NASA's space shuttle reentered orbit this fall after a 15-month retirement — and this time, it was bright blue. Outlasting the real winged spacecraft by more than a decade, the new space shuttle ...

Nearly 60 years after they were created by a Chicago inventor, Mold-A-Rama machines can still be found all over the city - and the country - molding souvenirs in under a minute. Chicago-based inventor ...

I’m not sure exactly how old I was but I do recall that I was at my local zoo when I saw a Mold-A-Rama for the first time. The imposing coin-operated machine promised to manufacture a plastic ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- This will bring out a lot of nostalgia for people who grew up in Chicago. The Museum of Science and Industry opens a new exhibit Thursday all about Mold-A-Rama machines. For more than ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Paul Jones, CEO of Mold-A-Rama, joins Wendy ...

Richard Chin, The Minnesota Star Tribune Oct 28, 2025 Oct 28, 2025 ST. PAUL, Minn. -- St. Paul’s Como Park Zoo announced some unhappy news Thursday morning that triggered a social media outpouring of ...

It's the end of an era for Como Park Zoo & Conservatory visitors wishing to bring home a piece of their favorite park in plastic. A statement posted to the zoo's website said as of Nov. 3, its popular ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — If you were a kid in the Chicago ...

As Chicago mayoral candidate Jesús “Chuy” García fends off efforts by political opponents trying to tie him to indicted former House Speaker Michael Madigan, his campaign is calling on a Southwest ...

The once state-of-the-art winged spacecraft has joined Mold-A-Rama machines as being vintage. NASA's space shuttle reentered orbit this fall after a 15-month retirement — and this time, it was bright ...