William Mullen

Bulldozers began to strip away more than 80 years of city park history Tuesday as the Chicago Park District started removing contaminated soil at the former Lincoln Park Gun Club....

The "Pit Bulls," a tenacious group of tenants in a 27-story North Side apartment building, on Tuesday took another step toward becoming the first federally subsidized low- and moderate-income renters...

Feet planted wide apart on a narrow metal catwalk, John Hattery leaned over so that he could peer at a scuba diver working two feet beneath him in the water....

It's spring, and love is in the water. Those who doubt it, should stop by the whale pools at the Shedd Aquarium's Oceanarium, where for the last several days an...

Depending on how you might feel about the Shedd Aquarium and its 2-year-old marine mammal pavilion, you might wish to praise or damn the late Northwestern University biologist Dr. Orlando...

The Shedd Aquarium again appears set to sail into stormy waters with animal rights groups who are threatening to employ an air and sea armada of helicopters and surfboards to...

There are no beaded curtains, crystal balls or blinking neon signs at Barbara Schermer's place of business. Crisply professional in a skirted suit, Schermer, 45, presides in her tasteful, neat-as-a-pin...

Twenty-five years ago this weekend, 60,000 Viet Cong guerrillas and soldiers from the regular North Vietnamese army launched the Tet Offensive, the biggest communist assault of the Vietnam War. When...

The two most recent additions to Chicago`s whale population made their official public bows somewhat reluctantly Friday morning at the Shedd Aquarium`s marine mammal oceanarium. The juvenile beluga whales, a...

Several times in the last couple of weeks, Immiayuk and Puiji, the Shedd Aquarium`s first beluga whales, have been acting like young girls giddy with anticipation, hovering by the window...