Shedd Aquarium

Baby beluga -- first rescued in U.S. -- 'not out of the woods'

2012-07-06 15:54:00

The two Alaskan fishermen had stopped to examine a bald eagle when they noticed something sleek and gray in the Bristol Bay surf: a baby beluga whale in the shallows, faintly whistling and clicking. The whale, already dehydrated and disoriented, soon...

Illinois may deny tourists free admission to Chicago museums

2011-05-06 16:33:05

Chicago, city of the uplifted gaze

2004-08-22 00:00:00

By 8:50 a.m., they temporarily had to close the women's restroom at the Chicago ArchiCenter. "There were so many people here already, they had to restock all the toilet paper," said Elaine Rosen, a retired biology teacher from the Streeterville area of...

Chicago's new sparkle

1998-09-13 00:00:00

"The time has come to bring order out of chaos incident to rapid growth," wrote the architect Daniel H. Burnham. The year was 1909. The place, Chicago. The occasion, the unveiling of Burnham's sweeping, visionary plan to change the face of the city on the...

Stingray Touch exhibit opens for summer at Shedd Aquarium

2013-05-15 14:47:00

The surprise isn't that the Shedd Aquarium now has an exhibit where visitors can touch stingrays as they glide by, but rather that the most popular aquarium in the U.S. hasn't had one before now. Usually called something like Stingray Bay or Stingray...

Science Center tries to dig out of $20 million hole

2013-05-09 03:04:01

Leaders of the St. Louis Science Center dreamed of building a glass high-rise hotel on the Oakland Avenue campus. They envisioned a domed pavilion, a series of exhibit halls and an elevated plaza, the size of a football field, on stilts above the existing...

Museums

2013-05-02 07:42:38

Adler Planetarium 1300 S. Lake Shore Drive; 312-922-7827, adlerplanetarium.org America's first planetarium has one of the world's greatest collections of antique astronomical instruments. One of those is the fully restored Gemini 12 spacecraft flown by...

Taking the kids to Chicago

2013-04-18 12:30:00

The hardest thing about visiting Chicago is deciding where to take the kids first — Chicago's famous Lakefront where you can ride bikes and in-line skate, or Lincoln Park where you can visit one of the few free zoos (http://www.lpzoo.org) in the...

Chicago museums reeling after building sprees

2013-03-13 00:00:00

The turn of the millennium was a heady time for many Chicago cultural institutions. Cheap loans, high investment returns and swelling endowments spawned a slew of new attractions along the lakefront and around downtown. The Art Institute built its Modern...

Power outage leads to temporary Shedd closure

2013-04-06 13:49:00

A power outage today temporarily shut down the Shedd Aquarium and caused its visitors to be evacuated, officials said. The power at the Shedd Aquarium went out about 1:30 p.m., said Shedd spokeswoman Andrea Smalec. The facility was scheduled to reopen...

Northwestern students design penguin bootie

2013-03-29 00:00:00

The Shedd Aquarium had a problem: From time to time, its penguins did not have happy feet. The birds, particularly the older ones, developed bumblefoot — uncomfortable lesions that can be caused by standing too long on a rough surface. The Shedd...

Teens propose mentoring program at Shedd Aquarium

2013-03-19 14:03:00

Students interested in careers in marine science, lake ecology and oceanic research may have the opportunity to shadow and be mentored by scientists at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, thanks to the efforts of a student delegation including one local teen....

The Stingray Touch exhibit at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. Visitors are allowed to put their hands in the water and touch two kinds of stingrays, the friendlier Cownose Ray and the shy Yellow Ray.

2013-05-15 14:47:00

A Cownose Ray swims in the pool at the Shedd Aquarium.

2013-05-15 14:47:00

Laura Zdancewicz with her sons, Billy, 4, left and Kyle, 5, pet the Cownose rays at the Shedd Aquarium.

2013-05-15 14:47:00