Happy 187th birthday, Michigan! You look great. Honestly, you don’t look a day over 125. What’s your secret? Pilates? Whatever it is, keep it up. It’s working.

When you think of the United States, a few things come to mind: Hollywood, Disneyland, New York, the Grand Canyon, NASA, Las ...

Everything you need to know if you’re headed to the Valley of the Sun for baseball (and other entertainment!) this spring.

CHICAGO - The Shedd Aquarium has revealed that its baby beluga whale is a boy, and he’s already making a splash! The Shedd ...

University of Chicago researchers asked Chicagoans to draw their neighborhood boundaries for a new map. Block Club reporters ...

Shedd Aquarium’s newest rockhopper penguins have been named Douglas (foreground) and Pico. Shedd Aquarium/Brenna Hernandez Share Shedd Aquarium has named its two newest rockhopper penguins ...

On Thursday, the Aquarium of the Pacific released its first Marine Species Report Card, detailing the population trends of 30 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Shedd Aquarium has announced a list of free-entry days for the first half of the year. Tuesday is the first day of free admission if you're an Illinois resident with a valid ID.

A Louisiana aquarium welcomed a baby shark born under mysterious conditions, the aquarium said Friday. The swell shark, nicknamed Yoko, hatched on Jan. 3, according to the Shreveport Aquarium.

(KTAL/KMSS) — There’s a paternity mystery to be solved in Louisiana. Earlier this month, a swell shark egg successfully hatched at the Shreveport Aquarium. The egg was first spotted by the aquarium’s ...

A swell shark hatched at Shreveport Aquarium in Louisiana after an egg ... shark was born via parthenogenesis at Brookfield Zoo in Chicago to a female shark that hadn’t been around males in ...