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Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

A partnership between the Chicago Public Library and the Field Museum allows a group of kids to experience an up-close look at the history of dinosaurs and fossils.

“We are standing together in one voice saying that we want to form our union,” a museum employee said Tuesday after delivering a letter to the head of the museum.

New research revealed a creature millions of years ago was among the earliest examples of dinosaurs evolving into birds

The Field Museum’s newest exhibit, a star turn from Lizzo at the United Center and more in our favorite photos from the last week in Chicago.

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

In the exhibit — opening Friday — called “Death: Life’s Greatest Mystery,” life and death are linked in an exploration of how different cultures and animals experience the “connective fabric” between all beings.

Staff members issued a letter stating their desire to affiliate with Council 31 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

Sue, the biggest and best-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex ever unearthed, no doubt was a fearsome beast when this predator prowled what is now South Dakota about 67 million years ago at the twilight of the age of dinosaurs. But even this huge dinosaur, whose fossils are displayed at the Field Museum…