Lincoln Park Zoo

L.A. Times Book Prize winner Jennifer Egan and other fiction writers debate the boundaries of form

2011-04-30 16:35:17

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Festival of Books' diverse offerings

2011-05-02 00:00:00

Poets read to rapt audiences, and authors of fiction tried to explain the creative process. Celebrity chefs lured big crowds to sit under a hot sun, and mystery writers answered questions in SRO auditoriums. There was something for almost everyone at...

Wayward kinkajou found on Chicago doorstep

2010-06-04 21:34:39

Grandmother loses two fingers after attempting to feed bear at zoo

2010-03-06 16:33:58

Don Welsh focuses boundless energy on promoting Chicago

2013-05-20 00:00:00

Don Welsh, Chicago's top convention and tourism salesman, early this month embarked on one of the most high-wire sales trips of his tenure here — flying to rival Las Vegas in an attempt to win back the National Hardware Show, once a cornerstone...

Amid the myths, searching for the real 'Bathhouse John'

2013-05-14 14:14:00

As historic types, Chicago aldermen do not lack for color. But despite the height of the bar for eccentricity on the City of Chicago's council, Ald. John Coughlin vaults over it with ease. In his time around the turn of the last century — a time...

Getting 'birded' in Lincoln Park

2013-04-25 06:06:00

Like at least one of them has been doing almost every morning since March, Mason Fidino and Kelvin Limbrick are standing in a flat, grassy patch north of Lincoln Park's nature museum, looking intently at sky and trees and listening like, well, hawks.�...

Going Green: Lessons on lessening your carbon footprint

2013-04-09 07:30:00

I recently returned from a trip to Chicago for a couple days of vacation in a big city. I love traveling to fun and new places, but whenever I travel, I'm always concerned about how much of a carbon footprint I'm generating with all my extra driving and...

Woman, 92, visits gorilla she cared for as a girl

2013-03-17 20:58:00

Before the rest of the world fell in love with Bushman the gorilla at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo, the popular primate captured the heart of a little girl in Africa who helped care for him as a baby. On Sunday, Winifred Smith, 92, and her family...

New bushbaby explores Lincoln Park Zoo

2013-03-07 12:51:00

A tiny Moholi bushbaby born in mid-January has ventured out of the nest for the first time, Lincoln Park Zoo officials said today. The South American primate weighed only about 0.3 of an ounce when it was born, and it stayed hiding in the nest until it...

Lincoln Park Zoo gorilla baby recovering after injury

2013-02-25 18:47:00

A baby gorilla born at Lincoln Park Zoo last fall is recovering from a serious facial injury she suffered last week that may have been inflicted by another gorilla. Zoo staff discovered on Wednesday that Nayembi, born Nov. 16 to mother Rollie, had...

Power is on at ZooLights in Lincoln Park and Brookfield Zoo's Holiday Magic

2012-12-05 14:50:00

You can call it humbuggery, but I had a pretty low-voltage reaction to ZooLights the first time I went to see it, probably 10 years ago. I remember at the Lincoln Park Zoo's holiday season tribute to luminescence some lights in trees and some animal...

Kimbra and Mark Walter attend the 2011 Lincoln Park Zoo Ball: "Hollywood & Vines."

2013-05-17 15:05:00

A Hooded Warbler, rare for this area, at the Lincoln Park Zoo where researchers from their Urban Wildlife Institute are surveying birds in order to replicate a 1898 to 1903 study published in Wild Birds in City Parks.

2013-04-25 06:07:00

A Common Grackle in Lincoln Park, where researchers from the Lincoln Park Zoo's Urban Wildlife Institute are surveying birds in order to replicate a 1898 to 1903 study published in Wild Birds in City Parks.

2013-04-24 15:10:00