Brookfield Zoo

A pack of seven African wild dogs who recently moved from a zoo in Sweden are already settling into their new habitat -- a specially designed enclosure intended to mimic the conditions in their native sub-Saharan African plains -- at......

The popularity of the movie "Water for Elephants" provides an excuse for this parade of powerful pachyderm facts: 1. African and Asian elephants are different species. The African savanna elephant is taller and heavier, has bigger ears and a concave...

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As authorities expressed increasing concern about a missing 6-year-old Aurora boy and shifted their search to the Rock Falls area, his father remained optimistic Wednesday that his son would be found safe. “Timothy is a very intelligent young man,&...

As Aurora police on Sunday continued their search for a boy missing after his mother's apparent suicide in a Rockford hotel room, the boy's father waited, hoping for good news from authorities on his son's whereabouts. James Pitzen, 39, said he last...

For the first time since 1889, there are no elephants in Chicago-area zoos. On Wednesday, Brookfield Zoo shipped its lone female, Joyce, to a Six Flags park in New Jersey. Joyce, a 27-year-old African elephant, was lent by Six Flags to Brookfield a year...

Brookfield Zoo officials trying to find a way around a steep water rate increase apparently were surprised to hear Wednesday that Brookfield officials had offered them a cheaper rate a couple of months ago. Now, even as they ask the Brookfield-North...

An agreement negotiated between the Brookfield zoo and the Village of Brookfield may end a clash over a proposed water rate increase.The village had proposed the zoo pay the same water rate as all other residential and commercial customers. But the zoo...

Officials with the Elmhurst Public Affairs and Safety Committee will recommend the city council to install three stop signs for cyclists who use the Salt …...

Posted by Hal Dardick at 6:53 p.m. Cook County Board President Todd Stroger’s administration treated families whose homes were damaged by floods to a nearly $79,000 party at Brookfield Zoo, paying for the day of fun with federal grant money......

With celebrities like Charlie Sheen dropping bombs on a regular basis, it's getting tough to shock people via Twitter. But this post from Binti Jua …...