William Mullen

Early in the century, professors at the University of Chicago looked out their windows and realized that the vast tapestry of life in the city was a laboratory for the...

Early in the century, professors at the University of Chicago looked out their windows and realized that the vast tapestry of life in the city was a laboratory for the...

When it comes to macho, chest-pounding patriarchs, Frank is more of a Jimmy Stewart kind of gorilla--the most cherished animal in Lincoln Park Zoo's great ape house. The degree of...

Archeologists believe cats first passed through the doorway of human shelters 3,500 years ago in Egypt, thus crossing a threshold to become domesticated pets, joining dogs, tamed 9,000 years earlier....

For a couple of days this week the king and queen of Norway, various city and state dignitaries and a media mob are roaming around Chicago's toughest Puerto Rican neighborhoods....

Not long ago, Howard Goldberg came across a news item about a child who fell from an upper-story balcony and landed on a hapless neighborhood cat wandering around below. The...

In Monroe Harbor, where $100,000 yachts are a dime a dozen, a 12-foot boat made of grass collected a whooping and hollering crowd of admirers this week while well-heeled yachtsmen...

In a Brooklyn church 124 years ago Sunday, Rev. Arnold Damen, the visionary Chicago churchman, found himself on his knees tearfully talking with God in an all-night prayer vigil. A...

In the world of paleontology, new discoveries are surfacing so quickly and dramatically these days that fierce old Tyrannosaurus rex soon may be not much more than a 98-pound weakling...

Every 20 years or so, one of American art's great modern masterworks is pulled out from storage and reassembled to be sent touring through the country to tell a new...