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Opportunity in education swung open so their daughters and sons could imagine a life for themselves beyond washing someone elses laundry or shining someone elses shoes. Because they marched, City Councils changed and state legislatures changed and congress changed. Eventually the white house changed. [cheers and applause] because they marched, america became more free and more fair. Not just for africanamericans, but for women and latinos. Asians and native americans. Catholics, jews, and muslim...

Clyde Swan catching a big northern pike drives home a reminder that May is big-fish month in Illinois.

Another tilapia from the Chicago Area Waerway System (CAWS) and a rutting buck chasing does in the suburbs are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

The unusual catch led to surprised witnesses. ‘‘I had some woman come up to me with a baby to take a selfie,’’ Remec said. My favorite southern Lake Michigan muskie, so far, was one of 34-36 inches, caught and released by Greg Remec in the spring of 2017 near Adler Planetarium in Chicago. Provided Ben Dickinson, now Indiana’s Lake Michigan fisheries biologist, estimated it at 36 to 38 inches and 15 to 18 pounds. He guessed it was a Great Lakes muskie that came down from Green Bay or w...