Even while traveling I learn new tidbits about our city, Chicago. Earlier this year my son and I visited the Smithsonian National Zoo’s giant panda habitat — which is celebrating its 50th anniversary.

Adelaide “Su-Lin” Young, 96, the first American woman to explore the rugged Himalayas in the 1930s and for whom the first giant panda brought to the United States was named, died April 17 of ...

On a chilly Wednesday in 1936, the day before Christmas Eve, a giant panda appeared in New York City. Its name was Su Lin. Two months earlier, the animal had been plucked from its jungle home, wailing ...

Adelaide “Su-Lin” Young, the first American woman to explore the rugged Himalayas in the 1930s and for whom the first giant panda brought to the United States was named, died April 17 of ...

It was a honeymoon for the history books, one that, 74 years later, brims with the kind of details that novelists and screenwriters can only dream about. Adelaide “Su-Lin” Young, a longtime El Cerrito ...

Into Manhattan’s Biltmore Hotel one morning last week rushed a svelte young woman in a Chinese otter coat, carrying in her arms a small, kicking, whining bundle of black & white fur. Said she to a ...

Su-Lin (Chinese for “A Little Bit Of Something Precious”) was the first giant panda ever to reach U. S. shores alive. To capture it, Mrs. William Harvest Harkness Jr. spent $20,000 and many months in ...