Many creatures have imprinted on our hearts — and even a city sidewalk — for making their homes near ours. Here’s a look back at some of Chicago’s well-loved animals.

Royal Oak — The Detroit Zoo is stepping up from the lions, tigers and bears it is known for and adding dragons, griffins and phoenixes to its lineup this summer. The zoo this weekend opened ...

Brookfield Zoo Chicago said goodbye on Friday to one of its beloved Amur tigers, Malena. She was euthanized after one of the zoo's vets found a developing cancer was keeping her kidneys from ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Malena, an Amur tiger, was humanely euthanized at Brookfield Zoo. Brookfield Zoo Share Brookfield Zoo announced that one of its Amur tigers, Malena ...

Brookfield Zoo euthanized Malena, an Amur tiger, after discovering kidney failure and life-threatening heart arrhythmias during a medical exam. Preliminary necropsy results indicate cancer may ...

Anthropic on Thursday said it activated a tighter artificial intelligence control for Claude Opus 4, its latest AI model. Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/7, wherever you are. The new AI Safety Level 3 ...

Though unseasonably cool temperatures remain in the Chicago area, the unofficial start to summer has arrived with Memorial Day weekend, and one hardware store chain is holding a nationwide event ...

A woman lured an online date to a secluded area, then she robbed him of over $20,000, California police say. The woman met with her date, whom she met on “a popular dating site,” just after ...

Can you believe that polar bears were housed in Madras briefly during the mid-1950s and 1960s? To mark the centenary of the Madras Zoo, started as a menagerie in 1855 at Egmore and later shifted ...

BROOKFIELD, Ill. — A group of schoolchildren headed to the zoo on Thursday morning arrived a bit later than planned after their bus was involved in a crash. According to officials from the ...

The UK’s oldest polar bear has been put to sleep after experiencing age-related health issues, as she was praised as " a joy to all" visitors. Victoria, aged 28, had been receiving geriatric ...