William Mullen

Perhaps befitting a place targeted by the international animal rights movement, officials of the John G. Shedd Aquarium Tuesday announced that its new director is an expert not in fishes...

To make meat more tender for the table, farmers and ranchers should try a little tenderness toward their animals before taking them to market. That was the advice of top...

While vacationing in Paris in 1889, Chicagoans Bertha Honore Palmer and her hotelier husband, Potter, met another rich American, the expatriate avant-garde artist Mary Cassatt. Cassatt was an unabashed proselytizer...

For 64 years, rubber-necking architectural savants stopped to stare 25 feet above them at the concourse ceiling of the old Chicago Daily News Building on West Madison Street. Often they...

Willie Wallace arrived at Julian High School early Monday morning, ready for a full day of classes. But the 14-year-old freshman was promptly sent home and spent the day hanging...

In 1990 Sheila Rausch Kennedy agreed to a no-fault civil divorce from her husband, Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Mass.). But a few weeks ago she announced she would contest...

Last week Sherwin Rosen of the University of Chicago got a call from a reporter in Tokyo after a U. of C. professor won the Nobel Prize in economic science...

The Mallers Building always has been a sort of 21-story urban surprise package that delights the unknowing passerby who wanders into it. From the outside, it's an aging, ordinary-looking office...

Brookfield Zoo's female baby dolphin is nearly 2 weeks old, and her keepers still don't know how long she is or how much she weighs. In this case, such ignorance...

Of all the bizarre secrets laid bare by the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, none may be more unusual than 10 slender, handwritten notebooks prying into the mysteries...