The stunning Henry Ives Cobb-designed Beaux Arts building with its huge telescope and moveable domes sits in an Olmsted-designed landscape just off the shore of Geneva Lake in Williams Bay. Yerkes was ...

Lately, Dianna Colman is recognized and stopped almost everywhere she goes. Her phone buzzes, too, with calls from New York, Texas, Georgia and California, among other places. But the reason for her ...

Why not check out Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, near Lake Geneva? Situated 190 feet above Geneva Lake, the observatory is a fascinating place in an architecturally interesting building and ...

The historic Yerkes Observatory, which houses the world’s largest refracting telescope, will live again thanks to a new agreement announced Tuesday. According to the deal, ownership of the famed ...

Monday’s closing of the renowned Yerkes Observatory after 121 years hits Kate Meredith professionally and personally. As education outreach director there, Meredith has scrambled over the last few ...

The University of Chicago is set to close its outdated astronomical observatory, which over the past 121 years has seen pioneering science, big personalities, and Chicago-style bravado. The University ...

Renovation has begun at the Yerkes Observatory after the University of Chicago successfully transferred ownership to the Yerkes Future Foundation (YFF) on May 1. The observatory, based in Williams Bay ...

During this holiday season, something magical happened near Lake Geneva in southeastern Wisconsin. A crew constructed what it believes to be the world’s tallest tree made of glimmering glass. The feat ...

The history of Yerkes Observatory is well-documented – the collapse of its 19th-century telescope, a visit from Albert Einstein. Its future is less clear. Once considered among the most prestigious ...

WILLIAMS BAY -- The University of Chicago will no longer operate the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay as of Oct. 1, 2018. According to a statement on the university's website, the observatory was ...

A piece of astronomical history is closing its doors this year: Yerkes Observatory, which opened in 1897, will cease operations on October 1, 2018. In many ways, this closure isn’t surprising. Yerkes ...

Known as the birthplace of modern astrophysics, the 121-year-old Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wis., will close in October, the University of Chicago has announced. “Unfortunately, operating ...