Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHICAGO (WGN) — As Chicago faced its first heat wave of the summer season, animals at the Lincoln Park Zoo beat the heat with some ...

Maureen Cleary likens the love lives of the African penguins at the Lincoln Park Zoo to a soap opera. Pilchard and Maynard ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — Female brown bears Ash and Lexi made their public debut Monday at the Lincoln Park Zoo, marking the first time the zoo has cared for brown bears since 1979. The pair came from the ...

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An endangered African penguin chick recently hatched at the Lincoln Park Zoo just in time for the holiday season. In a news release issued Thursday, the zoo reported the healthy chick hatched Oct. 1 ...

Chicago has a new baby everyone is talking about, and she comes with four legs, tiny horn buds, and a big conservation story behind her. Hazina, the eastern black rhino calf born at Lincoln Park Zoo ...

Lincoln Park Zoo's newest residents, a herd of alpacas, are calling Chicago home for the first time in 6 years. The herd of six female alpacas range in ages from 1 to 24 years old. The group consists ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — As Chicago faced its first heat wave of the summer season, animals at the Lincoln Park Zoo beat the heat with some cool treats. Umande, a western lowland gorilla living at the zoo’s ...