The Field Museum uses CT scans to look inside mummies in Opening the Vaults: Mummies , which opened yesterday. more ›

This great holiday is sure to be adopted in America, just as soon as everyone tastes one of the cocktails. more ›

While the fish-taco revolution is swimming across the area, there are plenty of other events happening this week. Before we list them, however, we should let you know that the cockroaches are taking over our downtown restaurants. This week's victim of the ultimate survivor, Bice. Cockroaches were the least of their problems, however. A Health Department inspection also found no hot running water in a kitchen sink and fruit flies in the bar. If you... more ›

On a June morning in 1918, a circus train stopped on the tracks in Ivanhoe, Ind. The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus was scheduled for a show in nearby Hammond later that day, but for the time being, an overheated wheel bearing box impeded their progress. Despite warning lights and a frantic flagman, another train slammed into the back of the idling troupe. Fire erupted throughout the wooden cars, sending 86 people to their deaths and injuring 127... more ›

OK, you got us here: Ricci & Company really isn’t a market per se. Unless you’re a squirrel and this small River North spot specializing in hand-roasted nuts has everything you need for your daily intake and then some. But just because Ricci doesn’t stock edibles from all the food groups — who can keep up with that ever-changing list anyways? — that doesn’t mean it’s not worthy of a mention here. First off, there’s... more ›

You know what? Leave it to a group of Chicago scientists to go out 8,000 feet above sea-level in the Andes and find a freaking brewery! Archeologists from the Field Museum uncovered a brewery in the mountains of southern Peru where members of the pre-Inca Wari Empire made a spicy, beer-like alcoholic drink called chicha. And not just a little bit of it.. it was a large-scale brewery that they estimate was capable of making a few thousand liters of chicha a day. Scientists previously knew that the Wari made this bev, but not that they made it on such a scale. The brewery may be the oldest facility of its kind ever discovered in the Andes. more ›