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The Field Museum

Harrison Ford honored by Field Museum for conservation efforts

  • Oct 30, 2025

Free museum days in Chicago at Art Institute, Adler Planetarium, MSI

  • Aug 30, 2025

Farm2Veteran gearing up for gala at Field Museum

  • Jul 3, 2025

Pokémon fossil exhibit coming to Field Museum

  • May 17, 2025

Field Museum to display infamous seeds from 'The White Lotus'

  • Apr 10, 2025

Spring break options in Chicago with CPS on spring break

  • Mar 24, 2025

Workers to picket outside Field Museum

  • Mar 12, 2025

Chicago museums announce free admission days

  • Mar 10, 2025

Latest Videos

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Workers to picket outside Field Museum

  • Mar 12, 2025
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Field Museum unveils extremely rare 'missing link' dinosaur fossil

  • May 6, 2024
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Field Museum hosts 'Dino Detectives' event

  • Jan 10, 2024
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Behind the Scenes at the Field Museum

  • May 12, 2023
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How NASCAR in Chicago will affect the Museum Campus

  • May 8, 2023
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Field Museum staff votes to unionize

  • Mar 10, 2023
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Field Museum shows off 3,000-year-old sword once thought to be replica

  • Jan 18, 2023
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CT scans of SUE the T-Rex hopes to reveal more about dinosaur's famously short arms

  • Dec 8, 2022

Latest Stories

Illinois museums working to return thousands of Native American remains, items by federal deadline

Despite federal legislation passed nearly 35 years ago aimed at reuniting stolen ancestral remains and sacred items with Native American tribes, the ABC7 I-Team found little progress has been made, especially in Illinois.

  • Nov 22, 2024

Chicago museums including Shedd Aquarium, Art Institute offering free admission days in August

The calendar has flipped to August and that means several Chicago museums are offering free admission this month for Illinois residents.

  • Aug 1, 2024

Rare blue-eyed cicada donated to Field Museum: 'One in a million'

The insect has rare mutation that causes cicadas' red eyes to be gray-ish blue instead. It is now the first blue-eyed cicada in the Field Museum's collection, which is over a century old.

  • May 23, 2024

Field Museum explains loud noise of cicada calls amid Illinois emergence

The Field Museum gave ABC7 an inside look and a deep dive into the cacophonous calls of cicadas. They will emerge from their underground homes with an explosion of life and sound in the Chicago area and across the state.

  • May 15, 2024

Field Museum unveils one of science's most important dinosaur fossils: Archaeopteryx

The fossil is one of the earliest known dinosaurs that also qualifies as a bird.

  • May 7, 2024