William Mullen

Tapeko, one of four female bottlenose dolphins at Brookfield Zoo, gave birth Friday morning, just five days after the death of a 10-day-old infant male dolphin at the zoo. The...

When it comes to saving elephants in Africa, tropical monkeys in South America and hardwood forests in the Philippines, there soon may be no more important crossroad in the world...

A baby dolphin's inexplicable stubborn refusal to nurse either from its mother or from a bottle probably led to its death Monday, 10 days after it was born in Brookfield...

The Shedd Aquarium lifts the curtain on one of the world's most elaborate fishbowls this week, an exhibit displaying such theatrical flourishes as manmade fog, optical illusions and a movie...

Seventy old soldiers, most of whom already sport chests full of medals, Monday morning pinned on a new one commemorating their part in World War I on the 75th anniversary...

About noon Monday at Cantigny Park in Wheaton, an ancient soldier will stand among some of his few remaining comrades and recite poet John McCrae's classic World War I elegy,...

Many poets and scientists believe a mother's love for her child is the strongest love there is, and Sofia, a 12-year-old Bornean orangutan at Brookfield Zoo, seems intent on proving...

The big white passenger van is a familiar sight in the east part of the Humboldt Park neighborhood, moving nightly from corner to corner with Julio Matias at the wheel....

Sen. Paul Simon (D-Ill.) Monday urged further reforms in Chicago's public schools that would give principals more power and lessen union influence on the local school level. Praising the 1988...

The new medical center set to open this week in Brookfield has pretty much what you would expect to find in a state-of-the-art, medium-size suburban hospital, plus a few unexpected...