The delivery of a dozen concrete columns signaled the impending completion of the first phase of the restoration of Sears Sunken Garden on Sears’ long vacated North Lawndale campus.

Collisions with cars don’t often end well for wildlife, but one lucky bobcat is recovering at DuPage Wildlife Conservation Center after a rescue involving multiple partners.

The North River Commission — serving Albany Park, Irving Park and North Park — is the latest community organization to give rat birth control a try.

November has a tough act to follow after October delivered unseasonably warm and dry weather.

The Clark family of Kane County has donated its nearly 50-foot-tall Norway spruce to Chicago for the city’s holiday display in the hopes it will bring “joy and wonder to millions."

The time change means people will be driving more in the dark, which unfortunately coincides with a period when certain animals are particularly active.

Elected officials and civic leaders officially broke ground on the long-awaited DuSable Park, which has been decades in the making.

Another sign of progress: All six rescued belugas have now been consistently eating their full daily diet for nearly a month, according to Shedd officials.

Saturday was one of the deadliest days for birds in Chicago since 2023, when 1,000 were killed or injured at McCormick Place Lakeside alone.

Finalists have been announced in the "name that 50-ton boulder" contest. Now it's up to the public to choose the winner.

All signs are pointing to a very strong or “super” El Niño event shaping up in the Pacific Ocean, which will affect Chicago's upcoming winter in ways forecasters are beginning to predict.

Think Open House Chicago is just for architecture buffs? Think again.

Chicago basked in rare October heat Monday, setting a new daily record high temperature of 88 degrees, blowing past the old record of 84, according to the National Weather Service.

“We’re all super motivated and we’re all super passionate, and so it’s not going to be something that fizzles out anytime soon,” said Robyn Detterline, advocacy chair with Chicago Ornithological Society.

Staff at Shedd Aquarium are mourning the loss of another rescued beluga whale, announcing the death of 27-year-old Caspian, who arrived at Shedd in August from the shuttered Canadian park Marineland.

Scientists Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for a discovery that has been used to develop countless drugs and transformed modern medicine.