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Mari D. Terman, a longtime hospital administrator who was active with the League of Women Voters, successfully ran for a seat on the Wilmette Village Board when she was 69 because she thought the body was too conservative. "She felt a more liberal...

The origins of the mysterious package that showed up Wednesday at the University of Chicago admissions office addressed to Henry ......

Taxidermy is not front and center at the Oriental Institute Museum's new ornithological exhibition That art form is better observed to the north, at the Field Museum, where the institution's Ronald and Christina Gidwitz Hall of Birds has recently been...

Long before Facebook posts and tweets, long before letters with postage stamps, ancient middle and upper-middle-class Egyptians scrawled notes on pieces of clay pots and handed them to children who ran across the village to deliver the messages. The...

Meet another member of South Florida's many-sided faith community. This week we're talking with the Rev. Michael Thomas, spiritual leader of Heart of Jesus Maronite Catholic Church in Fort Lauderdale. Q: If someone asked "What's a Maronite?", what...

These days, it seems the South Side neighborhood of Hyde Park has been put on the map as the stomping grounds of President-elect Barack Obama. There are walking tours that show off his favorite restaurants and coffee shops, magazine and newspaper...