For the next few months, Katrina Quint has one request for visitors to the Lincoln Park Zoo: Look up. Across from the white-cheeked gibbon enclosure sits a great, sprawling bur oak tree, about 45 feet ...

Dona Liston first saw the angel in the dying tree about two years ago. There it was in a live oak that once towered over Lambermont, the late 19th-century stone mansion on East Grayson Street that ...

The Bur Oak, a landmark at the Lincoln Park Zoo, was about 300 years old. Before it was chopped down, people lined up to say goodbye. Cuttings from the tree are being nurtured into saplings. Good ...

A stately piece of history is coming down at Hearst Castle on Tuesday, when a crew will begin cutting down a massive oak tree that stood on the property long before media mogul William Randolph Hearst ...

Drought in the middle of the country has opened the door for pests and pathogens that can kill trees. That's particularly true of a fungus that's decimating bur oak trees once known as the "King of ...

The Bur Oak, a landmark at the Lincoln Park Zoo, was about 300 years old. Before it was chopped down, people lined up to say goodbye. Cuttings... A dying oak tree, older than Chicago's founding, was ...