1923: Chicago’s first aquarium opened at Lincoln Park Zoo. The 150,000-square-foot building was designed to house 86 tanks ...

High caution readings were found on 23 days last summer with only four corresponding with sewer system overflows, water ...

A deadly practice row by a women's crew team on the North Branch on May 14 through Canada geese left dead goslings in its ...

We took a tour to check it out. Our docent was Steve Gersten, a retired trader and architecture buff. Here's what we learned.

Historian Shermann “Dilla” Thomas debuts his new Chicago Reader column with a look at the city’s Catholic connections beyond ...

Sixty-five miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones movie breaks up the flat, ...

The shop showcases Scorch’s love of Chicago’s history and its quirks ... Scorch is the man who named the Chicago River’s large snapping turtle, “Chonkasaurus,” in a viral video.

An exhibition featuring work from incarcerated artists highlights links between environmental and climate injustice and the ...

"He's a part of history. He's one of those electors. It's exciting for us Chicago Catholics to have a vote, in a sense, at the conclave," Father Andy Matijevic said. Just as the world will know ...

West Ham United played on American soil for the first time in the Club’s history on 30 May 1963. The venue was historic ...