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 ...

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

The new Tropical Forests primate habitat features an expanded space for the zoo’s first troop of bachelor gorillas and ...

Adkesson, president and CEO of Brookfield Zoo, Elizabeth Bramsen, Ald. Anthony Quezada (35th) participate in a ribbon cutting ...

Jackie Kostek takes you inside the new animals and programs at Brookfield Zoo Chicago.

The gorilla climbed to her sunny perch to munch on a snack and hang out with her female companions. That moment might not ...

Brookfield Zoo Chicago just got a whole lot cuter thanks to a new baby squirrel monkey, and he's ready to meet his new ...

In 1996, a 3-year-old boy tumbled 24 feet into a gorilla enclosure at an Illinois zoo. Then, a Western Lowland Gorilla named ...

Brookfield Zoo Chicago is celebrating the birth of a bottlenose dolphin for the first time in more than a decade. Allie welcomed her calf at 12:22 a.m. Saturday in one of the pools in Seven Seas ...

1934: When Brookfield Zoo opened to the public on this day, Cookie was there to greet the almost 60,000 visitors. And though the pink cockatoo was never “top banana” at the zoo, he outlived every ...

Brookfield Zoo Chicago’s newest addition takes people to faraway rainforests while bringing them inches away from exciting ...