William Mullen

As his friends express "cautious optimism" about Cardinal Joseph Bernardin's prospects for survival and Chicagoans pray for him, the prelate's doctors must piece together a complex diagnosis and treatment plan...

It is hard now to look at drab, looming housing projects like Cabrini-Green or the Robert Taylor, ABLA or Henry Horner Homes and imagine that people once saw in them...

Cardinal Joseph Bernardin will undergo exploratory surgery next week after test results showed he likely has a cancerous growth in his pancreas, his doctor said Friday. The tests, conducted Thursday...

Kent Weeks, the Egyptologist who grabbed world headlines last month with his discovery of a mammoth 3,200-year-old tomb, was in town this week talking about his triumph and displaying a...

Antoine, an alligator that went on display Sunday at the Shedd Aquarium, probably has set an all-time world record for living longer than any other alligator of his kind. Normally,...

In the world of zoos and wilderness preserves, the real "big bad wolves" are U.S. politicians threatening to reverse environmental protections. That became clear during a four-day global conservation summit...

Every couple of weeks since the end of January, the rolling hills and knotty-pine walls of the YMCA's venerable Camp Duncan in Lake County have reverberated with the sounds of...

Promptly at 8 p.m. Sunday, three powerful electric motors deep in the bowels of a bunkerlike control room off the darkened Buckingham Fountain in Grant Park will roar to life....

Like some little foundling in an orphanage, Mukah, a week-old, 4 1/2-pound Bornean orangutan, is a baby in search of an adoptive family. Lincoln Park Zoo officials have been looking...

Good plumbing doesn't come cheaply these days, whether you're trying to repair a leaky tub at home or a 1.5 million-gallon public fountain. Workers finishing a nine-month, $2.2 million restoration...