Chicago Bird Collision Monitors Director Annette Prince holds an injured Nashville warbler, a kind of migrating songbird, that likely struck a glass window pane Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024, in downtown Chicago. Credit: AP Photo/Erin Hooley With a neon-green net in hand, Annette Prince briskly walks a downtown Chicago plaza at dawn, looking left and right … Read more
Since Texas Gov. Greg Abbott began busing migrants to Chicago in August 2022, asylum-seekers have transformed the fabric of the city and beyond. More than 47,200 — mostly from Venezuela — have passed through Chicagoland and tens of thousands have settled here. Local officials have opened up over 20 buildings to temporarily house them and … Read more
Good photos A Chicago police officer escorts a younger anti-war protester who faints through the protests When 21-year-old Indiana College philosophy scholar Craig Satter traveled to Chicago for the 1968 Democratic Nationwide Conference, there was a “trace” that he could be in for a “wild day.” A couple of months in the past, Martin Luther … Read more