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The 16-part web-only series also looks at squirrels, vacant lots and migrating birds and butterflies.
Albany Park resident Jeff Skrentny runs the Facebook blog "My Year Birding at LaBagh Woods."
Like other cockroach babies, these Madagascar hissing cockroaches are white when they hatch.
The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum will celebrate its origins as the Chicago Academy of Sciences.
The Rusty Patched Bumble Bee is first bee in America to be protected under Endangered Species Act.
Exchange your Christmas tree for free mulch at Fullerton Avenue and Cannon Drive.
Runners can begin the new year with a 5K through Lincoln Park.
Ordinance taking effect Jan. 1 requires all buildings to have their own recycling programs.
The eight-eyed spiders, which carry babies on their backs, move into homes when temperatures drop.
"Frogs: A Chorus of Colors" includes 70 species and hands-on elements like a virtual dissection.
The Atlas moth doesn't eat as an adult and lives only two weeks, so see it while you can.
The Blanding's turtle hatchlings at Notebaert museum are part of a 20-year project to save the reptiles.
Thousands of the insects will blanket Chicago this month, but they can't sting you.
Some female lightning bugs use their flash to attract males of other species, and then they eat them.
Wednesday's rain led to perfect conditions for the webs to appear across Chicago's front and back yards.
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And, no, they're not called Roosevelt and State.
For most of November, it'll be open two days a week, between 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Mondays and Tuesdays.
Data shows that while more blacks and Latinos applied to the CPD, most new officers are white.
The nation's largest bike maker is soliciting bids for a retail build-out at 1647 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Cochran was given CPR by 40th Ward Ald. Patrick O'Connor, taken to Northwestern hospital.
The violent robbery could be connected to four other robberies in the area, police said.
We looked at the data behind thousands of cellphones reported stolen in Chicago since January 2016.
Erin Mowry, 42, could be convicted of aggravated DUI for the July 2015 crash.
Terrion Pouncy, 19, was still hospitalized Thursday following surgery.
The eviction notices "caught many families unprepared," activists said.
"The reception has been outstanding. We've had lots of interest and excitement," the listing agent said.
About 20 percent of O'Hare and Midway flights for Thanksgiving get delayed, according to a new report.