William Mullen

For most of this century, the Newberry Library, world-renowned among historians and researchers for its vast collections of rare books and documents, has been a dark, stolid, slightly forbidding presence...

A powerful scanning machine normally used for structural analysis of giant rocket parts and airplane engines may tell Field Museum scientists whether Sue, the museum's gargantuan Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur, was...

Few places on Earth are farther from Chicago than the remote northern coastal villages in Papua New Guinea that were smashed and erased by a tidal wave a week ago,...

In his own circles, Kwan is undeniably something of an Adonis. Still a youth and a slender 300 pounds, he has long legs, strong arms, a washboard stomach and a...

John McCarter, president of the Field Museum, was seized by a realization on a business trip to London last November. Back home in Chicago, he thought, the museum had one...

Randy Jones, a warehouse worker for Goodwill Industries in Seattle, was on a loading dock last spring sorting through the usual boxes of donated dishes, cookware, costume jewelry, clothing and...

In a city like Chicago, with its incomparable architectural heritage, it's unusual to pay much attention to the opening of a parking garage. But the extraordinary nature of the one...

Shedd Aquarium's high hopes for its first successful birth of a beluga whale were dashed early Tuesday when a 160-pound 4-foot-9-inch male calf died just hours after being born. Almost...

Shedd Aquarium's long wait for its first baby beluga whale ended sadly early Tuesday when a 160-pound, 4-foot 9-inch male calf died just hours after being born. Almost immediately after...

Earlier this year a custodian at Sandburg Middle School on the eastern edge of Elmhurst noticed a couple of wild red foxes had dug dens and taken up residence under...