William Mullen

Cecilia Pinter had followed the case of a 16-year-old Chicago girl's death last week from meningitis, so when her own 16-year-old daughter became sick early this week, she didn't think...

With the planting of a native Illinois burr oak tree in Lincoln Park, Chicago's oldest museum observed the beginning of Earth Day week and construction of its new building. It...

A wind from the west called the Zephyr--the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's new, diesel-powered, stainless steel, 72-passenger train--created a national sensation when it blew into town on May 26,...

It wasn't exactly an orgy Friday night when two newcomer whales swam for the first time with the Shedd Aquarium's three resident beluga whales, but certainly there was a lot...

Like the biggest frog in a small pond, Naluark, a 1,500-pound male beluga whale, has been lord of his own little harem of three female belugas at the Shedd Aquarium's...

Sikhote, the male Siberian tiger for whom Lincoln Park Zoo matchmakers searched the world for a perfect mate, may have found the lady of his dreams living virtually in his...

Pushing their small motorcycle through the dank shade of a rubber tree forest, over tree roots and unrideable terrain, Dang Huy Hoang and Nguyen Dinh were pleased to have beaten...

An elephant from McHenry County has been denied entry to Puerto Rico after authorities determined that the animal had been exposed to a strain of tuberculosis that can affect humans....

To see Art DeVries at work is to see a burly, ruddy-cheeked, 57-year-old country boy with a ragged, graying, walrus mustache joyfully in his element. Several weeks every year, DeVries,...

For the first time in its 103-year history, the governing board of the Field Museum of Natural History will be headed by a woman. Next month, Judy Block, 55, a...