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Angelina Jolie smiles at fans after picking up books and CDs at Borders Book and Music store bookstore with son Maddox, 6, on Sunday near her downtown Chicago hotel.

Motorcyclist-to-be Maddox (with a new mini-mohawk and losing all of his baby teeth) was seen with a dinosaur tattoos on his arm and wore a t-shirt by Indian Larry, a noted bike builder, stuntman, and innovator in the world of custom motorcycles.

The entire Jolie-Pitt family went to the Field Museum in Chicago, IL.

The family had an SUV waiting for them as they exited the museum. As they were leaving, Brad was carrying Zahara and holding Pax’s hand while Angelina carried Shiloh with Maddox pushing the stroller.

Angelina Jolie and her long-term partner Brad Pitt - whose relationship is rumored to be going through a rocky patch - are reportedly planning to travel to the African country to find a fourth disadvantaged child they can give a home to.

The couple - who are already adoptive parents to six-year-old Cambodian boy Maddox, Vietnamese son Pax Thien, three, and two-year-old Zahara, who was born in Ethiopia - believe another baby will strengthen their relationship and help Zahara feel more secure within the family.

A source close to the couple - who also have a 14-month-old biological daughter, Shiloh - told Britain's Daily Mail newspaper: "Brad and Angelina have made no secret of the fact they are keen to extend their rainbow family.

"Angelina, in particular, feels very strongly that while Shiloh will grow up seeing the family resemblances between herself and her natural parents, and Maddox and Pax will have a connection through their birthplaces, Zahara has no such close-knit bond. Brad and Angelina hope that by finding a brother or sister for her, it will help Zahara feel more comfortable and happy in her own skin, and also bring them closer together."

The couple are said to be planning to visit Ethiopia's Wide Horizons agency, the same place that introduced them to Zahara, in November.

Angelina Jolie feels a connection to people "around the world" and this sparked her decision to adopt three children.

When Angelina was asked if seeing displaced families in refugee camps inspired her to adopt, she said: "It might be part of the reason my kids are from some of those countries, and were on their own. I feel very close to children or people around the world and when I met my kids, they were, to me, extraordinary - and felt just like family. And that's how I feel about the world and other people's kids."

Angelina, who adopted her first child, five-year-old Maddox, from Cambodia, says she was destined to raise him.

She told CNN's Anderson Cooper: "I fell in love with the people of Cambodia and I was sitting with a little kid playing blocks and feeling like my son was somewhere there. And he was."

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie bring big brother Maddox, 5, to pick up Pax, 3, and Zahara, 2, from school at the American Embassy compound on a very rainy Thursday afternoon in Prague, Czech Republic.

Angelina Jolie attempts to harden her son Maddox's feet whenever they return to his native Cambodia - by making him walk around without shoes on.

The actress admits her eldest son isn't always happy to go native when he goes 'home', but Jolie thinks it's important young Maddox lives the Cambodian experience.

She explains, "When we go to Cambodia I always say, 'Take our shoes off,' and we walk across the rocks."

"There was a time he would whine about little things like that and I'll say, 'Everybody in Cambodia can walk with bare feet. They get tough Cambodian feet.'

"So the two of us will take our shoes off and walk across the rocks and go eat a cricket."

Work began on the first of five energy-efficient homes designed by actor Brad Pitt in New Orleans, Louisiana earlier today.

The Troy star, who has a home in the city with girlfriend Angelina Jolie, chaired the design jury on the properties for the Global Green USA project.

The homes will be 100 per cent efficient, producing their own electricity, and form part of a development of 18 apartments and a community centre in the Ninth Ward district of New Orleans. The area was left devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Pitt says, "It doesn't have to cost more. It doesn't have to look like a spaceship in the desert."

"What if a home actually created energy instead of consuming it? What if your utility bill could be nothing?"

And Brad hopes energy-efficient homes will soon be pushed by a US president in the near future.

He adds, "It's going to take a straightforward leader to say... 'We're going to do this in 10 years."

"I'm hoping, I'm crying, for this man or this woman to show up."