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CHICAGO – Chicago’s preeminent plovers are together again, settling in for their third summer of saving their species at Montrose Beach along the Lake Michigan coast. Monty and Rose, the endangered Great Lakes piping plovers who became the first pair to nest successfully in Chicago in decades, collectively traveled more than 2,000 miles to make it back to Chicago just one day apart. Shortly ...

Dale Bowman “Did any of the neighbors see?’’ my wife asked. In a yellow slicker, I had picked young dandelions from our lawn in the rain this month, then prepared them. I’ve had an interesting spring foraging or, more accurately, wandering around. † † † On Saturday, I wandered around a favorite morel-hunting area. There were no morels, despite friends sending photos of good finds. But mayapples caught my eye. They had grown much in two weeks, some nearing a foot high. I bent to se...

Chicago’s preeminent plovers appeared to be together again Monday, settling in for their third summer of saving their species along the Lake Michigan coast. Monty and Rose, the endangered Great Lakes piping plovers that became the first pair to nest successfully in Chicago in decades, are believed to have collectively traveled more than 2,000 miles to make it back to Montrose Beach just one ...