The property, which is being purchased from local businessman Tom Roeser, is parallel to the Fox River Trail between Railroad ...

Brookfield Zoo shaped one Illinois native’s childhood. Discover how through history, family time, and field trips.

Sarmad Ghaled Dafar, 33, of Houston, Texas, was sentenced on April 18 to four months in federal prison and ordered to pay $23 ...

2002: Wilco released “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot,” which Tribune critic Greg Kot called “the best album of 2001.” Its release had been held up in what he called “record company” politics. Twenty years later ...

The Lincoln Park Zoo is taking Earth Day to the next level with celebrations all week long. In honor of Earth Day on Tuesday, ...

A popular suburban museum and one of the Chicago-area's most notable zoos say they are being hit hard by so-called DOGE cuts.

Brookfield Zoo Chicago is now offering free admission to families receiving SNAP benefits. The offer includes up to four ...

Brookfield Zoo Chicago is now offering free admission to ... guests who present a SNAP Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) card—known in Illinois as a Link card—can receive complimentary ...

The Berlin zoo on Friday presented Fatou with a basket of fruit and vegetables ahead of her official birthday, which falls on Sunday. Fatou was born in 1957 and came to the zoo in what was then West ...

Since 1868, Lincoln Park Zoo has been one of Chicago’s most beloved (and free!) destinations for families. With hundreds of animals from around the world—including endangered species and those extinct ...