It may not be officially summer, but it is starting to feel like it in Chicago with schools out and events starting, whether or not the weather cooperates.

Chicago Bears coach Ben Johnson has long viewed his “summer break” in the NFL as a chance to get ahead: “You can get some ...

Small and stocky birds perch, hunched over, on the treetops and branches of Lake Okeechobee on the edge of Florida’s swampy Everglades for the better part of winter. The alligators swarming the murky ...

For the next year, the 50-acre park on the east edge of Detroit Lakes will be host to three sculptures by Ohio artist Olga ...

Our writers and critics make their Top 10 lists and recommendations for this season’s TV, movies, music, theater, books, dance events, concerts, food festivals and more. Here are all of the Tribune’s ...

A group of women, including Edith Farnsworth, picnic in coastal Maine in the summer of 1926. Pictured from left are Mary “Polly” Porter, Alicia Rosenbaum, Dorothy Blake, Farnsworth, Dodo Blake and ...

A walk through Lincoln Park Zoo may very well be a staple of summer in Chicago. And for those who prefer to wander exhibits ...

Louisville basketball is going big with an exhibition vs. Kansas to usher in Year 2 of the Pat Kelsey era. Weighing the pros ...

Expand your mind at one of these six new museum exhibitions, including a look at 1940s design and an unprecedented display of ...

Experiences, not exhibitions, are coaxing folks off their couches and into cultural institutions. Here are some worth ...

Chicago’s popular free movie and concert series in Millennium Park will return this summer, with a June 26 concert headlined by California trio Thee Sacred Souls, the city’s Department of ...