William Mullen

Troy Connolly, an 8-year-old 3rd grader from Channahon, had exactly the kind of reaction the Field Museum of Natural History hoped to elicit when it spent an unprecedented $8.3 million...

In 1861, Bavarian quarry workers digging through limestone in southern Germany found a fossil that set off a storm of still unsettled scientific and ecclesiastical controversy. It was a set...

What the world has known about the ancient kingdom of Sheba largely comes from a very sketchy Bible account of a trip made by the Queen of Sheba to see...

When Sgt. Damian Gascoigne signals the men and horses of the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery to join Saturday morning's procession to Westminster Abbey, their gun carriage will be bearing...

When it comes to dramatic views of Chicago's legendary Loop, the very best one in the city may be not from a million-dollar condo, but from a college dormitory. The...

In search of a different way to celebrate 35 years in business, Frankel & Co., the people who helped launch McDonald's Happy Meals and Marshall Field's Jingle Elves, this year...

It took all of 15 minutes early in June for Sikhote and Sheba, Lincoln Park Zoo's young, matrimonially inexperienced Siberian tiger couple, to get the hang of their conjugal rights...

Though Chicago's infamously torrid, humid summers hardly are ideal for birds that are the archetype of cool, penguins in recent years have found the city a very tolerable place. Perfection...

A newly refurbished exhibit at the Chicago Botanic Garden takes up nearly four acres to show off a 4,000-year-old human invention: the back-yard garden. Christened the Garden of Eatin', it...

This was supposed to be a normal workday in Chicago's Chinatown, but the usual hectic pace slowed considerably by late Monday morning. Shopkeepers, office workers, restaurant cooks, waiters, diners and...