CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has approved new daily price limits for corn, mini-sized corn, soybeans, mini-sized soybeans and soybean oil futures and options on futures contracts.

Dinosaurs Alive is a captivating adventure of science and discovery that will enthrall audiences with its unique look at the entire age of dinosaurs. The new giant screen film, narrated by Michael Douglas, opens on the Museum of Science and Industry’s five-story, runs through October 9, 2008.

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced that it has acquired Credit Market Analysis Limited (CMA), a leading provider of credit derivatives market data. This move will provide CME Group with greater exposure to the rapidly growing $46 trillion in notional outstanding credit derivatives market.

Get an up-close and near “real-time” view of our planet Earth in the new Museum of Science and Industry permanent exhibit Earth Revealed. This 6-foot in diameter, solid carbon fiber globe will be dramatically suspended among computers and video projectors, loaded with data sets from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA.

CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today released results from a new global study that reveals market participants' growing focus on electronic trading, risk management and cost control is driving the record growth in global foreign exchange (FX) markets. The Global FX Market Study provides fresh insights into several trends that are reshaping the $3.2 trillion a day global FX market.

Plant aficionados, wagons in tow, will be first in line for A Bloomin’ Sale, the Midwest’s premier plant sale, which returns to the Chicago Botanic Garden on Saturday, May 17 and Sunday, May 18. The Woman’s Board of the Chicago Horticultural Society planned this 42nd annual sale with the theme "Success with the Best." More than 30,000 plants in 900 varieties will be available, including many that are hard to find, easy to grow and reliably hardy.

The Model Railroad Garden: “Landmarks of America” opens for its ninth season at the Chicago Botanic Garden on Saturday, May 10 with new landmarks in Seattle, the Pacific Northwest and San Francisco, including Telegraph Hill. A family favorite, this enchanting outdoor exhibition takes visitors from coast to coast with model trains, miniature representations of America’s best-loved landmarks, and colorful small-scale gardens.

The Young Collectors Committee of the Antiques & Garden Fair gathered recently at the home of Cathy and Michael Busch in Winnetka to view their home and meet its interior designer, Ruthie Sommers. Sommers has been named one of the "Top 25 New Designers" in America by House Beautiful and she ranks among House & Garden's top five in "Best of Design."

Many people today know George Washington Carver largely from the myths that have grown around him... none of them true. The fact is, he didn’t invent peanut butter; it had existed in many cultures for centuries. Neither did he create 300 new products from peanuts—though he created some, and collected many others.

The new eye-popping Field Museum exhibition Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns & Mermaids uses paintings, life-size models, and cultural objects from around the world to shed light on the ways people have been inspired by nature to depict strange and wonderful creatures.

CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced that, pending CFTC approval, daily price limits will increase March 28, 2008, for corn, mini-sized corn, soybeans, mini-sized soybeans and soybean oil futures and options on futures contracts.

CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced that options on futures contracts for corn, wheat, soybeans, soybean meal, soybean oil, rough rice and oats will be available for electronic trading on the CME Globex platform during day-time open outcry trading hours beginning April 14, 2008.