Bummed Open House Chicago is over? Getting really into birding? Fresh from a “Wicked: For Good” showing, where you belted along to the whole thing? Boy, do we have a winter museum roundup for you.

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CHICAGO (WGN) — Pink Floyd fans rejoice! The Adler Planetarium in Chicago is once again hosting a “cosmic visual journey” of the Dark Side of the Moon. Alder Planetarium spokespeople say Dark Side of ...

As a former guest engagement employee at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, David Dowd was on the “front line.” Greeting customers and giving tours was fun, he said, but it was also ...

Former Smithsonian executive Elizabeth Babcock has been tapped to lead the nation's oldest planetarium, the Adler Planetarium. The Chicago native and Northwestern University grad began her new role as ...

As the oldest planetarium in the Western Hemisphere, the Adler Planetarium has garnered a reputation for feeling a bit dated in recent years. But the planetarium’s astrophysicists are working on “new ...

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Federal agents deploy chemical munitions at protesters outside the ICE detention center in Broadview, Illinois, on September 19, 2025. Credit: Paul Goyette, CC BY 4.0 / Flickr Paul Ivery hugs his ...

CHICAGO — Astronaut Jim Lovell will be the recipient this week of a lifetime achievement award from Chicago's Adler Planetarium. The award for Lovell, announced Wednesday, is to mark the upcoming 50th ...