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Chicago hosted some of the world's top marathoners last weekend and is awaiting the arrival of boxers from 120 countries to compete in the 2007 AIBA World Boxing Championship later this month. What you might have missed is that the world's top squash players are in town for MetroSquash with Sue at the Field Museum. Today and tomorrow, squashers (as we like to call them) from Egypt, Scotland and the UK will be competing in... more ›

The recent debate over the Chicago Children’s Museum’s relocation has overshadowed the opening of a new hands-on kids area at The Field Museum. The Crown Family Playlab, opened on September 14, is 7,500 square feet of wonderfully messy interactive history. Separated into six different themes, the Playlab aims to make the highlights of the Field Museum accessible to a younger audience. Kids can become a part of two dioramas, donning a coyote costume to cavort... more ›

We give you some lion-skull bones, you give us a 1.5 million-year-old hominid boy skeleton. Deal? That's what's in the works — maybe — for the Field Museum and the National Museums of Kenya, according to the Sun Times. The Field Museum is home to the skulls and stuffed skins of "the Man-Eaters Of Tsavo," two lions who killed and ate at least 140 railroad workers in 1898 in Tsavo, Kenya. Lt. Col. John Henry... more ›

Head 300 miles south to The Creation Museum and you may be dazzled by their Because The Bible Said So, That’s Why! explanation of life’s origins. That prospect is too much for The Field Museum. On Friday they open Darwin, a new traveling exhibition focused on the man and scientist considered the creationists’ biggest gadfly. Now a household name, Charles Darwin is remembered primarily for publishing Origin of Species and Descent of Man, the most... more ›

Chicago came in #44 in a ranking of the world's cities based on quality of life. The Field Museum got a new totem pole to replace the one they returned to an Alaskan tribe. A couple of historic bridge houses on the Monroe Street Bridge over the Chicago River's south branch are getting major makeovers. There's a 3rd videotaped bar fight involving an off-duty Chicago police officer. He's the brother of the guy who... more ›

We at Chicagoist are intrigued by the Field Museum. So much stuff representing the whole of the planet. Do you ever go there and wonder, "Where do they get these exhibits? How did it end up here instead of London or New York? And what do the native countrymen feel about us having their antiquities here?" We found that answer concerning a small slice of Pacific heritage. The Field Museum has in its collection 14 Māori heads that were purchased from a New York scientific supply sometime in the past. But now the heads are going back to their native New Zealand, after three years of talks with museum curators and foreign nationals. more ›

When one of our out-of-state pals visited us over this past summer, Chicagoist decided to do it up right. We love whoring out the best and brightest sights in the city in order to wow and bedazzle. So, with that in mind, we trekked it out to the Field Museum. We hadn't been there since we were forced to as youngins for school, and we were eager to revisit the internationally famous building and its treasures within. more ›

Chicagoist got all excited yesterday when we read that Lucy, the 3.2 million-year-old fossil skeleton of one of the earliest known hominids, would be coming on a tour to Chicago. Supposedly the fossils would be exhibited outside of Ethiopia for the first time, and Chicago was on the U.S. list, along with Houston, Washington, New York, and Denver. But now, officials at the Field Museum are saying not so fast. The only U.S. city confirmed for the tour is Houston, whose Museum of Natural Science actually negotiated the tour. They will display Lucy as part of an exhibit of 200 Ethiopian artifacts from September 2007 to the following April. more ›

In 1977, more than a million people went to a King Tut exhibit at the Field Museum. If you saw that exhibit and have been jonesing for the King since then, or if you've been waiting all this time, or if, like Chicagoist, you were too young to go (we were only 2 years old!), then now's your chance. Tickets for the upcoming King Tut exhibit at the Field Museum went on sale yesterday. more ›

The Field Museum and 93XRT are inviting us all to spend an evening with Jacqueline Kennedy and strangers next Thursday, Jan. 27, at their Play the Field mixer. more ›

Lots of news at The Field Museum these days! From the selling of Indian art, to the preservation of Iraqi artifacts, to a new Incas exhibit, to a party: we've got it all summarized here. more ›

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The Chicago Park District voted for and was approved to increase the admission fee to the Field Museum by $2. The Field Museum, like many museums nationwide, hasn't reached the attendance levels it had pre-9/11. more ›