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The holiday season officially began in Chicago on Friday, with the annual Christmas Tree lighting ceremony. But we're just ...

BROOKFIELD, Ill. ( WGN) — Thanksgiving arrived early at Brookfield Zoo, and the animals wasted no time diving in. Carnivorous ...

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Brookfield Zoo Chicago opened its new Tropical Forests primate habitat Friday, featuring an expanded space for the zoo’s first troop of bachelor gorillas and endangered black-handed spider monkeys ...