old female beluga whale, had...

In 1204, European Crusaders on their way to Jerusalem stopped off at Constantinople, the center of the Byzantine Empire, and ransacked the place, looting and burning libraries that were storehouses...

When the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum has its grand opening Saturday, Lee Skolnick will be elated if children visiting some of his favorite science-based exhibits pronounce them "yucky." After all,...

In 1529, a Franciscan priest named Rev. Bernardino de Sahagun arrived in Mexico, where eight years earlier Hernando Cortes, leading a ragtag army of 500 conquistadors, had killed Aztec god-king...

Condominium living, with all its attendant headaches and absurdities of multiple owners struggling to share a single building under the dictums of condo association bylaws and property rights, might seem...

Last July 22, the Museum of Science and Industry's perennially popular egg incubator hatched something totally unexpected: two oddly colored chicks from a breed of chickens that had been extinct...

The lights of Adler Planetarium's powerful, 2 1/2-ton 17 1/2-foot-tall Zeiss projector, a technological wonder of the 1970s that has been darkened since January, will illuminate a new show inside...

At 3:05 a.m. on Aug. 5, 1933, 50,000 spectators roared as the largest hot air balloon ever built lifted off from Soldier Field, glowing in the illumination of powerful floodlights....

For nearly a year, Dennis Kinzig, a retired Ameritech training instructor, and Ross Chisholm, a retired carpentry contractor, volunteered Saturdays at the Field Museum to peer through a microscope at...