Families in Chicagoland can now explore lush rainforests and watch chimps swing through towering trees all without leaving the state. The Brookfield Zoo, the largest zoo in the Chicago area, will ...

A new primate habitat was unveiled at Brookfield Zoo Thursday, which will include four outdoor habitats for western lowland ...

Instead of an expose of alleged mistreatment of, say, a killer whale, this new documentary film — which features personnel and programs from Brookfield Zoo — makes the case that zoos and ...

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 ...

Still, the zoo knew that Eli and Susie needed some chimpanzee companionship. The trick would be finding the right friends for two apes that were not conversant in normal social cues. “They did ...