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6 Stories You Might Have Missed From Last Week

 None of these stories have to do with dress colors, llamas or Chicago's election.
None of these stories have to do with dress colors, llamas or Chicago's election.
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CHICAGO — Here are six neighborhood stories you missed while arguing over dress colors, watching llamas on the loose or voting in Chicago's election.

• Did you know that once a month, a Metra train to Wisconsin turns into an all-out folk jam?

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• It's mating season for coyotes and, yes, they exist in the Chicago area. (Several hundred in fact.)

Here's how to protect yourself, and your dogs, from the animals.

• Lincoln Park's A. Finkl & Sons plant has closed and now neighbors worry about its future. Will it stay industrial, turn residential or be a little of both?

Our Lincoln Park reporter Paul Biasco talked to developers, politicians and area residents about the future of the large site.

• Who said cat videos aren't art?

River North filmmakers Alana Grelyak and Michael Gabriele are a married couple who have raised nearly $3,500 since 2013 for local cat rescue shelters through their award-winning "CATastrophes" web series.

In January, an episode of the series won the Catdance film festival.

That wasn't a typo.

• For more than a decade, Andy's Music Store has been a destination for music lovers from near and far looking to buy and sell instruments from all over.

The collection of 6,000 instruments from all over the world includes theremins, Indian sitars, tablas, harmoniums, Egyptian ouds, Paraguayan harps, Chinese gongs, Australian digeridoos, African djembes and Turkish doumbeks, earning the store the nickname "the world's best music store" from customers.

Now it's facing closure, but one couple is looking to save it.

• It's official. Chicago is home to the cutest baby gorilla of all time.

Get a glimpse of the baby girl at the Lincoln Park Zoo.

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