Last of Shedd’s original beluga whales dies
Puiji, one of two wild beluga whales who helped boost the Shedd Aquarium's attendance and popularity after being collected from Manitoba's Churchill River in 1989, died at age 25 following...
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Beluga whale dies at Shedd Aquarium
Puiji, a 25-year-old female beluga whale who was an original member of the Shedd Aquarium's beluga collection in 1989, died following a seizure in her Oceanarium pool Wednesday night, according...
Northwestern professors hatch potential cure to peanut allergy over beers
An idea hatched in a Streeterville pub by two guys sitting over a couple of Friday night beers has led to a treatment that could someday overcome the peanut allergy,...
Holy Family doors reach for past glory
Battered and rotted in places by exposure to 151 years of Chicago weather, six massive wooden doors that hundreds of thousands have passed through since the Civil War are getting...
Massive doors of ‘Cathedral on the Prairie’ getting overhaul
Battered and rotted in places by exposure to 151-years of Chicago's steamy summers and deep-freeze winters, six massive wooden doors that hundreds of thousands have passed through since the Civil...
Donald Agrella, 1919-2011
In the 1960s and 1970s, when the Chicago Tribune had seven daily editions to fill, newsroom reporters and photographers often were alerted to a major breaking news story when day...
Census Bureau backtracks on number of same-sex households
Mistakes made on some 2010 census forms led the U.S. Census Bureau to report an "artificially inflated" number of same-sex households in August, census officials said Tuesday. While the Census...
Census finds more people than ever living in poverty
The parking lot of the United Methodist Church of Worth was overflowing Tuesday night, forcing some people to park their vehicles across the sidewalk. The number of people coming to...
Field Museum chief to step down next year
Field Museum Chief Executive John McCarter, who announced Monday that he would retire in October 2012, bought Chicago a more than $8 million dinosaur skeleton, the most complete and most...
Illinois beekeepers try to winter-proof bees
Tribune Reporter One day last week, Bronwyn Weaver carefully pulled apart and examined a dozen white wooden beehives near the Morton Arboretum's prairie, checking to see if it was time...