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Dunn Museum featuring giant dinosaur reopening with limited hours, revamped exhibits

August 27, 2020 at 3:50 p.m.

Children and adults who miss seeing the lifelike, 25-foot-long Dryptosaurus that greets them at the Bess Bower Dunn Museum can get a close-up look once again. The museum, owned by...

Tempel Lipizzan tours offer a peek behind the training curtain

August 25, 2020 at 3:12 p.m.

Tempel Farms may have had to cancel its performances of Lipizzan horses this summer due to the pandemic, but the public can still watch the rare horses learn to dance...

Black Artists Showcase honors diversity

August 23, 2020 at 1:39 p.m.

As a Black artist in Chicago during the 1960s, Keith Morrison created abstract works. "It took race out of the equation," said Morrison. But as he matured, he wanted his...

Column: The link between goldfinches and thistles

August 21, 2020 at 12:24 p.m.

By August, most songbirds have either completed or nearly completed their nesting duties. One bird species, however, cannot start nesting until the thistle plants have bloomed and are producing down...

Butterflies & Blooms offers respite at Chicago Botanic Garden

August 18, 2020 at 2:38 p.m.

Black and yellow wings flutter on a pink petal. Orange wings rest on a tiny blue blossom. Huge green wings with eye-like markings press against a green leaf for camouflage....

Ray Bradbury museum committee invites public to celebrate author’s 100th birthday

August 17, 2020 at 9:41 a.m.

As work continues on the future Ray Bradbury Experience Museum in downtown Waukegan, the public is invited to a free birthday bash for the celebrated author who grew up in...

Alma Schrage walks in a field of bee balm during a bumble bee survey in northern Illinois. She's documenting bees in Lake, Cook and DuPage counties.

Lake County buzzing about endangered bee discovery

August 11, 2020 at 11:29 a.m.

Kelly Schultz peered into the lavender blooms of a bee balm plant and gasped. Gathering nectar was a fuzzy insect with a black head and a rusty-colored patch on its...

Cicadas emerge from the ground as nymphs and crawl up a tree after shedding an exoskeleton.

Column: Annual dog-day cicadas signal height of summer

August 6, 2020 at 8:46 a.m.

About 10 a.m. on a warm August day, the whirring and grinding starts. The sound comes from the trees, continues loudly and boldly for about three seconds, then gets softer...

Lake County museums slowly reopening

August 2, 2020 at 10:55 a.m.

One of the biggest draws at the Waukegan History Museum is the "Lincoln bed" on the second floor. Now that Illinois is in Phase 4 of the coronavirus pandemic, visitors...

CenterStage actors to perform favorite Shakespeare monologues online

July 30, 2020 at 10:19 a.m.

CenterStage is known for its annual summer outdoor Shakespeare in the Park productions and had planned "Romeo and Juliet" this year. But that wasn't going to happen due to the...

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