A group of microscopic sunflower sea star larva arrived at Shedd Aquarium last year and have been bulking up behind the ...

Tucked in a small habitat in Shedd Aquarium’s Polar Play Zone, a group of tiny orange-brown sea stars tell a much bigger ...

The sea stars play a key role in the ecosystem, which is why the Shedd is trying to help keep them from becoming extinct.

The decades-old St. Patrick's Day tradition routinely attracts tens of thousands of revelers to the riverfront, but in recent ...

The Shedd Aquarium is raising a group of critically endangered sunflower sea stars. When they arrived a year ago, researchers ...

Chicago Public Schools students will be on spring break next week, and numerous museums in the city will have free admission ...

Every year as part of the city's St. Patrick's Day celebrations, thousands of onlookers clad in green cheer on a boat crew ...

The Seattle Aquarium has a new CEO. Peggy Sloan, the chief animal conservation officer at Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, will ...

Ahead of dyeing the river green for St. Patrick’s Day, we look back at what has made the river healthy again since its ...

Penguin International's "March of the Penguin Madness" is a bracket-style tournament that aims to educate participants on ...

You can check out Chicago cultural institutions like the Adler Planetarium, DuSable Black History Museum, Shedd Aquarium and more, with many offering various free days during the week.